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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. This is an unusual and attractive 1901 board game of the United States Game, by the Parker Brothers. Considered one of the best of the Parker Games, it consists of a game board featuring the map of the United States. Depicts the entire county (barring Hawaii and Alaska) and features beautiful illustrations of ships sailing the oceans, farms, cities, forests, parks, mountains, rivers and other topography. 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 fascinating 1797 map of the United States by Pierre Tardieu. The map centers on the Great Lakes covering from the Lake of the Woods (Lake des Bois) eastward to Newfoundland and the Atlantic Ocean, and from James Bay south to the Gulf of Mexico. This map's most historically significant feature is its delineation of the territories of the Jefferson Ordinance. Although unnamed, they are depicted here with dotted lines. 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. A highly significant map, this is the 1774 'Jefferys' Map' of the Most Inhabited Part of New england . Centered on the Massachusetts Bay Colony, this map covers from Long Island to Lake Champlain and from the Hudson River to Cape Cod and Kennebec Bay, Maine. There is an inset of Boston in the upper left corner and another of Boston Harbor near the cartouche in the lower right quadrant. This scarce map was drawn by Braddock Mead (a.k.a. John Green) and published by Thomas Jefferys. A scarce French edition of Louis Evans' highly influential map of the Middle British Colonies, one of the most important maps of the British Colonies to appear in the 18th century. The map covers Louisville on the Ohio River eastward as far as Narragansett Bay and Long Island, northwards as far as Montreal, and south to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, inclusive of Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and most of the Ohio River Valley. 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. An important and charming 1720 satirical allegory map, commonly known as the 'Fools Head' or 'Fools Cap,' intended to illustrate the dangers and pitfalls of 'bubble economies.' After the bursting of the Dot-Com Bubble and the more disastrous United States Housing Bubble (and subsequent sub-prime mortgage crises) most will find the themes of this 18th century map taunting the speculators in the Mississippi Scheme - poverty, sorrow, and despair - quite familiar. The Mississippi Company (a. This is a scarce 1874 map of the United States and Mexico by Ambroise Tardieu. It covers the entirety of the United States and Mexico including parts of the West Indies. Although the map was published in 1874, cartographically it dates to 1849, right after the Mexican American War. Notes various territories in the west, including the Oregon Territory, the Northwest Territory, Indian Territory and New California. 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. This is a fine example of S. A. Mitchell's 1854 map of the United States. Issued shortly following the California Gold rush, this map covers the United States from coast to coast, extending as far north as the Canadian border and as far south as Mexico. Political and topographical features are noted and color coded with elevation rendered by hachure. Mitchell issued this map during a period of explosive population growth and territorial expansion. A scarce 1755 map of the eastern part of North America by Georges-Louis Le Rouge. This important map was issued in the second year of the French and Indian War. Centered on the British colonies in North America, the main map covers from Lake Michigan (Chicago) to the eastern seaboard and from James Bay (Hudson Bay) to the Gulf of Mexico.

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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