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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.

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

Title NavWarMap No. 1 The Mediterranean. / NavWarMap No. 2 The South China Sea Area. / NavWarMap No. 3 World War 2 in the North Sea Area. / NavWarMap No. 4 The North Pacific Area. / NavWarMap No. 5. Southwest Pacific. / NavWarMap No. 6 We Fight a Global War.   1944 (dated)     Description This is a full set of all six 1944 Navy Department pictorial maps of the worldwide battlefronts during World War II. The NavWarMap SeriesThe NavWarMap series is a series of six maps created by the Burea...

  1748 (undated)         1 : 2500000 Description A superb example of the finest and most important large-scale maps of Georgia ever produced, this is Emmanuel Bowens 1748 map of the colony of Georgia, considered the first obtainable specific map of that region. The map covers the Atlantic coast from Charleston (South Carolina) to Cape Canaveral (Florida) and extends westward to just beyond the Mississippi River, covering the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi Delta. It extends north alo...

  1789 (dated)         1 : 21120 Description This is John Hunters 1789 nautical map of Port Jackson, New South Wales, the first European printed chart of the waters around Sydney Harbor. Hunter surveyed the area as commander of H.M.S. Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet under New South Wales first Governor, Arthur Phillip. (Hunter himself would become the second Governor.) Hunters 1788 manuscript survives in the State Library of New South Wales. A Superb First ChartThe chart is rich...

AntiSovietMapEastAsia-osakamainichi-1937-2 SOLD Title 最近の東 亞形勢圖解 / Illustrated Explanation of Recent East Asia Situations. / Saikin no Tōa keisei zukai.   1937 (dated)         1 : 6500000 A remarkable and rare 1937 Osaka Mainichi Shimbun large-format Japanese anti-Soviet propaganda pictorial map of East Asia. Centered on China, this stunning map depicts from Central Asia and India to Japan, and from Siberia to Vietnam. The map empl...

  1780 (undated)         1 : 350000 Description This is a beautifully engraved 1780 map of the island of Hispaniola or Saint Domingue, modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The map shows topographical features pictorially. Lakes, rivers and towns are marked and named, including Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince. In the central part of the island is the town of Hinche (Hincha). This village, founded by Spanish settlers in 1704, was in an economically driven population boom when t...

  1926 (undated)     Description This is a cartographic Marca Stella board game, printed in Milan c. 1926, to celebrate the successful Amundsen-Ellsworth Transpolar Flight of the airship Norge. This voyage boasts the first undisputed sighting of the North Pole, May 12, 1926. Three previous claims to have achieved the Pole (Cook in 1908, Peary in 1909, Byrd in 1926 - a few days before the Norge) are all disputed as being either inaccurate or fraudulent. The Norge was an Italian-made di...

  1926 (dated)         1 : 3168000 Description A scarce 1926 Matthews Northrup map of the southeastern and southcentral United States detailing the routes of the Southern Railway System. The map covers from the Sabine River and Oklahoma borderlands eastward to the Atlantic Seaboard and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Coverage is extended to include Florida via an inset. Rail lines either owned outright, in part, or leased by the Southern Railway are highlighted and col...

UnitedStatesWestIndies-lapietardieu-1812 $9,500.00 Title A Map of the United States and Canada, New-Scotland, New-Brunswick and New-Foundland. / Carte des Etats-Unis, avec le Canada, La Nouvelle Ecosse, Le Nouveau Brunswick et Terre-Neuve. / A Map of the West-Indies and of the Mexican-Gulph. / Carte des Indies Occidental et du Golfe du Méxique.   1812 (dated)         1 : 6000000 Description A lavish and beautiful large-scale French map of the United States and West Indies issued i...