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  1841 (dated)         1 : 15000000 Description A beautiful example of the scarce 1840 first edition of James Wylds First Opium War Era map of China, with Hong Kong identified here as Heong Kong. The map covers all of China, extending from the Tibet border to western Japan and from Manchuria to Hainan. Korea, rendered in full, is wildly malformed. Taiwan, appearing near the cartouche, is misshaped and only the western coast features any detail. There are notes in industry, transporta...

  1890 (dated)     Description A striking c. 1890 chromolithograph view of the Holy Land / Israel / Palestine by G. W. Bacon. Coverage extends from Mt. Lebanon and Mt. Hermon to the Dead Sea, Bethlehem, and Gath - thus covering the northern half of modern-day Israel and southern Lebanon. The Jordan River valley is particularly striking, with bold exaggerated depictions of both the Sea of Galilee and the northern part of the Dead Sea. Jerusalem is prominent at bottom center. Chromolitho...

  1900 (dated)         1 : 4500000 Description A most intriguing discovery capturing the pivotal historical moment when China embraced the railroad, in the processing sacrificing much of its sovereignty to vast network of railroad concessions and foreign interests. This is a 1900 ferro-gallic transfer of Emilii Vasilevich Bretschneiders original manuscript map of China, accompanied by extensive manuscript annotation in the authors hand regarding the development of Chinas railroad syst...

  1552 (undated)         1 : 50000000 Description This is an excellent 1552 Latin example of Sebastian Münsters map of America, the first printed map of the Western Hemisphere. The map first appeared in Münsters 1540 edition of Ptolemys Geographia, one of the earliest versions of the classical work to systematically include maps showing contemporary geographical knowledge. Beginning in 1544, the map would be included in Münsters magnum opus, Cosmographia Universalis, which for ov...

Tasmania-sprent-1859 $7,500.00 Title This Map of Tasmania in 1859, Sir Henry Edward Fox Young Knight Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath Being Governor in Chief, and teh Honble. Francis Smigh Attorney General being Premier is dedicated to his Excellency and the Parliament by James Sprent, Surveyor General.   1859 (dated)         1 : 316800 Description The first, largest, best colonial and settlement era map of Tasmania. This is the James Sprent / William Hogan 1859 map...

  1842 (dated)         1 : 165000 Description A fine example of William W. Mathers 1842 large-scale geographical map of Long Island, New York - the first comprehensive geological study of the island. Issued prior to the completion of the Long Island Railroad and the subsequent Long Island land rush, this one of the largest, most detailed, and attractive maps of Long Island to appear in the 19th century. The map covers from New Jersey and Staten Island eastward as Montauk and Fishers I...

    1 : 23000000 Description This is a beautiful example of Ortelius 1570 map of Africa, here in its 1602 Spanish edition. In its first issue this was the first map of Africa to appear in an atlas, and it remained the best and most widespread general map of Africa for the remainder of the 16th century and into the 17th. It remains a most desirable map: Tooley rhapsodized: …one of the cornerstones of any African map collection . . . a handsome, well balanced map, visually beautiful and fi...

Cosmographia, in which this map appeared until about 1569. Whereas Geographia only appeared in Latin, Münsters new work was published in German, Latin, French, and Italian (the sole Czech edition of 1554 had only one map of Bohemia). The movable stereotype text with which the map was lettered exhibits slight variations from edition to edition, as does the verso text. Also, the cracks would increase in severity until 1571 or 1572, when the badly worn woodblock was replaced with a similar (but...

  1960 (dated)         1 : 500000 Description This is a 1960 Robert J. Caire and Bert Thatcher buried treasure map of Louisiana. Magenta Xs mark the spots where fifty-six fortunes were partially recovered or were supposedly buried by pirates, thieves, and the wealthy, or were lost at sea after a shipwreck. Each X is numbered and corresponds with a short description of the fortune in question (ranging from $20,000 to $4,000,000). The PortraitsPortraits of four historical figures adorn...

  1876 (dated)     Description An enormous striking 1876 London Illustrated News birds-eye view of Manhattan, New York City. The view looks east on Manhattan and Long Island from Bergen Hill, a high point in Hoboken, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River. Manhattan is covered from the Battery to roughly 96th Street. The Reservoir, today the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, a large pond in Central Park, is evident at the extreme left. Hoboken is evident in the foreground, and in...