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Tierra Nueva.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi map published in 1548. Nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, w...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...
- $1400 / ≈ €1310
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Cacodemon attacking the savages.
Cacodemon ("evil spirit") attacking the savages. Read more about "Les Grand Voyages" by Theodore De Bry [+]
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
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Arcis Carolinae delineatio [Jacksonville]
Depicting Fort Caroline in Jacksonville, Florida. A French expedition, organized by Protestant leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and led by the French Explorer Jean Ribau...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
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[The French left in Fort Charles suffer the scarcity of provisions.]
An Indian town visited by the French of Charlesfort in search for food. After a drawing by LeMoyne. Charlesfort-Santa Elena is on what is now Parris Island, South Carolin...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus.
Map of the North Pole regions from the 1608 second edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.A reduction of the 1606 Mercator-Hondius folio map (which is a later state of t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califormio...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1608-1612
Virginiae item et Floridae. . .
Cummings describes it as one of the most beautifully executed maps ever made of the Southeast. In detail and in general conception it surpasses all earlier maps of the re...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Virginiae item et Floridae . . .
Map of Virginia from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van D...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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[American history plate].
Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltende Warhaffti...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[Moose].
Scarce print (150x177mm.) of a Moose on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltend...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[The manner of making their boats.]
The manner of making boats in Virginia is wonderful to behold. They were able to do so without using any iron tool at all. First they chose a tall tree, wide enough for a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $1800 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova.
Orientated with north to the right. This is one of the earliest maps to concentrate solely on this area of the colonies, excluding Virginia and the extreme north east coa...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
The map is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved. In 1629 the Hondius plate was purchased by Blaeu who deleted ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Les deux poles articque ou septentrional et antarticque..
A double hemisphere map to the North and South poles. The North pole is connected to Greenland and Spitzbergen but there is little other detailed coastline in the polar a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1657
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Poli Arctici, et circumiacentium terrarum descriptio novissima. . .
A re-issue of the Hondius' plate. A particularly decorative map of the North Pole with Iceland. Several Dutch names in Labrador. The toponymy in Canada reflects the conti...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Nova Virginiae tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635/1660
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Noweav Mexiqve [California as an Island]
Uncommon miniature map of California as a island, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille in a second state. The map is derived from Audience de Guadalajara (1657)...
Place & Date: Paris, 1663
.Pascaerte Vande Zuyd-Zee tusschen California, en Ilhas de Ladrones. . .
A decorative and most interesting map - being one of the earliest of the Pacific to record the observations of Tasman's voyages. The northern part of the island of Califo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Americque Septentrionale. . .
A general map of North America shows California as an island but with few names and a flat northern coastline. Prepared by N. Sanson and engraved by A.Peyrounin. A first ...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, P. Marriete, 1667
Nova Virginia Tabula.
A beautifully engraved map, derived from the highly influential map by Captain John Smith in 1612, showing Chesapeake Bay and the surrounding area. The decoration of this...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Meurs, 1671
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Noweav Mexiqve. [California as an Island]
Scarce miniature map of California as a island, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille. The second earliest map to focus on just California and the contiguous coa...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Paris, 1672
Novi Belgii, quod nunc Novi Jorck vocatur, Novaeque Anglia et partis Virginiae. . .
A beautifully engraved map, derived from the highly influential map by Visscher. The decoration of this finely engraved map has in the lower right corner not longer a vie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2016
Pascaerte van Carybes, Nieu Neder landt, Brazil. . .
This progenitor chart covers the American shores of the Atlantic Ocean. This chart by Theunis Jacobsz. was most probably engraved close to his death in 1650 or shortly af...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653-1681
P.les de Virginie.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting a couple of native people of Florida.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1...
- $110 / ≈ €103
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Novi Belgii novae que Angliae nec non partis Virginiae..
The third state with Fort Kassimier and Philadelphia and nearby placenames added. To the south the Dutch colony of Nieu Amstel. New nomenclature and a key appear around t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1684
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Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1685. [California as an Island]
Engraved by Cordier. Spectacular example of Jaillot's map of North America, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's landmark map of 1656. This map shows the ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1685
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Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1692. [California as an Island]
A very good impression of Jaillot's large map of North America, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's landmark map of 1656. A first state.The map shows the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1692
Amerique Septentrionalis..
A handsome map showing California as an island, open-ended Great Lakes and other details based mainly on Sanson. A large decorative cartouche occupies the area of the nor...
Place & Date: Paris, after1694
Belgii novi, angliae novae, et partis Virginiae . . .
This example is state 3 of the original Janssonius plate, printed after Schenk acquired the plates at public auction in 1694 from the heirs of Jansson van Waesberge. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1694
Two polar calottes from a globe.
Two polar calottes from 110 centimeters in diameter globe of 1688 including the northern part of Baffin Bay, Greenland, Iceland, Nova Zembla. Coronelli elected to follow ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1696
L'Amerique Septentrionale.
Very rare map, from "Metaphaste Barbao, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis et America Nova" published by Henrico Verdussen.The map is a copy of Guillaume de L'Isle'...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1702
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles...
Scarce state not listed by Tooley with the imprint : "Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge a la Cour.r de Diamãs. Avec Privilege du Roy po.r 20 ans, 1703"...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Paris, 1703
La Terre du Nord.
Map of the Arctic Circle, set within a series of decorative borders, printed from a different copper plate. All counties that lie within or near to the North Pole are sho...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1713
Carte contenant le Royaume du Mexique et la Floride.
This is a derivative of Delisle's landmark map of the southern part of North America.The detailed map shows many English settlements along the East Coast and carefully no...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Carte contenant le Royaume du Mexique et la Floride.
This is a derivative of Delisle's landmark map of the southern part of North America. The detailed map shows many English settlements along the East Coast and carefully n...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi..
Derived from de Fer's 1718 map, from west of the Mississippi it contains a mass of inland detail with notes and vignettes of the indigenous peoples and fauna of North Ame...
- $2700 / ≈ €2526
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Nova tabula geographica complectens borealiorem..
A finely engraved pair of maps designed to be cut and joined together to provide a continuous coastline of North America from the Carolinas to Newfoundland and along the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1720
A new map of the English Empire in America. . .
This fine English map of eastern North America including Canada engraved by John Harris and first published by Robert Morden. John Senex acquired and made minor alteratio...
Place & Date: London, 1720
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride, des terres angloises et des isles Antilles, du cours et des environs de la rivière Mississipi. . .
A Dutch edition of De L'Isle's map. It was the first printed map to portray accurately the course and mouth of the Mississippi River. Showing the explorations of d'Ibervi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1722
This Draught of the North Pole is to show all the Countries near and adjacent to it . . .
The polar map shows the latest discoveries and routes of numerous explorers during their attempts to find a Northwest and Northeast Passage, including James, Hudson, and ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: London, ca. 1728
Carte qui contient..Iles & Terres..L'Amerique..Jamaique..
Eight maps on one sheet. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique et Méthodique . Including maps of Bermuda, Jamaica, New England with Long Island, Carolina, Chesapeake and Del...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Carte qui contient..Iles & Terres..L'Amerique..Jamaique..
Eight maps on one sheet. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique et Méthodique . Including maps of Bermuda, Jamaica, New England with Long Island, Carolina, Chesapeake and Del...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1728
Virginie, Grande Region l'Amerique Septentrionale...
Pierre van der Aa used the old copper plate of Meurs and re-did the engraving, changed the large pictorial cartouche, a new scale of German and French leagues is provided...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Novum Amsterodamum. . .
Three engravings on one page are set in a decorative, separately engraved border. - In the upper left is a good example of one of the earliest available views of New York...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Leiden, 1729
Un Passaggio per Terra a California Scoperto dal P. Eusebio Francesco Kino Gesuita Fragli Anni 1698 et 1701.
The rare Italian edition of Father Eusebio Francisco Kino's seminal map, which definitively ended the myth of California as an Island, which appeared in Saggio delle tran...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Napples, 1731
Les Principales Forteresses Ports &c de L'Amérique Septentrionale. . .
This sheet contains 19 small but detailed maps and plans of harbours, towns, forts and islands from the eastern seaboard and the West Indies, all but one plan with title ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1733
A Map of the British Empire in AMERICA with the French, Spanish and Hollandish Settlements Adjacent Thereto. by Henry Popple. / Nouvelle Carte Particuliere de L'Amerique . . .
The four sheet Dutch edition of Popple's monumental map of North America, in mint condition. Encompassing the West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Central America.T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1737
Avantures du Sr. C. Le Beau, avocat en parlement ou Voyage curieux et nouveau parmi les Sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale. Dans lequel on trouvera une Description du Canada… Ouvrage enrichi d'une Carte et des figures necessaires.
A description of Huron, Iroquois, and Algonquin customs, written in charming style and based, the Author claims, on observations made on a trip to America in 1729." ...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1738
L'Amerique septentrionale, Dressée sur les memoires les plus recens. . .
A very detailed map extending from Hudsons Bay to Panama, and including the West Indies. The map is a later copy of Guillaume de L'Isle's foundation map of North America,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1739
Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali.
Four maps on one sheet (New Found land/ New England/ Virginia and Carolina/Florida) based on J.B.Homann's map, showing British possessions in North America. At bottom of ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1740
Virginia Marylandia et Carolina..
An attractive and detailed map, covering the coastline from Long Island in the north to just south of Cape Feare in Carolina, with the large fictitious Apalache Lacus in ...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1740
L'Amerique septentrionale, Dressée sur les memoires les plus recens. . .
A very detailed map extending from Hudsons Bay to Panama, and including the West Indies. The map is a later copy of Guillaume de L'Isle's foundation map of North America,...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740
A new & accurate map of Louisiana, with part of Florida. . .
An English view of North America compiled from available French maps, especially those of Bellin used in Charlevoix's History of New France. English cartographers had lit...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: London, 1744
Neu Engeland Neu York, Neu Jersey und Pensilvanien & c. . .
The scarce German edition of Moll's popular and rather significant map which appeared in Oldmixon's 1708 book, Das Britische Reich in America. and then in other editions ...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Lemgo, 1744
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressée sur un grand nombre de Memoires. . .
Covens & Mortier's issue of Delisle's influential map of the French possession of Louisiana. Updated to include New Orleans.When originally published in 1718, it was ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2010
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressée sur un grand nombre de Memoires..
Covens & Mortier's issue of Delisle's influential map of the French possession of Louisiana. Updated to include New Orleans. When originally published in 1718, it was...
- $2400 / ≈ €2246
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Amérique Septentrionale. . .
A fine small map of North America, extending from Hudsons' Bay to Panama, and including the West Indies. Dated 1748.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.P...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1748
Carte de LA LOUISIANE et des PAYS VOISINS Dédiée a M. Rouillé Dediee a M. Rouille Secretairr 'd Etat ayant le Departement de la Marine... 1750
North America from the eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains. Based on Delisle's map of 1718 with additions from notes compiled by the Jesuit priest, explorer and histo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Carolinae Floridae nec non Insularum Bahamensium cum partibus adjacentibus delinatio ad Exemplar Londinense in lucem edita . . . Ao. 1755.
The German edition of this map of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands in full original colors. Published in Seligmann's "Sammlung verschiedener auslaendischer ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1755
![Partie de L'Amerique Septentrionale, qui comprend Le Cours De L'Ohio, La N[ouve]lle Angleterre, La N[ouve]lle York, Le New Jersey, La Pensylvanie, Le Maryland, La Virginie, La Caroline.](/uploads/cache/1129917-250x250.jpg)
Partie de L'Amerique Septentrionale, qui comprend Le Cours De L'Ohio, La N[ouve]lle Angleterre, La N[ouve]lle York, Le New Jersey, La Pensylvanie, Le Maryland, La Virginie, La Caroline.
Double page map of the East coast of America, showing the area from Maine to South Carolina. Inset map titled ""Supplement Pour La Caroline"" showing ...
Place & Date: Paris. 1755
Carte des Possessions Françoises et Angloises dans le Canada et partie de la Lousiane. . .
Proof state. Here without the decorations around the title cartouche in the what is called in the reference books the first state the cartouche in upper left . No double ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
Carte des Possessions Françoises et Angloises dans le Canada, et partie de la Louisiane.
First state of this separately published map of the European Colonies in the New World east of the Mississippi River. This map was published in 1756 to provide informatio...
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
L'Amerique septentrionale, Dressée sur les memoires les plus recens. . . MDCCLVII
A rare map of North America, showing good detail, especially in the region between the Appalachians and the Mississippi and the course o the Mississippi to its source, wh...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1757
Nader prolongatie van het Octroy voor de Westindische Compagnie voor den tyd van nog dertig jaaren. . .
A proclamation by the Dutch States General, dated 1761, extending the charter of the Dutch West India Company for another thirty years. Like the 1730 proclamation, it has...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1761
Vue de Boston vers le Cale du Port.
A view of the port of Boston, the center of New England shipping in the colonial period. The closing of the port after the Boston Tea Party led to the calling of the Firs...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1762
Vue de la Rue du Roi, vers la Porte de la Campagne a Boston.
A vue d'optique of the city of Boston. A view of a typical Bostonian street, with buildings opening directly onto the throughway, groups of people, gentlemen, workers and...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1762
Plan du Port de St Augustin dans la Floride.
This chart shows a plan of the Port of St. Augustine in Florida.The only issue of this version of Bellin's map, slightly larger than the common version. Depths shown by s...
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
Kaart van het Westelyk Gedeelte van Nieuw Mexico en van California. . . MDCCLXV ..
A detailed map of the Baja California and Sonora, bounded on the north by the Colorado and Gila Rivers and approximately Mozatlan in the south, thus including parts of mo...
- $875 / ≈ €819
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
America settentrionale. . .
Rare map of North America drawn directly from the work of Nicholas De Fer and N. Sanson's famous map of 1650. The map is engraved by Antonius Donzel Gallus.With open Grea...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Napels, 1766
The Harbour of Casco Bay and Islands Adjacent Bt Capt. Cyprian Southicke.
The earliest printed chart of Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England. First issued in 1720 by Mount and Page, it remained in...
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767
Partie De L'Amerique Septentrionale... Le Cours De L'Ohio, La N.lle Angleterre, a Nlle York, le New Jersey , La Pensyvanie, Le Maryland, Le Virginie, La Carolina...1755
From the Atlas Universel , a detailed map extending the length of the east coast from Penobscot Bay to Cape Fear and, in an inset, from Cape Fear to Fort St.Georges.This ...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1768