Quivirae Regnum &
Novae Guineae Forma & situs
Two maps on one sheet - Antwerp, de Jode 1593. (Koeman de Jode, Fol 12, page 210; Quivirae: Burden 82; Wagner NW 171; Suarez Pacific; 44; Novea Guineae: Schilder 13; Tooley 385; Suarez , Pacific, p60). Copper plate engraving in black & white - 34.5x23cm and 34.5x21.5 cm (= maps); 40x55.5 (=paper). Latin text in verso. Sharp and dark imprint on strong, white paper. This mapsheet has been split into two maps and has later been reunited again. Excellent condition.
This one mapsheet harbours two important maps. One is the first printed map of the NW coast of the Americas (Alaska); the other reputedly the first printed map of Australia. For this reason the map is usually split into two and sold separately. The Quirigua map is largely derived from Plancius 18 sheet worldmap of 1592 (Burden). There is only one state. The map can be united with the de Jode map of North America: Americae pars borealis. The Novae Guineae map is one of the basic map of any Australiana collection. Nova Guinea and Salomon islands are realistically drawn after the Mendanas discovery of 1576. The large landmass South thereof must be imaginary but as it precedes the Dutch first exploration of any part of Australia in 1606 and Torres passage though "his strait North of Australia, but it fits in perfectly well with the many stories of Java le Grande (French) or possible Portuguese southern explorations and or the Spanish desire to discover Australia sailing west from Lima (Mendana; Quiros)
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America Septentrionalis
(1641) 1653 - 2nd State - Spanish text on verso - later colour - small repair (15cm) of split in the folding, without loss. Clear print on strong paper. (Burden # 245)
All over nice copy of this map, showing California as an island.
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A New Map of the most Considerable Plantations of the English in America - Dedicated to His Highness William Duke of Glocester
c. 1700
Covers the Atlantic coast from Maine to Cape Hatteras. Includes 5 insets of various scale: New Scotland - Jamaica - Barbados - Bermudaz or Summer Islands - Carolina. Insets continue map coverage north to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and south to St. Augustine.
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Descripcion de las Indias del Norte, nr 2
1726 (1601). B/W as issued.
(Burden 141)
Schematic but important map, placing the Spanish possessions in North America.
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Recens Edita Novi Belgii... (New York)
ca. 1730. Second state (Tooley 291).
Full contemporary colour. Inset view of New York. Large cartouche in B/W as issued.
Excellent print.
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Niagara Falls, Mexico, Quebec & New York
London, before 1732 (and after 1721) - 4 prints on one plate & one sheet. (Andrews, New York, pp 64; Stokes I, pp 242). Paper size 56x65cm, plate size 33x59cm), watermark : C&I Honig - B/W as issued - mint condition.
Four views, engraved in one plate, thus preceding the inclusion in the monumental map of Henry Popple: A map of the British Empire in America... This collection of four prints on one sheet is especially important because of the New York view. The original of this view is the William Burgis view (Stokes 239-251) of New York of zhich only one copy is known to exist. This view is seen as a milestone in the collection of views of New York. A later re-issue of that same viez by Bakewell in 1746 is equally rare. So the view became generally known by Popple's famous wall map of America Septentrionalis (1772). Provenance : composite atlas from a private, French collection from the mid XIX century.
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Golfe de Mexique
c. 1740 - one of four sheets - original colour
Slightly browned, else excellent copy.
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Mare del Zur
(1675) 1745 - Later colour. (McLaughlin 59-3)
Showing California as an island and the Pacific Ocean from the westcoast of America up to Japan.
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La Baja d'Hudson
1778 Venice - 29,7 x 40 cm - original O.L. colour - good condition
Can be bought as a set with Zatta's map of Alaska (see USA north/Alasca)
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Le Isole di Terra Nuova e Capo Breton
1778 (1776) Venice - Original O.L. colour - 42 x 32 cm
Interesting early map of Alaska and Behring Street, using data provided by Behring and Cook
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Carte du Mexique...
1811 (1809)
Lithograph map, B/W as issued.
43 x 73 cm
Taken from von Humboldt's famous atlas of Nouvel Espagne, Paris 1811, showing Mexico and all of South East and South Western US, according to modern observations, including triangular measurements. Slightly dirty at the central fold.
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Plan von New York 1844
From Meyer's Handatlas - later colour
Nice plan of New York, giving details and explanation of the various "wards" of the time.
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Oregon and Upper California
Baltimore 1848 - 2nd edition, without any changes of the first edition.
Influential map of the region during the 19th century, following the discovery of gold in 1848. Good copy with wide margins, Strengthened in the folds.
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Boston
1850 - original colour (Reps 1372)
Very decorative nineteenth century view of Boston in beautiful contemporary colour. Excellent condition.
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