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• Chile

  A distinctive, mind-bending view of Chile.

  Cartographer(s): Richard Edes Harrison

  Place/Date: New York / 1938

  $675 Add to cart
• Panorama del Canale di Panama.

  Only the second printed view of the Panama Canal in history.

  Cartographer(s): Cesare Vimercati, Giosellino Peverelli

  Place/Date: Livorno / ca. 1880

  $875 Add to cart
• Carta particolare della parte ocidentale dell nuoua Spagnia è della California. La longitudine Comincia da l’Isola di Pico d’Asores. D’America Carta XXXI.

  Dudley’s Sea Chart from Southern Baja California to South of Acapulco.

  Cartographer(s): Sir Robert Dudley

  Place/Date: Florence / ca. 1647

  $1,900 Add to cart
• Atlantic Fleet. Guantanamo Bay from Radio Tower – U.S. Naval Station

  An evocative WW1 panoramic photograph of the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet stationed at their new base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

  Cartographer(s): Harris Bros.

  Place/Date: Not listed / ca. 1917

  $1,300 Add to cart
• Americae pars magis cognita. [First State]

  De Bry’s seminal map of South America: a manifestation of the courage, determination, and megalomania of those who went forth to explore an unknown world.

  Cartographer(s): Theodore de Bry

  Place/Date: Frankfurt / 1592

  $9,000 Add to cart
• Carta prima generale d’America dell’India Occidentale e Mare del Zur

  The earliest published sea chart to focus on the California coast!

  Cartographer(s): Sir Robert Dudley

  Place/Date: Florence / 1648

  $4,800 Add to cart
• Le Chili. Tire de celuy que Alf-de-Oualle P. d la C.d.I. a fait imprimer a Rome en 1646

  Sanson’s 1656 map of Chile: based on the most iconic and important map of the region produced in the 17th century.

  Cartographer(s): Nicolas Sanson

  Place/Date: Paris / 1656

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• Carte Du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles du Cours et des Environs de la Riviere Mississipi

  De l’Isle’s paradigm-setting chart of the Gulf of Mexico, the first accurate plotting of the full course of the Mississippi River.

  Cartographer(s): Guillaume De l'Isle

  Place/Date: Paris / 1708

  $1,800 Add to cart
• 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.

  Cartographer(s): Asociación Tikal

  Place/Date: Guatemala / 1969

  $675 Add to cart
• 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.

  Cartographer(s): Lit. Comp. Sud-Americ. de Billets de Banco

  Place/Date: Buenos Aires / 1910

  $1,600 Add to cart
• 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.

  Cartographer(s): Louis Vlasbloem, Willem Corneliszoon Schouten

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1662

  $7,000 Add to cart
• Map of the City of Ottawa, Published by A.S. Woodburn. Ottawa.

  A.S. Woodburn’s rare 1885 map of Ottawa: one of the earliest acquirable large-scale city plans of Canada’s national capital.

  Cartographer(s): A. S. Woodburn

  Place/Date: Montreal / 1885

  $4,800 Add to cart
• 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.

  Cartographer(s): Georges-Louis le Rouge

  Place/Date: Paris / 1755

  $2,200 Add to cart
• A THING WELL BEGUN IS HALF DONE. UNCLE SAM—“Finish the canal, McKinley, and make our national expansion complete in your first administration.”

  William McKinley & Uncle Sam: a wonderful 1899 persuasive map advocating for the construction of the Nicaragua Canal.

  Cartographer(s): Frederick Victor Gillam

  Place/Date: New York / 1899

  $975 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.

   

  Cartographer(s): Philippe Buache, The Dezauche Family

  Place/Date: Paris / 1780

  $1,000 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 Doncker

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1659

  $4,500 Add to cart
• 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.

  Cartographer(s): George Edward Madeley

  Place/Date: London / 1850

  $2,500 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.

  Cartographer(s): Herman Moll, Louis Armand, Baron de Lahontan

  Place/Date: London / 1703

  $9,000 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 Rossi

  Place/Date: Rome / 1677

  $2,800 Add to cart
• La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline, Teatro De Los Trabajos Apostolicos De La Compa. E. Jesus En La America Septe…

  The largest and finest cartographic depiction of the island of California ever made.

  Cartographer(s): Nicholas de Fer

  Place/Date: Paris / 1720

  $7,200 Add to cart
• 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 Belly

  Rare – the first serious and detailed published proposal for an interoceanic canal across Nicaragua, with a magnificent, chromolithographed map.

  Cartographer(s): Félix Belly, Thomé de Gamond

  Place/Date: Paris / 1858

  $2,600 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 Scherer

  Place/Date: Munich / 1703

  $975 Add to cart
• 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 Consag

  Place/Date: Madrid / 1757

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• Map of Mexico & California Compiled from the latest authorities by Juls Hutawa Lithr. Second St. 45 St, Louis, Mo. 2nd Edition 1863

  Hutawa’s mysterious 1863 map of the American West: an icon in St Louis publishing history and a forerunner of the Santa Fe mining industry.

  Cartographer(s): Julius Hutawa

  Place/Date: St. Louis / 1863

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• Panoramic and Monumental Map of Havana – Plano Panoramico y Monumental de la Habana

  A colorful 1950 bird’s-eye-view of Havana.

  Cartographer(s): Rogelio L Mirabal

  Place/Date: Havana / 1950

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• [Vietnamese Maps of North America: Mexico, Canada, USA]

  Three curious maps of North America made in South Vietnam.

  Cartographer(s): Saigon Moi

  Place/Date: Saigon / ca. 1965

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• 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 Lewis

  Place/Date: Philadelphia / 1813

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• Plano Comercial de la Capital Federal y sus Alrededores por A. Bemporat [AND] Gran Mapa de Ferrocarriles Sud Americanos compilado por A. Bemporat

  Two of Bemporat’s iconic and monumental Argentinian wall maps: a stunning city plan of Buenos Aires and a national railway map.

  Cartographer(s): Oficina Cartografica Bemporat

  Place/Date: Juncal/Buenos Aires / 1914

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• Florida et Apalche

  The first great regional map of Florida and the Gulf Coast.

  Cartographer(s): Cornelius van Wytfliet

  Place/Date: Louvain / 1597

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• Carta particolare dello istreto e Mare iscoperto da Hen:º Hudson Ingilese nel. 1611…

  An essential map for Canada collectors: the first sea chart of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait, leaving open the possibility of a Northwest Passage.

  Cartographer(s): Sir Robert Dudley

  Place/Date: Florence / (1647) 1661

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• Mapa Misional Juniperiano. Mallorca, México y Alta California.

  Mapping the life and work of Junipero Serra, including the Spanish mission system in California.

  Cartographer(s): Ramón Ferrer de Sant Jordi Truyols (Formiguera)

  Place/Date: Spain? / 1979

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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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• Nuevo Mapa de la República Argentina Publicado por Ángel Estrada y Cía.

  Detailed late 19th century folding map of Argentina on contemporary linen in original case.

  Cartographer(s): Angel de Estrada, Carlos Beyer

  Place/Date: Buenos Aires / 1888

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• Carta Esferica De Una Parte de la Costa Setentrional y Meridional de la Isla de Cuba…

  Excellent Spanish sea chart of western Cuba.

  Cartographer(s): Direccion Hidrografica de Madrid

  Place/Date: Madrid / 1837

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• Map of Central America, Shewing the Different Lines of Atlantic & Pacific Communication

  Before the Canal: mapping overland routes in Central America. With Tehuantepic and the first geological survey of Panama!

  Cartographer(s): James Wyld

  Place/Date: London / 1850

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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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• 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

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• Colombia Prima or South America Drawn from the Large Map in Eight Sheets by Louis Stanislas D’Arcy Delarochette

  Lovely mid-19th century map of South America.

  Cartographer(s): James Wyld

  Place/Date: London / ca. 1854

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• 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. Kino

  Place/Date: Paris / 1705

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• Brevis, Exactaq. Totius Novi Orbis, et Peruviae Regionis Descriptio, Recens Edita

  Exciting map of the Americas filled with place names along the coastlines, an uncommon feature for this region in the mid-16th century

  Cartographer(s): Jean Bellère

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1567

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• 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 Jefferys

  Place/Date: London / 1762

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• Carte Nouvelle du Mexique du Texas et d’une Partie des Etats Limitrophes

  Brué’s landmark map of the West with the Republic of Texas — first use of ‘Texas’ in the title

  Cartographer(s): Adrien-Hubert Brué

  Place/Date: Paris / 1840

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• South America West Coast Sheet XIV Peru. Independencia Bay to Begueta Bay…

  Chart surveyed by the H.M.S. Beagle (Darwin’s ship) with sextant pencil notations showing it was used at sea.

  Cartographer(s): British Admiralty

  Place/Date: London / 1840

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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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• General Map of the Panama Canal

  Rare relief map booklet of the Panama Canal Zone

  Cartographer(s): William M. Baxter, Jr.

  Place/Date: Boston / ca. 1915

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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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• 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 Lahontan

  Place/Date: The Hague / 1703

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• 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 Mackenzie

  Place/Date: London / 1801

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• An Exact Chart of the River St. Laurence, from Fort Frontenac to the Island of Anticosti shewing the Soundings, Rocks, Shoals &c with Views of the Lands and all necessary Instructions for navigating that River to Quebec…1775

  Important 1775 map of French trading routes – the first definitive British map of the St. Lawrence River.

  Cartographer(s): Thomas Jefferys

  Place/Date: London / 1775

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• 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 Jaillot

  Place/Date: Paris / 1695

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• Bird’s-eye-view of the Panama Canal

  Bird’s-eye-view and map of the Panama Canal issued the first year after its opening

  Cartographer(s): I.L. Maduro Jr.

  Place/Date: Panama / 1915

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• Carte Touristique de la ville de Rio de Janeiro. La Capitale des Etats Unis du Brasil

  1940 c. art-deco pictorial map of Rio de Janeiro

  Cartographer(s): Ypirnga

  Place/Date: São Paulo / ca. 1940

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• Plano del Puerto Cabello en la Costa de Tierra Firme… [on sheet with] Plano de la Ensenada de Barcelona en la Costa de Tierra Firme… [on sheet with] Plano del fondeadero de la Guayra en la Provincia de Caracas…

  Scarce 1818 chart of three Caribbean ports from the expedition of Fidalgo.

  Cartographer(s): Direccion Hidrografica de Madrid, Joaquin Francisco Fidalgo

  Place/Date: Madrid / 1818

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• Carta Esferica de una Parte de la Costa Setentrional y Meridional de la Isla de Cuba con el canal viejo de Bahamas y el de Santarén. Por el comandante General y oficiales….

  Rare 1836 Spanish sea chart around central Cuba with manuscript lighthouse notations.

  Cartographer(s): Direccion Hidrografica de Madrid

  Place/Date: Madrid / 1836

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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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• Plano de la Ciudad de Santiago de Chile

  Nineteenth century town plan of Santiago, Chile.

  Cartographer(s): Carlos Brandt

  Place/Date: Santiago / ca. 1878

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• Peru, Chili and La Plata

  Thomson’s detailed 1821 map of Peru, Chile, and Argentina

  Cartographer(s): John Thompson

  Place/Date: Edinburgh / 1821

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• Hispaniae novae sive magnae recens et vera descriptio

  Ortelius’s map of Mexico, one of the earliest printed maps of New Spain.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1579

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• Mare del Nord

  Late 17th century chart of the Eastern Seaboard and North Atlantic, by the “King’s cartographer”

  Cartographer(s): Vincenzo Coronelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1691

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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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• Tierra Nueva

  Rare first state of one of the earliest maps of the Eastern Seaboard.

  Cartographer(s): Girolamo Ruscelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1561

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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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• 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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