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87 Americque Septentrionale par N. Sanson d' Abbeville Geographe du Roy North America Nicolas Fils Sanson 1683 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6.5 x 6 inches) This is a reduced version of the younger Sanson's map of 1657. It shows the island of California with an indented northern coastline. The R. de Nort drains into the Gulf of California from a large interior lake in the country of Los Apaches. The two westernmost Great Lakes are left open-ended. Decorated with a bold title cartouche.

88 L' Amerique Septentrionale Dresse sur les Observations' North America Guillaume Delisle 1700 A   $2,100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23.5 x 17.7 inches) This historically important map made three significant contributions to the cartography of North America. First, it was the first map to revert back to the peninsular form for California, even before the publication of Kino's report. Although on close inspection one can see a small gap at the head of the Gulf of California, leaving open the possibility that California might still be an island. ...

89 Idea Naturalis Americae Borealis Digito Dei Formata Geographice Proposita North America Scherer 1700 A+   $950.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14 x 9 inches) This captivating map of North America features a huge island of California, an oversized depiction of the Great Lakes, and a misplaced Mississippi River delta. It is decorated with two cartouches, one is capped with a globe revealing the Western Hemisphere and the other, at the lower left corner, is surrounded with exotic animals, most not native to North America. The most alluring featur...

90 L' Amerique Septentrionale North America Daniel de la Feuille 1717 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.5 x 5.5 inches) A charming small map showing the island of California with an indented coastline and the place names R. d' Estiete, C. Blanco, P. de Carinde, Canal de S. Barbe, I. de S. Martin, I. de S. Mare, B. de S. Francisco, D. de Simon, B.S. Christoue and Piemabe. A quaint title cartouche features natives tending a fire, a crocodile and a serpent.

91 Amerique Septentrionale divisee en ses Principles Parties ou sont distingues les vns des autres les Estats suivant quils appartiennent presentemet aux Francois, Castillans, Anglois, Suedois Danois Hollandois' North America Sanson/Jaillot 1719 A   $2,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 25.2 x 18 inches) Second state of this great map issued at the height of the California as an Island controversy. The first issue, in 1689, showed California clearly as an island with an indented northern coastline and Sanson's characteristic islands in the Mare Vermejo. In this edition, the map was updated but leaves the question of California's insularity open by eliminating the land to its north ...

92 Amerique Septentrionale North America Gilles Robert de Vaugondy 1748 A+   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.7 x 6.2 inches) Nice small map of the continent depicting the political boundaries. The British colonies are confined to the eastern seaboard and there is a very large Louisiane. The Ohio River is labeled R. des Ouabaches. The entire Northwest coast, above the peninsula of California, is blank. There is an open-ended bay in Hudson Bay leaving open the possibility of the Northwest Passage. Simpl...

93 Carte des parties nord et ouest de l' Amerique' North America Gilles Robert de Vaugondy 1772 A   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15 x 11.5 inches) Robert De Vaugondy's rendition of Samuel Engel's map of 1764 with the Asian and American coasts slightly altered. The myth of a Northwest Passage continues to persist, here linking the Detroit d Anian with Lac Michinipi by a system of rivers and a large Lac des Conibas. There is also a River of the West that connects to another large lake, L. des Tahuglanuks...

94 Carte Generale de l' Amerique Septentrionale North America Rigobert Bonne 1781 A   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.5 x 8.2 inches) Great map of North America displaying some of the most intriguing cartographic mis-mapping of the late eighteenth century. The most apparent feature is the huge Mer de l' Ouest, complete with several fictitious islands, and with the fabled wealthy city of Quivira located on its southern shore. This sea is connected to the Pacific by the Entre of Jean de Fuca and the Entre...

95 Amerique Septentrionale North America Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu 1810 A   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.7 x 11 inches) An attractive small map of North America with nice topographical information. Alaska is still oddly shaped and the Pacific Northwest is shown under British control. The discoveries of Lewis and Clarke are included. In the West the R. S. Felipe is shown connecting L. Teguyo with San Francisco Bay. The title is enclosed in a landscape cartouche.

96 North America North America Anthony Finley 1824 B   $170.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.7 x 11.3 inches) Fine pastel full-wash coloring depicts national claims. Russian Possessions extend from Alaska all the way into British Columbia, the southern portion here named New Caledonia. The United States extends to Oregon Territory and the Canadian/U.S. border is left blank in the west. Numerous Indian tribes are located. LLake Timpanogosis large and extends into Snake Indian territory in ...

97 Carte de l' Amerique Septentrionale North America Adrien Hubert Brue 1825 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.2 x 14.4 inches) Excellent map of North America and the West Indies. Beautifully engraved on fine heavy paper with the embossed atlas seal beside the script title. Alaska is Amerique Russe and is still a bit misshapen. The United States is shown in control of much of present day British Columbia. The individual state borders are shown up to the Mississippi River except for the new state of Missouri. In ...

98 Nord America und West Indien North America Joseph Meyer 1825 A   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.2 x 11.7 inches) Attractive map of North America and the West Indies featuring mainly topography. Russisches America in Alaska claims only the coastline regions. Numerous Indian tribes are named throughout.

99 Amerique Septentrionale North America Victor Levasseur 1845 A+   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.7 x 10.9 inches) Fine map with the Republic of Texas, the United States extending into present-day Canada, Russia in control of Alaska, and Mexico's northern border according to the Treaty of 1819. Surrounded by beautifully engraved scenes of North and Central America including local animals, a ship stranded in the polar sea, and a Mayan Temple.

100 Nord America mit Westindien North America Heinrich C. Kiepert 1868 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20 x 23 inches) A large, detailed map of North America and the West Indies with original outline color delineating nations, states and colonial possessions. Includes a large inset of the Aleutian Islands.

101 Amerique du Nord North America J. Migeon 1875 A   $55.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.5 x 12.1 inches) Good detail from Alaska through the Caribbean Windward Islands. Very good detail of railroad system. Vignette of the port of New York featuring the Statue of Liberty.

102 Map Illustrating the Extermination of the American Bison North America Smithsonian Institute 1890 B   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.5 x 22.1 inches) Prepared by W.T. Hornaday for a report to the U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution. This map traces in red the boundary of the area once inhabited by the buffalo. The area in blue and green reflects the tragic and systematic destruction of these herds. The numbers in green represent the location and number of the wild buffalo in existence by January 1, 1889. Barely 800 bison were known to...

103 Tierra Nueva Colonial North America Ruscelli 1598-99 A   $850.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.7 x 7 inches) This important early map devoted to the East Coast of North America is based on Giacomo Gastaldi's map of 1548, which combined data from the Verrazano and Cartier voyages. The cartography is unchanged, with the exception of the depiction of the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers (unnamed), which are shown connected upriver, a notion he borrowed from Ramusio. Engraved on copper by Giulio and Livio Sa...

104 Carte que les Gnacsitares ont Dessime' Carte de la Riviere Longue et de quelque autres' Colonial North America Lahontan 1728 A+   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.7 x 4.4 inches) This is one of the most influential, and fanciful, maps in American cartographic history. It purports to show the Riviere Longue flowing from the mountains in the west, home to the Gnacsitares Indians, and connecting to the Mississippi River. On the western side of the mountains is another river, presumably flowing into the Pacific. Lahontan's concept was copied by virtually all 1...

105 Canada ou Nouvelle France, Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs de l' Academie Royale' Colonial North America Pieter van der Aa 1729 A   $450.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16 x 13 inches) Beautifully engraved map of northeastern North American and the Great Lakes region based on Delisle's important map of 1703. The Great Lakes are reasonably well delineated, but Hudson Bay and the upper Mississippi River basin are distorted. Lahontan's mythical Riviere Longue is shown linking a large western lake with the Mississippi River. It is thought that the lake's origin is derived ...

106 Amplissimae Regionis Mississipi Seu Provinciae Ludovicianae' Colonial North America Johann Baptist Homann 1730 A   $1,800.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23 x 19.2 inches) Based on Delisle's landmark map of 1718, but covering a slightly larger area. This great map focuses on the American interior and Great Lakes. Its most outstanding features are the vignettes of a buffalo and Native Americans in a cartouche filling the Atlantic and a beaver colony at Niagara Falls under the title cartouche. Also depicted (in the cartouche) is Father Louis Hennepin who explored t...

107 Karte von dem Ostlichen Stucke von Neu Frankreich oder Canada Colonial North America Jacques Nicolas Bellin 1744 A+   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.5 x 15.5 inches) The German edition of Bellin's definitive map (Carte de la partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada) that served as the basis for numerous maps to follow. Includes eastern Canada and Newfoundland including Nova Scotia (Arcadia) and Prince Edwards Island (Isle Royale). Shows the North American coastline from Boston (Baston) to the Coast of Labrador, and west to the James Bay. ...

108 Karte von Luisiana, dem Laufe des Mississipi und den Benachbarten Laendern Colonial North America Jacques Nicolas Bellin 1744 A   $750.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22 x 15.5 inches) Scarce German issue of this finely engraved map covering the region from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico over to the Rocky Mountains and Santa Fe. The information in the West includes the road from Mexico City to Santa Fe and the routes of St. Denis and De Soto though Texas. The map shows strategic forts and areas claimed by the French just prior to the French and Indian War. Incredible d...

109 Nieuwe Kaart van de Grootbrittannische Volkplantingen in Noord America' Colonial North America Isaac Tirion 1755 A+   $850.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.6 x 14.2 inches) A great map illustrating the region at the beginning of the French and Indian War. It is a very detailed map of the British and French possessions and the disputed region between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains, which is graphically depicted by the original color. The frontier forts of both nations are located, as are colonial settlements and Indian villa...

110 Canada et Louisiane Colonial North America Le Rouge 1755 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.7 x 24 inches) An important map was issued at the outbreak of hostilities in the French and Indian War. The map depicts the entire eastern seaboard and the Great Lakes up to Lake Michigan with a great amount of detail. The American interests of France, England and Spain are shown in great detail and color-coded. Fort Duquesne is shown in two different places on the map - according to D’Anville and Jef...

111 A New Map of the British Dominions in North America with the Limits of the Governments annexed thereto by the late Treaty of Peace and settled by Proclamation, October 7th, 1763 Colonial North America Thomas Kitchin 1763 A   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 9.5 inches) A very historical map illustrating the British colonies after the Treaty of Paris that marked the end of the French and Indian War in America. The treaty ended French colonial ambitions in North America with minor exceptions. Spain ceded east and west Florida to Great Britain and France relinquished to Spain title to the Louisiana Territory and established the Mississippi River as t...

112 La Nuova Francia Colonial New England and Canada Gastaldi/Ramusio 1606 A+   $2,100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.5 x 10.5 inches) This unusual map is the first map to focus on the area of New England and New France and the first to use the name Nuova Francia. Derived from the Gastaldi's 1548 regional map, the cartography is based largely on Verrazzano and Cartier's reports resulting in a curious depiction of the Hudson and St. Lawrence rivers. Newfoundland is identified as Terra Nuova, below the large Isol...

113 Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia Colonial New England and Mid Atlantic Hessel Gerritsz & Joannes de Laet 1630 A+   $6,500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.2 x 11 inches) This scarce map is of extreme importance in the cartographic evolution of North America. It places the Dutch settlements in their geographic context just five years after the founding of New Amsterdam; being the first printed map to use the names Manbattes (Manhattan), N. Amsterdam (New York), and Massachusets (Massachusetts). It is also the earliest acquirable map with an i...

114 A Map of New England and New York Colonial New England John Speed/Francis Lamb 1676 A+   $5,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.5 x 15 inches) An important map of the British colonies in North America covering the east coast from Maryland and New Jersey northward through New York and New England to the French possessions in Canada. Based on Jansson's prototype map of 1651, it illustrates the territories acquired by the British with the capture of New Amsterdam in 1664, which radically shifted European influence in the colonies from th...

115 Belgii Novi Angliae Novae, et Partis Virginiae Colonial New England Jansson/Valk & Schenk 1694 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.2 x 17.2 inches) This great map is one of the fundamental landmark maps of the seventeenth century. It was copied almost exactly on at least twenty-seven later maps, and it formed the beginning of the famous Jansson-Visscher series. Compiled from numerous manuscript and printed sources, the map follows the general outline of Adriaen Block's chart of 1614 with the St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain based on C...

116 Nieuw Engeland in Twee Scheeptogen door Kapitein Johan Smith indo Iaren 1614 en 1615 Bestevend Colonial New England Pieter van der Aa 1707 A+   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9 x 6 inches) An interesting map covering from Rhode Island to Penobscot Bay featuring a large Lacus Irocoisiensis with several large islands. The map is filled with many place names, both Indian and early colonial settlements. The pictorial title cartouche depicts Captain John Smith trading with the Indians, while his crew greets a mermaid in the background.

117 A Map of that part of America which was the Principal Seat of War, in 1756 Colonial New England Anonymous 1757 B   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13 x 8.7 inches) This map covers the northeastern part of the present-day United States. It shows the areas that were the "Principal Seat" of the French & Indian War. A great deal of the conflict was focused around the upper Hudson and Lake Champlain, and the Mohawk River to Lake Ontario. Good detail with several forts involved in the war located, including William Henry, Frontenac, Edward, and Frederic...

118 Nova Virginiae Tabula Colonial Virginia Hondius/Blaeu 1662 A   $2,200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.8 x 14.7 inches) This is one of the most important 17th century maps of the Chesapeake Bay region. The map is a version of the one made in 1612 by Capt. John Smith, which was the first to depict the bay and its tributaries with any accuracy. In the upper left corner is an engraving of the great Indian chief Powhatan seated on his throne and surrounded by his subjects. A Susquehanna chief is depicted on the righ...

119 Virginie Colonial Virginia Allain Mallet 1683 A+   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4 x 6 inches) Charming miniature map of the Chesapeake Bay region locating the colony at Jamestown and the village of Pomejok. Several Indian tribes named including Powhatan. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.

120 Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, nova Descriptio Colonial Southeast Jodocus Hondius 1636 A   $1,900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19 x 13.5 inches) Superb map compiled from John White's Virginia and Jacques le Moyne's Florida as interpreted by Theodore de Bry. Largely due to the enormous success of this atlas, Le Moyne's erroneous depiction of a large inland lake from which the R. de May (St. John's River) flows in a southeasterly direction was popularized. Chesapeake Bay, here called Chesepioock Sinus, and the area south towa...

121 Virginiae partis australis, et Floridae partis orientalis, interjacentiumq regionum Nova Descriptio Colonial Southeast Willem Jans Zoon Blaeu 1640 A   $1,600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20 x 15 inches) This striking map of the Southeast is based on the Hondius map of 1606 with marked improvements in the northern part of the map, based largely on the work of Hessel Gerritsz and unknown English sources. In the Chesapeake Bay area Newport News (Newport Nesa) is named for the first time, along with Bermouth, Stortingen and Arglas. The cartography in the southern part of the map remains unch...

122 Floride Colonial Southeast Allain Mallet 1683 A+   $170.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 6 inches) This small map of Florida and the south that is based largely upon the earlier maps of Sanson and Duval. It provides good detail from the Mississippi Valley to Florida, retaining the spurious May Lake and an incorrect location and course of the Mississippi River. Ribbon style title cartouche in sky.

123 Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria' Colonial Southeast Johann Baptist Homann 1765 B   $1,300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.5 x 19 inches) Handsome map of the mid-Atlantic colonies with a large, striking cartouche. There is a large hypothetical lake (Apalache Lacus) west of Craven County, Carolina and interesting notations in the Outer Banks. Some counties and many rivers of eastern Virginia are shown, but western Virginia is vague with only Germantown, Mister Krug's Plantation and Fort Christ Anna located. Florida is shown...

124 Partie de l' Amerique Septent? qui comprend la Nouvelle France ou le Canada Colonial Great Lakes and Canada Didier Robert de Vaugondy 1755 A+   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23.7 x 18.7 inches) Handsome map of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and the entire course of the St. Lawrence River. The most prominent feature of the map is the very large inset of the 1744 Bellin version of the Great Lakes. The large decorative cartouche, featuring a fierce beaver, makes for a very attractive map. Fourth state (Pedley), with the boundaries of the province of Quebec added per the Treaty of Paris and a...

125 Nieuwe Kaart van Kanada de Landen aan de Hudsons-Baay en de Noordwestelyke deelen van Noord-Amerika Colonial Great Lakes Isaac Tirion 1769 A   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.2 x 12.2 inches) A very nice map based on Jefferys' important map of Canada and the Great Lakes region in 1760 with a realistic interpretation of Lake Winnipeg. It covers from Hudson Bay, through the Great Lakes, to Philadelphia. In the west, the St. Charles River flows off the map with a notation, "the length of which is unknown, this is the route the Indians follow coming from the West." Inset of the Gulf of ...

126 Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord Ouest separes de l' Asie par le Detroit d' Anian Western North America Robert de Vaugondy (family) 1772 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14 x 11.5 inches) Two maps, one inset into the other. The inset map is based on a world map by Plancius issued in 1641, while the larger map is based on Visscher's map of 1612. Other than a recognizable Baja California, the maps are filled with the cartographic myths of the 17th century. The northwest coast bulges too far to the west. Both maps feature the mythical seven cities of Cibola.

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