Philadelphia. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 10.5" x 8.5", sheet measures 13.5" x 10.75". In very good condition. Rare map of North America includes Canada, United States, Mexico when most of the South West was still New Spain. Creative inset of "The Caribbee Isles". Shows cities, topographical details and waterways. Fielding Lucas Jr. was an artist, publisher and cartographer active in the early 19th century. He published his first atlas in 1815 and became known as the..... More

London: J. Luffman, 1819. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. 11.25" x 9". Some foxing and light wear at edges that does not affect the image. In very good condition. An interesting map of North America. The United States is shown extending to the Mississippi River and is bordered by Louisiana, west of which is New Mexico, extending northward to present day North Dakota and Montana. Westward still is New Albion, and the Baja Peninsula is identified as California. A manuscript..... More

Mexico D.F. Editorial Trillas, 1995. Numerous illustrations. 270 pages, 8vo, bibliography, index. Literna Magica No. 22. First edition. Soft cover. Detailed chronology of early rare maps starting from Virga 1415 through to Tatton with some nice portraits of cartographers. More

Amsterdam: Meursius, 1673. Map. Engraving. Image measures 17 x 21 1/2 inches. Sheet measures 18 x 22 3/4 inches. Majestic baroque map of the Americas by Meurs and his wife. Neptune cartouche astounds with artistic quality and commodities title cartouche is equally creative. The map is based on the 1658 Visscher map of the Americas with the unexplored Great Lakes opened to the West but with a new Lake Ontario described as Lac Cottenant. California as an island with a...... More

Paris: J. Migeon, 1891. Map. Engraving with original coloring. Image size 12.25 x 16.25 inches. Sheet size 15.25 x 20.25 inches. Shows some light foxing. In very good condition. From M.A. Martineau's Nouvel Atlas Illustre Geographie Universelle. Beautiful inset shows a bird's eye view of Washington, D.C. More

Philadelphia: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Jr., 1866. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13 1/2" x 10 3/4". Nice map of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas divided into counties. Shows towns, major routes and waterways. Minor chips and tears to margin, not affecting the image. Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sr. (1792-1868) was one of the leaders in American cartography of the 19th century and pioneered the conversion of engraved map plates to more affordable lithographic plates. His son, Samuel Augustus Mitchell..... More

Philadelphia: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Jr., 1867. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13.75" x 11". Nice map of St. Louis colored according to wards. Shows streets, railroads and public parks. In very good condition with a small tear and chi to bottom edge. S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. continued his father's successful mapmaking and publishing business, and was one of the most prolific and renowned 19th century American publishers. More

Philadelphia: H. N. Burroughs, 1846. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 14 3/8" x 11 7/16". Wonderfully graphic and colorful map of Michigan amidst four Great Lakes. The map includes towns and roads, in addition to canals, drawn in blue, and railroads, drawn in orange. A small inset on the left depicts the western part of the state. Beneath the title, two tables list steam boat routes from Detroit to Fort Gratiot and Fort Howard. The map is..... More

Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1848. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 11 1/4" x 14". Beautifully detailed first edition map of South Carolina divided into counties. The map delineates towns, waterways, railroads, and major routes, as explained in a small key at the bottom right. Canals and railroads are marked. Also included are insets of Charleston and a table of distances. The map is in good condition, with minor toning. Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sr. (1792-1868) published this map..... More

Philadelphia: Cowperthwait, Desilver & Butler, 1855. Map. Engraving and lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 16" x 26.25". Beautifully detailed map of the United States including insets of the Gold Region of California and the District of Columbia. Shows states and territories, towns and cities, major routes, historic trails, topographical features and mountain heights, waterways, battle sites and railroads (completed and projected). Light creases to right corners. Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sr. (1792-1868) was one of the leaders in American..... More

London: T. Bowles, 1731. Map. Copper plate engraving with original hand outline color. Image measures 40.75 x 24.75 inches. Floating in original frame with conservation glazing. Beautiful early map of North America. The 'Beaver Map' as it is affectionately known was first published in 1715 to document the colonial boundary disputes in North America between Britain and France as outlined in the Treaty of Utrecht. France ceded Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, the Hudson Bay territory, and the island of St. Kitts..... More

London: Mount & Davidson, Tower-Hill, 1794. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 22.75" x 19.5", page including text measures 26.5" x 27 7/8". Beautiful and rare chart of the Atlantic including South America and parts of North America, Europe and Africa. Features lines of magnetic variation, or how much the compass deviates from true north. As explained in the two columns of pasted text, these observations are based upon the work of Dr. Edmond Halley in 1700 with additions in 1744..... More

Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1572. Map. Uncolored woodcut. Sheet measures 12" x 15.25". This important and influential 1572 map by Sebastian Munster is the first map to show North America and South America in their true continental forms. It is also significant in that it names the Pacific Ocean (Mare Pacificum) and the first printed map to ever show Japan (Zipangri), here appearing based on the accounts of Marco Polo. First published in 1544 in his Basel edition of Ptolemy's "Geographia"..... More