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  1854 (undated)     Description John Bornet presents a sweeping panoramic birds-eye view of New York City on the cusp of its monumental expansion northwards in the second half of the 19th century. The view looks east on Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn from a high point to the west of Hoboken, New Jersey. Bornet purports to have drawn the view from nature, likely from Bergen Hill, New Jersey, a popular high point used by other viewmakers of the period. Looking at the ViewThe view contra...

Title Fredonia, or the United States of North America; including also Cabotia, or the Canadian Provinces; the Western Territory to the Pacific Ocean; and the Northern Part of the Mexican States.   1830 (dated)         1 : 570000 Description A fine example of the rare 1830 first obtainable edition of the famous Richard Holmes Laurie Fredonia map of the United States. The map is best known for its advocation of a new name for the United States - Fredonia, which it is argued would buil...

CuliacanCuba-ortelius-1579 SOLD Title Culiacanae, America Regionis Descriptio./ Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacentium, Delineatio./ Cum Imp. et Regio./ privilegio decennali 1579.   1579 (dated)         1 : 8000000 Description This is a beautiful, sharp example of Ortelius 1579 map of the Viceroyalty of Culiacan in Northwestern Mexico, and Ortelius map of Cuba and the Caribbean. While Ortelius is generally most esteemed as an editor and compiler of maps, he was an ...

    1 : 126720 Description This is a scarce Showa 7, or 1932 map illustrating the vicinity of Shanghai shortly after the Shanghai Incident of 1932. The map was produced to illustrate the shanghai suburban region, and as such covers from the confluence of the Huangpu with the Yangtze to the sharp bend in the Huangpu near modern day Sheshang and Xixie. The Hunagpu River runs through the center of the map, with the International Settlement and French Concession areas highlighted in pink - es...

    1 : 80000000 Description One of the most iconic maps of all time, this is Abraham Orteliuss 1589 map of the world, Typus Orbis Terrarum, here in the first state of the 3rd plate. This map was published in Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern published atlas. The map embraces the entirety of the known world and represented the most widely-disseminated and eagerly-copied image of the world available to the European reader at the end of the 16th century. In compiling thi...

    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...