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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.
43 rare maps matched your search criteria.
MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDER PHILIPP ZU WIED-NEUWIED, Prince
J. Hoelscher, Coblenz, 1839-41
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
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
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
BLOME, Richard
Printed by T. Milbourn, and sold by J. Williams Junior, in Cross-Keys-Court, in Little-Brittain, London, 1672
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
CATESBY, Mark
London, c.1743
440 x 600 mm., with lovely full early wash colour.
Stock number: 9460
$ 27,500
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
465 x 640 mm., in full early wash colour, faint water stain lower centrefold, otherwise in excellent condition.
Stock number: 9768
$ 49,500
McKENNEY, Thomas Loraine and HALL, James
Frederick W. Greenough, 23 Minor Street [vol. 1]; Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 132 Arch Street [vols. 2 & 3], Philadelphia, 1838-42-44
Folio, three volumes (490 x 355 mm. each), bound to style in half red morocco over red moire cloth covered boards, gilt ruled, spines with gilt ruled raised bands in six compartments, each gilt panelled, gilt lettered in the second and fourth, gilt volume dates to base of each spine, marbled endpapers. With typographic title page to each volume, pp. [2], 4, 206; [2], 237; [4], 196, [2], with 120 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, P. Rhindesbacher and R. M. Sully, drawn on stone by A. Newsam, A. Hoffy, Ralph Trembley, Henry Dacre and others, printed and coloured by J. T. Bowen and others, comprising 117 portraits and 3 scenic frontispieces after Rindisbacher, 1 leaf containing 2 lithographic maps and a table and 17 pages of facsimile signatures of subscribers. Light foxing to volume 1 as usual, offsetting to plates as usual, with some waterstaining to beginning of volume 2 affecting the first plate and volume 3 affecting first 5 plates, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9761
$ 69,500
DE VAUGONDY, Didier Robert
Paris, 1772
320 x 375 mm., in good condition.
Stock number: 5192
£ 150
MALLET, Alain Manesson
Paris, 1683
145 x 100 mm, in good condition.
Stock number: 4573
$ 475
DE BRY, Theodore - LE MOYNE, Francois
Frankfurt, 1591
370 x 460 mm., with some professional repair to the double folds as usual, with good margins on three sides, the top cut close just affecting upper right where some facsimile of the neat line exists, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 8222
$ 13,500
LE ROUGE, George Louis
Chez Le Rouge Jngr Georgraphe Du Roi Rue Des Grandes Augustins, Paris, 1777
760 x 1050 mm., two sheets joined as one, in fine early outline colour, printed on strong paper, light toning to joint of two sheets as often the case, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 8849
$ 9,500
LONDON MAGAZINE
London, 1765
180 x 220 mm., in fine condition.
Stock number: 3993
$ 450
LONDON MAGAZINE
London, 1764
170 x 230 mm., modern wash colour, in fine condition.
Stock number: 3996
$ 225
WELLS, Edward
London, 1700-[c.05]
350 x 480 mm., in recent wash colour and good condition.
Stock number: 7988
$ 2,950
WHITE, John
Theodore de Bry, Frankfurt, 1590
305 x 415 mm., with good margins in good condition.
Stock number: 8221
$ 19,500
THACKARAY, John & VALLANCE, James
Philadelphia, 1792
220 x 265 mm., uncut, in very good condition.
Stock number: 8229
$ 25,000