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Maps



(africa.) jodocus hondius.
Nova Africae Tabula.

Amsterdam, 1606 or after
Hand-colored double-page engraved map of the African continent. 17¼x21¾ inches sheet size, wide margins, Latin text and printed tailpiece on verso; edges and center fold reinforced on verso with old paper.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(africa.) adrien-hubert brue.
Carte Detaillee de l’Afrique et des Iles qui en Dependent.

Paris, 1828 [1834]
Large highly-detailed separately-published two-sheet engraved map of the continent with insets and descriptive text panels. 28x22 inches overall, segmented and mounted to original linen backing; Charles Piquet blindstamped emblems to both sheets; lower half age toned.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(africa - colonial gold mining.) british south africa company.
A Map of Mashonaland, Matabeliland, Khama’s Country, &c.

London: Edward Stanford, 1894
Large lithographed map of Zimbabwe and lower Mozambique neatly detailing the region’s topography and resources. 36¾x53¾ inches overall, segmented and mounted to original linen back and folding into publisher’s 8vo format cloth case with printed paper label; original hand-color in full; traveler’s routes traced in blue and orange crayon, very nicely preserved.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(africa and the middle east.)
Group of 4 seventeenth and eighteenth-century double-page engraved maps.

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Johann Baptist Homann. Totius Africae Nova Repraesentatio. Double-page engraved map of the continent with a decorative allegorical title cartouche. 19¾x23¼ inches sheet size, narrow margins; strong original hand-color in full; age toning. Nuremberg, circa 1720.
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Nicolas Sanson. Haute Ethiopie, ou Sont l’Empire des Abissins, la Nubie, et le Zanguebar. Double-page engraved map of eastern Africa. 17½x24 inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in full; minor aging at sheet edges but overall very nice. Paris, 1655.
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Olfert Dapper; or John Ogilby. Fezzae et Marocchi Regna Africae Celeberrima. Double-page engraved map of Morocco with a decorative title cartouche. 14x16¾ inches sheet size, wide margins; hand-colored in outline; light staining. Amsterdam or London, 1670s.
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Tobias Conrad Lotter. Opulentissimi Regni Persiae Juxta Suas Provincias. Double-page engraved map of Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, parts of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. 21½x24¾ inches sheet size, ample margins; original hand-color; center fold reinforced and discolored. Augsburg, circa 1740.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(americas.) sebastian münster.
Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula.

Basel, 1552
Hand-colored double-page woodcut map of North and South America. 12¾x16 inches sheet size, wide margins; Latin text and Henric Petri’s hand-colored printer’s device and colophon on verso; faint mat line, unobtrusive wormhole in either side of the latitudinal borders but overall a nice example. Burden 12, state 6.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500



(americas.) sebastian münster.
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

Basel, 1614
Hand-colored double-page woodcut map of the western hemisphere. 13x16 inches sheet size, lower margin narrow, otherwise wide, header in German with woodcut device on verso; minor foxing and repairs to the edges. Burden 67.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200



(americas.) john speed.
America

London: George Humble, 1626 [1627]
with Those Known Parts in that Unknowne Worlde both People and Manner of Buildings Discribed and Inlarged. Hand-colored double-page engraved map of the Western Hemisphere with carte-a-figures and city plan border panels. 16¼x22 inches sheet size, upper margin trimmed to the platemark, others wide, English text on verso; minor signs of age. Burden 217.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000



(americas.) matthaeus merian.
America Noviter Delineata.

Frankfurt, 1638
Engraved folding map of the western hemisphere with attractive ornamentation. 13x16 inches sheet size, wide margins; minor wear and gentle reinforcement to center fold but overall a nice example. Burden 251.
Estimate
$400 – $600



(americas.) frederick de wit.
Novissima et Accuratissima Septentrionalis ac Meridionalis Americae Descriptio.

Amsterdam, circa 1690
Large double-page engraved map of the Western Hemisphere with a decorative title cartouche of native figures. 21¼x24¾ inches sheet size, wide margins; fine original hand-color; a nice example with moderate age toning. Burden 465, state 7.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800



(americas.) giovanni botero.
America.

Venice: Giunti, 1640
Small engraved folding map of the western hemisphere and Pacific Ocean. 7¾x10½ inches sheet size, ample margins, binding edge at left; minor stain to lower margin. Burden 86.
Estimate
$300 – $400



(americas.) henri chatelain.
Carte du Gouvernement de l’Amerique.

Amsterdam, circa 1720
Hand-colored double-page engraved table of geographical and political considerations in the western hemisphere with four scenes of governmental councils and a small map showing California as an island. 16¾x19½ inches sheet size, wide margins; small edge repairs.
Estimate
$200 – $250



(americas.) fratelli bordiga.
L’America Settentrionale e Meridionale.

Milan, circa 1820
Large engraved folding map of the Western Hemisphere with insets of Hispaniola and Martinique. 22x31 inches sheet size, wide margins (partly trimmed at lower right for binding); original hand-color in outline; small closure at mount point, else excellent with untrimmed deckle edges.
Estimate
$300 – $400



(american southeast.) john speed.
A New Description of Carolina.

London: Bassett & Chiswell, 1676
Hand-colored double-page engraved map of the colonial province of Carolina inverted with its north to the right. 17½x22 inches sheet size, wide margins, English text on verso; a very attractive example.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500



(american southeast.) william hooker, engraver;
for Edmund and George William Blunt. [Coastal chart of the Carolinas,

New York: E. & G.W. Blunt, 1842, additions to 1854
Georgia, and part of Florida]. Large engraved blueback chart of the southeastern United States coastline from Cape Fear to St. Augustine with detailed inset plans of the mouth of the St. Johns River and Charleston Harbor. 26¾x37½ inches sheet size, wide margins; lighthouse points touched with red and yellow hand-color; light soiling, a few small repairs.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000



(american southeast.) direccion hidrografica de madrid.
Two large engraved charts of the Carolina and Georgia coastlines.

Madrid, 1868
27x40½ inches each sheet size, wove paper watermarked “J.G.O.” with a shell motif, wide margins with untrimmed deckle edges; lighthouse points touched with red and yellow hand-color; publisher’s blindstamps; second chart cleaned.
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America Septentrional. Costa Este. Hoja III. Georgia y Carolina del Sur, Desde Savannah Hasta Cabo Fear.
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America Septentrional. Costa Este. Hoja IV. Carolina del Norte, Desde el Cabo Fear Hasta el Lago de Albemarle.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000



(american westward expansion.) john melish.
Map of the United States with the Contiguous British & Spanish Possessions.

Philadelphia, 1818
Large engraved map of the United States segmented and mounted to original linen back with silk edging. 36¼x59 inches overall, cleanly folding into original marbled paper self-wrappers; original hand-color in outline; minor spotting and bits of lost selvage but overall fine and attractive.
An excellent example of Ristow’s fifth state of the improved 1818 edition of this significant piece of American cartography, the first accurate depiction of the continental United States presented as a unified landmass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Melish’s important document produced an early visual flicker to the idea of Manifest Destiny and established the tone of the hundred years to follow in which the fledgling nation turned its focus from east to west and settled the continent.
“At a glance the whole extent of the United States territory from sea to sea… The view is complete and leaves nothing to be wished for.” - John Melish regarding his own map (Mapping the West).
Ristow, A la Carte, pages 174-176; Cohen, Mapping the West, pages 102-104.
Estimate
$20,000 – $30,000



(amsterdam.) georg braun; and franz hogenberg.
Amstelredamum.

Cologne, [1572]
Double-page engraved perspective city plan from Civitates Orbis Terrarum. 16x20¾ inches sheet size, wide margins, Latin text on verso; strong original hand-color in full; marginal finger soiling.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(arctic – search for franklin.) john arrowsmith;
and Captain Leopold McClintock. Map of a Portion of the Arctic Shores of America.

London, 1859
Lithographed folding map of the archipelagos of south-central Nunavut, Canada. 21¼x14¾ inches sheet size, wide margins; hand-colored in outline; light age toning.
Highly detailed chart of the Kitikmeot Region of arctic Canada, tracking the efforts of Captain McClintock in the steam yacht “Fox” to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin a decade after his expedition’s disappearance.
With: A Woodburytype mounted oval portrait of McClintock and corresponding text leaf from “Men of Mark, a Gallery of Contemporary Portraits”, 1877.
And: An autograph letter signed by John Arrowsmith to publisher John Murray on “Joynson/1859” watermarked laid paper discussing the production of the present map:
10 Soho Square Nov. 30th 1859
My Dear Sir,
This morning I rec’d from Capt.n McClintock from Dublin, two charts with the Tracks of the Fox laid down.
I have transferred the tracks to a copy of the map which is to accompany his book, but I shall not get the engraving finished till tomorrow night & it will be the middle of the day on Friday before I can show you a proof.
Does McClintock’s book bear the date 1859 or does it bear that of 1860?
If you have a loose copy of the chart showing the drift of the Fox down Baffin Bay, be good enough to send it.
J. Arrowsmith
[to] J. Murray Esq.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200



(asia.) willem blaeu.
Asia Noviter Delineata.

Amsterdam, circa 1640
Double-page engraved map of the Asian continent with decorative carte-a-figures and city plan border panels. 16¾x22¾ inches sheet size, ample margins, French text on verso; attractive original hand-color; light age tone, still a nice example.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800



(asia.) frederick de wit.
Accuratissima Totius Asiae Tabula.

Amsterdam, circa 1680
Hand-colored double-page engraved map of Asia with a fine decorative title cartouche of commercial traders. 20½x24 inches sheet size, ample margins; cleaned, refreshed, and very sharp.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(asia.) eduard gronen; and carl friedrich wenng.
Wand-Karte von Asien, Europa u. der Nord-Ostl. Kuste von Afrika.

Munich: J.G. Cotta, 1857
Large engraved wall map of Asia with original hand-coloring. 51¾x70¾ inches overall, segmented and mounted to original linen backing; light scattered stains, short linen separations at a few folds.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(atlantic seaboard.) johann baptist homann.
Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali.

Nuremberg, circa 1720
Double-page engraved map of the Mid-Atlantic American coast with a large decorative provincial title cartouche. 20x24 inches sheet size, ample margins; original hand-color; foxing and toning, two small worm holes at center fold.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(australia.) adam & charles black.
The British Colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania

Edinburgh, 1861
Shewing the Latest Discoveries and Travellers Routes. Large tinted lithographed case map with colors finished by hand. 39x48¾ inches overall, segmented, mounted to original linen back, folding into publisher’s gilt-blocked cloth covers; case a bit worn and starting at spine, map with moderate soiling.
Exceptional large-format map of Australia with a legend of 11 colonial inland explorer’s routes, several numbered county indices, and detail insets of the Colony of Victoria, Port Jackson and Botany Bay with the Environs of Sydney, Mount Alexander Gold Region, Tasmania or Van Diemen’s Land, Port Phillip with Melbourne, Sketch Map to Show the Principal Commercial Routes to Australia, Norfolk Island, and New Zealand.
Not it Tooley; no market records; 2 institutional copies located (National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales).
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500



(baltimore.) [charles varle];
and William Warner & Andrew Hanna. Plan of the City and Environs of Baltimore.

[Baltimore], 1801
Large engraved city plan on wove paper. 20¼x30 inches sheet size, wide margins; professionally conserved and stabilized with archival tissue lining, small paper loss at center not impeding image, another small loss at right affecting lettering of the printed note.
A testament to Baltimore’s significant growth in the decades following the Revolutionary War - showing considerable development of the city in comparison to A.P. Folie’s foundational chart of the Inner Harbor published less than ten years prior.
The downtown area defines its original street grid and roads leading out of town, wharves extending into the upper basin, and is keyed with a 28-point legend of public buildings or landmarks. In the rural reaches beyond the city the land is peppered with scores of named property owners and their estates.
Scarce, with one example traced in market records and less than 10 institutional copies located. Wheat & Brun 526.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000



(biblical.) joseph moxon.
A Map of All the Earth and How After the Flood it was Divided Among the Sons of Noah.

London, 1671
Hand-colored engraved folding map of the world centered on the Garden of Eden with border panels of Biblical vignettes and a 78-point geographical reference key. 14¾x19½ inches sheet size, wide margins, blank verso; moderate signs of age. Shirley 457.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(biblical.) robert mimpriss.
A Chronological & Geographical Chart;

London: B. Wertheim, 1835
from the Commencement of the Gospel Narrative, to the Ascension of Our Lord. Large engraved map of the Holy Land with extensive tables and 25 illustrated vignettes detailing events in the life of Christ. 36¼x29¼ inches overall, segmented and mounted to original linen back with blue silk selvage, folding into patterned cloth self-wrappers with original matching slipcase; original hand-color in full; minor offset but overall quite fine.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(britain.) john speed.
The Kingdome of England.

London: John Sudbury and George Humble, [1627]
Hand-colored double-page engraved map of England and Wales with carte-a-figures border panels. 16x21 inches sheet size, wide margins, English text on verso; small edge and center fold repairs. First plate, engraved by Hondius.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(british counties.) john speed.
Glocestershire.

London: Bassett & Chiswell, 1676
Hand-colored double-page engraved map of Gloucester. 16½x21½ inches sheet size, wide margins, English text on verso; a very nice example.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(british counties.) john speed.
Herefordshire. [and] Shropshyre.

London: Sudbury & Humble, 1610; and Bassett & Chiswell, 1676
Together two double-page engraved English county maps. Approximately 17x21½ inches each sheet size, wide margins, English text on verso; one hand-colored and with toning, mat stain, and chipped upper corner; the other uncolored with no major flaws.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(british empire.) t.b. johnston.
The Howard Vincent Map of the British Empire

London: W.&A.K. Johnston, 1886
Showing the Possessions Throughout the World of the British People; Their Extent, Population, and Revenue. Large color-lithographed case map visually hyping the peak of global British Colonial power. 4 sections, segmented and mounted to original linen backing with red pebbled cloth self-wrappers; 32½x37 inches each part; housed in original gilt cloth slipcase; case with moderate wear, maps quite nice.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(buddhist world view.) zuda rokashi (priest hotan.)
Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka No Zu.

Kyoto: Uhei Bundaiken, 1710
Wall-size woodblock map of the world. 16 sheets joined, 47x56 inches overall and folding into worn paper self-wrappers; overdrawn with red character text and location points; a few places of reinforcement to fold versos.
The map is based on a Buddhist perspective of the world with India at the center. At its heart a whorl appears, symbolizing the four major rivers of the region: the Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra and the Sutlej, each originating from the heads of a horse, lion, elephant and an ox. Contemporary geography is related showing Europe as a series of islands in the upper left, China and Japan to the right, and South America depicted as an island in the lower right.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500



(california as an island.) nicolas sanson.
Audience de Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c.

Paris, 1667
Small double-page engraved map of the North American southwest showing California as a large island. 9½x13 inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in outline; an excellent example. Burden 327, third state.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(canada.) w.&a.k. johnston; for the george m. hendry co.
Commercial and School Wall Map of the Dominion of Canada.

Edinburgh and London, circa 1900
Oversize color printed lithograph map of Canada with parts of the northern United States. 52½x87½ inches overall, segmented and mounted to original linen backing with pebbled cloth self-wrappers; lightly age toned with minor edge wear and pencil marginalia.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(caribbean.)
Group of three seventeenth and eighteenth-century engraved charts of Florida, Mexico, and the West Indies.

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Willem Blaeu. Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali, cum Terris Adiacentibus. Double-page, 19½x23¾ inches sheet size, wide margins, German text on verso; original hand-color in outline; light foxing and toning. Amsterdam, circa 1640.
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John Ogilby/Arnoldus Montanus. Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali, cum Terris Adiacentibus. Double-page, 12x15 inches sheet size, ample margins; hand-colored in outline; neat repair at lower right corner. London or Amsterdam, 1671.
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Herman Moll. A Map of the West-Indies &c, Mexico or New Spain. Full-page, 8½x12 inches sheet size, lower margin narrow else wide; original hand-color in outline; minor edge soiling. London, 1727.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800



(caribbean.) phillipe and jean nicolas buache.
Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles Antilles.

Paris: Jean-Claude Dezauche, 1780
Large engraved chart of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. 2 sheets joined, 21¼x40½ inches overall, wide margins; original hand-color in outline; light dampstain at either side, could be cleaned.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(caribbean.) robert sayer.
A New Chart of the West Indian Islands; as they are Possessed by the European Powers.

London, January 28, 1788
Double-page engraved chart of southern Florida, Bahamas, Central America, and the West Indies. 21¼x25¾ inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in full; mounted to card, mat line.
Estimate
$500 – $750



(caucasus.) jansen and perronneau.
Carte Generale des Pays Situes Entre La Mer Noire et La Mer Caspienne.

Paris, [1797]
Large engraved folding map of the Crimean Peninsula, southwestern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. 25x37 inches overall, ample margins; minor foxing and offset, small closure at right edge.
Estimate
$300 – $400



(celestial.) ignace gaston pardies.
Together two double-page engraved celestial charts.

Paris or Nuremberg, circa 1700
Blue-grey laid paper, 13¾x16¼ inches each sheet size; constellation stars touched with silver; lower margins trimmed within the neatline with no loss to image.
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Plate 2 [Andromeda, Aries, Pisces, Pegasus, Aquarius, Cetus, etc.]
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Plate 4 [Leo, Virgo, Libra, Corvus, Hydra, etc.]
Estimate
$700 – $1,000



(celestial.) andreas cellarius.
2 double-page engraved celestial charts from Harmonia Macrocosmica.

Amsterdam, 1661
18x20¾ inches each sheet size, ample margins; toning, repairs, and in need of proper restoration.
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Haemisphaerium Stellatum Boreale cum Subiecto Heamisphaerio Terrestri. The northern hemisphere’s constellations superimposed over a map of the world.
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Haemisphaerium Stellatum Australe Aequali Sphaerarum Proportione. The southern hemisphere’s constellations superimposed over a map of North and South America showing California as an island.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800



(celestial.) james breen, sir john lubbock,
and The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Stanford’s Maps of the Paths of

London: Edward Stanford, 1858
Comets Visible to the Naked Eye Since 1800. 6 hand-colored engraved celestial charts together with a letterpress title-page, explanatory table, and Edward Stanford’s advertisement leaf. Folio sheets, approximately 15x13 inches; foxing and soiling, charts pasted to backing boards and top mats. OCLC records four examples, none traced in market databases.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(central and eastern europe.) henricus hondius.
Novissima Russiae Tabula.

Amsterdam, circa 1640
Hand-colored double-page engraved map of western Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic States and Scandinavia. 19x22¼ inches sheet size, ample margins, French text on verso; repair at lower center fold.
Estimate
$400 – $600



(central and eastern europe.)
Two 17th century double-page engraved maps.

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Hugo Allard. Nova Totius Regni Poloniae, Magnique Ducatus Lithuaniae cum Suis Palatinatiubus ac Confiniis. Double-page engraved map of western Russia, Ukraine, part of the Balkans, Poland, and the Baltic States. 17½x22 inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color; tide mark at left and right sides, small repair at center. Amsterdam, circa 1660.
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Gerard Mercator; and Jodocus Hondius. Lithuania. Double-page engraved map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 17½x22 inches sheet size, wide margins, French text on verso; original hand-color; light mat tone. Amsterdam, circa 1620.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(charlemagne.) henricus hondius.
Imperium Caroli Magni.

Amsterdam, circa 1640
Double-page engraved map of the 9th-century Holy Roman Emperor’s European empire. 17½x22½ inches sheet size, wide margins, Latin text on verso; original hand-color in full; light age tone, center fold partially strengthened on verso.
Estimate
$300 – $400



(chesapeake.) henricus hondius.
Nova Virginiae Tabula.

Amsterdam, 1633
Double-page engraved map of the Delmarva Peninsula, Chesapeake Bay, and inland Virginia, derived from Captain John Smith. 18¾x22¼ inches sheet size, wide margins, German text on verso; a sharp example. Burden 228, first state.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800



(china.) johannes van loon; and johannes janssonius.
Imperium Sinarum Nova Descriptio.

Amsterdam, circa 1660
Double-page engraved map of China with a decorative title cartouche and scale bar. 20½x24 inches sheet size, wide margins, double-thick laid paper as issued; strong original hand-color in outline; minor toning and offset but generally an excellent example.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500



(china.) vincenzo coronelli.
Quantung, e Fokien, Povincie della China.

Venice, circa 1690
Large double-page engraved map of southeast China, i.e., the modern Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. 20½x29 inches sheet size, wide margins with untrimmed deckle edges, Italian text on verso; very faint stain at lower center, otherwise fine.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500



(china.) matthaeus merian.
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.

Frankfurt, circa 1640
Double-page engraved decorative map of China, Korea as an island, Japan, and part of the Philippines. 12½x14½ inches sheet size, ample margins; minor signs of age but nice.
Estimate
$500 – $750



(china.)
Group of 4 seventeenth and eighteenth century small-format engraved maps.

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Mercator/Hondius. China. Engraved map of China, Korea as an island, and parts of Japan and the Philippines oriented with north to the right. 6¼x8¾ inches sheet size, wide margins, Latin text on verso; hand-colored; minor signs of age. Amsterdam, circa 1610.
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Nicolas Sanson. Royaume de la Chine. Double-page engraved map of China, Korea as an island, and part of the Philippines. 12¼x8¼ inches sheet size, wide margins; hand-colored in outline; fine. Dutch edition, engraved by A. de Winter, 1680s.
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Robert Morden. China, a New Description. Double-page engraved map of China and Korea. 6x7 inches sheet size, wide margins; hand-colored; fine. London, circa 1690.
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Peter van der Aa. La Chine, Suivant les Nouvelles Observations. Double-page engraved map of China and Korea. 14½x17 inches sheet size, extra wide margins; overall excellent. Leiden, circa 1715.
Estimate
$600 – $900



(china.) j. & c. walker, engravers;
for the British Admiralty, Hydrographic Office. Two detailed engraved coastal sounding charts.

London, 1849; 1853
Approximately 20x26½ inches each sheet size; mounted to original linen backing with green silk selvage; scattered staining.
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China East Coast - Kintang Channel Surveyed by Capt. R. Collinson. (Jintang Island, mouth of the Yongjiang River and port of Ningbo).
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China Eastern Coast Sheet I from Mongchow to Hong Kong Surveyed by Captn. Sir E. Belcher, et al. (Chuanshan Archipelago, Macao, Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong.)
Estimate
$800 – $1,200



(civil war.) james t. lloyd.
Lloyd’s Map of the Southern States.

New York, [1862] but 1863
Large hand-colored lithographed map of Confederate States during the American Civil War; advertisement and gazetteer text panels printed on recto and more extensively on verso. 39½x54 inches overall, wide margins; old folds reinforced on verso, title panel discolored and with some unprofessionally filled losses. Stephenson 14.3.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000



(civil war.) charles magnus.
Magnus’ Historical War Map. One Hundred & Fifty Miles Around Richmond.

New York, 1864
Large circular map centered on Richmond, Virginia, lithographed in blue with red lettering and corner ornamentation. 28x20¾ inches overall, segmented and mounted to original linen back with pink selvage; moderate staining and wear but authentically preserved.
Detailed map of the seat of the American Civil War encompassing the area between Hagerstown, Maryland, Lexington, Virginia, Greenville, North Carolina, and the Chesapeake Bay. Oval portraits of Generals Grant and Lee appear at the lower spandrels, with subsidiary insets of Richmond, General Canby’s Base of Operations near Natchez, Mississippi, Major General W.T. Sherman’s Base of Operations near Atlanta, Georgia, and 10 other smaller plans of prominent battle sites. Stephenson 632.2, first edition (of many).
Estimate
$700 – $1,000



(civil war.) theodore ditterline.
Field of Gettysburg July 1st, 2nd, & 3rd, 1863.

Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son, 1863
Chromolithographed oval-shape map depicting artillery positions and tactical movements of the Union (blue) and Confederate (red) armies during the three-day battle at Gettysburg. 19½x16 inches sheet size, ample margins; archivally conserved and backed on modern canvas. Stevenson 331.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
