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Mark Babinski
Edited by Matthew H. Edney

This web site presents a subset of Mark Babinski's Henry Popple's 1733 Map of The British Empire in North America (Garwood, NJ: Krinder Peak Publishing, 1998). Although only twenty copies of this book have been printed (ten of which have been donated to map libraries in the U.K. and the U.S. and the remaining ten have been reserved for sale by Mr. Babinski), Mr. Babinski's research will be of great interest to a wide array of historians and map afficionados and deserves wider distribution. The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education of the University of Southern Maine has accordingly collaborated with him to prepare this web site. Unfortunatlely, copyright issues prevent us from reproducing the 246 images in the original work. (These are of various states of Popple's twenty-sheet map, of the key maps, and of many related maps and documents.) We are able, however, to provide a complete set of images of its copy of state 7 of Popple's map and of state 1 of the key map (Smith Collection, S-192). Other components of the original work omitted from this web site include: Henry Popple's representation of Richard FitzWilliam, governor of the Bahamas (1736-39); prices realized by Popple's map at sale, since 1825; the description of Popple's manuscript map (1727); the description of George Foster's map of the West Indies (1740); the description of William Henry Toms and the mapping of the War of Jenkins' Ear; and, the index.
 

Mr. Babinski's Acknowledgments "My greatest thanks go to Donald Hodson who provided me with a number of advertisements relating to Popple's map found in 18th century London newspapers. Without these advertisements my dating of the various editions of the map would have been quite incorrect. I am looking forward to the day when he will publish all his findings, so useful to map collectors and researchers.

My special thanks go to Edward Dahl of the National Archives of Canada who guided me to the rare copies of David Steel's editions of Popple's Key Map and Alice Hudson of the Map Division at the New York Public Library who guided me to Johann Conrad Back's editions of the Key Map.

I would also like to thank Geoffrey Armitage of the British Library, Alan Balicki of the New-York Historical Society, David Bosse of the Historic Deerfield Library, David Cobb of the Harvard Pusey Library, Susan Danforth of the John Carter Brown Library, James Flatness of the Library of Congress, Patrick Morris of the Newberry Library, Monique Pelletier of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Thomas Bourke, Nancy Kandoian, Stephen Saks of the New York Public Library, Ashley Baynton-Williams and many others who assisted me in collecting information about the map.

December 1, 1998"
 

Web Site Credits This web site was prepared by Matthew H. Edney, who also selected and reorganized portions of Mr. Babinski's original text. The digitizing of the Osher Map Library's copy of the Popple Map was handled by Ms. Tami Christopher.
 

This site has been visited times visitors since July 5th, 2000.

 

 

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