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[Map of the Americas] Matthaus Merian.
America noviter delineatia.
Frankfurt, c1638. 285 x 370mm. Coloured.
North and South America, with a decorative title cartouche and an inset of Greenland. Derived from Jodicus Hondius' 1618 map, the New England area is marked 'Norembega', and the discoveries of John Smith, including Chesapeake Bay, are ignored.
MERI0010 |
£790 |
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[Hondius' map of America] Henricus Hondius.
America noviter delineata.
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1641. 380 x 500mm. Original colour. Minor centrefold repair on verso otherwise very good.
Despite Henricus's signature and the date of 1631, this is Jodocus Hondius Jnr's map of the Americas of 1618. It has insets of the two Poles, depicts California as a peninsula and has seas full of ships and seamonsters. BURDEN: 192, Jodocus Hondius Jnr's map, third state of five.
HOND0006 |
£2,250 |
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[America] Giovanni Antonio Magini.
America.
Padua, Lasor à Varea, 1713. 135 x 180mm, set in a page of text. Some creasing.
Map of America engraved by Girolamo Porro for Magini's edition of Ptolemy, 1596. See BURDEN 93.
MAGI0003 |
£225 |
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[America] Isaak Tirion.
Niewe Kaart Van Westelykste Deel der Weereld...
Amsterdam, c.1754. 350 x 370mm. Original body colour.
Map of North and South America with fine, bright colour and with good detail throughout. Above C. Blank in California a short coastline juts westward. The Great Lakes are well-mapped. Virginia, Carolina, Louisiana are marked. South America has more detail with the interior labelled ‘Land der Amazonen.’
TIRI0003 |
£340 |
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[America] Antonio Zatta.
L'America divisa ne suoi Principali Stati...
Venice, 1796. 320 x 410mm. Original colour. Centrefold lightly toned.
North and South America with a fictitious North West Passage marked.
ZATT0004 |
£350 |
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[Map of America] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
[Untitled map of the Americas.]
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1831. Steel engraving, printed area 390 x 320mm. Original colour. Slight foxing
Not showing Canada or Patagonia.
SDUK0057 |
£39 |
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[Map of the Western Hemisphere] John Dower
Western Hemisphere.
London, Orr & Smith, c.1840. 225 x 250mm. Steel engraving, coloured.
The Americas, with New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific.
DOWE0004 |
£69 |
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[Map of the Americas] Alexander Findlay.
Western Hemisphere.
London, c.1840. 210 x 240mm.
With Hawaii & New Zealand.
FIND0001 |
£89 |
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[Set of 31 Maps and Plans of America] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
[Complete set of the SDUK Maps of America.]
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1832-43. 31 steel engravings, printed area c.390 x 320mm. Original colour. A few small flaws.
The set includes 17 maps of North America, plans of Boston, New York & Philadelphia, and 11 maps of the West Indies, Central and South America. One sheet shows Texas as a republic.
SDUK0059 |
£1,900 |
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[Tallis's map of America] John Tallis.
Western Hemisphere.
London, & New York, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Steel-engraving, 260 x 330mm. Original outline colour.
This is one of the most decorative 19th century maps of the Americas. The map is a circular hemisphere completely surrounded by steel-engraved vignettes featuring whales, natives, and indigenous animals, all tied together with a vine-style border. The map extends to include New Zealand and the Solomon Islands in the Pacific and the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic. Alaska is Russian America and New California occupies all the west coast. The boundaries of an Independent Texas appear but the coloring includes it as a part of the United States. The coast of Antarctica is just beginning to appear.
TALL0001 |
£250 |
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[River Systems of America] A.K. Johnston.
The River Systems of America, from the Designs of Professor Berghaus.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1856. Steel engraving, 500 x 600mm. Original colour.
North & South America, coloured to show which ocean, etc, the rivers empty into. With insets of Niagara, the Mississippi Delta and the Orinoco.
JOHN0001 |
£48 |
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Antique Maps of North
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[Map of the Atlantic] Johannes Jansson.
Mar del Nort.
Amsterdam, 1650. 435 x 560mm. Original colour. Paper lightly toned.
Chart of the Atlantic, published in the 'Orbem Maritimum', described by Koeman as the 'first sea atlas (in the real sense of the word)'. It shows the American coastline from the Davis Strait south to Guyana.. KOEMAN: Me 168.
JANS0002 |
£1,100 |
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[Map of the North Atlantic with Zeno stated] Vicenzo Mario Coronelli.
Mare del Nord...
Venice, c.1690. 460 x 605mm. Coloured.
Chart of the North Atlantic with the coasts of North America, by the Official Cartographer of the Republic of Venice. Being patriotic, a script over Labrador ascribes the discovery of America to his compatriot Antonio Zeno rather than Columbus.
CORO0003 |
£1,400 |
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[Map of North America] Henri Chatelain.
Nouvelle Carte de L'Amerique Septentrionale...
Amsterdam, c.1720. 480 x 605mm. Coloured.
With a list of the tribes, The north west part of the continent has been left blank.
CHAT0004 |
£950 |
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[North America depicting California as an island] John Senex.
North America According to the Latest Observations.
London, c.1735. 160 x 180mm.
Map depicting California as an island. Probably from Pat.Gordon's Geographical Grammar and 'a new set of maps by Mr J.Senex' .
SENE0001 |
£340 |
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[Map of North America] Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Amérique Septentrionale...
Paris, 1750. 495 x 630mm. Coloured.
Detailed map of North America, with a title cartouche featuring natives and an alligator.
ROBE0035 |
£680 |
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[North America with a large title cartouche] Tobias Conrad Lotter.
America Septentrionalis...
Augsburg, c.1760. 480 x 580mm. Original body colour.
Map of North America with a large title cartouche.
LOTT0012 |
£925 |
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[Western seaboard of the U.S. map] Diderot.
Carte Générale des Découvertes de de L'Amiral de Fonte representant la grande probabilité d'un Passage au Nord Ouest par Thomas Jefferys...
Paris, c.1772. 305 x 380mm. Coloured.
The west coast of North America, with a North-West Passage, based on a map by Thomas Jefferys.
DIDE0002 |
£240 |
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[North America by Captain Cluny] Diderot.
Partie De La Carte du Capitaine Cluny Auteur d'un ouvrage anglois intitulé American Traveller publié à Londres en 1769.
Paris, 1772. 220 x 430mm. Coloured.
North America, concentrating on the northern reaches, but yet to show any of Cook's discoveries in Alaska.
DIDE0003 |
£195 |
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[Map of North America with spurious discoveries] Antonio Zatta.
America Settentrionale divisa ne' suoi principali Stati.
Venice, c.1776. 325 x 415mm. Original colour.
North America, with an invented Northwest Passage between Hudson's Bay with Cape Fortune. Just under the Staits of Anian is 'Fou Sang', a supposed Chinese colony from the buddist monk Hui Shen's voyage of 499 AD.
ZATT0066 |
£360 |
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[Chart of the Slave Trade Routes] Thomas Bowen.
A New & Accurate Chart of the Western or Atlantic Ocean...
London, 1788. 220 x 280mm. Slightly trimmed at top.
Chart of the North Atlantic showing the routes from Europe to Africa and across the Atlantic to the West Indies and the plantations of America.
BOWE0015 |
£150 |
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[Map of North America] Lawson.
North America from the Best Authorities.
London, c.1792. 200 x 230mm. Coloured.
Engraved by Lawson of Halifax for Rev. James Barclay's 'Complete and Universal English Dictionary'.
LAWS0001 |
£125 |
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[America] C. Cooke.
A Map of North America.
London, 1795. 280 X 440mm.
North America, marking Captain Cook's discoveries in the north Pacific.
COOK1001 |
£295 |
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[Map of North America] Alexandre Blondeau.
Amérique Septentrionale.
Paris, 1802. 205 x 230mm. Original colour.
BLON0001 |
£98 |
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[Map of North America] Barlow.
North America from the Best Authorities.
Bungay (Suffolk), C.Brightly & E.Kinnersley, 1806. 195 x 225mm. Original colour. Publication line slightly rubbed.
From Barclay's 'Dictionary of North America'.
BARL0001 |
£125 |
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[Map of North America] Alexandre Blondeau.
Amérique Septentrionale.
Paris, 1807. 205 x 230mm. Coloured.
BLON0003 |
£125 |
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[Map of North America] Abbé Joseph de la Porte,
Carte de L'Amérique,
Paris, 1809. 185 x 230mm. Original colour.
DELA0003 |
£75 |
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[Map of the Atlantic] John Thomson.
Atlantic or Western Ocean.
Edinburgh, c.1815. 510 x 640mm. Original colour.
North Atlantic map, marking Gulf Stream and trade routes from Britain to various places in America. Published during the Napoleonic War it also shows the route Nelson took pursuing the French Fleet to the West Indies in 1805, and the route of the American ship 'Insurgent' to Europe in 1800, where it harassed French shipping. The loss without trace of the 'Insurgent' in the West Indies later that year helped start the 'Bermuda Triangle' myth.
THOM0002 |
£240 |
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[North America with latest discoveries] John Thomson.
North America.
Edinburgh, c.1815. 515 x 625mm. Original colour.
Attractive map of North America, showing many important discoveries in the north west, including: Cook & Vanvouver's discoveries along the Pacific coastline; David Thompson's mapping of the Great Bend on the Missouri River, used by Lewis & Clark; and Alexander Mackenzie's discovery of the Mackenzie River (Canada's longest) entering the Beaufort Sea not the Pacific, as he had hoped while looking for the North West Passage) in 1789. Includes Mexico only to Monterey. The mountains of the Continental Divide are quite distorted and are labelled Rocky Mountains. The Missouri River is projected too far west and there is no Great Salt Lake. Along the western coast are a number of British names: New Norfolk, New Cornwall, New Hanover, New Georgia (in present-day Washington and Oregon) and New Albion (California). Many Indian tribes are named including Snake, Plume, Red, Blue, Wolf, and Beaver.
THOM0011 |
£260 |
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[Map of North America] A.H. Dufour.
Amérique Septentrionale.
Paris, 1828. 190 x 220mm. Coloured.
DUFO0002 |
£98 |
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[North America] Vosgien.
Amérique Septentrionale 1824.
France, 1824. 200 x 225mm.
Map of North America Vosgien is not listed in Tooley's Dictionary.
VOSG0001 |
£90 |
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[North America 1823] Vosgien.
Amérique Septentrionale 1823.
France, 1823. 150 x 150mm.
Despite the date the geography of this map of North America appears to date from the 1780s. Vosgien is not listed in Tooley's Dictionary.
VOSG0002 |
£90 |
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[Map of North America] Anonymous.
Amérique Septentrionale 1829.
French, c.1829. 200 x 220mm. Coloured.
North America.
ANON0014 |
£60 |
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[North America IV] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
North America Sheet IV. Lake Superior Reduced from the Admiralty Survey.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1832. Steel engraving, printed area 315 x 390mm. Original outline colour.
SDUK0040 |
£49 |
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[The US/Canadian Border.] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
North America Sheet II: Lower-Canada and New Brunswick with Part of New York, Vermont & Maine.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1832, Steel engraving, printed area 340 x 400mm. Original outline colour.
SDUK0053 |
£39 |
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[North America with Texas as a Republic] A.K. Johnston.
North America.
Edinburgh, Glasgow & London: John Johnston, W. & A.K. Johnston & Robert Weir, 1843. Steel engraving, 650 x 530mm. Original colour.
Large map of North America published in the National Atlas two years before the Republic of Texas was assimilated into the United States.
JOHN0006 |
£250 |
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[North America] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
North America.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. Steel engraving, printed area 390 x 330mm. Original outline colour.
North America map with Texas marked as a republic, and Alaska as Russian America. Indian tribes,forts and new settlements named. Oregon border to be settled later.
SDUK0028 |
£180 |
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[Map of North America] J.G. Barbié du Bocage.
Carte de L'Amérique Septentrionale...
Paris, 1846. Steel engraving. 310 x 235mm. Original colour.
Texas is named separately on the map but has been coloured as part of the United States.
BARB0001 |
£98 |
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[Map of America with vignette borders] Victor Levasseur.
Amérique Septentrionale.
Paris, c.1846. Steel engraving, printed area 310 x 435mm. Original outline colour.
North America, with Texas depicted as a republic. A population table lists Texas separately, with a population of 200,000 (against 19 million in the US). The map is surrounded by a highly decorative engraved border, depicting animals, figures and scenes from throughout America, inxluding a steam train, a ship stranded in ice and a bison.
LEVA0008 |
£200 |
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[Large map of North America] A.H. Dufour.
Amérique du Nord.
Paris, Andriveau-Goujon, 1849. Steel-engraving, 935 x 640mm. Original outline colour.
A large and impressive map of North America, with an inset of the Aleutian Chain. The publishers have been overtaken by events: although California, Nevada and Utah are coloured as part of the United States the engraving still marks them as part of Mexico.
DUFO0001 |
£240 |
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[Detailed Map of North America] William Tegg.
North America.
London: Tegg, 1853. 280 x 220mm. Original colour.
With Alaska still marked 'Russian America'.
TEGG0001 |
£49 |
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[Miniature Map of Arctic America] Alain Manesson Mallet.
Groenlande.
Paris, c.1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured.
Greenland with Labrador and Baffin's Island.
MALL0085 |
£98 |
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[Inuits of Arctic America] Volkergallerie.
Grönlander Mann u.Frau; Eskimaux von Labrador; Eskimaux
Gernamny, c.1836. Lithograph, printed area 250 x 140mm. Original colour.
Fanciful portraits of Inuit.
VOLK0002 |
£75 |
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[Miniature map of the Bering Straits with Tartary & the American North West] Abraham Ortelius.
Tartariae sive magni Chami regni typus.
Antwerp, 1593. 80 x 110mm. Coloured.
An early map showing the American North West from California to the 'Straits of Anian' (the Bering Straits). It shows the Russian dominions in northern Asia and Japan fills the north Pacific. Published in the 'Epitome'.
ORTM0035 |
£275 |
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[Map of the Bering Straits with spurious discoveries] Antonio Zatta.
Nouve Scoperte de' Russi al Nord Del Mare del Sud si nell' Asia, che nell' America.
Venice, 1776. 320 x 415mm. Original colour.
The north Pacific, with an invented Northwest Passage between Hudson's Bay with Cape Fortune. For some reason the title vignette shows an elephant, rhinoceros, ostrich and crocodile. It is based on the map by J.N. De L'Isle (brother of the more famous French cartographer), compiled from Russian sources. However he accepted the spurious account of Admiral de Font and added the fictitious detail.
ZATT0065 |
£360 |
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[Cook's Voyage through the Bering Straits] Benard.
Carte de l'Entrée de Norton, et du Détroit de Bhering ou l'on voir le Cap de plus Oriental de L'Asie, et la Pointe la plus Occidentale de L'Amérique.
Paris, c.1785. 290 x 400mm. Binding folds flattened.
Captain James Cook's third and final expedition was sent to try to find the North West Passage from the Pacific. The ship sailed though the Bering Straits to be blocked by the icewall. Turning south they sailed to Hawaii where Cook was killed. Published in a French account of Cook's Voyages.
BENA0007 |
£175 |
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[Cook's Map of the Bering Straits.] Alexander Hogg.
A Chart of the North West Coast of America and North East Coast of Asia, Explored in the Years 1778 & 1779.
London: Hogg, c.1785. 235 x 360mm. Narrow bottom margin.
The purpose of Cook's Third Voyage was to discover the North West Passage. Having discovered Hawaii in January 1778 he sailed up the eastern coast of America and passed through the Bering Straits, where he was blocked by the Arctic icewall. He returned to Hawaii in 1779, where he was killed, after which his crew went north for a second attempt to breach the icewall, again failing before returning to England.
HOGG0006 |
£125 |
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[View of Cook's crew shooting Walruses.] Capt. James Cook.
An Accurate Representation of Sea Horse, which Capt.n Cook met with on his Third Voyage, on the Ice, near West Coast of North America, nine of which Animals were shot by his order & used for fresh Provisions.
London, Alexander Hogg, c.1790. 225 x 345mm. Some spotting.
From 'Anderson's Large Folio Edition of the Whole of Capt.n Cook's Voyages &c Complete'.
COOK0016 |
£95 |
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[Uncommon version of Bellin's map of the Great Lakes] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de Cinq Grands Lacs du Canada.
Paris, 1764. 235 x 365mm. Coloured.
The uncommon larger version of Bellin's map of the Great Lakes, only issued this one time.
BELL0147 |
£350 |
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