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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
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
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
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
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
AITKEN, Robert
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
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
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
LONGWORTH, David
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
ANONYMOUS
(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
BLOME, Richard
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
ALEXANDER, Sir William
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
THOMSON, John
Edinburgh, 1814
510 x 620 mm., early wash colour, a rare unfolded example in good condition.
Stock number: 5379
$ 550