1570 Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descripto    One of the most beautiful maps of the Western Hemisphere. This delicately hand colored map by Abraham Ortelius was published in 1570 in his monumental Atlas; Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. This has become one ...   Auction Estimate: $7,500 - $8,500   (Item #39) 1570 Typus Orbis Terrarum    One of the most popular influential antique maps of the world. This first state Ortelius map is from the iconic Theattrum Orbis Terrarum atlas dated 1570. Beautifully hand colored with many early cartographic ...   Auction Estimate: $15,000 - $18,000   (Item #41) 1574 Londinum    Published in first volume of Civitates Orbis Terrarum   Auction Estimate: $5,500 - $7,500   (Item #13) 1589 Maris Pacifici    Historically this map is the first printed map of the Pacific by the renowned cartographer Abraham Ortelius dated 1589. Nicely hand colored with two very decorative title cartouches. This map includes ...   Auction Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000   (Item #40) 1595-1612 America sive India Nova*    A very decorative map of the Western Hemisphere by Mercator showing ornate floral strap work border with three round inset maps and title. Beautifully colored by hand this map shows an unusual group of ...   Auction Estimate: $6,000 - $8,500   (Item #32) 1606-30 America    A spectacular map of the Americas with beautiful hand coloring. North America has an elongated form with an interesting Eastern coastline. There are two tropical birds perched on top of a large inset vignette ...   Auction Estimate: $6,500 - $8,000   (Item #22) 1606-30 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geograhica ac Hydrographica*    One of the most beautiful world maps on Mercator's projection by Willem J. Blaeu to be included in an atlas. Rodney Shirley describes this map being "celebrated as one of the supreme examples of the map ...   Auction Estimate: $16,000 - $22,000   (Item #6) 1607 Middlesex Olima Trinoban    An entertaining and artistic map by John Saxton with delightful tiny images noting castles, cathedrals, woods, mountains, rivers and towns. Lovely Elizabethan calligraphy enhanced by two ornate cartouches ... 11 x 13.5   Auction Estimate: $750 - $1,500   (Item #43) 1615 Hispaniae Novae Nova Descriptio    A beautiful example of a rarely seen uncolored engraved map of Mexico by Mercator dated 1615. A large ornate cartouche adorn this map along with a lone sea monster and galleon. There is very good detail ...   Auction Estimate: $1,200 - $2,750   (Item #33) 1627 A New & Accurate Map of the World*    One of the most ornate and sought after English maps of the world, published in John Speed's "Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World" 1626 -1676. Due to the insular nature of the British, this a...   Auction Estimate: $16,000 - $22,000   (Item #47) 1627 America*    This important and very decorative map by John Speed is the first appearance of California as an island to appear in an atlas. There is considerable detail to the eastern coast of North America. The top ...   Auction Estimate: $7,000 - $10,000   (Item #48) 1630 Nova Totius Terraum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrograpica Tabula*    A striking example of a double hemisphere world map by Hondius at the height of the Golden Age Of Dutch Cartography. Surrounding the map are allegorical representations of the four seasons and portraits ...   Auction Estimate: $15,000 - $18,000   (Item #20) 1630-32 Americae Nova Tabula    This beautifully engraved map by Blaeu is one of the most dramatic maps of the New World. The map is flanked by fantastic panel borders showing native costumes of the inhabitants of the Americas. The t...   Auction Estimate: $5,500 - $8,500   (Item #5) 1632 Chorographia Terra Sanctae in Angustiorem Formamredacta'    This extraordinary map of the holy land is embellished with 20 inset historical items of Biblical antiquity including a very nice map of Jerusalem. The map oriented to the east with Egypt to the far right....   Auction Estimate: $750 - $1,500   (Item #54) 1638 America noviter delineata.    "A lovely double-page black and white copper-engraved map by Matthew Merian. The configuration of the east coast of North America is virtually unrecognizable and the same could be said for the west coast.... 14 x 11   Auction Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500   (Item #R10103) 1640 America Septentrionalis*    A really nice engraved hand colored map of North America with a decorative title cartouche This is the first Dutch map of North America to show California as Island. Many interesting notations and details ...   Auction Estimate: $4,500 - $6,000   (Item #23) 1644 Mar del Nort*    A striking sea chart from Joannes Jansson's sea-atlas "de Water-Weereld" displaying a central compass rose with many rhumb lines. Great detail to coastal areas and islands. The St. Lawrence river is more ...   Auction Estimate: $2,000 - $3,500   (Item #24) 1645 Britannia    A wonderfull engraved map of Britannia by Joan Blaeu dated 1645. Moreland & Bannister describe this map as "Arguably one of the finest maps published anywhere in the seventeenth Century, Blaeu used Speeds ...   Auction Estimate: $4,500 - $6,000   (Item #7) 1645 Britannia    A wonderfull engraved map of Britannia by Joan Blaeu dated 1645. Moreland & Bannister describe this map as "Arguably one of the finest maps published anywhere in the seventeenth Century, Blaeu used Speeds ...   Auction Estimate: $3,500 - $4,500   (Item #8) 1650 De Heylige en Wytvermaerde Stadt Jerusalem, eerst genaemt Salem    Claes Janszoon Visscher, an engraver and publisher of Amsterdam, executed this original engraved plan of "the holy and expanded city of Jerusalem, first known as Salem." Visscher founded a family business ... 12-1/2 x 16-1/4 in.   Auction Estimate: $750 - $1,800   (Item #R3275) 1662 Nova et Accuratissima totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula*    A beautifully hand colored engraved double hemisphere world map by Blaeu dated 1662. Celestial and Allegorical figures surround this delightful map. Chariots with reclining figures are drawn by wild beasts ...   Auction Estimate: $18,000 - $25,000   (Item #10) 1662 Kiangsi Imperial Sinarum Provincia       Auction Estimate: $450 - $800   (Item #9) 1666 Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissm Tabula    Mythological figures abound in this highly decorative map of the world by Jan Van Loon dated 1666. The Four Elements of Nature are represented in wonderful allegorical corner vignettes. The upper left s...   Auction Estimate: $7,500 - $10,000   (Item #57) 1672 Hardervic    A small fortified town in the eastern Netherlands on the Zuider Zee (Southern Sea)   Auction Estimate: $1,500 - $3,500   (Item #55) 1680 Jamaica, Americae Septentrionalis Ampla Insula, Christophoro Columbo Detecta, in suas Gubernationes Peraccuratae Distincta    A beautiful antique map of the island of Jamaica by Nicolas Visscher dated 1680. 20 x 23   Auction Estimate: $2,000 - $3,500   (Item #R5517) 1682 Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et Lucen Edita    This ornate double hemisphere world map was issued in a Dutch Bible published by the Kuer family in Rotterdam in 1682. Very similar to the Van Loon map, Stoopendael has added two large celestial spheres....   Auction Estimate: $4,500 - $6,000   (Item #58) 1683 Florida*    Florida in the 17th century as reflected in a French map and a fascinating illustration of two inhabitants, a man and a woman. The map includes Florida, Louisiana and Virginia. The Florida peninsula i... 4.5 x 6.25 ea.   Auction Estimate: $200 - $500   (Item #28) 1683 Hemispheres Du Globe Terrestre    Succint yet informative world globes show Eastern and Western Hemispheres enhanced by tint sailing ships and "lots of Islands" (including California) as promised at the top of each page. French text. ... 6.5 x 4   Auction Estimate: $200 - $500   (Item #30) 1690 Recentissima Novi Orbis Americae    A very nice map by Carel Allard showing California as an island. The beautifully ornate Title cartouche depicts Native Americans with feather headress seated among the flora & fauna of the New World along ...   Auction Estimate: $4,500 - $6,500   (Item #1) 1697 Reverendissimo P.S. Sigismundo Politico    Apparently dedications for a globe or atlas this finely executed copper plate engraving consists of two round discs, 5" in diameter and 8". Both show the months of the year, the zodiac and compass directions.... 15.5 x 9   Auction Estimate: $200 - $700   (Item #60) 1700 (1707-1708) L'Amerique Septentrionale    Parisian mapmaker and publisher Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726) was one of the most scientific cartographers of his time, relying wherever possible on firsthand information and leaving unknown areas blank.... 18-1/8 X 24-1/4 in. plus margins   Auction Estimate: $3,500 - $4,500   (Item #R2979) 1703 Societas Iesu Per universum mundum diffusa Praedicat Christi Evangelium.    " A spectacularly pictorial and beautifully balanced double-page black and white copper-engraved map by Heinrich Scherer. As always with Scherer's maps, California is insular. The Great Lakes are bunched ...   Auction Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000   (Item #R10187) 1703 Repraesentatio Geographica Iteneris Maritimi Navis Victoriae'.455555555555558    "A splendid pictorial double-page black and white copper-engraved map, by the Jesuit mathematician/geographer Heinrich Scherer. The polar projection extends about 50¿ south of the equator, where Australia ...   Auction Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000   (Item #R10578) 1703-1708 Carte du Mexique et de la Floride...    This 1708 map was the first to accurately depict the lower Mississippi River and delta. In addition it shows fairly accurately the lower portions of the Red River of Louisiana, the Great Lakes, English ... 19 X 24   Auction Estimate: $4,000 - $5,500   (Item #R2822) 1713 La Floride, Suivant les Nouvelles Observations'.    "A black and white copper-engraved map by Pierre (or Pieter) van der Aa, with a spectacular decorative frame-like border. Based on Guillaume de L'Isle's 1703 Carte du Mexique et de la Floride', the map ...   Auction Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000   (Item #R10085) 1719 Amplissimae Regionis Mississippi    The "Buffalo Map" Homann's decorative vignette engravings show Native Americans posing with a buffalo and pelican. Below the title cartouche is a wonderful view of Niagra Falls. This map is based on ...   Auction Estimate: $3,500 - $4,500   (Item #19) 1724 Novi Orbis Sive Totius Americae Cum Adiacentibus Insulis Nova exhibitio.    " A double-page copper-engraved map, with original full coloring, by Christoph Weigel and Johann David Koehler.,California is a 1500-mile-long island, with the Strait of Anian ('Fretum Aniani') due north ...   Auction Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000   (Item #R10530) 1740 A New and Accurate Map of Mexico or New Spain    A handsome map by Emanuel Bowen dated 1740 showing California as a peninsula and giving credit in a text block to the Discoveries of Father Eusebius Francis Kino in disproving that California was not an ...   Auction Estimate: $1,200 - $2,800   (Item #11) 1748 A Chart of the Pacific Ocean    This adventure lover's delight traces Commodore George Anson's route from California to the Phillipines in pursuit of a Spanish treasure galleon. The copper engraved map by Richard Seale shows details ... 10.5 x 35   Auction Estimate: $200 - $450   (Item #2) 1750 A Complete Chart of the Coast of Asia and America    This engaging map was first published in 1692 and seems not to reflect later geographical discoveries. It states "parts unknown" and leaves the western half of North America and much of "New Holland" (... 9.5 x 15.75   Auction Estimate: $50 - $150   (Item #62) 1760 Divison of the Terrestrial Globe by Zones    This elaborate engraving by Richard Seale divides the World first by latitude and longitude and then by fanciful astrological zones. From an edition of the New Geological Dictionary. 6.25 x 8.25   Auction Estimate: $100 - $350   (Item #44) 1762 Les Isles Britanniques    An attractive map of England Scotland and Ireland. A collaboration produced by cartoghrapher Jean Janvier and engraver Jean Lattre. Portions of the French coast shown with an inset map of British offshore ... 12.25 x 17.25   Auction Estimate: $200 - $400   (Item #70) 1762 Carte Generale des Decouvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte    'Based on one of the 1752 (1753) maps from Philippe Buache's Considerations..., this map shows the Colorado River rising almost on the southern shore of the huge, fictitious "Mer de l'Ouest" (discovered ... 11.5 x 15   Auction Estimate: $1,200 - $2,000   (Item #R5847) 1765 Projection Geo-spherique ou plan Trigonographique de la France.    Beautifully engraved map of France showing medieval political subdivisions in color. A large decorative cartouche depicting the royal arms and various cartagraphic instruments. This map offers a fascinating ... 14.5 x 18   Auction Estimate: $200 - $400   (Item #69) 1769 Grondrlkta van Nieuw Orleans de Hoofdstad van Louisiana    A very nice historical map showing three views of New Orleans and the Mississippi river delta. The largest map shows the city layout and the two others give necessary details to the mouth of the Mississippi ... 13 x 17   Auction Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800   (Item #3) 1775    A very detailed and professionally produced map of England, Scotland and Ireland engraved by Christopher Sepp (signed and dated 1743) and published by Isaak Tirion of Amsterdam. Inset map of offshore islands.... 13 x 14.75   Auction Estimate: $150 - $300   (Item #66) 1779 Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-ouest separes de l'Asie par le detroit d'Anian'.    "A folding black and white copper-engraved map by Robert de Vaugondy issued as a supplement to Diderot's monumental Encyclopaedie. This offering actually consists of 'two' maps, the main one based on a ... 14x11.5   Auction Estimate: $500 - $900   (Item #R10448) 1780 Mexico or New Spain    A detailed copper plate engraving of Mexico by Thomas Kitchin, with brief data, mainly rivers and Indian tribes for California, Texas and the "land of the great unknown." The map title is enclosed in a ... 11.25 x 15.25   Auction Estimate: $300 - $750   (Item #25) 1782 Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi (State 4)    Shows Mission de los Tiejas. The last edition of De Lisle's magnificent map of "La Louisiane." This updated version of the coveted 1718 first edition is really under appreciated by collectors. De Lisle'...   Auction Estimate: $2,000 - $3,500   (Item #14) 1797 A New Map of the Whole Continent of America, Divided into North and South and West Indies, wherein are exactly Described The United States of North America'.    "A magnificent and gigantic copper-engraved map with original outline coloring consisting of four sheets, already joined as two, each 47x20.5, making, when joined, an overall size of 47x41. The main map ...   Auction Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000   (Item #R10452) 1799 Planisphere of Reorganization Du Globe Celeste    This delightful display of star constellations visible from the southern and northern hemispheres provides names, categories, and drawings for imaginative creatures seen in the skies by astrologers. Pierre ... 6.75 x 9   Auction Estimate: $50 - $250   (Item #4) 1815 The World on Mercators Projection ¿Western Part.    "A double-page copper-engraved map, in vertical format, with stunning full original handcoloring. Tricks of the Mercator projection make Alaska, Canada, and "Greenland look huge. Excellent detail in the ...   Auction Estimate: $750 - $1,200   (Item #R10289) 1821 Louisiana and Mississippi.    "A spectacular double-page copper-engraved map, in vertical format, with lovely full original handcoloring. Louisiana has only 26 of its 64 parishes, with six of them ¿Natchitoches (encompassing all or ...   Auction Estimate: $1,800 - $2,500   (Item #R10364) 1828 Mexico & Guatemala    A large and dramatic map of Mexico and Central America copper engraved by Sidney Hall featuring data from the latest explorations and enhanced by bright outline coloring. It depicts boundaries on the eve ... 16 x 20   Auction Estimate: $450 - $850   (Item #15) 1829 United States of America    This influential original engraved early map of the United States has an interesting connection with the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, which helped establish the nation's boundary with New Spain. The map ... 17-1/2 x 22 in.   Auction Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000   (Item #R5956) 1840 United States of Mexico    This atlas map shows Mexico with intact territory before troubles with it's northern neighbor, New California, New Mexico and Texas are included. An inset shows Central America. There are some seemingly ... 12.5 x 10.75   Auction Estimate: $50 - $250   (Item #56) 1844 California,Mexico, Guatemala    This fascinating engraved map by John Dower offers a snapshot of history with temporary borders as they existed immediately after the Mexican War before and before finalization by treaty. Land seized f... 8.25 x 10.25   Auction Estimate: $350 - $750   (Item #42) 1844 Texas    A light blue cerographic map from Sidney Morse and Samuel Breese's North American Atlas, published two years before Texas achieves statehood. Of its modern total of 254 counties, the embryonic state has ... 15 x 12   Auction Estimate: $1,200 - $2,000   (Item #R6009) 1845 Map of Texas from the most recent authorities.    This original engraved and fully hand colored map dates from the year of Texas' annexation to the United States. Copyrighted by C. S. Williams of Philadelphia, it is the first edition of Mitchell's c... 12-3/8 x 15-1/8 in. plus margins   Auction Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800   (Item #R3323) 3 images 1847 Mitchell's Universal Atlas    A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a Special Map of Each of the United States, Plans of Cities Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell,... 17.5 x 14   Auction Estimate: $7,500 - $9,000   (Item #63) 1848 Eastern Hemisphere    A large hemispheral map of Europe, Africa and Asia which tracks the routes of explorers James Cook and John Gore. Extensive coverage of place names. New Guinea appears unfinished and without a southern ... 14.25 x 13.75   Auction Estimate: $100 - $300   (Item #52) 1848 Western Hemisphere    A large hemispheral map of North and South America with a detailed treatment of the Pacific Islands. Greenland and the arctic land mass are incomplete. Texas is shown as a separate entity. The routes ... 14.25 x 13.75   Auction Estimate: $100 - $300   (Item #53) 1848 Mount Auburn    An important milestone in the new style cemeteries, parks and botanical parks. Mount Auburn in Boston became a model for American cemeteries. Old somber, monotonous burial grounds gave way to landscaped ... 14 x 13   Auction Estimate: $450 - $750   (Item #67) 1850 Planigloben    A superb example of German cartography in this map of the Eatern and Western hemispheres, population statistics are noted in an inset. Four small corner globes provide views of the Earth from the poles.... 13.5 x 18   Auction Estimate: $250 - $750   (Item #61) 17 images 1851 The War Between The United States And Mexico Illustrated    The War Between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated. Embracing Pictorial Drawings of All the Principal Conflicts by Carl Nebel...With a Description of Each, Battle, By Geo. Wilkins Kendall. New ... 11 x 16.5 Image size   Auction Estimate: $20,000 - $25,000   (Item #90) 1853 British America    A decorative and detailed Tallis Company map engraved by John Rapkin with illustrations by H. Warren. It includes Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Iceland. Vignettes show Montreal, sailing ships, Esquimos,...   Auction Estimate: $150 - $300   (Item #64) 1853    A charming hand colored map of Central America from Guatemala to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama are omitted. Steel engraved by John Rapkin for the decorative Tallis Atlas Illustre with, rivers, mountain ... 10.25 x 13   Auction Estimate: $150 - $300   (Item #65) 1854 Mexico, California & Texas    A highly detailed engraved map by Sidney Hall showing Mexico, California, and Texas with an inset of Central America. The map includes physical, political, and human interests such as Indian tribes and ... 10.5 x 14.75   Auction Estimate: $200 - $350   (Item #16) 1856 Planisphere    This beautifully decorated world map by Victor Levasseur typifies his Planisphere series with elaborate border vignettes of allegorical, religious, mythological figures, all steel engraved with hand coloring ... 11.75 x 16.25   Auction Estimate: $200 - $475   (Item #26) 1868 Etats-Unis du Mexique    An attractively colored world atlas map of Mexico showing political and physical features with Indian tribes noted. The mapping seems a bit dated, probably revised from an earlier edition. Adjacent U....   Auction Estimate: $200 - $300   (Item #31) 1870 USA,Texas,Lousiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas    Part pf larger map from Weekly Dispatch Atlas - Quitman   Auction Estimate: $ - $   (Item #59) 1880 County Map of the State of Texas    This decorative double-page colored county map has the attractively engraved grape vine border that characterized virtually all Mitchell maps from 1867 onward. The map includes New Mexico and much of ... 21.5 X 14   Auction Estimate: $350 - $550   (Item #R6010) 1885 The New Capitol of Texas    One of the best examples of 19th Century chromolithography by the well known publishers; Charles N. McLaughlin & Co.  A really nice promotional item full of Texas charm and pride. Three oval vignette's... 18 x 24 (22 x 28 overall)   Auction Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000   (Item #R5980) 1898 Map of Aboriginial America    An informative and brightly hand colored steel engraving indicating the regions occupied by Indian tribes. Some interesting notations of tribal groupings including "Mobilians" and "Athabascans." Inset ... 9 x 11   Auction Estimate: $50 - $250   (Item #45) 1898 Map of Texas,Oklahoma and Indian Territory    This truly historical map shows the preliminary division of Oklahoma according to Indian tribes. Some unorganized and unnamed counties are designated by letters such as "C" or "A." It reminds us how r... 11.5 x 9   Auction Estimate: $50 - $250   (Item #46)