Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

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

1850 Smith Map of North America w/ California Gold Region and early Texas

1750.00 USD — Sun, 19 May 2013 19:45:00 +0000

An extremely scarce 1850 map of North America by J. Calvin Smith. Published to capitalize on the mass westward migrations associated with the 1849 California Gold Rush, this map covers all of North American and Central America from Panama to the Arctic Circle, including Alaska and Canada. An attractive 1850 map of the United States and parts of Canada by George Frederick Cruchley.� The map covers the United States east of Texas and the Indian Territory as well as parts of Canada south of the Hudson Bay and west of Nova Scotia.� Cruchley divides the states with color coding identifying major cities as well major rivers.� Topography is rendered by hachure.�� The 1850s were a period of both great hope and simmering tensions in the United States. An unusual c. 1724 map showing English dominions in the New World, Europe, and Africa. This map was published for Paul Rapin de Thoyras's L'Histoire d'Angleterre . Covering from the Polar Circle to the Equator and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mediterranean, this map reveals English claims as of and up to 1724 - early in Britain's most active period of aggressive global expansion. These include various named colonies in the New World as they existed prior to the French and Indian War. This is a very attractive and rare c. 1860 jigsaw puzzle atlas published by Alexandre Delamarche. It consists of a custom box containing six jigsaw puzzle maps: South America, France, Europe, Asia, the World in hemispheres, and North America with the United States. This is the largest puzzle map we have seen, being nearly 50% larger than most other examples in this style. Each map is mounted on a board and dissected as a jigsaw puzzle. A particularly bright and beautiful example of John Thomson�s important 1814 map of the United States. The map focuses on the United States from the Mississippi River eastward to the Atlantic including the Great Lakes and adjacent parts of Ontario, Quebec, and Louisiana. A fascinating 1747 map of North America drawn by the British cartographer Emanuel Bowen shortly before the outbreak of the French and Indian War. Bowen's map covers most of the modern day United States from the Rio Grande to the Pacific and from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico. River systems are well delineated and forests and topography and rendered in profile. Numerous American Indian nations, as well as colonial settlements, fortifications, and trading posts are noted throughout. A scarce and attractive large format map of the United States issued in 1853 for John Hayward's Gazetteer of the United States of America . The map covers the United States in full from the 49th parallel to the southern tip of Florida. Cartographically Hayward's illustrates the brief period between the end of hostilities in the Mexican-American War and the Gadsden Purchase. The southern border of New Mexico (and modern day Arizona), this terminates at the Gila River. An important and influential first edition first state 1743 map of the North America by the French cartographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin. Bellin's map covers all of North America from the Arctic to the Spanish Main, including modern day Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. The map features several interesting annotations throughout. 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'. The full set of Chodowiecki's twelve 1784 card views illustrating the American Revolutionary War. Chodowiecki's twelve engraved images are among the first printed illustrations of the events in the colonies and were intended to capitalize on German popular interest in the American Revolution. These views were issued both as cards - such as the present example - and as illustrations in Matthias C. Sprengel's Historisches Taschenbuch . An important and influential 1744 map of the settled portions of North America by the French cartographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin. Centered on the Mississippi Valley, Bellin's map covers from the Riviere de Nord (Rio Grande) eastward to the Atlantic seaboard and from Lake Huron to the Gulf of Mexico and south Florida. An extraordinary 1755 Map of the eastern half of North America by Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. The map covers from Newfoundland to St. Augustine, Florida, then westward beyond the Mississippi as far as modern day Texas. In includes both the English colonies along the Atlantic seaboard and French claims in Louisiana (the Mississippi Valley) and modern day Canada. Elevation is rendered in profile with fortifications, towns, and American Indian villages identified. An extremely scarce, highly decorative, and monumentally proportioned 1855 sea chart or maritime map detailing the eastern coast of the United States from New York City to southern Florida (roughly around Palm Beach). The map was prepared by the British chart publisher James Imray and Son in their distinctive expansive style. In a broad spread, it includes the coasts of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. A scarce, beautiful, and exceptionally interesting example of John Pinkerton's stunning 1812 map of North America and South America. The map covers all of North American, Central America, the Gulf of Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean. It extends northwards as far as Greenland and Alaska, incorporating the full Hudson Bay, southwards include all of South America, eastwards to Europe and Africa, and westwards to Hawaii, the Aleutian Islands, and the Friendly Islands. A scarce and important 1809 map of the southeastern part of the United States by John Pinkerton. The map covers from the Mississippi River eastward to the Atlantic, extending north as far as Delaware, and south to northern Florida and the Mississippi River Delta. The states of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia are illustrated in full while Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi have yet to appear as either states or territories. A scarce and underappreciated 1861 map by A. J. Johnson showing the military deportment of the United States in 1860, just prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War. The map covers the entire United States and is broken up into various military departments. The map is surrounded on two sides by inset plans of 'southern harbors'. This is a fine example of Adam and Charles Black's 1851 map of North America. The map covers the continent of North America from the North Georgian Islands in the Arctic Ocean to the Galapagos Islands, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, the West Indies, and Central America. It also includes Greenland and Iceland. This is a fine example of Adam and Charles Black's 1851 map of the United States. Covers the populous eastern portions of the United States from Lake Superior in the north to the Florida Keys in the south and from Missouri in the west to Maine in the east. The United States at this time was witnessing a period of rapid expansion. This is an example of David M. Warren's 1879 map of the United States showing its principal connecting railroad lines. It covers the most inhabited parts of the United States from Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota eastward to the Atlantic. The map includes railroad lines, towns, cities, and notations regarding various American Indian nations. 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.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1850 Smith Map of North America w/ California Gold Region and early Texas