Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics
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Lot#		Title		Subject/Creator		Date/Cond		Sold for:

62 Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio Western Hemisphere Munster/Petri 1592 C+   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.2 x 12 inches) This handsome woodcut is based on Abraham Ortelius' classic map. It features the huge bulge in the southwest coastline of South America, the extensive western coastline of North America, and the great southern continent, here called Meridies Terra de Fuego. A village of Quivira and the Sierra Nevada are located in present-day California. Inland is the kingdom of Quivira wi...

63 America Western Hemisphere Hondius/Bertius 1616 A+   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.3 x 3.7 inches) An uncommon miniature map of the Americas based on the 1606 map of America by Jodocus Hondius senior, but with the addition of the recent discovery of Hudson Bay. This small map marks the first appearance of Hudson Bay on a continental map, named here as Fretum Hudsonium. North America is shown with a large westward bulge, and the continent is filled with placenames. The western coast ha...

64 Carte de l'Amerique Corrigee, et augmentee dessus toutes les aultres cy devant Faictes l'annee 1646 Western Hemisphere Petrus Bertius 1646 B+   $1,200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.5 x 14.8 inches) Scarce, reduced scale derivative of Hondius' influential map of 1618 by Petrus Bertius, here in the third state, published by Mariette. The map improves on Hondius by completing the coastline of Tierra del Fuego. California is still shown as a peninsula, although the Baja Peninsula is now isolated by two oddly crossed rivers, opening the possibility that it may be an island. The western ...

65 America noviter delineata Western Hemisphere Matthaus Merian 1655 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.3 x 13.9 inches) This is the uncommon, larger version of Merian's map of the Americas. Merian's bold engraving style copies the cartography of Jodocus Hondius' map. North America is depicted with a prominent Virginia and an odd New England coastline. The western coastline above California makes the continent too wide and there is only a hint of the Great Lakes. The fictitious Parime Lacus is shown in eq...

66 America Western Hemisphere Philipp Cluver 1661 B   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10 x 8.2 inches) This map is derived from the Nicolas Visscher map of 1658, with a similar combination of the Blaeu type Great Lakes region and a Briggs type island of California. A depiction of the Fries voyage appears in the water north of Japan, and Tasman's discoveries are shown in New Zealand. The title is enclosed in a drape style title cartouche with branches above. Engraved by H. Mosting.

67 Recentissima Novi Orbis sive Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Tabula Western Hemisphere Carel Allard 1700 B+   $2,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23 x 19.5 inches) Sumptuous map of the Americas features a dramatically decorative title cartouche showing an Amazonian queen surrounded by riches, a sugar cane field and exotic animals. Inset in the cartouche is a small map of the coast of New Zealand. The cartography of North America includes all five Great Lakes and the island of California on the Foxe model with two indented bays on the northern coastl...

68 A New & Exact Map of the Coast, Countries and Islands within ye Limits of ye South Sea Company' Western Hemisphere , South America Herman Moll 1711 B   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.3 x 26 inches) A fascinating and uncommon map of South America, includes the southern portion of North America with the island of California and Central America. The sheet also has twelve smaller inset maps, including Isle Chiloe, Acapulco, the Gallapagos Islands, the Isthmus of Darien, Straits of Magellan, Juan Fernando, the Gulf of Nicoya, the Gulf of Fonseca, Port Baldivia (Valdivia), the sea route fr...

69 Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Novissima Repraesentatio' Western Hemisphere Johann Baptist Homann 1730 B+   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.3 x 19 inches) This attractive map is a revision of the elder Homann's 1710 map of the Americas. After his death in 1724, his son (Johann Christoph Homann) re-engraved the plate to correct the western coastline of North America, shown here extending very far west and north, with very little detail. California is no longer shown as an island, although the remnants of the interior sea can be seen near the Pa...

70 Nieuwe Kaart van het Westelykste Deel der Weereld'naar Westindie Western Hemisphere Isaac Tirion 1754 B+   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.2 x 13.3 inches) An attractive map of the Americas that also includes a good bit of western Europe and Africa. The map displays a speculative River of the West through North America, beginning at the Great Lakes and emptying into the Pacific at about 50° N. latitude. The entire western part of North America is virtually blank. The northwest coastline terminates with a notation concerning the Russian expl...

71 Carte d'Amerique, dressee pour l'usage du Roy Western Hemisphere Delisle/Buache 1763 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 24 x 19.2 inches) This map was originally issued by Guillaume Delisle in 1722 and was one of the most popular maps of the 18th Century with numerous editions. This is the important seventh state of the map, notable because it is one of the earliest maps to depict the mythical Sea of the West. The huge inland sea dominates the Pacific Northwest and a large inset illustrates Buache's elaborate Northwest P...

72 L'Amerique divisee Par Grands Etats Western Hemisphere Janvier/Lattre 1783 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.5 x 12 inches) Later edition of this copper engraved map of the Americas. When originally engraved, this map included a large Sea of the West and hints of a possible Northwest Passage. It has now been re-engraved to delete those features (although they can still be faintly discerned). Alaska now is shown with approximately the correct shape, although the Aleutians are missing. The Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) a...

73 Division Geographiques et Politiques de l'Amerique, Productions, Decouvertes, Etablissements, etc. Western Hemisphere P. Didot 1803 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 25 x 17.7 inches) An interesting sheet depicting the European possessions throughout the Americas. The map is surrounded by French text describing the history of colonization and geography of the region. Hand coloring identifies the colonial holdings of Portugal, England, France and Spain. A table provides information on 20 states and territories of the United States. Vancouver's discoveries are noted in the Paci...

74 Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere James Wyld 1841 B+   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23 x 23 inches) This handsome, large map features the independent Republic of Texas with its southern border on the Rio Grande and the northern border on the Arkansas, thus incorporating Santa Fe. Alaska is noted as a Russian Possession, and the islands in the South Pacific are well-delineated.

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