19TH CENTURY AMERICA
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Colton’s Intermediate Railroad Map of the United States.
The quintessential Colton railroad map of America.
Cartographer(s): George Woolworth Colton and Charles B. ColtonPlace/Date: New York / 1882$5,400 Add to cart -
The Resources of Vallejo: A series of articles, reprinted from the Solano County Advertiser, 1868-69
An early promotional booklet on Vallejo with two very rare folding maps.
Cartographer(s): John Shertzer HittelPlace/Date: Vallejo / 1869$3,200 Add to cart -
Map showing the location of the Indian Tribes within the United States.
Eastman’s 1852 Map of Indian Tribes in the United States.
Cartographer(s): Seth EastmanPlace/Date: Philadelphia / 1852$375 Add to cart -
Map of That Portion of the Boundary between the United States and Mexico From the Pacific Coast To The Junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers… Showing also the Limits of the Treaty Negotiated by the Hon. James Gadsden
Gray’s 1855 map of the Gadsden Purchase.
Cartographer(s): Andrew Belcher GrayPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1855$3,200 Add to cart -
U.S. Navy Yard. At Mare Island, California
Early view of the U.S. Navy Yard at Mare Island, with Marin and Mount Tamalpais in the background.
Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1856$2,800 Add to cart -
Past & Present of California.
The elusive ‘Elephant’ pictorial letter sheet of life in California.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1855$2,200 Add to cart -
The Golden Gate
Possibly the first American view of The Golden Gate ever produced.
Cartographer(s): Thomas & Samuel HardgrovePlace/Date: New York / 1855$1,000 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 -
Carte générale des États-Unis, du Haut et Bas-Canada, de la Nouvle. Ecosse, du Nouvau. Brunswick, de Terre Neuve &a.
1832 Brué map of the United States prior to decades of dramatic westward expansion.
Cartographer(s): Adrien-Hubert BruéPlace/Date: Paris / 1832$250 Add to cart -
Map of Eastern Kansas.
Iconic 1856 map of East Kansas, published just a month after the sacking of Lawrence and in the midst of the tumultuous ‘Bloody Kansas’ era.
Cartographer(s): Albert D. Searl, Edmund Burke Whitman, John Punchard Jewett, Lodowick Harrington BradfordPlace/Date: Boston / 1856$2,800 Add to cart -
Map of the Overland Railroad
Rare early map showing the proposed route of the Central Pacific Railroad during a relatively early period of its construction.
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: Not listed / ca. 1866$850 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 -
Map Showing Indian Reservations Within the Limits of the United States, Compiled Under the Direction of Hon. D.M. Browning. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1893
Map of Native American tribes and reservation land at the end of the 19th century.
Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1893$295 Add to cart -
Pony Express Route April 3, 1860 – October 24, 1861
A vivid 1961 pictorial commemoration of the Pony Express centennial.
Place/Date: New York / 1961$350 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 -
Maps of the New and Popular St. Louis and Texas Short Line!
An eye-catching 1878 broadside inviting people to come and settle in Texas; a state in which a formal civilian government had only been restored eight years earlier.
Cartographer(s): Woodward, Tiernan & HalePlace/Date: St. Louis / 1878$1,800 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 -
Map of Eastern Virginia Compiled from the best authorities and printed at the Coast Survey Office, A.D. Bache, Supdt. 1862.
Alexander Bache’s Map of Eastern Virginia: a Union map of Washington’s Confederate backyard.
Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1862$1,700 Add to cart -
RECONNAISSANCE OF THE WESTERN COAST OF THE UNITED STATES MIDDLE SHEET FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO UMPQUAH RIVER
Eminent geographer and historian George Davidson tracks the West Coast voyage of Sebastian Vizcaino.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / [1864] 1854$2,900 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 -
Carte de la Cote de L’Amérique sur l’Océan Pacifique Septentrional le Territoire de l’Orégon, les Californies, la Mer Vermeille, Partie des Territoires de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson, et de l’Amérique Russe.
Landmark map of the American West by Duflot de Mofras, with period annotations.
Cartographer(s): Eugène Duflot de MofrasPlace/Date: Paris / 1844$15,000 Add to cart -
Bird’s Eye View of the Famous Santa Clara Valley Looking Southerly from San Francisco
A rare and dramatic bird’s-eye-view of Santa Clara Valley.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1886$2,400 Add to cart -
Colton’s Map of the Oil District of West Virginia and Ohio
Mapping an early American oil boom: rare first state of Colton’s Map of West Virginia and Ohio.
Cartographer(s): Joseph Hutchins ColtonPlace/Date: New York / 1865$3,600 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
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Map of the United States of America, the British Provinces, Mexico, the West Indies, and Central America: with part of New Granada and Venezuela.
Colton’s seminal 1849 map of the United States: an encapsulation of the pivotal political developments of the 1840s.
Cartographer(s): The Colton Mapmaking CompanyPlace/Date: New York / 1849Read more -
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 HutawaPlace/Date: St. Louis / 1863Read more -
[Jacques Tanesse Manuscript Map Of New Orleans and Document From the Governor of Louisiana]
Fine, Early Plan of New Orleans, with Certifications by the Governor of Louisiana, Mayor of New Orleans and Secretary of State.
Cartographer(s): Jacques TanessePlace/Date: New Orleans / 1817Read more -
Guide through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin & Iowa
A colorful map of the greater Midwest that provided first-time visitors and immigrants with the necessary overview of America’s new states.
Place/Date: New York / 1856Read more -
[Nebraska Territory, Kansas Territory]
Early survey map of the Kansas and Nebraska Territories.
Cartographer(s): Surveyor General of Kansas and NebraskaPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. (?) / ca. 1854Read more -
Clark’s New Sectional Map of Missouri compiled & engraved from the United States land surveys and other reliable sources. St. Louis: J.C. Clark & Co., 1860
Rare St. Louis-printed map of antebellum Missouri, meant to inspire a new wave of emigration and settlement.
Place/Date: St. Louis / 1860Read more -
County Map of Texas
A fascinating post-Civil War map of Texas.
Cartographer(s): Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.Place/Date: Philadelphia / 1867Read more -
[Republic of Texas] Phelps & Ensign’s Travellers’ Guide, and Map of the United States, containing the roads, distances, steam boat and canal routes &c.
Phelps & Ensign’s 1841 map of the United States: the embodiment of early American enterprise and patriotism.
Place/Date: Brooklyn, NY / 1841Read 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 -
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 -
Preliminary Mineralogical and Geological Map of the State of California Issued By The California State Mining Bureau. January 1st 1891.
A pioneering map of California, in which the entire state is mapped in mineralogical and geological terms for the first time.
Cartographer(s): Julius C. HenkeniusPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1891Read more -
Colton’s Map of the United States of America Showing the Country from the Atlantic to the Pacific
G.W. & C.B. Colton’s first U.S.-centric coast-to-coast map of the United States.
Cartographer(s): The Colton Mapmaking CompanyPlace/Date: New York / 1867Read more -
Map of the Town of Folsom California
One-of-a-kind, unrecorded early 1900s manuscript map of Folsom, California.
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: Not listed / ca. 1910Read more -
A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining. Compiled from the most recent authorities
Samuel Augustus Mitchell’s definitive chart of the American West: a quintessential guide for those drawn to the frontier.
Cartographer(s): Samuel Augustus MitchellPlace/Date: Philadelphia / 1846Read more -
Carta de las Costas de la Escambia, Alabama y Bocas de Rio Misisipi, la Luisiana, Tejas, con la Provincia del Nuevo Santander en el Golfo de Mejico…
A rare Gulf coast sea chart with the Republic of Texas and antebellum New Orleans.
Place/Date: Madrid / 1846Read more
