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103 Amerique Septentrionale par N. Sanson d'Abbeville' North America N. Sanson/Mariette 1650 B   $2,500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22 x 15.5 inches) Sanson's important map of North America is the first to show all of the Great Lakes in a recognizable form, and the first to name lakes Superior and Ontario. The Arctic bears the cartography typical of this date, with Greenland shown as three islands, and another three-island mass in Baffin Bay. Buttons Bay is left open-ended to the west, allowing the hopeful possibility of a Northwest Pa...

104 Amerique Septentrionale North America Allain Mallet 1683 A+   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 6 inches) This charming miniature map depicts the continent with the island of California shown only to about the 40° north. The Great Lakes are open-ended in the west and called Mer Douce and there is a north-south range of mountains called Mont de Suala. First state, with the Barania R labeled in Mexico. French text on verso.

105 A Map of a New World between New Mexico and the Frozen Sea Newly Discovered by Father Lewis Hennepin' North America Fr. Louis de Hennepin 1698 A   $3,250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.2 x 10.5 inches) This uncommon English edition of Hennepin's map of North America is most notable for its depiction of the river and lake routes into the interior and the Great Lakes region. Particularly, the delineation of Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron are a marked improvement on Sanson's open-ended versions. Even with these improvements, the lack of accuracy is very evident; the lakes are enlarged and exag...

106 America Borealis North America Scherer 1699 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.8 x 9 inches) Henrich Scherer, a mathematics professor and Jesuit, produced this work to emphasize the extend of Catholic influence in the New World. The richly engraved map shows the Island of California after the Sanson model with a large mountain range. The Great Lakes are prominently depicted and the Mississippi River originates in two large lakes in present-day Canada, and empties into the Sinu...

107 Americque Septentrionale North America Nicolas Sanson 1699 A+   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11 x 7.8 inches) This handsome small map is a reduced and revised version of Sanson's folio map of North America (1650). The map presents California as an island, but the coastline to the northwest of California is now named Terre de Iesso, rather than reflecting his earlier belief that it was an extension of the American continent. The R. de Nort drains into the Gulf of California from a la...

108 L'Amerique Septentrionale North America Anonymous 1702 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6.6 x 5.4 inches) This is a charming small map that shows the island of California with an indented coastline and includes place names Estiete, C. Blanco, P. de Carinde, Canal de S. Barbe, S. Martin, I. de S. Mare, S. Francisco, S. Simon, and an island named La Rocca Partada. The Rio Bravo ou de Nord (Rio Grande) joins the prominent Mississippi River just before emptying into the Gulf ...

109 Idea Naturalis Americae Borealis Digito Dei Formata Geographice Proposita North America Scherer 1700 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.7 x 8.7 inches) This captivating map of North America features a huge island of California, an oversized depiction of the Great Lakes, and a misplaced Mississippi River delta. It is decorated with two cartouches; one is capped with a globe revealing the Western Hemisphere and the other, at the lower left corner, is surrounded with exotic animals, most not native to North America such as a rhinoceros and a...

110 Repraesentatio Americae Borealis Cuius Provinciae Vera Fide Illuminatae Umbram Non Habent, Reliquae Unbris Immersae Sunt North America Scherer 1702 B+   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.8 x 9.5 inches) This is one of the most graphic and beautifully engraved maps in Scherer's series of North American maps. California is depicted as an island with a nearly flat northern coast and only two place names in the south. The map is engraved with various shading to show the areas converted to Christianity, those exposed to the gospel, and those still heathen. The places shown lighter are those ...

111 L'Amerique Septentrionale qui fait partie des Indes Occidentales North America Jacques Chiquet 1719 A   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.7 x 6.6 inches) Charming, exquisitely detailed map of the continent featuring the island of California with an indented northern coast and Cap Blanc, Port des Roys and Pointe de la Cair at the north end of the island. The British colonies are shown confined east of the Appalachians, with France in control of the region between there and the Mississippi River. Spain controls all of the West ...

112 L'Amerique Septentrionale Suivant les Nouvelles Observations' North America Pieter van der Aa 1729 A   $700.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.5 x 8.8 inches) A delicately engraved map of North America and the West Indies. This map depicts an interesting version of California that is ambiguous about whether it is an island or not, as the Gulf of California is left open ended, and the Northwest coast is left blank. Neptune and two Native Americans flank the large title cartouche. The routes of the explorers Cortez, Drake and Olivier are shown in the P...

113 North America Drawn from the Latest & Best Authorities North America Thomas Kitchin 1770 B   $450.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14 x 13 inches) The title cartouche conveniently hides the unexplored northwestern regions on this map of North America. But below the cartouche there is still a wide variety of speculative cartography. The Western Sea has only the western coastline delineated and the entrances are noted as discovered by Juan de Fuca and Aquilar. The River of the West also apparently ties into this vague sea and ...

114 America Settentrionale divisa ne' suoi principali Stati North America Antonio Zatta 1776 A   $375.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16 x 12.3 inches) Zatta depicts the western portion of North America with some of the notorious misconceptions popularized by the maps of Delisle and Buache, with a dramatic Northwest Passage flowing from the north of Hudson Bay to Lake Winnipeg and through some very dubious waterways to the Pacific. In roughly the area of Puget Sound, there is a mention of the Chinese colony of Fou Sang, based upon Hui She...

115 Amerique Septentrionale North America Rigobert Bonne 1780 B+   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.7 x 8.5 inches) The entire western part of the continent is left completely blank on this map of North America. The British Colonies and a few major cities are named along the eastern seaboard and in the Great Lakes region. Alaska is shown as a group of islands, the largest of which is labeled Alaschka. Good detail of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Filled with information and ...

116 North America in its Present Divisions, agreeable to the Peace North America Thomas Stackhouse 1794 B+   $450.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.8 x 14.8 inches) This is an uncommon later edition of one of the first maps to show the political divisions of North America following the Revolutionary War. This map lacks the date of 1783 seen on the earlier editions, but evidence of it is still seen within the cartouche. The divisions are noted in color for the United States (yellow), Britain (red), Spain (green), and France (blue). The fictional R...

117 North America North America J. Wilkes 1796 A+   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.3 x 9 inches) Finely engraved small map of North America featuring a River of the West reaching close to the headwaters of the Mississippi. A series of four mountain ranges rise in the western basin.

118 America Septentrional North America Pablo Alabern 1817 B+   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.5 x 14 inches) Very uncommon Spanish map of the continent. The United States is particularly interesting in the Pacific Northwest, depicting an apparent compromise between the conflicting British and American claims in the region by showing the U.S. claims to British Columbia in the Rocky Mountain region, and British claims to include all of Puget Sound. There is also a very unusual region of present-day Calif...

119 Amerique du Nord North America, Texas A.H. Dufour 1830 B   $170.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 8.8 inches) This finely engraved map features the region in Texas known as the Republic of Fredonia. The so-called Fredonia Rebellion was one of three conflicts leading to the independence of Texas. Fredonia was located in northeastern Texas, but is here depicted in the southern portion. Fredonia is rarely seen; in fact to our knowledge it is found on only a few published maps. This map loca...

120 North America North America David Burr/Thomas Illman 1834 A   $170.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.5 x 12.6 inches) This copper engraved map of the continent has good detail for this style of map. The Rocky Mountains form a single dominant range down the entire continent. The reach of the United State's claims extends well into British Columbia. Mexico still controls the entire Southwest, including Texas. The fictitious L. Timpanago is noted with an amorphous northern coastline.

121 [Lot of 2] Map of North America Designed to Accompany Smith's Geography for Schools [and] North America North America 1836-1839 A   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) An attractive pair of maps detailing North America in the middle of the 19th century. 1) Map of North America Designed to Accompany Smith's Geography for Schools is a very nice and early example of this copper engraved map that features the Independent Republic of Texas. Austin is appropriately noted as the capital with a large star. The entire western region is mostly ...

122 [Lot of 2] North America [and] Carte Generale de L'Amerique du Nord North America [blank] 1836-1840 B+   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) Interesting pair of maps of North America during the mid-19th century. 1) North America Plate by Sidney Hall, circa 1840 features the Independent Republic of Texas with the panhandle bounded on the Arkansas River. The map extends to include the Galapagos, Cuba, Jamaica, St. Domingo, and all of Central America. As a British mapmaker, Hall extends Canada well south to th...

123 North America North America Archibald Fullarton & Co. 1840 A   $65.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8 x 9.5 inches) A handsome, small map of North America filled with detail. Missouri Territory reaches from Texas to present-day Montana, and Western Territory fills the region from British Columbia to Oregon. A lovely view of Niagara Falls adorns the lower left corner.

124 North America North America, Texas SDUK 1843 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 15 inches) Detailed and finely engraved map that portrays an Independent Texas, with Mexico controlling Nueva California. The boundary between Canada and the United States is left uncolored, leaving the ownership of Oregon Territory (here labeled Columbia) unknown, which is unusual for a British map. Filled with well developed topography, the map names numerous forts, trading posts, Indian tr...

125 Amerique Septentrionale North America Victor Levasseur 1845 A   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17 x 11 inches) Lovely map with an Independent Texas, the United States extending into present day Canada, Russia in control of Alaska, and Mexico's northern border according to the Treaty of 1819 (misprinted 1810). Surrounded by beautifully engraved, and fully colored, scenes of North and Central America including local animals, a ship stranded in the polar sea, and a Mayan Temple. A very popular and de...

126 Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika North America Friedrich H. Handtke 1850 A   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 27 x 20 inches) Four joined sheets make up this map of the United States and provide an excellent view, particularly of the American West with its large western territories; Missouri, Minnesota, Indian, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico. The boundary with British Columbia is correct and the boundary with Mexico is on the Gila River, pre-Gadsden Purchase. A key shows the states and territories, with number of countie...

127 Nouvelle Carte Illustree l'Amerique du Nord North America A. Vuillemin 1860 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 33 x 23.5 inches) Superb large chart from this scarce nineteenth century atlas that extends to include Greenland and Iceland. The map is filled with an impressive array of information illustrating the physical and geographical divisions, colonial possessions in the Caribbean, roads, canals, railways, forts, mines and the plant and mineral distributions. The map is flanked with side panels containing numerous meti...

128 Carte Contenant le Royaume du Mexique et la Floride, Dressez sur les Meilleures Observations & sur les Memoires les Plus Nouveaux Colonial North America Henry Abraham Chatelain 1719 B+   $800.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.5 x 16 inches) This is a fine derivative of Delisle's landmark map of the southern part of North America and the West Indies. The detailed map shows many English settlements along the East Coast and carefully notes the discoveries of D'Iberville along the Gulf Coast and Mississippi River. The vast region, later known as Louisiana, from Florida through present-day Texas is shown as the French possession of F...

129 Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se Voit le Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi' Colonial North America Ottens/De Fer 1720 A   $1,900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.8 x 19.8 inches) A striking and informative map derived from Nicholas de Fer's important four-sheet map of 1718, this describes the French possessions in North America in the early 18th century. Very similar to the 1719 Chatelain map of the same title, but this has a much more decorative cartouche and simpler border for the inset map. Louisiana and the Mississippi valley are based on Delisle's manuscript map of ...

130 Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae, et Pensylvaniae nec non Insularum Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali Accurata Tabula ' Colonial North America Johann Baptist Homann 1720 B+   $1,500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.5 x 18.5 inches) This superb map covers the region from the Great Lakes and Nova Scotia through Central America, the Caribbean and Venezuela, and from New Mexico (naming Taos and Santa Fe) to the eastern seaboard. The map is based largely on Delisle's map of 1703 (Carte du Mexique et de la Floride). The British colonies are shown confined east of the Appalachians. The map itself is filled with settlement place ...

131 Charte der Brittischen Laender in Nord America, nach den Frieden von 1763 Colonial North America Peter Bell 1772 B   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15 x 11.7 inches) This attractive and detailed map of the British Colonies focuses on the eastern half of North America and describes the region according to the treaty of 1763. The area shown is from James Bay to Newfoundland in the north and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida Keys in the south. The colonies of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida all extend to the Mississippi River. There is a larg...

132 Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-Ouest separes de l'Asie par le Detroit d'Anian Western North America Didier Robert de Vaugondy 1772 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.1 x 11.5 inches) Two contrasting maps, one inset into the other. The inset map is based on a world map by Plancius issued in 1641, while the larger map is based on Visscher's map of 1612. Other than a recognizable Baja California, the maps are filled with the cartographic myths of the 17th century. The northwest coast bulges too far to the west. Both maps feature the seven cities of Cibola g...

133 Carte Systematique d'une Partie de l'Amerique du N.O. pour l'Intelligence des Decouvertes de l'Amal. De Fuente par J.N. Delisle. 1752 Pacific Northwest Joseph Nicholas Delisle 1798 A+   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6 x 8.3 inches) The major focus of this map is on infamous expedition by Admiral Bartholomew de Fonte's in the Pacific Northwest. In 1708, a newly discovered account of the Spanish Admiral's 1640 expedition was published. It was actually a hoax, but thereafter the account was changed and elaborated upon by numerous mapmakers. The extravagant claims included the discovery of the Northwest Passage and a h...

134 Map of the Western & Middle Portions of North America to Illustrate the History of California, Oregon and the Other Countries on the North West Coast of America Western North America Robert Greenhow 1844 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 25 x 23 inches) This is a great copper engraved map showing the western part of North America. It extends to Acapulco in the south and north to show all of Alaska including the Bering Strait and a small portion of Russian Asia. The Sandwich Islands are at lower left. Canada is named British America with the region west and south of Hudson Bay called Hudson's Bay Company's Territories. The Red Ri...

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