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77 Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio Western Hemisphere Abraham Ortelius 1588 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19 x 13.8 inches) This is one of the most famous maps of the Americas, and one that had enormous influence on the future cartography of the New World. This is the third plate with the revised shape of South America. Other revisions include the addition of the name California on the Baja, and the Indian name Wingandekoa in the Chesapeake Bay region. The Solomon Islands are shown here for the first t...

78 Figura della America Western Hemisphere Giuseppe Rosaccio 1595 A   $750.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7 x 5 inches) Charming little woodblock map of the Americas. In North America the Siera Nevada are named and Quivira appears both as a region and a large city. Another large city labeled Toneac is shown at the top of the M. Vermelo (Gulf of California). A wide St. Lawrence River has its headwaters in a tiny lake in the region named Tacisco. Nova Spagna is shown far...

79 Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio Western Hemisphere Abraham Ortelius 1598 A   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 3.3 inches) This fine miniature map is from this plagiarized Italian version of Ortelius' pocket atlas. The map is derived directly from the American map in the 1577 miniature atlas, which is a reduced version of the folio version of 1570. Even the bulge in the southwestern coastline of South America is present - even though it had already been corrected in the folio version of this period. Italian text be...

80 America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings Discribed and inlarged Western Hemisphere John Speed 1626 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20 x 15.5 inches) First state of the definitive English map of the Americas and the earliest folio atlas map to depict California as an island; propagating one of the most enduring cartographic myths. It is also significant for its accurate depiction of the coast between Chesapeake and Cape Cod, and early portrayal of the English colonies Iames Citti (Jamestown) and Plymouth. Boston and Long Island ...

81 Americae Descriptio Western Hemisphere Jan Jansson 1631 A   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8 x 5.8 inches) Abraham Goos engraved this fascinating map for Jansson's new Atlas Minor, first published in 1628. The most dominant feature of the map is the curious depiction of the west coast of North America, which is completely bisected by an unnamed straight (Northwest Passage), possibly derived from reports of Juan de Fuca's disputed voyage. The bulging northwest coast of North America cont...

82 Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae' Western Hemisphere Nicolas Visscher 1658 B   $2,400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.5 x 17.3 inches) Visscher's map greatly influenced the cartography of the Americas both geographically and artistically. One of the most distinctive geographic details that was copied by other cartographers, is the large open lake in the Great Lakes region. Visscher actually copied this from Blaeu's wall map of the world [1648], but popularized it on this map. California is shown as an island, on the Bri...

83 Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis Tabula Generalis Western Hemisphere Philipp Cluver 1659 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.9 x 4.8 inches) This tiny map is a reduced version of the important 1630 map by De Laet. 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. By comparison, the west coast shows many place names. There are no Great Lakes shown in North America and conspicuously absent is the mythi...

84 Amerique Western Hemisphere Pierre Duval 1672 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5 x 4 inches) This is the third state of this charming miniature map of the Americas. California is shown as an island and the D. d'Anien separates California from a huge Terre de Iesso, with a D. de Vriez separating Iesso from Asia. The Spanish colony of St. Fe is identified, Quebec is shown as the capital of the French possessions and St. Augustine is shown in Florida.

85 Novissima et Accuratissima Septentrionalis ac Meridionalis Americae' Western Hemisphere Frederick de Wit 1710 B   $1,400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.7 x 19.3 inches) This is the final state of this great map of the Americas, originally engraved in 1670, and updated with the addition of New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Quiri Regio, Fretum Aniani and Terra Esonis. While the decorative features follow Visscher, the cartography is largely based on Sanson. California is an Island, the Great Lakes are open-ended in the west, and the R. del ...

86 Carte du Gouvernement de l' Amerique Western Hemisphere Henry Abraham Chatelain 1719 A+   $210.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.4 x 13.2 inches) This folio sheet is filled with fascinating French text, statistics and 4 engravings showing various 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 i...

87 Americae Mappa generalis Western Hemisphere Homann Heirs 1746 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21 x 18.2 inches) Finely engraved eighteenth century copper plate map of the Americas with considerable detail throughout. There is no coastline above the peninsula of California. The very large title cartouche includes two erupting volcanoes, Native Americans, birds and what appears to be a pot of gold.

88 Nieuwe Kaart van het Westelykste Deel der Weereld Western Hemisphere Isaac Tirion 1754 A+   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14 x 13.3 inches) A handsome and well engraved copper plate map of the Americas that also includes a good bit of Western Europe and Africa. An unusual northwest coast of America that includes Straet van Martin d'Aguilar providing a Northwest Passage via the Great Lakes. The Pacific Northwest is virtually blank with a notation concerning the Russian explorations in 1743. The European colonies are sh...

89 Amerique Western Hemisphere Louis Charles Desnos 1760 A   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.8 x 11.5 inches) Interesting map of the Americas with the northwest coast of North America extremely truncated. The British colonies are confined to the eastern seaboard, France controls most of the interior, and Spain possesses Mexico and the West Coast. South America shows Portugal in possession of Brazil, France controlling Guiana and Spain in possession of the rest of the continent. Sparse interior details....

90 L'Amerique divisee Par Grands Etats Western Hemisphere Jean Janvier 1762 A   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.5 x 12 inches) A fine map of the Americas that features a huge, imaginary Sea of the West and hints of a possible Northwest Passage. Alaska is shown in an early configuration with a rough shape incorporating the Aleutians, and notations concerning the coastline discoveries in 1741 by the Russians. There are several islands shown in the Pacific and just the western coastline of New Zealand. In No...

91 An Accurate Map of America, from the latest Discoveries Western Hemisphere John Gibson 1774 A   $190.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6.8 x 8.8 inches) The major focus of the map is on Admiral Bartholomew de Fonte and his exploration of the Pacific Northwest. In 1708, a newly discovered account of the Spanish Admiral's 1640 expedition was published. It was actually a hoax, but thereafter the account was changed and elaborated upon by numerous mapmakers. The extravagant claims included the discovery of the Northwest Passage and a huge

92 Novus Orbis sive America Meridionalis et Septentrionalis per sua Regna Provincias et Insulas Western Hemisphere Matthias Seutter 1784 A   $1,800.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.8 x 19.5 inches) Superb map of the Americas with a prominent California as an Island based on the Sanson model. Directly above the island is the strait Fretum Anian with the coastline of Terra Esonis incogn, which is obscured by an elaborate pictorial cartouche relating to the religious conversion of the natives. The map is filled with place names and details the tracks of the major voyages ...

93 A New Map of America from the Latest Authorities Western Hemisphere John Cary 1806 B   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.5 x 18 inches) Large map of the Americas with a rudimentary shape for Alaska, here called Aliaska. The United States is shown confined east of the Mississippi River. The western part of North America is bisected by a huge mountain range labeled The Stony Mountains and is shown as completely unexplored with a few suspected rivers delineated by dotted lines. Map extends to show the Sandwich Islands,...

94 De l'Amerique Moderne en 1812 Western Hemisphere P. Didot 1812 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 25 x 17.7 inches) An interesting sheet that details the European Colonial possessions throughout the Americas. The map is surrounded by French text describing the history of colonization. The routes of Columbus, Cortez, and Pizarro are shown, and the new discoveries of Vancouver are noted in the Pacific Northwest. The United States is shown with its northern border into British Canada. However, the Oregon Terri...

95 America Western Hemisphere George Frederick Cruchley 1855 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.8 x 17.5 inches) This attractive mid-nineteenth century map of North and South America is colored by country and contains nice topographical and hydrographical information. In the United States the large western territories of Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico are delineated.

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