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Lot#		Title		Subject/Creator		Date/Cond		Sold for:

705 Maris Pacifici, (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) Pacific Ocean Abraham Ortelius 1589 A+   $8,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.8 x 13.6 inches) Ortelius’ seminal map of the Pacific is the first printed map devoted to the Pacific and the first to label the Americas separately as North and South subsequent to Mercator’s 1538 World Map. The map draws on the cartography of Frans Hogenberg, Mercator’s world map of 1569, and Portuguese manuscript maps of Bartolomeo de Lasso. It widens the gap between Asia and North America while proper...

706 Mar del Zur Hispanis mare Pacificum Pacific Ocean Jan Jansson 1657 B+   $1,700.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.5 x 17.3 inches) This significant map covers the whole Pacific Ocean along with the western coastlines of the Americas, Japan, and a bit of New Guinea and Cape York, Australia, showing the recent Dutch discoveries there. The top of the chart is dominated by a large landmass labeled Terra Incognita. A large Island of California appears, based on the Briggs type, most probably using Abraham Goos' ma...

707 Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones' Pacific Ocean Pieter Goos 1666 B+   $1,900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.5 x 17.5 inches) This very unusual sea chart is focus strictly on the Pacific Ocean. It is oriented with north to the right by two fine compass roses. The northern part of the island of California appears at bottom, based on the Foxe model. Japan, t'Land van Eso and Compagnies Land reflect the discoveries of Maarten Gerritsz de Vries. Further Dutch discoveries are shown including the Gulf of Carp...

708 Mare del Sud, detto altrimenti Mare Pacifico' Pacific Ocean Vicenzo Maria Coronelli 1691 A   $2,750.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23.7 x 17.8 inches) This splendid map of the Pacific Ocean shows most of the coastlines of the Americas and the partially-known islands off the eastern coast of Asia. California is presented as a large island in the Foxe form. Isola del Giapone (Japan) is shown only 50 degrees from the California coast with the imaginary island of Terra de Iesso shown as a large landmass between Asia and North ...

709 Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Tipus North Pacific, Northern Asia and Northwestern North America Ortelius/Marchetti 1598 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4 x 2.8 inches) While designed to illustrate the expansive kingdom of the Great Khan in Asia, this tiny map's main feature is the Stretto di Anian separating Asia and North America based on the theory of Giacomo Gastaldi. Near the southern entrance to this straight is a large and strangely shaped Japan with a notation concerning the writings of Marco Polo. In North America, the Sierra Nevadas are ...

710 Carte des nouvelles decouvertes entre la partie orient[a]le de l'Asie et l'occid[enta]le de l'Amerique' North Pacific Ocean, North America, Northeast Asia Philip Buache 1753 A+   $1,800.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.3 x 8 inches) According to the title this rare map was presented to the Academy of Sciences on August 9, 1752. The entire west coast of North America is entirely fictitious north of Cap Blanc. Although very similar to the famous Delisle map of the North Pacific [1750], this map differs considerably. It presents a different arrangement of the apocryphal discoveries of the Spanish admiral Bartholome de Fonte t...

711 Kaart van den Mond van Norton, en van de Engte van Bhering' North Pacific Ocean Capt. James Cook 1801 A   $90.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15 x 10.5 inches) Nice map of the Bering Strait from south of Norton Sound to north of Cap du Prince de Galles and the corresponding coastline of Russia. Features include hachure representing coastal mountains, islands, place names and soundings. St. Lawrence Island, Eilanden van Clerke is partially shown; other gaps exist along the continents. Tracks of both the 1778 and 1779 exploration are delin...

712 Isole Scoperte da Iacomo le Maier Olandese nel 1617 Pacific Islands Sir Robert Dudley 1646 B+   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 17.5 inches) This lovely sea chart features several South Pacific islands discovered by the Dutch explorers Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten in 1617. Included are Cocos, Veriaders, and Good Hope (Tafahi, Niuatoputapu and Niuafo'ou of Tonga) and Hornsche and Horne (Alofi and Futana of the Futana and Wallis islands group). Robert Dudley, a skilled mathematician and navigator, was ...

713 Polynesia Pacific Islands John Pinkerton 1813 A+   $275.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 27.3 x 19.6 inches) This finely engraved, large chart covers the islands of the South Pacific from the Mariana Islands through Hawaii, and from northeastern Australia through the Society Islands and the Marqueses Islands. The map is intensely detailed, showing names of islands and island groups, harbors, channels and straits. It is typical of the precise style of early 19th century cartography with its emphasis on ...

714 Carte des Isles de la Societe Society Islands Rigobert Bonne 1788 B+   $75.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 9.2 inches) The Society Islands are a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, the best know being Tahiti. This chart shows Bora-Bora, Tahaa and Raiatea in great detail including their surrounding reefs. Also shows Big and Little Hauhine, here incorrectly shown as one island. Inset Isle de Noel is today part of the Tupai Atoll north of Bora-Bora. Three other insets detail harbors on Hauhine and Raiata...

715 Carte de l'Isle de Taiti, par le Lieutenant J. Cook 1769 Tahiti Capt. James Cook 1785 A   $140.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16 x 9.3 inches) This chart of the islands of Tahiti is one of the earliest depicting the island and is a result of Cook's first voyage. Fully engraved to show the islands unique mountainous topography and the rivers which radiate from the centrally located mountain or volcano. Cook's first expedition resulted from a petition by the Royal Society to King George III requesting a scientific expedition to the Pacif...

716 Carte des Iles Taiti Tahiti Ambroise Tardieu 1834 A   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.8 x 8.5 inches) This detailed map of the islands of Tahiti and the Society Islands was drawn for Dumont d'Urville's important first voyage of explorations in the Pacific (1826-29). The voyage returned to France with an impressive load of hydrographical papers and collections of zoological, botanical and mineralogical reports, which were destined to strongly influence the scientific analysis of those regions.

717 Esquisse de la Baye Dusky, dans la Nouvelle Zeelande New Zealand and Pacific Islands Rigobert Bonne 1787 B+   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 9.2 inches) In addition to the map of Dusky Bay with an inset of Pickersgill Harbour, this interesting sheet includes eight small charts of islands in the Pacific Ocean as described by Captain James Cook on one of his expeditions between 1768-1775. Dusky Bay was first sighted by Captain Cook during his first voyage to New Zealand in 1770. On his second expedition he spent two months exploring the sound, and...

718 Carte de la Nle. Galles Merid. ou de la Cote Oriental de la Nle. Hollande Decouverte et Visitee par le Lieutenant J. Cook, Commandant de l'Endeavor, Vaisseau de sa Majeste en 1770 Australia Cook/Benard 1774 B+   $450.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 30.6 x 14.2 inches) This important map documents the first European discovery of the east coast of Australia. It is oriented with north to the right and covers from Cape Howe to Cape York. It shows the routes of the Endeavor with place names bestowed by Cook, including Botany Bay (Bay de la Botanque), which was named for the large quantities of plants located there. This chart of the coast of New South Wale...

719 Carte de l'Australie, (Partie Sud-Ouest de l'Oceanie) Australia Adrien Hubert Brue 1834 A   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21 x 14.3 inches) This is a terrific and attractive map of "New Holland" which includes New Zealand and New Guinea, plus many smaller islands of the East Indies. The coastal detail is exceptional with a large number of place names. The interior is virtually blank, but an inset map in the middle of Australia delineates the original nine divisions proposed by Captain Vetch of the Royal Corps, namely Dampierie, Tasm...

720 Van Diemen's Land or Tasmania Tasmania, Australia Alexander K. Johnston 1845 A+   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.8 x 24 inches) This is the most highly detailed map we have seen since Tasmania was normally shown as an inset on other maps of Australia from the period, with the exception of the smaller Tallis map. Very fine detail with the map engraved and colored to show the divisions, namely Kent, Buckingham, Devon, Dorset, Cornwall, Glamorga, Cumberland, Monmouth, etc. A large unsettled region is unnamed in the west. T...

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