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.....
Stockholm, Sweden. MERIAN, M. [Frankfurt am Main, 1638`] Stockholm. 7 ½ x 13 inches. Marginal mend well away from printed image, else excellent condition. A superb bird’s-eye view, published just after Stockholm had become the official capital of the Swedish Empire. The view is oriented to the south.....
Bermuda. BLAEU, W./ NORWOOD, R. [Amsterdam, 1642] Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas . . . 15 7/8 x 21 inches. Superb original color; a few light marginal stains, mend in lower right corner, well away from printed image, else excellent. The most richly decorative, early.....
A bright, beautiful copy of one of the most ambitious and finely engraved works of urban cartography ever produced: it depicts every structure existing in Paris at the time. This remarkable engraving enables the viewer to virtually hover a few hundred feet above the city and take in the exquisite.....
Beijing. HARRIS, John/ CAMPBELL, John [London: 1744] Plans of the Old & New City of Peking ye. Metropolis of China. 14 x 8 3/4 inches. Copperplate engraving. Excellent condition. Revealing, early plans of Beijing, formerly Peking, depicting the then contemporary city along with the ancient, original city. Legends at lower.....
China/ Korea. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, G. [Paris: 1751] L’Empire De La Chine dresse d’apres les Cartes de l’Atlas Chinois… 19 x 20 ½ inches. Copperplate engraving with original outline color. Invisible mend lower centerfold, mend in lower margin, very good overall. This.....
Northeast/ Old Northwest/ South. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Didier. [Paris, 1755] Amerique Septentrionale, dressee, sur les Relations les plus modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs 18 ¾ x 22 ¾ inches. Original outline color; excellent condition. First state of an important map of a soon to be contested.....
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/ Northwest. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, D. [Paris, 1783 [c. 1793]] Amerique Septentrionale . . . Les Etats Unis . . . Publiee en 1750 et Corrigee en 1783 . . . 18 ¾ x 22 ¾ inches. Original outline color; bottom of centerfold reinforced, else excellent condition. .....
Geographic Allegorical Figures. W.B. WALKER (publisher) [London: 4 Fox & Knot Court, Cow Lane: 1805] EUROPE. ASIA. 10 ½ x 14 3/8 inches. Mezzotint, transferred to glass, finished with oil color. Sightly age-toned, small area of lower right corner chipped off, two areas of bubbling; color rich & vibrant, overall.....
United States/ Postal History. BRADLEY Jr., Abraham. [Washington, DC, 1804 [1809]] Map of the United States Exhibiting the Post-Roads, the situations, connexions & distances of the Post-Offices Stage Roads, Counties, & Principal Rivers By Abraham Bradley, Junr. [Imprint:] Entered According to the Act of Congress the 2nd day of June.....
United States/Early Geographic Education/ Native American History. DAWES Jr., Samuel [Mississippi?: Dated: 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.....
A finely engraved plan of Rome flanked by 15 floor plans of the city's most important structures, both ancient and more recent. It was likely intended for the more serious-minded visitor, such as northern Europeans on the Grand Tour, and for students of architecture. Pietro Ruga was active in the.....
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.....
Nautical Chart: Block Island to Cuba. BLUNT, E. & G. W./ COPLEY, Charles [New York, 1853] Coast Of North America from Point Judith to Cape St. Antonio. (Island Of Cuba) Including The Bhama Banks… Every Authentic Survey, American, English & Spanish, Has Been Used In The Construction Of This Chart… 29.....
Cuba/ Havana. COELLO, D. F. [Madrid, 1851 & 1855] Isla De Cuba (both sheets with same title) Each, 30 x 41 1/2 inches. Pair of folding maps on heavy paper, with original outline color, in original covers; some discoloration at a few folds, very slight wear at fold intersections.....
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Scarce, finely engraved chart on two sheets of the entire west coast of the United States and including the southern portion of Vancouver Island. Each of the 27 coastal recognitions on the charts is delicately realized. These provided visual reference for the entry to the major bays and ports as.....
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A very rare, Greek cartographic imprint, apparently separately published. We located a copy of the map at the Library of Congress but not elsewhere, either in institutional collections or in market records. Cf. Tooley's Dictionary K-P, p. 102.
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.....
An important, wonderfully detailed, signed and dated watercolor view of arguably the most storied western American fort, here called Camp Apache, later becoming Fort Apache. The fort was located near present-day Whiteriver in the central eastern part of Arizona. It was at the flashpoint of the decades-long Apache Wars 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. .....
Militaria/ Arms Export History. MAKER UNKNOWN [Spain, c. 1880s] Panuelo De Instruccion Militar... 25 x 30 ¾ inches. Lithograph in red & black printed on cotton. Lightly age-toned, few small holes, overall excellent of this type. A fascinating broadside printed on cloth, illustrating the Springfield rolling block rifle, Model.....
Southeast Australia/ Sydney. JAMES IMRAY AND SON [London: 1883 [1885 (stamped)] South And East Coasts Of Australia [In Four Charts] Chart No. 3, Cape Howe To The River Tweed…50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm). Two joined, lithographed sheets mounted on heavy, later blue paper with original yellow, trade.....
United States/ New York State/ Railroads/ Advertising. HANNIFAN & CO., Publisher/ RAND MCNALLY, Printer [New York, 1886] 1885.-Railroad Map And Business Guide in Book Form.-1886.Embracing the Principal Manufacturers, Trades and Representative Business House of Utica, Rome Camden..and Schenectady. 25 ½ x 39 ½ inches. Lithographed folding map with original hand.....
