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We are pleased to present to you a list of maps mainly of the shaping and settlement of America.
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According to William Patterson Cumming this is one of the important "chief type maps" of North America and was extensively copied by other map makers.
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Guillaume DE L'ISLE. Carte De La Louisiane Et Du Cours Du Mississipi. 1718
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$ 18,000.00
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Rare Late State of De L’Isle's Map of America, Showing the Sea of the West and Recent Russian Discoveries.
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Guillaume de L’Isle.Carte d’Amerique ...1774
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$ 300.00
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Published in the year that the Treat of Paris was signed formally granting the United States independence from Great Britain.
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Sayer & Bennett. A New General Map of America...1783
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$ 700.00
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First edition. One of the best early wall maps of the United States, with latitude measured from Washington, D.C., making it a quintessentially "American" map.
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Henry Schenck TANNER. Map of the United States of America. 1829.
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$ 18,000.00
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Notable for combining cartographic speculation with new discoveries and political advocacy during a time of rapid expansion of the US. Printed in the year that construction on the Erie Canal began.
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Thomson, John. Western Hemisphere. 1817
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$ 200.00
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The northeast is shown from Maine to Virginia and west to include all the Great Lakes. Many towns are named despite the small scale.
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Carey & Lea Family Cabinet atlas. United States Northern Section. 1832.
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$ 100.00
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Traveller's guides such as this one were very popular in the 19th century small volumes that could be slipped into a pocket, filled with detailed information on the distances of each stage of trips by different forms of transportation. Complete with original case.
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Samuel Augustus Mitchell & James H. Young. Mitchell’s Travellers Guide Through the United States. 1839.
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$ 900.00
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Uncommon first issue of Asher's important map of the Civil War battlefields of the southeastern United States. Complete with original card case containing a 72-page "Rebellion Report".
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Asher & Co. The Historical Warmap. 1862
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$ 800.00
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Published 8 years after Washington's State Hood, as Seattle begins to boom due to the Klondike Gold Rush.
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Rand McNally. Washington State. 1897
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$ 200.00
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Multi-colored map of San Francisco shows counties, roads, parks, cemeteries, lakes, and all railroads operating in 1892. Also provides inset of great San Francisco area.
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Rand Mcnally & Company. San Francisco. 1892
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$ 300.00
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Map of the county of Merionethshire, Wales. Included in Speed's groundbreaking 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.'
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John Speed. Wales, Great Britain. 1610.
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$ 350.00
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Published as a new plate in the German edition of the Mercator-Hondius-Jansson atlas.
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Jan Jansson. Yorkshire. 1636
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$ 700.00
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Exceptional old color example of Blaeu's map of "inundated areas" of Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntington, Northampton Cambridge and Lincoln, from his Atlas Maior.
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Johanes Blaeu. Regiones Inundatae In finibus... 1662
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$ 600.00
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