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One of the earliest and rarest printed world maps; the first to be published in northern Italy. The Berlinghieri is certainly the rarest of the early Ptolemiac world maps, aside from the unobtainable 1477 Bologna edition. It is also the only early Ptolemaic world map to employ the same projection.....
Atlas. ORTELIUS, A./ GALLE, F. [Antwerp, 1579] Le Miroir Du Monde, Reduict Premierement En Rithme… A Anvers, De l’Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, pour Philippe Galle. M.D.LXXIX.Oblong octavo in contemp. Vellum, ties lacking; 72 maps, 6 of which folding; slight edge wear to text leaves, partial cropping to some folding maps for.....
One of Ortelius’s most important European maps, in an attractive example. It clearly summarizes what 16th century geographers believed of northern Europe and the waters above it. In his atlas, Ortelius cited an array of cartographers whose ideas contributed to this map, including several whose maps are now unobtainable. Greenland.....
World. QUAD, M. [Cologne, 1600] Typus Orbis Terrarum, Ad Imitationem Gerhardi Mercatoris... 8 ½ x 12 ¼ inches. Strong impression, margins close but no loss, excellent condition. .....
A finely engraved general map of Italy that appeared in the first atlas of Italy published in Italy. It depicts Italy with place names that were in use during the Roman Imperial Period of the Second Century A. D. While closely based on a map by Gerard Mercator from his.....
South America/ Brazil/ Caribbean/ Florida. DE BRY, T. [Frankfurt, 1592/ 1624] Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDCXXIV. 14 3/8 x 17 1/4 inches. Fine hand color; margins expertly extended with no loss of engraved surface, else excellent condition. .....
World/ Northwest Passage/ Australiana. KEERE, P. VAN DEN/ JANSSON, J. [Amsterdam, 1621/c. 1636] Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. 15 1/2 x 21 inches. Fine hand color; a few mended, inconspicuous into engraved surface & along a vertical crease, largely in margins, good overall. .....
World. ORTELIUS, Abraham [Antwerp: 1641] Typus Orbis Terrarum. 14 x 19 inches. Copperplate engraving. Fine condition with a sharp impression. One of.....
One of the finest early maps of Cyprus in a beautiful original-color example. Its magnificent cartouche portrays Venus, pulled on a sea-chariot by two swans, accompanied by Cupid (distinguishable from an ordinary putto by the arrow he brandishes.) The waters around the island are embellished with three ships, two compass.....
An exceptionally fresh example, in brilliant original color, of the earliest separate map of the area that now includes Hong Kong. Macau, Guangzhou (Canton), and several other place names appear in the Zhu (Pearl) River delta, and Hainan Island to the southwest is quite well detailed. Finely engraved Oriental figures.....
Holy Land/ Judaica. VISSCHER, Nicolaus [Amsterdam: c. 1657] Peregrinatie ofte Veertich-Iarige Reyse Der Kinderen Israels,,… 12 ½ x 18 ¾ inches. Copperplate engraving with fine, early color; bottom of centerfold reinforced, a few mended edge splits, none affecting engraved area, overall excellent. A finely engraved and colored map, from a......
A beautifully colored Dutch map of Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. The cartouche is decorated with putti and a regal figure representing the city of Rome, and by extension, Civilization. On the scales in the lower left a putto plays with surveying implements. The map features many ships, and a......
In this arresting work, constellations of the southern skies, as if viewed from deep in space, can be seen superimposed over a portion of the earth. The area depicted “beneath” the stars extends from the United States to the South Pole and includes all of South America. Because this chart.....
North America. MOLL, H. [London, 1715/ 1731] A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America. ... By Herman Moll Geographer. ... 39 5/8 x 23 7/8 inches. Rich original color with the beaver vignette in gouache; a few.....
Mississippi River/ Louisiana/ Tennessee/ Arkansas. ROSS, Lt. J./ SAYER, R. [London, 1775] Course of the River Mississippi from the Balise to Fort Chartres. 44 1/4 x 13 ½ inches (two sheets joined). Original outline color; minor marginal mends well outside of printed image, else excellent. .....
Rare; a superb example of the best executed and most beautiful, printed map one can acquire of early New York, and arguably also the masterpiece of 18th century, American, urban cartography. In addition to a plan of the city itself, the work provides a remarkable evocation of the pre-development landscape.....
Connecticut. ROMANS, B./ COVENS & MORTIER & COVENS [Amsterdam, 1780] Connecticut and Parts adjacent… 20 ½ x 23 ¼ inches. All edges deckled, uncut; mint condition; in a fine archival frame. Very rare; separately published. The earliest acquirable map of Connecticut of folio size or better, and.....
United States/ Asia/ Australia/ Early Geographic Education. DAWES Jr., Samuel [Mississippi?: 1820] A Map of the United. States By Samuel Dawes Jr. 1820. [Verso:] Asia. 18 ¾ x 23 3/8 inches. Pen & ink & watercolor on woven paper. Some staining and age toning, three neatly closed splits into surface.....
Antigua/ Slave Emancipation. STOBWASSER, L./ HURLIMANN [Basel, 1835] Vue de Gracehill dans I’Isle d’Antigoa aux Indes occidentales. 8 ¾ x 11 1/8 inches. Aquatint with fine original color; slight mended edge split, few spots, else excellent. Rare--possibly separately published (see below). A luminously colored view that evokes the island’s distinctively hilly.....
A beautifully preserved wall map, in very attractive, period wash coloring, of the lower Connecticut towns of Old Saybrook, Essex, Deep River, Centerbrook and Ivoryton, located at or near the mouth of the Connecticut River on the eastern side. The overall map is complemented with detail plans of the central.....
BONAR, Thomas [New York, c. 1855] Compo House. The Residence of Richard H. Winslow Esq. at Westport, Conn. 17 ¼ 21 ¼ inches. Color lithograph. Expertly mounted on acid-free paper; well-mended split lower right imperceptibly extending into printed surface, light mat burn, very good overall. .....
Rare. This was as authoritative a chart of these waters as was available at the time. Despite its density of detail, the chart was engraved with uncommon clarity. Its charting of the Connecticut shoreline includes the many, small harbor islands, especially along the western shore. Also, all inlets, rivers and.....
Paru River/ Almeirim/ Brazil. CREVAUX, Jules? [Brazil?: c. 1878] Untitled & unsigned manuscript map of the Parú River in pen & ink on silk. 840 x 500mm (33 x 19 ¾ inches). Lightly age-toned, creasing and old folds, two or three holes in blank areas, very good. .....
An excellent map of the state compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources by C. Roeser, Principal Draughtsman of the G.L.O. Mining operations and mountain ranges are shown in considerable details. It also shows rail lines, range and township lines, cities and towns, county.....
Washington Territory. J. K. GILL & CO./ GALVANI, W. H. [Portland, OR: 1884] J. K. Gill & Cos. Map of Washington. Portland Ogn. 1884./ New Sectional, Township & County Map of Washington…1884. 22 ½ x 27 inches. Lithograph with full, original wash color. Ex-folding map, here flattened, original embossed covers.....
