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93		New Map of the Portion of North America, Exhibiting the United States and Territories, The Canadas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Mexico also Central America, and the West India Islands. Compiled from the Most Recent Surveys and Authentic Sources		North America Jacob Monk		1854 C+		$800.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 59 x 55.8 inches) This majestic wall map was published just as the country was beginning to expand fully to the Pacific following the land gains after the Mexican War. The gold region in California is remarkably inaccurate with Auburn shown well north of Sacramento City and lying between it and the Marysville / Yuba City area. The Great Basin area is also inaccurate and roughly follows the Fremont model. Filled ...

94		[Lot of 2] Colton's North America [and] North America		North America Joseph Hutchins Colton		1856-59 A+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 13 x 15.5 inches) This pair of maps provides a great study of the rapid settlement and changes taking place in the western United States in the span of only four years. Both maps are from the Atlas of the World so are surrounded by Colton's signature scroll-style border. 1) North America, 1855 [1856]. In this attractive steel engraved map the borders and territories are some of the most interest...

95		Carte Generale des Etats-Unis et du Mexique Comprenant l'Amerique Centrale et les Antilles		North America E. Andriveau-Goujon		1868 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 36 x 24.5 inches) This large and beautifully engraved map is highly detailed and has attractive full pastel coloring. Most political boundaries in the West are correct, but Nevada is oddly shortened in the south with the entire lower portion going to California. Wyoming's western border is still oversized as it extends to the Continental Divide, and Oklahoma is the Indian Territory. The map details major wagon a...

96		[Lot of 6 maps + text]		North America Malte-Brun		1860 A+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 8.3 x 11.5 inches) This lot includes the six maps plus 90+ pages of French text with numerous wood engraved illustrations. In blue paper pictorial wrappers (8.5" x 11.6") titled, Geographie Universelle de Malte-Brun Illustree'Accompagnee d'un Nouvel Atlas Populaire' America. This atlas was issued in parts, sent to the subscriber, who then could choose to have them bound or not. The last page of text ends ...

97		Jonathan Dickenson Ramspoedige Reystogt van Jamaika na Pensylvania Nagespoord		Colonial North America and Caribbean Pieter van der Aa		1714 A+		$475.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 9.3 x 6 inches) This interesting map is oriented with east at the top. It covers the eastern seaboard from Massachusetts through Florida to Cuba, Hispaniola and Jamaica. It illustrates the travels of Jonathan Dickinson from Jamaica to Philadelphia in 1696-7. Dickinson, a Quaker merchant from Port Royal, Jamaica, was shipwrecked on the southeast coast of Florida. The party, which included Dickinson's wife and ...

98		Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Floridae, Nova Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae, et Pensylvaniae nec non Insularum Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali Accurata Tabula'		Colonial North America and Caribbean Johann Baptist Homann		1720 A+		$1,500.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 22.5 x 18.8 inches) This superb map covers the region from the Great Lakes and Nova Scotia through Central America, the Caribbean and Venezuela, and from New Mexico (naming Taos and Santa Fe) to the eastern seaboard. The map is based largely on Delisle's map of 1703 (Carte du Mexique et de la Floride). The British colonies are shown confined east of the Appalachians. The map itself is filled with settlement place ...

99		Mappa Geographica Regionem Mexicanam et Floridam Terrasque adjacentes, ut et Anteriores Americae Insulas, Cursus itidem et Reditus Navigantium versus flumen Missisipi et alias Colonias'		Colonial North America and Caribbean Matthias Seutter		1730 B+		$1,000.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 22.8 x 18.8 inches) This is Mathias Seutter's decorative and beautifully engraved version of Delisle's important map of 1703 (Carte du Mexique et de la Floride). It provides a view of North America from the Great Lakes through the West Indies. The British colonies are confined east of the Appalachian Mountains, France controls the Mississippi valley and Florida, and Spain possesses Mexico. New Mexico is finely d...

100		Carte du Mexique et des Etats Unis d'Amerique, Partie Meridionale		Colonial North America and Caribbean Delisle/Dezauche		1783 A		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 25.7 x 18.8 inches) The title of this map contains a very early recognition of the newly formed United States, as 1783 is the earliest that the name appears on a printed map. This is the last issue of Delisle's map that was first issued in 1703 (Carte du Mexique et de la Floride). Delisle's map is regarded as the first map to accurately show the course of the Mississippi, accurately place the Great Lakes and locate...

101		A New Map of North America, with the West India Islands, Divided According to the Preliminary Articles of Peace Signed at Versailles 20 Jan. 1783, wherein are Particularly Distinguished the United States and the Several Provinces, Governments '		Colonial North America and Caribbean Laurie & Whittle		1794 B		$1,500.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 45.5 x 39.8 inches) This large, influential map had a long and varied publishing history. Originated by Emanuel Bowen & John Gibson and published by Robert Sayer in circa 1755 to illustrate the seat of the French and Indian War, the map went through numerous revisions and editions to document the expanding cartographic knowledge and political landscape of North America. This is the eleventh edition; the third issue...

102		Eine Neue Charte des Neu Gefundnen Landes, Neu Schottlands'		Canada Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland Herman Moll		1729 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10.1 x 7 inches) This is an unrecorded German edition of Moll's "NewFoundLand St. Laurens Bay, The Fishing Banks, Acadia, and Part of New Scotland" with a reordered title and the cartouche moved to the left corner. The map locates a number of fishing banks including the Great of Newfoundland and several large shoals. Engraved by Bruhl with "Mag. 35. P. 48." above neatline at upper left.

103		A Plan of the Harbour of Chebucto and Town of Halifax		Halifax, Canada Anonymous		1750 A+		$800.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10.6 x 8.6 inches) A very attractive and early map of the town of Halifax and vicinity, including Bedford "formerly call'd Torrington" Bay, Cornwallis Island and more. Halifax is shown in a grid plan with fortifications surrounding. The map is decorated with coats of arms, the Ensign of Nova Scotia, butterfly, moth, a beetle and an odd looking porcupine. The seven coats-of-arms are of the baronets and include tho...

104		[Lot of 80 - Canada]		Canada Various		1850-1900		$550.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 0 x 0 inches) This is a diverse lot of 19th century atlas maps. It includes some nice maps from Johnston's Physical Atlas and several duplicates. Size varies but most are from folio or large folio atlases. Some are hand colored, but the majority are printed color. Sold without reserve and not subject to return.

105		[Lot of 2] Nova Tabula Geographica Complectens Borealiorem Americae Partem' [and] Carte Nouvelle contenant la Partie d'Amerique la Plus Septentrionale'		Colonial United States and Canada Visscher/Shenk		1718 A+		$2,200.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 18.5 x 23 inches) This stunning map on two separate sheets, covers the Atlantic coast from the Carolinas to Newfoundland, and from the Grand Bank to the Great Lakes. It includes Lake Ontario and parts of Lakes Huron and Erie with a portion of Hudson Bay at the top. The map does not appear to be based on any one source, but draws from the Coronelli/Nolin map of 1689 as well as Dutch and English sources. It displa...

106		Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi'		Colonial United States and Canada Henry Abraham Chatelain		1719 A+		$3,250.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 19.2 x 16.5 inches) Derived from Nicholas de Fer's important four-sheet map of 1718, this is the most informative map of the French possessions in North America in the early 18th century. Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley are based on Delisle's manuscript map of 1701, while the geography of New England and eastern Canada originates with Franquelin. Inset at top left is a large-scale map of the Mississippi Delta ...

107		Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali		Colonial United States and Canada Homann Heirs		1740 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 21.8 x 19.8 inches) This great sheet consists of four separate maps: Virginia und Maryland; Carolina nebsteinem Theil von Florida; New Engelland, New York, New Yersey und Pensilvania; and New Foundland, od. Terra Nova, S. Laurentii Bay, die Fisch-Bank, Acadia, nebst einem Theil New Schotland. Each map details the British possessions in North America, with roads, forts, towns, coastal shoals. Text panel at bottom. ...

108		A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America		Colonial United States and Canada John Lodge		1755 A+		$550.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 15 x 11 inches) This is the first of several similar maps illustrating the French/British conflict in North America. It was issued just before the French and Indian War was officially declared and depicts, by hachure, the French encroachment into British claimed territory. Earl Granville's Property is shown in North Carolina and extending to the western-most edge of the map, which is about the 100...

109		A Map of the British & French Plantations in North America		Colonial New England and Canada Anonymous		1755 B+		$200.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10.4 x 8.3 inches) This charming little map of New England and northeastern Canada covers from Long Island through the coast of Labrador. New England consists of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire and York County. The title cartouche was meant to serve as the title for three maps published in the July, August and September editions of the magazine. Together those maps covered...

110		America Septentrionalis oder Mitternachtiger Theil von America, Bestehend, in Neu Brittania Canada, Neu Engeland, Neu Schotland, Neu Jorck, Pensylvania, Carolina Florida Georgien. Worinnen der Grosse S. Laurentius und Ohio Fluss Samt'		Colonial United States and Canada George Christophe Kilian		1764 B+		$230.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 9 x 8 inches) This uncommon, little German map was based on Homann's America Septentrionalis, which in turn was reduced from D'Anville's important map. It depicts the region at the end of the French and Indian War. The British Colonies now extend to the Mississippi River with the Carolinas, which include Earl Gravilles's Property, shown stretching from the Atlantic coast to beyond the Mis...

111		Carte des Lacs du Canada		Colonial United States and Canada - Great Lakes Jacques Nicolas Bellin		1777 A+		$400.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 11.2 x 7.4 inches) This is an excellent French & Indian War period map depicting the five Great Lakes. While this map uses the same title as Bellin's prototype map of the Great Lakes, published in Charlevoix’s Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France in 1744, it has been updated with information from Bellin's similar map of 1755. Lakes Erie and Ontario are more accurately defined and th...

112		Carte Reduite des Cotes Orientales de l'Amerique Septentrionale Contenant Celles des Provinces de New-York et de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Celles de l'Acadie ou Nouvelles Ecosse, de L'Ile Royale, de L'Ile St.Jean, avec L'Interieure du Pays'		Colonial New England and Canada Sartine		1780 B+		$1,200.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 34.3 x 23 inches) This fine chart was prepared under the direction of Antoine Sartine, Minister of Marine in Paris for use by the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War . It covers the region from Chaleur Bay to New Jersey and includes Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island. It provides excellent detail of the harbors, bays, inlets, shoals and fishing banks, currents and navigational hazard...

113		The most surprising Cataract of Niagara in Canada		Canada & United States, Niagara George H. Millar		1783 B+		$90.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 11.3 x 7.3 inches) An interesting view of the great Niagara Falls enclosed in a picture-frame style border. Engraved by Page and published by Alexander Hogg.

114		[Lot of 8]		United States and Canada H.S. Tanner		1836-41 A+		$275.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1) A New Map of Indiana with its Roads & Distances, 1841, (10.5 x 12.8"). Finely detailed map of the state locates all towns and villages, counties, watershed and more. A table gives the steamboat routes with point to point distances from Louisville to Pittsburgh and from Louisville to New Orleans. Land distances between towns are noted along the roads. Railroad and canals are also show...

115		Geological Map of the United States and British North America'		United States and Canada Henry Darwin Rogers		1855 A		$600.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 24 x 20 inches) This beautifully engraved and well colored geological map was "Constructed from the most recent documents & unpublished materials." It uses a combination of hand and printed color to delineate at least fifteen different geological formations described in a large table that includes American and the "Nearest European Equivalent" name for each. Below the map is a full-width profile "A Geological S...

116		[Maps and Report] A Geological Map of the United States and Canada 1853 [and] Outline of the Geology of the Globe 1853		United States and Canada Edward Hitchcock		1856 A		$1,100.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 0 x 0 inches) The first map (24.2 x 16") is Hitchcock's landmark map of 1853 which is unchanged from the first edition of this report. Essentially, it is a compilation of Lyell’s map for the eastern portion combined with M. Boue’s “Geological Map of the World” for the western portion modified by the author’s generalizations derived from the relations of geography to geology, as argued in the report. In this ...

117		Lloyd's New Map of the United States, the Canadas and New Brunswick from the Latest Surveys Showing Every Railroad & Station Finished to June 1862 and the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts		Eastern United States and Canada James T. Lloyd		1862 A		$850.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 49 x 37.5 inches) This large Civil War era map covers the United States west to the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Indian Territory and East Texas. It is very detailed and filled with information including state and county boundaries, state capitals, wagon roads, turnpikes, railroads, forts, post offices, court houses, and light houses. Southern Florida is included in an inset. It also covers the adjacent parts of C...

118		Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil' Volume I		Canada & United States William C. Bryant		1872-74 B+		$210.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 11 x 13 inches) This is one of the most beautiful plate books on the United States and Canada ever produced. The 24 excellently well rendered, steel engraved views and 284 wood engravings, many full-page include works by Thomas Moran, Harry Fenn, Granville Perkins, James D. Smillie and other important American artists of the 19th century. This important volume contains Yellowstone, Yosemite, Richmond, Savannah,...

119		Rand McNally & Co.'s New Official Railroad Map of the United States and Canada		Canada & United States Rand McNally& Co.		1885 A+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 42 x 27 inches) This very large, colorful folding map features terrific railroad detail along with wagon roads, watershed, cities and villages, and much more. It includes an inset, "Map of Atlantic Coast States Engraved on a Large Scale," plus individual city plans of Boston, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago, Buffalo & Niagara Falls, and Washington. The map is attached at the rear of the o...

120		Chart of Part of the North West Coast of America		Western Canada & United States Jean Francois Galoup, Comte La Perouse		1798 B+		$150.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 15 x 19.2 inches) This is a reduced, English version of La Perouse's important chart of the west coast of North America. It covers the coast from Monterey California to Mount St. Elias in Alaska depicting the route of the voyage with only those parts actually surveyed. Puget Sound is conspicuously missing. Published by G.G. & J. Robinson in London.