Antique maps of Rare Books

(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

(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

69-United States, Rare Books and American Revolution Map By Matthias Christian Sprengel / William

(American Revolution) Geschichte der Revolution von Nord-America. Sammlung der besten Schriftsteller, welche die Geschichte, besondere Rechten, Sitten, und Gewohnheiten der Völker nach ihren Grundsätzen abgehandelt haben [with map:] Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord=America. nach der Wm. Faden 1783. [History of the Revolution of North America. Collection of the Best Writers Who Have Discussed the History, Specific Laws, Customs, and Habits of the Peoples According to Their Principles [with map:] The United States of North America. According to Wm. Faden, 1783.]

Matthias Christian Sprengel / William Faden

Place/Date:

Frankenthal / 1785

Size:

4.25 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

90124

(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

(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

(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) 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 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

(California-Mexico Border Survey) Datos de los trabajos astronómicos y topográficos. [bound with:] Variedades de la civilizacion, nueva epoca (Tomo I)

José Salazar Ylarregui

Place/Date:

Mexico City / 1852

Size:

5.75 x 8.75 inches Book Size

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

70777

(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

(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

(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

(Cold War) State of Nevada Operational Survival Plan Project [with:] Alert Today Alive Tomorrow (budget plan for Nevada Civil Defense Act) [and with:] What You Should Know About the National Plan for Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

A. E. Holgate

Place/Date:

[Carson City, Nevada] / 1958

Size:

8.5 x 11 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

97464

(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

(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

(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

(Fremont Court-Martial) Message of the President of the United States, Communicating the Proceedings of the Court Martial in the Trial of Lieutenant Colonel Frémont. April 7, 1848 [caption title]

John Charles Fremont

Place/Date:

Washington, D.C. / 1848

Size:

5.25 x 8.875 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

99039

(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

(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

(Galileo) [Dialogue Between the Two Chief World Systems] Dialogo ... Sopra i Due Massimi, Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano.

Galileo Galilei

Place/Date:

Florence / 1632

Size:

6.5 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

86257

(Germans in California) [Manuscript journal kept by Pastor J. K. Nagel recording names and details of German residents of Santa Rosa, Visalia, Fresno; Sonoma and Tulare Counties; San Joaquin Valley] Diarium Pastorale. Hilfs-und Schreibbuch für Geistliche

J. K. Nagel

Place/Date:

Santa Rosa; Visalia; Fresno, California / 1880 - 1940 circa

Size:

4 x 6 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

97633

(Germany) [Sketch and Albumen Print Album / Travels Along the Rhine River, including Nuremberg] Reis langs den Ryn Frankfort, Heidelberg, Munchen, Weenen, Tyrol, Salzburg, Dresden en de Sachsische Schweiz

Anonymous

Place/Date:

Germany / 1856

Size:

14 x 16.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89724

(Globes) Tractatus de Globis, Coelesti et Terrestri Eorumque Usu . . . MDCXVII

Robert Hues / Jodocus Hondius II

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1617

Size:

6.75 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

93072

(Houston, Texas) Mooney & Morrison's Directory of the City of Houston for 1877-78. Containing a History of the City; a Complete Index of all Societies, Corporations, etc. Also, the Full Address of all Residents, Their Occupations, Pursuits, etc. Also, a Complete Business Directory; an Exhibition of the Various Classified Kinds of Business Pursued in the City

Mooney & Morrison

Place/Date:

Houston / 1877

Size:

6 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

92913

(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

(Hyginus's Astronomy) De mundi et sphaerae ac utriusque partium declaratione cum planetis et varijs signis historiatis [Clarissimi Hyginii Astronomi]

Caius Julius Hyginus

Place/Date:

Venice / 1517

Size:

6 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

89256

(Illuminated Manuscript by Sangorski) Gems from the Poets

Alberto Sangorski

Place/Date:

London / 1922 - 1923

Size:

8.3 x 9.8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

103849

66-Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Rare Books Map By Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania / Giuseppe Cacch

(Lafreri School Maps of the Continents) La Universal Fabrica del Mondo La Universal Fabrica del Mondo dell’eccell. m. Lorenzo Anania della citta di Tauerna cosmografo, et teologo ; doue s’ha piena notitia de i costumi, leggi, città, fiumi, monti, prouincie, & popoli del mondo.

Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania / Giuseppe Cacchij dell' Aquila

Place/Date:

Naples / 1573

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

95384

(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

(Map Seller's Canvassing Book) Subscribers to the Map of Greene County by Simon J. Martenet, Surveyor & Civ. Eng., Baltimore, Md, 1858 [Manuscript subscription book for Martenet map of Greene Co., Pennsylvania]

Simon J. Martenet

Place/Date:

v.p. (Maryland and Pennsylvania) / 1858 - 1864

Size:

4.75 x 7 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

77428

(Mercator-Hondius Asia) A Leaf from the Mercator-Hondius World Atlas Edition of 1619 with an Essay by Norman J. W. Thrower [with map:] Asia ex magna orbis terre description Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iunioris.

Norman J. W. Thrower / Gerard Mercator / Jodocus Hondius

Place/Date:

Fullerton, California / 1619 (1985)

Size:

13 x 19 inches

Condition:

Fine

Stock#:

101528

(Midwestern German Immigration) Die Mineral-Gegenden der Vereinigten Staaten Nord-Amerika's am Lake Superior, Michigan, und am obern Mississippi, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa

Friedrich C.L. Koch

Place/Date:

Gottingen / 1851

Size:

6 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

82591

(Montana) The Climate, Soil and Resources of the Yellowstone Valley, with Accurate Maps of the Yellowstone Country, the Transcontinental Route and Connections of the Northern Pacific Railroad and a Plat and Description of the Town of Glendive, at the Junction of This Railroad, with the Steamboat Navigation of the Yellowstone and Upper Missouri Rivers

Pioneer Press Co

Place/Date:

St. Paul, MN / 1882

Size:

6 x 9.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

95746

(New Mexico) Journal of William H. Richardson A Private Soldier In Col. Doniphan's Command

William H. Richardson

Place/Date:

Baltimore / 1847

Size:

7.75 x 4.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

100802

(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.

(Pacific Coast Exploration) Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792 para reconocer el Estrecho de Fuca: con una introduccion en que se da noticia de las expediciones executadas anteriormente por los españoles en busca del paso del noroeste de la América. [Account of the voyage undertaken by the schooners Sutil and Mexicana in the year 1792 to explore the Strait of Juan de Fuca: with an introduction that provides information about the expeditions previously carried out by the Spaniards in search of the Northwest Passage of America.]

Jose Espinosa y Tello

Place/Date:

Madrid / 1802

Size:

8.25 x 11.5 inches Various sizes

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

94653

(Pacific Railroad Surveys) Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean [with:] Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean

Jefferson Davis

Place/Date:

Washington / 1855 - 1860

Size:

9 x 11.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

98651

(Patzcuaro, Michoacan - Pictorial Maps) Patzcuaro por Justino Fernandez, Su Situacion, Historia, y Caracteristicas. Con Un Plano Pictorico de la Ciudad.

Justino Fernandez Garcia

Place/Date:

Mexico / 1936

Size:

30.25 x 22.25 inches Largest map size

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

96809

(Presentation Copy to the Author's Daughter) Travels in Mexico and California: comprising a Journal of a Tour from Brazos, Santiago, Through Central Mexico, by way of Monterey, Chihuahua, the Country of the Apaches, and the River Gila, to the Mining Districts of California.

Asa Bement Clarke

Place/Date:

Boston / 1852

Size:

4.5 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69367

(Presentation Copy) The Little America with Byrd. Based Upon Experiences of the Fifty-Six Men of the Second Antarctic Expedition... With Foreword by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, United States Navy Retired.

Joe Hill, Jr.

Place/Date:

Boston / 1937

Size:

6 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

94002

(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

(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

(Rocky Mountains - Photographically Illustrated Book) Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden / A. J. Russell

Place/Date:

New York / 1870

Size:

10 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

91465

(Rome) Grandezze Della Citta di Roma Antiche & Moderne Come al Presente si Ritrova Di nuovo Ristampato in Quattro Linguaggi, Latino, Volgare, Francese, Tedesco ad Istanza di Iacomo Marucci, Libraro [The magnificence of the ancient and modern city of Rome, as it is presently found, reprinted in four languages: Latin, vernacular, French, and German, at the request of Jacomo Marucci, bookseller.]

Giulio Mari / Giacomo Mascardi / Giacomo Marcucci

Place/Date:

Rome / 1628

Size:

4.25 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

93357

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