San Francisco
Snow & Co, (1849) 1880 - Reps 340 - chromolitho 32,5x80,5 cm
San Francisco, looking from Rincon point towards telegraph hills, showing the port city and trading post with 42 ships in the harbour. Only for stores and just one hotel. Firks was the first to show San Francisco after the goldrush started in 1848.
Province of New York and New Jersey
1777 Augsburg
One big map in two sheets
Original colour
Mare del Zur
(1675) 1745 - Later colour. (McLaughlin 59-3)
Showing California as an island and the Pacific Ocean from the westcoast of America up to Japan.
Louisiana
1730 - original colour
Beautiful map of the southeast of the United States with emphasis on Louisiana. Excellent condition.
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi
1730
45x60,5cm - original colour - excellent condition
Nice full colour map depicting Louisiana and the course of the Mississipi
l'Amerique Septentrionale
1730
48x59cm - original colour - only very slightly browned, else excellent condition
This map was drawn and edited in Amsterdam on the observations of the members of the Royal Academy of Sciences e.a. as depicted by De l'Isle, showing the eastcoast of the Americas from Baffins Bay to the northern coastline of South America.
Recens Edita Novi Belgii... (New York)
ca. 1730. Second state (Tooley 291).
Full contemporary colour. Inset view of New York. Large cartouche in B/W as issued.
Excellent print.
Descripcion de las Indias del Norte, nr 2
1726 (1601). B/W as issued.
(Burden 141)
Schematic but important map, placing the Spanish possessions in North America.
Paskaart van de Grand Banq (Canada)
1716. Zeefakkel Part IV.
Detailed chart of the Great Bank in front of Newfoundland, important as fishing grounds.
America Septentrionalis
(1641) 1653 - 2nd State - Spanish text on verso - later colour - small repair (15cm) of split in the folding, without loss. Clear print on strong paper. (Burden # 245)
All over nice copy of this map, showing California as an island.
Floridae Americae Provinciae.... descriptio
Frankfurt, De Bry. 1591
(Burden nr 79; Virga pp46/47; Garret in Map Collector (1979/9); Schwartz/Ehrenberg p 82)
Copperplate engraving, later colour, heightened in gold
36,5x45 cm
Source: Brevis narratio... (de Bry, Grands Voyages, part II)
Jaques le Moyne accompanied Laudonniere on the ...