AMERICA (CONTINENT):137. Mercator, M. ‘AMERICA SIVE INDIA NOVA....’. Map of the western hemisphere contained within an attractive floral design, with circular insets in the four corners (Title, Cuba and Bahamas, Haiti, Gulf of Mexico). Michael Mercator ca. 1633 [22634] 37 x 46 cm. French text verso. Full original
colour. Two small verdi gris cracks backed. Very good condition. £3200 The only printed map known by Gerard Mercator’s grandson Michael, first published in 1595. Burden 87. |
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):138. Anonymous. 'AMERIQUE'. Finely engraved map of North and South America, California is shown as an island. Anonymous French ca. 1700 [14569] 13 x 16 cm. Full recent
colour. Excellent condition. £200
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):139. Schenk, P. ‘AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALIS NOVISSIMA / AMERICA MERIDIONALIS ACCURATISSIMA’. Map of North and South America with two pictorial cartouches. California is shown as an island. New York is identified as
Hollandia. Pieter Schenk ca. 1700 [22161] 48 x 56 cm. The two elaborate cartouches
uncoloured, the map in full original colour. Excellent condition. £1450 Rare. Unusually, there is a double title cartouche, one for North and one for South America. - Tooley/Mapping of America p. 125. |
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):140. Zürner, A. F. / Schenk, P. ‘AMERICAE TAM SEPTENTRIONALIS QUAM MERIDIONALIS IN MAPPA GEOGRAPHICA DELINEATIO’. Map of North and South America with two pictorial cartouches. California is shown as an island. Published by Pieter Schenk from the plate designed by Adam Friedrich Zürner ca. 1700 [22162] 50 x 58 cm. The two elaborate cartouches
uncoloured, the map in full original colour. Minute old rebacked puncture in the dark part of the lower cartouche. Excellent condition. £2750
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):141. Homann, J. B. 'TOTIUS AMERICAE SEPTENTRIONALIS ET MERIDIONALIS NOVISSIMA
REPRAESENTATIO...'. Map of North and South America, showing Caifornia as an island. Johann Baptist Homann ca. 1710 [15915] 49 x 57 cm. Two large pictorial cartouches
uncoloured, the map in full original colour. Excellent condition. £1500 Uncommon first edition showing California as an island, which was changed to true peninsular California in all later Homann editions. Tooley/California #79. |
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):142. Macquart, D. ‘L’AMERIQUE SUIVANT LES DERNIERES OBSERVATIONS...’. Map of North and South America. California is shown as an island. Denise Macquart for Buffier ca. 1714 [20574] 18 x 14 cm. Recent outline
colour. Excellent condition. £200
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):143. Bowen, E. ‘A NEW AND ACCURATE MAP OF AMERICA...’. American hemisphere. West Coast above California largely undefined. Emanuel Bowen for Harris/Navigantium 1748 [19614] 35 x 45 cm. Figurative cartouche showing natives and alligator.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £420
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):144. Bowen, E. ‘A NEW AND ACCURATE MAP OF AMERICA...’. American hemisphere. West Coast above California largely undefined. Emanuel Bowen ca. 1748 [23739] 35 x 45 cm. Figurative cartouche showing natives and alligator. Full recent
colour. Excellent condition. £500
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):145. Monath, P. C. ‘TOTIUS AMERICAE DESCRIPTIO NOVA’. Map of the American hemisphere with figurative cartouche. Insular California. This attractive, scarce map showing California as an island was published later than most maps that show this cartographic myth. Nearly all cartographers stop showing it in this fashion after 1740. The title cartouche depicts Natives of America. Peter Conrad Monath in Nürnberg ca. 1760 [18175] 24 x 28 cm. Full original
colour. Excellent condition. £600 From Abbé Lenglet DuFresnoy’s ‘Kinder-Geographie’. Uncommon. |
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):146. Janvier, J. 'L'AMERIQUE DIVISEE PAR GRANDS
ETATS'. Map of North and South America. Jean Janvier 1762 [25615] 30 x 45 cm. Large decorative cartouche. Full recent
colour. Excellent condition. £125
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):147. Bowen, E. ‘A NEW GENERAL MAP OF AMERICA...’. Map of North and South America. Emanuel Bowen ca. 1766 [26911] 35 x 42 cm. Recent outline
colour. Excellent condition. £500
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):148. Cary, J. ‘A NEW MAP OF AMERICA...’. Map of North and South America. John Cary 1806 [26168] 46 x 52 cm. Full original
colour. Excellent condition. £280
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AMERICA (CONTINENT):149. Streit, F. W. ‘CHARTE VON AMERICA...’. Map of North and South America, with inset map of Alaska. Friedrich Wilhelm Streit for Verlag des Geograph. Instituts Weimar 1817 [25849] 57 x 47 cm. Original outline
colour. Excellent condition. £350
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NORTH AMERICA:151. Aa, P. v. d. ‘L’AMERIQUE
SEPTENTRIONALE, SUIVANT LES NOUVELLES OBSERVATIONS’. Map of North America with pictorial cartouche. Pieter van der Aa, Leiden 1714 [25142] 23 x 30 cm. Full recent
colour. Excellent condition. £500 Folio edition - no
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NORTH AMERICA:152. Senex, J. ‘NORTH AMERICA ACCORDING TO THE LATEST OBSERVATIONS’. Map of North America, showing California as an island. John Senex ca. 1730 [25232] 15 x 17 cm. Contemporary outline
colour. Very good condition. £225
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NORTH AMERICA:153. De L’Isle, G. 'AMERICA
SEPTENTRIONALIS...'. North American continent and West Indies with unattached (insular) California. Tobias Conrad Lotter after Guillaume de L’Isle ca. 1760 [14579] 45 x 60 cm. Full original
colour, large cartouche uncoloured. Excellent condition. £1000 Tooley/French Mapping 34. |
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NORTH AMERICA:154. Anonymous. ‘AN ACCURATE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA FROM THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS AND REGULATED BY ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS’. Map of North America with cartouche, probably engraved after Bowen by R. Reynolds ca. 1765 [25632] 18 x 29 cm. Recent outline
colour. Excellent condition. £195 Engraved for Mountague’s History of England. |
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NORTH AMERICA:155. Bourgoin, P. ‘CARTE DE L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE’. Map of North America with cartouche and scale of miles. P. Bourgoin ca. 1766 [23555] 34 x 42 cm. Original outline
colour. Faint waterstaining to lower blank white corners, not affecting image, otherwise very good condition. £400 Uncommon. |
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NORTH AMERICA:156. Cary, J. ‘A NEW MAP OF NORTH AMERICA...’. Map of North America, West Indies and Central America. John Cary 1806 [26167] 46 x 51 cm. Full original
colour. Excellent condition. £300
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NORTH AMERICA:157. Reichard, C. G. ‘CHARTE VON
NORDAMERICA...’. North America and West Indies, inset map of Alaska. Christian Gottlieb Reichard for Verlag des Geograph. Instituts Weimar 1817 [25809] 58 x 52 cm. Original outline
colour. Excellent condition. £400
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NORTH AMERICA:158. Hall, S. ‘NORTH AMERICA’. Sidney Hall 1829 [19256] 51 x 42 cm. Original outline
colour. Very good condition. £250
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NORTH AMERICA:159. Lapie, P. ‘CARTE DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE’. North and Central America with a small inset map of the Aleutian islands. Texas is shown as an independent Republic. Pierre Lapie 1838 [16624] 54 x 39 cm. Original outline
colour. Excellent condition. £250
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NORTH AMERICA:160. Duvotenay, Th. ‘AMÉRIQUE SEPTENRIONALE’. Map of North America, showing Texas as an independent Republic. Engraved by Dyonnet after Benard for Thunot Duvotenay ca. 1840 [20765] 52 x 35 cm. Recent outline
colour. Excellent condition. £150 Few old marginal annotations in ink reaching into left neat line. |
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NORTH AMERICA:161. Walker, J. & C. ‘NORTH AMERICA’. Map of North America. Texas is shown as an independent Republic. J. & C. Walker for S.D.U.K. 1843 [16717] 30 x 39 cm. Original outline
colour. Excellent condition. £125
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NORTH AMERICA:162. Johnston, A. K. ‘NORTH AMERICA’. Texas is shown as an independent Republic with the Pan-handle. There is a ‘note’ stating that the whole of the territory, to the west of the Rocky Mountains, between the Mexican and the Russian boundaries, is claimed by both Gt. Britain & the United States. A. K. Johnston 1843 [21081] 60 x 50 cm. Recent outline
colour. Excellent condition. £280
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NORTH AMERICA:163. Flemming, C. 'NORD AMERICA'. Texas is shown as an independent Republic within its own borders, California and New Mexico are still part of Mexico, and the border between Washington and British Columbia is not yet defined. Handtke for Flemming ca. 1844 [7249] 31 x 41 cm. Recent outline
colour. Excellent condition. £150
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NORTH AMERICA:164. Völter, D. ‘NORD AMERICA’. North America and West Indies. Texas is shown as an independent Republic in the shape of a heart. D. Völter for Dannheimer in Esslingen ca. 1845 [17263] 25 x 32 cm. Original outline
colour. Excellent condition. £120 Uncommon. |
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NORTH AMERICA:165. Hall, S. ‘NORTH AMERICA’. Map of North America. Sidney Hall ca. 1850 [25575] 51 x 42 cm. Original outline
colour. Very good condition. £150 Uncommon. |
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NORTH AMERICA:166. Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. ‘MAP OF NORTH AMERICA’. Thomas and Cowperthwait in Philadelphia for Mitchell ca. 1850 [26553] 39 x 32 cm. Full original
colour. Excellent condition. £125
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NORTH AMERICA:167. Tallis, J. 'NORTH AMERICA'. Map of North America with several vignettes showing wildlife, natives, settlers and scenery. John Tallis ca. 1851 [26467] 34 x 25 cm. All vignettes and border recent
colour. Excellent condition. £200
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NORTH AMERICA:168. Levasseur, V. ‘AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE’. Map of North America, showing Texas as a Republic. Very decorative pictorial scenic surround of natives, animals and allegorical figures. Laguillermie for Levasseur’s Atlas Universel Illustré ca. 1852 [15628]
28 x 43 cms overall. The map in original outline colour. Excellent condition. £150
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NORTH AMERICA:169. Levasseur, V. ‘AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE’. Map of North America, showing Texas as a Republic. Very decorative pictorial scenic surround of natives, animals and allegorical figures. Laguillermie for Levasseur’s Atlas Universel Illustré ca. 1852 [25798]
28 x 43 cms overall. Full recent colour. Excellent condition. £200
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NORTH AMERICA and NORTH PACIFIC:170. De Vaugondy, R. ‘CARTE DES NOUVELLES DÉCOUVERTES DRESSÉE PAR PHIL. BUACHE ...’ and ‘EXTRAIT D’UNE CARTE JAPONOISE DE L’UNIVERS...’. Two different maps on one sheet, one showing arctic North America with an oddly shaped Alaska, North Pacific, northeast Asia and a large Bay of the West (‘Mer de l’Ouest’) after a map by Philippe Buache of 1752, the other showing North Pacific, Japan, Korea and California after a map by
Kaempfer. Published in Diderot’s Encyclopaedia ca. 1770 [17840] 29 x 37 cm.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £150 Pedley 452. |
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NORTH PACIFIC:171. Reichard, C. G. ‘DER NOERDLICHE THEIL DES GROSSEN WELT
MEERES...’. North Pacific with Japan, Kamchatka, Alaska, the Canadian west coast and reaching south to Hawaii. Christian Gottlieb Reichard for Verlag des Geograph. Instituts Weimar 1817 [25841] 50 x 67 cm. Original outline
colour. Excellent condition. £300
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