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Rare maps of North America
Rare old maps of North America for sale. Clive A. Burden Ltd. offer a selection of antique maps, sea charts, plans and travel books relating to the North America. All our historic items are authentic, genuine maps, charts etc. which date from the earliest map of North America, printed in 1511 through the mid-nineteenth century. Many include firsts and the results of important explorations in the English colonies, Canada, the Mississippi Valley and the West. Regions of significant interest include the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Great Lakes, Texas and California as an island.
55 rare maps matched your search criteria.
HARIOT, Thomas - WHITE, John
Johann Wechel for Dieterich Bry Werden verkauftt in H. Sigmund Feyerabends Laden, Frankfurt, 1590
FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Folio (325 x 240 mm), full seventeenth century calf, blind panelled with ornate gilt corners and central gilt feature to both boards, rebacked with raised bands, blind ruled with central gilt embossed decoration to compartments, with painted foredges. With engraved title-page (minor margin tear repaired), privilege statement on pasted-in slip as called for, dedication to Christiano Hertzogen of Saxony with his large engraved arms, double-page map of Virginia by Theodor de Bry after John White in the third state (two minor margin repairs and a paper fault left side), 28 further engravings, comprising Adam and Eve (a full page engraving unnumbered), plates numbered 2-23 (comprising 16 half page with letterpress text, plates 17, 19, 20 & 22 full page and plates 13 and 18 larger), plus 5 full page engravings of Picts, pp. 3-33, (5), (5), full page plates with additional leaves of descriptive text, woodcut head- and tail-piece ornaments and initials, blank leaf D6 present, light stain to 16, 22 inserted from another copy, text to second Pict plate with replacement lower left including some facsimile, minor repairs to plates 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 23, Pict 1, and Pict 5, all professionally undertaken, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10938
$ 69,500
NEW JERSEY
Burlington, 1776
69 x 104 mm., printed in red and black, in good condition.
Stock number: 10837
$ 350
CONTINENTAL CURRENCY
Continental Congress, Philadelphia, 1777
72 x 96 mm., printed paper currency.
Stock number: 10834
$ 450
SOUTH CAROLINA
1779
75 x 123 mm., printed paper currency, faded on the verso
Stock number: 10833
$ 450
SPEED, John
Sold by Tho:Bassett in Fleetstreet and Richard Chiswell in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, 1676
380 x 505 mm., in good condition.
Stock number: 10914
$ 5,500
SPEED, John
Sold by Tho:Bassett in Fleetstreet and Richard Chiswell in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, 1676
380 x 500 mm., with a small upper right corner margin repair, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10915
$ 4,500
MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDER PHILIPP ZU WIED-NEUWIED, Prince
J. Hoelscher, Coblenz, 1839-41
FIRST EDITION IN COLOUR. Text in two large quarto volumes (330 x 280 mm. ea.), recent matching half calf, brown moiré cloth boards, spines with gilt ruled raised bands with gilt titles, with central blind embossed compartments. With titles, half-titles, table of contents, list of subscribers, pp. [16], 654, [2]; [24], 688, [2], containing over 40 woodblock engravings set within the text, with the large folding map (415 x 810 mm.) in early outline colour often missing. Tableau atlas in oblong portfolio (430 x 610 mm.), in contemporary half calf binding, brown moiré cloth boards, gilt panelled with central gilt title within ornate frame, spine with gilt ruled raised bands, compartments with ornate blind central feature, interior of both boards with publisher's green moiré paper, extremities lightly rubbed. Containing 48 plates consisting of 48 Tableau engravings on steel and copper in excellent old colour heightened with gum Arabic and a table illustrating the temperatures at Fort Union and Fort Clark (often lacking), 41 plates in their first state, the remainder early states, minor repairs, none affecting plate area, with protective tissue, all with publisher's blind stamp. Vignette atlas in oblong portfolio (330 x 485 mm.), in contemporary half calf binding, brown moiré cloth boards, gilt panelled with central gilt title within ornate frame, rebacked to style, interior of both boards with publisher's green moiré paper. Containing 33 Vignette engravings on steel and copper in excellent old colour heightened with gum Arabic, 30 plates in their first state, the remainder early states, minor repairs, none affecting plate area, with protective tissue, all with publisher's blind stamp.
Stock number: 10823
$ 750,000
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas Francois
Ernest van Harrevelt; Daniel Jean Changuion, Amsterdam, 1773
200 x 290 mm., in very nice full early wash colour, good condition.
Stock number: 10803
$ 450
ELLSWORTH, Oliver
November 1780
215 x 165 mm., uncut manuscript four page ledger, in good condition.
Stock number: 10819
$ 1,950
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas Francois
Ernest van Harrevelt; Daniel Jean Changuion, Amsterdam, 1773
290 x 380 mm., in very nice full early wash colour, good condition.
Stock number: 10809
$ 395
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas Francois
Ernest van Harrevelt; Daniel Jean Changuion, Amsterdam, 1773
210 x 295 mm., in very nice full early wash colour, good condition.
Stock number: 10802
$ 350
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas Francois
Ernest van Harrevelt; Daniel Jean Changuion, Amsterdam, 1773
225 x 300 mm., in very nice full early wash colour, good condition.
Stock number: 10800
$ 375
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas Francois
Ernest van Harrevelt; Daniel Jean Changuion, Amsterdam, 1773
190 x 290 mm., in very nice early outline colour, good condition.
Stock number: 10801
$ 595
CATLIN, George
George Catlin. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly [but Chatto & Windus], London, [1875]
THE RARE 31 PLATE ISSUE. Folio (595 x 430 mm.), contemporary half straight-grained blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, uncut, blue cloth boards, gilt ruled, spine with ornate gilt raised bands, compartments with ornate central gilt feature and gilt titles, gilt top, marbled endpapers. With title page, Contents and 31 hand coloured lithographic plates (25 numbered and 6 unnumbered), each with blank interleaf, a few margins lightly stained, lower corner of title page chipped, 5 plates with waterstain in the margins effecting the image of only one - 'Attacking the Grizzly Bear', otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10495
$ 125,000
BLOME, Richard
Printed by T. Milbourn, and sold by J. Williams Junior, in Cross-Keys-Court, in Little-Brittain, London, 1672
INCLUDING THE SECOND MAP OF CAROLINA. Octavo (150 x 95 mm.), full contemporary calf, blind panelled, rebacked with blind ruled compartments, red calf gilt title label, original endpapers. With typographic title page, dedication to Charles II, Preface, pp. (8), 192, with three folding maps, in excellent condition.
Stock number: 10277
$ 25,000
LESCARBOT, Marc
Paris, 1612
AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE MAP. 160 x 210 mm., with tight margins as always, lower margin just into the neatline, otherwise a good example of an extremely rare map.
Stock number: 10481
$ 22,500
CATESBY, Mark
London, c.1743
FIRST EDITION. 440 x 600 mm., with lovely full early wash colour.
Stock number: 9460
$ 29,500
DE FER, Nicolas
A Paris dans l'!sle sur Ie Quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale avec Prive. Du Roy 1715, Paris, 1715
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE OF NICOLAS DE FER’S LANDMARK MAP IN FULL CONTEMPORARY WASH COLOUR. 465 x 640 mm., in full early wash colour, faint water stain lower centrefold, otherwise in excellent condition.
Stock number: 9768
$ 49,500
DE VAUGONDY, Didier Robert
Paris, 1772
320 x 375 mm., in good condition.
Stock number: 5192
£ 150
BERQUIN-DUVALLON, Pierre-Louis
Paris, 1803
A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF LOUISIANA. Octavo, nineteenth century quarter calf, panelled cloth boards, gilt spine, with marbled endpapers. XX, 318, 5, (4) pp. Slight loss of paper to the title page. With two folding maps in full contemporary wash colour in excellent condition.
Stock number: 1703
$ 2,950