Showing The Discoveries of Lewis & Clark Very early coast to coast map of the United States, engraved in New Haven, Connecticut by Alfred Daggett, exhibiting the fulfillment of Thomas Jefferson's image of American Manifest Destiny. Issued shortly...
A Manifest Destiny Map - One of the Earliest Maps of The United States Extending To The Pacific Ocean Fine example of John Thomson's coast to coast map of the United States, published in Edinburgh in 1820. Thomson's map of the US is one of the...
Fascinating early lithograph, intended to illustrate New York City from across the Hudson River. The view is one of a series of very early lithographs intended as a wall paper sequence.
First Appearance of Cherokee Boundary and Choctaw Boundary Fine example of this early state Henry Schenk Tanner's spectacular map of Louisiana and Mississippi. Drawn from Darby's remarkable map of the region and other contemporary sources, the map...
An Early Appearance of the Provincia de Texas Rare separately issued map of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Southern California, Southern Arizona, Southern New Mexico and parts adjacent, published in Paris by Tardieu. As noted on the map This...
French edition of the first separately printed sea chart of Matagorda Bay, first published in the Portulano de la America Septentrional, under the auspices of the Direccion De Hidrografia in Madrid. As noted by Streeter this map of Bahia de S....
Rare Third State of The Best English Map of South America of The Early 19th Century Exceptional map of South America, at the outset of its Century of Independence, without question the finest large format commercially published map of South America...
Finely executed manuscript map of the Theater of War in Northwestern Europe, illustrating various battles, some with dates. The maps are printed on hand made paper with a large elaborate watermark D & C Blauw, the paper of the iconic Blaeu firm,...
Manuscript Map Showing Land in the German State of Hessen Finely-wrought topographic manuscript map showing the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, or the Schwalm-Eder district. The document, on the verso, is titled “Gorge de Karlenhausen,” the name of one of...
Rare regional map the Province of Allesandria. Includes the coats of arms of Allesandria and Valenza.
Detailed battle plan illustrating the Second Siege of Zaragosa. The second siege of Zaragoza was the French capture of the Spanish city of Zaragoza (also known as Saragossa) during the Peninsular War.
Striking view of Istanbul, with the Bosphorus in the background, published by Turgis in Paris.
The First Views Taken by Europeans in the Himalayas. Fine hand-colored aquatint view engraved by Robert Havell & Son, after artwork by J. B. Fraser. James Baillie Fraser James Baillie Fraser (June 11, 1783 - January 1856) was a Scottish...
The First Views Taken by Europeans in the Himalayas. Fine hand-colored aquatint view engraved by Robert Havell & Son, after artwork by J. B. Fraser. The British Library describes the subject of the view thusly: The village of Kotgarh is...
The First Views Taken by Europeans in the Himalayas. Fine hand-colored aquatint view engraved by Robert Havell & Son, after artwork by J. B. Fraser. The British Library describes the subject of the view thusly: The fortress at Raeengarh was...
Scarce map of western Africa illustrating the travels of Gaspard Theodore Mollien to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia Rivers. The map covers modern day Senegal and Gambia along with Mauritania, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Mali, naming numerous...