Striking map of America, published by Santini, in Venice. The map shows a massive Sea of the West with the entries thereto discovered by Juan De Fuca in 1591 and by Martin D'Aguilar in 1603. The map reflects the sighting of land near what would...
The Great River of the West and Lahontan's Longue River Scarce second state of De Vaugondy's map of America, pre-dating information from any of the Cook Voyages. The Northwest Coast of America is shown wildly distorted to the west, with a number of...
Behaim's Discovery of America -- Engraved Map Depicting a Section of Martin Behaim's Globe of 1492, Oldest Globe in the World -- Bound With Book on Martin Behaim Extremely rare map illustrating the "western" section of Martin Behaim's globe of 1492,...
A Tribute To Benjamin Franklin and an Independent America: dedicated to the Congress of the United States of America Second state of this fine engraved allegorical image of an Independent United States of America, engraved by Jean Charles Le Vasseur...
Tracking Captain James Cook's First Voyage -- 1768-1771 Rare first edition of this unusual large world map on an ovoid projection, published in Augsburg in 1778. The attractive and somewhat unusual ovoid projection is based on J.B.B. D'Anville's wall...
Nice example of J. B. Eliot's map of the United States, generally regarded as the earliest map to include the title "United States'' on a printed map. Eliot's map, which is drawn from American sources not previously utilized on any printed map, is...
Striking map of the United States and Canada, which includes references to the Upper and Lower English Colonies of Louisiana. One of the very few maps we have seen from the period which treat the regions east of the Mississippi as being Upper or...
Rare French edition of Sayer & Bennett's rare chart of Boston Harbor revised and issued in Le Rouge's Pilote Americain Septentrionale, which was compiled specifically for use by the French Navy during the American Revolution. A note following the...
Rare French edition of this important early Revolutionary War map, published to illustrate the Northern Theater of War in the early years of the American Revolution, shortly after the French entered the conflict in alliance with the American...
One of the Earliest Regional Maps of The Southern Theater of War Published in Paris. Rare separately published map of the Southern British Colonies, shown at a time when the French were just beginning to actively join the American Rebel cause in...
One of the Earliest Regional Maps of The Northern Theater of the Revolutionary War Published in Paris. Rare separately published map of the Northern British Colonies, shown at a time when the French were just beginning to actively join the American...
Revolutionary War Battle Plan -- Fine Original Outline Color First state (of three) of Faden's battle map of the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Chester. Faden's map depicts the Theater of War on the Delaware River, just below Philadelphia,...
Unique Contemporary Manuscript Plan of Battle which Secured George Washington’s Role as “Father of the Nation” Finely-executed contemporary manuscript map of the Battle of Monmouth, the last major engagement of the Northern Theater of the...
Detailed map of South America, published in London by Middleton. The map shows the exploration tracks of a number of major voyages of exploration, including: James Cook Sir Edmund Halley Philip Carteret Samuel Wallis John Byron Louis Antoine de...
Striking map of Hudson Bay, Baffin Bay, part of Greenland, Labrador and Northern Canada. Marvelous detail on the islands and coastlines, known and unknown. Issued as part of Zatta's Atlante Novissimo, one of the last great decorative atlases.
Rare French edition Jefferey's 2-sheet map of part of Labrador, which appeared in Le Rouge's Pilot Americain Septentrionale. Includes extensive soundings, sailing directions, rhumb lines and many other fine details. The chart was included in Le...