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Rare Maps and Prints
Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
Email: enquiries@caburden.com
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.
39 rare maps matched your search criteria.
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
London, c.1743
440 x 600 mm., with lovely full early colour.
Stock number: 9460
$ 27,500
R. Aitkin ... opposite the London Coffee-House, Front-Street, Philadelphia, Late July/ early August 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
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
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
Paris, 1772
320 x 375 mm., in good condition.
Stock number: 5192
£ 150
London, 1700-[c.05]
350 x 480 mm., in recent wash colour and good condition.
Stock number: 7988
$ 2,950
Chez Abraham Wolfgang, pres la Bourse, Amsterdam, 1688
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
Theodore de Bry, Frankfurt, 1590
305 x 415 mm., with good margins in good condition.
Stock number: 8221
$ 19,500
Philadelphia, 1792
220 x 265 mm., uncut, in very good condition.
Stock number: 8229
$ 25,000
Drawn and Engrav'd for D. Longworth Map & Print Seller No.66 Nassau Street, New York, c.1796-[c.98]
410 x 555 mm., with light offsetting, good margins, uncut, with manuscript title to the verso, in good condition.
Stock number: 9726
$ 37,500
(Printed by Samuel Loudon, No. 5, Water-Street, between the Coffee-House and Old Slip), New York, 24 November 1783
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
London, 1624
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
Edinburgh, 1814
510 x 620 mm., early wash colour, a rare unfolded example in good condition.
Stock number: 5379
$ 550
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
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, 1765
180 x 220 mm., in fine condition.
Stock number: 3993
$ 450
London, 1764
170 x 230 mm., modern wash colour, in fine condition.
Stock number: 3996
$ 225
Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green for D. Hencilman at the Corner Shop, the South Side of the Town-House & T. Hancock at the Bible and Three Crowns in Ann-Street, Boston, 1732
Tall 16mo (180 x 75 mm.), full contemporary calf, blind panelled, rebacked preserving original spine with blind ruled compartments. [2], vi, 220 pp., later endpapers, some occasional light foxing otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 8909
$ 2,950