World/ Age of Discovery. SCHEDEL, Hartmann [Nuremberg: 1493] Secunda etas mundi. 14 ½ x 20 inches. Original woodcut; usual thread hole mends, else fine condition. .....
Antique Maps
China/Japan/ Tibet/ Indochina. FRIES, Laurent [Vienne: 1541] Untitled Woodcut Map of East Asia. 11 ½ x 18 inches. A few, filled small wormholes in outer margins, else excellent condition with a strong printing impression. .....
Americas/ Florida. WALDSEEMULLER, M./ FRIES, L. [Vienne-in-the-Dauphine, 1522/ 1541] Untitled Woodcut Map of the Americas. 11 ¼ x 14 7/8 inches. Excellent condition. Laurent Fries’s more elaborate edition of Waldseemuller's landmark "Tabula Terre Nove" (1513), the first separate, printed map of America. Although the Fries edition is geographically.....
Northeast-Southeast/ New York City/ Bermuda. GASTALDI, G. [Venice, 1548] Tierra Nueva. 5 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches. A fine example with an uncommonly strong impression. .....
Asia. MUNSTER, S. [Basel, c. 1550] Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas complectens terras & regna.. 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches. Excellent condition. The earliest separate map specifically of Asia. Munster’s striking woodcut map significantly.....
Americas. ORTELIUS, A. [Antwerp: 1570 [1571]] Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. 14 ½ x 20 inches. Fine original color, refreshed; mended split in left margin just entering surface, very slight fold wear, excellent condition with a sharp impression. .....
Virginia/ Chesapeake Bay. SMITH, CAPT. JOHN/ MERIAN, M. [Frankfurt, 1627] Virginia Erforshet und beschriben durch Captain Iohan Schmidt. 11 1/2 x 14 1/8 inches. Fine condition-- sheet with untrimmed, deckled edges on two sides and a strong printing impression. .....
World. BLAEU, Willem. [Amsterdam: c. 1630-1635] Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis. 16 x 21 3/8 inches. Fine original color, refreshed; light matt burn, else a fine example with a strong impression. A beautiful example of an early issue of a cartographic masterwork. While the exact issue date of this Blaeu.....
North America/ California as an Island/ Great Lakes. JANSSON, J./ HONDIUS, H. [Amsterdam, 1641] America Septentrionalis. 18 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. Fine original color; fine condition. One of the earliest maps to focus.....
Western Hemisphere/ California as Island. SPEED, John/ HUMBLE, George [London: 1626 / c.1647-61] America with those known parts in that unknowne world both people and manner of buildings . . . Are to be sold in pops-head alley against the Exhange by G. Humble. 15 3/8 x 20 ¼ inches.....
Northeast/ New York City. JANSSON, J. [Amsterdam, 1651] Belgii Novi, Angliae Novae, Et Partis Virginiae Novissima Delineatio. 17 ¼ x 20 ¼ inches. Superb original color; a few vertical creases else excellent with wide margins. .....
Ptolemaic Solar System. CELLARIUS, Andreas. [Amsterdam, 1660] Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum… 17 3/8 x 20 5/8 inches. Full rich original color heightened with gold; bottom of centerfold reinforced, else a fine example. In a fine, archival, gold-leaf frame. .....
Copernican Solar System. CELLARIUS, A. [Amsterdam, 1660] Scenographia Systematis Copernicani. 17 x 20 1/2 inches. Superb original color, heightened with gold; fine condition. In a fine, archival frame. .....
California as Island/ Southwest/ Globe Gore. CORONELLI, V. [Venice: 1697] Della California Alcuno ha credito . . . 18½ x 12 inches. Faint staining & chipping at edges of margins, else excellent condition. A scarce globe gore showing most of an insular California by the remarkably accomplished Franciscan who is.....
World/ California as an Island. MOLL, H. [London: 1719] A New & Correct Map Of The Whole World… 27 ¼ x 47 inches. Original outline color refreshed; mounted on rice paper, mended minor fold wear & separations, still an overall excellent, attractive example with a strong printing impression. .....
Northeast/ New Jersey. HOMANN, J. B. [Nuremberg, 1724] Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata . . . 19 ¼ x 22 ¾ inches. Fine original body color, cartouche with later color, slight fading of color along centerfold, else excellent. .....
1. A View of Boston from Dorchester Neck. 2. Long Island . . . 3. Boston from Willis Creek. 4. A Front View of the Lines taken from the advanced Post near Browns House. 5. A View of the Harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill. 6. A View of the Country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced works on Boston Neck.
The complete set of six views (on two sheets), all relating to Boston; very rarely seen complete. These fine engravings of various vistas of Boston are important records of the area prior to as well as just after the beginning of the Revolution. Three of views show Boston itself, from.....
Lake Champlain/ American Revolution. BRAS(S)IER, William/ SAYER, R. & BENNETT, J. [London: August 5, 1776, but not before November, 1776] A Survey Of Lake Champlain, including Lake George, Crown Point And St. John. . . . [Inset:] A Particular Plan of Lake George . . . 25 7/8 x 18.....
Connecticut/ Long Island Sound/ Rhode Island. GENTLEMEN’S MAGAZINE [London: November, 1776] A Map of Connecticut and Rhode Island with Long Island Sound,&c. 6 ¾ x 8 ⅞ inches. Copperplate engraving. slight text offsetting on right side, else excellent. .....
Connecticut. ROMANS, B./ COVENS & MORTIER & COVENS [Amsterdam, 1780] Connecticut and Parts adjacent… 20 ½ x 23 ¼ inches. Copperplate engraving with original outline color; all edges deckled, uncut; mint condition; in a fine archival frame. Very rare; separately published. The earliest acquirable map of Connecticut.....
Battle of Yorktown/ American Revolution. MONDHARE, Louis Joseph [Paris, c. 1781] Reddition de l'Armée Angloises Commandée par Mylord Comte de Cornwallis aux Armees Combinées des Etats Unis de l'Amérique et de France aux ordres des Generaux Washington et de Rochambeau a Yorck Touwn et Glocester dans la Virginie, le 19.....
HOWELL, Reading (surveyor) / PHILLIPS, James (printer) [Philadelphia: Reading Howell: 1792 [but ca. 1794] A MAP OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, BY READING HOWELL, MDCCXCII. Engraving on four sheets, 37 x 63 inches if joined. Lightly cleaned, minor mends, and some vertical folds from storage, yet overall a superb example. .....
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.....
United States. FADEN, W. [London, 1796] The United States of North America with the British Territories and Those of Spain. According to the Treaty, of 1784. 20 ½ x 24 ¾ inches. Full original wash and outline color; excellent condition. .....
SOTZMANN, Daniel Friedrich/ EBELING, Christoph [Hamburg: Carl Ernst Bohn, 1798. MAINE entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. 25 ¼ x 17 3/8 inches. Copperplate engraving with original wash and outline color. Some discoloration from liquid damage at left along centerfold, with some old repairs and a recent mend to a short tear to.....