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• Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de la Terre Divisee en Deux Hemispheres Suivant la Projection la Plus Commune ou Tous les Points Principaux sont Placez sur les Observations…

  An early state of De Fer’s famous world wall map — an Enlightenment masterpiece in which the highest artistic and scientific aspirations of the age coalesce.

  Cartographer(s): Nicholas de Fer

  Place/Date: Paris / 1706

  $13,500 Add to cart
• Carte Très Curieuse de la Mer du Sud, Contenant des Remarques Nouvelles et Tres Utiles non Seulement sur les Ports et Iles de Cette Mer

  Henri Chatelain’s magnificent map of the Western Hemisphere in extraordinary color and condition.

  Cartographer(s): Henri Abraham Chatelain

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1719

  $16,000 Add to cart
• Carte 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.

  Cartographer(s): Georges-Louis le Rouge

  Place/Date: Paris / 1787

  $1,400 Add to cart
• Tabula Moderna Prime Partis Aphricae

  Gorgeous example of famed cartographer Martin Waldessemüller’s double-page woodcut map of North and West Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Martin Waldseemüller

  Place/Date: Strasbourg / 1513

  $7,200 Add to cart
• Abissinorum Sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu.

  Hondius map of East Africa with the Kingdom of Prester John and inset of the Congo.

  Cartographer(s): Jodocus Hondius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1630

  $525 Add to cart
• Carte Généralle de l’Empire du Turc.

  Mid-17th century map of the Ottoman Empire with various Arabian cartographic myths.

  Cartographer(s): Pierre Mariette

  Place/Date: Paris / 1646

  $750 Add to cart
• Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium à Promontorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin

  Stunning Renard sea chart of the Indian Ocean, with East Africa, Arabia, and southern India, from the Atlas de la Navigation.

  Cartographer(s): Louis Renard

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1715

  $1,400 Add to cart
• Empire de la porte Ottomane en Europe, en Asie, et en Afrique avec les pays qui lui sont tributaires, dressé par les freres Lotter

  Late 18th century map of the Ottoman Empire with large, striking cartouche.

  Cartographer(s): The Lotter Family

  Place/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1790

  $675 Add to cart
• Thomas Bros. Map of Sausalito, Marin County, Calif.

  Interesting Thomas Bros. map of Sausalito just after the completion of the Golden Gate Bridge.

  Cartographer(s): Thomas Bros.

  Place/Date: Oakland / ca. 1938

  $475 Add to cart
• Cuba Insula [with] Hispaniola Insula [with] Insula Jamaica [with] Ins. S. Ioannis [with] I.S. Margareta Cum Confiniis

  Rare English edition of the Mercator-Hondius map of Carribean islands, including an inset of Havana.

  Cartographer(s): Gerard Mercator, Jodocus Hondius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1636

  $500 Add to cart
• Les Isles Philippines Molucques et de la Sonde

  Fine 1654 French map centered on the Philippines, and with Singapore.

  Cartographer(s): Nicolas Sanson, Pierre Mariette

  Place/Date: Paris / 1654

  $875 Add to cart
• Regno di Napoli

  Handsome 1640 map of southern Italy with decorative coats-of-arms

  Cartographer(s): Willem Blaeu

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1640

  $1,000 Add to cart
• Metsker’s map of Marin County California

  Before the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge: a detailed post-WWII map of Marin County in attractive colors.

  Cartographer(s): Charles F. Metsker

  Place/Date: Tacoma / 1948

  $475 Add to cart
• Insulae Iavae Pars Occidentalis Edente Hadriano Relando…Insulae Iavae Pars Orientalis Edente Hadriano Relando

  The beating heart of Dutch East India: a rare and beautiful second state of Gerard van Keulen’s visually overwhelming map of Java.

  Cartographer(s): Johannes & Gerard Van Keulen

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1753

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• Map of Abyssinia and the adjacent districts laid down partly from original Observations taken in the Country and partly compiled from information collected there by Henry Salt…

  Henry Salt’s scarce and important map of Abyssinia.

  Cartographer(s): Henry Salt

  Place/Date: London / 1814

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• Carte des Isles Sandwich

  One of the first available collectible maps of Hawaii, from just a handful of years after the landing and death of Captain James Cook.

  Cartographer(s): Rigobert Bonne

  Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1785

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• A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne according to ye truest Descriptions latest Discoveries & best observations yt have beene made by English or Strangers. 1651.

  John Speed’s unparalleled map of the world.

  Cartographer(s): John Speed

  Place/Date: London / (1651) 1676

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• Novae Insulae

  Sebastian Münster’s Map of the Americas: The first printed map of the new continents in their entirety.

  Cartographer(s): Sebastian Münster

  Place/Date: Basel / [State #13, 1572] 1540

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• City of San Francisco from Rincon Point Tinted lithographed by C. Parsons N.Y., Deld by F.N. Otis M.D. Surgeon In USM Steamship COS Service, Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by F.N. Otis in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York

  Before Salesforce Tower: one of the finest and rarest early views of San Francisco.

  Cartographer(s): Charles Parsons, Endicott & Co.

  Place/Date: New York / 1855

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• Flood Property Atherton, California. Scale 1″=300′ Apr. 1936. Layout No. 8. By James & Waters – Subdivision Engr’s, Burlingame – Redwood City

  Map of Lindenwood, Atherton (CA): subdividing the grand estate of silver-magnate James Clair Flood.

  Cartographer(s): James & Waters

  Place/Date: Burlingame/Redwood City, CA / 1936

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• Septentrionaliu regionum Svetiæ Gothiæ Norvegiæ Daniæ

  Gerard de Jode’s iconic Scandinavia chart: a testimony to undervalued genius.

  Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de Jode

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1593

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• Islandia

  A beautifully preserved example of the most decorative and famous map of Iceland ever produced – with an additional hand-drawn sea-monster on the verso.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1592

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• Meiguo Sanfan Shi hua qiao qu : xiang xi tu. / Map of San Francisco Chinatown.

  Revealing the early 20th century Chinese experience in the Bay Area: a roaring ’20s map of San Francisco’s Chinatown.

  Cartographer(s): J.P. Wong

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1929

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• Europa das ein Drittheil der Erde nach gelegenheit unserer zeit beschrieben…

  1588 Münster woodcut and letterpress map of Europe.

  Cartographer(s): Sebastian Münster

  Place/Date: Basel / ca. 1588

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• Etats-Unis De L’Amerique Septentrionale Avec Les Isles Royale, De Terre Neuve, De St. Jean, L’Acadie &c.

  State names that never were: post-Independence map of the U.S. with Jefferson’s 10 proposed states and early Michigan.

  Cartographer(s): Charles François Delamarche, Didier Robert de Vaugondy

  Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1785

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• Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada.

  Phantom islands and cartographic trickery: Bellin’s seminal map of the Great Lakes, re-issued during the French and Indian War.

  Cartographer(s): Homann Heirs, Jacques Nicolas Bellin

  Place/Date: Nuremberg / 1755

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• Indiae orientalis nova descriptio

  Mapping Dutch influence in Southeast Asia: elegant 1633 map with newest discoveries.

  Cartographer(s): Jan Janssonius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / (French edition) 1633

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• City of San Francisco and Its Vicinity

  Colorful and bright 1853 Coast Survey map of SF with downtown, marsh lands, and Mission Dolores.

  Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast Survey

  Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1853

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• Portugallia et Algarbia quae olim Lusitania

  Attractive mid-17th century map of Portugal

  Cartographer(s): Jan Janssonius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1645

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• Diefert Situs Orbis Hydrographorum Ab Eo Quem Ptolomeus Posuit…

  16th century woodcut world map with mythical kings and beasts.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• Mapa de la República Oriental del Uruguay

  Stunning late 19th century map of Uruguay with large inset of Montevideo.

  Cartographer(s): Escuela de Artes y Oficios

  Place/Date: Montevideo / ca. 1884

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• Carte Reduite des Isles Britanniques Troisime Feuille Patie Meridionale de L’Ecose…

  Lovely 1757 Depot de la Marine map of southern Scotland and Northern Ireland, including Edinburgh and Glasgow

  Cartographer(s): Jacques Nicolas Bellin

  Place/Date: Paris / 1757

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• Totius Africae tabula, & descriptio universalis, etiam ultra Ptolemaei limites extensa.

  Exceptional example of one of the earliest maps to focus on the entire continent of Africa

  Cartographer(s): Sebastian Münster

  Place/Date: Basel / ca. 1554

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• Arabie

  Lovely 18th century map of Arabia with large inset of the Great Mosque of Mecca [المسجد الحرام]

  Cartographer(s): Anonymous

  Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1740

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• A General Map of the Post Roads of Europe wherein all the post stages with their distances are particularly expressed.

  Rare first edition of Rocque’s spectacular map of the post roads of Europe in original colors

  Cartographer(s): John Rocque

  Place/Date: London / 1758

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• Ansight von San Francisco 1877.

  1877 bird’s-eye-view of San Francisco with advertisements for German businesses.

  Cartographer(s): Philo Jacoby's "California State Almanac"

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1877

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• Island of Oahu. City and County of Honolulu

  Colorful 1921 map of Oahu, Hawaii

  Cartographer(s): U. Matsu

  Place/Date: Honolulu / 1921

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• A New & Accurate Map of the North Pole, with all the Countries hitherto Discovered…

  Fine map of the North Pole and surrounding hemisphere on a polar projection.

  Cartographer(s): Emanuel Bowen

  Place/Date: London / 1746

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• A New & Accurate Map of Persia with the adjacent Countries. Drawn from the most approved Modern Maps, &c.

  Map of the Persian Empire, with parts of the Ottoman Empire

  Cartographer(s): Emanuel Bowen

  Place/Date: London / 1747

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• Amerique Septentrionale

  Gorgeous and extremely rare state of Sanson’s landmark map of North America.

  Cartographer(s): Nicolas Sanson, Pierre Mariette

  Place/Date: Paris / 1651

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• Map of Beverly Hills California

  1937 map of Beverly Hills – “Center of the Next Million”

  Cartographer(s): Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Beverly Hills Realty Board

  Place/Date: Los Angeles / 1937

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• A New and Accurate Map of Chili, Terra Magellanica, Terra del Fuego &c. Laid down according to the latest improvements and regulated by astron.l observat.ns.

  Hand-colored 1747 Bowen map with insets of Santiago and Tierra del Fuego

  Cartographer(s): Emanuel Bowen

  Place/Date: London / 1747

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• Aegyptus Antiqua

  Stunning full color example of Ortelius’s two-sheet map of Egypt.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1584

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• Haec est nobilis florens illa Neapolis, Campaniae civitas…

  Lovely hand-colored Renaissance view of Naples

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Colonge / 1580

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• Nieuwe kaart van Arabia…

  Detailed Tirion map of Arabia in excellent colors.

  Cartographer(s): Isaak Tirion

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1740

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• Nieuwe Gelijk Gradige of Platte Zekaart Van Het Noorder deel van Europa Vertoonende de Geheele Groenlandse En Moskovise Scheepvaard Waer in Elk de Miswijsinge Van het Compas selver moet Verbeeteren (repeated in French)

  Spectacular and rare 1709 Van Keulen chart of the North Atlantic with erupting Hekla

  Cartographer(s): Johannes & Gerard Van Keulen

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1709

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• Deliniantur in hac Tabula, Orae Maritimae Abexiae, Freti Mecani; al Maris Rubri; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, Supra Sindam usq, Fluminis Indi, Cambriae India & Malabaris, Insulae, Ceylon

  1596 Navigational chart of the Indian Ocean in spectacular full color.

  Cartographer(s): Jan Huygen van Linschoten

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1596

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• Islandia

  1609 Ortelius extraordinary map of Iceland with Spanish text on verso

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1609

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• Carte du Canal des Iles Philippines Par lequel passe le Galion de Manille, et les Isles voisins de ce canal

  Lovely mid-18th century Anson chart of the Philippines

  Cartographer(s): George Anson

  Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1750

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• Grondvlakte van Nieuw Orleans, de Hoofdstad van Louisiana [with] De Uitloop vande Rivier Missisippi [and] De Oostelyke ingang van de Missisippi met een Plan van het Fort

  1740 plan of New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta

  Cartographer(s): Isaak Tirion

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1740

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• Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas…

  1582 town-plan of Jerusalem

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Colonge / 1582

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• Totius Europae Littora Novissime Edita. Pascaert Vertoonende alle de See-Custen van Europa

  Splendid 1745 portolan-style sea chart based on De Wit

  Cartographer(s): Reiner & Joshua Ottens

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1745

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• America Septentrionalis a Domino d’Anville in Galliis edita nunc in Anglia Coloniis in Interiorem Virginiam…

  1777 Revolutionary War issue of Homann’s map of the United States

  Cartographer(s): Homann Heirs

  Place/Date: Nuremberg / 1777

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• Map of the lines of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company RMH

  Attractive mid-1920s Northwestern Pacific Railroad map

  Cartographer(s): Northwestern Pacific Railroad

  Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1925

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• Marin County California

  Vivid c. 1954 Thomas Bros. map of Marin County

  Cartographer(s): Harry Freese, Thomas Bros.

  Place/Date: Oakland / ca. 1954

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• Hiking map of Marin County

  1925 Northwestern Pacific Railroad promotional hiking map of Marin County.

  Cartographer(s):

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1925

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• Florence. Florence Ville d’Italie, capitale de Toscane…

  Scarce and lovely mid-18th century bird’s-eye-view of Florence.

  Cartographer(s): Jacques Chereau

  Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1750

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• Tab. II. Europae, Hispaniam ac Lusitaniam Complectens

  Attractive mid-18th century map of the Iberian Peninsula

  Cartographer(s): Gerard Mercator

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1730

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• Carte de la Californie Suivant I. la Carte Manuscrite de l’Amerique de Mathieu Neron Pecci…

  Vaugondy’s essential 1772 presentation of California variants

  Cartographer(s): Didier Robert de Vaugondy

  Place/Date: Paris / 1772

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• No. 3 Map of North America Engraved to Illustrate Mitchell’s School and Family Geography

  Early edition of Mitchell & Young’s North America with Independent Texas

  Cartographer(s): J.H. Young, Samuel Augustus Mitchell

  Place/Date: Philadelphia / 1839

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• Terra Sancta, sive Promissionis, olim Palestina Recens Delineata, et in Lucem Edita

  1680 De Wit map of the Holy Land with Jerusalem

  Cartographer(s): Frederick de Wit

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1680

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• Colton’s California and Nevada

  1873 Colton California and Nevada with extended San Bernadino County

  Cartographer(s): George Woolworth Colton and Charles B. Colton

  Place/Date: New York / 1873

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• [Title on Verso] Tabula Septima Asiae Complectitur Margianam, Bactrianam, Sogdianam, Sacas, & Scythiam, Intra Imaum Montem

  1541 Ptolemaic map of Central Asia

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1545

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• Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi Aujour d’hui S. Louis, aux Environs des Quelles se Trouvent les Etats, Pais, Nations, Peuples &c…

  Chatelain’s map of French possessions in the U.S. in full color

  Cartographer(s): Henri Abraham Chatelain

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1719

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• [Title on Verso] Tabula Duodecima Asiae Continet Taprobanam Insulam

  1541 woodcut Ptolemaic map of Sri Lanka

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1545

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• [Title on Verso] Tabula IIII Aphricae

  1535 Ptolemaic Africa with Prester John

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Lyon / 1535

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• No. 15 Map of Oregon and Upper California

  1846 school atlas map of Oregon and Upper California

  Cartographer(s): Samuel Augustus Mitchell

  Place/Date: Philadelphia / 1846

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• Le Plan de Paris, ses Faubourgs et ses Environs / Platte Grond van Parys, zyn Voorburgen en Omleggende Plaatse

  Stunning hand-colored 1730 map of Paris

  Cartographer(s): Covens & Mortier, The De L'Isle family

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1730

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• Maris Pacifici

  Stunning 1595 example of Ortelius’ landmark map of the Pacific Ocean.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1595

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• Ins. Ceilan que incolis Tenarisin dictur

  Mercator & Hondius’s striking 1609 map of Ceylon

  Cartographer(s): Gerard Mercator, Jodocus Hondius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1609

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• SEPTENTRIONALIUM Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatore

  1623 map North Pole heightened in gold and filled with cartographic myths.

  Cartographer(s): Gerard Mercator, Jodocus Hondius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1623

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• Iaponia

  Mercator Cloppenburgh edition 1630 miniature map of Japan with Korea as an Island

  Cartographer(s): Gerard Mercator, J.E. Cloppenburgh

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1630

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• Preliminary Chart of Drake’s Bay California

  1860 United States Coast Survey map of Point Reyes and Drake’s Bay

  Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast Survey

  Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1860

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• Mare Rubrum seu Sinus Arabicus ad observationes maximam partem ab Auctore annis MDCCLXII et MDCCLXIII institutas delineatus a C. Niebuhr

  Seminal Red Sea map

  Cartographer(s): Carsten Niebuhr

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1774

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• Colton’s Map of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona & New Mexico

  1863 Colton map of the Southwest with earliest Nevada-Arizona border.

  Cartographer(s): George Woolworth Colton and Charles B. Colton

  Place/Date: New York / 1863

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• Europae tabula sexta continet italiam.

  A gorgeous 1541 map of Italy in the style of Ptolemaic cartography.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• Novissima et Accuratissima totius Italiae Corsicae et Sardiniae Descriptio

  Lovely 17th century Dutch map of Italy.

  Cartographer(s): Frederick de Wit

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1680

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• Map of San Francisco, California. Showing limits of the Burned Area destroyed by the Fire of April 18th-21st, 1906, following the Earthquake of April 18th, 1906

  1906 Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco disaster map made weeks after earthquake.

  Cartographer(s): The Norris Peters Co., William W. Harts

  Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1

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• Arabia

  J. Blaeu atlas map of Arabia

  Cartographer(s): Joannes Blaeu

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1661

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• Africae Nova Tabula

  Highly decorative mid-17th century map of Africa

  Cartographer(s): Henricus Hondius, Jan Janssonius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1646

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• Islandia

  Mercator’s Islandia.

  Cartographer(s): Gerard Mercator

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1595

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• Tabula Nova Partis Africae

  1541 Ptolemaic map of West Africa with mythical kings and beasts.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• Indiarum Orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio…

  This rare Italian world map is based on Ortelius’s 1570 Typus Orbis Terrarum

  Cartographer(s): Giovanni Maffei

  Place/Date: Colonge / 1589

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• [Title on Verso] Tabula Terra Novæ

  1541 map of the New World with references to Christopher Columbus, from the Admiral’s Map

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries, Martin Waldseemüller

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola

  16th century map of the Arabian Peninsula

  Cartographer(s): Girolamo Ruscelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1564

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• Tabula Africae III

  16th century map of Egypt and Libya

  Cartographer(s): Girolamo Ruscelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1564

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• Egitto Nuova Tavola

  Attractive 1598 Venetian map of Lower Egypt and the Nile Delta.

  Cartographer(s): G. Ziletti, Girolamo Ruscelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1598

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• Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale du Globe Terrestre Representee en deux Plan-Hemispheres Revue et Changee en Plusieurs Endroits Suivant les Relations les plus Recentes

  Sanson’s double hemisphere world map with Island of California.

  Cartographer(s): Nicolas Sanson

  Place/Date: Paris / 1743

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• Antiquae Urbis

  1641 town plan of ancient Rome with illustrated monuments.

  Cartographer(s): Giacomo Lauro

  Place/Date: Rome / 1641

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• Bologna celebre madre de’ studi

  Exceptional c. 1673 bird’s-eye-view of Bologna.

  Cartographer(s): Giuseppe Longhi

  Place/Date: Bologna / ca. 1673

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• L’Europe divisée suivant ses principx Etats

  Nice colorful mid-18th century map of Europe.

  Cartographer(s): G. Robert de Vaugondy

  Place/Date: Paris / 1748

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• Chili

  Rare English edition of the Mercator-Hondius map of Chile.

  Cartographer(s): Henricus Hondius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1635

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• Carte de l’Isthme de Panama et des Provinces de Veragua Terre Ferme et Darien

  Detailed mid-18th century map of the Isthmus of Panama.

  Cartographer(s): Jacques Nicolas Bellin

  Place/Date: Paris / 1754

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• Colton’s California. Published by Johnson and Browning

  1859 Colton California with San Francisco inset and Buena Vista & “Frezno” county names.

  Cartographer(s): Joseph Hutchins Colton

  Place/Date: New York / 1859

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• [Europe as a Queen]

  Full-color example of Europe as a Queen.

  Cartographer(s): Sebastian Münster

  Place/Date: Basel / ca. 1570

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• L’Ancien Monde et le Nouveau en deux Hemispheres

  Bonne’s 1784 world map on double hemisphere projection.

  Cartographer(s): Rigobert Bonne

  Place/Date: Paris / 1784

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• Europa Prima Pars Terrae In Forma Virginis.

  Striking example of Bünting’s famous depiction of Europe as a Queen.

  Cartographer(s): Heinrich Bünting

  Place/Date: Leipzig / ca. 1581

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• Carte de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Monde, Suivant une Projection Nouvelle, pour les Premieres Etudes; Dirigee par Mr. Philippe…

  Attractive world map with prominent River of the West

  Cartographer(s): Etienne Andre Philippe De Pretot,

  Place/Date: Paris / 1771

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• Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

  Merian’s 1646 world map with Gothic script and polar insets.

  Cartographer(s): Matthäus Merian

  Place/Date: Frankfurt / 1646

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• Tabula Nova Siciliae, Sardiniae & Corsicae

  Bright 1541 Ptolemaic map of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• Arabiae Felicis, Petrae ae et Desertae Nova et Accurata Delineatio

  Decorative Dutch map of Arabia.

  Cartographer(s): Jan Janssonius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1660

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• Tartaria sive Magni Chami Imperium

  W. Blaeu’s decorative map of China.

  Cartographer(s): Willem Blaeu

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1635

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• Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Situm Neoterica Descriptio

  Ortelius Greece in attractive colors.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / ca. 1588

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• Asia noviter delineata

  Wonderful 1635 map of Asia with cities and figures.

  Cartographer(s): Willem Blaeu

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1635

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• Europ, and the cheife Cities contained therin, described; with the habits of most Kingdoms now in use

  1627 John Speed cartes-à-figures map of Europe with city-views.

  Cartographer(s): John Speed

  Place/Date: London / 1627

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• [Untitled – Africa, Asia, Brazil]

  Rare eighteenth century map of Jesuit missionary travel routes.

  Cartographer(s): Johann Jacob Lidl

  Place/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1740

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• Tabula nova Italiae

  Beautiful 1541 woodcut Ptolemaic map of Italy.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• Iaponiae Insulae Descriptio. Ludoico Teisera Auctore

  First map of Japan published in a European atlas.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1595

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• Tabula Europae II [Iberia]

  Lovely mid-16th century woodblock map of the Iberian Peninsula.

  Cartographer(s): Sebastian Münster

  Place/Date: Basel / ca. 1550

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• Turcici Imperii Imago

  Early 17th century Ottoman Empire with conqueror of Constantinople.

  Cartographer(s): Jodocus Hondius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1606

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• Suecia, Dania, et Norvegia, Regna Europae Septentrionalia

  Attractive mid-17th century map of Scandinavia.

  Cartographer(s): Willem Blaeu

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1640

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• Sketch J No. 12 Reconnaissance of the Western Coast of the United States from Monterey to the Columbia River in three sheets Sheet No. 1

  Coast Survey chart of the Pacific Coast from Monterey to Mendocino with inset profile of the Golden Gate.

  Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast Survey

  Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1851

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• A Map of North America with the European Settlements & Whatever Else Is Remarkable in ye West Indies, from the Latest and Best Observations

  Seale’s 1745 North America with Island of California and other cartographic myths.

  Cartographer(s): R.W. Seale

  Place/Date: London / 1745

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• Africae Tabula Nova

  Ortelius’s gorgeous cornerstone map of Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1570

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• Preliminary Chart of Entrance to San Francisco Bay California

  Lovely hand-colored 1856 United States Coast Survey sea chart of the Bay Area.

  Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast Survey

  Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1856

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• Deliniantur in hac Tabula, Orae Maritimae Abexiae, Freti Mecani; al Maris Rubri; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, Supra Sindam usq, Fluminis Indi, Cambriae India & Malabaris, Insulae, Ceylon

  Jan Huygens van Linschoten’s iconic navigational chart of the Indian Ocean in spectacular full color.

  Cartographer(s): Jan Huygen van Linschoten

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1596

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• A New Map of the State of California, the Territories of Oregon, Washington, Utah & New Mexico

  1853 Mitchell California with extended Utah

  Cartographer(s): Samuel Augustus Mitchell, Thomas Cowperthwait & Co.

  Place/Date: Philadelphia / 1853

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• San Francisco

  Scarce 1881 atlas map of San Francisco divided by wards

  Cartographer(s): O.W. Gray & Son

  Place/Date: Philadelphia / 1881

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• Galliae Regnum in Omnes suas Provincias Accurate Divisum

  Detailed 1709 Schenk map of France with provincial shields and interesting manuscript notations on the verso.

  Cartographer(s): Pieter Schenk

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1709

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• Africæ Accurata Tabula

  17th century Visscher map of Africa

  Cartographer(s): Nicolas Visscher

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1670

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• Persici sive Sophorum Regni Typus

  Lovely 1601 Ortelius map of the Persian Empire

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1601

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• Amerique Meridionale, dressée, sur les Mémoires les plus récents et assujétie aux observations astronomique

  Mid-18th century French map of South America

  Cartographer(s): Didier Robert de Vaugondy

  Place/Date: Paris / 1750

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• Sketch J No. 2 Mare Island Strait California

  1851 United States Coast Survey map of Mare Island and Vallejo

  Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast Survey

  Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1851

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• Anglia Regnum

  Decorative map of England and Wales

  Cartographer(s): Willem Blaeu

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1640

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