Interesting map of North America, showing California as an island, from Chatelain's monumental 7 volume Atlas Historique. Includes 4 printed views of the counsels of the West Indies, North America, South America and Terre Ferme.
Decorative map of the Black Sea Region, with a large decorative cartouche surmounted by the Russian Imperial Coat of Arms. The map extends north to Moscow and Smolensk from Constantinople in the south.
Elaborate allegorical map showing the art of war, by land and by sea.
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An Illuminated Manuscript Map of the World on Vellum! Finely executed hand drawn miniature map of the world, celebrating the spread of Catholicism by the Jesuits. A representation of the baby Jesus is shown between the two hemispheres, with the...
Fine set of three scientific instruments, engraved for Johann Baptiste Homann in Nuremberg. Included are decorative illustrations of a celestial globe, terrestrial globe and armillary sphere, with an explanation in Latin.
Rare double hemisphere map of the World by Jeremias Wolff in Augsburg. The map is very similar to a double hemisphere map by Lotter, however it is rarer. Wolff was an important Augsburg publisher at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th...
A detailed map of the Eastern Hemisphere, including a detailed depiction of the known coastlines of Australia. Four continents are shown in elegant color. Regions, cities, rivers, and more are all named and many more mountain ranges and features are...
Fine Map of the Northern Hemisphere from Guillaume De L’Isle Covens and Mortier state of Guillaume De L'Isle's map of the Northern Hemisphere, originally published by De L'Isle in 1714. The map shows the entire Northern Hemisphere. The projection...
Striking full-color example of Homann's map of the Course of the Mississippi River, based upon the reports of Hennepin, who explored the upper Mississippi and Great Lakes regions as a Jesuit Missionary in the late 1600s. The map follows the work of De...
A nice example of JB Homann's map of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and South Carolina. Cartouche shows the splendor of the new world and the riches it provides. One of the most decorative maps of the area, intended to promote German...
18th-century Map of Eastern North America with a Satirical Cartouche A finely colored example of Seutter's so-called Mississippi Bubble map, depicting the short-lived French financial-colonial scheme masterminded by Scottish financier John Law. The...
Largest Separate Representation of the Island of California Striking large-format map of the island of California—the largest separate representation of the island of California on a printed map. It is a later representation of the island (1720),...
Herman Moll's Celebrated "Codfish Map" of North America, One of the Earliest Large-Format Maps of North America Printed in England Highly decorative, large-format map of North America and the West Indies popularly known as the "codfish map" thanks to...
Engraved view of Mexico City, from an unidentified edition of Thomas Gage's voyages in New Spain, probably published circa 1720. This edition of the view has the binding note "Tom. I Pag. 50" in the upper-right corner. The city appears much as it did...
Nice example of Van Keulen's sea chart of the Lesser Antilles, from De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel, Part IV. A very attractive Dutch sea chart, with north at the top, extending from the southern part of St. Martin in the north to St. Vincent in...
Finely executed map of a portion of Central America, extending from the East Coast of Nicaragua and Costa Rica in the northwest to Cartagena and Santa Martha in modern Columbia in the East, and centered on the Isthmus of Darien and Gulf of Panama....
