Browse Listings in America
Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
A very desirable and scarce item of this decorative and early bid's-eye town-plan of the Inca city of Cuzco. Several figures shown inside the city walls and on the hillsi...
Publisher: DE BELLEFOREST, F.
Place / Date: Lyons, 1564
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An important map because of i...
Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place / Date: Antwerp, 1579
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...
Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place / Date: Antwerp, 1592
Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDXCII
First state. Although a map of South America it does include much of what is now the southern United States. There are two elaborate, strap-work cartouches with the one a...
Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place / Date: Frankfurt, 1592
![Cusco urbs nobilissima & opule[n]tissima Peruani regni in occide[n]tali parte. . .](/uploads/cache/37010-500x500.jpg)
Cusco urbs nobilissima & opule[n]tissima Peruani regni in occide[n]tali parte. . .
Famous town plan of Cuzco, from the first German edition of part VI of de Bry's " Grands Voyages". In this work the conquest of Peu by Pizarro was discribed. Th...
Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place / Date: Frankfurt, 1607
![Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].](/uploads/cache/16521-500x500.jpg)
Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].
An extremely rare and decorative map of coast-line of Pernambuco. With one inset: In the upper left corner a map of Brazil, with title in five lines Dutch and five lines ...
Publisher: PISCATOR,N.J.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, 1630
America sive India Nova.
This map was created by Michael Mercator, grandson of the great Gerard Mercator. It is the only map attributed to him. The map first appeared in 1595, one year after the ...
Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Nova America descriptio Per N.Jo Visscher. . .
A beautifully executed and very rare map showing the Americas after Visscher.Published by Jacob Honervogt (c.1590-c.1663) who was a native of Cologne and worked from 1608...
Publisher: HONERVOGT, J.
Place / Date: Paris, ca. 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...
Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas.
Blaeu based his work on John Speed's remarkably accurate map of 1626-1627. It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the names of ...
Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Americae Nova Descriptio.
Final state. According to Philip Burden, "this scarce map is America's first single-sheet map with decorative borders." A re-issue of the 1614 plate by Pieter v...
Publisher: VISSCHER, N.J.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Sinus Omnium Sanctoru. Bahia de Todos os Sanctos.
RARE. First Atlas Major issue: originally issued by Blaeu in Casper van Baarle's 'Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia' (1647) dedicated to the former Governor of the Dutch co...
Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, 1664
(Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex) optimis tum geographorum tum aliorum scriptis collecta et ad hodiernam regnorum principatuum et maiorum partium distinctionem accomodata.
Eastern part of a two sheet map of America, with an attribution to Willem Blaeu. According to Philip Burden the map was derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the ...
Publisher: ROSSI, G. / BLAEU, W.
Place / Date: Rome, 1679
Pas-kaart vande Zee kusten van Venecuela met de Byleggende Eylanden. . .
Rare of the coast of Venezuela, including the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, etc.The chart has two insets, one (15x22cm) with a map of Curaçao, one smaller with d...
Publisher: VAN KEULEN, J.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, 1680
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 ...
Publisher: SCHENK, P.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, 1694
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...
Publisher: POPPLE,H / MORTIER, J.& C.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1737
Algemene kaart van Suriname Algemeene kaart van de Colonie of Provintie van Suriname : met de rivieren, districten, ontdekkingen door militaire togten. . .
Uncommon large scale map of of Suriname, indicating the different plantations and their owners. Consists of two glued-together sheets. Completed with funding by the Direc...
Publisher: DE LETH, H.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, 1740
![Fernando De Noronho. [Fernando de Noronha]](/uploads/cache/21209-500x500.jpg)
Fernando De Noronho. [Fernando de Noronha]
English manuscript on paper of a bay on Fernando de Noronha. Many names in English, to the lower left This draft is extremely Erroneous.Fernando de Noronha is an archipe...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place / Date: Brazil ?, ca.1750
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 ...
Publisher: LONGCHAMPS, le Sieur.
Place / Date: Paris, 1756
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...
Publisher: SCHELTUS, I.
Place / Date: Amsterdam, 1761
![The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista. . . [together with] The Coast of New Found Land from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis.](/uploads/cache/40658-500x500.jpg)
The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista. . . [together with] The Coast of New Found Land from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis.
Two charts showing the coast of New Found Land from Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista and from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. With inset chart of Trinity HarborGrierson publis...
Publisher: MOUNT & PAGE / BOULTER GRIERSON
Place / Date: Dublin, 1767
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...
Publisher: MOUNT & PAGE / BOULTER GRIERSON
Place / Date: Dublin, 1767
Carte D'Amerique Divisée en ses Principaux Pays. . .
Rare. Uncommon and decorative wall map of America, prepared by Clouet. With superb decorative borders, 170mm wide at the sides and 150mm at the bottom, containing twenty ...
Publisher: CLOUET, J. B. L. abbé / MONDHARE, L.
Place / Date: Paris, Cadiz, 1785
L' Amérique divisée en tous ses pays suivant, les nouvelles observations des plus celébres navigateurs. . . 1788
Rare wall map of the Americas and the north-west part of Africa, published by Jean and Louis Joseph Mondhare. Only mentioned by Tooley as a single chart with the one date...
Publisher: MONDHARE, L,J. / J.
Place / Date: Paris: Mondhare et Jean, 1788
Map of Louisiana from D'Anville's Atlas.
This map presents a highly detailed treatment of the region from Cabo Del Norte to the Apalachiola River, centered on the mouth of the Mississippi and extending inland to...
Publisher: BOWEN, Th.
Place / Date: London, 1788
New Jersey entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1796 . . . NO.VIII
Extremely rare map of New Hampshire prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only te...
Publisher: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Place / Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1797
Rhode Island entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1798 . . . NO.V
Extremely rare map of Rhode Island prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten...
Publisher: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Place / Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1797
La parte orientale dell' antico.. messico con la Florida..
A splendid two-sheet map of Mexico, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, part of Texas, Baja California and Mexico (west part) and of the Southeast Part of the US, ...
Publisher: CASSINI, G.
Place / Date: Rome, 1798
New Yok entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1799 . . . NO.VII
Extremely rare map of New York prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten map...
Publisher: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Place / Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1799
Carte des côtes du Golfe du Mexique compris entre la pointe sud de la presqu'Ile de la Floride et la pointe nord de la presqu'Ile d'Yucatan: Dresée d'après le observations et las plans des espagnols, et publièe par ordre du Minstre de la Marine . . .
Detailed and important early chart of the Gulf Coast and Florida and dated 1800. First French edition of "the first printed [map] to show and name Galveston Bay&quo...
Publisher: DEPOT GÉNÉRAL DE LA MARINE
Place / Date: Paris, 1800
Guyana, Surinam, Amapa.
Very rare Ottoman printed map of Guyana, Suriname and Amapa. With Trinidad, inset map of the mouth of the Rivers Essequibo, Courantyne, Suriname with Paramaribo, etc.From...
Publisher: RAIF EFENDI
Place / Date: Üsküdar (Istanbul), 1803
Carte du Mexique et des Pays Limitrophes situés au Nord et a l'Est Dressée d'apres la Grande Carte de la Nouvelle Espagne de Mr. A. de Humboldt et d'autres . . .
Significant map of Mexico and most of the United States, up the California coast as far as Cape San Sebastian (above Mendocino), and across to New York, with fairly good ...
Publisher: HUMBOLDT, A.
Place / Date: Paris, F. Schoell, 1811
![Etats-Unis de L'Amerique Septentrionale. [Two sheets in manuscript ]](/uploads/cache/03972-500x500.jpg)
Etats-Unis de L'Amerique Septentrionale. [Two sheets in manuscript ]
Two sheets giving an detailed information in French, about population in the year 1810, principal cities, products of industry and commerce, financial situation for the y...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place / Date: France, ca. 1819
The Traveller's Guide. A Map Of The Roads, Canals And Steam Boat Routes Of The United States ... Designed for the use of Travellers, By H.S. Tanner.
Rare first edition of Tanner's travel map in pocket map form, in it original red leather covers, with the map and no text, as issued. Ristow says the first edition was 18...
Publisher: TANNER, H.S.
Place / Date: Philadelphia, 1825
A Map of North America, Constructed According To The Latest Information . . . Improved to 1825.
It says in the title: "improved to 1825". This milestone map was first issued separately in 1822 and bound in four sheets into Tanner's "New American Atlas...
Publisher: TANNER, Henry S.
Place / Date: Philadelphia, Henry Tanner, 1825
A-Na-Cam-E-Gish-Ca. A Chippeway Chief.
Half-length portrait of Anacamegishca, bare-chested, wearing a blanket and a peace medal. A-Na-Cam-E-Gish-Ca (1785-1862) - was a Chippeway Indian Chief. The Chippewa is o...
Publisher: MCKENNEY, T & HALL, J.
Place / Date: Philadelphia, 1837
Plan Of Boston Comprising a Part of Charlestown and Cambridge. Published by George G. Smith, Engraver, Corner of Washington & Franklin Sts. Boston. 1846.
Detailed plan of Boston, with insets :"Plan Of East Boston from actual Survey by R.H. Eddy" and "Plan Of South Boston From a Drawing by S.P. Fuller".A...
Publisher: SMITH, George G.
Place / Date: London, 1846
20 small lithographed views of Washington DC and Georgetown.
20 small lithographed town-views of Washington DC and Georgetown, cut out from a larger sheet. Showing the East Front of the Capitol, Treasury, Smithsonian Institute, Pre...
Publisher: WEBER, E.
Place / Date: Casimir Bohn, Washington, D.C.: 1849
Map of the Great Salt Lake And Adjacent Country in the Territory Of Utah. Surveyed in 1849 and 1850, under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert .. by Capt. Howard Stansbury .. aided by Lieut. J.W. Gunnison . . .
Map of the Great Salt Lake and adjacent country in the Territory of Utah made in 1849 and 1850 under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau by C...
Publisher: STANSBURY, H./J. W. GUNNISON/CHAS. PRUESS.
Place / Date: Ackerman, New York, 1852
Posesiones de America : Isla de Cuba. . .
Wall size map of land areas showing all of Cuba, part of Florida Keys plus San Adios and Salvador Grande in the Bahamas.Minute topographical, political, and hydrographic ...
Publisher: MADOZ, P. / COELLO, F.
Place / Date: Madrid, 1853
North Pacific.
Huge three sheet so-called Blue-back sailing chart of the Northern Pacific including China, Korea (with Matu Is. and Liancourt), Japan, Philippines, Kamchatka, Hawaii, Al...
Publisher: IMRAY AND SON, J.
Place / Date: London, 1868
Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique par M. Le Comte de Paris, Ancien Aide de Camp du General Mac Clellan (McClellan). ...
These 30 maps were made by Vorzet to accompany Louis Phillipe d'Orleans' (Comte de Paris) multi volume "Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique". The set incl...
Publisher: VORZET, Ed. Dumas
Place / Date: Paris. Michel Levy Freres, 1875
Driving chart of Hartford and vicinity : 15 miles around.
Road map by Albert A. Hyde & Co. of Hartford and vicinity, with the Connecticut River in the center. Published by Albert A. Hyde & Co., in New York and lithograph...
Publisher: HYDE & Co, A. A.
Place / Date: New York / Philadelphia, 1884
Mappa do estado de Minas Geraes.
Monumental map of the Minas Geraes State, the Brazilian Eldorado, with an inset plan of Belo Horizonte. Scale of 1 : 100 000. Lith. Hartmann-Reichenbach, 1910. Organized ...
Publisher: DOS SANTOS, B-J.
Place / Date: Rio de Janeiro, 1910 -1911
Nuevo plano de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y parte del partido de avellaneda . . .
A rare detailed city plan of Buenos Aires prepared in 1912 by Ernesto Escalante. The plan depicts the city from the Partido de Avellaneda and the Villa Riachuelo to the R...
Publisher: ESCALANTE, E.
Place / Date: Buenos Aires, 1912
Cunard to Canada.
Poster by Charles Eddowes Turner for Cunard lines. The poster shows The NEW SYLVANIA, one of the four new 22,000 - ton Cunarders which are the largest ever built for serv...
Publisher: TURNER, C.E
Place / Date: England, ca. 1930
North and South America At-A-Glance.
A clever device for demonstrating the statistics of each country, the Area, Population, Population per Sq. Mile, Highest Elevation, Principal River, Currency, Capital, Fo...
Publisher: THE INTERNATIONAL AT-A-GLANCE CHART CO.
Place / Date: New York & London: International At-A-Glance Chart Co. 1931
United States At-A-Glance.
A clever device for demonstrating the statistics of each state, the Area, Population, Highest Elevation, Principal River, Capital, railroad Mileage, Date Entered Union, P...
Publisher: THE INTERNATIONAL AT-A-GLANCE CHART CO.
Place / Date: New York & London: International At-A-Glance Chart Co. 1931
San Diego Bay. (Chart 5107)
Nautical chart of San Diego Bay of 1945. Printed in black, yellow and purple the "Seaward limit defensive sea area". The water area within the indicated limits ...
Publisher: U.S. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
Place / Date: Washington, 1945