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Attack on Quebec. The Fleet Commanded by Admiral Saunders. The Army by Major General Wolfe.

Published in London in 1772 as a folding plate for Thomas Mante’s History of the Late War in North-America, this large two-sheet engraving is the most detailed contemporary plan of the 1759 siege and assault that decided the fate of New France. It distils the observations of Royal Engineer survey parties who accompanied Major-General James Wolfe and Admiral Charles Saunders up the St Lawrence, translating their field sketches into a map that allowed readers in Britain to follow the campaign step by step.

Price: $8,500.00

Plan of the Military & Naval Operations, under the command of Immortal Wolfe, & Vice Admiral Saunders, before Quebec.

Plan of the Military & Naval Operations, under the command of Immortal Wolfe, & Vice Admiral Saunders, before Quebec, engraved and published by James Wyld in London on May 1st, 1841, offers an in-depth look at the strategic operations under the leadership of Major General James Wolfe and Vice Admiral Saunders, leading up to the pivotal events on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. This map was made in dedication to the United Services of the British Empire, commemorating their daring achievements during the Seven Years' War before Quebec.

Price: $3,500.00

River St. Lawrence From Montreal To the Island of St. Barnaby on the South Side and the Islands of Jeremy on the North Side

A rare and strikingly elongated British map charting the entire navigable course of the St. Lawrence River from Montreal to below Île aux Coudres, engraved by Thomas Kitchin for inclusion in Thomas Mante’s 1772 history of the Seven Years’ War. Designed for military reference as much as for historical record, the map captures the most important artery of French Canada at the moment it passed into British hands.

Price: $3,500.00

The City of Quebec with Historical Notes

A rich and exuberant pictorial map of Old Quebec by Samuel Herbert Maw, drawn in 1932 at the height of the pictorial cartographic revival, and lithographed in colors by Alexander & Cable Litho Co. of Toronto. The map presents a densely detailed bird’s-eye perspective of Quebec City, rendered in architectural miniature, with every bastion, street, stairway, and wharf delineated in a unified style that fuses technical draftsmanship with theatrical imagination.

Price: $495.00

Village of Nicolet

Scarce view of the Village of Nicolet, from Joseph Bouchette's  A Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada, with Remarks Upon Upper Canada, and on the Relative Connexion of Both Provinces with The United States of America, published in London.

Price: $395.00

Quebec and its Environs, with the Operation of the Siege, Drawn from the Survey made by Order of Admiral Saunders

Detailed plan of the Siege of Quebec, illustrating action during the early days of the Seven Years War (French & Indian War).

Price: $275.00