Detailed map of America, with the United States outlined in red, published in the Sixth Year of the First French Republic. The limited knowledge of the interior of North America and the Northwest Coast of America and Alaska are still quite evident....
"[T]he earliest of Gillray’s portrayals of Bonaparte as the symbolic personification of France." - RMG Catalog One of the great cartographic caricatures of the Georgian Era. This lampoon of Napoleon after Nelson's victory was drawn by James Gillray...
First Edition of Vancouver's Voyage of Discovery with Atlas, Containing Influential Charts of Hawai’i and the Pacific Northwest Fine, complete four-volume set of Vancouver’s A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World...
Interesting map of the United States with large inset of South Carolina and Georgia. The map extends east to include the confluence of the Kentucky and Ohio Rivers and names Kentucky, but not Ohio or Tennessee. Includes nice detail in the...
Scarce map of the United States, published in Rome by Giovanni Maria Cassini. Virginia and the Carolinas extend to the Mississippi River. Florida is shown as an archipelago.
Finely detailed map of the Northeast extending from Philadelphia up the coast to Ile d'Anticosti and the mouth of the St. Laurence, published in Paris, shortly after the French Revolution. Extends inland to show part of Lake Ontario with fine detail...
Antique Map of the Caribbean and South Florida A striking color example of Cassini's scarce map of the Caribbean and south tip of Florida. The map is outlined in attractive reds, greens and yellows, while the cartouche is fully colored and appears to...
Large detailed map of Florida and the Caribbean, published by Bowles & Carver. The map extends from Florida, the Yucatan and Central America to the Windward and Leeward Islands. Centered on Cuba and the Bahamas. The map references the "Supposed...
Striking full color example of Cassini's map of California, Arizona, New Mexico, part of Texas, Baja California and Mexico. This is perhaps the only 18th Century map of the region to feature a decorative cartouche and vignette. The Rio Grande extends...
The Earliest Obtainable Map of San Francisco Bay Highly desirable map of San Francisco from the La Perouse's Voyages, the first obtainable map of San Francisco Bay. During his round the world voyage, La Perouse coasted southward along the California...
Rare separately issued chart of the harbor at Vera Cruz, as surveyed by Bernardo Orta in 1798. The chart was of such importance that it was later re-issued on a smaller scale by Alexander von Humboldt. Orta's chart shows the coast of Mexico and the...
Detailed map of the lsland of Martinique, with inset maps of Port Royal Harbor and Gallion Harbor, which was first published by Thomas Jefferys in 1775. In 1720, a French naval officer, Gabriel de Clieu, procured a coffee plant seedling from the Royal...
Highly detailed and informative map of the Dutch colonies of Essequibo and Demerara by Friedrich von Bouchenroeder, an officer in the Dutch Army and would-be settler. Essequibo and Demerara were settled by the Dutch in about 1616 and remained in Dutch...
Scarce broadside Oxford Almanac for the year 1798. Appears quite rare with only 2 other examples, one at the British Library (on OCLC) and a second at the British Museum. Issued in 1798 by Dayes. The example at the British Museum is blank in the...
Rare engraved map of eastern Estonia between Lakes Võrtsjärv and Peipus, with the town of Doerpt (now Tartu) at the center. The map features an attractively-engraved coat of arms of the city of Doerpt at the upper-left. This map was included in...
Rare engraved map of central Estonia north of Lake Võrtsjärv covering parts of present-day Järva, Viljandi, Tartu, and Jõgeva Counties. The map features an attractively-engraved coat of arms of Viljandi Kreis, a province in Livoniain the 18th and...