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    1 : 2700000 Description This is a superb, scarce map of Svalbard, printed in 1744. The mapping of the western portions of the archipelago - formerly known as Spitzbergen - is here very accurate, despite being erroneously labelled Greneland. In its earliest version, printed by Samuel Purchas, it was attributed to Thomas Edge, an English whaler and seal-hunter who made a number of voyages to the region, and after whom several features on the map are named. For more than a century, this wa...

    1 : 11730000 Description This is a rare 1726 map of Persia by Francois Valentijn. It covers from the Gulf of Suez eastward to Ahmedabad (Amadabad) in modern-day western India. This map, centered on Persia, includes the Caspian Sea and part of the Arabian Peninsula. The map is highly detailed, noting numerous rivers, towns, islands and mountains. Stippling along the coastlines indicates shallows. The detail of this elegant and scarce map, alas, reflects the cartography of the previous c...

  1572 (dated)         1 : 12900000 Description This is a scarce and important 1571 map of the world by Benedict Arias Montanus. Finely engraved and prepared for the eight-volume Plantin Polyglot Bible, this elegant map was intended to bring the new discoveries of the Americas into a coherent religious context. It further established the Native American population as Hebrew descendants of Noah, and thus Children of God whom the dedicatee of the Polyglot, Philip II of Spain, was obl...

    1 : 120000000 Description This is Sebastian Münsters 1550 map of the world, one of the most distinctive produced during the Age of Discovery. In the mid-sixteenth century, it was the best summation of the rapidly expanding known world available to the literate European. The map was included in Münster’s magnum opus, Cosmographia Universalis, for over forty years was the primary source for anyone who wished knowledge of the world. Consequently, this map would have had a disproporti...

RockIslandRoute-cram-1888 $1,000.00 Title New and Correct Map of the Great Rock Island Route Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railways.   1888 (dated)         1 : 4850000 Description This is an 1888 George F. Cram and Rock Island Railroad map of the United States. Centered on the railroad network of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad, every stop from Chicago to Omaha is labeled. The same detail is present along the lines of the Chicago, Ka...

Description A scarce 1884 Frederick Cozzens chromolithograph chart of the American yacht signals. The chart centers on an illustration of the small sailing yacht Yolande and is surrounded by three sections of flags. Flags B through W represent Code Signals. Flags 2 - 66 are Club Signals. And Flags I - VI are Night Signals. A digital image of the key to the chart is included for reference, but we do not have the original key. ChromolithographyChromolithography is a color lithographic techni...

Singapore-jackson-1828-2 $3,250.00 Title Plan of the Town of Singapore by Lieut. Jackson. / Plan of the British Settlement of Singapore by Capt. Franklin and Lieut. Jackson.   1828 (dated)         1 : 20500 Description Known as the Jackson Plan or Raffles Plan, this is the first published map of Singapore. Published in 1828, the map was drawn by Lieutenant Philip Jackson at the request of Singapore founder Sir Stamford Raffles (1781 - 1826). It is divided into two sections, a map o...

  1828 (undated)         1 : 84480 Description This is the earliest known map of Bangkok, Thailand, issued in 1828 shortly following John Crawfurds diplomatic mission to the royal court of Siam. The map itself purports to be by a native, and was likely drawn for Crawfurd in 1822, when he visited. The map is oriented to the north, with the Royal Palace and temple complex at center. The Chao Phraya River is here identified by the archaic name, Manam. The area covered roughly correspo...

  1828 (undated)     Description A striking early view of Bangkok, Thailand, issued in 1828 shortly following John Crawfurds diplomatic mission to the royal courts of Siam. The view looks eastward across the Chao Phraya River towards what is today Bangkoks Chinatown. Chinese riverfront shops line the Chao Phraya. Dusit Maha Prasat, King Rama Is (1737 - 1809) great throne hall, built in 1789, rising in the background. A large Chinese junk occupies the foreground. Crawfurd on BangkokWhen ...

Description A striking 1895 George E. Norris lithograph view of Newport, a historic town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire. The view looks on Newport from a fictional highpoint to the south. At center the conjunction of various branches of the Sugar River and the towns urban center. To the northwest of the town center the famous Corbin Covered Bridge (today a replica stands here), is recognizable for its tall narrow frame. Another covered bridge, just south of the Sugar River convergence, pa...