Antique maps of Rare Books

Erklerung des newen Instruments über den Mon. [Explanation of the new instrument for the moon]

Sebastian Munster / Hans Holbein

Place/Date:

Worms / 1529

Size:

6 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

86365

Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum Veteribus Incognitarum.

Johann Huttich / Simon Grynaeus / Oronce Fine

Place/Date:

Paris / 1532

Size:

8.5 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

86736

Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova, Complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Enarrationis Libras VIII.

Sebastian Munster

Place/Date:

Basel / 1545

Size:

7.5 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

96321

(Ceasar's Conquest of Gaul) Description de la Limagne d'Auvergne en forme de dialogue : avec plusieurs medailles, statues, oracles, epitaphes, sentences, & autres choses memorables, & non moins plaisantes que prousitables aux amateurs de l'Antiqué [with map:] Carte de Limagne D'Auvergne

Gabriele Simeoni

Place/Date:

Lyon / 1561

Size:

6 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93358

Descriptio totius Italiae [bound with:] Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarij ... quibus Russiae ac Metropolis eius Moscoviae descriptio, Chorographicae tabulae, Religionis indicatio, Modus excipiendi & tractandi oratores, Itineraria in Moscoviam duo, & alia quaedam continentur

Leandro Alberti / Sigismund Herberstein

Place/Date:

Cologne & Basel / 1567 / 1571

Size:

9 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93228

Cosmographey: oder Beschreibung aller Länder herrschaften vnd fürnembsten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens ... /

Sebastian Munster

Place/Date:

Basel / 1578

Size:

8.75 x 13.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

70577

Le Vere Imagini et Descritioni delle Piu Nobilli Citta del Mondo [The true images and descriptions of the most noble cities in the world]

Donato Bertelli

Place/Date:

Venice / 1578

Size:

7.5 x 10.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

92842

(World map signed by Ortelius!) Pomponius Mela | De situ orbis Libri Tres

Abraham Ortelius & Christophe Plantin

Place/Date:

Antwerp / 1582

Size:

5.5 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89846

Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indiam Orientalem : earumque rerum quae navibus Battavis occurrerunt: una cum particulari enarratione conditionum, morum, oeconomiae populorum, quos adnavigarunt. Praeterea de numismatis, aromatibus, speciebus & mercibus ibidem venalibus, eorumque pretio. Insuper de insularum apparentijs, tractibus, orisque regionum maritimis, una cum incolarum ad vivum delineatione

Willem Lodewijcksz / Cornelis Claesz

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1598

Size:

9.5 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

75465

(New France - Pierre Biard's Letter) Missio Canadensis [in] Annuæ Litteræ Societatis Jesu Anni MDC.XI.

Pierre Biard

Place/Date:

Dillingen / 1611 (but circa 1615?)

Size:

3.6 x 6.6 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

84352

62-World, Mediterranean, Middle East, Holy Land and Rare Books Map By Johann Bongars / Pietro Vesc

Gesta Dei Per Francos, Sive Orientalium Expeditionum et Regni Francorum Hierosolimitani Historia...

Johann Bongars / Pietro Vesconte

Place/Date:

Hanover / 1611

Size:

12.75 x 13.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

84994

Delle navigationi et viaggi : raccolte da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio, in tre volumi divise

Giovanni Battista Ramusio

Place/Date:

Venice / 1613 -1583-1606

Size:

9 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

83534

(Singapore and Southeast Asia) Ander Theil der Orientalischen Indien. Von allen Völckern, Insulen, Meerporten, fliessenden Wassern und anderen Orten, so von Portugal auß lengst dem Gestaden Aphrica biß in OstIndien und zu dem Landt China sampt andern Insulen zu sehen seynd. Erstlich im Jahr 1596 außführlich in Holländischer Sprach beschrieben...Jetzo aber von newem in Hochteutsch bracht...

Jan Huygen van Linschoten / Theodor De Bry

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1613

Size:

11.75 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

89360

Poly-Olbion or a chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine

Michael Drayton

Place/Date:

London / 1613 and 1622

Size:

7.5 x 11 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

92111

Navigatio ac Itinerarium Iohannis Hugonis Linscotani in Orientalem Sive Lusitanorum Indiam... [Voyage and Journey of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Eastern, or Portuguese India...]

Jan Huygen van Linschoten

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1614

Size:

8 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

94699

82-World, Pacific Ocean, Pacific, Oceania and Rare Books Map By Joris van Spilbergen & Jacob

Miroir oost & west-indical, auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres navigations, faictes es annees 1614. 1615. 1616. 1617. & 1618. l'une par le renommÃ© guerrier de mer, George de Spilbergen, par le distroict de Magellan, & ainsi tout autour de toute la terre, avec toutes les battailles ... Iey sont aussi adioustÃ©es deux histoires, l'une des Indes Orientales, l'autre des Indes Occidentales

Joris van Spilbergen & Jacob Le Maire

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1621

Size:

9.5 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

75332

Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes. Contayning a History of the World, in Sea Voyages & Lande-Trauells, by Englishmen & Others... In Five Bookes. [with:] Purchas his Pilgrimage.

Samuel Purchas

Place/Date:

London / 1625 - 1626

Size:

8.75 x 13.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

96240

(Rome) Grandezze Della Citta di Roma Antiche & Moderne Come al Presente si Ritrova Di nuovo Ristampato in Quattro Linguaggi, Latino, Volgare, Francese, Tedesco ad Istanza di Iacomo Marucci, Libraro [The magnificence of the ancient and modern city of Rome, as it is presently found, reprinted in four languages: Latin, vernacular, French, and German, at the request of Jacomo Marucci, bookseller.]

Giulio Mari / Giacomo Mascardi / Giacomo Marcucci

Place/Date:

Rome / 1628

Size:

4.25 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

93357

Carte generalle de la Geographie Royalle. Par le Sr. Tasin geographe du roy [bound with:] Cartes generalles de toutes les Provinces de France et d'Espaigne . . .

Nicolas Berey

Place/Date:

Paris / 1655

Size:

8.75 x 6.75 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

90475

(City Views - World and Iberian Peninsula) Illustriorum Hispaniae Urbium Tabulae, cum Appendice Celebriorum Alibi aut olim aut nunc Parentium HIspanis, Aut euroum Civitatum Commerciis florentium. [Maps of the Most Famous Cities in Spain, with an Appendix of Other Notable Cities, Either Formerly or Currently Associated with Spain, or Prominent in the Trade of European Cities.]

Jan Jansson

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1657

Size:

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

94019

America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World.

John Ogilby & Arnoldus Montanus

Place/Date:

London / 1673

Size:

16.25 x 10.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

53619

Ogilby & Montanus's 1673 rare map showing Rare Books.

Die gantze Erd-Kugel / Bestehend Inden vier befannten Theilen der Welt / Als Europa, Asia, Africa und America Sampt schoenen neuen unde accuraten Land=Karten . . . .

Nicolas Sanson / Joannes Zunners

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

7.5 x 9.8 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

94391

(Central Europe and Hungary) Ungria Restaurada compendiosa noticia, de dos tiempos: del Passado. Baxo el Jugo de la Tirania Othomana, del Presente, Baxo el Dominio Catholico de Leopoldo II de Austria. [Hungary Restored, Extensive Notices about].

Simpliciano Bizozeri

Place/Date:

Barcelona / 1688

Size:

5.5 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

68278

Geography Anatomized: or, A Compleat Geographical Grammer. Being a Short and Exact Analysis of the whole Body of Modern Geography... To which is subjoin'd the present State of the European Plantations in the East and West Indies, with a Reasonable Proposal for the Propagation of the Blessed Gospel in all Pagan Countries.

Robert Morden / Patrick Gordon

Place/Date:

London / 1693

Size:

4 x 6 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

69209

(Abel Tasman) Relations de divers Voyages curieux, qui n'ont point esté publiées, Et qu'on a traduit ou tiré des Originaux des Voyageurs François, Espagnols, Allemands, Portugais, Anglois, Hollandois, Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux . . .

Melchisedec Thevenot

Place/Date:

Paris / 1696

Size:

8.5 x 13.8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

81400

New Voyages to North-America. Containing an Account of the Several Nations of that vast Continent; their Customs, Commerce, and Way of Navigation upon the Lakes and Rivers... A Geographical Description of Canada, and a Natural History of the Country... To Which is Added, a Dictionary of the Algonkine Language, Which is Generally Spoke in North-America. Illustrated with Twenty Three Mapps and Cutts...

Baron de Lahontan

Place/Date:

London / 1703

Size:

4.75 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

96062

Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-Land to China: Thro' Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, &c. to Peking.

Evert Ysbrants Ides

Place/Date:

London / 1706

Size:

8 x 9.5 inches (book)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

92348

44-World and Rare Books Map By Johann Christoph Weigel / Johann Gabriele Doppelmayr / Eberhard Wel

[Sundials] Neu-vermehrte Welperische Gnomonica Oder Gründlicher Unterricht und Beschreibung...

Johann Christoph Weigel / Johann Gabriele Doppelmayr / Eberhard Welper

Place/Date:

Nuremberg / 1708

Size:

9 x 14 inches Book Size

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69012

Introduction à la geographie Avec une Description Historique Sur touttes les parties de la terres... Seconde Edition.

Nicolas de Fer

Place/Date:

Paris / 1717

Size:

5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

90474

(Father Kino's Map) Der Neue Welt-Bott Mit allerhand Nachrichten deren Missionariorum Soc. Jesu. | Allerhand So Lehr-als Geist-reiche Brief / Schrifften und Reis-Beschreibungen, Welche von denen Missionariis der Gesellschaft Jesu Aus Beyden Indien . . .

Joseph Stocklein / Fr. Eusebio Kino

Place/Date:

Augsberg and Gratz / 1728

Size:

7.75 x 12.5 inches Book Size

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85607

93-Russia, Ukraine, China, Japan, Korea, India, Central Asia & Caucasus, Russia in Asia and Ra

[Book with map] Nova Descriptio Geographica Tattariae Magnae tam orientalis (with Das Nord =und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia . . . )

Philipp Johann Strahlenberg

Place/Date:

Stockholm / London / 1730 (1737)

Size:

39 x 26 inches Map Size

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

68134

The World Described; or, a New and Correct Sett of Maps: Shewing, the Kingdoms and States in all the known Parts of the Earth

Herman Moll / John Bowles

Place/Date:

London / 1733 circa

Size:

12 x 25.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

90102

A Summary, Historical and Political of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North-America.

Thomas Jefferys / William Douglass

Place/Date:

Boston (Reprinted in London) / 1755

Size:

20.25 x 18 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

68646

91-New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, South America, Europe, Europe, West Africa, Amer

[The First Maps Printed Color] Cartes en Couleur des Lieux Sujets aux tremblements de Terre Dans toutes les parties du Monde Selon le Sisteme de l’impulsion Solaire

Jean Fabien Gautier d'Agoty

Place/Date:

Paris / 1756

Size:

13.5 x 11 inches ( Whole Sheet)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

52293op

Gautier d'Agoty's 1756 antique map showing Rare Books.

(Texas - Indian Languages) Manual Para Administrar Los Santos Sacramentos de Penitencia, Eucharistia, Extrema-Uncion, y Matrimonio... A los Indios de las Naciones: Pajalates, Orejones, Pacaos, Pacóas, Tilijayas, Alasapas, Pausanes, y otras muchas diferentes, que se hallan en las Missiones del Rio de San Antonio, y Rio Grande, pertenecientes á el Colegio de la Santissima Cruz de la Ciudad de Queretaro, como son; Los Pacuâches, Mescales, Pampôpas, Tacames, Chayopines, Venados, Pamaques, y toda la Juventud de Pihuiques, Borrados, Sanipaos, y Manos de Perro.

Bartholomé García

Place/Date:

Mexico / 1760

Size:

6 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

94667

(French & Indian War) The New Map of the British Dominions in North America; with the Limits of the Government annexed thereto by the late Treaty of Peace, and settled by Proclamation October 7th, 1763 [in:] The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature, for the Year 1763. Volume 6

Edmund Burke / Thomas Kitchin

Place/Date:

London / 1764

Size:

12 x 9.5 inches (map size / British colonies)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

77573

Memoires et observations geographiques et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et de l'Amerique, d'apres les relations les plus recentes

Samuel Engel

Place/Date:

Lausanne / 1765

Size:

7.5 x 9.5 inches (29 x 19 inch map size)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

90201

24-Argentina, Chile and Rare Books Map By Bartolomé García de Nodal / Gonzalo Garc&

Relacion del Viage, que por orden de Su Magestad, y acuerdo de el Real Consejo de Indias, hicieron los Capitanes Bartholome Garcia de Nodal, y Gonzalo de Nodal, Hermanos... Al Descubrimiento del Estrecho Nuevo de San Vicente, que Hoy es Nombrado de Maire, y Reconocimiento del de Magallanes [Bound with, as usual:] ECHEVELAR, Manuel de. J. M. Y J. Instruccion Exacta, y Util de las Derrotas, y Navegaciones, que se Executan en todos tiempos en la America Septentrional, de unos Puertos a otros: con las Advertencias de Sondas, y Notas, Para Ponerlas en Practica. Cadiz. 1753.

Bartolomé García de Nodal / Gonzalo García de Nodal / Manuel de Echevelar / Pedro Teixeira

Place/Date:

Cadiz / 1769 circa

Size:

6 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

89551

(Expedition Against the Ohio Indians) Relation historique de l'expédition, contre les indiens de l'Ohio en MDCCLXIV. Commandée par le chevalier Henry Bouquet...

Thomas Hutchins / William Smith

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1769

Size:

12 x 9.5 inches Map size

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

94836

(French and Indian War) The History of the Late War in North-America, and the Islands of the West Indies

Thomas Mante

Place/Date:

London / 1772

Size:

12 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

92512

(Rare New York City Plan) Gaine's Universal Register, or, American and British Kalendar, For The Year 1776 [with:] Plan of the City of New York

Hugh Gaine

Place/Date:

New York City / 1775

Size:

3 x 4.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

92336

48-United States, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Rare Books and American Revolution Map By Christian L

Special Karte von den Mitteleren Brittishen Colonien in Nord Amerika / Beschreibung von Brittischen Amerika zur Esperung zer englishen karten -- Nebst einer Special Karte der mittlern Brittischen Colonien

Christian Leiste / Thomas Albrecht Pingeling

Place/Date:

Braunschweig / 1778

Size:

11.7 x 14.8 inches (map size)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

84175

Nouvel Atlas Geographique & Historique pour l'Etude facile de la Geographie et pour l'intelligence des Nouvelles publiques tant dans la Guerre que dans la Paix . . . / Nieuwe Astronomische Geographische en Historishe Zak en Reis Atlas . . . .

Hendrick De Leth

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1778

Size:

4.5 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

90476

(Yale College - Freshman Class 1782) Catalogus Recentium in Collegio-Yalensi, M,DCC,LXXXII.

Anonymous

Place/Date:

New Haven / 1782

Size:

8.5 x 14 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

94660

(American Revolution - Virginia Privateering) Manuscript Document Concerning the American Privateer Grand Turk, Captured Near Scotland's Fair Isle by Michael Griff [The Capt. of the Privateer Michael Griff declares as follows ...]

Anonymous

Place/Date:

[Scotland] / 1783

Size:

8 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

82328

85-United States, Rare Books and American Revolution Map By Matthias Christian Sprengel / William

(American Revolution) Geschichte der Revolution von Nord-America. Sammlung der besten Schriftsteller, welche die Geschichte, besondere Rechten, Sitten, und Gewohnheiten der Völker nach ihren Grundsätzen abgehandelt haben [with map:] Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord=America. nach der Wm. Faden 1783. [History of the Revolution of North America. Collection of the Best Writers Who Have Discussed the History, Specific Laws, Customs, and Habits of the Peoples According to Their Principles [with map:] The United States of North America. According to Wm. Faden, 1783.]

Matthias Christian Sprengel / William Faden

Place/Date:

Frankenthal / 1785

Size:

4.25 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

90124

(Southeast Asia) [Unpublished Manuscript Sailing Directions from Europe to China by a French Navigational Officer]

Anonymous

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1785 circa

Size:

15.5 x 10.5 inches each sheet

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

90507

40-Mid-Atlantic, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Southeast, Virginia and Rare Books Map By Thoma

Notes on the State of Virginia [with the map:] A Map of the country between Albemarle Sound, and Lake Erie, comprehending the whole of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pensylvania, with parts of several other of the United States of America. Engraved for the Notes on Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson

Place/Date:

London / 1787

Size:

23 x 23 inches (Map)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

55181

Thomas Jefferson's Map / Book on Virginia

(California) Relacion historica de la vida y apostolicas tareas del venerable padre Fray Junipero Serra, y de las Misiones que fundo en la California Septentrional, y nuevos establecimientos de Monterey [with map:] Californias: Antigua y Nueva.

Francisco Palóu

Place/Date:

Mexico / 1787

Size:

6.25 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

92572

The Marseilles Hymn. In French & English. Marche des Marseillois [First American edition of the Marseillaise and 30 other mostly American music sheets from the late 18th century and early 19th century]

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle - Benjamin Carr

Place/Date:

New York, Philadelphia, and London / 1790 circa - 1825

Size:

10 x 13.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

73106

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