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North Western Africa.
A lovely looking steel engraved map of the north western portion of Africa. The map highlights vividly how much exploration was carried on around the coastline, and how t...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2018
Northern Asia, from the Himalaya Mountains to the Arctic Ocean.
A lovely looking steel engraved map of Northern Asia, taking in Mongolia, Tibet, Bhutan, Tartary, Siberia and Manchuria. Part of Japan engraved also. Many place names and...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
![Van Diemans Land [Tasmania].](/uploads/cache/38942-250x250.jpg)
Van Diemans Land [Tasmania].
A superb, large scale steel engraved map of what is today called Tasmania, an island to the far south off the Australian Mainland. Then, as now, the west coast is largely...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Selling price: $305
Sold in 2017
British North America.
A beautiful, large scale map of Canada, and the northern most states of America. Dedicated to the Hon. Hudsons Bay Company. It clearly shows the vastness of this fascinat...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island. . .
The prefix "lower" in its name refers to its geographic position farther downriver from the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River than its contemporary Upper Can...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020
South America.
A striking steel engraved map of South America, with large, uncolored inset maps of The Galapagos Islands, Port San Carlos, Falkland Islands, and Patagonia. A tremendous ...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2017
Colombia.
A large, detailed steel engraved map of the South American state of Colombia. This map of Colombia extends into modern day Venezuela to the east, and Ecuador to the south...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2020
Peru & Bolivia.
A large, detailed steel engraved map of the South American states of Peru & Bolivia. Peru gained its independence from Spain in 1821. Bolivia was named after Simon Bo...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
Brazil.
A large, detailed steel engraved map of the vast South American state of Brazil. The only Portuguese speaking colony in The Americas. It is the largest state in Latin and...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
The Provinces of La Plata...and Chile.
A large, detailed steel engraved map of Chile and Argentina, together with Uruguay. Small inset map of Patagonia and Falkland Islands. Despite some map loss, the map is w...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Exposition géographique en XIV tableaux, composés et expliqués par A. Legrand... Deuxième degré d'enseignement . . .
A series of 14 double-page plates with geographic representations, some with movable volvelles, followed by maps, each plate ca. 340 x 460mm, dark impressions and a few m...
Place & Date: Paris, 1839
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2018
Magic Pile erected by the Assiniboin Indians.
This evocative and deeply spiritual engraving by Bodmer shows a cairn (human made stack, or pile of stones, rocks) topped with the skull of a buffalo, made by the Assinib...
Place & Date: Pars, Coblenz, London, 1839
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2017
Offrande des Indiens Mandans.
This bleak, evocative and deeply spiritual engraving by Bodmer shows a Mandan skull shrine in 1833, located near the burial ground of Mih-Tutta-Hang-Kusch.Titles in Germa...
Place & Date: Pars, Coblenz, London, 1839
Selling price: $325
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Magic Pile erected by the Assiniboin Indians.
This evocative and deeply spiritual engraving by Bodmer shows a cairn (human made stack, or pile of stones, rocks) topped with the skull of a buffalo, made by the Assinib...
Place & Date: Pars, Coblenz, London, 1839
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2019
L'Isola d'Islanda Delineata Sulle ultime osservazioni.
Cassini’s splendid map depicts Iceland at the end of the eighteenth century. Though Iceland was geographically isolated from the European continent, for centuries it wa...
Place & Date: Rome, 1796- before 1839
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2018
Map of North America. . .
An uncommon schoolboy map of North America, showing TX as a republic, and Alaska as "Russian Possessions." Mexico still extends well into today's California and...
Place & Date: Hartford, ca 1839
Selling price: $115
Sold in 2018
Carte du Golfe du bengale dressée par Mr daussy, ingénieur hydrographe en chef, d'après les travaux les plus récents. . .
Large sea chart showing the Gulf of Bengal with India, Ceylon and Thailand with the Gulf of Siam to the right. The chart was engraved by E. Collin and Chassant for the DÃ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1839
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Carte itinéraire du Prince Maximilien..
Engraved map of the interior of the Northern U.S., from Atlantic seaboard to the Rocky Mountains with outline coloring indicating the route of travels and Indian nations....
Place & Date: Paris, Coblenz, or London, 1839
Selling price: $3525
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Cutoff-River - Branch of the Wabash.
Original aquatint engraving for Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832-34 . Engraved by L.Weber. The finest work on American Indian life and the American F...
Place & Date: London / Paris / Coblenz, 1839
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
Cave in Rock- view on the Ohio.
Original aquatint engraving for Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832-34 . Engraved by Lucas Weber. The finest work on American Indian life and the Americ...
Place & Date: London/Paris/Coblenz, 1839
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
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[Manuscript] Asie - Janvier 1839.
Fine manuscript map of Asia with relief shown pictorially. The Oceans in wash color and the borders in different colors. Dated 1839 and signed by the author in the lower ...
Place & Date: France, 1839
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Amérique - Fevrier 1839
Fine manuscript map of America with relief shown pictorially. The Oceans in wash color and the borders in different colors. Dated 1839 and signed by the author ShuardLowe...
Place & Date: Paris, 1839
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
Europe - Mars 1839
Fine manuscript map of Europe with relief shown pictorially. The Oceans in wash color and the borders in different colors. Dated 1839 and signed by the author in the lowe...
Place & Date: Paris, 1839
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
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[Manuscript] Afrique - Janvier 1839.
Fine manuscript map of Africa with relief shown pictorially. The Oceans in wash color and the borders in different colors. Dated 1839, and signed by the author in the low...
Place & Date: Paris 1839
Selling price: $205
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Fort Clark on the Missouri (February 1834)
Original aquatint engraving for Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832-34 . Engraved by Lucas Weber. The finest work on American Indian life and the Americ...
Place & Date: London/Paris/Coblenz, 1839
Selling price: $2000
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Mih-Tutta-Hangkusch a Mandan Village.
Original aquatint engraving for Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832-34 . Engraved by Lucas Weber. The finest work on American Indian life and the Americ...
Place & Date: London/Paris/Coblenz, 1839
Selling price: $1700
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Tableau chronologique de l'histoire de France par P.J Ferrand.
An extensive timetable of France with a wealth of historical information until the year 1811. Prepared by P.J.Ferrand, engraved by Ch. Simon and published by Auguste Loge...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1839
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
Nouveau Plan de la ville de Gênes corrigé de tous les changements faits jusqu'à ce jour.
Detailed plan of Genova., with in top a numbered key. Large margins.
Place & Date: Genova, 1839
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
Map of the Western States designed to accompany Smith's Geography for Schools.
A detailed map of the American Midwest, published before the formation of Minnesota. It depicts individual counties, towns, roads, rivers, mountains, etc. Worth noting is...
Place & Date: Chicago, 1839
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2020
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[BALKANS 1839] HARTIS TIS TOYRKIAS KAI ELLADOS. . . BIENNI 1839.
A very rare copper engraved map of the southern Balkans - European Turkey and Greece, by K.M.Koyma, for the Greek edition of the Geography by A.Balbi, 1839 in Vienna. Cov...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1839
Selling price: $431
Sold in 2021
Eastern Division of the United States.
A fine chromolithograph map of the Eastern United States and parts of Canada. The Sioux, Fox, Chippewa and Algonquin Indian tribes are all mentioned. The capital of Arkan...
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $31
Sold in 2021
Canton. (Two gouaches).
Two so-called export paintings of the Thirteen Factories at Canton (Guangzhou). The flags of Denmark, France, the U.S., Sweden, Britain, and the Netherland are visible on...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1840
Selling price: $4300
Sold in 2020
Australia.
An uncolored map of the continent of Australia in 1839, but published a year later in 1840, from the S.D.U.K. publication in London. The map identifies the years and name...
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2023
Map of the Germanic Confederated States, including the Kingdom of Prussia, as Settled by the Act of Congress at Vienna, June 9th 1815.
Large and detailed map of central Europe. From France until Poland, Russia, Lithuania and Hungary. And from Denmark until Venice and Belgrade. With areas, roads, rivers, ...
Place & Date: London, c1840
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
England & Wales.
Highly detailed map of England & Wales. The map provides good topographic details. The title is inside a frame-style cartouche. By F.W. Topham in London in 1840.
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2021
Egypt.
A nice, large scale map of Egypt, published by Longman & Co. toward the middle of the 19th century. Unsurprisingly, most of the cartographic detail centers around the...
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $13
Sold in 2021
Mappamondo sulle Projezione di Mercator…da Diaz, Gama, Colombo, e Magellano.
An Italian 'Mercator's Projection' map of the world, published around the middle of the 19th-century. As the title indicates, the map highlights the routes taken by vario...
Place & Date: Italy, ca 1840
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2023
Riviere Derwent pres de Richemont.
An attractive hand colored lithograph showing the River Derwent at Richmond, which lies about 25 kms north-east of Hobart in Tasmania. The lithograph depicts a beautiful,...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1840
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2023
Africa.
Sidney Hall's general map of the continent of Africa, published during the first half of the 19th century by A & C Black in Edinburgh. The map features two inset maps...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, ca 1840
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2023
Van Diemen's Land.
A map of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) beautifully drawn and engraved by Joshua Archer in London for Grattan & Gilbert's "Modern Atlas".A small numbered tabl...
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2023
Boston, and Bunker Hill.
Two views of Boston and Bunker Hill. The artist was W. H. Bartlett (1809-1854), the English landscape painter who traveled widely in his short life, producing images of l...
Place & Date: London, George Virtue, 1840
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2013
( Double hemisphere world map)
A rare and detailed double hemisphere world map. According to the title cartouche, prepared by A de La Sage for l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologico. ....
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Somersetshire.
Nice hand-colored map of Somersetshire with a fine engraving cartouche of Glastonbury Cross. It also has two coats of arms. Thomas Moule (1784 - January 1851) was an Eng...
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $4
Sold in 2013
Carte pour l'intelligence du journal d'une résidence en Circassie during the years 1837, 1838 and 1839.
Map of Circassia prepared by James Stanislaus Bell. Engraved by Barriére, 57 rue de la Harpe, Paris. James Stanislaus Bell was a British merchant. In his work Journal of...
Place & Date: Paris, Arthus Bertrand, after 1840
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2013
Carte de la rade de Plymouth avec le Môles excuté par l. ingénieur John Renie.
Rare sea-chart of the Plymouth Sound, engraved by Edler. With numerous depth soundings, shoals, buoys, and important landmarks including relevant buildings such as: Tarpo...
Place & Date: unknown, c1840
Selling price: $36
Sold in 2018
L'Impero Austriaco . . .
A rare and detailed double-page map of Austrian Empire, including Northern Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, etc. From l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2014
S.Marco.
Lithography in original colors of the basilica San Marco in Venice. The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (officially known in Italian as the Basilica Cattedra...
Place & Date: Venise, c. 1840
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
That's your sort.
Copper engraved hunting scene.
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2014
Yooi - over he goes!
Copper engraved hunting scene.
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
NEW YORK.
A detailed mid-19th century plan of the City of New York including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Governor's Island with parts of Jersey City and Williamsburg which was published u...
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2016
Amérique Septentrionale.
Very attractive map of America. To the left we find traders negotiating home-made products and a Maya pyramid. To the right we find plants and animals that are common for...
Place & Date: Paris, 1840
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2014
(Manuscript) Plan du port de Bombay.
French manuscript map of Bombay harbor complete with anchorage point at Bombay. The map is likely based on Jean B.N.D. D'Apres de Mannevillette: "Plan du Port de Bom...
Place & Date: France or India, c. 1840
Selling price: $305
Sold in 2015
The World on Mercators Projection.
Fine hand-colored world map by
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
South America.
Pleasing map featuring "South America". Engraved by G. Boynton and published in Boston by Samuel Walker in about 1840.
Place & Date: Boston, c1840
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2014
(Four hand-colored Bartlett Engravings of Canadian Country Scenes.)
Included are four scenes of Canada including:- "Indian Scene" engraved by J.C. Armatage,- "A First Settlement" engraved by J.C. Bentley,- "A Lake...
Place & Date: New York, ca. 1840
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2019
Le Due Repubbliche cioe La Confederazione Peruvian et Bolivia.
A rare, detailed map of Peru and Bolivia. The map is surrounded by explanatory historical text. Tasso's map was prepared by J.A. Buchon and A de la Sage for "L'ATLAN...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2017
Philadelphia SDUK
A highly detailed mid-19th century plan of the city of Philadelphia by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.It depicts the entire city in remarkable detail, ...
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
The White Castles on the Upper Missouri/ Die Weissen Schloesser am oberen Missouri/ Les Chateaux Blancs Missouri superior.
Aquatint from: 'Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 - 1834' by Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, after paintings by Karl Bodmer, engraved by Himely, prin...
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2015
Polynesia or Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
A 1840 S.D.U.K. map of the islands of the Pacific Ocean or Polynesia. It has a total of 19 miniature maps on one sheet covering the Mariana Islands, the Pelew Islands, G...
Place & Date: Chicago, 1840
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
Oceanie
Interesting map of Oceania featuring Australia, Micronesia, Malaysia and Polynesia. It also has the south-west coast of America with a strange looking California. There i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1840
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2015
Canada, New Brunswick & c.
Fine map of Maritime part of Canada from Adam & Black's "General Atlas" published in Edinburgh in 1840.It includes Upper (Ontario) & Lower (Quebec) Cana...
Place & Date: Edinbugh. 1840
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2015
Islands of the Pacific Ocean
A detailed map of the Pacific Ocean that identifies hundreds of islands. The map includes Australia, North America, and parts of Asia and South America. Detail is confine...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1840
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2016
Canada, New Brunswick & c.
A fine example of Adam and Charles Black's map of Canada. It covers from Malden to Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The continuation of Nova Scotia is included in an in...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1840
Selling price: $21
Sold in 2016
Plan de la Ville de Nazareth
A fine map of the city of Nazareth by P. Bellier in Paris in about 1840.Taken from his "GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS & ICONOGRAPHIC FULL COURSE OF SCRIPTURE". There is ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1840
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2016
Entrance of the Hoang-ho, or Yellow River.
Superb view of the mouth of the Yellow River or Huáng Hé in the Bohai Sea (a gulf of the Yellow Sea). With numerous very detailed boats and ships shown. Engraved by Adl...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1840
Selling price: $46
Sold in 2016
Cumberland.
Highly detailed map of the county, with a nice view of Carlisle shown from the North East. The map shows towns and villages, streets, lakes, rivers, forests, hills, etc. ...
Place & Date: Glasgow, c1840
Selling price: $1
Sold in 2016
Quebec or Province of Lower Canada, Describing all the Seigneuries, Townships, Grants of Land, &c...
A large and important map of lower Canada, by or after Wyld, illustrating the land grants on either side of the St. Lawrence River. The boundary line of the United States...
Place & Date: London, ca 1840
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2017
Bridge of Chains in China.
An interesting scene with a rope bridge over waterfalls. In the front several people are seen, including one angling.With nice hand color.
Place & Date: London, ca 1840
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2017
L'Asia . . .
A rare and detailed double-page map of Asia. According to the title cartouche, prepared by A de La Sage for l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologico. . . ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Operations du Siege de la Citadelle d'Anvers.
A fine engraving of the siege of Antwerp, Belgium in 1832. The citadel of Antwerp, also known as the South Castle, is a citadel and fortress which was located to the sout...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1840
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2019
Panoramic Map of the Rhine from Cologne to Meyence.
A lovely long panoramabird's eye viewshowing the route from Cologne to Meyence, engraved to accompany Tombleson's view books on the Upper Rhine. Panorama is flanked on ei...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1840
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2018
Confederazione Messicana . . .
A rare and detailed double-page map of Mexico. Map is surrounded by an explanatory historical text about the regions in a yellow background color.According to the title c...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
Carte Generale des Etats de la Republique Polonaise.
Original map on steel, engraved by A. Marcinkiewicz after Léonard Chodzko. It shows the expeditions of Varles XII at the beginning of the 18th century.Leonard Chod&#...
Place & Date: Paris, 1840
Selling price: $18
Sold in 2018
Captain James Cook.
Fine steel engraved portrait of Captain Cook one of the most famous explorers and cartographers. It is from the original picture by Dance in the Gallery of Greenwich Hosp...
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2017
Histoire Sainte, 1840, Cours encyclopédiques - 28e Année - Méthode de Mr Colart . . .
Fine genealogic sheet for educational purpose, about Jewish history. From Adam to Cyrus. In top a map of "Palestine ou Terre Promise en 12 Tribes" 135 x 70mm.
Place & Date: Paris, 1840
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2017
Südlicher theil des Heidelberg schlosses . . . Façade du midi du château de Heidelberg . . .
Early aquatint after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by Hibon and Paul Legrand.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis ...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2018
Westlicher theil des Heidelberg schlosses . . . Façade de l'ouest du château de Heidelberg . . .
Earlyaquatint after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by Hibon and Paul Legrand.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis C...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2018
Ansicht des schlosses, der stradt u. des thales von Heidelberg . . . Vue du château, de la ville et du vallon de Heidelberg . . .
Early aquatint after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by Salathé.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Franç...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Thal schloss und stadt Heidelberg . . . Vue du vallon, de la ville et du château de Heidelberg . . .
Early lithographs after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by Salathé.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Fra...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Coffee cup and plate with map design.
The coffee cup has a map of the eastern part of the globe from Europe up to Asia, including China and Korea with a "Mer de Cor(ée)" for the sea between Japan a...
Place & Date: England, ca.1840
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018