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Rare Maps and Prints
Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
Email: enquiries@caburden.com
Rare maps of North America
Rare old maps of North America for sale. Clive A. Burden Ltd. offer a selection of antique maps, sea charts, plans and travel books relating to the North America. All our historic items are authentic, genuine maps, charts etc. which date from the earliest map of North America, printed in 1511 through the mid-nineteenth century. Many include firsts and the results of important explorations in the English colonies, Canada, the Mississippi Valley and the West. Regions of significant interest include the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Great Lakes, Texas and California as an island.
64 rare maps matched your search criteria.
(Chicago?), c.1830
AN ORIGINAL POWDER HORN WITH THE SECOND EARLIEST KNOWN VIEW OF FORT DEARBORN (CHICAGO). An engraved or scrimshawed cow horn using a burin, 26 centimetres (10.5 inches) long with a maximum circumference of 15 cms., with a cork plug at the base secured by four brass pins, one is missing, the spout is capped with a later brass sprung cap with a ring for a strap and was worn on the right-hand side.
Stock number: 11029
$ 150,000
Amsterdam, 1730-[c.55]
590 x 940 mm., in fine early wash colour, some light restoration to folds at the centre, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 11138
$ 19,500
Paris, 1713
1175 x 380 mm., full early wash colour, with accompanying title page included a key map, bookplate of the Duke of York on the verso, in very good condition.
Stock number: 11134
$ 13,500
George Humble, London, 1627-[31]
FIRST ATLAS MAP TO DEPICT CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND. 390 x 510 mm., with a wormhole near the bottom of the centrefold repaired, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 11106
$ 4,500
Amsterdam, 1665
340 x 410 mm. with light toning at margin edges, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 11118
$ 995
Venice, 1565
300 x 330 mm., woodcut engraving, with very minor edge repair at upper and lower centrefolds, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 11098
$ 5,000
Printed, Colered, and are/ to be sold by Ro:Walton/ at ye Globe and Compass in St. Paules Church yard between/ ye two north doores, London, 1658-[c.60]
420 x 530 mm., minute area of loss at double fold as expected, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 11116
$ 12,500
Ioannis Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1662
HIGHLIGHTED IN GOLD, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. Large folio (560 x 360 mm.), contemporary Dutch yap vellum with gilt panels, central ornate design with decorative corners, with ornate gilt spines, upper edge of spine worn, lacking cloth ties. Typographic title page with central vignette, Latin text, paginated 1-287, (2), with 24 maps all coloured in a fine contemporary hand with gold touches (extra illustrated with a Visscher map of the West Indies), some toning and foxing mostly to some of the text, otherwise a very good example.
Stock number: 11082
$ 95,000
Antwerp, 1567
Octavo (160 x 105 mm.), contemporary vellum yap binding, red gilt calf title label affixed to spine. Typographic title with device, pagination of the leaves only 236, (8), and a folding woodcut map, i very good condition.
Stock number: 11079
$ 17,500
Paris, 1778
500 x 660 mm., dissected and laid on contemporary linen, laid down on board, early outline colour, some loss of cloth at folds, the folded cloth over the edges masks the scales which appear below the margins, light surface wear.
Stock number: 11148
$ 350
Paris, 1780
315 x 550 mm, including the side panels, early wash colour, very small worm hole in the centre, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 11150
$ 175
Amsterdam, 1630-[32]
195 x 255 mm., with recent wash colour, light even toning, margins trimmed slightly, centrefold crease, verso with remnants of old guard remaining, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 11107
$ 495
Frankfurt, 1631
355 x 445 mm., with professional repair to a tear in the upper margin just left of centre, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 11109
$ 850
John Melish, Philadelphia, 6th day of June 1816
MANIFEST DESTINY, FIRST EDITION, FOURTH ISSUE. 885 x 1440 mm., copper engraved map on six sheets, laid on contemporary linen, edged in silk, cut and dissected, early outline colour, marbled endpapers, in good condition.
Stock number: 11012
$ 69,500
Cadell & Davies & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London, 1809-[15]
515 x 705 mm., lovely early wash colour, in good condition.
Stock number: 10940
$ 1,350
London, c.1673
THE FIRST LORDS PROPRIETORS MAP. 420 x 550 mm., with a couple of very minor splits along the folds professionally repaired, trimmed close as usual, otherwise in very good condition.
Stock number: 10953
$ 15,000
Burlington, 1776
69 x 104 mm., printed in red and black, in good condition.
Stock number: 10837
$ 350
Continental Congress, Philadelphia, 1777
72 x 96 mm., printed paper currency.
Stock number: 10834
$ 450
Columbia, SC, 1779
75 x 123 mm., printed paper currency, faded on the verso
Stock number: 10833
$ 450
Sold by Tho:Bassett in Fleetstreet and Richard Chiswell in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, 1676
380 x 505 mm., in good condition.
Stock number: 10914
$ 5,500