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70 Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas uocant [Novae Insulae XVII Nova Tabula] Western Hemisphere Sebastian Munster 1554 A   $8,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 10 inches) This is one of the most important 16th century maps of the New World, credited with popularizing the name America. North America is very oddly shaped with no California and Zipangri (Japan) is shown only a short distance off the western coast. In the east, the land is nearly bisected by a body of water, known as the Sea of Verrazzano. The Yucatan is still shown as an island and the lake ...

71 Americae sive novi Orbis, nova Descriptio Western Hemisphere Munster/Petri 1588 C passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.5 x 12 inches) Woodcut map by based on Abraham Ortelius' classic map of 1570, with the huge bulge in the southwest coastline of South America, an overly broad western coastline of North America, and the great southern continent, here called Meridies Terra de Fuego. However, because of the restrictions inherent in wood block engraving, Petri's map is somewhat generalized. A village of Quivira and ...

72 America Western Hemisphere Jodocus Hondius 1628 A+   $6,500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.6 x 14.7 inches) One of the most elaborate examples of fine Dutch cartography decorated with cartouches, a large scene of Brazilian natives brewing and partaking of a ceremonial beverage, sea monsters, indigenous birds, native canoes and sailing vessels. The sterographic projection is based on various sources. It corrects the western coastline of South America. However, North America is still too broad. Newfou...

73 America noviter delineata Western Hemisphere Matthaus Merian 1631 A   $1,800.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.5 x 14.7 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...

74 America noviter delineata Western Hemisphere Matthaus Merian 1638 A   $750.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.2 x 11 inches) Merian prepared this reduced version of his 1631 map for the German translation of Pierre d'Avity's Les Empires du Monde and it accompanied other works of the period including Theatrum Europaeum. It is one of the many derivatives of Jodocus Hondius' map of 1618. North America is depicted with a prominent Virginia and an odd New England coastline. The western coastline above Califo...

75 Carte de l' Amerique Corrigee, et augmentee' Western Hemisphere Petrus Bertius 1646 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.5 x 14.7 inches) This is a scarce derivative of Hondius' influential map of 1618. This map was originally drawn by Petrus Bertius in 1624 (the first state of which is now extremely rare). This is the third state, published by Pierre Mariette. In this and the second state, the entire west coast was re-engraved above Baja California with the legend Pays Non Encore Descoverts (land not yet discovered). Thi...

76 Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis Western Hemisphere Philipp Cluver 1661 A   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5 x 4.7 inches) This tiny map is a reduced version of the important map of De Laet, 1630. It is a simple map of the coastlines of the Americas with many rivers and bays and a few place names. The most notable place named on the East Coast of North America is C. Cod. There are no Great Lakes shown in North America and conspicuously absent is the mythical Lake Parime in South America. It is adorned with ...

77 Americae Descriptio Western Hemisphere Philipp Cluver 1676 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8 x 5.5 inches) Fine small map of the Americas prominently featuring the island of California and showing most of the Pacific Ocean including the western coastline of New Zealand. Tiny ships dot the seas and Native Americans surround the title cartouche.

78 Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio Western Hemisphere Frederick de Wit 1680 B   $1,600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.8 x 19.2 inches) This is a close derivative of Nicolas Visscher's influential map of the Americas. Other than the depiction of the island of California, which is shown on the Sanson model, the cartography is unchanged. The interior is lacking any of the recent French discoveries and there is one huge, open-ended, Great Lake and a confused system of rivers in the Mississippi valley. In the Southwest, the...

79 America Septentrionalis Novissima / America Meridionalis Accuratissima Western Hemisphere Pieter Schenk 1695 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.4 x 19 inches) A fine decorative map of the Americas. North America is based on the Sanson-Jaillot model with California as an Island. Buttons Bay and the Great Lakes are both left open-end in the west, leaving open the possibility of a Northwest Passage. An unusual feature of the map is the pair of large cartouches, one for each continent, each surrounded by figures including natives, animals,...

80 L' Amerique, Meridionale et Septentrionale' Western Hemisphere Nicholas de Fer 1700 A+   $700.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13 x 8.7 inches) First state of this charming map of the Americas. The Island of California covers the entire west coast north of the Tropic of Cancer with two large imaginary islands off shore. One of the prominent features in northern Mexico is Les Mine de S. Iean et de Ste. Barbe, the legendary Santa Barbara mines of the Chihuahua-Durango region. There are several large spurious lakes on both c...

81 Amerika of de Nieuwe Weerld Aller eerst Door C. Kolumbus Western Hemisphere Pieter van der Aa 1707 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9 x 6 inches) Charming map of the continents with California as an Island. The Great Lakes are shown open-ended in the west and a large river emanates from a large inland lake. In South America there is a large lake in Guyana and the Uruguay River, here called the Paraguay, appears much larger than the Amazon. The Insulae Solomis are prominent in the Pacific with Quiri Regio partially ou...

82 Americae Mappa generalis Western Hemisphere Homann Heirs 1746 B   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.5 x 18 inches) Nice eighteenth century map of the Americas with considerable detail throughout. There is no coastline above the peninsula California. The very large title cartouche includes two erupting volcanoes, Native Americans, birds and what appears to be a pot of gold.

83 L' Amerique Suivant le R.P. Charlevoix Jte. Mr. de la Condamine et Plusieurs autres Nouvle. Observations Western Hemisphere Le Rouge 1746 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 25 x 19 inches) This important map is the first record of Bering's second expedition with his historic discoveries in Alaska and the Northwest coast of North America. The routes of Delisle and Tchirikow are shown in 1741 terminating on a vague island in the approximate location of Alaska. Also shown by light engraved lines is a Northwest Passage linking the Pacific with Hudson Bay where there is a note c...

84 Nieuwe Kaart Van het Westelykste Deel der Weereld, dienende tot aanwyzing van de Scheepstogten der Nederlanderen Naar Westindie Volgens de Laatste Ontdekkingen Western Hemisphere Isaac Tirion 1754 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.2 x 13.2 inches) An attractive map of the Americas, which also includes a good bit of western Europe and Africa. A Northwest Passage is shown through North America, beginning at the Great Lakes and ending in a large river emptying into the Pacific at about 50 deg. N. latitude. The entire western part of North America is virtually blank. The northwest coastline is delineated by a dotted line terminating w...

85 Carte Nouvelle d' Amerique Western Hemisphere Etienne Andre Philippe De Pretot 1770 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.5 x 10.7 inches) Charming map of the Americas with very nice detail for a relatively small map. In North America there is a huge Sea of the West with its northern shore conveniently hidden by the border - alluding to a possible Northwest Passage. In South America the Amazon River is boldly depicted with its headwaters in Peru. Two sailing ships, a compass rose and a nautical title cartouche complete the ...

86 Carte d' Amerique Divisees en ses Principales Parties' Western Hemisphere Delisle/Covens & Mortier 1774 A   $500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23.6 x 19.2 inches) This map depicts a fascinating stage in the cartographic history of the American Northwest. It is based on Guillaume Delisle’s cartography (1722) amended to show the reported Russian discoveries in the Northwest. A large group of islands are shown in the approximate location of Alaska. The map also includes some fascinating and erroneous features. A large Mer de l’ Ouest is depicted nor...

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