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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 France. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of France from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Antique Maps of Africa. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Antique Maps of Idaho, Montana & Wyoming. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming from the 17th to the 19th century.

  1572 (undated)         1 : 10000 Description A handsome example of the Braun and Hogenbergs 1572 map and view of Paris, France. With the Seine flowing at center around the Île de la Cité, this view looks on Paris from the northwest, with the top oriented to the southeast. The city is presented from an equidistant birds-eye perspective wherein all structures are rendered in view form, but from a uniform height and angle relative to all individual points. Fertile fields surround th...

    1 : 2000000 Description This is a beautiful strike of Gerhard Mercators map of Iceland, included by Jodocus Hondius and his heirs in their Atlas sive Cosmographicae. It is the second map of Iceland to appear in a modern atlas, and the second map overall of Iceland based on data originating from an Icelander, placing it among the first accurate maps of the island. Mercators map first appeared in 1595, only five years after Abraham Ortelius famous map; both maps shared the same ultimate ...

Description A striking c. 1960 John Hardy silk screen promotional poster advertising Delta Airlines service to Florida. The image is dramatically silkscreened in 5 colors (yellow, brown, purple, light blue, red, black). It highlights Delta destinations, including Tampa, Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami. The map of Florida is overlaid with images of scuba divers, sunbathing beauties, and a gentleman playing golf. Delta Screen Print PostersIn the late 1950s and early 19...

Italiae-covensmortier-1721 $1,000.00 Title   1721 (undated)         1 : 2400000 Description This is an attractive and scarce map of Italy, engraved c. 1680 by Frederik De Wit, but updated in 1721 by the Amsterdam publishers Covens and Mortier. Covens and Mortier added many place names and included the post road system first introduced on a 1695 map of Italy by Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola. The map covers the Italian Peninsula in its entirety including the Dalmatian coast, at the time c...

  1570 (undated)         1 : 20000000 Description A richly-colored example of Ortelius seminal map of Tartary, this is one of the first maps to focus on the North Pacific. While the map is primarily intended to detail Asia as dominated by the Great Khan, it is also notable for what it shows of America. The map includes what is now the west coast of the United States, northwestern Canada and Alaska, bit was then almost entirely unknown lands. It is the earliest obtainable map to name C...

Description This is an 1865 American Civil War manuscript letter and map of Fort Powhatan, Virginia, written by Abraham Slack, a member of the 38th Regiment, New Jersey Infantry. Consisting of three handwritten pages and a map on a single folded sheet. Slack wrote the letter to his son, John William Slack (1850 - c. 1910). In the letter, Slack describes Fort Powhatan in detail, expresses sympathy for desperate condition of the Confederate forces (and families) across the river, details recent ...