NORTH AMERICA:111. Quad, M. ‘NOVI ORBIS PARS BOREALIS, AMERICA SCILICET...’. Map of North America in decorative borders on an unusual projection, with a large area ‘Incognita’ towards the North Pole. Table with title and explanations below. Johann Bussemacher for Matthias Quad ca. 1600 [21299] 23 x 30 cm.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £2000 Burden 133. |
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NORTH AMERICA:112. Sanson, N. / Jaillot, H. ‘AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE DIVISÉE EN SES PRINCIPALES PARTIES...’. Large map of North America, Central America and the West Indies, printed on two sheets and joined. Two large decorative cartouches. California is shown as an island. From the plate by Nicolas Sanson published by Hubert Jaillot in Paris 1692 [22159] 56 x 87 cm. The map in original outline
colour. Fold strengthened verso. Excellent condition, clean and with wide margins. £2500 Re-issue of Sanson’s large map of 1674, one of the largest and most detailed maps of the period. Not to be confused with the smaller version (47 x 59 cm), which is more often found. - Tooley/America p. 121. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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NORTH AMERICA:113. 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.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £450 Folio edition - no
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NORTH AMERICA:114. 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:115. 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:116. 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:117. 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. £250
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NORTH AMERICA:118. 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. £150 Few old marginal annotations in ink reaching into left neat line. |
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NORTH AMERICA:119. S.D.U.K. ‘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. Margins slightly age toned. £100
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NORTH AMERICA:120. 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. Original outline
Colour. £250
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NORTH AMERICA:121. 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. 1845 [15628]
28 x 43 cms overall. The map in original outline Colour. £140
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NORTH AMERICA:122. Tallis, J. 'NORTH AMERICA'. Map of North America with several vignettes showing wildlife, natives, settlers and scenery. Tallis ca. 1851 [14583] 34 x 25 cm. Recent outline
colour, the vignettes uncoloured. £200
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NORTH AMERICA and NORTH PACIFIC:123. 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. Pedley 452. £150
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NORTH ATLANTIC:124. Bellin, N. ‘CARTE DE L’OCEAN OCCIDENTAL’. Sea chart of the North Atlantic with West Indian, North American, West African and West European coastlines and large central
compassrose. Nicolas Bellin 1746 [23995] 32 x 46 cm. Large cartouche and Dutch text below image. Full recent
colour. Excellent condition. £240
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NORTH ATLANTIC:125. Thomson, J. ‘CHART OF NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN WITH TRACKS OF THE SHIPPING TO WEST INDIES, NORTH AMERICA, &CC.’. North Atlantic with major parts of North America, West Indies, Europe and North Africa. John Thomson 1815 [19913] 50 x 63 cm. Original outline
colour. Very good condition. £150
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THE AMERICAS:126. 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. £3250 The only printed map known by Gerard Mercator’s grandson Michael, first published in 1595. Burden 87. |
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THE AMERICAS:127. 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. £200
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THE AMERICAS:128. 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. £1250 Unusually, there is a double title cartouche, one for North and one for South America. - Tooley/Mapping of America p. 125. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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THE AMERICAS:129. 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. £200
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THE AMERICAS:130. 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. £350
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THE AMERICAS:131. 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. £450
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THE AMERICAS:132. Euler, L. ‘TAB. GEOGR.
AMERICAE...’. Map of North and South America, the Western Hemisphere. Leonhard Euler for the Acad. Reg. Scient. et eleg. litt. Boruss. ca. 1753 [16505] 31 x 36 cm. Full original
colour, cartouche uncoloured. Uncommon. £600 Leonhard Euler (Basel 1707 - St. Petersburg 1783), cartographer, physician and mathematician. Published ‘Atlas Geographicus’ for the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences and Litterature in Berlin between 1753 and 1760. - Small printed original Prussian tax/privilege seal as always. |
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THE AMERICAS:133. Monath, P. C. ‘TOTIUS AMERICAE DESCRIPTIO NOVA’. Map of the American hemisphere with figurative cartouche. Insular California. Peter Conrad Monath in Nürnberg ca. 1760 [18175] 24 x 28 cm. Full original
colour., cartouche uncoloured. From Abbé Lenglet DuFresnoy’s ‘Kinder-Geographie’. Uncommon. £500
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THE AMERICAS:134. Dower, J. ‘AMERICA’. Texas is shown as an independent Republic in elongated shape. J. Dower for Henry Teesdale ca. 1845 [17195] 42 x 34 cm. Original outline
colour. £150
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