Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

Selection of Rare and Antique Maps recently added to the Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota cateogry of Geographicus Antique Map Gallery.

1889 Rand McNally Map of Minnesota

90.00 USD — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:21:00 +0000

This is an appealing 1889 example of Rand McNally and Company's map of Minnesota. The map covers the entire state, with the north east corner of the state features in an inset in the upper right quadrant. Another inset of Minneapolis, St. Paul and vicinity is included in the bottom right quadrant. The map also delineates survey grids and plats referencing the work of the U.S. Land Survey. The area near Red Lake is identified as 'Red Lake Unceded Indian Lands'. A map of the utmost importance and scarcity, this is William J. Keeler's 1868 pocket map of the American west, considered the 'the largest, finest and most detailed map of the West as it was then known'. This is a beautiful example of A. J. Johnson and R. Browning's 1861 map of Minnesota and Dakota. It covers both states as well as adjacent parts of Wisconsin and Iowa. This map predates the splitting of the Dakotas and instead depicts them as a single great state bounded on the west by the Missouri River. The proposed northern route for the Pacific Railroad runs diagonally in a northwesterly direction across both Minnesota and Dakota. This is an example of David M. Warren's 1879 map of the nine central states of the United States. It covers Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. It also includes parts of the neighboring states. Four of the five Great Lakes, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake erie, are also included. Oklahoma, which was at the time an Indian Reservation, is so marked. A fine example of William M. Bradley's 1887 map of Dakota. It covers modern day North and South Dakota in before they were separated. The map also delineates survey grids referencing the work of the U.S. Land Survey. Various towns, cities, forts, rivers, railroads, roads, American Indian reservations, settlements and an assortment of additional topographical details are noted. Map is color coded according to regional and political boundaries with elevation rendered by hachure. This is an attractive example of the 1855 public survey map of Wisconsin and parts of the Minnesota Territory prepared by Warner Lewis, Surveyor General in the Surveyor Office in Dubuque. The map covers the entire state of Wisconsin and the parts of the Territory of Minnesota from the Big Cotton Wood River to Lake Michigan. The state of the Land Survey is also noted via a series of blocks representing the survey grid. From the 1861 Johnson and Browning edition of the Johnson's Atlas , this is one of the rarest and most desirable states of the Johnson�s Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas map. In this example Nebraska is drawn with a long panhandle extending from Iowa all the way to Fremont�s Peak. To the north, Dakota is a massive and newly partitioned territory extending from Minnesota to the Rocky Mountains and from Nebraska to the border with British Columbia. This is an attractive county map of Minnesota and Iowa, 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. A beautiful example of A. J. Johnson�s 1862 map of Minnesota and Dakota. Covers both states as well as adjacent parts of Wisconsin and Iowa. This map predates the splitting of the Dakotas and instead depicts them as a single great state bounded on the west by the Missouri River. The proposed northern route for the Pacific Railroad runs diagonally in a northwesterly direction across both Minnesota and Dakota.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1889 Rand McNally Map of Minnesota