Antique maps of Rare Books

[18th Century American Sheet Music Bound Volume] [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

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

[A French Spy's Reconnaissance of the American Frontier] 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

[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

[Alaska - Russian America] Ethnographische Skizzen Über Die Völker Des Russischen Amerika . . . / Karte des Russischen Amerika Nach den neuesten Quellen gezeichnet von H.J. Holmberg 1854

Henrik Johann Holmberg

Place/Date:

Helsingfors / 1855

Size:

26.5 x 17.5 inches (map)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93988

[Antarctica] Contributions to our Knowledge of the Meteorology of the Antarctic Regions.

Meteorological Committee

Place/Date:

London / 1873

Size:

9.75 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112064

[Antarctica] Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism Taken on Board Her Majesty's Ships Erebus and Terror under command of Captain James Clark Ross, Parts I-XV

Edward Sabine / James Clark Ross

Place/Date:

London / 1840 - 1877

Size:

9 x 11 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112060

[Apian World Map] La Cosmographia de Pedro Apiano, corregida y añadida por Gemma Frisio ... El Sitio y Descripcion de las Indias y Mundo Nuevo, sacada de la Historia de Francisco Lopez de Gomara, y de la Cosmographia de Ieronymo Giraua Tarragonez [with map:] Mappa Mundi

Peter Apian

Place/Date:

Antwerp / 1575

Size:

6.25 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

100234

23-Southwest, Arizona, New Mexico and Rare Books Map By The Franciscan Fathers At Saint Michael�

[Arizona & New Mexico] The Franciscan Missions of the Southwest: An Annual Published by the Franciscan Fathers, Saint Michaels, Arizona.

The Franciscan Fathers At Saint Michael's

Place/Date:

Saint Michaels, Arizona / 1913 - 1922

Size:

7 x 9.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

107092

[Atlas - Florida and Southern Canal Projects] 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

[Baja California] Club Internationale of Ensenada - An Invitation from the Pearl of the Pacific [with a color pictorial bird's-eye view of Ensenada:] Panoramic Perspective

Young & McCallister

Place/Date:

Los Angeles / 1926

Size:

9 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

108709

[Booth Temperance Map] London, 1899-1900. Map showing Places of Religious Worship, Public Elementary Schools, and Houses Licensed for the Sale of Intoxicating Drinks, Issued with the final volume of "Life & Labour of the People" [With] Life and Labour of the People in London. . . Final Volume

Charles Booth

Place/Date:

London / 1902

Size:

34 x 24.75 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

93014

[Borgian Map] Map of the World Commonly Known as "The Borgian Map"

Frederick Charles Danvers

Place/Date:

London / 1889

Size:

7.5 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

87098

[British Colonies in North America & Caribbean] L'Amerique Angloise, ou Description des Isles et Terres du Roi d'Angleterre dans l'Amerique, Avec de nouvelles Carte de chaque Isle & Terres

Richard Blome / Abraham Wolfgang

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1688

Size:

3.5 x 5.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102812

[Cabot] [Bound volume of 4 scarce pamphlets and offprints relating to John Cabot:] The Voyage of John Cabot in 1497 to North America [with:] Report of the Cabot Proceedings at the Halifax Meeting of the Royal Society of Canada [with:] John Cabot and the Study of Sources [and one other]

Edward G Porter / G. R. F. Prowse / George Parker Winship

Place/Date:

Bradford / 1897

Size:

6.5 x 10 inches

Condition:

Fine

Stock#:

101455

[California Gold Rush - Imaginary Account] Vier Maanden Onder de Goudzoekers in Opper-Californie, of Dagboek Eener Expeditie van San Francisco Naar de Gouddistricten [with map:] De Goud-Districten Van Opper Californie

Henry Vizetelly

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1849

Size:

5.5 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112897

[California Gold Rush] A Tour of Duty in California; Including a Description of The Gold Region: And an Account of the Voyage Around Cape Horn; with Notices of Lower California, the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, and the Principal Events Attending the Conquest of the Californias [with map:] Harbour of San Francisco California Sketched from Beechey's Survey

Joseph W. Revere

Place/Date:

New York and Boston / 1849

Size:

5 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69360

[California Gold Rush] Oregon and California in 1848 in Two Volumes [with:] Map of California, Oregon, Texas, and the Territories adjoining with Routes &c.

J. Quinn Thornton

Place/Date:

New York / 1849

Size:

5.25 x 8 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

82901

[California Map Playing Cards] California the Great Educator.

Combes & O’Banion

Place/Date:

Los Angeles / 1913

Size:

2.6 x 3.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89091

[California Oil & Gas] Summary of Operations California Oil Fields ... Annual Report of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor Issued by Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas

California Department of Natural Resources

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1920 - 1950

Size:

6 x 9 inches (each issue)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

92024

[California Petroleum] A Description of the Recently Discovered Petroleum Region in California. With a Report on the Same [with:] Map Representing Locality of The Ojai Ranch in Santa Barbara County, California, belonging to the California Petroleum Company 1865

Benjamin Silliman, Jr.

Place/Date:

New York / 1865

Size:

23 x 15 inches (map size)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103844

[California Railroads] The Relation of Railroad Transportation to Production in California [caption title]

W. G. Curtis

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1894

Size:

5.75 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

108469

[California Republic] A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: with a minute and interesting account of one of the largest emigrating companies, (3000 miles over land), from the East to the Pacific Coast. And What is Claimed as the Most Authentic and Reliable Account of "The Virtual Conquest of California, in June, 1846, by the Bear Flag Party," as Given by its Leader, the Late Hon. William Brown Ide.

Simeon Ide

Place/Date:

[Claremont, N.H.] / 1880

Size:

4.5 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

100509

[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

[Canvassing Book] Where to Emigrate and Why. Homes and Fortunes in the Boundless West and the Sunny South... With a Complete History and Description of the Pacific Railroad.

Frederick B. Goddard

Place/Date:

Philadelphia. / 1869

Size:

6 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

84130

[Caricatures] Millionaires of America.

Carlo de Fornaro

Place/Date:

New York / 1902

Size:

11.5 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

111100

[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

[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

[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

[Chile] [Volume of Chilean sheet music, including the Cancion Nacional Chilena, the Himno Triunfal, and numerous Habaneras and Zarzuelas]

Anonymous

Place/Date:

Santiago, Chile and v.p. / 1900 circa

Size:

10.25 x 13.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

114375

[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:

27 x 20 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

94019

[Colorplate Costume Book] La Geographie en Estampes, ou Moeurs et Costumes des Differens Peuples de la Terre [with four color maps]

Jacques Louis Constant Lecerf

Place/Date:

Paris / 1825

Size:

7.375 x 4.875 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

104556

[Compendium of Travel Narratives] Raccolta di Viaggi dalla scoperta del Nuovo Continente fino a giorni nostri. Tomo I (-XVIII)

Francesco Costantino Marmocchi

Place/Date:

Prato / 1840 - 1847

Size:

6.75 x 9.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

114050

[Confucian Wisdom / Chinese Stereotypes] [Scrapbook of Ching Chow comic strip clippings]

Stanley Link

Place/Date:

Np / 1930 - 1942 ca

Size:

12.25 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

88894

20-Florida, Mexico and Rare Books Map By Hernán Cortés / Tomasso Porcacchi / Giovann

[Cortes Letters] [First Latin Editions of Cortes's 2nd and 3rd Letters or Cartas de Relación, bound together in a beautiful early 17th-century sammelband, along with Italian Translations of Cortes's Second and Third Letters excerpted from Ramusio's 1606 Navigatione et Viaggi, and with Porcacchi's 1605 Isolario] Praeclara Ferdinadi Cortesii de Nova Maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio [with:] L' Isole piv famose del mondo descritte da Thomasa Porcacchi da Castiglione arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro Padovano Con l' Aggiunta di molte Isole ALL' ILL

Hernán Cortés / Tomasso Porcacchi / Giovanni Battista Ramusio

Place/Date:

Nuremberg; Venice / 1524 / 1605 / 1606

Size:

9 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102698

[Dallas, Texas] Directory of the City of Dallas... Carefully Arranged and Prepared... For the Year 1875... This Work Contains a Brief Sketch of the City of Dallas, Together with Biographical Notes of its Founders and its Leading Business Men...

F. E. Butterfield / C. M. Rundlett / St. Louis Democrat Litho

Place/Date:

[St. Louis, Mo.] / 1874

Size:

6 x 9 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

100912

[Data Visualization Atlas] Ministere Des Travaux Publics. Album De Statistique Graphique De 1885.

Imprimerie Nationale

Place/Date:

Paris / 1885

Size:

10.5 x 13.25 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

109514

[Denver] The Colorado Hand-Book: Denver and its Outings. A Guide for Tourists and Book of General Information, with some bits of early history [with Map of Denver]

W. G. M. Stone / Barkhausen & Lester

Place/Date:

Denver, Colorado / 1892

Size:

7.75 x 9.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

100817

[Dutch Travels in Guinea] Siebende Schiffahrt in das goldreiche Königreich Guineum, in Africa gelegen [Discoveries and Establishment of the Dutch on the Coast of Guinea]

Pieter de Marees / Levinus Hulsius

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1624

Size:

6 x 8 inches (binding)

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

99940

[Early Dutch Explorations in the East Indies] Recueil des Voiages Qui Ont Servi à l'établissement & Aux Progrès de la Compagnie Des Indes Orientales: Formée Dans Les Provinces-Unies Des Païs-Bas. . . .

Réne Augustin Constantin de Renneville

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1703 - 1710

Size:

4 x 6.25 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

107339

[Early Philadelphia Juvenalia] [Manuscript Latin school exercises book by J. W. C. Evans, of Philadelphia, son of Edward Evans]

J.W.C. Evans

Place/Date:

[Philadelphia] / 1820 circa

Size:

6.25 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89407

[Early World Map] Macrobius Aurelius integer nitidus suoque decori ab Ioanne Rivio superioribus annis & nunc cura Ascensianorum multo diligentius restitutus [Somnium Scipionis / Commentary on the Dream of Scipio]

Ambrosius Macrobius

Place/Date:

Paris / 1519

Size:

8.25 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

108508

[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

[Fijian Volcanoes] Ten Years in South-Central Polynesia: Being Reminiscences of a Personal Mission to the Friendly Islands and Their Dependencies. By the Rev. Thomas West. Illustrated with a Portrait and Maps.

Rev. Thomas West

Place/Date:

London / 1865

Size:

17 x 13 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86683

[Filson's History of Kentucky with map] Histoire de Kentucke Nouvelle Colonie A L'Ouest de la Virginie . . . (with) Carte de Kentucke d'apres les Observations actuelles; Dediee a l'Honorable Congres des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique et a Son Excellence George Washington Commandant en chef de ses Armees Par leur tres humble Serviteur, John Filson

John Filson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1785

Size:

12.5 x 13.5 inches (map size)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112357

[First Account of California] Memoire Touchant l'etat des Missions Nouvellement etablies dans la Californie... [in:] Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions Etrangeres. Nouvelle Edition. Memoires d'Amerique. Tome Huitieme [with map:] Passage par Terre a la Californie Recouvert par le Rev. Pere Eusebe-Francois Kino, Jesuite depuis 1698 jusqu'a 1701

Fr. Eusebio Kino / Francisco Maria Piccolo

Place/Date:

Paris / 1781

Size:

4.25 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

110455

[First Dictionary Printed in America] The Royal Standard English Dictionary... True Pronunciation, According to the Present Practice of Men of Letters, Eminent Orators, and Polite Speakers in London ... The First American Edition

Isaiah Thomas / William Perry

Place/Date:

Worcester, MA / 1788

Size:

5.5 x 5.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

114379

[First Separate Map of Nantucket] Letters from an American Farmer [with maps:] Map of the Island of Nantucket; Map of the Island of Martha's Vineyard with its Dependencies.

Michel-Guillaume Saint Jean de Crevecoeur

Place/Date:

London / 1782

Size:

5 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

91513

[First Southern Celestial Atlas] Picture of the Heavens, for the use of Schools and Private Families; being a Full and Distinct Explanation of the Different Celestial Phenomena, Divested of Mathematical Formulae; with Tables for Determining the Moon's Age, Calculating Eclipses, Etc. Etc. Adapted to the Comprehension of Young Persons.

Samuel D. M'Cullough

Place/Date:

Lexington, Kentucky / 1840

Size:

7 x 9 inches inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

89734

[Franklin on Smoky Chimneys] A Letter from Dr. B. Franklin to Dr. Ingenhausz, Physician to the Emperor, at Vienna

Benjamin Franklin

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1786

Size:

7.75 x 9.75 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

99610

[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

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