AMERICA

A MAP of the most INHABITED part of NEW ENGLAND, containing the PROVINCES of MASSACHUSETS BAY and NEW HAMPSHIRE, with the COLONIES of KONEKTIKUT AND RHODE ISLAND...A MAP of the most INHABITED part of NEW ENGLAND, containing the PROVINCES of MASSACHUSETS BAY and NEW HAMPSHIRE, with the COLONIES of KONEKTIKUT AND RHODE ISLAND...
Unobtainable first state of one of the most influential maps of New England ever made….
$45,000
Cartographer(s): Braddock Mead (aka John Green), Thomas Jefferys
Date: 1755
Place: London
Americae Pars Borealis, Florida, Baccalaos, Canada, Corterealis. A Cornelio de Iudaeis in luce edita.
The first printed folio map of North America and the most iconic American chart of the 16th century….
$34,000
Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de Jode
Date: 1593
Place: Antwerp
Three Years in Texas. Including a View of the Texan Revolution, and an Account of the Principal Battles, Together With Descriptions of the Soil, Commercial and Agricultural Advantages.
Streeter’s own copy of what he considered to be the most sought-after book for the Texas Revolution as a whole….
$32,000
Cartographer(s): Joseph E. Fields
Date: 1836
Place: Boston: Abel Tompkins
Brasilia et Peruvia.
De Jode’s 1593 South America in Exceptional Original Color….
$10,500
Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de Jode
Date: 1593
Place: Antwerp
The Great Fire at Chicago. Octr. 8th 1871.
Currier & Ives 1871 Great Chicago Fire….
$8,500
Cartographer(s): Nathaniel Currier & James Ives
Date: 1871
Place: New York
Chart of the N. W. Coast of America and the N. E. Coast of Asia, Explored in the Years 1778 and 1779. Prepared by Lieut’t Henry Roberts, under the immediate Inspection of Capt. Cook.Chart of the N. W. Coast of America and the N. E. Coast of Asia, Explored in the Years 1778 and 1779. Prepared by Lieut’t Henry Roberts, under the immediate Inspection of Capt. Cook.
The “Legendary lost chart of Captain Cook” – Rare first edition….
$8,500
Cartographer(s): Henry Roberts, William Faden
Date: 1784
Place: London
Map of the United States of America, The British Provinces, Mexico, The West Indies and Central America, with part of New Granada and Venezuela.
A First State of Colton’s Map of the United States with Texas extending into Colorado….
$8,500
Cartographer(s): The Colton Mapmaking Company
Date: 1849
Place: New York
New Voyages to North-America. Containing an Account of the Several Nations of That Vast Continent...
First English edition of Lahontan’s description and mapping of New France, which propagated the myth of the Northwest Passage….
$8,500
Cartographer(s): Louis Armand, Baron de Lahontan, Herman Moll
Date: 1703
Place: London
Carte des Possessions Angloises & Francoises du Continent de L'Amerique Septentrionale 1755.
An early state of Jean Palairet’s map depicting English and French possessions in America….
$7,500
Cartographer(s): Jean Palairet
Date: 1756
Place: London
Insurance Maps of Miami, Florida Volume Three.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas of Miami, Florida – Volume 3: Coconut Grove & Silver Bluff….
$7,500
Cartographer(s): Sanborn Map Company
Date: 1924
Place: New York
[1838 Republic of Texas manuscript document detailing the votes for elected office, including President].
Original Republic of Texas referendum document stipulating the results of the 1838 election of Mirabeau Lamar….
$6,500
Cartographer(s): Anonymous
Date: 1838
Place: Not listed
The United States of North America: with the British Territories and Those of Spain.
With the proto-State of Franklin and the colony of New Iberia (Morgania)!…
$6,500
Cartographer(s): William Faden
Date: 1809
Place: London
The City of Chicago.
Probably the most iconic view of Chicago ever made……
$6,500
Cartographer(s): Nathaniel Currier & James Ives, Parsons & Atwater
Date: 1892
Place: New York
Karte von Texas.
Highly sought after by collectors of Texas and German-American history….
$6,000
Cartographer(s): Georg A. Scherpf, Hunt & Randel
Date: 1841
Place: Augsburg
PACIFIC RAILROAD SURVEYS. Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4. Washington, D.C.: Beverley Tucker, 1855-1861.
The Complete Pacific Railroad Surveys, Senate Issue, 1855–1861….
$6,000
Cartographer(s): Lt. Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Jefferson Davis
Date: 1861
Place: Washington, D.C.
The South Prospect of the City of New York, in America.
One of the Earliest Acquirable Views of New York City….
$5,500
Cartographer(s): William Burgis
Date: 1761
Place: London
A Map of the Rail Roads of Virginia Prepared Under the Direction of the Board of Public Works.
Rare Pre-Civil War Virginia Railroad Map Printed in Richmond, 1858….
$4,800
Cartographer(s): Ludwig von Bucholtz
Date: 1858
Place: Richmond, VA
Diarium vel Descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi Itineris, factia Guilielmo Cornelli Schoutenio, Hornano. Annis 1615, 1616 & 1617.Diarium vel Descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi Itineris, factia Guilielmo Cornelli Schoutenio, Hornano. Annis 1615, 1616 & 1617.
Willem Schouten’s journal of the famous 1615-7 Le Maire-Schouten expedition, one of history’s greatest voyages of discovery….
$4,800
Cartographer(s): Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, Louis Vlasbloem
Date: 1662
Place: Amsterdam
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
The earliest acquirable map to name California….
$4,800
Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius
Date: 1587
Place: Antwerp
Fort Wayne Guide Map (location of First Professional Baseball Game shown).
Earliest recorded printed map to locate the site of the world’s first professional baseball game….
$4,500
Cartographer(s): Harvey C. Lowrie
Date: 1871
Place: Chicago
Spokane. Washington.
A scarce and gorgeous bird’s-eye-view of Spokane during its heyday as the railroad hub of the Northern Plains….
$4,500
Cartographer(s): John W. Graham & Co.
Date: 1905
Place: Spokane, WA
A Chart of North and South America, Including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest Coasts of Europe, Africa, and AsiaA Chart of North and South America, Including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest Coasts of Europe, Africa, and Asia
Sayer-Bennet-Mead’s 1775 chart of the Western Hemisphere with Pacific and Arctic routes of exploration….
$4,200
Cartographer(s): Braddock Mead (aka John Green), James Gordon Bennett, Robert Sayer
Date: 1775
Place: London
America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings described and inlarged by I.S. Ano 1626.
Speed’s cartes-à-figures map of the Americas: a milestone in English cartography….
$4,000
Cartographer(s): John Speed
Date: 1676
Place: London
A New Description of Carolina.
A beautiful example of Speed’s notable mapping of the interior of Carolina….
$4,000
Cartographer(s): John Speed
Date: 1676
Place: London
Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septenrionali siti, delineatio cura et sumptibus
The most widely emulated map of colonial North America, with one of the earliest views of New York City….
$4,000
Cartographer(s): Matthäus Seutter
Date: 1750
Place: Augsburg
Colton's Map of the United States of America, The British Provinces, Mexico and The West Indies Showing the Country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. New York, 1855.
Colton’s 1855 Wall Map of the United States: The Rarest Known State, and the First to Show Gadsden Purchase Borders….
$3,800
Cartographer(s): The Colton Mapmaking Company
Date: 1855
Place: New York
Watson's New Rail­ Road and Distance Map of the United States and Canada.Watson's New Rail­ Road and Distance Map of the United States and Canada.
Among the finest railroad maps of America made in the 19th century….
$3,800
Cartographer(s): Gaylord Watson
Date: 1869
Place: New York
Williams New Trans-Continental Map of The Pacific R.R. and Routes of Overland Travel To Colorado, Nebraska, The Black Hills, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana California and the Pacific Coast.Williams New Trans-Continental Map of The Pacific R.R. and Routes of Overland Travel To Colorado, Nebraska, The Black Hills, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana California and the Pacific Coast.
1876 Pacific Railroad map with references to notorious stagecoach robber Black Bart….
$3,500
Cartographer(s): Henry T. Williams
Date: 1876
Place: New York
Map of That Portion of the Boundary between the United States and Mexico From the Pacific Coast To The Junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers... Showing also the Limits of the Treaty Negotiated by the Hon. James Gadsden
Gray’s 1855 map of the Gadsden Purchase….
$3,200
Cartographer(s): Andrew Belcher Gray
Date: 1855
Place: Washington, D.C.
Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York cum Regionibus Ad Fluvium Delaware...
Seutter’s first state map of Pennsylvania, Jersey, and New York, with original color….
$2,900
Cartographer(s): Matthäus Seutter
Date: 1750
Place: Augsburg
Salt Lake City, 1887.
The Bustling New Jerusalem of the American West….
$2,900
Cartographer(s): August Gast
Date: 1887
Place: St. Louis
Partie Orientale Du Canada Traduite de l'Anglois de Carte de Jefferys publiée a Londres en May 1755...Partie Orientale Du Canada Traduite de l'Anglois de Carte de Jefferys publiée a Londres en May 1755...
Scarce 1755 map of French and British historical claims, published in Paris on the eve of the Seven Years’ War….
$2,850
Cartographer(s): Georges-Louis le Rouge
Date: 1755
Place: Paris
"As the Crow Flies" A 200-Ft. "Airline" Boulevard Between Fort Worth and Dallas"As the Crow Flies" A 200-Ft. "Airline" Boulevard Between Fort Worth and Dallas
A highly artistic broadside for the visionary Dallas-Fort Worth Airline Boulevard: a Depression-era infrastructure project designed to bridge and unite two Texas cities….
$2,700
Cartographer(s): C.K. Chambers (Southwestern Engraving Co.)
Date: 1930
Place: Fort Worth, Texas
Mare Del Sud detto altrimenti Mare Pacifico.
An excellent example of Coronelli’s Pacific Ocean with California as an Island….
$2,500
Cartographer(s): Vincenzo Coronelli
Date: 1691
Place: Venice
West Indies. New Chart shewing the Routes of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company’s Ships.West Indies. New Chart shewing the Routes of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company’s Ships.
The communications lifeline of the British Caribbean: an unrecorded map of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company’s Ships to the West Indies….
$2,400
Cartographer(s): George Edward Madeley
Date: 1850
Place: London
[Untitled] Portraits and facsimile signatures of 48 American patriots.
A formative sheet in patriotic printing….
$2,400
Cartographer(s): John Trumbull
Date: 1840
Place: New York
Gettysburg Battle-Field.
Bachelder’s iconic 1863 view of the Battle of Gettysburg….
$2,400
Cartographer(s): John Badger Bachelder
Date: 1863
Place: New York
Mare del Nord.
A gorgeous full-color example of Coronelli’s chart of the Eastern Seaboard and North Atlantic….
$2,200
Cartographer(s): Vincenzo Coronelli
Date: 1691
Place: Venice
[First State] Panorama of the Seat of the War Birds Eye View of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia[First State] Panorama of the Seat of the War Birds Eye View of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia
Bachmann’s dramatic 1861 panoramic view of the central theater of the American Civil War….
$2,200
Cartographer(s):
Date: 1861
Place: New York
Carte d’étude pour le tracé et le profil du canal de Nicaragua par M. Thomé de Gamond, ingénieur civil, précédée de documents publiés sur cette question par Félix BellyCarte d’étude pour le tracé et le profil du canal de Nicaragua par M. Thomé de Gamond, ingénieur civil, précédée de documents publiés sur cette question par Félix Belly
Rare – the first serious and detailed published proposal for an interoceanic canal across Nicaragua, with a magnificent, chromolithographed map….
$1,900
Cartographer(s): Félix Belly, Thomé de Gamond
Date: 1858
Place: Paris
Maps of the New and Popular St. Louis and Texas Short Line!Maps of the New and Popular St. Louis and Texas Short Line!
An eye-catching 1878 broadside inviting people to come and settle in Texas; a state in which a formal civilian government had only been restored eight years earlier….
$1,800
Cartographer(s): Woodward, Tiernan & Hale
Date: 1878
Place: St. Louis
Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes Au Nord de la Mer de Sud, Tant a l'Est de la Siberie et du Kamtchatcka, Qu'a l'Ouest de la Nouvelle France, Dressee sur les Memoires...1750Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes Au Nord de la Mer de Sud, Tant a l'Est de la Siberie et du Kamtchatcka, Qu'a l'Ouest de la Nouvelle France, Dressee sur les Memoires...1750
Famed North Pacific map, with a giant Sea of the West and the dubious discoveries of Admiral de Fonte….
$1,800
Cartographer(s): The Dezauche Family, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Philippe Buache
Date: 1780
Place: Paris
Map of Eastern Virginia Compiled from the best authorities and printed at the Coast Survey Office, A.D. Bache, Supdt. 1862.Map of Eastern Virginia Compiled from the best authorities and printed at the Coast Survey Office, A.D. Bache, Supdt. 1862.
Alexander Bache’s Map of Eastern Virginia: a Union map of Washington’s Confederate backyard….
$1,700
Cartographer(s): Alexander Dallas Bache, Philip & Solomons
Date: 1862
Place: Washington, D.C.
Geological map of Long & Staten islands with the environs of New YorkGeological map of Long & Staten islands with the environs of New York
The first systematic mapping of the geology of Long Island….
$1,700
Cartographer(s): John Calvin Smith
Date: 1842
Place: New York
República Argentina / Ministerio de Obras Publicas / Red de ferrocarriles en la fecha del centenario / Confeccionado con los dalos obtenidos por la dirección general de ferrocarriles...República Argentina / Ministerio de Obras Publicas / Red de ferrocarriles en la fecha del centenario / Confeccionado con los dalos obtenidos por la dirección general de ferrocarriles...
A fabulous large-format official Ministry of Public Works 1910 railroad map of Argentina….
$1,600
Cartographer(s): Lit. Comp. Sud-Americ. de Billets de Banco
Date: 1910
Place: Buenos Aires
Carte des Parties des Îles Sandwich & Carte des Îles Sandwich.
History’s second mapping of Hawaii….
$1,600
Cartographer(s): La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup de
Date: 1797
Place: Paris
North Pacific Coast Hawaiian Islands South Coast of Oahu Pearl Harbor [Confidential].
1944 U.S. Navy Confidential Nautical Chart of Pearl Harbor, with post-Attack modifications….
$1,400
Cartographer(s): U.S. Navy
Date: 1944
Place: Washington, D.C.
Carte D'Une Partie De L'Amerique Septentrionale, pour servir a l'Histoire derniere GuerreCarte D'Une Partie De L'Amerique Septentrionale, pour servir a l'Histoire derniere Guerre
Mapping post-independence America: 1787 Le Rouge map of the East Coast and the Mississippi Valley….
$1,400
Cartographer(s): Georges-Louis le Rouge
Date: 1787
Place: Paris
Carte De La Louisiane Et Du Cours Du Mississipi Avec Les Colonies Anglaises.Carte De La Louisiane Et Du Cours Du Mississipi Avec Les Colonies Anglaises.
Dezauche’s 1782 map of colonial America: a map that blends Delisle’s celebrated achievements with new features for the Revolutionary War….
$1,200
Cartographer(s): The Dezauche Family
Date: 1782
Place: Paris
Texas Nach den besten Quellen entw. U. Gez. Vom Hauptm. Radefeld.
Rare second edition of Meyer’s map of Texas and the Southwestern U.S. with substantial updates and revisions….
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Joseph Meyer, Carl Radefeld
Date: 1850
Place: Hildburghausen
Farewell Address of Andrew Jackson to the People of the United States.
Printed silk broadside of President Andrew Jackson’s 1837 farewell address….
$1,200
Cartographer(s): George C. Freer
Date: 1837
Place: Ithaca, NY (?)
A Map for the City of Seattle and adjacent territory accompanying a report of MUNICIPAL PLANS COMMISSION.
The famous ‘Bogue Plan’ of Seattle: an ambitious urban design for the city and environs from 1911….
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Virgil G. Bogue, Engineer, Tucker Hanford Co.
Date: 1911
Place: Seattle
Panorama del Canale di Panama.
Only the second printed view of the Panama Canal in history….
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Giosellino Peverelli, Cesare Vimercati
Date: 1880
Place: Livorno
Tierra Nueva.
A true first state of one of the earliest maps of the Eastern Seaboard….
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Girolamo Ruscelli
Date: 1561
Place: Venice
Nord-Amerika.
Von Sydow’s geophysical wall map of North America….
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Theodor Emil von Sydow, Justus Perthes
Date: 1840
Place: Gotha
Nord America mit Westindien.
Hand-colored ca. 1867 Kiepert map of North America, capturing the post-Civil War U.S., shifting Canadian and Mexican frontiers, and colonial Caribbean….
$975
Cartographer(s): Heinrich Kiepert
Date: 1867
Place: Weimar
[Persuasive Cartography] La Cuestión Chilena.
Argentinian propaganda map of Chile’s advance into Patagonia….
$975
Cartographer(s): Foreign Ministry of Argentina
Date: 1878
Place: Buenos Aires
Panama - Canal.
Early 20th-century bird’s-eye teaching chart of the Panama Canal….
$975
Cartographer(s): Leipziger Schulbilderverlag F. E. Wachsmuth
Date: 1920
Place: Leipzig
The Historical War Map.The Historical War Map.
Printed broadside that provided the American public with a comprehensive overview of the Civil War, with an extensive narrative on the war’s progress….
$975
Cartographer(s): Asher & Co.
Date: 1863
Place: Indianapolis
Spherical chart of part of the coast of Peru, from the Parallel of 7.° to 21.° 45.' South Latititude; Surveyed and Drawn by Order of the King of Spain in the year 1790, By Officers of the Royal Navy.
The best coastal view of Peru in the early 19th century….
$950
Cartographer(s): William Faden
Date: 1805
Place: London
Gettysburg. Repulse of Longstreet’s Assault.
Bachelder’s magnificent rendering of Longstreet’s Assault (Pickett’s Charge)….
$900
Cartographer(s): John Badger Bachelder
Date: 1876
Place: Boston
Carte Générale des Etats-Unis, des Haut et Bas-Canada, de la Nouvelle Ecosse, du Nouvelle Brunswick, de Terre Neuve.
Brué’s important map of the United States prior to the Mexican-American War, with an overtly independent Texas….
$875
Cartographer(s): Adrien-Hubert Brué, Charles Picquet
Date: 1840
Place: Paris
Yellowstone National Park. Northern Pacific Railway / Northern Pacific Railway Company for Yellowstone National Park Puget Sound and Alaska.
A magnificent view of one of America’s most majestic parks in its original envelope….
$700
Cartographer(s): Poole Bros., Charles Sumner Fee
Date: 1895
Place: Chicago
George Washington - A. De Felice & Co. Societa Agrumaria Rodi.
George Washington as a citrus salesman….
$675
Cartographer(s): Società Agrumaria De Felice
Date: 1912
Place: Naples
General-Karte der Nord-Amerikanischen Freistaaten.
1853 Map of the United States from Meyer’s Atlas, with Capitol Inset — One Year Before the Kansas-Nebraska Act….
$675
Cartographer(s): Joseph Meyer, Carl Radefeld
Date: 1853
Place: Hildburghausen
Chile
A distinctive, mind-bending view of Chile….
$675
Cartographer(s): Richard Edes Harrison
Date: 1938
Place: New York
Map of Japan with statistical report of raw silk production.
Mapping Meiji Japan’s industrial production of silk for export….
$475
Cartographer(s): Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry
Date: 1896
Place: Tokyo
[Northern India and Pakistan] Tabula Asiae IX.
The first edition of Munster’s map of Northern India, present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, with the delta of the Indus River graphically depicted….
$475
Cartographer(s): Sebastian Münster
Date: 1545
Place: Basel
A Guide Map of the RUINS OF TIKAL Guatemala.A Guide Map of the RUINS OF TIKAL Guatemala.
An archaeological plan of the ruins of the great Mayan city of Tikal, a site that still baffles historians to this day….
$475
Cartographer(s): Asociación Tikal
Date: 1969
Place: Guatemala