A Large Skillfully Drawn Schoolgirl Map of the World Finely executed hand drawn map of the world by Phebe Phillips of the Lynn Academy. The detail and size of this world map are quite exceptional. Lynn Academy The Lynn Academy occupied a building...
Antique Map of the World on Mercator's Projection Highly detailed large format map of the World, centered on Australia, with the Americas in the east. Antarctica is just beginning to take shape south of Tierra del Fuego, with the naming of Terre de...
Impressive four-sheet wall map of the world, published by Brué in Paris in 1816. The map depicts the Pacific at its center. This approach became popular in the late 18th and early 19th century as the great Pacific explorations filtered into the...
Interesting and highly detailed map of the Northern Hemisphere, published by John Thomson. Includes an unusual orientation such that all of Asia, Europe, Africa and North America are shown. Includes the tracks from Cook's voyages, along with dates...
Rare map of the Northeastern United States, which first appeared in John Melish's Traveller's Directory… published in Philadelphia. This Northern Sheet, previously titled Map of the Seat of War…extends from the Great Lakes to Nova Scotia, New...
One of the earliest obtainable maps of Mississippi Territory A rare early map of Mississippi Territory, published by Fielding Lucas Jr. in Baltimore, from his New & Elegant General Atlas of the United States . . . The map pre-dates the creation...
One of the earliest obtainable maps of the State of Louisiana A rare early map of Louisiana, published by Fielding Lucas Jr. in Baltimore, from his New & Elegant General Atlas of the United States . . . Includes a number of early roads, towns,...
An Early Ohio Town Plan Produced For An Early (Failed) Ohio Bank Proprietor Hand drawn town plat and testimonial for the town of Edwinburgh, in Richland County, Ohio, which would later become Millsboro, on the Clear Fork branch of the Mohickan River....
Scarce map of the NW Passage, the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia. The map extensively tracks the voyages of Captain James Cook beyond the Bering Straits on a nearly daily basis in 1778 and 1779. In the Arctic Sea, a note regarding McKenzie's...
The British View of the Louisiana Purchase. Detailed map of North America, illustrating an Anglo-centric view of the land acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. The map illustrates two features which give away its political view....
Attractive map of the region from the Bay of Honduras to Panama and the Gulf of Darian, extending to Jamaica.
Fine map of Margarita Island and the Gulf of Cariaco, as surveyed by the Spanish at the end of the 17th Century. The present chart represents the southeastern most expeditionary work of Brigadier Joaquin Franciso Fidalgo, at the end of the 18th...
Beautiful engraved and highly detailed four-sheet wall map of South America at the beginning of its Century of Revolution. The map reflects the extent of European knowledge and explorations into the interior of the continent, which was advanced, but...
Rare Spanish Sea Chart of the Coast of Venezuela and Trinidad Rare first state of the edition of this rare Spanish sea chart of the coastline of Venezuela and neighboring islands, including Trinidad and Margarita. The present chart represents the...
A French View of Europe Immediately After the Napoleonic Wars. Beautiful and exactingly-engraved four-sheet map of Europe, published in Paris in 1816 by France's foremost mapmaker of the time, Hubert Brué. The map is noteworthy for its precision of...
Rare single sheet version of A.H. Brue's Carte Encyprotype of Europe. This is in essence the key sheet for Brue's impressive and intricately-engraved tour-de-force 4 sheet maps of the world and continents, which was included in the earliest editions...