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

752 Maris Pacifici, (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) Pacific Ocean Abraham Ortelius 1589 A+   $7,500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.3 x 13.4 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...

753 Mare del Sud, detto altrimenti Mare Pacifico' Pacific Ocean Vicenzo Maria Coronelli 1691 B+   $1,800.00 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 ...

754 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 ...

755 Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Typus North Pacific, Northern Asia and Northwestern North America Abraham Ortelius 1598 B+   $1,200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.5 x 13.8 inches) This extremely decorative map is important for several reasons and therefore becomes a foundation map for a variety of collection subjects. The map was beautifully engraved by Frans Hogenberg and is filled with decoration including two encampments of Tartars, sailing ships, a flying fish and two elaborate strapwork cartouches. French text on verso. It is the earliest printed map ...

756 Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes au Nord de la Mer du Sud North Pacific, Northern Asia and Northwestern North America Delisle/Buache 1752 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 25 x 18 inches) This is the first state of this important map of the Pacific Northwest and the region that would become Alaska. It depicts the discoveries of the Russians in 1723, 1732 and 1741, the tracks of Bering's first and second voyages, Joseph Nicolas Delisle's voyage with Capt. Tchirikow in 1741, the track of De Frondat's voyage of 1709, and the route of the Galleons in 1743. But more importantly it feat...

757 A Map of the Discoveries made by the Russians on the North West Coast of America. Published by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Petersburg North Pacific Ocean Thomas Jefferys 1761 B   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 24.5 x 17.8 inches) This map, by Thomas Jefferys, is based on Gerhard Mueller's map of 1758, which was one of the first to correctly depict the Kurile Islands and also suggest the outline of Alaska and the Aleutian chain. It shows great detail of the Arctic coast of Siberia based on Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka expedition from 1733-43, and illustrates the sea routes made by Captains Bering and Chirikof. In the l...

758 [Lot of 2] The Northern Archipelago or New Discovered Islands in the seas of Kamtschatka & Anadir [and] A Chart of the Nth West Coast of America & the Nth East Coast of Asia' North Pacific, Northern Asia and Northwestern North America 1775-1795   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.3 x 6.8 inches) 1) A strongly engraved map by Thomas Bowen that shows a highly fragmented Alaska as an archipelago composed of numerous islands, the largest named Alascha I. The map includes the northern Kuril Islands and eastern Siberia and the sea between Asia and North America based on reports of Russian discoveries in the region. Decorative rococo-style title cartouche. Originally published in the ...

759 [Lot of 2 - Bering Strait] Charte von der Behringsstrasse' [and] Carte de l'Entree de Norton, et du Detroit de Bhering' North Pacific, Northern Asia and Northwestern North America 1785-1816   $750.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1. Charte von der Behringsstrasse. Nach Merkators Projection, by Otto von Kotzebue, from Entdeckungs-Reise in die Sud-See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordostlichen Durchfahrt, dated 1816 (15.2 x 14.8"). This scarce map is based on Kotzebue's exploration of the Bering Strait on the ship Rurick in 1816, which was one of the most important explorations of ...

760 Karte von den N.W. Amerikanischen und N.OE. Asiatischen Kusten' North Pacific, Northern Asia and Northwestern North America Franz Anton Schraembl 1788 B+   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 26.5 x 15.4 inches) Handsome large-scale map of the coastlines of the North Pacific based on the map by Capt. Cook's cartographer, Lieutenant Henry Roberts. It covers the western coast of Alaska and the east coast of Asia including Kamtschaka and illustrates Cook's explorations in 1778 and 1779. Excellent detail in the Bering Straits, including extensive notes on soundings. Notes concerning other explorations in t...

761 [A Chart of the Pacific Ocean from the Equinoctial to the Latitude of 39 1/2 D No.] South Pacific Ocean George Anson 1748 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.6 x 10.6 inches) This is the western sheet from this unusual chart that details the route of Spanish galleons from the Philippines through the Mariana Islands on their way to Acapulco along with the track of British Navy Commodore George Anson. In 1740 Anson set sail in command of a squadron sent to attack Spanish possessions and interests in South America. The expedition was ill-equipped and failed ...

762 Carte Generale de l'Oceanie ou Cinquieme partie de Monde South Pacific Ocean Adrien Hubert Brue 1834 A+   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.5 x 14.5 inches) Beautifully engraved and attractive map that shows the entire South Pacific Ocean. It extends to include the entire East Indies and across the Pacific to show the Baja Peninsula and part of Mexico. Australia is also labeled Nouvelle Hollande with its interior virtually blank and only one political division Australie Meridle in the south, an early reference to the territory of South...

763 Oceanie South Pacific Ocean Victor Levasseur 1850 A+   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.7 x 11.3 inches) This map covers the entire South Pacific including Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. The map is surrounded by beautifully rendered steel engraved scenes that feature the natives of the region, portraits of French explorers, a harbor vignette, and French text that describes the region.

764 Carte et Vues de l'Isle Pitcairn Pacific Islands, Pitcairn Island Jacques Francois Benard 1774 B+   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.8 x 7 inches) Small map of the rocky island with four sailor's prospective views below. Pitcairn Island was discovered by Admiral Carteret and named for Robert Pitcairn, the midshipman that first sighted the island in 1767. One of the most romantic tales of the Pacific centers on the remote Pitcairn Island, located southeast of the Tuamotu Archipelago. In 1790 nine mutineers from the British ship Bounty

765 Plan de l'Ile Tonga-Tabou Leve et dresse par M.E. Paris, Enseigne de Vaisseau. Expedition de la Corvette de S.M. l'Astrolabe Pacific Islands, Tonga Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont d'Urville 1835 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23 x 16.7 inches) Detailed chart of the major island in the Tonga group (Friendly Islands) showing the routes of the Astrolabe in 1827, and Capt. Cook's Resolution in 1777.

766 Polynesia, or Islands in the Pacific Ocean Pacific Islands John Tallis 1851 A   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 10 inches) This very detailed map covers Oceania from the east coast of Australia to California. Scores of islands, the Society, Friendly, New Hebrides, Caroline, and Sandwich island groups are located, including tiny islands and shoals. A delicately engraved border surrounds the area and vignettes of Kalakakooa - Sandwich Islands; Otaheite; Harbour of Dory - New Guinea; and Resolution Bay - Marguesas. Th...

767 Plan de la Baye Dusky (Obscure) a la Nouve. Zelande New Zealand Capt. James Cook 1773 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.8 x 8 inches) A remarkable and early chart of the area centered on Resolution Island in today's Fiordland National Park on the southern island. The complex geography of the fiords is illustrated, naming Long Island, Point Five Fingers, Break-Sea Island, Gilbert Isles, Wetjacket Arm, Coopers Island, and much more. Inset details Pickersgill Harbour with a fleur-de-lis and soundings in fathoms. Engraved by Bena...

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