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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 ...

Antique Maps of the United States. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of the United States from the colonial era to the 19th century.

Muscovy-ortelius-1570 $2,500.00 Title Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. Auctore Antonio Ienkensono Anglo, edita Londini Anno. 1562 et dedicata illustriss: D. Henrico Sÿdneo Wallie presidi.   1570 (undated)         1 : 12000000 This is a 1601 example of Abraham Ortelius Russia, Moscoviae et Tartariae, the first atlas map of Russia, and the first to be produced based on actual exploration. Its content is based on the travels of English merchant and diplomat Anthony Jenkin...

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