Superbly engraved chart of the eastern Scottish coastline from Bamburgh to Aberdeen, including Edinburgh and St. Andrews (S. Andreas). The chart includes coastal views, and is decorated with ships, monsters and a fine compass rose. Waghenaer’s charts combined reliable maritime information based on first hand experience with advanced, theoretical knowledge..... More

An exceptional example of the very scarce, full-scale, French edition of the great Jefferys-Mead map of New England. It is an exact and finely engraved rendition of the English original except for occasional translations of notations and place names into French and the reversal of the imagery in the handsome..... More

Dramatic rendering of the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1835, “the most devastating conflagration in New York’s history and the largest in America up to that date…one of the most significant events in the city’s history” (Augustyn & Cohen). The fire covered 52 acres and destroyed 674 buildings. Its..... More