Antique maps of Rare Books

15-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.

[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

49-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

A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America.

John Adams

Place/Date:

London / 1787

Size:

5.5 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104678

[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

[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

[India] Recueil de Cartes Geographiques, pour la Description de l'Indostan [map:] Carte de L'Indostan ou de L'Empire Mogol

James Rennell / Jean-Nicolas Buache

Place/Date:

Paris / 1793

Size:

8 x 11.625 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

86150

The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to France, &c. &c. &c.

Benjamin Franklin

Place/Date:

London / 1793

Size:

5.6 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104161

The Magnetic Atlas or Variation Charts of the Whole Terraqueous Globe; Comprising a System of the Variation and Dip of the Needle, by which, the Observations Being Trully Made, the Longitude May be Ascertained.

John Churchman

Place/Date:

London / 1794

Size:

10.5 x 13 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112061

An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States. . . [with 11 maps, including:] Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia

William Winterbotham

Place/Date:

London / 1795

Size:

5.25 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

107749

11-Caribbean and Rare Books Map By Samuel Fahlberg / Anders Zetterberg / Bengt Anders Euphras&eac

[St. Barts!] [Description of the Swedish West Indian Island of St. Barthelemi, as well as the islands of St. Eustache and St. Christopher] Beskrifning öfver svenska vestindiska ön St. Barthelemi: samt öarne St. Eustache och St. Christopher [with map of St. Barts:] Charta ofwer Oen St. Barthelemi 1786 C. C. G. Sc.

Samuel Fahlberg / Anders Zetterberg / Bengt Anders Euphrasén

Place/Date:

Stockholm / 1795

Size:

6.25 x 8.5 inches Book

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

111184

Reize door de binnenlanden van Noord-Amerika, door Jonathan Carver . . . [with map:] Kaart van Capitein Carvers Reize in de binnenlanden van Noord-America in 1766 en 1767

Jonathan Carver

Place/Date:

Leiden / 1796

Size:

5.25 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

86685

A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America...

Gilbert Imlay

Place/Date:

London / 1797

Size:

5.25 x 8.5 inches (book)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

73387

[Roman History Educational Cards] Jeu de Cartes Historiques, Contenant Un Abrégé de L'Histoire Romaine.

Etienne de Jouy

Place/Date:

Paris / 1800 circa

Size:

3 x 4.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

110760

[Important Set of Exploration and Voyage Reports] Annales des Voyages de La Géographie et de l'Histoire, ou Collection des Voyages Nouveaux les Plus Estimés, Traduits de toutes les Langues Européennes; Des Relations Originales, Inédites, communiquées par des Voyageurs Français et Etrangers [and:] Nouvelles Annales des Voyages...

Conrad Malte-Brun

Place/Date:

Paris / 1807 1821

Size:

5.25 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85577

[School boy Atlas - Manuscript Maps] A Compendium of Geography Explaining the Earth's Rotundity; Nature of Refraction; Vicissitudes of the Seasons; Nature of Eclipses, Tides, Winds, and other Phenomena respecting the Solar System; Also the Construction of Maps, and most useful Problems, upon the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes.

E. Dawson

Place/Date:

Britain / 1808

Size:

7.75 x 10 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

104719

22-Indian Ocean, Asia, China, Southeast Asia, South Africa, Australia and Rare Books Map By James

Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, and the Interjacent Ports; Compiled Chiefly from Original Journals at the East India House, and from Journals and Observations made during Twenty-One Years Experience Navigation in Those Seas... Part First. [With:] ...Part Second.

James Horsburgh

Place/Date:

London / 1809 - 1811 (to 1814?)

Size:

8 x 10 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102206

[Humboldt Atlas and Text] Geographique et Physique du Royaume de Nouvelle-Espagne [with quarto text:] Essai Politique de la Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne

Alexander Von Humboldt

Place/Date:

Paris / 1811 [i.e. 1808?] - 1812

Size:

18.5 x 24.25 inches (atlas)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

99796

Voyage au Nouveau-Mexique, a la Suite d'une Expédition Oronnée Par Le Gouvernement Des Etats-Unis . . .

Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Place/Date:

Paris / 1812

Size:

5 x 7.6 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112360

Mansfield Park: A Novel

Jane Austen

Place/Date:

London / 1814

Size:

4.8 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85830

Aperçu des Etats-Unis: au commencement du XIXe siècle, depuis 1800 jusqu'en 1810 : avec des tables statistiques

Baron L.P. Felix de Beaujour

Place/Date:

Paris / 1814

Size:

18 x 13 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

90454

59-Missouri, Rocky Mountains, Montana, Wyoming, Pacific Northwest, Oregon, Washington and Rare Boo

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri Thence across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, Performed During the Years 1804-5-6 [with map:] Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North America from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean

Meriwether Lewis & William Clark

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1814

Size:

28 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

92506

Natural and Statistical View, or Picture of Cincinnati and the Miami Country, Illustrated by Maps . . . [with:] Plan of Cincinnati Including All the latest Additions & Subdivisions . . . [and] Map of the Miami Country . . .

Daniel Drake

Place/Date:

Cincinnati / 1815

Size:

4.75 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93968

25-United States, Midwest, Plains, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, Rare Books and Canada Map By Willia

[Lewis & Clark's Official Account] A Map of Lewis and Clark's Track Across the Western Portion of North America, from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. By Order of the Executive of the United States in 1804, 5 & 6. . . . [Complete with 3 volumes of Text:] Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806].

William Clark & Meriwether Lewis

Place/Date:

London / 1815

Size:

27 x 12 inches (map)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

113339

Emma

Jane Austen

Place/Date:

London / 1816

Size:

(duodecimo)

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

85836

[Introduction to Universal Geography] Հասարակախօսութիւն աշխարհագրութեան Որ բովանդակէ զընդհանուր գիտելիս աշխարհի, զուսումնականս՝ զբնականս և զքաղաքականս։... (Hassaraagakhosoutium Ashkharhakroutian)

Stepannos Agonts

Place/Date:

San Lazzaro / 1817

Size:

4 x 6.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

84185

Endymion: A Poetic Romance

John Keats

Place/Date:

London / 1818

Size:

6.7 x 9.7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85854

[Rare Group of American Maps Published in Prague] Neueste Länder und Völkerkunde. Ein geographisches Lesebuch für alle Stände . . . Funfzenter Band America Mit Charten . . . 1818

Theophil Ehrmann

Place/Date:

Prague / 1818

Size:

4.75 x 8.5 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102973

0-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:

5 x 8 inches (see description)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85576

[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

[Important Early Geology Maps] Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis D'Amérique. Suivi d'éclaircissemens sur la Floride, sur la colonie Française au Scioto, sur quelques Canadiennes et sur les Sauvag . . .

Constantin F. Volney

Place/Date:

Paris / 1822

Size:

4.75 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

69358

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

[Rebuilding the White House, Capitol Building etc., after the War of 1812 / Correspondence to Massachusetts Representative Jeremiah Nelson from Joseph Elgar]

Joseph Elgar

Place/Date:

Washington / 1824

Size:

15.5 x 13 inches Full sheet

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

88025

[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

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. By the Author of "The Pioneers."

James Fenimore Cooper

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1826

Size:

4.5 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86237

53-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

Histoire de La Louisiane Et De La Cession De Cette Colonie Par La France Aux Etats-Unis De l'Amerique Septentrionale . . .

François Barbé-Marbois

Place/Date:

Paris / 1829

Size:

5 x 8 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112358

[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

A New Gazetteer of the United States of America [A Map of the United States Corrected from the most authentic sources Published For Darby and Dwight's Gazetteer. 1833]

William Darby

Place/Date:

Hartford, CT / 1834

Size:

6 x 9.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

87418

View of the Valley of the Mississippi, or the Emigrant's and Traveller's Guide to the West

Robert Baird

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1834

Size:

4.5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112030

[Polar] Report of the Pendulum Experiments made by the Late Captain Henry Foster, R.N., in his scientific voyage in the years 1828-1831, with a view to determine the figure of the Earth [in:] Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Francis Baily / Henry Foster / Royal Astronomical Society

Place/Date:

London / 1834

Size:

8.5 x 11 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112067

[Texas Revolution] Noticia Estadistica Sobre Tejas

Juan N. Almonte

Place/Date:

Mexico / 1835

Size:

4 x 6 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

95740

[Texas Revolution] [Manifesto on the Texas Campaign, issued by General Filisola in justification of his conduct, Gen. Santa Anna's correspondence with Vicente Filisola after capture at Battle of San Jacinto, and other documents] Mejicanos [caption title].

Vicente Filisola / Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Place/Date:

Leona Vicario [Saltillo], Mexico / 1836

Size:

6.25 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

94669

[Texas-Mexico Border Treaty] Que á efecto de facilitar el cumplimienio [i.e. cumplimiento] del art. 3. del Tratado de limites entre estos Estados y los Unidos del Norte América ... Habiéndose concluido y firmado en la Ciudad de México á los 12 dias del mes de Enero de 1828, un tratado entre los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos y los Estados-Unidos de América [A Treaty having been concluded and signed in the City of Mexico on the 12 day of January 1828 between the United States of America and the Mexican United States for the purpose of establishing the true dividing line and boundary between the two nations]

José Maria Ortiz Monasterio

Place/Date:

Mexico / 1836

Size:

8.5 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

100806

The New-Bedford Directory, Containing the Names of the Inhabitants, Their Occupations, Places of Business, and Dwelling Houses...

J. C. Parmenter / Henry H. Crapo

Place/Date:

New Bedford, MA / 1836

Size:

4.8 x 7.1 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

114522

[Texas] Tejas y los Estados-Unidos de América, en sus relaciones con la Republica Mexicana.

José María Tornel y Mendívil

Place/Date:

Mexico / 1837

Size:

5.5 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85784

De La Democracia en la América del Norte, Lecointe, Paris 1837 [with map:] Mapa para la obra intitulada Democracia en America

Alexis De Tocqueville

Place/Date:

Paris / 1837

Size:

13.25 x 14.5 inches Map

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101984

[Texas Revolution] History of South America and Mexico... To which is annexed a Geographical and Historical View of Texas, with a Detailed Account of the Texian Revolution and War by Hon. L. T. Pease [with maps:] Mexico & Texas; South America.

J.M. Niles / L.T. Pease

Place/Date:

Hartford / 1837

Size:

4.25 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

107213

33-Rocky Mountains, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Pacific Northwest, Oregon, Washington, Rare Books and

Map of Oregon Territory. By Samuel Parker. 1838. [with:] Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the A. B. C. F. M. 1840.

Samuel Parker

Place/Date:

Utica, NY / 1838 (1840 edition)

Size:

22 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

97939

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