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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 -
Hemispheriū Ab Aequinoctli Linea, Ad Circulū Poli Arctici/ Hemispheriū Ad Circulū Poli Ātarctici.
A superb example of De Jode’s seminal polar projection of the world.
Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de JodePlace/Date: Antwerp / 1593$75,000 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 -
Alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Benedetto XIV La Nuova Topografia di Roma Ossequiosamente Offerisce e Dedica l’Umilissimo Servo Giambattista Nolli Comasco
The famous Nolli wall map of Rome: one of the finest urban plans ever made.
Cartographer(s): Giovanni Battista NolliPlace/Date: Rome / 1748$35,000 Add to cart -
Prima Asiae Tabula.
The first printed map of Turkey.
Cartographer(s): Claudius PtolemyPlace/Date: Rome / ca. 1478$14,500 Add to cart -
Secunda etas mundi
The Ptolemaic world map from Hartmann Schedel’s Nüremberg Chronicle. First state.
Cartographer(s): Hartmann SchedelPlace/Date: Nuremberg / 1493$9,500 Add to cart -
Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio, auctore R. P. Ignatio Gastone Pardies Societatis Jesu mathematico. Opus postumum
A complete set of six original color star charts by Jesuit scholar Ignace-Gaston Pardies: One of the rarest sets from the Golden Age of celestial cartography.
Cartographer(s): Ignace-Gaston PardiesPlace/Date: Paris / 1693$15,500 Add to cart -
[First State] Panorama of the Seat of the War Birds Eye View of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia
Bachmann’s dramatic 1861 panoramic view of the central theater of the American Civil War.
Cartographer(s): John BachmannPlace/Date: New York / 1861$3,900 Add to cart -
Chart of the N. W. Coast of America and the N. E. Coast of Asia, Explored in the Years 1778 and 1779. Prepared by Lieut’t Henry Roberts, under the immediate Inspection of Capt. Cook
The “Legendary lost chart of Captain Cook” – Rare first edition.
Place/Date: London / 1784$9,500 Add to cart -
Gettysburg Battle-Field
Proof state of Bachelder’s iconic 1863 view of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Cartographer(s): John Badger BachelderPlace/Date: New York / 1863$5,000 Add to cart -
Watson’s New Rail Road and Distance Map of the United States and Canada
Watson’s New Rail Road and Distance Map of the United States and Canada.
Cartographer(s): Gaylord WatsonPlace/Date: New York / 1869$4,500 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 -
Bankoku Ichiran no Zu [Japanese Manuscript Map of the World]
The Privileged Outlook of the Shōgun: the manuscript map behind Koyano Ishun’s famous map of the world.
Cartographer(s): Koyano IshunPlace/Date: Osaka / ca. 1800$45,000 Add to cart -
Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem Exactissime Depicta 1522 L.F.
One of the earliest obtainable maps on the open market to name ‘America.’
Cartographer(s): Laurent FriesPlace/Date: Lyon / 1535$8,300 Add to cart -
Nova Pulcherrimæ Civitatis Florentiae Topographia Accuratiss Delineata
Gorgeous and richly-detailed Late Renaissance bird’s-eye-view of Florence, Italy.
Cartographer(s): Donato RascicottiPlace/Date: Venice / ca. 1598$6,500 Add to cart -
[Sutro Baths] ON THE SHORE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN
A monumental and vivacious rendition of San Francisco’s magnificent Sutro Baths.
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1896$18,000 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 -
Typus Cosmographicus Universalis
Vadianus’ 1534 Ptolemaic World Map: the finest woodblock impression of any early world map.
Cartographer(s): Joachim VadianusPlace/Date: Zurich / 1534$13,500 Add to cart -
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Panorama Photograph 1915
A snapshot in time for San Francisco’s Marina District: a stunning full panoramic view of the 1915 Panama–Pacific International World’s Fair.
Cartographer(s): Cardinell-Vincent Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1915$5,500 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 -
San Francisco. from actual Surveys. 1850.
A unique artifact of Gold Rush San Francisco, including one of San Francisco’s most famous buried ships!
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1850$55,000 Add to cart -
Route of the Mormon Pioneers from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake.
A rare, separately-published version of this striking panoramic bird’s-eye-view of the route of the Mormon pioneers.
Cartographer(s): Millroy & HayesPlace/Date: Salt Lake City / 1899$6,500 Add to cart -
San Francisco. From California Street. Drawn from a Daguerreotype, the property of Eugene Delessert, Esq.re
Spectacular Gold Rush era view of San Francisco published in Paris.
Cartographer(s): Joseph LemercierPlace/Date: Paris / ca. 1855$8,000 Add to cart -
Map of Oregon and Upper California from the Surveys of John Charles Fremont and Other Authorities
Presentation copy by Senator T.H. Benton.
Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1848$3,400 Add to cart -
João Teixeira Cosmographo. De sua, Magestade. Aféz em Lixboa o Anno de 1649
Rare 17th century portolan-style chart designed for use aboard Portuguese merchant vessels.
Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1672$6,000 Add to cart -
Typus Orbis Terrarum
Spectacular old color Ortelius world map showing the world as known in 1587.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1608$7,500 Add to cart -
Asia, Partium Orbis Maxima
Spectacular old color 1593 De Jode map of Asia, with important depiction of Taiwan and the Great Wall of China.
Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de JodePlace/Date: Antwerp / 1593$14,000 Add to cart
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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 -
Venetia
A superb bird’s-eye-view of Venice, finely-engraved and exceptionally adorned.
Cartographer(s): Giovanni Antonio de PaoliPlace/Date: Rome / ca. 1600Read more -
[Untitled Ptolemaic World Map]
A revolution in printed cartography, this is Gregor Reisch’s groundbreaking 1504 map of the world.
Cartographer(s): Gregor ReischPlace/Date: Strasbourg / ca. 1504Read more -
Carta particolare della Baia di Messico con la Costa.
The quintessential explorer’s map: the first printed sea chart of the Gulf of Mexico, from one of the most interesting and important characters in the pantheon of pioneer cartographers.
Cartographer(s): Sir Robert DudleyPlace/Date: Florence / 1647Read more -
Placitus Caloirus et Oliva fecit in nobili urbe messane año 1617
This is the Yates-Houghton “Doppia” Portolan, a rare and beautiful masterpiece that delineates a revolution in geographic understanding and represents the dawn of scientifically-anchored cartography.
Cartographer(s): Placitus Caloirus & Joan OlivaPlace/Date: Messina, Sicily / 1617Read more -
Manuscript Chart of the Western Atlantic and Eastern American Seaboard
Master & Commander: a manuscript map of Napoleonic War Atlantic maritime activity unlike any other.
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: Not listed / ca. 1797Read 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 -
The American Union Railroad Map Of The United States, British Possessions, West Indies, Mexico, And Central America. 1871. Published by Haasis & Lubrecht, 107 Liberty Street, New York. Smith & McDougal, Electrotypers, 82 Beekman Street, New York.
First edition of Haasis & Lubrecht’s iconic map of an America connected by rail.
Cartographer(s): Haasis & LubrechtPlace/Date: New York / 1871Read more -
Novae Insulae
Sebastian Münster’s Map of the Americas: The first printed map of the new continents in their entirety.
Cartographer(s): Sebastian MünsterPlace/Date: Basel / [State #13, 1572] 1540Read more -
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.
Place/Date: New York / 1855Read more -
The New California Sugar Refinery, San Francisco.
The New California Sugar Refinery: an emblem of late 19th century industrial San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1881Read 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 -
Richardson’s New Map of the State of Texas Including Part of Mexico Compiled From Government Surveys and Other Authentic Documents…1873
With manuscript additions showing “the most significant railroad construction venture in Texas” — the Texas & Pacific Railway.
Cartographer(s): Rare Maps by William RichardsonPlace/Date: Philadelphia / 1873Read more -
Colton’s New Topographical Map of the Eastern Portion of the State of North Carolina with Part of Virginia and South Carolina from the latest and best authorities.
Rare and important contemporary Civil War map of the Carolina coast Union blockade.
Place/Date: New York / 1861Read more -
Mitchell’s Reference and Distance Map of the United States, by J. H. Young
Mitchell’s amazing wall-map of an adolescent America, presented here in a rare first edition with brilliant original color. A seminal and impressive masterpiece in American cartography.
Place/Date: Philadelphia / 1834Read more
