Americas

Americas Ortelius, Abraham Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. Antwerp, 1598 [35,5 x 49 cm] Original copper engraving, published 1598 in a French text edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. Finely hand colored in wash and outline. The map shows a decorative title cartouche on the lower left side and the 'privilegium' on the lower right corner. The corners are decorated with ornaments. Moreover the map is ornated with ships, sea monsters and animals. This is the third plate, which A. Ortelius used to delineate the American continent. It was published for the first time in 1589. 'This one is most easily identified by the lack of a bulge to the south-western coastline of South America. It is mostly correct in showing a southerly extending shoreline. This is also the only one of the three with his imprint, where he states that he was his author.' (Burden) In excellent condition. Broe. 3; Bur. 64 (State 1 of 2). [Stock No.:16987] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Americas Ptolemaeus, Claudius America Galignani, P & F., Padua 1621 [ca. 31 x 21 (text sheet) cm] Fine copper-engraved map, printed into the full text page, published in 'Geografia ... Universale de la Terra', which was translated by Cernoti and published 1621 in Padua. A very good impression, in excellent condition. [Stock No.:17802] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
de Fer, Nicolas L' Amerique divisee selon L'etendue de ses principales parties et dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de Mesrs. de l' Academie Royale des Sciences. Dressee Par N De Fer, Geographe de sa Majeste Cathololique. A Paris chez le Sr. Danet gendre d l'Autheur sur le Pt. Ne. Dame a la Sphere avec Pe. de Roy. 1728. Amerique Septentrionale et Meridionale Par N De Fer Geographe de sa Majeste Catholique A Paris Chez J.F. Benard Gendre de l' Auteur Quay de l' Horloge du Palais a la Sphere Royale 1739 Paris, J.F. Benard, 1698 / 1739 [ca. 108 x 160 cm] Copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. Large scarce scale wall map in 4 sheets, with printed top, bottom and side text panels. A highly decorative large wall map of the Americas with numerous decorative large vignettes: In the upper corners the famous beaver scene in Canada and the Cod Fishery in Newfoundland. These scenes were later used in Hermann Moll's map of North America. The other vignettes are showing inhabitants and Indians of Illinois, Louisiana, Virginia, Brazil, La Plata, Peru, Mexico and New Mexico. Also a mountain scene (probably Peru) and scenes with the Spanish at Rio de la Plata. Among these many fine engraved allegories we do find portraits of early explorers of the Americas among them Ferdinand Magellan, Christoph Columbus, Americo Vespucci, Francois Pissar and also two portraits of famous Indian kings: Artha Balipa and Monte-Zuma. Nicolas de Fer's wall map of the Americas appeared only in a few editions from 1698 onwards. The 1698 edition of de Fer's wall map is absolutely rare. Dahl calls it 'almost unknown' and neither Tooley or McLaughlin cite any edition prior to 1705. The very few editions up to 1739 differ mainly in the side panels with the descriptive text and in the top title and bottom text panel. Overall a good to very good and well preserved example of this large early 18th century printed wall map of the Americas. The map was originally laid down on linen (as usual). Former old tears, mendings, creases and small losses of paper at the surface extremely carefully restored and backed on modern Japan paper. Parts of the upper engraved title, due of loss in the printed area, partially carefully redrawn. Size, including the printed top, bottom and side text panels: 42 1/4 x 62 3/4 inches [ca. 108 x 160 cm]. Tooley, Mapping of America #70; Ed Dahl, 'The Original Beaver Map - de Fer's 1698 Wall Map of America", Map Collector #29, Dec 1984, pp. 22-26. [Stock No.:25799] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Americas Homann, Baptist Americae. Mappa generalis Secundum legitimas projectionis Stereographicae regulas relationesque recentissimas et observationes Sociooru Acad. reg. Scquae Parisiis est aliorumque auctorumque auctorum nec non Secundum mentem D.I.M.Hasii M.P.P. in partes suas methodicas divisa nunc concinnata et delienata ab Aug. Gottl. Boehmio. Phil. Magistro in lucem proferentibus Homannianis Heredibus. A. MDCCXXXXVI. Nuernberg, Homann, J. B. (Homann's Heirs), 1746 [46,8 x 53,7 cm] Copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash when published. A decorative map of the Americas, published in an atlas by J.B. Homann's heirs around 1746 in Nuernberg. The decorative map is richly ornated with a large allegoric title cartouche showing trading Indians in a decorative landscape. In very good to excellent condition. The map was cut close to the engraved border line and the margins were added to the map. [Stock No.:20576] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Americas Homann, Baptist Americae. Mappa generalis Secundum legitimas projectionis Stereographicae regulas relationesque recentissimas et observationes Sociooru Acad. reg. Scquae Parisiis est aliorumque auctorumque auctorum nec non Secundum mentem D.I.M.Hasii M.P.P. in partes suas methodicas divisa nunc concinnata et delienata ab Aug. Gottl. Boehmio. Phil. Magistro in lucem proferentibus Homannianis Heredibus. A. MDCCXXXXVI. Nuernberg, Homann, J. B. (Homann's Heirs), 1746 [46,8 x 53,7 cm] Copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash when published. A decorative map of the Americas, published in an atlas by J.B. Homann's heirs around 1746 in Nuernberg. The decorative map is richly ornated with a large allegoric title cartouche showing trading Indians in a decorative landscape. In excellent condition. [Stock No.:22498] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
North America Gaspari, A. C. Charte von Nordamerica nach den neuesten Bestimmungen und Entdeckungen von C. G. Reichard. - Weimar Im Verlage des Geogr. Instituts revidirt im August 1804. Weimar, Geographisches Institut 1804 [59,7 x 52,8 cm] Copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash when published. In excellent condition. [Stock No.:20979] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Explorations in the Northwest coast of America and the Pacific Herisson, (Eustache) Carte DE L'AMERIQUE Septentrionale & Meridionale, Ou se trouvem Les Trois Voyages de Cook Et Coix de Mackenzie, Vancouver et La Perouse. Dressee par Herisson, Eleve de Bonne, ancien Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine. Revue Corrigee & Argumentee en 1819. A Paris chez Basset rue St. Jacques n.* 64. Paris, Chez Basset, rue St. Jacques, no. 64 1819 [86 x 120 (33 3/4 x 47 inches) cm] Copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. This revised and corrected map by the French cartographer Eustache Herisson shows us a large and detailed map of the Americas, the Pacific, New Zealand and the Atlantic Ocean with engraved routes of explorations. Detailed are the routes of Cook's three voyages, the routes of Vancouver and also of Mackenzie engraved. The map is equipped with many engraved place names, also dates of the individual routes of the explorers. A nice and decorative map of the Americas and the Pacific for collectors of explorations and travels in the Northwest coast of America and the Pacific. The digital map collection of the library of Australia lists a 1833 edition with engraved additional voyages by Parry et Franklin. The large map overall in very good condition. Some mainly marginal spots or stains. [Stock No.:19988] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Americas Mollo, Tranquillo America mit den neuesten Entdeckungen, nach F.M. Fr. Schmitz Vienna, Mollo 1827 [44,5 x 33 cm] Copper engraving after Fr. Schmitz, in contemporary original color in outline. Detailed map of the Americas, showing North America with Russian America, Greenland and the West Indies. A good and clear map, showing very well the political divisions of the various states (the North American free-states are shown in blue outline color). Below the title we find a mileage scale and a table with various colors to explain the various possessions of the different countries in North and South America. In excellent condition. [Stock No.:17029] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Americas Tasso, Girolamo L' America Storica, Fiscia e Politica Nel 1825. Continente Meridionale. Continente Settentrionale. Venice, 1832. [33 x 48,5 cm] Copper engraving, hand colored in wash when published. These two maps are showing North and South America. They provide information on the history, the population and the political division of the Americas. With some engraved statistic information on the population in relation to the country. An interesting map for the collector of the history of the Americas. In excellent condition. [Stock No.:14207] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
River map of the Americas Meyer, Joseph Flusskarte von Nord u. Sued-America Hildburghausen, Meyer. 1845 [21,3 x 28,3 cm] Steel engraving, hand colored in outline and wash when published. The two maps are showing detailed river maps of North and South America. At the bottom an extensive table of explanations listing the rivers of the Americas with their details. An interesting hydrographic map. An interesting map of the beginning collector of antique maps of the Americas. In excellent condition. [Stock No.:14212] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
James Wyld's wall map of North America Wyld, James Map of North America Exhibiting The recent Discoveries, Geographical and Nautical; Drawn Chiefly from the Authorities of M. De. Humboldt, Lieutt. Pike, Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, Sir. Alexandr. MacKenzie, Mr. Hearne, Coll. Bouchette, Captns, Vancouver ... Fine example of the circa 1850 (our dating) edition of Wyld's massive map of North America, which includes the extra panel at the bottom, adding Central America, first issued in 1824. London, J. Wyld 1850 [182 x 164 cm] Copper engraving, hand colored in wash and outline, when published. John Wyld was one of the most prolific publishers of separately issued maps during the 19th Century. His 6 (and later 7) sheet map of North America is a testament to Wyld's publishing acumen. First published in 1823, the map was periodically updated to incorporate new discoveries. However, Wyld had the curious habit of frequently leaving older information on the map, making for a very curious mix of geographical details.The evolution of Wyld's map of North America is truly fascinating, and reflects Wyld's commercial savy. The map was periodically updated in the 1820 and 1830s. With the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1846, Wyld issued a special 4-sheet edition of the map (eliminating the top 2 sheets and the bottom central America sheet), with a new title (Mexico the British Possessions in North America and the United States . . . 1846), which included a number of geographical revisions in the regions depicted and focused on the battlegrounds of the Mexican American War. Following the resolution of the Mexican-American War, Wyld re-issued his map of North America, showing the boundaries as established by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and with significant updates in the polar region, Alaska and northern Canada. In 1849, with the discovery of Gold In California, Wyld again saw commercial opportunity. Wyld again issued a section of his 7-sheet map of North America, under the title The United States Of North America With Part of the British Possessions And Mexico . . . 1849 . For this map, Wyld completely re-worked California and incorporated for the first time the information from John Fremont's seminal map of Oregon and Upper California. The following year, Wyld would again release a revised edition of his 7 sheet map of North America, retaining the changes made in the US Gold Rush map of 1849, but with additional updates in both the US and again in the northern sections of the larger North America map which had not been offered as part of the US Gold Rush map of 1849.While we have not attempted a complete cataloguing of all of the later editions, we note that Wyld issued editions of his map of North America in 1860 and again in 1875. We suspect, although we have not made the analysis, that some of the Civil War maps issued by Wyld during the early 1860s are probably again fragments of his larger map of North America.This undated edition, which we have dated 1850 because of its relationship to the1846 4-sheet map of Mexico . . . , the 1848 edition of the 7-sheet map (which we have dated 1848 because of the differences in the map which place it chronologically between the 1846 map and the 1849 US Gold Rush Map) and the 1849 US Gold Rush Map, has been significantly updated from these 3 maps. Among the more noteworthy additions are as follows: North West Sheet: Significant new River System in northern Alaska, which reaches into Canada and an extension of the northernmost river feeding into Norton Sound. Significant new River System in northwestern Canada, west of the MacKenzie River. which incorporates one river that had been floating without an eastern or western terminus or source on earlier editions.North East Sheet: A massive new bay has been added below Cumberland near Davis Strait. The coastline at the north end of the Hudson Strait has been completed.Central West Sheet: No significant changesCentral East Sheet: Many new towns and roads in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.South West Sheet: Ft. Mormon appears. Utah Lake added. New Salt Lake added east of Timpanagos. Mormon settlements shown for the first time. Weber River System shown in Utah. Old S. Buenaventura R. removed in north. New Springs are shown south of Lake Timpanagos. Rio Sacto and tributaries are added. Pyramid Lake and the Humboldt River System are added. Owens Lake and River are added. Walker River appears. Details east of the San Joaquin River are added and updated and drainage from the Sierras is improved. Rio S. Felipe is removed. Los Angeles is named for the first time. Mission San Miguel is added. Major revisions to the road systems. Long's Peak, south of St. Vrain's is added. Several updates in the Colorado Mountains, including South Park and Bayou Salada. Directionality and location of Mexico-California boundary is changed, with the border moved farther south of San Diego (Many of these changes appeared in the 1849 US Gold Rush Map and are incorporations of Fremont's map).South East Sheet: Western border of Missouri moved 1 degree west to its correct location. Rumsey notes:The first edition, listed in Phillips but not by Stevens and Tree or Wheat [was published in 1823] . . . A large impressive map showing with great accuracy the recent discoveries in the north west passage, but wildly off in the American southwest - Wheat: "a large and beautiful map, excellent in all respects save for its southwestern geography." In the southwest, Wyld adds many mountain ranges that were purely speculative - probably just to fill in blank spaces in the map (unlike Arrowsmith). In northwestern Texas is a curious note on the topography of the area attributed to "Mellish" which is copied from a pre-1822 edition of his large map of the United States. Comparing this edition to the derived map of 1846, "Mexico, the British Possessions...," ; one sees many changes in the northern areas and few in the southwest. Stevens and Tree list editions of 1824, 1827/8, 1838, and 1851/56. In addition to the editions listed by Rumsey, we note edtions identified by OCLC as havng been published in 1854, in the 1860 and "1870s." The Rumsey collection also includes an 1875 edition of the map.In December 2000, Sotheby's offered a map which would appear to be a Faden edition of this map, dated 1820 and described as follows:North America-Faden, W. Map of North America from 20 degrees to 80 degrees north latitude exhibiting the recent discoveries, geographical and nautical. London: Willam Faden, 1820Total dimensions if joined 1480 x 1650mm., large engraved wall-map in 6 sheets, original outline colour . . .Extremely detailed map of North America, incorporating the discoveries of explorers such as Pike, Humboldt, Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie, Ross and Vancouver. Within Arctic Canada are pencil additions, supplying a northern coast for Alaska and additional information for the region between Baffin's Bay and Hudson's Bay, the latter additions in German.Full Title: Map of North America Exhibiting The recent Discoveries, Geographical and Nautical; Drawn Chiefly from the Authorities of M. De. Humboldt, Lieutt. Pike, Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, Sir. Alexandr. MacKenzie, Mr. Hearne, Coll. Bouchette, Captns, Vancouver, Ross, Parry, Franklin & Back, also describing the Boundary Lines between the Territories of Great Britain, the United States, and the Mexican and Central States -- London Published forJa. Wyld, successor to W. Faden. No. 5 Charring Cross. Geographer to His Majesty.Condition Description: North America: 7 sheets, dissected and laid on linen, in custom slip case. Dissected and laid on linen. In a custom slip case. Dimensions: ca. 71 x 64 inches. Provinence: from a royal collection in Bavaria [Stock No.:25574] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Americas Philip, George & Son America Liverpool, Philip & Son 1852 [51 x 60,5 cm] Lithograph, original hand colored in outline. Decorative double page hand colored lithograph antique map, showing detailed the Americas around 1852, as well transatlantic ship-lines to the East- and West coast are shown on the map. Hand colored decorative in outline and wash when published. In excellent condition. [Stock No.:17030] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Americas Colton, J.H. Western Hemisphere New York, J.H. Colton 1856 [ca. 38 x 34 cm] Steel engraving, hand colored when published. A decorative map from the Western Hemisphere, which shows North and South America. A small part of Asia, Russia and Greenland are also engraved. The map is equipped with many place names, the Atlantic Ocean, Antarctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, etc. In excellent condition. [Stock No.:20991] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Eastern Hemispere Colton, J.H. Eastern Hemisphere New York, J.H. Colton 1856 [39,8 x 35,4 cm] Steel engraving, handcolored when published. In excellent condition. [Stock No.:18388] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Americas Colton, J.H. Western Hemisphere New York, J.H. Colton 1856 [39,8 x 35,4 cm] Steel engraving, handcolored when published. In excellent condition. [Stock No.:18387] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order
Americas Heit, Paul Hommage de P. Heit a sa grand mere 31 Decembre 1871. 31 Decembre 1871 [43 x 44 cm] Manuscript map in ink, pencil and some outline colors. Large round manuscript map of the Americas with a circular inside map of the 'Isthmus of Panama'. North America is simply divided up into Mexique, Etaes-unis, Nouvelle Bretagne and Amerique Russe. In excellent condition, minor traces of use. [Stock No.:19183] Full description	click here to enlarge image or use our new feature for ZOOMING click on image to	UK £ Select this Antique Map to order

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