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116 A Plan of the Harbour of Chebucto and Town of Halifax Halifax, Canada 1750 A   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.6 x 8.6 inches) This very attractive and early map of the town of Halifax and vicinity is commonly referred to as The Porcupine Map for its awkward depiction of a porcupine at lower right. The top of the map is oriented to the west. It includes Bedford "formerly call'd Torrington Bay," Cornwallis Island and a grid plan of Halifax with fortifications. The map is decorated with coats of arms, the Ensign o...

117 [Lot of 4 - Canada] Canada 1755-1821 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1. Quebec, Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1821, London, 8.5" x 5.5". This engraved view is from across the river with good detail of the small city on a hill above the river. In the foreground are a three-masted sailboat, a small sailing skiff and duck hunter with his dog. Stained. 2. A Perspective View of Montreal in Canada, Universal Magazine, circa 1755, 10" x 5.5". Ver...

118 [Lot of 4 - Canada] Canada Jacques Nicolas Bellin 1757 A   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) A nice set of matching charts from Jean François de la Harpe's account of important expeditions and discoveries, published circa 1780. Each attractive map is embellished with a delicately engraved, rococo-style title cartouche. 1) Carte de la Baye de Hudson, (12 x 8.8"). Handsome chart of Hudson Bay and Labrador depicting the mountains and coastal features and including numer...

119 Vue Perspective de la Descente des Francois a l'Isle de Terre Neuve du Cote de Saint Jean a l'Occident' Newfoundland F.X. Haberman 1762 B+   $75.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.4 x 9.6 inches) This optical view shows the French capture of St. John's Island in June 1762. Ternay and Comte d'Haussonville led a force of 760 French and 161 Irish soldiers in St. John's occupation. Three months later Col. Amherst landed 1559 soldiers to confront the French and after two days the French fleet escaped in the fog leaving the city and 700 prisoners to Amherst. The view is very dramatic with hun...

120 Partie de l'Amerique Septentrionale, qui comprend le Canada, la Louisiane, le Labrador, le Groenland, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Floride &c. Canada and Greenland Bonne/Lattre 1776 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17 x 11.7 inches) This interesting map covers eastern Canada and Greenland from the bottom of Hudson Bay, northward beyond the Arctic Circle to about 70° N. Latitude. It illustrates the French and English searches for the long-sought Northwest Passage to the rich trading markets of Asia. By the late 18th century the search was primarily concentrated in the extensive network of lakes and river that meandere...

121 British America Comprehending Canada Labrador Newfoundland Nova Scotia &c. Canada Charles 1814 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15 x 13 inches) Scarce Irish-produced map of Canada that extends from Greenland across the continent to Great Slave Lake (here called Arathapescow Lake) north of today's Alberta. Delineates the lands of the Copper, Dog Ribb'd, and Northern Indians. Shows a small portion of coastline far to the north on the Beaufort Sea at the delta of the Copper River. Good detail of the river and lake systems from Gre...

122 [Lot of 2] Amer. Sep. No. 15. Grand Lac de l'Esclave [and] Amer. Sep. No. 25. Partie de la Nouvelle Bretagne Western Canada Vandermaelen 1827 B+   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22 x 18.8 inches) Two detailed map showing the parts of the Northwest Territories (Great Slave Lake) and the northern parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan (Lake Athabasca). The maps are filled with information compiled for fur traders and early explorers.

123 [Lot of 2] Amer. Sep No. 2 Decouvertes Boreales [and] Amer. Sep. No. 1 Iles George Canadian Arctic Vandermaelen 1827 B+   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.8 x 19.2 inches) These two maps covers parts of the Arctic including the recent discoveries in Baffin Bay, Barrow Strait, Prince Regent Inlet and Melville Island. When these maps were published this region was still at the heart of the search for a viable Northwest Passage to the orient.

124 [Lot of 5 - Canada] Canada, Hudson Bay & Labrador Vandermaelen 1827 B+   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.2 x 18.7 inches) This lot consists of five map covering the region around Hudson Bay and Labrador. Included are Amer. Sep. No. 34. Partie de la Nouvelle Bretagne, Amer. Sep. No. 35. Partie de la Nouvelle Bretagne, Amer. Sep. No. 36. Partie du Bas Canada, Amer. Sep. No. 37. Partie de l'Ile de Terre Neuve, and Amer. Sep. No. 43. Grand Banc de Terre-Neuve. Each map is filled with incredible detail.

125 East Canada and New Brunswick Canada John Tallis 1850 B+   $110.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 10 inches) Lovely nineteenth century map of the St. Lawrence River and New Brunswick. Locates Montreal and Quebec with a beautiful vignette of Quebec as seen from the river. The view of Quebec contains numerous sailing ships and boats in the foreground with the cliffs and settlement high above the cliffs. A second vignette shows a group of North American Indians in ceremonial dress with weapons. Further...

126 Pas-caerte van Terra Nova, Nova Francia, Nieuw Engeland en de Grote Rivier van Canada Canadian Maritimes and New England Jan van Loon 1666 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.2 x 17 inches) This rare chart covers from Rhode Island and Martha's Vineyard to Newfoundland and is the first Dutch sea chart of the Canadian Maritimes. It is based on the work of several important sources including Blaeu, Champlain, Sanson and the manuscripts of Gerritsz. It is notable that Van Loon chose not to show the English settlements in Newfoundland, particularly on the Avalon peninsula, even though t...

127 Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se Voit le Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi ' Colonial United States and Canada Nicholas de Fer 1719 A   $2,100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.7 x 19.6 inches) A striking and informative map derived from Nicholas de Fer's important four-sheet map of 1718. It describes the French possessions in North America in the early 18th century. Louisiana and the Mississippi valley are based on Delisle's manuscript map of 1701, while the geography of New England and eastern Canada originates with Franquelin. Inset at top left is a large-scale depiction of the Mis...

128 Partie de l'Amerique Septent? qui comprend la Nouvelle France ou le Canada Canada and Great Lakes Didier Robert de Vaugondy 1755 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23.8 x 17.8 inches) This is a handsome map of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and the entire course of the St. Lawrence River. The most prominent feature of the map is the very large inset of the 1744 Bellin version of the Great Lakes. The wonderful cartouche features the title on a blanket draped over a wooden canoe, which appears to be threatened by a very fierce beaver. This is a state between the third and fourth n...

129 Carte des Lacs du Canada Canada and Great Lakes Jacques Nicolas Bellin 1757 A   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.4 x 7.6 inches) This is an excellent French & Indian War period map depicting the five Great Lakes. While this map uses the same title as Bellin's prototype map of the Great Lakes, published in Charlevoix’s Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France in 1744, it has been updated with information from Bellin's similar map of 1755. Lakes Erie and Ontario are more accurately defined and th...

130 A Plan of the Fort and Bay of Frontenac with the adjacent Countries Colonial New York & Ontario Thomas Kitchin 1758 A+   $110.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7 x 4.5 inches) Strongly engraved map published during the French & Indian War. Centered on Lake Ontario it shows Fort Frontenac on the western shore of New York and Ontario above. Locates the settlements of Kent and Ganaraske, the Toniata Village of Iroquois, the Catarackui River, Deer Island, the Bay of Niaoure and more. Published in the November 1758 London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intel...

131 A Map of the Brittish-Plantations on the Continent of America Colonial Canada & United States Thomas Salmon 1760 B   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.8 x 13.5 inches) An uncommon map with information derived from Popple's large map of 1733. It shows the area from Labrador and Hudson Bay to Florida, and west to the Great Lakes. It is crisply engraved, and names the Province of Main, and Massachusets Bay for Massachusetts. Pennsylvania is shown extending to the 43rd parallel. Near present-day Nashville, Tennessee a note mentions that the area is...

132 An Exact Chart of the River St. Laurence, from Fort Frontenac to the Island of Anticosti Shewing the Soundings, Rocks, Shoals, &c. with Views of the Lands and All Necessary Instructions for Navigating that River to Quebec Colonial United States and Canada Jefferys/Sayer & Bennett 1775 B+   $800.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 37.3 x 23.4 inches) This large-scale map of the St. Lawrence River was first issued in 1757. It is based on the surveys of Jean Desayes with an updated depiction of the river from Lake Ontario to Quebec based on D'Anville. This great navigational chart is complete with soundings, rhumb lines, sailing directions, and coastal profiles. The central part of the map shows the river from Anticosti Island to Quebec, and ...

133 L'Acadia, le Provincie di Sagadahook e Main, la Nuova Hampshire, la Rhode Island, e Parte di Massachusset e Connecticut Colonial United States and Canada Antonio Zatta 1778 A   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.7 x 12.5 inches) This great regional map covers New England and Nova Scotia and details the early settlements and roads with the adjacent fishing banks. It includes Cape Cod, Boston, Newport, New London, Portsmouth, and much more. Delineates the roads along the coast and westward from Concord. Provides excellent detail in Acadia and of the adjacent fishing banks. Towns, villages, roads, trails, and watershed t...

134 Carte Generale d'une Partie de la Cote du Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique reconnue par les Fregates Francaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe Western Canada & United States Jean Francois Galoup, Comte La Perouse 1797 B+   $275.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.5 x 27 inches) This is a superb large-scale map of the exploration of the West Coast of North America by La Perouse between June and September, 1786. The route begins at Mount St. Elias in Alaska on June 24 and finishes at Monterey California on September 12. The track of the ships with dates and other information is shown. Many coastal place names, but only those parts actually observed and surveyed are note...

135 Carte de la Partie Septentrionale des Etats Unis, comprenant le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse, New Hampshire, Massachuset's Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-Yorck, Etat de Vermont, avec partie de Pensilvanie et de New-Jersey Eastern Canada & New England Antoine Francois Tardieu 1797 B+   $190.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.5 x 12.7 inches) Finely detailed map of the Northeast extending from Philadelphia up the coast to Ile d'Anticosti and the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and inland to show part of Lake Ontario. Fine detail particularly along the Hudson River locates scores of towns and villages, shows roads, mountains and watershed. Four distance scales at upper left and a simple block-style title cartouche. Longitude is mea...

136 Carte des Etats-Unis d'Amerique, du Canada, du Nouveau Brunswick et d'une partie de la Nouvelle Bretagne Canada & United States, Texas Alexander Emile & Pierre Lapie 1837 A   $230.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.3 x 15.5 inches) This is a great map filled with detail, Indian tribes, forts and other political and geographical information. It covers primarily the United States, but extends to include a good portion of Canada; the western parts of which are largely still the domain of several Indian nations. The cartography in the west is primarily taken from the explorations of Lewis and Clark and dotted lines trace the H...

137 Carte Generale des Etats-Unis, des Haut et Bas-Canada Canada & United States, Texas Adrien Hubert Brue 1840 B+   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.3 x 14.5 inches) An uncommon and finely engraved map covering all the eastern United States to about the 100th meridian, including a little of southern Canada. The western territories include Ter. du Nord Ouest that encompasses present-day Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and Minnesota. The rest of the west beyond Missouri and Arkansas is designated as Indian Districts/i>. The eastern half ...

138 Extract from a Map of the British and French Dominions in North America by Jno. Mitchell Canada & Maine U.S. Gov. 1843 B+   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13 x 13.3 inches) This map shows the region that was disputed between the United States and Canada prior to the border being established with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842. This is a copy of a section of John Mitchell's famous map that was used during the 1783 Treaty of Paris. That treaty did not clearly determine the boundary leaving a contested area of the Saint John River valley and its tributaries. In...

139 Warner's Safe Cure Prize Map of the United States and Canada United States & Canada Rand McNally& Co. 1887 B+   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 53 x 38 inches) This huge, folding map of the United States and southern Canada is an very uncommon map promoting a patent medicine company. The large illustration at the bottom left of the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Enlightening the World, includes a two-paragraph description of the statue and its construction. The people of France presented the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States in 1886, the ...

140 Map of the Border Cities of Windsor, Walkerville, Ford City, Sandwich and Ojibway Canada Canada & United States, Detroit 1920 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 28 x 12.5 inches) This is a handsome real estate speculation map showing Detroit and the area across the river. Ojibway was intended to become a major steel center after U.S. Steel purchased a large plot of land. Unfortunately for the speculators the project was ultimately abandoned. It uses red over printing to show proposed subdivisions. Across the top and at right are images of preliminary construction at th...

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