Decorative old color example of Joannes De Ram's extremely rare map of America. Includes California as an Island, no sign of the Great Lakes, non-existent coastline north of the Island of California and misprojected South America. The map predates La...
The Second Surviving Example of Philip Lea's Separately Issued Map of North America, Including The Earliest Reference to Daniel Coxe's Carolana Colony and one of the First English Maps to Name the Mississippi River. Extremely rare map of North...
An English Rarity First state of Thornton's sea chart of the Canadian, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic coast, the most up-to-date sea chart of the period. Prior to 1685, John Thornton's former partner William Fisher had entered into a partnership with...
Spectacular Contemporary Color Example of An Important Map of the British Colonies with the First Printed Plan of New York Harbor Remarkable old color example of the final edition of Thornton, Morden & Lea's important map of the English Colonies...
Fine old color example of Van Keulen's sea chart of the Yucatan and Vicinity, including Cozumel, and parts of the Coast of Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras and the western part of Cuba, from De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel . . . . A very attractive...
Fine Dutch sea chart of the coast of French Guyana, with insets of both the island and fort of Cayenne. French Guiana was the location of the only successful, long-term French colony in South America. Though the earliest French settlements here were...
Scarce Theodoris Danckerts' edition of this scarce map of the British Isles, which includes one of the most striking and decorative cartouches to embellish a Dutch map of the British Isles. Includes an elaborate title cartouche.
Fine example of Pierre Du Val's striking map of the British Isles. The present example bears the imprint of "Chez I. Besson en l'Isle du Palais sur le Quay de l'Horologue . . . 1685," making it a very early imprint following Du Val's death and before...
Rare map of the Swiss Cantons, published by Johann Caspar Steiner, published in Zug. Steiner was also the author of Germano-Helveto-Sparta, oder, Kurz-deutliche Grund Zeichnung dess alt-teutschen Spartier-Landes, dass ist Schweitzer-Land, published in...
First State of Berry's Rare Map of Germany. Large-format engraved map of Germany, extending to Poland and the Low Countries, by one of London's premier 17th-century mapmakers, William Berry. Many of Berry's maps are dedicated to Charles II, however,...
Rare Johannes De Ram map of Bohemia, Silesia, Moravia and Lusatia. Highly detailed map from one of the rarest Dutch map makers of the late 17th Century.
Finely colored example of Moses Pitt's map of Ukraine, divided into provinces, which appeared in a composite atlas by Abraham Wolfgang. Pitt's map, first issued by Jan Jansson in about 1657, is one of the earliest maps to include the name Ukraine in...
Fine Original Color Rare Johannes de Ram map of Ceilon, one of the most decorative large format maps of Ceilon of the period. The island is shown in remarkable detail, along with the contiguous coast of India. Two large allegorical cartouches. The...
Fine large format map of Sri Lanka, first published in Amsterdam by Nicolas Visscher. One of the largest atlas maps of Sri Lanka, with a striking cartouche, embellished with an elephant and local Sri Lankans.
Gold Heightened, old color example of Blaeu's map of the North African Coastline. From a composite atlas published by Abraham Wolfgang in Amsterdam.