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Antique Maps of the West Indies & Caribbean. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of the West Indies, the Antilles, and the Caribbean from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Antique Maps of South and North America. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of North America, South America & the Western Hemisphere from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

NewYorkNewJersey-jefferysholland-1775 $4,750.00 Title The Provinces of NEW YORK, and NEW JERSEY; with part of PENSILVANIA, and the Governments of TROIS RIVIERES, and MONTREAL: drawn by Capt. Holland. / A Chorographical Map of the Country between Albany, Oswego, Fort Frontenac, and Les Trois Rivieres; Exhibiting all the Grants made by the French Governors on Lake Champlain; and between that Lake and Montreal.   1775 (dated)         1 : 633300 Description One of the most important, inf...

  1747 (undated)         1 : 10134000 This is the earliest English map of Tibet, engraved for Braddock Meads A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, published under his pseudonym John Green by Thomas Astley in 1747. It is one of the few maps of the region to rely (ultimately) on local sources - although the mapmakers claim that the map was drawn from that made by Lama Mathematicians does not include the chain of Jesuit missionaries and French cartographers linking the Lama M...