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62 Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentalis Western Hemisphere Johann Theodore de Bry 1623 B+   $1,600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.8 x 6.8 inches) This scarce and important map of the Americas and the Pacific Ocean is based on the manuscript charts of Juan Lopez de Velasco. It depicts the Papal line of demarcation between the Portuguese and Spanish spheres of influence. Being Spanish in origin, the map places the Philippines and Moluccas some 40 degrees too far east. There are both Latin and German script notations in the South Pacific. ...

63 America noviter delineata Western Hemisphere Matthaus Merian 1631 A   $1,600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.6 x 14 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 of 1631. 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. There is a large inland lake in equatori...

64 Americae nova Tabula Western Hemisphere Willem Blaeu 1635 B+   $5,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.8 x 16.3 inches) This stunning carte-a-figures map is a superb example of the fine art of decorative cartography and a seventeenth-century European view of the New World. The coastal outlines generally follow Ortelius and Wytfliet with nomenclature from a variety of explorers and colonists. Panels at sides, each with five portraits of the native inhabitants were taken from John White (Virginia), Hans Stad...

65 Americae Descrip. Western Hemisphere Mercator/Hondius 1635 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.7 x 5.8 inches) Charming reduced version of the Americas map that Hondius engraved for Gerard Mercator's folio atlas. It is a combination of various cartographic sources. North America is greatly enlarged with a Plancius type depiction of Newfoundland and a protruding Virginian coast, and the west coast separated by only a narrow strait from Asiae Pars. South America is shown with a more or less correct...

66 America noviter delineata Western Hemisphere Hondius/Jansson 1656 B+   $1,800.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.6 x 14.8 inches) This beautiful and popular map of the Americas was emulated by numerous cartographers and went through various editions. Originally issued by Jodocus Hondius II in 1618 with carte-a-figures borders, it was derived from two earlier maps by Blaeu. North America retains the peninsular California and the East Coast is beginning to take shape, although it still lacks detail in the mid-Atlantic region. ...

67 L'Amerique autrement le Nouveau Monde et Indes Occidentales' Western Hemisphere Pierre DuVal 1676 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.2 x 14.5 inches) An uncommon map of the Americas based largely on the cartography of Nicolas Sanson, Duval's uncle. In North America, the Great Lakes are shown open-ended in the west and California is depicted as an island. Above California is the Destroit d' Anien and the large Terre de Iesso, or land of Jesso, that resulted from confusing reports by De Vries on his expedition in the waters...

68 Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio Western Hemisphere Frederick de Wit 1680 B+   $1,100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.8 x 19.3 inches) This is a close derivative of Nicolas Visscher's influential map of the Americas. However, the island of California and the Great Lakes are shown on the Sanson model. In the Southwest, the Rio del Norto flows from a large interior lake and empties into the sea between the mainland and California. In South America, Parime Lacus is prominent and a battle scene and village app...

69 America Western Hemisphere Philipp Cluver 1711 A   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10 x 8 inches) This charming map of the Americas presents California as an island and no Great Lakes in North America. The interior rivers of South America are all connected to a large, spurious lake labeled Lago de los Xarzyes. Maarten Gerritsz de Vries' discoveries are noted in the waters north of Japan (Fret. Frees), and Abel Janszoon Tasman's discoveries are shown in New Zealand. The ...

70 Carte du Gouvernement de l'Amerique Western Hemisphere Henry Abraham Chatelain 1719 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.2 x 13 inches) This folio sheet is filled with fascinating French text, statistics and four engravings showing the European councils dividing up the American continents. The map itself (3.7 x 5.2") shows an unnamed island of California on the Sanson model. The only political detail is the division of the regions between the colonial powers. Far to the south, a purely speculative Antarctic continent is ...

71 Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Novissima Repraesentatio Western Hemisphere Homann Heirs 1730 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.6 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 Pai...

72 Novus Orbis sive America Meridionalis et Septentrionalis, per sua Regna, Provincias, et Insulas iuxta Observationes et Descriptiones Recentiss Western Hemisphere Matthias Seutter 1730 C+   $750.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.8 x 19.7 inches) This striking map of the Americas features a prominent island of California based on the second Sanson model, with two indented bays in the northern coast. Directly above the island is the strait of Fretum Anian and the coastline of Terra Esonis incogn, which is obscured by an elaborate pictorial cartouche relating to the religious conversion of the natives. The Great Lakes ...

73 Haupt Karte America oder West Indien oder Die Neue Welt Western Hemisphere P. Anselm Desing 1733 B+   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.2 x 5.1 inches) This uncommon little map is from a history and geography book for Catholic students. The huge northwest coast of North America is marked Terra Incognitae. There is a pictorial title cartouche depicting Benedictine monks bringing Christianity to the New World. Desing was an eighteenth century Benedictine monk of Ensdorf who devoted his life to scientific studies and was a member of the Bav...

74 L'Amerique ou le Nouveau Continent Dressee sur les Memoires les Plus Nouveaux ... Dediee et Presentee a Monsiegneur Law' Western Hemisphere Jean Baptiste Nolin 1742 A+   $1,200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23 x 17.2 inches) This scarce map of the Americas includes one of the most interesting depictions of the Sea of the West (Mer de l'ouest) in North America. The first printed map to show the Sea of the West is Nolin's rare world map (Shirley #605) in 1700. That map was in turn supposedly based on a manuscript map prepared by Delisle. It showed a huge sea that reached all the way into the heart of the conti...

75 Amerique ou Indes Occidentales Western Hemisphere Robert de Vaugondy (family) 1778 A   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 25.5 x 19.4 inches) This is an updated version of L'Amerique Septentrionale et Meridionale' [1749]. The distance scales are now arrayed below the neatline and the northwest coast of North America extends above California. A Grande Riviere coulante a l'ouest, inspired by the tales of Baron Lahontan, includes the large salt lake labeled Tahuglauks. Other rivers emptying into the Pacific hint at ...

76 Bowles's New Pocket-Map of America, Divided into its Provinces, Colonies, States, Governments, & c. Exhibiting the British & Spanish Empires' Western Hemisphere Carrington Bowles 1784 A   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.5 x 19.6 inches) This large map covers the Americas with an extensive key to the colonial possessions. In North America the United States extends to the Mississippi River and there are 14 states listed. Spain is shown in control of the entire western part of North America and Florida. The British possessions in Canada extend only to the Lake Winnipeg region, and France retains only a small sliver of Newfoundlan...

77 Carte d'Amerique Divisee en ses Principaux Etats avec les Nouvelles Decouvertes' Western Hemisphere Jean Baptiste Nolin 1792 B+   $900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 28.8 x 20.5 inches) The era of exploration is dramatically shown on this rare map with the tracts of explorers shown, including Magellan, Mendana, Quiros, Le Maire, Bougainville, Furneaux and Cook. It was first issued by Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet in 1787 with a slightly different title (Carte d'Amerique divisee en ses principaux Pays Dressee sur les Memoires les plus recents, et sur Differents Voyages). In...

78 [Lot of 3 - America] Western Hemisphere Various 1800-1856 B+   $75.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) This lot consists of 3 nice thematic maps. 1) De l'Amerique, Plan du Tableau..., Didot, 1807 (25 x 17.7") This uncommon map of the Americas shows the political divisions and colonial possessions. Surrounded by detailed historical text and tables of information including the capitals and populations for the United States and its territories. The map includes a rudimentarily s...

79 Carte Generale et Politique de l'Amerique Western Hemisphere Edme Mentelle 1806 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.5 x 13 inches) This attractive and finely engraved map focuses on North and South America in an unusual projection with warped lines of longitude. The projection allows the inclusion of Africa and Europe at right, and New Zealand and the Pacific Islands at left. The United States is well shown with Georgia extending to the Mississippi River. Santa Fe is located but the entire Rocky Mountain region and Pacific...

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