Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

Selection of Rare and Antique Maps recently added to the Arizona and New Mexico category of Geographicus Antique Map Gallery.

1940 Stedman Pictorial Map of New Mexico

An extraordinary example of Wilfred Stedman's beautifully illustrated 1940 map of the historical trails through New Mexico. The map covers New Mexico from Shiprock to El Paso. Notes the only point in the United States common to four states, where the boundaries of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet. A fine example of William M. Bradley's 1887 map of Arizona and New Mexico. The map covers both Arizona and New Mexico in excellent detail along with parts of neighboring California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. Bradley further delineates survey grids referencing the work of the U.S. Land Survey. Also identified are Snowflake, St. John and Mesa, the sites for major Mormon settlements. A beautiful 1855 first edition example of Colton's map of territories of New Mexico and Utah. This iconic map is one of the rarest and most desirable of all Colton atlas maps. Like most of Colton's state maps, this map was derived from an earlier wall map of North America produced by Colton and D. Griffing Johnson. The map details the regions between California and Texas and between Oregon and Mexico. This is the 1783 Dezauche issue of Phillipe Buache and Guillaume D L'Isle's important map of North America and the West Indies. The map covers the United States, Mexico, New Mexico, Central America and the West Indies or Antilles. De L'Isle first issued this map in 1703. At the time it was by far the most sophisticated map of the region yet produced, an achievement that the map historian Carl Wheat considers 'a towering landmark along the path of Western cartographic development'. A nice example of Antonio Zatta's fascinating map of Mexico, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Central America. Centered on what would soon be known as Texas, this map covers from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay tot eh Isthmus of Panama. This remarkable map of the region, which predated Humboldt's landmark map of 1810, illustrates just how little was known of the American southwest north of Mexico. This is a fine example of the Guide Map of Arizona by G. S. Clason. Issued to accompany Clason�s Arizona Green Guide , this folding map covers the entire state of Arizona. A legend near the bottom of the map shows the state capital, (Phoenix) county lines, county seats, railroads, rail trunk lines, Indian reservations, national forests, automobile roads and main auto roads. An index on the bottom of the map lists towns with their population. A fine example of the scarce 2nd edition of Johnson�s map of the southwestern United States printed in 1861. The map covers from the 42nd parallel south to the Mexico border and from the Pacific to include most of Colorado. In the second edition of this map Johnson made significant changes, adding some territorial borders and eliminating others to accommodate the ephemeral political situation of the period. The scarcest and most historically significant of A. J. Johnson�s southwest series. This is the 1860 first edition of A. J. Johnson and Ross C. Browning�s map of California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona. The map covers from the 42nd parallel south to the Mexico border and from the Pacific to modern day Colorado. This is an attractive county map of Arizona and New Mexico showing counties in light pastels, roads, rivers, and relief shown by fine hachures. By William M. Bradley, from his Bradley's Alas of the World for Commercial and Library Reference , 1881. This is an unusual 1810 map of Mexico and the United States by the French cartographer J. B. Tardieu. Depicts all of Mexico and much of the United States shortly following the acquisition of Louisiana but prior to the acquisition of Florida, Texas and Upper California. This map exhibits a curious ephemeral mapping of the American Southwest based upon the Dominguez-Escalante expedition of 1776 and 1777 and Zebulon Pike's expedition of 1806. An iconic map of the American west and one of the rarest and most desirable of all Colton atlas maps. This is an extraordinary example of the first edition first state of Colton's 1855 map of the territories of New Mexico and Utah. This is one of the rarest and most desirable of all Colton atlas maps. Based on earlier wall map produced by Colton and D. Griffing Johnson, this map details the regions between the California and Texas and between Oregon and Mexico.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1940 Stedman Pictorial Map of New Mexico