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Tierra Nueva.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi map published in 1548. Nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, w...
- $1000 / ≈ €880
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
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...
- $1400 / ≈ €1233
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
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...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califormio...
- $2500 / ≈ €2201
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1608-1612
Virginiae item et Floridae. . .
Cummings describes it as one of the most beautifully executed maps ever made of the Southeast. In detail and in general conception it surpasses all earlier maps of the re...
- $2200 / ≈ €1937
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Virginiae item et Floridae . . .
Map of Virginia from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van D...
- $750 / ≈ €660
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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[American history plate].
Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltende Warhaffti...
- $80 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[Moose].
Scarce print (150x177mm.) of a Moose on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltend...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[The manner of making their boats.]
The manner of making boats in Virginia is wonderful to behold. They were able to do so without using any iron tool at all. First they chose a tall tree, wide enough for a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $1400 / ≈ €1233
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova.
Orientated with north to the right. This is one of the earliest maps to concentrate solely on this area of the colonies, excluding Virginia and the extreme north east coa...
- $3000 / ≈ €2641
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
The map is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved. In 1629 the Hondius plate was purchased by Blaeu who deleted ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $1500 / ≈ €1321
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $1500 / ≈ €1321
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Nova Virginiae tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635/1660
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Noweav Mexiqve [California as an Island]
Uncommon miniature map of California as a island, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille in a second state. The map is derived from Audience de Guadalajara (1657)...
Place & Date: Paris, 1663
.Pascaerte Vande Zuyd-Zee tusschen California, en Ilhas de Ladrones. . .
A decorative and most interesting map - being one of the earliest of the Pacific to record the observations of Tasman's voyages. The northern part of the island of Califo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Americque Septentrionale. . .
A general map of North America shows California as an island but with few names and a flat northern coastline. Prepared by N. Sanson and engraved by A.Peyrounin. A first ...
- $1000 / ≈ €880
Place & Date: Paris, P. Marriete, 1667
Novi Belgii, quod nunc Novi Jorck vocatur, Novaeque Anglia et partis Virginiae. . .
A beautifully engraved map, derived from the highly influential map by Visscher. The decoration of this finely engraved map has in the lower right corner not longer a vie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2016
Pascaerte van Carybes, Nieu Neder landt, Brazil. . .
This progenitor chart covers the American shores of the Atlantic Ocean. This chart by Theunis Jacobsz. was most probably engraved close to his death in 1650 or shortly af...
- $2200 / ≈ €1937
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653-1681
Amerique Septentrionalis..
This handsome map shows California as an island, open-ended Great Lakes, and other details based mainly on Sanson. A large decorative cartouche occupies the area of the n...
Place & Date: Paris, after1694
Two polar calottes from a globe.
Two polar calottes from 110 centimeters in diameter globe of 1688 including the northern part of Baffin Bay, Greenland, Iceland, Nova Zembla. Coronelli elected to follow ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1696
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles...
Scarce state not listed by Tooley with the imprint : "Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge a la Cour.r de Diamãs. Avec Privilege du Roy po.r 20 ans, 1703"...
- $3000 / ≈ €2641
Place & Date: Paris, 1703
La Terre du Nord.
Map of the Arctic Circle, set within a series of decorative borders, printed from a different copper plate. All counties that lie within or near to the North Pole are sho...
- $1000 / ≈ €880
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1713
Carte contenant le Royaume du Mexique et la Floride.
This is a derivative of Delisle's landmark map of the southern part of North America.The detailed map shows many English settlements along the East Coast and carefully no...
- $1000 / ≈ €880
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Carte contenant le Royaume du Mexique et la Floride.
This is a derivative of Delisle's landmark map of the southern part of North America. The detailed map shows many English settlements along the East Coast and carefully n...
- $900 / ≈ €792
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Nova tabula geographica complectens borealiorem..
A finely engraved pair of maps designed to be cut and joined together to provide a continuous coastline of North America from the Carolinas to Newfoundland and along the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1720
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride, des terres angloises et des isles Antilles, du cours et des environs de la rivière Mississipi. . .
A Dutch edition of De L'Isle's map. It was the first printed map to portray accurately the course and mouth of the Mississippi River. Showing the explorations of d'Ibervi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1722
Carte qui contient..Iles & Terres..L'Amerique..Jamaique..
Eight maps on one sheet. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique et Méthodique . Including maps of Bermuda, Jamaica, New England with Long Island, Carolina, Chesapeake and Del...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
This Draught of the North Pole is to show all the Countries near and adjacent to it . . .
The polar map shows the latest discoveries and routes of numerous explorers during their attempts to find a Northwest and Northeast Passage, including James, Hudson, and ...
- $300 / ≈ €264
Place & Date: London, ca. 1728
Novum Amsterodamum. . .
Three engravings on one page are set in a decorative, separately engraved border. - In the upper left is a good example of one of the earliest available views of New York...
- $1200 / ≈ €1057
Place & Date: Leiden, 1729
Les Principales Forteresses Ports &c de L'Amérique Septentrionale. . .
This sheet contains 19 small but detailed maps and plans of harbours, towns, forts and islands from the eastern seaboard and the West Indies, all but one plan with title ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1733
Avantures du Sr. C. Le Beau, avocat en parlement ou Voyage curieux et nouveau parmi les Sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale. Dans lequel on trouvera une Description du Canada… Ouvrage enrichi d'une Carte et des figures necessaires.
A description of Huron, Iroquois, and Algonquin customs, written in charming style and based, the Author claims, on observations made on a trip to America in 1729." ...
- $2500 / ≈ €2201
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1738
L'Amerique septentrionale, Dressée sur les memoires les plus recens. . .
A very detailed map extending from Hudsons Bay to Panama, and including the West Indies. The map is a later copy of Guillaume de L'Isle's foundation map of North America,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1739
Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali.
Four maps on one sheet (New Found land/ New England/ Virginia and Carolina/Florida) based on J.B.Homann's map, showing British possessions in North America. The upper lef...
- $750 / ≈ €660
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1740
Virginia Marylandia et Carolina..
An attractive and detailed map, covering the coastline from Long Island in the north to just south of Cape Feare in Carolina, with the large fictitious Apalache Lacus in ...
- $2000 / ≈ €1761
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1740
Neu Engeland Neu York, Neu Jersey und Pensilvanien & c. . .
The scarce German edition of Moll's popular and rather significant map which appeared in Oldmixon's 1708 book, Das Britische Reich in America. and then in other editions ...
- $450 / ≈ €396
Place & Date: Lemgo, 1744
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressée sur un grand nombre de Memoires..
Covens & Mortier's issue of Delisle's influential map of the French possession of Louisiana. Updated to include New Orleans. When originally published in 1718, it was...
- $2400 / ≈ €2113
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Amérique Septentrionale. . .
A fine small map of North America, extending from Hudsons' Bay to Panama, and including the West Indies. Dated 1748.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.P...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1748
Carte des Possessions Françoises et Angloises dans le Canada, et partie de la Louisiane.
First state of this separately published map of the European Colonies in the New World east of the Mississippi River. This map was published in 1756 to provide informatio...
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
L'Amerique septentrionale, Dressée sur les memoires les plus recens. . . MDCCLVII
A rare map of North America, showing good detail, especially in the region between the Appalachians and the Mississippi and the course o the Mississippi to its source, wh...
- $1500 / ≈ €1321
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1757
Vue de la Rue du Roi, vers la Porte de la Campagne a Boston.
A vue d'optique of the city of Boston. A view of a typical Bostonian street, with buildings opening directly onto the throughway, groups of people, gentlemen, workers and...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1762
Partie De L'Amerique Septentrionale... Le Cours De L'Ohio, La N.lle Angleterre, a Nlle York, le New Jersey , La Pensyvanie, Le Maryland, Le Virginie, La Carolina...1755
From the Atlas Universel , a detailed map extending the length of the east coast from Penobscot Bay to Cape Fear and, in an inset, from Cape Fear to Fort St.Georges.This ...
- $800 / ≈ €704
Place & Date: Paris, 1768
America Septentrionalis, Concinnata juxta Observationes..
This exemplar represents Lotter's version of Delisle's foundation map of North America, published in 1700. The Great Lakes show the French strong holds at Quebec, Montrea...
- $875 / ≈ €770
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1770
Carte des parties Nord et est de l'Asie.. (5 maps on one sheet)
Five maps on one sheet, showing California, Alaska and Syberia, Korea and Japan. South to Korea the island "Quelpaerts".The map is from Diderot's "Encyclop...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: Paris, 1772
Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle York et Pensilvanie / Pour servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages.
Uncommon edition of this accurate map the east coast from Delaware River till Main.Left hand corner Lake Ontario. In lower right engraved "38."From Atlas Portat...
- $275 / ≈ €242
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
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Prospect des Plazes vor dem Rath Haus zu Boston. Vuë de la Rue et de la Maison de Ville a Boston. [together with] Prospect der König[lichen] ...
Two so-called optical prints show a decorative imaginary view of the old state house, built in 1657, which was the center of government for the colony of Massachusetts an...
- $1500 / ≈ €1321
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1776
Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique angloise contenant tout ce que les Anglois possèdent. . . avec la Floride / gravée. . . par Maththias Albert Lotter. . .
As mentioned in the title piece, the map includes the area at that time in the possession of the English, i.e. Canada, New Large, beautiful and detailed map of the Easter...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1777
Mappa Geographica provinciae Nova.. NEW-YORK..
This map afforded British commanders during the Revolution an excellent overview of areas that would be crucial in the early years of the war, in particular the Hudson Va...
- $1500 / ≈ €1321
Place & Date: Nuremburg, 1778
Parte Orientale della Florida, della Giorgia, e Carolina. . .
Attractive map covering the coast from S.Augustine till Long Bay, including Jacksonville, Savannah. From Zatta's Atlante Novissimo.
- $350 / ≈ €308
Place & Date: Venice, 1778
Nov' Orbis Sive America Septentrionalis. . .
Miniature map of North America, a reduction of the appropriate part of Seutter's folio map of the Americas, drawn by Albert Seutter. An unusual looking map, its projectio...
- $250 / ≈ €220
Place & Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778
Carte des troubles De L'Amerique Levée par Ordre du Chevalier Tryon. . . New-York.. Jersey..
A French edition of this uncommon Revolutionary War map describes the region from Salem Massachusetts to Buzzard's Bay south to the Delaware River and west to Lake Ontari...
- $1500 / ≈ €1321
Place & Date: Paris, 1778
Mappa geographica Provinciæ Nova Eboraci ab Anglis New-York . . .
Lower part of the two sheets map of Homann Heirs' edition of Sauthier's celebrated map of New York and New Jersey, made during the Revolutionary War. Appears in Homann's ...
Place & Date: Nuremburg, 1778
Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-Ouest. . . 4de Carte.
Diderot's famous 2 on 1 map shows the two early mappings of the west coast of North America, the first after Visscher, the second after Plancius' World map. Both show the...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle York, Nouvelle Jersey, et Pensilvanie.
Highly detailed regional map of the Northeastern US, featuring numerous place names, Forts, Native American tribes, rivers,coastal banks, and other details. This is a Fre...
- $250 / ≈ €220
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Prospect der Strasse gegen der Kirche der Recolecten in der obern Stadt zu Quebec. Vuë de la Rue des Recolets dans la haute Ville de Quebec.
A so-called optical print showing a decorative imaginary town view of Québec, with a street view with soldiers marching and pedestrians, an idealized view depicting Qué...
- $450 / ≈ €396
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1780
L'Ancien et le nouveau Mexique avec la Floride..
Covering Florida, Texas, western part of Cuba and central America. Showing dozens (100+) of place names, extensive river systems, mountain ranges and featuring the Gulf o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
L'Amerique Septentrionale Divisee en Ses Principaux Etats. . .
Engraved by Lattré. This map is most notable for its depiction of Mer de L'Quest or Sea of the West, near modern-day Seattle. A great sea, easily the size of the Mediter...
- $400 / ≈ €352
Place & Date: Paris, 1782
Carte du Mexique et des Etats Unis d'Amérique…
A later edition of De l'Isle's foundation map of 1703, widely regarded as one of the most influential maps in the history of American Cartography. This updated version o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Carte du Mexique et des Etats Unis d'Amérique...
A later edition of De l'Isle's foundation map of 1703, widely regarded as one of the most influential maps in the history of American Cartography. This updated version of...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Partie Méridionale de la Louisiane, avec la Floride, la Caroline et la Virginie..
Fine map of southeastern part of the United States after d'Anville's, to whom Santini gives credit in the cartouche.It covers the Atlantic coastline between the Chesapeak...
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2008
Carte Générale du Canada, de la Louisiane, de la Floride, de la Caroline..
Map of the eastern part of the United States and Canada. With inset map of Hudson and Baffin bays. in the lower right corner.Venetian edition of d'Anville's map, from &qu...
- $750 / ≈ €660
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
ETATS-UNIS DE L'AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Avec LES ISLES ROYALE, DE TERRE NEUVE, DE S.T JEAN, L'ACADIE, &c. 1785. Supplement a l'Atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondy a Paris Ches Boudet Ingenieur du Roi.
A map of the eastern United States with "Supplément à l'atlas de M Robert de Vaugondy à Paris chez Boudet Imprimeur du Roi", in place of the attribution to D...
- $1750 / ≈ €1541
Place & Date: Paris, 1785
AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE dressée sur les Relations les plus modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs ou se remarquent LES ETATS UNIS. . .
This large map of North America and the West Indies was originally published in 1750: however after the Treaty of Paris recognized the United States in 1783 the map was '...
Place & Date: Paris, after 1786
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2011
Amérique Septentrionale .. Les Etats Unis..
Very rare state: probably separately issued. Published the same year the Treaty of Paris was signed, this is one of the first maps to provide printed boundary lines for t...
- $3000 / ≈ €2641
Place & Date: Paris, 1786
Karte von den N.W. Amerikanischen und N.OE. Asiatischen Kusten nach den Untersuchungen des Kapit. Cook...
A detailed large-scale map showing the Bering Strait, Kamchatka, Alaska and much of North America. While the Russian coastline is shown with reasonable accuracy. Showin...
- $450 / ≈ €396
Place & Date: Vienna, 1788
Karte von den N.W.Amerikanische und N.O.E. Asia..
A detailed large-scale map showing the Bering strait, Kamchatka, Alaska, and much of North America. While the Russian coastline is shown with reasonable accuracy. Showing...
- $500 / ≈ €440
Place & Date: Vienna 1788
Karte von den N.W. Amerikanische und N.O.E. Asia. . .
German edition of Cook's explorations along the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia, based upon the original work by Lieutenant Henry Roberts.A detailed large-scale ...
- $400 / ≈ €352
Place & Date: Vienna, 1788
Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika..
Uncommon map of the east coast of North America, including the Great Lakes area. To the right inset map of New Foundland. After the map by William Faden of 1783. With col...
- $500 / ≈ €440
Place & Date: Germany, 1790
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[North America]
Uncommon map of North America. The young United States incorporates the upper Midwest, with the remaining western territories of Louisiana, Nouveau Mexique, Nouveau Albio...
- $1000 / ≈ €880
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1790
De vereenigde staten van Noord America.
Rare miniature map of Eastern United States. The map carries the signatures of W.Holtrop and the engraver H.Klokhoff. Steven van Esveldt's business was carried on by his ...
- $450 / ≈ €396
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1791
Bison Iubatus.
Etching of a bison by Leendert Brasser (1727 - 1793) after a painting of the Dutch artist Gerrit van den Heuvel.An early portrait of a bison, etched by Leendert Brasser (...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, 1766-1793
Passeport.
Passport for the United States in the name of Madeleine Lavit Femme Lory, issued by the Commission of Interior Relations and approved by the Committee of Public Safety.Th...
- $750 / ≈ €660
Place & Date: Paris, 1795
Plan du Port des Francais sur la Cote du Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique, par 58°37' de Latitude Nord et 139°50' de Longitude Occidentale, Decouverte le 2 Juillet 1786, par les Fregates Francaise la Boussole et l'Astrolabe.
Chart of the entrance of Bassin de L'Quest , visited on July 2nd 1786 by La Perouse. On many 18th century maps we find a depiction of Mer de L'Quest or Sea of the West a ...
- $500 / ≈ €440
Place & Date: Paris, 1798
Carte Réduite des Côtes Orientales Del'Amérique Septentrionale Contenant partie du Nouveau Jersey, la Pen-sylvanie, le Mary-land, la Virginie, la Caroline Septentrionale, la Caroline Méridionale et la Georgie. . .
Scarce Rome edition of an French map made expressly for use of the French Navy during the American Revolution. Covering the area of Maryland, North and South Virginia. Ph...
- $900 / ≈ €792
Place & Date: Genova, Yves Gravier, c.1800
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[Lot of 5 maps] Kaart van de noord-west kust van Amerika en de noord-oost kust van Asia.
- Kaart van de noord-west kust van Amerika en de noord-oost kust van Asia. Opgenoomen in de Jaaren 1778 en 1779. Captain James Cook (1728-79), explorer, circumnavigato...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1795-1803
Charte von der mündung des Mississippi. Weimar, Verlage des Landes Indust. Compt. 1803.
Scarce map showing the mouth of the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico. With Pensacola in Western Florida, Mobile Bay in Alabama and Louisiana with New Orleans and their...
- $300 / ≈ €264
Place & Date: Weimar, 1803
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A Map of the United States and Canada, New-Scotland, New-Brunswick and New-Foundland ... [together with] A Map of the West-Indies and of the Mexican-Gulph...
A Map of the United States and Canada, New-Scotland, New-Brunswick and New-Foundland / Carte des Etats Unis, avec Le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse, le Nouveau Brunswick &...
Place & Date: Paris, 1806
Nouvelle Espagne, Nouveau Méxique, Isles Antilles, par Robert de Vaugondy corrigés par le Cen. Lamarche Géog. Successeur de Vaugondy. l''An 3e.
Although dated 1794/95 [l'An 3e.], the map is a copy of an earlier map which appeared in Robert de Vaugondy's 1778 atlas. Hence, it does not show the newly independent Un...
- $300 / ≈ €264
Place & Date: Paris, 1794 - 1806
Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle York, Nouvelle Jersey, et Pensilvanie.
Map of the north eastern part of the United States, from Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les parties du monde .. Ouvrage destiné pour l'education, et nécessaire aux n...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806