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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.

45 rare maps matched your search criteria.
MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDER PHILIPP ZU WIED-NEUWIED, Prince
J. Hoelscher, Coblenz, 1839-41
Reise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 von Maximilian Prinz zu WiedReise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 von Maximilian Prinz zu WiedReise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 von Maximilian Prinz zu WiedReise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 von Maximilian Prinz zu WiedReise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 von Maximilian Prinz zu WiedReise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 von Maximilian Prinz zu WiedReise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 von Maximilian Prinz zu WiedReise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 von Maximilian Prinz zu WiedReise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied
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
   

ELLSWORTH, Oliver
November 1780
Novemr, 1780, State of Connecticut, To George Myllys SecretaryNovemr, 1780, State of Connecticut, To George Myllys Secretary
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
Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles de l'Amerique
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
Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland, ou de la Baie de Chesapeack et Pays Voisins
200 x 290 mm., in very nice full early wash colour, good condition.
Stock number: 10803
$ 450
   

RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas Francois
Ernest van Harrevelt; Daniel Jean Changuion, Amsterdam, 1773
Carte de la Louisiane et Pays Voisins
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
Carte des Lacs du Canada
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
Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre Nouvelle York et Pensilvanie
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
A Description of the Island of Jamaica; With the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are Related ...A Description of the Island of Jamaica; With the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are Related ...A Description of the Island of Jamaica; With the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are Related ...A Description of the Island of Jamaica; With the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are Related ...A Description of the Island of Jamaica; With the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are Related ...A Description of the Island of Jamaica; With the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are Related ...
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
A Map of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands with Adjacent Parts
440 x 600 mm., with lovely full early wash colour.
Stock number: 9460
$ 27,500
   

AITKEN, Robert
R. Aitkin ... opposite the London Coffee-House, Front-Street, Philadelphia, Late July/ early August 1776
The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum. For July 1776.The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum. For July 1776.The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum. For July 1776.The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum. For July 1776.
Octavo (220 x 140 mm.), uncut, with the extremely rare original wrappers chipped and professionally repaired, wood-engraved title page vignettes, pp. (4), 301-344, printed in two columns to a page, toned as usual otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9674
$ 39,500
   

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
La Riviere de Missisipi, et ses Environs, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale. Mis a jour par N. de Fer, Geographe de sa Majeste Catolique 1715<br/>
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
History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at WashingtonHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at WashingtonHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at WashingtonHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at WashingtonHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at WashingtonHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at WashingtonHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at WashingtonHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at WashingtonHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at WashingtonHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at WashingtonHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington
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
Carte des Parties Nord et Est de l'Asie qui Comprend les Cotes de la Russie Asiatique le Kamschatka, le Iesso, et les Isles du Japon Dressee en 1764 par M*** ...
320 x 375 mm., in good condition.
Stock number: 5192
£ 150
   

WHITE, John
Theodore de Bry, Frankfurt, 1590
Americæ pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis inventa sumtibus Dn. Walteri Raleigh Equestris ordinis Viri Anno Dni.M.D LXXXV
305 x 415 mm., with good margins in good condition.
Stock number: 8221
$ 19,500
   

THACKARAY, John & VALLANCE, James
Philadelphia, 1792
Plan of the City of Washington
220 x 265 mm., uncut, in very good condition.
Stock number: 8229
$ 25,000
   

LONGWORTH, David
Drawn and Engrav'd for D. Longworth Map & Print Seller No.66 Nassau Street, New York, c.1796-[c.98]
Plan of the City of New York
410 x 555 mm., with light offsetting, good margins, uncut, with manuscript title to the verso, in good condition.
Stock number: 9726
$ 37,500
   

ANONYMOUS
(Printed by Samuel Loudon, No. 5, Water-Street, between the Coffee-House and Old Slip), New York, 24 November 1783
(Order of Procession)
270 x 155 mm., professionally lined with tissue, with loss of the last five lines and imprint, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9727
$ 49,500
   

BLOME, Richard
Chez Abraham Wolfgang, pres la Bourse, Amsterdam, 1688
L'Amerique Angloise, ou description des isles terres du roi D'Angleterre, dans L'AmeriqueL'Amerique Angloise, ou description des isles terres du roi D'Angleterre, dans L'AmeriqueL'Amerique Angloise, ou description des isles terres du roi D'Angleterre, dans L'AmeriqueL'Amerique Angloise, ou description des isles terres du roi D'Angleterre, dans L'AmeriqueL'Amerique Angloise, ou description des isles terres du roi D'Angleterre, dans L'AmeriqueL'Amerique Angloise, ou description des isles terres du roi D'Angleterre, dans L'AmeriqueL'Amerique Angloise, ou description des isles terres du roi D'Angleterre, dans L'Amerique
Duodecimo (150 x 85 mm.), full contemporary calf, blind panelled, with ribbed spine, very ornate gilt decoration to compartments, gilt title, gilt slightly worn. With typographic title page, pp. [4], 331, [1], p. 236 erroneously numbered 136, with 7 folding maps, otherwise in excellent condition.
Stock number: 9894
$ 4,950
   

ALEXANDER, Sir William
London, 1624
(No title)
250 x 340 mm., with wide margins, with some repair to double folds as might be expected, light fold along the centre, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9881
$ 15,000
   

THOMSON, John
Edinburgh, 1814
Spanish North America
510 x 620 mm., early wash colour, a rare unfolded example in good condition.
Stock number: 5379
$ 550
   

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