Antique Maps of America
[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 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 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 America
[Hondius important map of North America] Henricus Hondius.
America Septentrionalis.
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1641. 470 x 560mm. Original colour. Small split in lower centrefold margin repaired reverse otherwise very good.
This First State of this important map of North America, without any lettering in the cartouche lower left. Due to the prominence of the Hondius business this map did more to promote the misconception of California as an island than any other: Speed's map, although published a decade earlier, was only published with an English text; and Blaeu, Hondius & Jansson's fierce rival, did not publish an equivalent map. The cartography comes from a number of sources, especially the Briggs map; however Hondius has ignored the Champlain map of Canada, 1632, and has depicted only one Great Lake. McLAUGHLIN: 6; BURDEN: 245, 'beautifully engraved'. HOND0050		 £3,400
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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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[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 Basire.
Amérique Septentrionale.
London, 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.
From Barclay's 'Dictionary of North America'. BARL0001		 £98
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[Map of North America] De la Porte.
Carte de L'Amérique,
Paris, 1809. 185 x 230mm. Original colour.
DELA0003		 £75
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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 appears to date from the 1780s of this map of North America Vosgien is not listed in Tooley's Dictionary. VOSG0002		 £90
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[North America] Vosgien.
Amérique Septentrionale.
France, c.1825. 200 x 225mm. Coloured.
Map of North America Vosgien is not listed in Tooley's Dictionary. VOSG0004		 £125
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[Map of North America] Anon.
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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[Chart of Arctic America] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte Réduite des Mers du Nord.
Paris, 1758. 225 x 350mm. Coloured.
Arctic America and the north Pacific. Unlike many contemporary cartographers, Bellin has admitted having only a limited knowledge, leaving blanks and marking mid-Canada as "All Here is Unknown". BELL0127		 £195
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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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[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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Antique Maps of the United States
[Map of the Gulf coast of America] Nicolas De Fer.
Les Costes aux Environs de la Riviere de Misisipi. Descovertes par M.r de la Salle en 1685.
Paris, 1701. 225 x 340mm. Coloured.
La Salle canoed down the Mississippi in 1682, although he did not reach the delta. He named the Mississippi basin "La Louisiane" after Louis XIV and his wife Anne. Two years later he tried to find the mouth of the river from the Gulf of Mexico, where he founded a colony. By 1687 only 36 of the 300 colonists survived, and these mutinied, killing la Salle (as depicted in the title cartouche). The next year the remaining adults were killed by Indians and five children kidnapped. Engraved by Vincent de Ginville for the 'Atlas Curieux'. DEFE0019		 £850
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[Map of the Eastern Seaboard] Nicolas De Fer.
Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, la Floride, la Virginie, Pensilvanie, Caroline, Nouvelle Angleterre et Nouvelle Yorck, I'Isle de Terre Neuve, la Louisiane et le Cours de la Riviere de Misisipi.
Paris, 1702. 235 x 345mm. Coloured.
North America east of the Mississippi, showing the discoveries of the French explorer la Salle around the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, 1682-4. La Salle canoed down the Mississippi in 1682, although he did not reach the delta. He named the Mississippi basin "La Louisiane" after Louis XIV and his wife Anne. Two years later he tried to find the mouth of the river from the Gulf of Mexico, where he founded a colony. By 1687 only 36 of the 300 colonists survived, and these mutinied, killing la Salle. The next year the remaining adults were killed by Indians and five children kidnapped. Engraved by Van Loon for the 'Atlas Curieux'. DEFE0020		 £850
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[Map of Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas] Johann Baptist Homann.
Virginia, Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria...
Nuremberg, c.1714. 500 x 585mm. Original colour.
In bright original colour, with a fine title cartouche depicting trade with the Indians and a fish drying house, part of the propaganda to encourage German emigration. On the map New Jersey is shown divided into two, as the colony was governed as West Jersey and East Jersey between 1674 and 1702; west of Virginia Florida stretches north to Lake Erie, containing a mythical "Apalache Lacus". HOMA0032		 £1,500
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[New England, Maryland, Virginia, Carolinas] Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie de L'Amerique Septentrionale, qui comprend le Cours de L'Ohio, La N.lle Angleterre, La N.lle York, Le New Jersey, La Pensylvanie, Le Maryland La Virginie, La Caroline.
Paris, 1755. 490 x 625mm. Original outline colour with later body colour.
The English colonies in North America, with an inset map showing Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas both run west to the Mississippi. With a fine rococo title cartouche. ROBE0028		 £850
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[Map of the Interior of North America] John Gibson.
[Untitled map of Central North America.]
London, c.1763. 185 x 245mm. Coloured.
Centred on the Mississippi, an unusual map published just years before the Declaration of Independence. From the Great Lakes to Florida and extends west of the Mississippi as far as Texas and Louisiana. Native American Indians areas named. GIBS0003		 £325
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[Map of the northern States of America] Rigobert Bonne.
Carte de la Partie Nord des Etats Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale.
Paris, c.1790. 230 x 330mm. Coloured.
An unusual variant of Bonne's map the northern States. BONN0015		 £250
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[USA] Russell.
States of America.
London, c.1790. 120 x 160mm. Original colour.
Map of the 15 numbered states, 'Army Lands' in northern Tennessee, and the 'Twenty Leagues Line' off the Eastern Seaboard. Not in Mapforum.Com I: Pre-1800 maps of the USA. RUSS0001		 £160
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[Map of the States of the Eastern Seaboard] De la Porte.
Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle York, Nouvelle Jersey, et Pensilvanie.
Paris, 1793. 185 x 230mm. Original colour.
DELA0002		 £125
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[Map of the United States] Antonio Zatta.
Il Canada' Le Colonie Ingelesi Con La Luigiana, E Florida di nuova Projezione.
Venice, 1800. 315 x 415mm. Original colour.
An unusual later edition of Zatta's map of the United States, dated 1800 but still showing pre-Revolutionary cartography. ZATT0067		 £425
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[USA] John Thomson.
United States of America; The Course of the River St. Lawrence from Lake Ontario, to Manicouagan Point.
Edinburgh, 1814. 450 x 630mm. Original colour.
Two maps (United States and St. Lawrence river) on one sheet. THOM0015		 £200
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[Carolinas] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
North America. Sheet XI. Parts of North and South Carolina.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1833. Steel engraving, printed area 390 x 340mm. Original outline colour.
Map of the eastern parts of both Carolinas. SDUK0007		 £68
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[North America VII] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
North America Sheet VII. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Columbia and Part of Virginia.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1833. Steel engraving, printed area 385 x 330mm. Original outline colour.
Map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Columbia and Part of Virginia. SDUK0029		 £60
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[Map of Ohio with Kentucky & Virginia] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
North America. Sheet VIII. Ohio, with Parts of Kentucky and Virginia.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1833. Steel engraving, printed area 390 x 320mm.
SDUK0054		 £68
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[Map of Illinois, Missouri & Indiana] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
North America. Sheet IX. Parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1833. Steel engraving, printed area 320 x 390mm.
SDUK0055		 £68
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[Map of Missouri Illinois, etc] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
North America. Sheet X. Parts of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1833. Steel engraving, printed area 320 x 390mm. Original colour.
SDUK0056		 £68
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[USA] Jules Renouard.
Etats-Unis.
Paris, 1838. 215 x 265mm. Coloured.
Map of United States RENO0001		 £60
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[Detailed map of the U.S.] Thomas Kelly.
United States.
London, Kelly, 1840. 200 x 260mm. Edges age toned.
With an inset of Florida. KELL0002		 £75
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[United States] Charles Monin.
États-Unis de L'Amerique du Nord.
Paris, c.1842. 205 x 265mm. Original colour.
United States map with Texas as part of Mexico. MONI0001		 £88
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[United States] Charles Monin.
États-Unis de L'Amerique du Nord.
Paris, c.1842. 205 x 265mm. Original colour.
United States map with Texas as a republic. MONI0002		 £98
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[Detailed Map of the USA] James Wyld.
Map of the United States of North America.
London, 1853. 240 x 300mm. Original colour.
Map of the USA marking the railways and canals. Of interest is the statistical table lower right: less than a decade before the start of the Civil War they estimate a slave population of 2.5 million (and Florida a population of 60,000). There are added later pop additions:Texas, Oregon, Wisconsin. WYLD0012		 £89
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[Eastern and central USA map] John Bartholomew.
(North-East Division) The United States of America, embracing New England, Middle, and part of the Western States.
London: George Philip, 1877. Colour lithograph, printed area 520 x 655mm.
The north eastern states, with an inset of the whole country. BART0001		 £56
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[Map of Southern States of the USA] John Bartholomew.
(South East Division.)The United States of America: The Southern States.
London: George Philip, 1877. Colour lithograph, printed area 520 x 610mm.
The southern states to eastern Texas. BART0002		 £75
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[Map of USA] William M. Bradley.
United States.
Philadelphia: Bradley, 1886. Colour lithograph, printed area 380 x 590mm.
BRAD0001		 £100
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[Alaskan Coastal Profiles, from Cook's Voyages] Capt. James Cook.
Gezigten der West-Kust van America.
Amsterdam, c.1785. 240 x 460mm.
Nine coastal profiles of Alaska, including Price William's South and Mt St Elias. Although he is not credited here, some were drawn by William Bligh, later captain of the Bounty, famous for the mutiny. Published in a Dutch edition of Cook's Voyages. COOK0004		 £68
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[Alaska showing discoveries of Cook] Henry Roberts.
Karte von den N.W.Amerikanischen und N.Oe Asiatischen Küsten, Nach den Intersuchungen des Kapit: Cook in den Jah: 1778 und 1779.
Vienna: Franz Anton. Schraembl, 1788. 430 x 710mm. Some original outline colour.
In 1778, as part of his Third Voyage, Cook sailed up the western coast of America and passed through the Bering Straits. Lieut. Roberts was the ship's cartographer, so was responsible for mapping part of the Chukchi Sea for the first time. Cook followed the icecap from America to Asia, then turned south, sailing to Hawaii, where he was killed. Before his crew turned for home they made a second attempt on the Straits, proving that a North West Passage by sea was impossible. ROBE1001		 £425
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[Aleutian Islands pair] Philippe Vandermaelen.
Iles Aleutiennes [Sheets 20, 38 & 39.]
Brussels, 1827. Three sheets, each approx. 470 x 530mm. Original colour.
Three sheets, showing from Norton Sound on mainland Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, marking the routes of the explorers who mapped them in the 1790s. The maps were published in the first atlas of the world on the same scale, some of the more remote areas of the world such as this are shown in unprecedented detail. VAND0011		 £600
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[Arizona & New Mexico] Samuel Augustus Mitchell.
County & Township Map of Arizona and New Mexico.
Philadelphia, 1888. 360 x 560mm. Original colour.
Map of Arizona and New Mexico. MITC0001		 £125
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[Famous map of California as an Island.] Nicolas De Fer.
Cette Carte de Californie et du Nouveau Mexique...
Paris, 1705. 225 x 340mm. Coloured.
Engraved by Inselin for the 'Atlas Curieux', it shows the discoveries of Father Eusebio Kino, the first European to cross from the mainland to California. However it is still depicted as an island. The mainland is shown from Mexico City to Santa Fé, with an extensive 314-point key. McLAUGHLIN: 134. DEFE0018		 £1,050
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[California & Arizona] Isaak Tirion.
Kaart van het Westelyk Gedeelte van Nieuw Mexico en van California.
Amsterdam, 1765. 335 x 360mm. Coloured.
Map of California and Arizona, asdepicted by the Jesuits including Father Kino. TIRI0004		 £680
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[Map of California] Diderot.
Carte de la California et des Pays Nord-Ouest.
Paris, c.1772. 320 x 370mm. Coloured.
The west coast of North America, from California to the Bering Straits. The inset map is based on a world map by Plancius issued in 1641, while the larger map is based on Visscher's map of 1612. Filled with the cartographic myths of the 17th century although a recognizable Baja California. The northwest coast bulges too far to the west. Both maps feature the seven cities of Cibola gathered around a spurious lake in the American Southwest. DIDE0001		 £240
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[View of San Francisco] Lechard.
San Francisco (Californie.)
Paris, c.1860. Coloured Steel engraving 130 x 160mm.
View from the hills, drawn and engraved by Lechard. LECH0001		 £65
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[Carolina map] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Caroline et Georgie.
Paris, 1757. 200 x 290mm. Coloured.
Shows the Albermarle Sound to Savannah. It derives much of its detail from Emmanuel Bowne's landmark map of the area, published in 1752, so gives the location of the English settlements that had sprung up along the coast. BELL0015		 £250
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[Carolina Map] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
La Caroline dans l'Amérique Septentrionale Suivant les Cartes Angloises.
Paris, c.1764. 230 x 365mm.
The only issue of this version of Bellin's map of Carolina, slightly larger than the usual version. Shows the Albermarle Sound to Charleston & Port Royal Sound. BELL0016		 £340
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[Charleston view] W.H. Brookes.
Carleston, South Carolina.
London, c.1840. Steel engraving, 145 x 230mm.
View of the harbour. BROO0001		 £25
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[Map of Connecticut] Carey & Lea.
Connecticut.
Philadelphia, 1822 or London, 1823. 250 x 300mm, set in text. Original colour.
From the 'Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas'. CARE0002		 £295
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[Dakota & Manitoba] Tunison.
Tunison's North Dakota and Part of Manitoba, Canada; Tunison's South Dakota.
American, c.1890. Two maps, back-to-back, ea. c. 250 x 320mm. Original colour.
Map of Dakota & Manitoba The Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) is commemorated by Custer County, Custer City and Custer Peak. TUNI0001		 £98
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[Map of the District of Columbia] Jean Alexandre C. Buchon.
District de Columbie.
Paris, 1825. 300 x 290mm, set in text. Original colour.
Map of the District of Columbia, with a plan of the layout of Washington. Published in the 'Atlas Géographique des Deux Amériques', the map is surrounded by descriptive text in French. BUCH0001		 £380
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[The First French settlement in North America.] Arnold Montanus.
Arx Carolina,
Amsterdam, Dapper, 1671. 285 x 350mm.
View of the French settlement of Charles Fort, founded 1562 on Parris Island, Florida, named after their king Charles IX. It was captured three years later by the Spanish, and was destroyed in 1568 in a French counter attack. MONT0012		 £475
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[Florida & Louisiana] Jan Luyts.
La Floride Par. N.Sanson.
Utrecht, 1682. 185 x 255mm. Binding folds flattened.
Map of Florida and Louisiana, based on Sanson's map of 1657, the first atlas map to name Lake Erie. "Florida Gallica" is a French attempt to reassert claims to the Carolinas dispite their last attempt at colonisation there failing a century before. LUYT0003		 £525
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[Miniature Portrait of Natives of Florida] Alain Manesson Mallet.
P.les de la Floride.
Paris, 1683 145 x 115mm. Coloured.
The dress of the native Floridians. MALL0022		 £125
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[Florida & Bahamas] Antonio Zatta.
Il Paese de'Selvaggi Outauacesi, e Kilistinesi Intorno al Lago Superiore.
Venice, 1778. 335 x 455mm. Original colour.
One sheet of a 12-sheet map of North America, mainly showing Lake Superior but with an inset of Florida and the Bahamas, apparently on a scroll. ZATT0024		 £260
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[Map of Louisiana and Florida] Rigobert Bonne.
Carte de la Louisiane, et de la Floride.
Paris, c.1788. 330 x 220mm.
Louisiana and Florida, with the course of the Mississippi, continued in an inset. BONN0006		 £160
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[Louisiana, Florida & Mississippi] Rigobert Bonne.
Carte de la Louisiane, et de la Floride.
c.1790. 330 x 220mm. Coloured.
An unusual variant of Bonne's map of Louisiana and Florida, with the course of the Mississippi, continued in an inset. The title has been put in a garland cartouche. BONN0007		 £295
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[Florida & North and South Carolina] Samuel Augustus Mitchell.
County Map of Florida; County Map of North Carolina; Map of South Carolina.
Philadelphia, 1860. 355 x 300mm. Original colour.
Three maps of Florida & North and South Carolina plus an inset of Charleston Harbour. MITC0002		 £100
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[Chart of Pensacola] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Baye de Pensacola dans la Floride.
Paris, 1764. 225 x 180mm. Coloured.
Orientated with north to the left, this chart shows Pensacola on the island. However by 1764 the British had moved the settlement to the mainland, making it the capital of the 14th British colony, West Florida. BELL0128		 £175
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[A Masked Hawaiian, from Cook's Voyages.] Capt. James Cook.
A Man of the Sanwich Islands, Masked.
London, c.1780. 315 x 215mm. Edge of paper enters platemark slightly lower right.
COOK0011		 £125
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[Canoe of Hawaii] John Webber.
A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the Rowers Masked.
London, 1790. 260 x 405mm. Slight scuffing at centrefold.
A Hawaiian canoe, engraved by Grignion after Webber for an account of Cook's voyages. WEBB0001		 £300
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[Hawaii Atooi] John Webber.
Binnengezigt van het Eiland Atooi.
Germany, c.1790. 250 x 490mm.
A view of Waimea, Atooi (Kauai) in Hawaii drawn during Captain Cook's visit 19-23 January 1778. His men can be seen trading with the natives. Cook reported that they took on board nine tons of water and 'sixty or eighty pigs'. From a German edition of Cook's voyages. WEBB0002		 £195
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[Map of Kansas] William M. Bradley.
County & Township Map of the States of Kansas and Nebraska.
Philadelphia: Bradley, 1887. Colour lithograph, printed area 360 x 560mm.
BRAD0002		 £75
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[Map of Kentucky & Tennessee] Samuel Augustus Mitchell.
County Map of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Philadelphia, 1873. 370 x 550mm. Original colour.
MITC0005		 £75
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[Miniature map of Mississippi & Louisiana] Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Cours du Mississipi et la Louisiane.
Paris, 1749. 225 x 175mm. Coloured.
Map of Louisiana, Mississippi River and the western Great Lakes. ROBE0022		 £195
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[Map of the United States] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Louisiane et Pays Voisins.
Paris, c.1757. 230 x 320mm. Coloured.
Central North America, marking Santa Fé in the west, New Orleans and the southern Great Lakes. BELL0039		 £250
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[Town plan of New Orleans] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Nouvelle Orleans.
Paris, c.1764. 225 x 310mm. Coloured.
Early plan of the French city, laid out in regular blocks. BELL0094		 £395
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[Maryland with Baltimore & Delaware] Joseph Meyer.
Neuste Karte von Maryland und Delaware...1846.
Hildburghausen, 1846. 320 x 380mm. Old colour.
Maryland and Delaware map with an inset plan of Baltimore. MEYE0008		 £125
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[Boston] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Boston with Charleston and Roxbury.
London: SDUK, 1840. Steel engraving, printed area 310 x 380mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of Boston prior to the filling of the Back Bay. SDUK0005		 £200
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[Boston] Marchadier.
Boston
Paris, Marchadier, 1884. Tinted lithograph, printed area 290 x 660mm.
Detailed map of Boston. Insets show the layout of the docks and the railways. MARC0001		 £75
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[Map of Mississippi delta] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte des Embouchures du Mississi pi...
Paris, 1744. 205 x 285mm. Coloured. Part of left margin made up outside map.
The Mississippi delta, engraved by Dheulland. BELL0051		 £250
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[Map of The Mississippi River] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Suite du Cours du Fleuve St. Louis depuis la Rivière d'Iberville jusqa celle des Yasous, et les Parties connues de la Riviere Rouge et la Riviere Noire.
Paris, c.1764. 230 x 365mm. Coloured.
The course of the Mississippi from Iberville River (now Iberville Bayou) north to junction of the Yazoo (Yasous) River; course of Red River from its junction with the Mississippi to Natchitoches and includes the course of the Black River. One of the first detailed maps of the area, important as the border between French-controlled Louisiana and Spanish Texas. The Presidio Nuestra Señora del Pilar de los Adaes, founded in 1716 and rebuilt in 1721, is shown on the left of the map. An inset shows the area around the French Fort St. Jean at what became Natchitoches, depicting 'The Red River raft' (Embaras d'Arbres), blockading the river upstream. This was a natural dam of driftwood formed over thousands of years, extending nearly 100 miles upstream. Because it was a great hinderance to trade attempts to clear it started in 1833, but it kept reforming: it was not until 1900 that the river was officially clear. BELL0096		 £350
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[Survey of Mississippi City Harbour] Survey of the Coast of the United States.
Mississippi City Harbour, Mississippi. From a Trigonometrical Survey.
Washington, 1857. Lithograph, printed area 395 x 440mm.
Map of Mississippi City is now part of the Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula metropolitan area. SURV0001		 £98
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[Iowa and Missouri] Samuel Augustus Mitchell.
County & Township Map of the States of Iowa and Missouri.
Philadelphia, 1888. 550 x 370mm. Original colour.
Map of the States of Iowa and Missouri MITC0003		 £98
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[Attractive map of New England] Johann Baptist Homann.
Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americæ implantata Aglorumque coloniis florentissima...
Nuremberg, c.1715. 495 x 595mm. Original colour.
New England in bright original colour. The title cartouche depicts a European trading with the natives. HOMA0023		 £1,400
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[New Hampshire & Vermont] Joseph Meyer.
Neueste Karte von New Hampshire und Vermont 1846.
Hildburghausen, 1846. 385 x 310mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of New Hampshire & Vermont MEYE0010		 £98
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[Map of New Hampshire & Vermont.] Samuel Augustus Mitchell.
County & Township Map of the States of New Hampshire and Vermont.
Philadelphia, c.1873. 530 x 380mm. Original colour.
MITC0004		 £75
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[Landholdings in New York State] Charles C. Brodhead.
A Map of a Tract of Land in the State of New York called Macomb's Purchase compiled from the official returns of the Surveyor General.
New York, J.E. Gavit, 1840. 325 x 380mm. Original colour.
Alexander Macomb, a wealthy merchant, bought 3,600,000 acres of upper New York from the state in 1791 for 12 cents an acre. Bounded by the St. Lawrence River and eastern Lake Ontario. From this purchase are derived the deeds for all the lands that are now included in Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, as well as portions of Herkimer and Oswego Counties. BROD0001		 £98
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[New York with boats and costumes] B.F. Leizelt.
La Nouvelle Yorck.
Augsburg: Probst? c.1760. 320 x 430. Original colour. A little wear to margins.
A vüe d'optique of the Port of New York, with a short description in German and French. Of interest are the boats and costumes of the figures. Designed to be used in an optical viewer called a zograscope, the image is reversed, as is the title above the view. The naive colour is standard with this genre of print. LEIZ0002		 £325
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[New York] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
New York.
London: SDUK, 1840. Steel engraving, printed area 310 x 380mm.
Detailed plan of New York, with two vignette views. SDUK0026		 £250
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[New York City] Joseph Meyer.
Plan von New-York, 1844.
Hildburghausen, c.1845. 380 x 305mm.
Detailed map of Manhattan & Brooklyn. Althought the streets are already laid out the buildings peter out after 22nd Street. MEYE0012		 £225
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[The Western Seaboard after the Treaty of Oregon] G.H. Swanston.
Oregon and California.
London & Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., c.1850. 240 x 155mm. Original colour. Some damp staining.
A map of the Pacific coast of the United States, published just after two important treaties: the Treaty of Oregon that decided the 49th Parallel as the border between the US and Canada, 1846; and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo that fixed the US-Mexico border, 1848, in which Mexico ceded California and New Mexico and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern and western boundary of Texas. Both are marked on the map. There is also a note "The Navigation of the Oregon River is free to all British Subjects". SWAN0001		 £98
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[A View of Fort Vancouver] Gustavus Sohon.
Fort Vancouver, W. T.
New York: Sarony, Major & Knapp, 1854. Tinted lithograph. Printed area 170 x 240mm.
View of the Hudson's Bay Company's former base in Oregon, less than a decade after the Oregon Treaty fixed the border with Canada at the 49th Parallel. Published in the U.S. Pacific Railroad Survey. SOHO0001		 £125
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[Map of Pennsylvania] Carey & Lea.
Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, 1822 or London, 1823. 330 x 490mm, set in text. Original colour.
From the 'Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas'. CARE0005		 £480
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[Pennsylvania] Joseph Meyer.
Neueste Karte von Pennsylvania...1845.
Hildburghausen, 1845. 310 x 380mm. Old colour.
Map of New Hampshire & Vermont fom Meyer's 'Handatlas'. MEYE0013		 £98
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[Philadelphia] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Philadelphia.
London: SDUK, 1840. Steel engraving, printed area 380 x 300mm.
Detailed plan of Philadelphia, with two vignette views. SDUK0032		 £100
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[Southern California, western Mexico & Texas] Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie Du Mexique ou de la Nouv.le Espagne ou se trouve L'Aud.cd de Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Nouvelle Navarre, Californie &c.
Paris, 1749. 175 x 205mm. Original outline colour.
Map of Southern California, western Mexico & Texas, published in the 'Atlas Portatif'. ROBE0005		 £195
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[Map of Mexico with California, Texas & Louisiana] Rigobert Bonne.
Le Nouveau Mexique avec la partie Septentrionale de l'Ancien ou de la Nouvelle Espagne.
Paris: 1788. 230 x 350mm. Coloured.
Northern Mexico, showing Santa Fé, San Antonio & New Orleans. BONN0027		 £150
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[Map of pre-Texas,California and New Mexico] John Cary.
Mexico.
London, c.1815+ 310 x 250mm. Original colour.
A detailed map, in particularly fine colour. Extends to Taos and Sante Fe with Indian tribes named and pre Texas with many Spanish towns named. CARY0015		 £175
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[Map of Utah & Nevada] William M. Bradley.
County & Township Map of Utah and Nevada.
Philadelphia: Bradley, 1887. Colour lithograph, printed area 370 x 560mm.
BRAD0003		 £98
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[Early miniature map of Virginia] Petrus Bertius.
Virginia et Nova Francia.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. 100 x 135mm.
Showing north to Newfoundland, from Bertius' 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'. One of the very earliest maps of the Eastern seaboard. BERT0027		 £590
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[Map of Virginia by Blaeu, Chesapeake Bay] Willem Blaeu.
Nova Virginiæ Tabula.
Amsterdam, 1647. German text. 380 x 485mm. Coloured.
Centred on Chesapeake Bay, with a view of Powhatan's Council top left and a native American on the right. Blaeu's version of the famous Capt. John Smith's map of Virginia, the area is shown in detail. Mountains, rivers forests, Indian place names are depicted. A famous map. BLAE0084		 £2,250
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[Miniature Portrait of Natives of Virginia] Alain Manesson Mallet.
P.les de Virginie.
Frankfurt, c.1686. 145 x 115mm. Coloured.
The dress of natives of Virginia MALL0047		 £75
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[Map of Virginia to Philadelphia] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Virginie, de la Bay Chesapeack, et Pays Voisins.
Paris, c.1755. 205 x 300mm. Coloured.
Colonial map from Philadelphia south to Cape Henry that covers most of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware with some Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Mountains and rivers shown. An early network of trails and wagon roads stretches as far west as Winchester and north to Philadelphia. A delicate rococo-style title cartouche adorns the map. BELL0084		 £250
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[Map of Virginia and Maryland] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland, ou de la Bay Chesapeack et Pays Voisins.
Paris, c.1755. 205 x 300mm. Old body colour.
Colonial map from Philadelphia south to Cape Henry that covers most of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware with some Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Mountains and rivers shown. An early network of trails and wagon roads stretches as far west as Winchester and north to Philadelphia. A delicate rococo-style title cartouche adorns the map. BELL0085		 £275
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[Virginia and Maryland map] C. Bertholon
Carte de la Virginie et du Mariland.
Paris, 1795. 180 x 220mm. Coloured.
Published in the 'Atlas Moderne Portatif'. BERT1001		 £175
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[Map of the Carolinas, Virginia & Florida] Willem Blaeu.
Virginiæ partis australis, et Floridæ partis orientalis...
Amsterdam, 1642. 390 x 510mm. Original colour.
Blaeu has updated Mercator's map, correcting the foreshortening of the Carolinas. CUMMING, South East: 41, 'the most correct map of this area yet to appear'. BLAE0085		 £980
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Antique Maps of Canada
[Canada] Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Bayes d'Hudson et de Baffins, et Terre de Labrador.
Paris, 1749. 170 x 170mm. Original outline colour.
ROBE0015		 £98
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[Maps of Canada and the Great Lakes] Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie de L'Amérique Septent. qui comprend La Nouvelle France ou Le Canada.
Paris, 1755. 495 x 610mm. Coloured.
Detailed map of Canada, with a 'Supplement' of the great Lakes. The title is on a blanket draped on a branch, with a canoe and a beaver. ROBE0036		 £850
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[Map of Canada] Guillaume De L'Isle.
Carte du Canada Qui Comprend la Partie Septentrionale des Etats Unis d'Amerique.
Paris, Dezauche, 1783. 515 x 670mm. Original colour with additions.
A large and colourful map, published soon after the American Revolution. DELI0021		 £680
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[Detailed map of the Eastern Great Lakes] John Arrowsmith.
Upper Canada &c.
London, 1846. Steel engraving, 630 x 530mm. Original colour. Splits in centrefolds repaired. Margin trimmed for atlas tabs as usual.
Detailed map of the area around Lakes Huron, Erie & Ontario, with Upper Canada, New York State, etc. Compiled for the 'London Atlas' by Arrowsmith, the foremost British cartographer of his generation. ARRO0018		 £195
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[Detailed map of Canada] John Arrowsmith.
British North America. By Permission Dedicated to The Hon.ble Hudsons Bay Company; Containing the latest information which their documents furnish.
London, 1846. Steel engraving, 630 x 630mm. Original colour. Splits in centrefolds repaired. Margin trimmed for atlas tabs as usual.
Detailed map of Canada, also showing