Antique maps of Rare Books

[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

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books.

John Locke

Place/Date:

London / 1690 (but 1689)

Size:

8 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103859

[World Atlas] 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:

Good

Stock#:

85550

[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

[La Salle'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

Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres Grand Pays Situe dans Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et La Mer Glaciele . . . [with maps:] Carte d'un tres grand Pays entre le Nouveau Mexique et la Mer Glaciale [and:] Carte d'un tres grand Pais Nouvellement découvert dans l'Amerique Septentrionale

Louis de Hennepin

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1697

Size:

3.5 x 6.25 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

106995

A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico; with a description of the Great Lakes, Cataracts, Rivers, Plants, and Animals

Louis de Hennepin

Place/Date:

London / 1698

Size:

4.75 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

99847

[Gifted To Cecil B. De Mille by Elmer Bernstein] (Mortier Bible) Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament Enrichie de plus de quatre cens Figures En Taille-Douce, &c. [2 vols in 1]

Pierre Mortier

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1700 circa

Size:

10.5 x 17 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

96625

[History of the Low Countries / California as an Island] Histoire Abregee des Provinces Unies des Pais Bas Ou l'on voit leurs progres leurs conquetes leur Gouvernement et celui de leurs compagnies en orient & en occident [with map:] Mappe-Monde pour connoitre les progrés & les conquestes les plus Remarquables des Provinces-Unies, Ainsy que celles des Compagnies d'Orient et d'Occident, et les Pais quelles possedent dans l'un et dans lautre Hemisphere.

Jean Malherbe

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1701

Size:

8.25 x 13 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101620

39-Caribbean, Brazil, India, Southeast Asia, Arabian Peninsula and Rare Books Map By Johan Nieuhof

Voyages and Travels, Into Brasil, and the East-Indies: Containing, An Exact Description of the Dutch Brasil and divers Parts of the East-Indies.

Johan Nieuhof / John Churchill / Awnsham Churchill

Place/Date:

London / 1703

Size:

8.5 x 13 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

99851

[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

Geographia Sacra, Sive Notitia Antiqua Dioecesium Omnium Partriarchalium, Metropoliticarum, Et Episcopalium Veteris Ecclesiae. . . MDCCIIII

Francois Halma & Lucas Holstenius

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1704

Size:

11.5 x 17.75 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

104784

Halma & Holstenius's 1704 rare map showing Rare Books.

[California as an Island Disproved - First State] Passage Par Terre a La Californie Decouvert par le Rev Pere Eusebe-François Kino Jesuite depuis 1698 jusqua 1701 ou l'on voit encore les Nouvelles Missions des P.P. de la Compage. de Jesus [in:] Memoires pour l'Histoire Des Sciences et des beaux Arts [April, May, June, 1705]

Fr. Eusebio Kino

Place/Date:

Paris / 1705

Size:

3.5 x 6 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

114627

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

La Sainte Bible, Qui Contient Le Vieux et le Nouveau Testament, Expliquez Par des Notes de Theologie & de Critique sur la Version ordinaire des Eglises Reformees, revue sur les Originaux, & retouchee dans le langage: Avec des Prefaces particulieres fur chacun des Livres de l'Ecriture fainte, & deux Prefaces generales fur l'Ancien & fur le Nouveau Testament.

David Martin

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1707

Size:

10.25 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112875

61-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

A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope.

Woodes Rogers / Herman Moll / John Senex

Place/Date:

London / 1712 [i.e. 1718]

Size:

5 x 8 inches Book

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101710

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

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner... The Sixth Edition Adorned with Cuts. [with:] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe... The Third Edition, Adorned with Cuts. [and:] Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the Angelick World.

Daniel Defoe

Place/Date:

London / 1722 - 1722 - 1720

Size:

5 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

103847

Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos, en las Islas, y Tierra-Firme de el Mar Oceano [with:] Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentales

Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas

Place/Date:

Madrid / 1726 - 1730

Size:

8.5 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

111613

[Principia] The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton... To which are added, The Laws of the Moon's Motion, according to Gravity. By John Machin

Isaac Newton

Place/Date:

London / 1729

Size:

5 x 7.75 inches (each)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86424

An Historical Account of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

David Humphreys

Place/Date:

London / 1730

Size:

5 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

99916

[World Atlas -- Extra Illustrated] 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

The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers; of the Jews...

Gamaliel Ben Pedahzur [Abraham Mears]

Place/Date:

London / 1738

Size:

5.25 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103671

[Holy Land - Grapevine Map] Onomasticum Veteris Testamenti sive tractatus philologicus quo nomina V.T. propria ad appelatiuorum analogiam reducta ex originibus et formis suis explicantur, cum aliarum gentium nominibus conferuntur impositionis ratio, quantum fieri potuit, ubique ostenditur, atque adeo linguae originali nova lux affunditur. Accedit appendix continens spicilegium observationum et additionem ad arcanum formarum nominum hebr.

Johann Simonis

Place/Date:

Halle / 1741 -1742

Size:

7.25 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

113377

71-Midwest, Michigan, Canada and Rare Books Map By Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix / J

Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France

Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix / Jacques Nicolas Bellin

Place/Date:

Paris / 1744

Size:

3.75 x 6.625 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103313

35-Midwest, Michigan, Rare Books and Canada Map By Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix / J

Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France, Avec Le Journal Historique... 3 Volumes

Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix / Jacques Nicolas Bellin

Place/Date:

Paris / 1744

Size:

8.25 x 10 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

106928

24-South America, Peru & Ecuador and Rare Books Map By Antonio de Ulloa / Jorge Juan y Santaci

Voyage Historique de l'Amerique Meridionale Fait Par Ordre du Roi d'Espagne

Antonio de Ulloa / Jorge Juan y Santacilia

Place/Date:

Paris [but Amsterdam and Leipzig] / 1752

Size:

8 x 10 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

91514

32-Louisiana and Rare Books Map By Jean-François Benjamin Dumont de Montigny / Georges Mari

Memoires Historiques sur La Louisiane

Jean-François Benjamin Dumont de Montigny / Georges Marie Dumont

Place/Date:

Paris / 1753

Size:

4 x 6.5 inches (binding size)

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

106916

A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which The Words are deduced from their Originals, And Illustrated in their Different Significations By Examples from the best Writers. To Which is Prefixed, a History of the Language, And An English Grammar.

Samuel Johnson

Place/Date:

London / 1755

Size:

11 x 17 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103958

39-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.

[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

Histoire Naturelle et Civile de la Californie, Contenant une Description exacte de ce Pays [with map:] Carte de la Californie Levée par la Sociéte des Jesuites.

Miguel Venegas

Place/Date:

Paris / 1767

Size:

4 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

110879

60-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

48-Argentina, Chile and Rare Books Map By John Byron / Casimiro Gómez de Ortega / Juan de l

Viage del Comandante Byron al Rededor del Mundo . . . En el Qual se da Noticia de Varios Paises de la Costumbres de sus Habitantes, de las Plantas, y Animales estraños que se crian en ellos: juntamente con una descripcion muy circunstanciada del Estrecho de Magallanes, y de cierta Nacion de Gigantes, llamados Patagones . . . [with map:] Mapa Maritimo del Estrecho de Magallanes

John Byron / Casimiro Gómez de Ortega / Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla / Ferdinand Magellan

Place/Date:

Madrid / 1769

Size:

6 x 8 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

113676

69-Mexico, Baja California and Rare Books Map By Francisco Antonio Lorenzana / Hernán Cort&

Historia de Nueva-España, escrita por su Esclarecido Conquistador Hernan Cortes . . .

Francisco Antonio Lorenzana / Hernán Cortés / Domingo del Castillo / Jose Antonio de Alzate y Ramirez

Place/Date:

Mexico City / 1770

Size:

8 x 11 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

111580

[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

[Presentation Copy] Description et Usages de la Mappemonde Projetee Sur L'Horizon de Paris [bound with:] Abrégé d'Astronomie pour l'usage des Planisphères [bound with:] Extrait de l'Abrégé d'Astronomie... Pour Servir d'Instruction Relativement a Deux Petits Planispheres.

Chrysologue de Gy (Noel Andrey)

Place/Date:

Paris / 1774 / 1778 / 1779

Size:

5 x 8 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112075

[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

3-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

[Ohio] Description topographique de la Virginie, de la Pensylvanie, du Maryland, et de la Caroline septentrionale: Contenant Les Rivieres d'Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Des Illinois, Du Mississippi, &c. ...

Georges-Louis Le Rouge / Thomas Hutchins

Place/Date:

Paris / 1781

Size:

5.5 x 8.5 inches 8vo

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50387

Antique map showing Rare Books by Le Rouge / Hutchins, 1781.

[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 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

[Virginia Privateering During The American Revolution] 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

[Treaty of Versailles] Tratado Definitivo de Paz Firmado en Versailles a 3 de Setiembre de 1783 [with map:] Territorio señalado a los Ingleses para el corte del palo o de tinte [Wallis River (Belize) and the Rio Hondo]

Tomás López

Place/Date:

[Madrid] / 1783 circa

Size:

5.75 x 7.25 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

112720

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. [First Octavo Edition.]

Adam Smith

Place/Date:

London / 1784

Size:

5.5 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104579

[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

11-Mid-Atlantic, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, South, Southeast, Virginia, Rare Books and RBMS

[Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia] Observations sur la Virginie [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:

Paris / 1786 [1787]

Size:

23 x 23 inches (map size)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

51828

Rare map showing Rare Books by Jefferson made in 1786.

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