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 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 America
[Hondius's 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.
The 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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[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] 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 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] 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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[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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[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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 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] Robert Bénard.
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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[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 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 the Gulf States] Nicolas De Fer.
Le Vieux Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne avec les costes de la Floride Faisant partie de la Amerique Septentrionale.
Paris, 1705. 230 x 335mm. Coloured. Mss. pagination in upper margin.
Map showing from Florida to Panama, marking Santa Fé and showing the southern tip of the island of California. DEFE0029		 £575
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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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[French map of eastern North America] Reiner & Josua Ottens.
Carte de la Nouvelle France ou se voit le cours de grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi...
Amsterdam, c.1745. 495 x 550mm. Original colour with later additions. Narrow margins at top & bottom, centerfold reinforced on verso, otherwise fine.
A very decorative map of eastern North America, with inset map and prospect of Quebec, the foremost French settlement of the period. Another shows the Gulf coast at the mouth of the Mississippi. OTTE0003		 £2,250
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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 Colonial America] Matthieu Albert Lotter.
Carte Nouvelle de l'Amerique Angloise contenant tout ce que les Anglois possedent sur le Continent de l'Amerique Septentrionale Savoir le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse ou Acadie, les treize Provinces unies qui sont: les quatres Colonies de la Nouvelle Angleterre...
Augsburg, c.1760. 605 x 500mm. Original colour with additions to the cartouche.
The Eastern Seaboard, divided into the Thirteen British Colonies, but also showing Lake Michigan and James Bay, published just prior to the Revolution. The Atlantic is filled with a large title cartouche, listing the provinces. LOTT0019		 £980
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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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[The first printed map to show Texas] Guillaume De L'Isle.
Carte de la Louisiana et du Cours du Mississippi Avec Les Colonies Anglaises.
Paris, Dezauche, c.1782. 495 x 655mm. Coloured.
First issued in 1718, this map was the first printed map to show Texas ('Mission de los Teijas etablie en 1716'), and the first to depict the routes of the early explorers like De Soto in 1539-40. This final state has been updated to show the boundaries of the British Colonies, a year before Britain recognised their independence in 1783. Also of interest is the depiction of Florida as an archipelago rather than a peninsula. DELI0024		 £2,250
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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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[The Western States in Exceptional Colour] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
North America Sheet XV. Utah, New Mexico, Texas, California, &c. and the Southern States of Mexico.
London: Edward Stanford, 1857. Steel engraving, printed area 330 x 400mm. Fine original body colour.
North America west from Texas and Indiana, north to Utah. Original body colour on these maps is very unusual. SDUK0063		 £295
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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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[Cook's Map of Cook Inlet] Alexander Hogg.
Chart of Cooks River in the N.W. part of America.
London: Hogg, c.1785. 230 x 305mm. Narrow top 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 breech the icewall, again failing before returning to England. In Alaska he mapped Cooks Inlet and Prince William Sound, both of which appear on this map. At the head of the inlet is 'R. Turn-again', named by William Bligh of HMS Bounty fame. Cook had sent Bligh, his sailing master, up the river, hoping it was an entrance to the North West Passage. Blight named it in frustration when he realised it was another dead-end, HOGG0007		 £95
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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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[Print of the Alaskan Merle] Jean François Galoup de La Pérouse.
Merle du Port des Français.
London, G.G. & I. Robinson, 1798. 335 x 250mm.
The Alaskan Merle, drawn by de Vaney for the account of La Pérouse's scientific expedition to the Pacific. LAPE0006		 £125
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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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[Portraits of Californian natives.] Harris, John.
The Inhabitants of California in their respective Dresses.
London, John Harris, 1744-8. 320 x 200mm.
Four images of Californian natives, two Pericú men fishing with a raft and harpoon, and two women, one with a bow. Published in 'Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca'. HARR2001		 £95
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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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[Print of the California Thrasher] Jean François Galoup de La Pérouse.
Promerops de la Californie Septentrionale.
London, G.G. & I. Robinson, 1798. 340 x 250mm.
The California Thrasher, drawn by Prevost for the account of La Pérouse's scientific expedition to the Pacific. LAPE0005		 £140
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[Print of the Californian Partridge] Jean François Galoup de La Pérouse.
Male & Female Partridge of California.
London, G.G. & I. Robinson, 1798. 335 x 250mm.
A pair of Californian Partridges, drawn by de Vaney for the account of La Pérouse's scientific expedition to the Pacific. LAPE0007		 £195
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[Portraits of Californian natives.] Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff.
Tanz der Indianer auf Californien. Thurm der altamerikanischen Stadt Tlapallan.
c.1835. Coloured lithograph. 250 x 140mm.
A version of Langsdorff's drawing of dancing Indians at the Mission in San Jose, New California, and a view of an Aztec tower. Published in the 'Vollstandige Volkergallerie', LANG2001		 £75
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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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[View of Golden Gate, San Francisco, California.] James David Smillie.
Golden Gate (from Telegraph Hill.)
London, Cassell, Petter & Gilpin, 1872. Steel engraving. 220 x 270mm.
Engraved by E.F.Brandard for "Picturesque America," by William Cullen Bryant. The Golden Gate Bridge was not opened until 1937. SMIL0001		 £75
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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.
Charleston, South Carolina.
London, c.1840. Steel engraving, 145 x 230mm.
View of the harbour. BROO0001		 £75
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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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[View of Florida] Harry Fenn.
On the Coast of Florida.
c.1872. Coloured steel-engraving.
A scene of palms and cacti, probably published in Bryant's 'Picturesque America'. Harry Fenn (1845-1911) was born in England, but settled in New Jersey around 1865, working as an illustrator, primarily of landscapes. FENN1001		 £39
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[Uncommon chart of Pensacola] Viol. Vianni.
Piano del Porto, e degli Stabilimenti Pensacola.
Livorno, 1763. 200 x 280mm. Coloured.
From the 'Gazzetiere Americano'. GAZZ0001		 £350
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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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[View of New Orleans, Louisiana,] A.C. Warren.
New Orleans.
London, Cassell, Petter & Gilpin, 1872. Steel engraving. 190 x 260mm.
View of the city from the docks. WAUD0001		 £60
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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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[View of Boston, Massachussetts] J.D. Woodward.
City of Boston. (From South Boston.)
London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1872. Steel engraving. 220 x 290mm.
Boston from the harbour. WOOD1001		 £75
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[View of Detroit, Michigan] A.C. Warren.
The City of Detroit. (from Canada Shore.]
London, Cassell, Petter & Gilpin, 1872. Steel engraving. 190 x 260mm.
View taken from the Canadian side of the strait. WARR0003		 £70
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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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[View of St Louis, Missouri] A.C. Warren.
City of St. Louis.
London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1872. Steel engraving. 220 x 290mm.
Built at the confluence of two of the world's longest rivers, the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. With paddle-steamers on the river. WARR0001		 £70
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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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