World. CALAPODA, Giorgio (?) / UNKNOWN. [Venice or Florence, c. 1555] Untitled World Map. 8 x 11 ½ inches. Engraving. A brown stain in the Indian Ocean, else excellent condition with wide margins. .....
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British Isles/ History of Cartography. MERCATOR, G./ PTOLEMY, C. [Cologne: 1584] Europae. I. Tab: 13 3/8 x 16 inches. Fine hand color; two light stains upper left & right (less pronounced on the actual map than in the image), else excellent condition. .....
Gerardus Mercator . . . Iudocus Hondius . .
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers in a richly colored example. Created by the widow of Jodocus Hondius as a tribute to her late husband who died in 1612. It appeared as the frontispiece in editions of the Mercator-Hondius atlas beginning in 1613. In the well-executed design, the.....
Berkshire/ Windsor Castle. SPEED, John [London, 1614 (?)] Barkshire Described. Performed by I. Speede and are to be sold in the Popes head Alley by I. Sud and Georg Humble Cum Privilegio. 15 x 20 inches. Fine hand color; expertly mended worming in centerfold with reinstatement of part of title.....
Africae, described, the manners of their Habits,… G. Humble Ano 1626.
A vigorously decorative map of Africa--the first in English but adopting the rich Dutch cartes a figures style so popular at the time. As is customarily seen on 17th century maps, Africa's interior is filled with fictitious mountains, rivers and lakes as well as notations concerning legends, notably where gold.....
Antwerp/ Financial History. VISSCHER, C.J. /VISSCHER, N. J. [Amsterdam, c. 1630] Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii… C.J. Visscher Excudebat. 18 x 21 ¾ inches. Fine original color; bit of edge chipping & toning in margins, else excellent. .....
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.....
World. ORTELIUS, Abraham [Antwerp: 1641] Typus Orbis Terrarum. 14 x 19 inches. Copperplate engraving. Fine condition with a sharp impression. One of.....
Cyprus Insula.
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.....
Americae nova Tabula. Auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw.
Brilliant example in fine original color of a work that epitomized the Golden Age of Cartography. The map’s side borders provide fine miniatures of indigenous peoples of various regions, while important harbors and cities, including Mexico City, Cusco, and the silver mines of Potosi, Bolivia are illustrated in the top.....
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.....
Philippines. ANSON, G. [London: 1749] Carte du Canal des Isles Philippines. 21 x 16 ½ inches. Fine hand color; excellent condition. A handsome chart.....
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. .....
Plan of the City of New York, in North America: Surveyed in the Years 1766 & 1767.
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. .....
Connecticut. SOTZMANN, D. F. [Hamburg: 1796] Connecticut entworfen van D. F. Sotzmann… 14 x 17 1/8 inches. Full original wash color; fine condition with very wide margins. Separately published. One of the most advanced and detailed maps of Connecticut to date. Sotzmann's.....
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.....
A New Map For Travelers Through The United States Of America Showing The Railroads, Canals & Stage Roads.
A delicately beautiful map of mid-19th century United States with extensive transportation-related content. Four of the work’s five inset maps focus on rail lines and canals in specific parts of the country. The large inset of the western United States at bottom right completes the picture of the country that.....
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.....
Colton’s Map of the Oil District of West Virginia and Ohio.
Scarce, richly informative map showing the oil, gas and coal discoveries in West Virginia at the beginning of that region’s oil boom. The key areas along the Little Kanawha and Hughes Rivers in West Virginia and on Buck Creek in Ohio are shown in great.....
Bancroft's Map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona,
A bright, vibrant example of a map of California and the western states by "the greatest map publisher of the Pacific Coast" (Wheat). The map descended from what Wheat called "the great 'map of the Pacific states'"--that of William H. Knight, published in 1863, also by the Bancroft firm. The.....
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.....
New York City & America’s Cup History. MCLOUGHLIN BROS. [1887 (copyright)/ 1888 (published)] The Yacht Race Game. Large folding game board, 31 ¼ x 16 inches. With spinner in the form of a compass and 8 (of 8) playing pieces in the form of yachts on wooden supports. All housed in.....