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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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$ 8,500.00
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Reduced-size edition of De l'Isle's landmark map of the French possession of Louisiana that drew together the cartographic work of the previous half century and had a tremendous impact on the history of cartography.
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Guillaume de l’Isle. Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi. 1727
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$ 450.00
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Later state of the most significant map of the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes published during the beginning of the 18th C and The First Map to Name Texas
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after De L’Isle. Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi. 1727
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$ 800.00
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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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Pristine map of the British and French Colonies in North America on the eve of the American Revolution.
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Par Santini. Carte Generale...1776.
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$ 400.00
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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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$ 7,500.00
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General map of the eastern United States showing drainage, state boundaries, and place names, Railroads and Canals by one of the preeminent American map engravers and publishers of the early 19th century - what is considered to be the "Golden Age of American Map Publishing"
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Henry Schenck Tanner. Map of the canals & rail roads of the United States...1830.
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$ 300.00
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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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