Featured Maps
Descrittione Universale Della Terra Con L'Uso Del Navigare
1660
A superb example of this rare and magnificent 10 sheet map of the World, first published on this scale by Matteo Florimi in Siena in 1600. A Belgian artist, who worked with Giovanni Magini in Italy, this extraordinary and beautiful map is among Ar...
Hishu Nagasaki zu
1778
Rare and beautifully produced Japanese woodcut map of Nagasaki and its harbour, including the Dutch trading factory on the artificial island Desjima and the nearby Chinese trading factory, with mountains around the outskirts, and in the harbour two Eu...
A Correct Map from Actual Surveys and Examinations Embracing a Portion of California between Monterey and the Prairie Butes in the Valley of the Sacramento Shewing the Placeres, 1849
1849
Published in Wilkes' "Western America, Including California and Oregon, with Maps of Those Regions, and of 'The Sacramento Valley.'" Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1849, and one of three large folding maps included in the volume. &l...
Topographical Map of the City of New York
1865
"The most enduring nineteenth-century map of Manhattan is Egbert Ludovicus Viele's Water Map, which was first published in 1859 and is still in use today” (Augustyn & Cohen). Viele’s iconic map of New York: “Topograph...
Belgiae Descriptio
1593
A very scarce copy of Jodocus Hondius’ roundel Leo Belgicus. It is one of a set of five roundel maps Hondius produced while in London in 1590. “Jodocus Hondius fecit 1590” is visible next to the lion’s left forepaw.
The "Ratzen Plan" .... of This Plan of the City of New York...
1769
This very rare first state of the "Ratzen Plan" is one of the most important eighteenth-century maps of New York City. Prepared by Bernard Ratzer a decade prior to the start of the American Revolution, the map is by far the most accurate pu...
Carte de la Nouvelle-Zelande pour Servir au Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde...
1835
Detailed early map of New Zealand, including a separate Stewart Island.Rear Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) was a French explorer and naval officer, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Anta...
Stanford's Library map of Australasia
1859
A magnificent large library map, beautifully coloured and in very fine condition, showing Australia and New Zealand as well as Papua New Guinea, large portions of the East Indies as far west as Borneo and covering to the east as far as the Solomons an...
Hydrographical Chart of the World According to Wright's or Mercators Projection
1814
Arrowsmith's towering achievement of English cartography of the early 19th century: arguably the most advanced and detailed map of the world available at the time, and a superb example. A map of great scale on eight, unfolded, elephant-folio sheets-it wo...
Map of the Goldfield Mining District, Goldfield Nevada
1905
Designed and drawn by R.W.Griswold and published by the well-known Rand McNally & Co., this map attests to the importance of the gold strke at Goldfield (Esmeralda County, Nevada) a few years prior. At this time Goldfield was on its wa...
