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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 FerPlace/Date: Paris / 1706$13,500 Add to cart -
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. Divided into Counties and Townships: The whole composed of Actual Surveys and its situation adjusted by ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS.
An exquisite FIRST EDITION-FIRST STATE of Braddock Mead and Thomas Jefferys’ authoritative map of New England; the finest chart of the region produced in the 18th century.
Place/Date: London / November 29th, 1755$59,000 Add to cart -
Costantinopoli città principale del gran turcho
Lafreri-school 1568 Zenoi reverse-image bird’s-eye-view of Istanbul.
Place/Date: Venice / 1568$1,700 Add to cart -
Carte Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles Antilles Reduite de la grande carte Angloise de Popple, Par PH. Buache…1780.
Dezauche’s exquisite chart of the Gulf Coast, Florida, and Caribbean Archipelago depicts a French Colonial Empire that is slowly falling apart.
Place/Date: Paris / 1780$1,000 Add to cart -
A Topographical Map of the Republick of Genoua, Taken from the Celebrated Map by Chaffrion…1764 / To the Right Honourable James Steward Mackenzie, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland, One of His Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council, and Late His Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipoteniary to the King Of Sardina. This Map is most Humbly Inscribed…
A spectacular and historically important 18th century wall-map of the Republic of Genoa.
Cartographer(s): Andrew DuryPlace/Date: London / 1764$4,400 Add to cart -
Carte Tres 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 ChatelainPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1719$16,000 Add to cart -
Americae Pars Borealis, Florida, Baccalaos, Canada, Corterealis. A Cornelio de Iudæis in luce edita.
The first printed folio map of North America and the most iconic American chart of the 16th century.
Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de JodePlace/Date: Antwerp / 1593$48,000 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 KeulenPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1753$4,900 Add to cart -
Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera.
The first map to show California as an island!
Cartographer(s): Michiel ColijnPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1622$2,900 Add to cart -
Pascaart vertoonende de Zeecusten van Chile, Peru, Hispania Nova, Nova Granada, en California.
Superb first state of Doncker’s chart of the Pacific with California as an island.
Cartographer(s): Hendrick DonckerPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1659$4,500 Add to cart -
A 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 detailed chart of the Western Hemisphere with Pacific and Arctic routes of exploration.
Place/Date: London / 1775$5,500 Add to cart -
Rhodi Insula nobilissima nel Mare
A fantastic rarity of the island of Rhodes.
Cartographer(s): Natale BonifacioPlace/Date: Venice / ca. 1570$4,400 Add to cart -
De Maiorica Insula.
Rare Lafreri-school map of the island of Mallorca.
Cartographer(s): Giovanni Francesco CamocioPlace/Date: Venice / ca. 1575$2,150 Add to cart -
Nova Illustrissimi Principatus Pomeraniae Descriptio
An exceptionally rare cartographic masterpiece — the finest and most important map of Pomerania, the plates of which were rediscovered in an attic after lost during the Thirty Years’ War.
Cartographer(s): Professor Eilhard LübbenPlace/Date: Amsterdam / [1618] 1758$22,000 Add to cart -
Paskaerte Zynde t’Oosterdeel van Oost Indien, met Alle de Eylanden daer Ontrendt Geleegen van C. Comorin tot aen Japan
An accomplished work of design and engraving: 1666 chart of Southeast Asia by Abraham Goos with original color.
Cartographer(s): Pieter GoosPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1666$9,000 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 RougePlace/Date: Paris / 1787$1,400 Add to cart -
Erythraei Sive Rubri Maris Periplus, olim ab Arriano descriptus, nunc vero ab Abrah. Orelio ex eodem delineatus
Illustrating a mysterious ancient text: fascinating Ortelius map mixing classical mythology and contemporary exploration.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1624$1,200 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 RenardPlace/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 FamilyPlace/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1790$675 Add to cart -
Carte des Découverts des Russes dans la Mer Orientale, et en Amerique Pour Servir à L’essai, Sur le commerce de Russie.
Between Bering & Cook: 1777 Croisey Map of Russian Discoveries in Alaska and the Bering Strait.
Cartographer(s): P. CroiseyPlace/Date: Paris / 1777$1,700 Add to cart -
Mappe Monde ou Carte Generale de L’ Univers D’Apres Une Proejction Nouvelle D’Une Sphere Ovale…
Charting Captain James Cook – 1790 world map with Cook’s three voyages and Hawaii (O-Why-hee).
Cartographer(s): Mathias Albrecht LotterPlace/Date: Augsburg / 1790$900 Add to cart -
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.
Place/Date: London / 1703$9,000 Add to cart -
Terrae Yemen maxima Pars seu Imperii Imami, Principatus Kaukebân nec non ditionum Haschid u Bekil, Nehhm, Chaulan, Aleu Arisch et Aden Tabula
Original Copenhagen edition of Niebuhr’s map of Yemen, from the first scientific mission to Arabia.
Cartographer(s): Carsten NiebuhrPlace/Date: Copenhagen / 1771$900 Add to cart -
L’Afrique Par le Sieur Du Val, Geographe Ord. du Roy
A separately-issued rarity of Africa by Pierre Duval.
Cartographer(s): Pierre du ValPlace/Date: Paris / ca. 1660$2,800 Add to cart -
Pacific Ocean. Eastern Part. Cape Corrientes, Mexico to Kadiak Island. Compiled from the most recent Surveys in the Hydrographical Office. 1876. London, 21 June 1877
Large, detailed sea chart of the West Coast of North America with added notations and sighting information.
Cartographer(s): British Admiralty Hydrographic OfficePlace/Date: London / 1895$900 Add to cart -
The South Isles of Orkney, with the Rocks, Tides, Soundings &c. Surveyed and Navigated by Murdoch Mackenzie
A landmark survey of the South Orkneys featuring pioneering work in the use of triangulation.
Cartographer(s): Murdoch MackenziePlace/Date: Edinburgh (?) / 1750$1,600 Add to cart -
[Tunisi]
Fascinating 1566 Lafreri bird’s-eye-view of Tunis with the ruins of Carthage.
Cartographer(s): Paolo ForlaniPlace/Date: Venice / 1566$2,000 Add to cart -
Les Isles Philippines Molucques et de la Sonde
Fine 1654 French map centered on the Philippines, and with Singapore.
Place/Date: Paris / 1654$875 Add to cart -
L’America settentrionale nuovamente corretta, et accresciuta secondo le relationi più moderne da Guglielmo Sansone
Spectacular old color Italian edition of Sanson’s seminal map of North America.
Cartographer(s): Giacomo Giovanni de RossiPlace/Date: Rome / 1677$2,800 Add to cart -
Regno di Napoli
Handsome 1640 map of southern Italy with decorative coats-of-arms
Cartographer(s): Willem BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1640$1,000 Add to cart -
Carte des Trois Arabies. Tiree en Partie de l’Arabe de Nubie, en Partie de Divers autres Autheurs…
A particularly beautiful example of Sanson’s influential map of the “3 Arabias.”
Cartographer(s): Nicolas SansonPlace/Date: Paris / 1654$1,200 Add to cart -
Delineatio Nova Et Vera Partis Australis Novi Mexici
Scherer’s detailed map of Lower California and adjacent mainland, based on correspondence with Father Kino.
Cartographer(s): Heinrich SchererPlace/Date: Munich / 1703$975 Add to cart -
Granata Nova et California
One of the most fantastic and interesting early maps of California ever to be produced!
Cartographer(s): Cornelius van WytflietPlace/Date: Louvain / 1597On Hold Read more -
Seno de California, y su costa oriental nuevamente descubierta, y registrada desde el Cabo de las Virgenas, hasta su termino, que es el Rio Colorado ano 1747…
Consag’s seminal map of California, which conclusively ended the classic cartographic myth that California was an island.
Cartographer(s): Fernando ConsagPlace/Date: Madrid / 1757On Hold Read more
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Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio; Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula recens emendata; Totius Africae accuratissima tabula; & Nova et accurata totius Europae descriptio. Per FREDERICUM DE WIT.
A spectacular set of four continental maps, likely colored by Dirk Janz van Santen, the finest cartographic colorist of the Dutch Golden Age.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1680Read more -
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 BonnePlace/Date: Paris / ca. 1785Read more -
Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, nova Descriptio.
The most important and influential map of Virginia and Carolina to appear in the 17th century, in excellent original color.
Cartographer(s): Jodocus HondiusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1630Read more -
Islandia
The most decorative and famous map of Iceland ever produced – here in rich original color.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1612Read more -
A Correct Map of the United States, With The West Indies, from the best Authorities by Samuel Lewis 1813…
Samuel Lewis’ extremely rare patriotic map of the War of 1812.
Cartographer(s): Samuel LewisPlace/Date: Philadelphia / 1813Read more -
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 SpeedPlace/Date: London / (1651) 1676Read more -
Septentrionaliu regionum Svetiæ Gothiæ Norvegiæ Daniæ
Gerard de Jode’s iconic Scandinavia chart: a testimony to undervalued genius.
Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de JodePlace/Date: Antwerp / 1593Read more -
AMERICA SETTENTRIONALE Colle Nuove Scoperte fin all’Anno 1688…
Coronelli’s decisive 1688 map of the North American continent depicting California as an Island.
Cartographer(s): Vincenzo CoronelliPlace/Date: Venice / 1688Read more -
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 OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1592Read more -
A GENERAL MAP OF NORTH AMERICA; In which is Express’d The Several New Roads, Forts, Engagements, &c. taken from Actual Surveys and Observations Made in the Army employ’d there, From the Year 1745, to 1761: Drawn by the Late JOHN ROCQUE, Topographer to his MAJESTY.
The most accurate map of the continent at the time, finalized and published by the first female cartographer to depict North America.
Place/Date: London / 1762Read more -
Florida et Apalche
The first great regional map of Florida and the Gulf Coast.
Cartographer(s): Cornelius van WytflietPlace/Date: Louvain / 1597Read more -
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Quam ex Magna Universali Mercatoris…M.D.LXXXVII.
Gorgeous example of Mercator’s striking double-hemisphere world map.
Cartographer(s):Place/Date: Amsterdam / (Latin edition) 1606Read more -
De Maiorica Insula
Extremely rare Lafreri-school map of the island of Mallorca.
Cartographer(s): Ferrando BertelliPlace/Date: Venice / ca. 1568Read more -
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.
Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1785Read more -
Ganz neu aufgenommener und einzig richtiger Plander Hauptstadt Prag in Böhmen
The jewel of Bohemia: a rare town plan of Prague on the eve of Jüttner.
Cartographer(s): Franz HaasPlace/Date: Prague / ca. 1810Read more -
Le Nouveau Mexique et La Floride: Tirees de diverses Cartes, et Relations
A rare first state by one of the seventeenth century’s greatest cartographers.
Cartographer(s): Nicolas SansonPlace/Date: Paris / 1656Read more -
Nova Descriptio Geographica Tattariae Magnae Tam Orientalis Quam Occidentalis In Particularibus Et Generalibus Territoriis Una Cum Delineatione Totius Imperii Russici Imprimis Siberiae Accurate Ostensa.
A special issue of Strahlenberg’s masterpiece map of Imperial Russia and Siberia.
Place/Date: Paris / 1730Read more -
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.
Place/Date: Nuremberg / 1755Read more -
Ierusalem, et suburbia eius, sicut tempore Christi floruit…
Illustrating the last days of Jesus in Jerusalem: a magnificent 1588 plan of the city in the Second Temple Period.
Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz HogenbergPlace/Date: Cologne / 1588Read more -
Indiae orientalis nova descriptio
Mapping Dutch influence in Southeast Asia: elegant 1633 map with newest discoveries.
Cartographer(s): Jan JanssoniusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / (French edition) 1633Read more -
Carte du Théatre de la Guerre actuel entre les Anglais et les Trieze Colonies Unies de l’Amerique Septentrionale dressée par J. B. Eliot Ingénieurs des Etats Unis 1778.
First map to name the United States and a contemporaneous illustration of the American Revolutionary War.
Cartographer(s): Louis-Joseph MondharePlace/Date: Paris / 1778Read more -
Abissinorum Sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu
Hondius map of East Africa with the Kingdom of Prester John and inset of the Congo.
Cartographer(s): Jodocus HondiusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1630Read more -
Carte Généralle de l’Empire du Turc
Mid-17th century map of the Ottoman Empire with various Arabian cartographic myths.
Cartographer(s): Pierre MariettePlace/Date: Paris / 1646Read more -
L’Amerique, Meridionale et Septentrionale Dressee selon les Dernieres Relations et Suivant les Nouvelles Decouvertes…
Finely-engraved small map of the Western Hemisphere featuring a prominent Island of California and three elaborate cartouches.
Cartographer(s): Nicholas de FerPlace/Date: Paris / 1700Read more -
First Part of Asia being Turkey, Arabia, Persia most of India and Tartary Performed by the Sr D Anville…Revised and Improved by Mr Bolton MDCCLV
Attractive English edition of d’Anville’s important map of Asia, among the most accurate presentations of Arabia at the time.
Cartographer(s): Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Malachy Postlethwayt, R.W. Seale, Solomon BoltonPlace/Date: London / 1755Read more -
A New Map Of The Kingdom of Poland with its Dismembered Provinces and the Kingdm. Of Prussia
A fine overview of the history of Poland’s boundaries in the second half of the 18th century.
Cartographer(s): Laurie & WhittlePlace/Date: London / 1794Read more -
Hemisphere Septentrional pour voir plus distinctement Les Terres Arctiques…
Detailed Northern Hemisphere map by Covens & Mortier with the Latest Voyages.
Cartographer(s): Covens & MortierPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1740Read more -
Portugallia et Algarbia quae olim Lusitania
Attractive mid-17th century map of Portugal
Cartographer(s): Jan JanssoniusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1645Read more -
A Map of Mackenzie’s Track from Fort Chipewyan to the North Sea in 1789
Important early map showing Mackenzie’s route from the Lake of the Hills and Fort Chipewayan to Whale Island.
Cartographer(s): Alexander MackenziePlace/Date: London / 1801Read more -
Allgemeine Darstellung der Oberflächen der Weltkörper unseres Sonnengebietes, besonders der Erde, des Mondes, der Venus und des Merkur’s, zur Vergleichung ihrer wundervollen Naturbaue und merkwürdige Naturkräfte.
A pair of wonderful early 19th century data visualization engravings comparing mountain heights on Earth and its moon, Venus, and Mercury.
Place/Date: Leipzig / 1811Read more -
Mappa jeneralna Wojewodztwa Augustowskiego
Rare 1826 Polish regional map —an important piece of Polish-language cartography.
Cartographer(s): Juliusz KolbergPlace/Date: Warsaw / 1826Read more -
A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay, to the Northern Ocean: Undertaken by Order of the Hudson’s Bay Company, for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c., in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772
Gorgeous first edition of Hearne’s description of his discoveries on behalf of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Cartographer(s): Samuel HearnePlace/Date: London / 1795Read more -
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.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1636Read more -
Prima Africae Tabula
Excellent, pre-Columbus 1478 map of Northwest Africa and part of Iberia.
Cartographer(s): Conrad Sweynheym, Arnold BuckinckPlace/Date: Rome / 1478Read more -
ELBA / ILBA sive ILVA insula…
Rare Lafreri map of Elba and the Tuscan town of Piombino
Place/Date: Venice / ca. 1575Read more -
Plan du Port de St. François, Situé su la côte de la Californie Septentrionale. La Pointe de Rois par 37o.59′. de Latitude Nord et 124o.54′. de Longitude Occidentale
The first widely disseminated map of settlements and key places at San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup dePlace/Date: Paris / 1797Read more -
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 BellinPlace/Date: Paris / 1757Read more -
Tripoli citta di Barbaria
Rare Lafreri bird’s-eye-view of Tripoli depicting the expedition of King Philip II that never made it
Cartographer(s): Antonio LafreriPlace/Date: Rome / ca. 1559Read more -
Lettres Edifiantes Et Curieuses, Ecrites Des Missions Estrangeres, par quelques Missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jesus. V. Recueil
First printed appearance of Father Kino’s influential map, along with Piccolo’s text on California missions.
Cartographer(s): Father Eusebio F. KinoPlace/Date: Paris / 1705Read more -
Le Royaume de Siam avec les Royaumes qui luy sont Tributaires…
Gorgeous Dutch map of the southern Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java.
Cartographer(s): Joachim OttensPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1720Read more -
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 RocquePlace/Date: London / 1758Read more -
Mare Rubrum seu Sinus Arabicus ad observationes maximam partem ab Auctore annis MDCCLXII et MDCCLXIII institutas delineatus a C. Niebuhr
Carsten Niebuhr’s transformative map of the Red Sea.
Cartographer(s): Carsten NiebuhrPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1774Read more -
To Mark Wood Esq. M.P., Colonel of the Army in India, Late Chief Engineer and Surveyer General, of Bengal, This Map of India Compiled from various Interesting and Valuable Materials Is Inscribed in Grateful Testimony of His Liberal Communications By his obedient and most humble Servant A. Arrowsmith.
An extraordinarily detailed wall map of British interests and possessions in the Indian Subcontinent at the dawn of the 19th century, executed by one of the Empire’s foremost cartographers.
Place/Date: London / 1804Read more -
Mappa geographiae naturalis sive tabella synoptica / inventa et adornata à Matth. Seuttero. S. Caes. Maj. geogr. Aug.
Unusual and fascinating look at mapmaking in the 18th century
Cartographer(s): Matthäus SeutterPlace/Date: Augsburg / 1730Read more -
Carta Marina Nuova Tavola
Rich, dark impression of Ruscelli’s world sea chart.
Cartographer(s): Girolamo RuscelliPlace/Date: Venice / ca. 1561Read more -
A Map of Canada and the North Part of Louisiana with the Adjacent Countrys
Remarkable 1762 coast-to-coast map of Canada, Upper Midwest & Plains.
Cartographer(s): Thomas JefferysPlace/Date: London / 1762Read more -
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 BowenPlace/Date: London / 1746Read more -
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 BowenPlace/Date: London / 1747Read more -
A Map of Mackenzie’s Track from Fort Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean in 1793
Mackenzie becomes the first European to reach the Pacific by land, 1793
Cartographer(s): Alexander MackenziePlace/Date: London / 1801Read more -
Amerique Septentrionale
Gorgeous and extremely rare state of Sanson’s landmark map of North America.
Place/Date: Paris / 1651Read more -
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 BowenPlace/Date: London / 1747Read more -
Les Isles Philippines Molucques et de la Sonde
1654 French map of the Philippines in original outline color
Place/Date: Paris / 1654Read more -
Nouveaux Voyages de Mr. Le Baron de Lahontan Dans L’Amerique Septentrionale, Qui contiennent une relation…
Rare first edition of Lahontan’s description and mapping of New France, which propagated the myth of the Northwest Passage
Cartographer(s): Louis Armand, Baron de LahontanPlace/Date: The Hague / 1703Read more -
Aegyptus Antiqua
Stunning full color example of Ortelius’s two-sheet map of Egypt.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1584Read more -
Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula
The earliest obtainable map of the Nicolò Zeno expedition to Frisland & Greenland in 1380.
Cartographer(s): Girolamo RuscelliPlace/Date: Venice / ca. 1561Read more -
A Map of America, between Latitudes 40 and 70 North, and Longitudes 45 and 180 West, Exhibiting Mackenzie’s Track from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan & from thence onto the North Sea in 1789, & to the West Pacific Ocean in 1793
Before Lewis & Clark: map of Mackenzie’s expedition across North America
Cartographer(s): Alexander MackenziePlace/Date: London / 1801Read more -
Gli Stati Uniti dell’America Delineati sulle ultime Osservazioni…
Cassini’s multi-sheet map of Colonial North America in original black and white
Cartographer(s): Giovanni Maria CassiniPlace/Date: Rome / 1797Read more -
Carte des Isles Philippines, Celebes et Moluques. Carte des Isles Philippines… 1re. Feuille Carte des Isles Philippines… 2e. Feuille.
Complete set of three maps of the Philippines from Bellin’s Le Petit Atlas Maritime
Cartographer(s): Jacques Nicolas BellinPlace/Date: Paris / 1764Read more -
Haec est nobilis florens illa Neapolis, Campaniae civitas…
Lovely hand-colored Renaissance view of Naples
Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz HogenbergPlace/Date: Colonge / 1580Read more -
Partie de la Nouvelle France…
The “first printed information…on the geography of the region to the north and west of Lake Superior” (Kershaw)
Cartographer(s): Alexis Hubert JaillotPlace/Date: Paris / 1695Read more -
Nieuwe kaart van Arabia…
Detailed Tirion map of Arabia in excellent colors.
Cartographer(s): Isaak TirionPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1740Read more -
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 KeulenPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1709Read more -
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 LinschotenPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1596Read more -
Plan du Golfe de Palerme et des Environs…
Detailed 1826 chart of Palermo with coastal views.
Cartographer(s): Adm. William Henry SmythPlace/Date: Paris / 1826Read more -
Islandia
1609 Ortelius extraordinary map of Iceland with Spanish text on verso
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1609Read more -
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 AnsonPlace/Date: Paris / ca. 1750Read more -
South Pacific
1869 Imray sea chart stretching from Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia to western South America
Cartographer(s): James Imray & SonPlace/Date: London / 1869Read more -
Ischia quae olim Aenaria
1590 old color Ortelius Island of Ischia
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1590Read more -
Regiones Sub Polo Arctico
1644 W. Blaeu signature map of the Arctic
Cartographer(s): Willem BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1644Read more -
Tantum Distamus Ap Invicem
1703 Scherer map of the Pacific with California and Japan in mirror and California as an island
Cartographer(s): Heinrich SchererPlace/Date: Munich / 1703Read more -
Primae Partis Asiae accurata delineatio…
Rare 1593 de Jode map of the Black and Caspian Seas, with the eastern Mediterranean and a prominent Cyprus
Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de JodePlace/Date: Antwerp / 1593Read more -
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 TirionPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1740Read more -
Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas…
1582 town-plan of Jerusalem
Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz HogenbergPlace/Date: Colonge / 1582Read more -
Carte Particulere de la Mer Rouge & c. Levee par Ordre des Roys de Portugal
Decorative c. 1700 Mortier map of the Red Sea with important inset maps of Mombasa and Perim.
Cartographer(s): Pierre MortierPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1700Read more -
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 OttensPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1745Read more -
Additamentum IV. Theatri Orbis Terrarum
1590 Ortelius including Islandia, Maris Pacifici, and many more.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1590Read more -
Carte du Duché de Bourgogne, Comtés et Pays adjacents dressée par Ordre de M.M.
1782 Gauthey wall map of Burgundy (Bourgogne) wine region in France.
Cartographer(s): Emiland Marie GautheyPlace/Date: Bourgogne / 1782Read more -
Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacentium Typus
1590 Ortelius map of Southeast Asia in original colors
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1590Read more -
Zee Custe van Sweeden Otrent de Westerwijk en Tgatt vann Stockholm Beginnende va Kalmar Tot sen Wigsteen en Rookoe Gelegen bijnnen Tgatt va Stockholm / Coste Marine de Suede a l’entour de Westerwijck & bouchede Stockholm…
Scarce sea chart of part of Sweden
Cartographer(s): Lucas Janszoon WaghenaerPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1584Read more -
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 HeirsPlace/Date: Nuremberg / 1777Read more -
Carte De L’Egypte De La Nubie De L’Abissinie
Original Delisle example of this highly-detailed 1708 map of Egypt and Arabia.
Cartographer(s): The De L'Isle familyPlace/Date: Paris / 1708Read more -
Sicilia
Lovely 1594 map of Sicily with inset of King Phillip II
Cartographer(s): Matthias QuadPlace/Date: Colonge / 1594Read more -
Florence. Florence Ville d’Italie, capitale de Toscane…
Scarce and lovely mid-18th century bird’s-eye-view of Florence.
Cartographer(s): Jacques ChereauPlace/Date: Paris / ca. 1750Read more -
Tabula Asiae VI
16th century map of Arabia on a Ptolemaic projection.
Cartographer(s): Girolamo RuscelliPlace/Date: Venice / ca. 1574Read more -
Tab. II. Europae, Hispaniam ac Lusitaniam Complectens
Attractive mid-18th century map of the Iberian Peninsula
Cartographer(s): Gerard MercatorPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1730Read more -
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 VaugondyPlace/Date: Paris / 1772Read more -
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 WitPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1680Read more -
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 ChatelainPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1719Read more -
H. Benzos Scheep-togt uit Italie over Spanje na de Westindize Eylanden, en Kusten van’t Zuider America
1707 exploration map set in a decorative border
Cartographer(s): Pieter van der AaPlace/Date: Leiden / 1707Read more -
Golfe Arabique ou Mer Rouge…
18th century French chart of the Red Sea.
Cartographer(s): Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'AnvillePlace/Date: Paris / 1765Read more -
Delineatio Syracusarum Antiquarium Quadriurbium
Rare 1725 bird’s-eye-view of ancient Syracuse, Sicily
Cartographer(s): Pieter van der AaPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1725Read more -
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
Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1730Read more -
The British Governments in Nth. America Laid Down Agreeable to the Proclamation of Octr. 7. 1763
Map of boundaries following the French and Indian War, with Bermuda inset
Cartographer(s): John GibsonPlace/Date: London / 1763Read more -
Legionis, Biscaiae et Guipiscoae Typus
Old color 1630 Mercator & Hondius map of the Basque region
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1630Read more -
Maris Pacifici
Stunning 1595 example of Ortelius’ landmark map of the Pacific Ocean.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1595Read more -
Ins. Ceilan que incolis Tenarisin dictur
Mercator & Hondius’s striking 1609 map of Ceylon
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1609Read more -
Seu Graecia Universa Autore J. Laurenbergio
1680 map of Greece with an elaborate cartouche and fine detail
Cartographer(s): Nicolas VisscherPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1680Read more -
Carte de la Manche
1710 sea chart of the English Channel including Dunkirk and Mont Saint Michel
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1710Read more -
SEPTENTRIONALIUM Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatore
1623 map North Pole heightened in gold and filled with cartographic myths.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1623Read more -
Islandia
Excellent old color Ortelius map of Iceland
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1598Read more -
Carta Particolare del Mare di Ethiopia con l’Isola di S. Elena e Parte della Costa. Carta VIIII
First state of Dudley’s magnificent 1645 sea chart off West Africa
Cartographer(s): Sir Robert DudleyPlace/Date: Florence / 1645Read more -
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 NiebuhrPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1774Read more -
General Map of North America, drawn from the best surveys, 1795
Late 18th century North America atlas map with manuscript notations
Cartographer(s): John ReidPlace/Date: New York / 1796Read more -
Carte de l’Amerique et des Mers Voisines
Lovely map of the Western Hemisphere with the Le Petit Atlas Maritime‘s distinctive green tinting.
Cartographer(s): Jacques Nicolas BellinPlace/Date: Paris / 1763Read more -
États-Unis de l’Amérique Septentrionale avec les Isles Royale, de Terre Neuve, de St. Jean, l’Acadie &c.
1785 map of the United States with alternative state names proposed by Thomas Jefferson
Cartographer(s): Antoine BoudetPlace/Date: Paris / 1785Read more -
Venetia
A spectacular 1641 Merian bird’s-eye-view of Venice.
Cartographer(s): Matthäus MerianPlace/Date: Frankfurt / ca. 1640Read more -
Nova Italiae Delineatio
Beautiful mid-17th century hand-colored map of Italy and surrounding islands.
Cartographer(s): Willem BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1635Read more -
Novissima et Accuratissima totius Italiae Corsicae et Sardiniae Descriptio
Lovely 17th century Dutch map of Italy.
Cartographer(s): Frederick de WitPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1680Read more -
America oder Neu Europa
1758 German map of America with peculiar (and late) Island of California
Cartographer(s): Johann Bernhard MeullersPlace/Date: Berlin / 1758Read more -
Arabia
J. Blaeu atlas map of Arabia
Cartographer(s): Joannes BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1661Read more -
Africae Nova Tabula
Highly decorative mid-17th century map of Africa
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1646Read more -
Islandia
Mercator’s Islandia.
Cartographer(s): Gerard MercatorPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1595Read more -
Africae Vera Forma, et Situs
Cornelius de Jode’s superb 1593 map of Africa.
Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de JodePlace/Date: Antwerp / 1593Read more -
Mare del Nord
Late 17th century chart of the Eastern Seaboard and North Atlantic, by the “King’s cartographer”
Cartographer(s): Vincenzo CoronelliPlace/Date: Venice / 1691Read more -
Indiarum Orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio…
This rare Italian world map is based on Ortelius’s 1570 Typus Orbis Terrarum
Cartographer(s): Giovanni MaffeiPlace/Date: Colonge / 1589Read more -
Carta marina nuova tavola
Rare first state of Ruscelli’s world sea chart.
Cartographer(s): Girolamo RuscelliPlace/Date: Venice / 1561Read more -
The Isle of California, New Mexico, Louisiane, The River Misisipi and the Lakes of Canada
Moll’s 1701 North America with California as an island
Cartographer(s): Herman MollPlace/Date: London / 1701Read more -
Calecut Nova Tavola
Ruscelli’s Indian peninsula with sea monster and ships
Cartographer(s): Girolamo RuscelliPlace/Date: Venice / 1598Read more -
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola
16th century map of the Arabian Peninsula
Cartographer(s): Girolamo RuscelliPlace/Date: Venice / 1564Read more -
Tabula Africae III
16th century map of Egypt and Libya
Cartographer(s): Girolamo RuscelliPlace/Date: Venice / 1564Read more -
America noviter delineata
1631 Merian map of the Western Hemisphere with polar insets
Cartographer(s): Matthäus MerianPlace/Date: Frankfurt / 1631Read more -
Egitto Nuova Tavola
Attractive 1598 Venetian map of Lower Egypt and the Nile Delta.
Place/Date: Venice / 1598Read more -
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 SansonPlace/Date: Paris / 1743Read more -
Antiquae Urbis
1641 town plan of ancient Rome with illustrated monuments.
Cartographer(s): Giacomo LauroPlace/Date: Rome / 1641Read more -
Bologna celebre madre de’ studi
Exceptional c. 1673 bird’s-eye-view of Bologna.
Cartographer(s): Giuseppe LonghiPlace/Date: Bologna / ca. 1673Read more -
L’Europe divisée suivant ses principx Etats
Nice colorful mid-18th century map of Europe.
Cartographer(s): G. Robert de VaugondyPlace/Date: Paris / 1748Read more -
Chili
Rare English edition of the Mercator-Hondius map of Chile.
Cartographer(s): Henricus HondiusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1635Read more -
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 BellinPlace/Date: Paris / 1754Read more -
Granata Nova et California
The first printed map to focus on California and the American Southwest, from the first atlas devoted entirely to maps of the Americas.
Cartographer(s): Cornelius van WytflietPlace/Date: Louvain / 1597Read more -
L’Ancien Monde et le Nouveau en deux Hemispheres
Bonne’s 1784 world map on double hemisphere projection.
Cartographer(s): Rigobert BonnePlace/Date: Paris / 1784Read more -
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 / 1771Read more -
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula
Merian’s 1646 world map with Gothic script and polar insets.
Cartographer(s): Matthäus MerianPlace/Date: Frankfurt / 1646Read more -
World Map [without title]
1703 Scherer world map with decorative Catholic iconography.
Cartographer(s): Heinrich SchererPlace/Date: Munich / 1703Read more -
Olisippo Lisabona
Nice 1635 bird’s-eye-view of Lisbon.
Cartographer(s): Matthäus MerianPlace/Date: Frankfurt / 1635Read more -
Portugallia et Algarbia quae olim Lusitania
Fine 1635 map of Portugal by Merian based on Portuguese sources
Cartographer(s): Matthäus MerianPlace/Date: Frankfurt / 1635Read more -
America noviter delineata
Hondius 1631 western hemisphere with polar inserts.
Cartographer(s): Henricus HondiusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1639Read more -
Arabiae Felicis, Petrae ae et Desertae Nova et Accurata Delineatio
Decorative Dutch map of Arabia.
Cartographer(s): Jan JanssoniusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1660Read more -
Tartaria sive Magni Chami Imperium
W. Blaeu’s decorative map of China.
Cartographer(s): Willem BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1635Read more -
Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Situm Neoterica Descriptio
Ortelius Greece in attractive colors.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / ca. 1588Read more -
Asia noviter delineata
Wonderful 1635 map of Asia with cities and figures.
Cartographer(s): Willem BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1635Read more -
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 SpeedPlace/Date: London / 1627Read more -
[Untitled – Africa, Asia, Brazil]
Rare eighteenth century map of Jesuit missionary travel routes.
Cartographer(s): Johann Jacob LidlPlace/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1740Read more -
Iaponiae Insulae Descriptio. Ludoico Teisera Auctore
First map of Japan published in a European atlas.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1595Read more -
Turcici Imperii Imago
Early 17th century Ottoman Empire with conqueror of Constantinople.
Cartographer(s): Jodocus HondiusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1606Read more -
Suecia, Dania, et Norvegia, Regna Europae Septentrionalia
Attractive mid-17th century map of Scandinavia.
Cartographer(s): Willem BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1640Read more -
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. SealePlace/Date: London / 1745Read more -
Africae Tabula Nova
Ortelius’s gorgeous cornerstone map of Africa.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1570Read more -
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 LinschotenPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1596Read more -
Hispalensis Conventus Delineatio, Auctore Hieronymo Chiaues
1579 Ortelius map of Southern Spain.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1579Read more -
Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres
Exceptionally-detailed map of South Africa and Madagascar.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1742Read more -
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 SchenkPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1709Read more -
Africæ Accurata Tabula
17th century Visscher map of Africa
Cartographer(s): Nicolas VisscherPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1670Read more -
La Castille Propre ou Vieille, et la Nouvelle; avec l’Estremadure Castillane Dressé sur les Memoires de Rodrigo Mendes Silva, et Autres
Late 17th century Visscher Castille with Madrid town grid.
Cartographer(s): Nicolas VisscherPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1690Read more -
Persici sive Sophorum Regni Typus
Lovely 1601 Ortelius map of the Persian Empire
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1601Read more -
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 VaugondyPlace/Date: Paris / 1750Read more -
Africa Secundum Legitimas Projectionis Stereographicae regulas et juxta recentissimas relationes et observationes in subsidium vocatis quoque veterum Leonis Africani…
Classic 1737 Dutch map of Africa
Cartographer(s): Homann HeirsPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1737Read more -
L’Afrique Divisee Suivant l’Estendue de Ses Principales Parties ou sont Distingues les uns des Autres…
Late 17th century Jaillot map of Africa
Cartographer(s): Pierre MortierPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1695Read more -
Audience de Guadalajara nouveau Mexique, Californie. &c.
Excellent Sanson Island of California map.
Place/Date: Paris / 1667Read more -
Anglia Regnum
Decorative map of England and Wales
Cartographer(s): Willem BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1640Read more -
Americae Septentrionalis Circuitus
Mid-17th century French copperplate map with cartographic myths
Cartographer(s): Claude Bartholomy MorisotPlace/Date: Dijon / 1643Read more -
Greece Archipelago and part of Anadoli. By L.S. de la Rochette. MDCCXC. London, Published for Willm. Faden, Geographer to the King. January 1st. 1791
Large, detailed 1791 map of Greece and Asia Minor with striking cartouche.
Cartographer(s): William FadenPlace/Date: London / 1791Read more -
Europae
1584 Ortelius Europe with cartouche featuring Europa riding bull.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1584Read more -
Limes Occidentis Quivira et Anian.
The second printed map of northwest North America, including the Northwest Passage.
Cartographer(s): Cornelius van WytflietPlace/Date: Louvain / 1607Read more
