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. .....
Antique Maps
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.....
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The very scarce, first state of this attractive map engraved by Gerard Mercator himself of what is today northwest Turkey, including Istanbul (here Byzantium) and the Dardanelles. Also on the map are present-day northern Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Kosovo and Serbia. Meeting in this map are two of the.....
Northeast/ New York City/ Canada. GASTALDI, G./ RAMUSIO, J. B. [Venice, 1556/ 1606] La Nuova Francia. 10 ½ x 14 ½ inches. Fine condition with a dark printing impression. “The first printed map devoted to the New England region” (Osher) and the first map to name New France. Also, on.....
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.....
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. .....
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.....
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. .....
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.....
SENEX, John. [London: c. 1719-21] A MAP OF LOUISIANA AND OF THE RIVER MISSISSIPI By Iohn Senex. 19 x 22 inches. Original outline color refreshed; mends in upper left and right margins, lightly age-toned, overall very good. .....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York State. SOTZMANN, D.F./EBELING, C.D. New York. entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. [Hamburg: 1799] 19 ¼ x 25 ½ inches. Original outline & wash coloring; a few stains, including ink or blood? stain lower right, edge soiling & a split, still excellent overall with a strong impression. A very attractive.....
Maine/ Canada. NORMAN, John & William. [Boston, 1801/ 1803] A Chart of the Coast of America from Wood Island to Good Harbour From Hollands Surveys. 20 x 32 inches. Expected soiling & wear, some repairs to outer areas with small areas of restorations, still very good of this kind. The.....
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. Slightly age-toned, small area of lower right corner chipped off, two areas of bubbling; color rich & vibrant, overall.....
Rio De Janeiro. SYDENHAM, Thomas, Esq. / ORME, Edward [London: January 1, 1812] Entrance of the Harbour of Rio Janeiro. London: Pubd. Jan. 1 1812, by Edwd. Orme, Printseller to the King, Engraver & Publisher, Bond Strt. Corner of Brook St. 10 x 14 ¼ inches. Excellent condition. .....
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FIRST VIEW of the BATTLE of PATAPSCO NECK [:] DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO LOST THEIR FRIENDS IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY [:] SEPTR 12 1814.
Extremely rare, unrecorded proof (or first) state, by an American participant, of the September 1814 Battle of North Point, at which Maryland militia stoutly defended Baltimore against a large force of British regulars.The early land campaigns of the War of 1812 took place along the Canadian border, but in mid.....
World Map/ Buddhism. Zuda RŌKASHI (Priest Hōtan) [Kyōto, c. 1710-1815] Nansen Bushu Bankoku Shōka No Zu. (“Outline Map of all the Countries of the Universe”) 45 x 57 ½ inches. Period wash color; nine woodblock sheets joined; folds reinforced, slight losses at some fold intersections, overall very good. .....
Pianta Della Citta Di Roma Con La Indicazione Di Tutte Le Antichita E Nuovi Abellimenti.
Large, attractively engraved plan of Rome, flanked by 16 vignettes, each approximately 4 x 5 inches, of the city's most prominent ancient and modern structures. Included among the latter are the Pantheon of Agrippa, Trajan's Column, and the Colosseum; among the former are the basilicas of St. Peter, St. John.....