Antique maps of Natural History & Science

(American Lithography) [Collection of Early American Lithographs, including the First Known American Lithograph of a Natural History Subject - by Charles Alexandre Lesueur; early lithographs by Abadie and other unnamed experimentalists; and unattributed student artwork, likely by pupils of Marie Duclos Fretageot's girl's school]

Charles Alexandre Lesueur

Place/Date:

n.p. (Philadelphia) / 1810 - 1830 circa

Size:

17.5 x 23 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

90036

(Asian Hunt) Asiatische Jagt. Ancipites inter numeratur pugna leonum, Omnibus ast bellum viribus Indus adit.

Georg Philipp Rugendas (I and II)

Place/Date:

Augsburg / 1740 circa

Size:

19 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89435

(Audubon in Florida) Autograph letter signed "J. J. Audubon" to naturalist Richard Harlan, discussing Audubon's publication of "The Birds of America"

John James Audubon

Place/Date:

St. Augustine, Florida / 1832 (January 16-18)

Size:

7.75 x 9.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

98786

(Magnolia Warbler) Black & Yellow Warbler, Sylvia Maculosa. Lath, Young Male. White Oak Quercus primus. Plate L.

Robert Havell, Jr. / John James Audubon

Place/Date:

London / 1833

Size:

25.75 x 39 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

100545

(Western Whitetail Deer) Long-Tailed Deer. Cervus Leucurus, Douglas. Plate CXVIII.

John James Audubon

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1847

Size:

27.25 x 21.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

107397

1. Common Tern or Sea Swallow Sum Plum 2. Artic Tern Sum Plum. Plate XC.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821

Size:

15.75 x 21.75 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

101194

1. Great Titmouse 2. Blue D 3. Cole D 4. Marsh D. 5. Longtailed D. 6. Bearded D. Plate LI.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821

Size:

10.5 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101192

1. Gull Billed Tern 2. Head of D. in Summer Plumage 3. Sandwich Tern Plate. LXXXVIII.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

15.5 x 21.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101185

1. Lesser Pettychaps 2. Wood Wren 3. Yellow Wren 4&5. Golden Crested Reguts M&F 6. Common Wren. Plate XLVII.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821

Size:

10.5 x 15.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101188

1. Nightingale M. 2. Redbreast M. 3. Redstart M&F. 4. Greater Pettychaps 5. Black Cap M&F. 6. Dartford Warbler 7. Greater White Throat. Plate XLVI.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

16.25 x 21 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

101171

1. Nuthatch 2. Creeper. Plate XXXIX.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

10.25 x 16.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101187

1. Spotted Flycatcher 2. Pied Flycatcher M. 3. Pied Flycatcher F. 4. Hedge Accentor. Plate XLIII

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821

Size:

10.25 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101186

[ Astronomer William Herschel ] Wm. Herschel

Charles Etienne PIerre Motte

Place/Date:

Paris / 1828 circa

Size:

13.75 x 20.25 inches (sheet size)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

99581

[ Geographical and Astronomical Instruments ].

Heinrich Scherer

Place/Date:

Munich / 1710

Size:

7.4 x 9.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103144

[ Locomotive ]

Louis Poisson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1888 circa

Size:

17 x 13 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85309

[ The First Zoological Map / 3 Volume Pioneering Work on Biogeography ] Tabula Mundi Geographico Zoologica sistens Quadrupedes hucusque notos sedibus suis adscriptos editit E. A. W. Zimmerman . . . [with] Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der allgemein verbreiterten vierfüßigen Thiere, nebst einer hieher gehörigen Zoologischen Weltcharte, von E.A.W. Zimmermann, Professor am Kollegio Carolino zu Braunschweig.

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann

Place/Date:

Leipzig / 1778 - 1783

Size:

26.5 x 19.2 inches (map)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104951

A Calculation of the Great Eclipse of the Sun, April 22d 1715, in ye Morning, from Mr. Flamsteed's Tables; as corrected according to Sr. Isaac Newton's Theory of ye Moon in ye Astronomical Lectures; with its Construction for London Rome and Stockholme. By W: Whiston MA

John Senex / William Whiston

Place/Date:

London / 1715

Size:

12 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

67440

A New History of Ethiopia. Being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia, Vulgarly, Though Erroneously Called the Empire of Prester John.

Hiob Ludolf

Place/Date:

London / 1682

Size:

8.5 x 13.25 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

93977

Africanische Jagt. Cuncta licet superet brutorum corpora barrus, Afrorum multis ictibus aeque cadit

Georg Philipp Rugendas (I and II)

Place/Date:

Augsburg, Germany / 1740 circa

Size:

19 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89436

American Redstart, Male 1. F. 2. Muscicapa Rutiella. Plant Vulgo. Scrub Elm. Ostrya Virginica. Plate 40.

John James Audubon / Robert Havell / Robert Havell, Jr.

Place/Date:

London / 1828

Size:

12 x 20 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104390

An Accurate Representation of the Meteor which was seen on Aug. 18th 1783

Henry Robinson

Place/Date:

n.p. (Winthorpe?) / 1783

Size:

9.75 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

97046

Arkansaw Flycatcher. Muscicapa Verticals. | Swallow_Tailed Flycatcher. Muscicapa Forficata | Says Flycatcher. Muscicapa Saya. Plate CCCLIX

John James Audubon

Place/Date:

London / 1837

Size:

26.75 x 39.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

107395

Autumnal Warbler, Male 1. F. 2. Sylvia Autumnalis. Plant Betula papyrifera. Vulgo Canoe Birch. Plate 88.

John James Audubon / Robert Havell, Jr.

Place/Date:

London / 1830

Size:

12.25 x 19.25 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

111823

Barn Owl Strix Flammea Male 1. Female 2. Ground Squirrel Sciurus Striatus. Plate CLXXI.

John James Audubon / Robert Havell, Jr.

Place/Date:

London / 1833

Size:

30.5 x 43 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

102132

Barn Swallow, Hirundo Rustica. Plate CLXXIII.

John James Audubon / Robert Havell

Place/Date:

London / 1833

Size:

12.25 x 19.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

108091

Bean Goose. Plate XLII.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

24.75 x 19.25 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

101039

Black or Surf Duck. Fuligula Perspicillata, Male Adult 1, Female 2.

John James Audubon / Robert Havell

Place/Date:

London / 1836

Size:

33.5 x 25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

98533

Black Scoter Male Plate LXVIII

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821

Size:

22.5 x 18.75 inches

Condition:

Fair

Stock#:

101038

Black Tern 1. Summer Plumage 2. Winter Plumage. Plate XCI.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

16 x 11 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101175

Brown Pelican, Pelecanus Fuscus. Male Adult

John James Audubon

Place/Date:

New York / 1860

Size:

25 x 36 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

97451mp2

Canvas backed Duck. Fulligula Vallisneria. Steph. 1, 2, Male, 3, Female. View of Baltimore. Plate 395.

John James Audubon

Place/Date:

New York / 1860

Size:

39 x 26.5 inches whole sheet

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

96489

Canvas backed Duck. Fulligula Vallisneria. Steph. 1, 2, Male, 3, Female. View of Baltimore. Plate CCCI.

John James Audubon & Robert Havell, Jr.

Place/Date:

London / 1836

Size:

39 x 26.5 inches whole sheet

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

98222

Carolina Parrot, Males 1. F. 2. Young 3. Psitacus Carolinensis, Plant Vulgo, Cuckle Burr.

Robert Havell, Jr. / John James Audubon

Place/Date:

London / 1827

Size:

24 x 37 inches sheet size

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

108579

Carolina Turtle Dove, Columba Carolinensis. Plate XVII.

John James Audubon

Place/Date:

London / 1833

Size:

20.25 x 26.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

108071

Carrion Crow. Plate XXVIII.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

20.25 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101168

Cinereous or Sea Eagle, Female. Plate III.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

20.75 x 16.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101033

Common Cinereous Crane. Plate I.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

19.25 x 24 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101198

Common Gallinule. Plate XXXI.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

16.5 x 10.25 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

101035

Common Skua. Plate C.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821

Size:

16 x 22 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

101196

Cream-colored woodpecker (Celeus flavus)

Pauline Knip (attributed to)

Place/Date:

n.p. (France) / 1820

Size:

12 x 17 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

46926

Antique map showing Natural History & Science by Knip (attributed to), 1820.

Description Des Plantes, Arbres, Animaux & Poissons Des Iles Antilles, Avec Les Moeurs Des Sauvages Qui S'Y Trouvent, et la Maniere dont on Fait Le Sucre

Henri Chatelain

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1719

Size:

19.5 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

107868

Chatelain's 1719 antique map showing Natural History & Science.

Distribution of the Heat over the Globe

Alexander Keith Johnston

Place/Date:

Edinburgh & London / 1856

Size:

23.25 x 18.9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

97413

Dycoteles Torquatus, F. Cuv. Collared Peccary. 1/7 Natural Size. Male. Plate XXXI.

John James Audubon

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1844

Size:

24 x 19 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

96468

Egyptian Neophron. Plate A.

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

22.5 x 19 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101036

Eider Duck. Plate CCXLVI.

John James Audubon / Robert Havell, Jr.

Place/Date:

London / 1835

Size:

35.75 x 23.75 inches including text

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

106140

Felis Onca, Linn. The Jaguar. Female

John James Audubon

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1846

Size:

24.5 x 19 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

96488

Female Bustard 2. Young of Do. - Month old. Plate LXIV.*

Prideaux John Selby

Place/Date:

London / 1821 circa

Size:

15.72 x 21.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101193

Fig. 1. Sciurus Fremontii. Townsend. Fremont's Squirrel. Natural Size | Fig 2. Sciurus Filiginosus, Bach. Sooty Squirrel. Natural Size. Plate CXLIX.

John Woodhouse Audubon

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1848

Size:

19 x 25.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

96470

Great American Hen & Young. Vulgo. Female Wild Turkey. _ Meleagris Gallopavo. Plate VI. No. II

John James Audubon / Robert Havell / William Home Lizars

Place/Date:

Edinburgh, Scotland / 1827

Size:

39.25 x 25.75 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

105349

Great White Heron, Ardea Occidentalis, Male adult spring plumage View Key-west. Plate CCLXXXI.

John James Audubon / George Lehman / Robert Havell, Jr.

Place/Date:

London / 1835

Size:

38.5 x 25.5 inches sheet size

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

108580

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