HENNEPIN,L. Amerique Septentrionalis Carte dun grand Pays.. Amsterdam, 1698. Uncoloured. A good and dark impression. 433 x 528 mm.
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3000 €   

¤ A beautiful general map that attempts to place in perspective Hennepin's important mapping of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River. "The Hennepin delineation's of Lake Superior, Michigan and Huron are remarkable improvements upon the Sanson maps." (Karpinski) Showing the Mississippi River entering the Gulf far to the west of its actual location. In upper left corner an inset (100x165mm) showing part of mainland Japan and "Terra de Iesso" reaching to the California coast. Ref.: Karpinski, Maps of the famous cartographers, p.100; Kaufman, Mapping of the Great Lakes in the 17th century, no.20.

VAUGONDY,R. Amérique Septentrionale .. Les Etats Unis.. Paris, 1786. Original o/l colour. Very slightly agetoned, marginal discolouration, altogether in good condition. Cartouche with some later 480 x 590 mm.
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3750 €   

¤ Very rare state; probably separately issued. Published the same year the Treaty of Poaris was signed, this is one of the first maps to provide printed boundary lines for the newly recognized United States. This state of the map is not found in the standardly published atlases and was evidently a special publication occasioned by the great event. Also in this state the the map's title was changed to include the name (in French) for the United States. "Etats Unis" also appears on the map itself. Much other new information and place-names were added to this state, including I.Shelrock on the Tropic of Cancer and configuration of Great Lakes as d'Anville (not Bellin as previous states); Is.Bermudes and Indian tribes around Ohio region added; adds place names along east coast, e.g. Newport, N York, De Laware. With inset upper left; "suivant Drake" added to Nouvelle Albion. "ordinaire du Roi" removed from title cartouche. - Sponberg Pedley, Bel et Utide, map 450, State 6.

THOMSON,J. Northern Provinces of the United States Edinburgh 1817. Beau col. ancien. In good condition. 490 x 590 mm.
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500 €   

¤ Somewhat later but very finely engraved and detailed map of United States.

FERRARIO,G. Les Aleuts. Milan, 1827. In original colours. Colour aquatint. In very good condition. Nice margins for framing. 155 x 200 mm.
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60 €   

¤ From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, etc. published in Milan by the author between 1816 and 1827.
This aquatint engraved plate was colour printed on fine move paper of a soft aged white colour, bearing the embossed seal of authenticity impressed at the time of publication with the legend “Il Costume Antico E Moderno” surrounding the initials GF.
A beautifully hand colored aquatint with additional hand-colouring.

DUFOUR,A.H. Mexique Antilles, états-Unis.. Paris, 1860. Original colours. Steel engraving, good condition. 543 x 749 mm.
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250 €   

¤ Very detailed map of the United states. Engraved by Ch.Dyonnet, prepared by A.H.Dufour for his "Atlas Universele".

GARNIER,F.A. états-Unis de L'Amerique du Nord.. Paris, 1861. In original colours. Steel engraving in very fine condition. 337 x 500 mm.
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160 €   

¤ Very detailed map from "Atlas Spherodidal & Universel de geographie", Prepared by F.A.Garnier and edited by Jules Renouard, rue de Tournon, Paris. Uncommon with decorative title cartouche in lower right hand corner. With inset maps of Florida and the islands St.Pierre and Miquelon.

BUCHON,J.A. Carte Géographique .. Kentucky. Paris, 1825.. Beau col. ancien. Some very minor water staining. In good condition. 280 x 455 mm.
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150 €   

¤ Detailed map of Kentukey. From J.A. Buchon, "Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes; traduit de l'atlas exécuté en Amerique d'aprés Lesage, avec des nombreuses corrections et augmentations." Paris 1825. An elegant Parisian publication of the Carey & Lea atlas of the Americas, first published in 1822 in Philadelphia. This edition updates its model in significant ways, adding seven new maps including one of the United States dated 1825. Changes were made to the maps of Georgia, Louisiana, New York and Alaska. Engraved by Le Gagneur. Map is surrounded by letterpress explanatory text ( in French), which includes details of climate, topography, commerce, religion, government, governors, basic history and important military engagements are discussed. This is a fine map and is a great example of a superior 19th century engraving technique.

ORTELIUS, A. Culiacanae Americae regionis.. / Hispaniolae, Cubae.. Anvers, 1598. Beau col. Texte français. 2 cartes sur 1 planche. Infimes rousseurs, marge gauche renforcée. - Left margin reinforced, fine colour. 357 x 498 mm.
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2000 €   

¤ Two separate virtually identically sized inset maps on one sheet, each with a decorative scroll title cartouche. Culiacanae depicts the coastal and inland western region in North central Mexico, the present state of Sinaloa. Just off shore is a rather long, thin island which has been suggested, without much acceptance, if any, as the first or very early depiction of California as an island. The other inset shows much if not most of the West Indies and the Bahamas, one of the earliest maps to do so. - Van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas maps, 14. Second state.

MULLER Carte de la partie Septentrionale et Orientale .. (5 maps) Paris, 1772. Coloured. Prined on heavy paper. Several horizonal and vertical folds as issued. 486 x 690 mm.
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1000 €   

¤ Five maps on one sheet, showing California, Alaska and Siberia and Japan. Map I showing Alaska, California as an peninsular, eastern tip of Japan with a curious "Islade Plata". This map shows the Bering Straits an extended Alaska, Japan and a curious "Jesso" and California as an peninsular. Map II Showing the north eastern part of California with "Mer Vermeille" and an extensive rivers system with "Totenteac" and a Lake "Patria". Map III La Region des Conibas & Pays voisins selon Acosta. Map IV Showing Alaska. The general map showing the coastline of Russia until Korea, Japan and a "Iesso" an island but close to the mainland. Engraved by Chovin.

JANSSON, J. Nova Anglia Novum Belgium et Virginia. Amsterdam, 1636. Coloured. In good condition. 387 x 504 mm.
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3000 €   

¤ In the 1636 edition of the "Appendix", Johannes Janssonius inserted this important and influential map of the eastern seaboard from C. of Feare (Cape Look out) to Nova Scotia, based on Johannes de Laet's prototype map. De Laet was a director of the Dutch West India Company, which controlled the Dutch penetration of the Americas. It is one of the earliest attempts on a Dutch map to show the Great Lakes in any form. Janssonius shows an unnamed lake (probably Lake Champlain), a "Lac de Yroquois" (Ontario?) and further west a "Grand Lac", which Tooley holds to be Lake Superior. First state, with the heart shaped cartouche. Janssonius was one of the first printed maps to include several important place names, such as New Amsterdam, Manbattes (a version of Manhattan), Fort Orange (Albany), and Plymounth. The area of present day Maine is called Norembegua. With German text on verso. Reference:Karpinski, Maps of famous cartographers, pp.26,31,Pl.II; On the Map, fig.10; Gooses, Mapping of North America no.29. - Burden, America 247. A first state.

WELLS,E. A new map of.. Plantations of the English in America.. Londres, 1700. Col. Paper slightly browned. Left and right margin a little britle and contemporarily underlaid with paper. A dark impression. 354 x 477 mm.
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2000 €   

¤ A boldly engraved large-scale map of the Carolinas, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, Barbados and Jamaica appear as large insets on this interesting uncommon and attractive map, which extends from the Chesapeake to Penobscot Bay. From Wells' "New Sett of Maps." With large decorative title cartouche with a dedication to William Duke of Gloucester. Engraved by Sutton Nicholls.

MOLL,H. Neu Engeland Neu York, Neu Jersey und Pensilvanien.. Lemgo 1744. Col. Paper slightly browned. Dark impression. Very good. 178 x 258 mm.
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600 €   

¤ This is a bit later edition of a very popular and rather significant map which appeared in Oldmixon's 1708 book, "British Empire in America" and then in other editions and states and publications to about 1781.
From a German edition "Das britische Reich in America ." - New England in early printed maps, 744.6

CHEREAU,J. La destruction de la Statue royale a Nouvelle York. Paris, 1790. Original colours. So-called optical print in good condition. 270 x 386 mm.
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480 €   

¤ One of the few European prints dealing with the Revolutionary war. J. Chereau was a publisher of optical prints, established in Paris, rue St.Jacques. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London, which produced optical viewing devices and special engravings to be viewed through them. In the 18th century the "optical print" or "vue optique" came into existence, whose exaggerated converging lines were intended to produce the optical illusion of deep recession. The viewing devices for which these perspective prints were produced consisted of a lens and a mirror, this requiring the use of reversed or mirror-image pictures. This picture however has top title not reversed. Uncommon.

HESSE,J. New York von der Seeseite aus gesehen. Berlin, 1850. Original colours. Original hand coloured lithography printed on tinted ground. 235 x 365 mm.
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750 €   

¤ J.Hesse was known as a portrait painter and publisher of lithographs. A long panorama of the shoreline from the sea, with sailing vessels and American steamships in the busy port. - Thieme-B.XVI 592.

ORTELIUS, A. La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan. Anvers, 1592. Beau col. In good condition. Wide margins. 335 x 465 mm.
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2500 €   

¤ The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little information on the interior of North America, but the details presented have been definitely linked with known features. The village of "Aijx" undoubtedly became known to the Spaniards as Ais, and the Mississippi, though distorted, appeared as the "R.de S.Spiritu", the name given it by early Spanish explorers. Tascalisa lies on the map as closely as possible to where today's Tuscaloosa, Alabama is. The Chaves map published by Ortelius was, therefore, one of the earliest printed maps of the territory based on actual observations. -Martin & Martin; Maps of Texas and the Southwest. The first printed map of the Florida region. Also on the same sheet are maps of eastern Mexico and of Peru, thus completing the picture of Spain's American possessions. - Cumming, Southeast, p.12,#5;v.d.Broecke 15.