Antique maps of Rare Books

(Lasalle's Final Expedition) Dernieres Decouvertes dans L'Amerique Septentrionale de M. De La Sale [i.e., La Salle], Mises au jour par M. le Chevalier Tonti, Gouverneur du Fort Saint Louis, aux Islinois.

Henri de Tonti

Place/Date:

Paris / 1697

Size:

4 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69476

(California Gold Rush Guide Book) Notes of Travel in California; Comprising the Prominent Geographical, Agricultural, Geological, and Mineralogical Features of the Country; and also, the Route From Fort Leavenworth, In Missouri, To San Diego, In California, Including Parts of Arkansas, Del Norte and Gila Rivers. From The Official Reports of Col. Fremont and Maj. Emory [with map] Map of the United States, Mexico, &c. Showing the Various Land and Water Routes from the Atlantic Cities to California. Compiled for D. Appleton & Co. New York. 1849. Printed at Ackerman's rooms. 120 Fulton St. N.Y. [spine title] California Guide Book

John Charles Fremont / William Hemsley Emory

Place/Date:

New York / 1849

Size:

6 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85558

The Gold Mines of California: Being a Succinct Description of the Geography, History, Topography, and General Features of California: Including a Carefully Prepared Account of The Gold Regions of that Fortunate Country. Prepared from Official Documents and Other Authentic Sources. With a Map of the Country, and Particularly of the Gold Region.

George Foster

Place/Date:

New York / 1848

Size:

5.75 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

91446

Brown & Dallison's Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready Directory, For the Year Commencing January 1st, 1856, Embracing a General Directory of Citizens, with an Historical Sketch of Nevada County, by A. A. Sargent, Esq. And an Appendix of General Information Appertaining to Those Towns. An Almanac for 1856. Compiled and published by Nat. P. Brown and John K. Dallison. Volume I

Brown & Dallison

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1856

Size:

5 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

91434

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

California Motor Guide and Gazetteer [with:] California Strip Maps (1926)

National Automobile Club

Place/Date:

San Francisco, etc. / 1928

Size:

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

91281

Trip to the West and Texas Comprising a Journey of Eight Thousand Miles, Through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the Autumn and Winter of 1834-5. Interspersed with Anecdotes, Incidents and Observations. With a Brief Sketch of the Texian War.

Amos Andrew Parker

Place/Date:

Concord, N.H.; Boston / 1836

Size:

4.5 x 7.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

90001

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

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:

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

90474

Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax | Map of the Territories & Pacific States to Accompany "Across the Continent"

Samuel Bowles

Place/Date:

Springfield, MA & New York / 1866

Size:

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

87416

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

Designs on the Land Diseños of California Ranchos

Robert H. Becker

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1969

Size:

18 x 14.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69454

The Gold-Seeker's Manual; Being a Practical and Instructive Guide to All Persons Emigrating to the Newly-Discovered Gold Regions of California

David T. Ansted

Place/Date:

New York / 1849

Size:

5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

91431

46-Louisiana, Kentucky, Midwest, Ohio, Pacific Northwest, Atlases and Rare Books Map By Georges He

Voyage dans l'Amerique septentrionale, ou description Des Pays arrosés par le Mississipi, l'Ohio, le Missouri et autres rivières affluentes; observations exactes sur les cours et les sondes de ces riviéres; sur les villes, villages, hameaux et fermes de cette partie du Nouveau-Monde... Par feu le General Collot

Georges Henri Victor Collot

Place/Date:

Paris / 1826

Size:

10.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

88151

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

Coleman's Reprint of William Penn's Original Proposal and Plan for the Founding & Building of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, America, in 1683 / A Letter From William Penn Proprietary and Governour of Pennsylvania In America, To the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that Province, residing in London . . . .1683

William Penn / James Coleman

Place/Date:

London / 1881

Size:

7.5 x 11 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

79503

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

Sebastian Munster

Place/Date:

Basel / 1578

Size:

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

70577

Map of Colorado Territory to accompany Holisters "Mines of Colorado" corrected from the Public Surveys of 1866. (with text)

Major & Knapp

Place/Date:

New York / 1867

Size:

21 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

88758

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

(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

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

An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States. . .

William Winterbotham

Place/Date:

London / 1795

Size:

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89694

26-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

65-Pacific Northwest, Rare Books and Curiosities Map By Conrad Malte-Brun - Robert Stuart - Wilson

[Important Compilation of Contemporary Travel & Exploration Accounts / First Map of the Oregon Trail] Nouvelles Annales des Voyages ... Avec des Cartes et Planches (36 volumes and dozens of maps -- Important Reports on Polar Exploration, Search for Northwest Passage, Lewis & Clark, Humboldt, Russian Colonization, Tasmania, New Zealand, Upper Canada, etc.)

Conrad Malte-Brun - Robert Stuart - Wilson Price Hunt

Place/Date:

Paris / 1819 - 1827

Size:

(see description)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85576

(Chicago World's Fair & St. Paul, Minn.) [Contemporary album of 71 Photographs of St. Paul and Chicago World's Fair, Columbian Exposition]

Anonymous

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1893 circa

Size:

8 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

87334

2-World, Portraits & People and Rare Books Map By Ensign, Bridgeman & Fanning / Charles C

The World Geographical, Historical, and Statistical; Containing a Description of the Several Continents, Empires, Republics, Kingdoms, and Islands of the Globe, Exhibiting the Peculiarities of their Physical Aspect, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Climate, Productive and Manufacturing Resources, Commerce, Chief Towns, Government, Education, General History, etc. [binding title:] All Nations One Great Brotherhood Brought Together by Steam & Telegraph. [with map:] The World. Principal Varieties of the Human Race. Female Costumes of Different Parts of the World.

Ensign, Bridgeman & Fanning / Charles C. Savage

Place/Date:

New York / 1856

Size:

9.5 x 6.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69474

Sailing Directions and Nautical Remarks by Officers of the Late U.S. Naval Expedition to Japan [Chart of the Coast of China and of the Japan Islands, including the Marianes and part of the Philippines]

William L. Maury

Place/Date:

Washington, D.C. / 1857

Size:

40 x 41 inches (map) (9 x 11.5 inch binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

88337

[Mapping New Mexico's Spanish & Mexican Land Grants] New Mexico. Its Resources, Climate, Geography and Geological Condition (Two Large Folding Maps)

Max Frost

Place/Date:

Santa Fe / 1890

Size:

25 x 32 inches and (39 x 15.5 inches)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

88898

[Dymaxion World Map] World Map on Dymaxion Projection. Fluid Geography [in:] The American Neptune: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History . . . April 1944.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Place/Date:

Salem, Massachusetts / 1944

Size:

28 x 20 inches (map)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

88899

(Salt Lake City Bird's Eye View) The "Mormon" Metropolis. An Illustrated Guide to Salt Lake City and its Environs. Containing Illustrations and Descriptions of Principal Places of Interest to Tourists. Also Interesting Information and Historical Data with Regard to Utah and its People.

George Reynolds / Joseph Hyrum Parry / Bond & Chandler

Place/Date:

Salt Lake City / 1887

Size:

15.8 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

88573

[La Mer des Hystoires] Le premier [-second] volume de la mer de histoires auquel et le second ensuyua[n]t est contenu tant du vieil testament que du nouveau toutes les hystoires, actes et faictz dignes de memoire, puis la creation du monde jusques en lan mil cinq cens. xxxvi [With a medieval map of the World and a map of the Holy Land]

Anonymous

Place/Date:

Paris / 1491 (1536)

Size:

11 x 14 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

82600

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

(Confederate Civil War Manuscript Journal - Anti-War Sentiment) [Letters from a Confederate Soldier to his Wife]

E. T. Harrison

Place/Date:

Middleton, Tennessee; Alabama; Georgia. / 1863

Size:

7.25 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

83374

(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 . . .

J. Stocklein / Fr. Eusebio Kino

Place/Date:

Augsberg and Gratz / 1728

Size:

7.75 x 12.5 inches Book Size

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85607

A Description of Western Texas, Published by the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company, the Sunset Route [with map:] Correct Map of Texas Published by Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway

M. Whilldin

Place/Date:

Galveston / 1876

Size:

4.75 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

86207

96-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

(US Navy - Chesapeake and the Shannon) [Manuscript signal book for the USS Chesapeake, taken by a British sailor after the Chesapeake was captured by the HMS Shannon in 1813]

Thomas Bladen Capel

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1812 circa 1813

Size:

3 x 10 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

84354

(US Navy - Chesapeake and the Shannon) Return of the Killed and Wounded on board the US Frigate Chesapeake James Lawrence Esq Captain in the Action with the British Frigate Shannon on the 1st June 1813.

Thomas John Chew

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1813 June 1

Size:

13.5 x 16.5 inches Sheet Size

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

84404

A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps Of all the known Countries in the World. Constructed from the Latest Authority [Binder's title: Lucas's Cabinet Atlas]

Fielding Lucas Jr.

Place/Date:

Baltimore / 1823

Size:

12.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

80266

Karte Des Zemu - Gletschers

Place/Date:

Munich / 1932 - 1933

Size:

29.8 x 17.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85557

Travaux d'améliorations intérieurs projetés ou exécutés par le gouvernement général des États-Unis d'Amérique, de 1824 à 1831 [complete with:] Travaux d'améliorations intérieurs projetés ou exécutés... Atlas.

Guillaume-Tell Poussin

Place/Date:

Paris / 1834

Size:

14.5 x 20.25 inches (atlas volume)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85067

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.

2-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

(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

(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

72-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

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

Information Concerning the Terminus of the Railroad System of the Pacific Coast [with maps:] Map of California, Showing the Railroad System [and:] E.C. Sessions' Map of Oakland and Brooklyn

Grafton Tyler Brown & Co.

Place/Date:

Oakland / 1871

Size:

12.25 x 14.5 inches (19.5 x 9.5)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

83969

100-Texas, Plains, Oklahoma & Indian Territory, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, Colorado and Rare Bo

[DeWitt Clinton Copy] An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, Rivers During the years 1805, 1806 and 1807. And a Tour through the Interior Parts of New Spain. in the year 1807.

Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1810

Size:

29.25 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

81745

(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

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