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. .....
Canada & Arctic
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.....
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.....
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. .....
Partie des Côtes de Labrado Depuis le Cap Charles a la Baye de Sandwich….
A mint example of this Revolutionary War-era chart, made for the use of the French Navy, and published the year before France became an ally of the American cause. It details the easternmost coastline of Labrador, and provides an inset chart of Mecklenburg Harbor. Georges-Louis Le Rouge (c. 1712-c. 1790).....
Northwest/ Alaska/ California. LAPEROUSE (Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse) / DAGELET, M. [Paris: 1797] Carte Generale D’Une partie De La Cote Du Nord-ouest D L’Amerique… 27 x 19 3/8 inches. Fine wash color; excellent condition. Very attractive example showing in fine.....
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.....
Two sheets: America West Cape Mendocino to Vancouver Id. from Cape Flattery southward... [and] America West Diego Bay to Cape Mendocino.
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.....
Maine/ Canada/ Passamaquoddy Bay/ Deer & Campobello Islands. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, U. S. NAVY [Washington, D. C.: January, 1891] North America United States And Canada Passamaquoddy Bay And Approaches. 29 x 34 ½ inches. Lithograph with ighthouses daubed in yellow watercolor; some mended splits entering surface, partial reinforcing of outer margins.....
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Universale Della Parte Del Mondo . .
The rare first state of an important and in some ways groundbreaking map. The woodblock for this map was destroyed shortly after its publication in a fire in November of 1557, hence its rarity. The map was compiled by the great Venetian cartographer, Giacomo Gastaldi, and appeared in a three-volume.....
Tavola dell’ isole nuove.
Excellent example of the earliest separate map of the entire Western Hemisphere. This was also the earliest map to refer to the Pacific Ocean (along with Munster's world map) by a variant of its present name, Mare pacificum. It was one of earliest acquirable maps to show Japan prominently, which.....
World. ORTELIUS, A. [Antwerp: 1570 [1574] Typvs Orbis Terrarvm. 13 ¼ x 19 ¼ inches. Copperplate engraving with fine hand color; invisible split along top of centerfold, supported with thin rice paper on verso, overall very good .....
North America. PORCACCHI, Tomasso [Venice: 1572/ 1576] Mondo Nuovo. 4 ½ x 5 ¾ inches (map only). Faint tide mark upper left margin, else excellent. First state of the second earliest, obtainable map of North America, preceded only by Paolo Forlani's rare map of North America, published in Venice in.....
Norumbega Et Virginia.
This very early map reveals the state of geographic knowledge of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions at the time of their initial colonization. "A superbly executed engraving, [the map] depicts the northeastern American coastline as it was perceived by European geographers one hundred years after the discovery of the New World.....
Septentrionalium Regionum descrip.
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.....
The North part of America . . .
North America/ California as an Island/ Northwest Passage. BRIGGS, H. [London, 1625] The North part of America . . . 11 3/8 x 14 inches. Excellent condition. .....
Canada/ Lake Champlain/ Maine/ Northern New England. DE LAET, Johannes/ GERRITSZ, Hessel [Leiden: 1630] Nova Francia et Regiones Adiacentes. 13 ½ x 16 inches. Copperplate engraving. Full margins, a few light stains, creasing at upper left, overall very good condition. A finely engraved, landmark map, the earliest to show Lakes.....
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. .....
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.....
Grand Banks/ Newfoundland. KEULEN, Johannes van [Amsterdam, 1695] Pas-kaart Van de Grand Banq By Terra Neuff... 20 x 23 inches. On double-ply paper as issued; fine hand color; a faint stain, else a fine, bright example. .....
Great Lakes. CORONELLI, V. [Venice, 1695] La Louisiane. 10 ¼ x 16 ¾ inches. Lower margin expertly extended, else excellent condition. One of the first.....
St. Lawrence River. VAN KEULEN, Gerard [Amsterdam: 1717] Nouvelle Carte de la Riviere de Canada ou St. Laurens… [Imprint:] Imprime et donne au Lumiere pare Gerard Van Keulen…A. Amsterdam. 20 ½ x 23 ¾ inches. Trimmed close at lower right with very slight loss, two corners extended & side margins.....
North America/ California as Island. MOLL, H. [London, 1720] To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers . . . This Map of North America . . . 22 5/8 x 38 inches. Original outline color; few, small wormholes in upper margin, reinforcement in lower margin, else excellent condition. .....