Tall, striking work based on the first official survey of the lower Mississippi River done in 1763. The map extends north to just below St. Louis. It provides considerable detail for the New Orleans area and shows Baton Rouge and Lake Pontchartrain. The map is significant for its delineation of.....
United States/ Cartographic Curiosity. BOYNTON, George W. (engraver)/ TUTTLE, Joseph Willard (publisher) [Boston: Tremont Print Company: dated 1841] A MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE LATEST SURVEYS. WITH THE HEIGHT OF MOUNTAINS And length of the PRINCIPAL RIVERS. PATENT. 25 3/4 x 25 inches (image not including margins). Lithographed map.....
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.....
Abilene, Texas. KIRBY, A. H./ THOMAS, J. A./ LOUIS C. WISE & CO. (publisher) [Galveston: c. 1885] Map of Abilene. 22 ¾ x 25 inches. Lithograph. Fine condition. An unusually elegant example of a promotional city plan and possibly the earliest printed.....
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.....
Americas. MUNSTER, Sebastian. [Basle: 1540 [c. 1544-50]] Novae Insulae. 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches. Fine early color; some age toning, a few marginal stains, else excellent. The earliest collectible map of the Western Hemisphere.....
South America/ Brazil/ Caribbean/ Florida. DE BRY, T. [Frankfurt, 1592/ 1624] Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDCXXIV. 14 3/8 x 17 1/4 inches. Fine hand color; margins expertly extended with no loss of engraved surface, else excellent condition. .....
An attractive example of a pivotal map, which inaugurated a new era in the cartography of North America, as dominance in mapmaking turned decidedly in favor of the French. In addition to being one of the earliest obtainable maps to show all five Great Lakes in a recognizable form, this.....
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. .....
A beautiful example in full, vibrant, period color of a majestic, folding world map. A rare issue with very important updates. The map is an extraordinary compendium of oceanic exploration and contains voyage tracks from the 15th century to those contemporaneous with the map including those relating to polar 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.....
A superbly realized promotional brochure, one of the finest we've seen, issued by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, featuring a sequence of nine beautiful views of Colorado's mountainous natural wonders, many with trains cutting through the landscape. Fittingly the railroad's original motto was "Through the Rockies, not around them.".....
A scarce, pocket land atlas, made for use in the field, of the properties owned by members of the Five Civilized Tribes--the Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. The work remains to this day one of the best and most reliable sources for locating original land ownership titles in.....
