Map-case 4
Contains 13 Results:
Spanish North America, 1814
The map is largely based on the explorations of Humboldt in new Spain and Long in the Rocky Mountains and the West. It includes extensive notes along the lower Missouri and Mississippi and good detail in the Rocky Mountain regions. THere are two salt lakes and a misterious river connecting them. Nice detail in Arizona and alongn the Colorado, and an early projection of Baja California.
A Map of North America denoting the boundaries of the yearly meeting of friends, and the locations of various Indian tribes, approximately 1837
Hand tinted map, showing North American and approximate borders of states and territories.
Septentrionalium Terrarum Descript, 1634
Detailed miniature map of the North Pole, the Arctic and surrounding regions. Latin text on verso.
Page 23-24, removed from Jansson's Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris.
Nova Virginiae Tabula, 1634
Detailed miniature map of the area of VIrginia around Chesapeake Bay. Page 639-640, removed from Jansson's Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris. Latin text on verso.
Typus Orbis Terrarum, 1634
Double hemispherical map showing Australia unmapped as Terra Australis Incognita. Page 3-4, removed from Jansson's Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris. Latin text on verso.
A General Map of North America from the Best Authorities, 1785
Features Canada, Indian Tribal areas, natural features. Map also indicates some American states with the western parts of the continent largely unnamed. Plate XIV, G. G. J. and J. Robinson in a 1785 edition of Guthrie's A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar.
Handwritten note by J.B. Milam reads "Cherokees in northern North Carolina?" Another says "1798."
North America, 1851
Dept de la Hte Marne, approximately 1850
Disbound partially hand-colored copper engraving map. Region du Nord-Est No 31. Map features the Haute-Marne region (including the Champagne wine district). Illustrated with cameos of Diderot and Etienne, wild animals, foods and other products of the region. Map has lovely decorated borders that relate to the region, including statistical information, regional products, famous local people, and places of interest
Osnabrugensis Episcopatus. Auctore Ioanne Gigante, approximately 1630
Il Cadorino, approximately 1630
Map featuring the Italian region Cadoe and Balluno, in the Veneto.. Latin text on verso.
Originally from "Atlantis maioris appendix", Johannes Janssonius, 1630.
Thought to have been removed from Willem and Joan Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Vol. 2. This map was one of Blaeu's first atlas maps, appearing in his first Appendix in 1630. On verso is Latin text.