Rare Maps of North America and the Western Hemisphere
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Sebastian Münster’s Map of the Americas: The first printed map of the new continents in their entirety.
Cartographer(s): Sebastian MünsterPlace/Date: Basel / 1568$6,800 Add to cart -
General Charte von America nach dem besten hilfsmitteln
An unusual depiction of America’s changing borders in the Jacksonian Era.
Cartographer(s): Friedrich Wilhelm SpehrPlace/Date: Braunschweig / 1827$375 Add to cart -
L’Amerique meridionale et septentrionale
Nicolas de Fer’s seminal map of the Americas.
Cartographer(s): Nicholas de FerPlace/Date: Paris / 1727$1,800 Add to cart -
Carte de la Nouvelle France, où se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi…
Chatelain’s innovative 1719 chart of North America: a political statement loaded with the latest exciting news from Nouvelle France.
Cartographer(s): Henri Abraham ChatelainPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1719$1,500 Add to cart -
America noviter delineata.
Beautiful 1638 Merian chart of the Americas dating back to the early days of exploration and representing an important transition from one level of New World cartography to another.
Cartographer(s): Matthäus MerianPlace/Date: Frankfurt / 1638$975 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 -
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 -
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 -
Mare Del Sud detto altrimenti Mare Pacifico
Splendid 1691 map of the Pacific Ocean with speculative geography and California as an island.
Cartographer(s): Vincenzo CoronelliPlace/Date: Venice / 1691$2,500 Add to cart -
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
The uncommon second plate of Ortelius’s famous map of the Western Hemisphere in original colors.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1579$3,900 Add to cart -
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 / 1763$875 Add to cart -
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
Gorgeous 1588 Ortelius map of the western hemisphere naming California.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1588$5,000 Add to cart
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Americae Nova Tabula.
Superlative old color example of Blaeu’s famous map of the Americas.
Cartographer(s): Willem BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1642Read more -
L’Amerique Septentrionale Dressee sur les Observations de Mrs. de l’Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens…
The Dutch edition of Guillaume de l’Isle’s seminal map of North America, which saw one of the first attempts at rectifying the erroneous notion that California was an island.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1708Read more -
Novae Insulae XVII Nova Tabula [First State!]
Sebastian Münster’s Map of the Americas: The first printed map of the new continents in their entirety. Here a rare First State, Second Edition example.
Cartographer(s): Sebastian MünsterPlace/Date: Basel / 1542Read more -
America Septentrionalis [First State, Original Color]
Henricus Hondius’ iconic 17th-century map of North America: an entirely new cartographic vision of the continent.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1636Read more -
America Septentrionalis [Second State, Original Color]
Henricus Hondius’ iconic 17th-century map of North America: an entirely new cartographic vision of the continent.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1647Read more -
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 -
A New and Correct Map of North America, with the West India Islands. Divided According to the Last Treaty of Peace…1779.
Sayer and Bennet’s monumental chart of North America in revolt.
Place/Date: London / 1779Read more -
Colton’s Map of the United States of America, The British Provinces, Mexico and The West Indies Showing the Countries From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Colton’s spectacular wall map of a rapidly expanding America.
Cartographer(s): The Colton Mapmaking CompanyPlace/Date: New York / 1854Read 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 -
Amerique Septentrionale…
Pre-Mexican-American War map of North America.
Place/Date: New York / ca. 1836Read 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 -
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 -
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 -
Mapa de America: Razas, Indumentaria, Banderas, Escudos Y Producciónes
Pictorial Interwar North & South America
Place/Date: Barcelona / ca. 1927Read more -
North Pacific
Striking sea chart of the northern Pacific Ocean with large inset of Hawaii and Pearl Harbor.
Cartographer(s): James Imray & SonPlace/Date: London / 1873Read more -
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 / 1677Read more -
Amerique Septentrionale
Gorgeous and extremely rare state of Sanson’s landmark map of North America.
Place/Date: Paris / 1651Read 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 -
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 -
A Pictorial Map of North America
Signed Ernest Dudley Chase 1945 pictorial map of North America
Cartographer(s): Ernest Chase DudleyPlace/Date: Winchester / 1945Read more -
Carte d’Amerique Dressee pour l’Usage du Roy…
Unique folding example of Delisle’s influential map of the Western Hemisphere, with undiscovered Pacific Northwest.
Place/Date: Paris / 1739Read more -
Maris Pacifici
Stunning 1595 example of Ortelius’ landmark map of the Pacific Ocean.
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1595Read 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 -
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 -
[Title on Verso] Tabula Terra Novæ
1541 map of the New World with references to Christopher Columbus, from the Admiral’s Map
Place/Date: Vienne / 1541Read more -
America noviter delineata
1631 Merian map of the Western Hemisphere with polar insets
Cartographer(s): Matthäus MerianPlace/Date: Frankfurt / 1631Read more -
America noviter delineata
Hondius 1631 western hemisphere with polar inserts.
Cartographer(s): Henricus HondiusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1639Read more -
Nova Totius Americæ Descriptio
De Wit’s superb western hemisphere with carte-à-figures and Island of California.
Cartographer(s): Frederick de WitPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1666Read more
