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Granata Nova et California.
Very rare sixteenth century map: the second printed map devoted to the California peninsula and the south west of present day United States. A reduced version of the Corn...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $1600
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Granata Nova et California.
Very rare sixteenth century map: the second printed map devoted to the California peninsula and the south west of present day United States. A reduced version of the Corn...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $1900
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Franciscus Draco cum in locum quendam venis set, à Rege istius regionis convenitur.
This famous and desirable scene was engraved by de Bry native Americans approaching European soldiers and offer gifts. A group of native Americans sit around a fire in a ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, Matthaeus Becker, 1599
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Tartariae Sive Magni Chami Regni typus. [Alaska and N.America West coast]
Important Map of Asia and North America Included in the World’s First Modern Atlas. It is the earliest obtainable map to name California and is one of the first to incl...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2021
CULIACANAE,A MERICAE REGIO NIS, DESCRIPTIO - Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumique Insularum Circumiacientium Delineatio
CULIACANAE, A MERICAE REGIO NIS, DESCRIPTIO - Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumique Insularum Circumiacientium Delineatio.Antique map of the Caribbean. Two maps on one sheet: ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603-1612
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
[Sir F. Drake crowned by the Indians of Nova Albion] / [Europeans, Drake, and the King of Ternate].
First engraving: Native Americans approach European soldiers and offer gifts. A native king or ruler wearing a feathered headdress puts a crown on a man's head who holds ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018
Sir Francis Drake crowned King of California.
Rare 1655 view of Sir Francis Drake, English soldiers paraded and planting the flag while native Californians celebrate and place a crown on Drake's head. From "Newe...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1655
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2015
Audience de Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c.
Map of California, shown as an island, from the first edition of the atlas L'Amérique en plusieurs cartes, et en divers traittés de Géographie, et d'Histoire.Nicolas S...
Place & Date: Paris, 1657
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2012
Nouveau Mexique.
Piere du Val (1618-83), Paris-based cartographer and publisher. Atlases a.o. 'Cartes de Géographie', 1654-88, 'La Géographie universelle', 1661-1712. After his death, h...
Place & Date: Paris, 1661.Paris, 1661
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2008
Pascaerte van NOVA HISPANIA PERV en CHILI [California as an island].
California as an island on second Sanson model, with indented northern coast. Agubela de Cato is peninsula to its north.Possibly copied from Blaeu's map of 1648, as was D...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2020
Audience de Guadalajara nouveau Mexique, Californie. &c.
A finely engraved map of California and New Mexico. Prior to this map, all maps with California shown as an Island were either World maps, Western Hemisphere, North Ameri...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Marriete, 1667
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2016
Noweav Mexiqve. [California as an Island]
Uncommon miniature map of California as a island, from Pierre Duval's La Géographie Universelle dated 1676. The map is derived from Audience de Guadalajara , 1657, by hi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1672
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2016
Noweau Mexique.
Uncommon miniature map of New Mexico from Pierre Duval\'s La Geographie Universeille. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published this smaller size...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2008
Audience de Guadalajara nouveau Mexique, Californie. &c.
From Sanson's Geographia Exactissima. A finely re-engraved Amsterdam version of Sanson's map of California and New Mexico, first published in 1657, which was the earliest...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1682
Selling price: $1200
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Nouveau Mexique et Californie.
A charming map of California as an Island. The title cartouche is flanked by two native figures and two ships engaged in battle at bottom. . Title in curtain draped at to...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Nouveau Mexique et Californie.
A charming late 17th century French map of California, Nueva Granada and Nouvelle Espagne. California with flat northern coast, labelled Isle de Calfornie. A unique proje...
Place & Date: Franckfurt 1684
Selling price: $285
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Nouveau Mexique et Californie.
A charming late 17th century French map of California, Nueva Granada and Nouvelle Espagne. California with flat northern coast, labelled Isle de Calfornie. A unique proje...
Place & Date: Franckfurt 1684
Selling price: $325
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Nouveau Mexique et Californie.
A charming late 17th century French map of California, Nueva Granada and Nouvelle Espagne. California with flat northern coast, labeled Isle de Calfornie. A unique projec...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Selling price: $205
Sold in 2008
Nouveau Mexique et Californie.
A charming late 17th century French map of California, Nueva Granada and Nouvelle Espagne. California with flat northern coast, labeled Isle de Calfornie. A unique projec...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2008
The Island of California.
A rare miniature map focusing on the large Island of California, in original outline color. An example of the first state. Inaccurately and extensively detailed with moun...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1692
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2017
[Neu Mexico]
A rare miniature map of California and Nova Mexico, published by Johann Ulrich Muller in Ulm .This attractive map shows the island of California and the contiguous parts ...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1692
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2018
[Neu Mexico]
A rare miniature map of California and Nova Mexico, published by Johann Ulrich Muller in Ulm .This attractive map shows the island of California and the contiguous parts ...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1692
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Cette Carte de Californie et du Nouveau Mexique ?
A most important map, identifying by numerical code some 314 places in New Mexico, and showing in detail California as an island, although based on Sanson's monumental ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2009
Cette Carte de Californie et du Nouveau Mexique.
A most important map, identifying by numerical code some 314 places in New Mexico, and showing in detail California as an island, although based on Sanson's monumental ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
Selling price: $735
Sold in 2013
Cette Carte DE CALIFORNIE et DU NOUVEAU MEXIQUE.[Rare 1st edition!]
Rare and important map of California ,New Mexico and New Spain, showing in detail California as an island [San Francisco, San Diego and Mendocino are mentioned among many...
Place & Date: Paris 1700
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2021
Delineatio Nova Et Vera Partis Australis Novi Mexici.
Attractive map of the Southern Portion of Baja California and contiguous Mexico, based in part on Scherer's correspondence with Fra. Eusebio Kino, the Jesuit Missionary c...
Place & Date: Munich c.1702
Selling price: $320
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Cette Carte de Californie et du Nouveau Mexique. . .
A most important map, identifying by numerical code some 314 places in New MexicoIt shows in detail California as an island, although based on Sanson's monumental map of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2008
Cette Carte de Californie et du Nouveau Mexique.
A most important map, identifying by numerical code some 314 places in New Mexico, and showing in detail California as an island, although based on Sanson's monumental ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $1200
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Cette Carte de Californie et du Nouveau Mexique.
A most important map, identifying by numerical code some 314 places in New Mexico, and showing in detail California as an island, although based on Sanson's monumental ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
Cette Carte de Californie et du Nouveau Mexique.
A most important map, identifying by numerical code some 314 places in New Mexico, and showing in detail California as an island, although based on Sanson's monumental ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2019
Cette Carte de Californie et du Nouveau Mexique . . .
A most important map, identifying by numerical code some 314 places in New Mexico, and showing in detail California as an island, although based on Sanson's monumental ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2020
La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline.
This fine rare map is a reissue of de Fer's map of 1705 but on a larger scale, and with some notable additions. A boldly engraved and handsome item, the largest scale map...
Place & Date: Paris, 1720
Selling price: $5600
Sold in 2022
Carte du Gouvernement de l' Amerique [California Island].
An interesting chart depicting the European possessions in North and South America. A wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant maps. Included in the 1721 edition of the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1721
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Tabula Californiae Anno 1702 ex Autoptica Observatione Delineata a R.P. Chino e S.I.
Map of California based on Kino's map, originally drawn in 1702. Kino's map carefully records the results of nine journeys he made in northwestern Mexico and along the Co...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1726
Selling price: $750
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Tabula Californiae, Anno 1702 … Ex autoptica observatione delineata a R.P. Chino e S.I. [The Map of California in 1702 as Observed and Drawn by Father Chino, S. J.]
The much sought after so-called KINO-map of California as a peninsula, a result of Father Kino's travels which misspelled the island-phantasy. This his second map is...
Place & Date: Augsburg & Graetz, 1726
Selling price: $600
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Passage par Terre a la Californie ..
Father Kino's important map was the first map to accurately depict the region, in particular the relative positions of the Colorado and Gila rivers and the correct locali...
Place & Date: Paris, 1727
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2011
A Chart of the Pacific Ocean from the Equinoctial to the Latitude of 39 1/2d No.
This is a rare nautical chart of part of the Pacific Ocean displaying the routes of Spanish galleons between Acapulco and the Philippines. The tracks of the Spanish Nostr...
Place & Date: London, 1748
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2017
CALIFORNIA per P.Ferdinandum Con sak S.I. et alias.
Map of Mexico and the peninsular of California. Underneath the print a note about the region. Lower left a monogram E.V. of the engraver.
Place & Date: c. 1750
Selling price: $180
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Carte de la Californie, Levée par la Société des Jesuites..
Uncommon updated version of Father Kino's epoch-making map of 1705 which was finally to decide De L'Isle as to California being a peninsula and, through him, to influence...
Place & Date: Paris, after 1757
Selling price: $300
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Carta de la Mar del Sur, ò Mar pacifico, entre el Equador, y 39½ de latitud Septentrional hallada por el Almirante Jorge Anson en el Galion de Philipinas, que apresò.
Scarce map of the west coast of America, covering part of Mexico and California, copied from Anson's chart of 1748. Reaches as far north as Punta de los Reyes and Los Far...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1757
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2013
Travels of the Jesuits...(with Kino map of California).
Famous account by John Lockman, illustrated with five fold-out maps and 1 fold-out plate. With the important "Kino" map of California (Passage by land to Califo...
Place & Date: London, 1762
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2015
Kaart van het Westelyk Gedeelte van Nieuw Mexico en van California. . . MDCCLXV ..
A detailed map of the Baja California and Sonora, bounded on the north by the Colorado and Gila Rivers and approximately Mozatlan in the south, thus including parts of mo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2012
Kaart van het Westelyk gedeelte van Nieuw Mexico en van California
A detailed map of the Baja California and Sonora, bounded on the north by the Colorado and Gila Rivers and approximately Mozatlan in the south, thus including parts of mo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2014
Kaart van het Westelyk Gedeelte van Nieuw Mexico en van California. . . MDCCLXV ..
A detailed map of the Baja California and Sonora, bounded on the north by the Colorado and Gila Rivers and approximately Mozatlan in the south, thus including parts of mo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020
Carte des Nouvelles découvertes. . .
This map is most notable for it's depiction of "Mer de L'Ouest" or "Sea of the West", a great sea, easily the size of the Mediterranean, to flow from ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1770
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
Untitled [Nordlicher Theil des Grossen Süd Meers].
Uncommon map illustrating the Californian and some of the Mexican Pacific shores. With notations in German. In the upper central part some marks are visible due to cracks...
Place & Date: Germany, 1750 - 1770
Selling price: $80
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Untitled [Nordlicher Theil des Grossen Süd Meers].
Uncommon map illustrating the Californian and some of the Mexican Pacific shores. With notations in German. In the upper central part some marks are visible due to cracks...
Place & Date: Germany, 1750 - 1770
Selling price: $220
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Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-Ouest..
From Diderot's Encyclopedia. The main map shows California and the north west coast as depicted in a four-sheet map of America, published by Claes Jansz Visscher in 1612:...
Place & Date: Paris, 1770
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2020
Carte des nouvelles découvertes/ Extrait d\'une Carte Japonoise de l\'Universe.
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (!686-1766) and son Didier (1723-86), Paris geographers and publishers. Gilles succeedded Pierre Moulart Sanson in 1730. "Atlas Portatif&qu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1772
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
Carte des parties Nord et Est de L'Asie...
Interesting map of the northern coastline of Russia, the eastern coast of Asia with Korea, Japan, and China, and a bit of the coast of America called Anian. With four sm...
Place & Date: Paris, 1772
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2016
Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-Ouest Separes de l'Asie par le Detroit d'Aman.
An interesting study in the comparative cartography of the West Coast of North America in California. The work consists of extracts from two maps, both reportedly done b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1772
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2017
Carte de la Californie Suivant.
A historically important depiction of the 5 most influential cartographic depictions of California, showing the evolution of how California was mapped between 1604 and 17...
Place & Date: Paris, 1772
Selling price: $335
Sold in 2017
Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord Ouest separes de L'Asie par le Detriot d'Anian. . .
Two map shown. The larger map prominently shows the Strait of Anian, Anian Regnum, Quivira Regnum, the Sierra Nevada, Nova Albion, Tontonteac Regnum, Tolm Regnum and a co...
Place & Date: Paris, 1772
Selling price: $50
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Carte De La Californie...
Map of Baja California, parts of Mexico, and Arizona. Very detailed with settlements, mountains, islands, missions, Indian tribes (Apache, Pericu, Yuma and Cochimi). Thi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1777
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-Ouest..4de Carte
Diderot's famous 2 on 1 map showing the two early mappings of the west coast of North America, the first after Visscher, the second after Plancius' World map. Both show t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Carte de la Californie suivant..
Five maps on one folding sheet, showing the development of the mapping of California. The map is from Diderot's "Encyclopedie" which contains ten maps o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009
Carte Générale des Découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte, et autres . . .
A map from Diderot's Encyclopédie which makes the case for a northwest passage. Included as part of the evidence is the route of Admiral De Fonte, a completely fictitiou...
Place & Date: Paris, (1752) 1779
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-Ouest ?
The map is from Diderot's Encyclopedie which contains ten maps of America, Asia and the Arctic Regions. This 2 on 1 map shows the two early mappings of the west coast of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2010
Carte de la Californie suivant . . .
Five maps on one folding sheet, showing the development of the mapping of California. The map is from Diderot's "Encyclopedie" which contains ten maps of Americ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $301
Sold in 2009
Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-Ouest. . .
Diderot's famous 2 on 1 map showing the two early mappings of the west coast of North America, the first after Visscher, the second after Plancius' World map. Both show t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2019
Carte de la Californie suivant. . . (Five maps on one sheet)
Five maps on one folding sheet, showing the development of the mapping of California. The map is from Diderot's Encyclopedie which contains ten maps of America, Asia and ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $300
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Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes dresseee par Phil. Buache... [with] Extrait d'une Carte Japonoise de l'Univers apportee en Europe par Kaempfer . . . [Bay of the West]
A very interesting pair of rare maps published as a single sheet in the 10 part series of maps created by Robert de Vaugondy in his 'supplement Receuil de 10 cartes trait...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Karte von der Süd-See oder dem Stillen Meere..
The right hand sheet of a 2-sheet map of the Pacific. Depicting Mexico and California, most northern name is Punta de los Reyes, most southern is Acapulco, including Bay ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Chart of the North West Coast of America Explored by the Bousole & Astrolabe in 1786. (2nd Sheet)
A fine copperplate chart of the northwest coast of America from Mount La Touche to Cape Redondo. From La Perouse’s ATLAS DU VOYAGE DE LA PEROUSE. Published by G.G &...
Place & Date: London, 1791
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
Homme Masque de l'Isle de Sandwich
From a French edition of Captain Cook's voyages.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1795
Selling price: $94
Sold in 2020
Plan du Port des Francais sur la Côte du Nord-Ouest de l' Amerique.
By Jean François Galoup, Comte de la Pérouse (1741-88), an outstanding French explorer and hydrographer. From Voyage autour du Monde?Atlas', 1797."Chart of the ent...
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Selling price: $215
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Carte particulaiere de la Côte du Nord-Ouest de l\'Amerique, 2e Feuille.
Jean François Galoup, Comte de la Pérouse (1741-88), outstanding French explorer and hydrographer. ' Voyage autour du Monde?Atlas', 1797.A large detailed chart from La ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2009
Plan du Port De St. Diego en Californie. . . 1782 [with] Plan Du Port et du Departement de San Blas . . . 1777.
Two engraved maps on one page of the harbors of San Diego (ca. 1:100,000) in California and St. Blas (ca. 1:105,000) in Mexico . Depths by soundings. Engraved by L. Auber...
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Plan du Port De St. François Situé sur la côte de la CALIFORNIE Septentrionale . . . (San Francisco Bay)
The earliest obtainable printed map of San Francisco Bay, from the La Perouse's Voyages. Depths by soundings. Engraved by L. Aubert. The map includes 21 place names, incl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2014
Carte particulaire de la Côte du Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique, 3e Feuille.
Jean François Galoup, Comte de la Pérouse (1741-88), outstanding French explorer and hydrographer. ' Voyage autour du Monde…Atlas', 1797.A large chart from La Pérous...
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2016
Carte Des Cotes De L'Amérique Et De L'Asie depuis la Californie jusqu'à Macao...1786 et 1787...
A large map showing La Perouse's expedition in the northern Pacific. Extends from Baja California to Alaska, and the east coast of Asia from Tartary to Canton, including ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2017
Plan du Port des Français sur la cote des Français ...
"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 ...
Place & Date: Paris 1798
Selling price: $650
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Plan du Port des Français sur la cote du nord ouest. . .
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1798
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Captain Cook's Inboorlingen en Verblijfplaatsen Van Oonalashka.
A view from the Dutch edition of Cook's voyages featuring native Americans in the village of Oonalashka.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1800
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2016
Carte de la Partie de la Cote Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique Reconnue pendant les Etes de 1792, 1793 et 1794 . .
A Cartographic Landmark -- George Vancouver's Map of the West Coast of North America. The first broadly accurate sea chart of the Pacific Coast of North America, by the g...
Place & Date: Paris , 1804
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Charte von der Nordwestkuste Americas Nach Vancouver.
An anonymous 1818 'Charte von der Nordwestkuste Americas nach Vancouver'. This map of the Pacific coast stretches from present-day San Francisco north to Anchorage, in Al...
Place & Date: Prague, 1818
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2017
Mécique..
Detailed map of Mexico and California, prepared by Th.Duvotenay.Engraved by Ch.Smith, published by Basset who was established in Paris, rue de Seine 33.
Place & Date: Paris 1848
Selling price: $80
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Arrivée d'une famille en Californie.
Four pages of Le Charivari a satiric magazine for which Cham prepared and lithographed many illustration.Humoristic view of an arrival of a family in California. Ah! mon ...
Place & Date: Paris 1849
Selling price: $80
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Californien, Oregon Utah und Neu-Mejico.
An attractive lithographed map of western America with original coloring by Carl Flemming.Oregon is essentially the same as on the Mitchell map, above, but modern Califor...
Place & Date: Glogau ca 1850
Selling price: $300
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Mexico, California and Texas.
Excellent and important map to show the goldrush in California. After gold was discovered in California, the plate was re-engraved to include a vignette of gold washing a...
Place & Date: London, c1850
Selling price: $365
Sold in 2008