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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.
69 rare maps matched your search criteria.
London, 1764
170 x 230 mm., modern wash colour, in fine condition.
Stock number: 3996
$ 225
London, 1700-[c.05]
350 x 480 mm., in recent wash colour and good condition.
Stock number: 7988
$ 2,950
Theodore de Bry, Frankfurt, 1590
305 x 415 mm., with good margins in good condition.
Stock number: 8221
$ 18,500
Philadelphia, 1792
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST PLAN OF WASHINGTON. 220 x 265 mm., uncut, in very good condition.
Stock number: 8229
$ 25,000
Chez Abraham Wolfgang, pres la Bourse, Amsterdam, 1688
WITH A PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED FIRST STATE OF THE MAP OF NEW ENGLAND. 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
Drawn and Engrav'd for D. Longworth Map & Print Seller No.66 Nassau Street, New York, c.1796-[c.98]
A PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST FOLIO PLAN 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
(Printed by Samuel Loudon, No. 5, Water-Street, between the Coffee-House and Old Slip), New York, 24 November 1783
BROADSIDE POSTED IN NEW YORK DETAILING THE PROCESSION TO RE-OCCUPY THE CITY WITH ONLY ONE CONFIRMED EXAMPLE SURVIVING. 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
AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE MAP in its FIRST STATE. 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
$ 15,950
Louis Billaine, dans la Grand' Salle du Palais, au second Pillier, au grand Cesar, Paris, 1674
Quarto (240 x 175 mm.), full contemporary calf, blind panelled, with extremely ornate ribbed spine, each compartment with gilt decorative panels and central floral feature, red calf gilt title label affixed, marbled endpapers. With typographic title page, pp. (16), 262, 35, (1), 23, (7), 49, (2), 81, with 5 folding maps, 9 plates of which 3 are folding, with light water stain to lower gutter near the beginning, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9892
$ 12,500
Printed by Shepard Kollock, for the Author, Elizabeth Town, 1789
THE FIRST AMERICAN GEOGRAPHIC WORK TO CONTAIN MAPS. Octavo (200 x 120 mm.), full contemporary tree calf, gilt ruled ribbed spine with ornate gilt red calf title label. With typographic title page, pp. xii, 534, (4), with two large folding maps, the second map with some early closed tears to fold, some general toning as is usual, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9896
$ 5,500
Edinburgh, 1814
510 x 620 mm., early wash colour, a rare unfolded example in good condition.
Stock number: 5379
$ 550
Paris, 1683
145 x 100 mm, in recent wash colour and good condition.
Stock number: 4573
$ 595
Madrid, 1601
215 x 280 mm., in good condition.
Stock number: 6446
$ 1,950
Strasbourg, 1522-[25]
290 x 380 mm., in FULL EARLY WASH COLOUR, in good condition.
Stock number: 8220
$ 19,500
Iohn Thornton at ye Platt in ye Minories./ By Robt. Morden at the Atlas in Corn-hill./ And by Phillip Lea at ye Atlas & Herculus/ in the Poultry, London, c.1685
The FIRST STATE in fine EARLY OUTLINE COLOUR of the FIRST PLAN OF NEW YORK HARBOUR. 450 x 550 mm., in early outline colour, with two marks lower centre, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 8223
$ 29,500
I. Mount & T. Page upon Tower Hill, London, 1732-[73]
460 x 570 mm., in recent outline and wash colour, with margin's all round, slim on the lower and lower left, light offsetting and foxing otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 8225
$ 3,950
Paris, 1821
390 x 250 mm., early outline colour.
Stock number: 8820
$ 375
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
Robert Sayer, London, 1772-[75]
FIRST LARGE SCALE ENGLISH MAP OF THE REGION AFTER THE TREATY. 1120 x 340 mm., in fine early outline colour. Two sheets joined, printed on strong paper, in good condition.
Stock number: 8848
$ 5,500
New York, 1853
Octavo (230 x 145 mm.), original ornate blind embossed boards with gilt title to upper board, with two folding maps pasted to the inside of each board; 685 x 1555 mm., and 865 x 415 mm., occasional foxing, creases, a few splits, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 8967
$ 750