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Selection of Rare and Antique Maps recently added to the Canada category Geographicus Antique Map Gallery.

1776 De L'Isle / Santini Speculative Map of North America, the Arctic, and Siberia (Sea of the West

2000.00 USD — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 09:46:00 +0000

The 1776 Francois Santini Venice edition of Joseph Nicolas De l'Isle's extraordinary 1752 map of North America, Siberia, the Arctic, and the North Pacific. J. N. De L'Isle and Buache drew this map to illustrate their speculations on the feasibly of a Northwest Passage. Cartographically this map is a combination of data absconded from the Russian 'Academy of Sciences' and Buache’s speculations on the Northwest Passage. A fine example of Robert de Vaugondy's 1755 map of former French dominions in Canada and in the vicinity of the Great Lakes at the outset of the American Revolutionary War. Essentially two maps on a single sheet. The primary map covers the Gulf of St. Lawrence, St. Lawrence River, and surrounding territories including Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, as well as parts of Quebec, Ontario, New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. A very attractive 1662 Nicolas Sanson map of North America. Sanson's map covers all of North America from Baffin Bay and Greenland, south to include all of Central America, the West Indies, and parts of the Spanish Main, it similarly extends from California eastwards to the Azores and the British Isles. Cartographically, this map is a reduced version of Sanson's own larger 1650 Amerique Septentrionale . This is a fascinating 1845 Thomas Ewing map of the United States including parts of Canada. The map covers the United States east of the Mississippi as well as the Trans-Mississippi territories of Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri. This ephemeral map details United States during a period of rapid development and westward expansion. Throughout the 1840s emigration and settlement to the west of the Mississippi led to a transformation of the national map. An object of extreme historical importance and rarity, this map was the center of one of the most heated cartographic debates in history. This is an unrecorded state of Joseph-Nicolas de L'Isle's (Delisle) map of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Arctic. De L'Isle's map covers from the California coast northward to the Arctic Circle and from Hokkaido (Yeco) to Labrador. This is a stunning 1747 decorative map of the Western Hemisphere by the English cartographer Emanuel Bowen. It covers North and South America as well as much of the Pacific and the Atlantic as far as Spain and the Canary Islands. The map details America during the Colonial Period. In North America, England controls the colonies along the eastern coast of the continent and surrounding the Hudson Bay. France occupies Louisiana, parts of Canada, and the Great Lakes region. This is Johnson's 1866 map of the North America. It extends from the Arctic Circle, including Alaska and Greenland south to Panama. Shows, the United State, Canada and Mexico divided into states and provinces. Most of the United States are depicted much as they exist today, with a few notable exceptions: Arizona extends westward into what is today the Las Vegas region of Nevada; Dakotas are a single large territory; Oklahoma is still named the Indian Territory. This is a fascinatine 1701 map of the English possessions in North America by Herman Moll. The map extends from Cuba north to Davies Strait and southern Greenland and covers the eastern portion of the United States and Canada. It notes numerous rivers, place names, lakes, cities, islands and a host of additional cartographic and topographic features. Several coastal features including sounds and banks are noted. This is an exceptional 1701 map by Herman Moll depicting the United States and part of Canada. Molls relatively small map covers from Fort Frontenac and the Ontario River east to the Pacific Ocean. Mexico City appears appears in the border. This map is remarkable on a number of levels including the depiction of California as an Island and it's rendering of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley. We begin our examination of the map in the west. This is a scarse 1701 map of North America and South America by Herman Moll. Centered on the American continent, this map covers from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The map features much of note including a presentation of California as an Island, the early speculative mappings of New Zealand an the inclusion of Lake Parima and Xarayes in South America. This is one of the few maps to represent California as an island. A fascinating and extremely rare 1668 nautical chart or maritime map depicting the northern Atlantic Ocean by Hendrick Doncker. Oriented with the East, this map covers from Newfoundland south to modern day Paraiba, Brazil; east as far as the Azores and Cape Verde Islands; and west as far as Hispaniola. Doncker derived this map from similar map issued in 1650 by Theunis Jacobsz. This is a finely detailed 1874 map of the North America by Ambroise Tardieu. This map covers the entire continent from the Arctic Circle to the northern part of South America inclusive of the West Indies, Central America, Mexico, the United States, Canada and Alaska. In addition to standard political and physical data this map offers a vast wealth of cartographic information including cities, rivers, mountains, some offshore details and much more. An intriguing and enigmatic production, this is Cornelis van Wytfliet's uncommon 1597 map of northern central Canada, indeed it is the first specific map to detail this entirely unknown region. The scope of the map, though hard to immediately perceive, is vast, extending from the Arctic as far a south as the American Indian village of Higuater and New Mexico (Septem Civitates). Central to this map is the bizarre lake and city of Conibas. This is an exceptionally interesting and beautiful 1752 wall map of North America composed by Malachy Postlethwayte. Postlethwayte, an englishman, prepared this map for issue in conjunction with the second edition (1752) of his popular Dictionary of Trade & Commerce . Cartographically this map is based upon the earlier work of the French mapmaker J. B. B. D�Anville. A wonderful 1775 map of the Arctic regions of the Western Hemisphere by John Green or Braddock Mead. Focusing on Alaska (Bering Strait) and the Canadian Arctic, map covers from the Sea of Okhotsk (Penschinaska Guba) to Iceland and the east coast of Greenland; as well, from about 85 degrees north latitude to the southern shores of Greenland and Hudson Bay. This is a beautiful example of the legendary American map publisher Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.'s 1968 map of the Canadian province of Ontario, or Canada West. Centered on Lake Ontario, this map covers from Lake Erie eastward from Detroit, Michigan and Lake Huron at the northwest, as far as Quebec with Grand Manitoulin and Georgian Bay to the north. This is a beautiful example of the legendary American map publisher Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.'s 1868 map of the Canadian province of Quebec, or Canada East. Centered on the St. Lawrence River Valley, this map covers from Montreal to the mouth of the St. Lawrence, north as far as Lake St. John and south to the United States border. An inset map on the lower right quadrant details the environs of Montreal. A beautiful 1832 map of Lower Canada with parts of Maine and New Brunswick by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or S.D.U.K. Centered on the St. Lawrence River, it covers part of Quebec or Lower Canada from Vaudreuil to the Chaleur Bay and south as far as Penobscot Bay. Includes Montreal, Quebec City and the St. Lawrence Valley. Parts of New Brunswick, Vermont and New York are also included. An uncommon 1834 map of the United States issued by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or S.D.U.K. Parts of Canada are also included. The map covers the United States east of the Mississippi as well as the Trans-Mississippi territories of Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri. Several Indian tribes are identified, including the Chippeways, Sioux, Foxes, and others. Wisconsin and Iowa are shown with amorphous boundaries. An uncommon 1834 edition of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or S.D.U.K. map of British North America or Canada. It depicts the British and Russian holdings in North America. Centered on the Hudson Bay, the map covers from modern day Alaska (Russian America) to Greenland and from the Arctic south to the U.S. border. According to the earliest written accounts, the Russians were the first Europeans who reached Alaska and eventually became permanent settlers.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1776 De L'Isle / Santini Speculative Map of North America, the Arctic, and Siberia (Sea of the West