Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An important map because of i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
Woodcut map by based on Abraham Ortelius' classic map of 1570, with the huge bulge in the southwest coastline of South America, the Ortelian western coastline of North Am...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1588
Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDXCII
First state. Although a map of South America it does include much of what is now the southern United States. There are two elaborate, strap-work cartouches with the one a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1592
![[Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship]](/uploads/cache/48524-250x250.jpg)
[Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship]
Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship, which is near the shore. He is clad in a long mantle and undercoat, while his armor lies at his feet, and his standard is flo...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Americae Retectio (Allegory of the Discovery of America)
Allegorical scene commemorating the discovery of America. The main image shows Neptune, supporting a Globe, flanked by Flora-representing Florence, and Janus-representin...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
![Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus [with] La Florida Auctore Hieron Chiaves [with] Guastecan Reg.](/uploads/cache/60004-250x250.jpg)
Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus [with] La Florida Auctore Hieron Chiaves [with] Guastecan Reg.
The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Descripcion de las Yndias Ocidentalis.
Rare early general map of America, the Pacific Ocean and the Eastern part of Asia. Showing "Meridiano de la demarcacion porla parte oscidental" - and "... ...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis.
Hessel Gerritsz. the author and probable engraver of the map had seen maps of California as an island, but he relies on the more trustworthy accounts, such as Herrera, in...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Leiden, 1625
America sive India Nova.
This map was created by Michael Mercator, grandson of the great Gerard Mercator. It is the only map attributed to him. The map first appeared in 1595, one year after the ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Americae Nova Tabula.
An inset shows Greenland and Iceland. Decorative elements include ships, sea monsters, and vignettes of native Americans within South America. In addition, the map is bor...
- $7500 / ≈ €7018
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Americae Nova Tabula.
The delineation of the coast and the nomenclature on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts are basically Spanish in origin and follow the maps of Ortelius and Wytfliet. To...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Americae Nova Descriptio.
Final state. According to Philip Burden, "this scarce map is America's first single-sheet map with decorative borders." A re-issue of the 1614 plate by Pieter v...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Carte de L'AMERIQUE Corrigeé et argumenteé….
Separately published map published in 1658 but based on Petrus Bertius map of 1624., this on its turn taken from Jodocus Hondius map of 1618. On the sides he lists the pr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1658
![[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.](/uploads/cache/48420-250x250.jpg)
[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.
Hugo Allard’s ca. 1661 map of the Americas, showing California as an island printed on silk. This separately issued map printed on paper is quite rare on the market. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1661
Nouvelle description de lamerique.
Jollain published this rare map of America in 1667. State 3, with the scale, erased, as it fictitious strait on the west coast of North America which Le Royaume de Quiuer...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio.
Second state of Visscher's map of the Americas, this decorative map greatly influenced the cartography of the Americas both geographically and artistically.Although it di...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1677
(Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex) optimis tum geographorum tum aliorum scriptis collecta et ad hodiernam regnorum principatuum et maiorum partium distinctionem accomodata.
Eastern part of a two-sheet map of America, with attribution to Willem Blaeu. According to Philip Burden, the map was derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the sa...
Place & Date: Rome, 1679
L'Amerique, en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes, &c. En divers traitez de geographie, et d'histoire. Là où sont descrits succinctement, & avec une belle Methode, & facile.
Third edition, the text and maps of which are identical to the first given in 1657. However, the dedication to Nicolas Fouquet (2 pp.), disgraced in 1661, has been delete...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Paris, 1680
Carte du gouvernement de l'Amerique.
A double page sheet including a fine map of America, with California with indented northern coastline (130x92mm.) and New Mexico extending across most of western North Am...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Carte du gouvernement de l'Amerique.
A double page sheet including a fine map of America, with California with indented northern coastline (130x92mm.) and New Mexico extending across most of western North Am...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
L'Amerique ou le Nouvelle Continent.. Dedieé et presenteé a monseigneur Law.
State one. The map has been prepared by Jean Baptiste Nolin (the elder) has a dedication to Monseigneur LAW controlleur general des finances .Rare general map of the Amer...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Paris, 1720
Division generale de l'Amerique dans ses principales parties pour l'intelligence de la carte de ce païs.
This folio sheet gives a breakdown of America into the northern and southern regions. These are further subdivided into the various countries and provinces.Henri Abraham ...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
America.
A very nice map of the American continent with California as an island and an adorned title cartouche.From Francisco Giustiniani for El Atlas abreviado o el nuevo compend...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Leon de Francia (Lyon), Jaime Certa, 1739
Carte d'Amerique dressée par l'usage du Roy..
Fine map prepared by G.d'Isle depicting North and south America, the west coast taken north to Cap Mendocin and Cap Blanc with a note Entrée decouverte par Martin d'Agui...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1739
Carte d' Amerique Dressee pour l'Usage Du Roy. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of the American continent. Decorative title cartouche with foliate garland, and embellished lettering of d' Amerique. The western parts of Af...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Americae Mappa generalis Secundum legimitas projectionis Stereiographiae regulas. . . MDCCXXXXVI
Johann Baptist Homann's well-engraved second map of America has a large decorative cartouche. Detailed map of the western hemisphere.The interior of North America has new...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1746
Americae Mappa generalis.
Johann Baptist Homann's well-engraved second map of America has a large decorative cartouche. Detailed map of the western hemisphere.The interior of North America has new...
- $700 / ≈ €655
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1746
A new general map of America drawn from several..
Extremely faint strip of age toning on part of the centerfold, otherwise fine condition. The Pacific Northwest is left open with the note Parts Undiscovered. The coastlin...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: London, 1747
Americae Mappa generalis.
Full title and impressum in an extensive cartouche bottom left: 'Americae Mappa generalis Secundum legimitas projectionis Stereiographiae regulas (..) Homannianis Heredib...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1748
Tabula Geographica Hemisphaerii Borealis…
Polar map with a diameter of 30cm which shows the fictitious Mer de L’Ouest prominently with an extensive river system connecting it with the Great Lakes and thus formi...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Berlin c.1753
L'Amerique divisée en ses principaux Etats..
Uncommon map published by Lattré. This map is most notable for its depiction of "Mer de L'Ouest" or "Sea of the West". A great sea, easily the size o...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
![[The Americas] AMERIQUE](/uploads/cache/20599-(2)-250x250.jpg)
[The Americas] AMERIQUE
A map depicting both the Americas. With on both sides a descriptionary text. All within an elaborate and very decorative border. Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), géogra...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Nieuwe kaart van America.
An attractive map of both the Americas, by one of the leading mapmakers in 18th century Amsterdam. Isaak Tirion (d. 1769) was a Amsterdam publisher. His "Nieuwe en b...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
Nieuwe kaart van America.
An attractive map of both the Americas, by one of the leading mapmakers in 18th century Amsterdam. Isaak Tirion (d. 1769) was a Amsterdam publisher. His "Nieuwe en b...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
L'America divisa ne suoi principali Stati..
Attractive map of The Americas, with the first voyage of Capt. Cook (1768) depicted around South America and across the Pacific to New Zealand, which is well charted. Nor...
Place & Date: Venice, 1776
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
L'Amérique suivant les dernier. . .
Scarce map of America, prepared by Nolin and published by L.J. Mondhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education.. Louis Joseph Mondhare was ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
L' Amerique divisée par Grands Etats. . .
Attractive map of America, ornated with a decorative title cartouche. Boundaries outlined in hand color.Prepared by Le Sieur Janvier, Jean denis [Robert], French geograph...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1783
Carte D'Amerique Divisée en ses Principaux Pays. . .
Rare. Uncommon and decorative wall map of America, prepared by Clouet. With superb decorative borders, 170mm wide at the sides and 150mm at the bottom, containing twenty ...
Place & Date: Paris, Cadiz, 1785
L'Amérique divisée en ses principaux Etats Dressée d'après les Cartes de Mr. Bonne?
Rare, wall map of America in 2 sheets, after R. Bonne. With 3 inset maps of Hispaniola, Martinique and Hudson Bay. Beautiful title cartouche depicting a Native American l...
Place & Date: Paris, 1788
L' Amerique dressée pour l'étude de la géographie . . .
Map showing the American continent. California with a large inlet. Some major cities, bodies of water, and geographic features are marked. There are illustrations of ship...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
![Mappa Mondo tagliato sulpiano di unmeridiano Emisfero Occidentale. [togther with] … Orientale.](/uploads/cache/48543-250x250.jpg)
Mappa Mondo tagliato sulpiano di unmeridiano Emisfero Occidentale. [togther with] … Orientale.
World map on two sheets - Western Hemisphere (North and South America, Oceania, Greenland) and Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia). Published by Pazzini,...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Siena, 1796
Amérique, réduite d'après celles d'Arrowsmith en 4 flles Par J.N.Champion, Ingénieur-Geographe et . . . Nouvelles découvertes de Clacke et du Major Pike . . .
A charming folding-map of America, drawn by J.N. Champion. The title explains that the map used the latest information by Alexander Humboldt and Clarck and Pike. Dated 18...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1815
Carte générale de l' Amérique divisée en ses principaux états . . .
Map of North and South America. By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Geographer. Descriptive text to the left.
Place & Date: Paris, 1820
Amerika
Scarce miniature map of the Western Hemisphere.
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1824
L'America Settentrionale e Meridionale . . .
Map depicting the Americas with two inset maps of the Dominican Republic and Martinique.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouverneme...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Carte d'Amerique dressée par Pierre Tardieu. . .
Detailed map prepared by Pierre Tardieu. With good detail on Alaska. Including New Zealand.
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1831
Nouvelle Carte des Amériques Septentrionale et Meridionale avec les Plans des Possessions Françaises en ces Pays, Rédigée et presentée à l'Académie des Sciences. . .
Large, skillfully engraved, and quite scarce map of North and South America, with insets at bottom of Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Plan de Cayenne. In California, the Sier...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, Garnier Fréres, 1832
Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale . . . / Carte de l'Amerique Méridionale . ..
Two maps of America on one sheet, by Nicolas Maire, a French geographer and published by Langlumé et Peltier.
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, 1834
America.
A beautiful, large scale map of the Americas. Alaska is named as 'Russian America', Texas is still a part of Mexico, yet to become a republic (1836), before finally becom...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Amérique Septentrionale.
Detailed map of America, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne &c ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Karta öfver America.
An very rare map of the continent of America with Swedish text. This is an heavenly updated version of his map of 1818 and is now dated 1832.From his atlas "Geograph...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: A. Wiborgs förlag, Stockholm, ca. 1848
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Westelijk Halfrond. [Western hemisphere]
Uncommon world map view of the western and eastern hemispheres of North and South America, Asia. Lithography by J.H. van Weijer, published in Atlas der geheele Aarde [?] ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Groningen, ca. 1860
Amérique. . .
Very detailed map from Atlas Sphérodidal & Universel de géographie , Prepared by F.A.Garnier and edited by Jules Renouard, rue de Tournon, Paris. With decorative ti...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1861
Amérique..
Very detailed map from Atlas Sphéroïdal & Universel de géographie. Prepared by F.A.Garnier and edited by Jules Renouard, rue de Tournon, Paris. With decorative tit...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: Paris, 1861
Amérique septentrionale dressée par C.V. Monin. . . / Amérique méridionale. . .
Two maps on one sheet. North America to the left, shows major cities, political divisions, and areas of Indian habitation for North America and the West Indies and state ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, c.1876
![[ North and South America with telegraph cables, with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44330-250x250.jpg)
[ North and South America with telegraph cables, with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map showing North and South America with telegraph cables. The map is in Ottoman Arabic-script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاÙ...
- $190 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
North and South America At-A-Glance.
A clever device for demonstrating the statistics of each country, the Area, Population, Population per Sq. Mile, Highest Elevation, Principal River, Currency, Capital, Fo...
Place & Date: New York & London: International At-A-Glance Chart Co. 1931
Rooseveld rekende verkeerd ! De vangarmen van De Dollarpoliep worden afgesneden. . .
An remarkable Anti-American Dutch World War II propaganda poster by Lou Manche, showing an pink octopus, representing the United States, with its tentacles being cut from...
Place & Date: The Netherlands, 1942