One the earliest and rarest printed world maps; the first to be published in northern Italy.  The Berlinghieri is certainly the rarest of the early Ptolemiac world maps, aside from the unobtainable 1477 Bologna edition.  It is also the only early Ptolemaic world map to employ the same projection used..... More about Caelestem Hic Terram Inspicias Terrestre Q[uam] Caelum

The first issue of this early engraving of five Moroccan port cities, including Tangier, Asilah, the fishing port of Safi, and the ancient city of Sale’. Cueta is an autonomous Spanish city opposite Gibraltar. More about Tingis, Lusitanis Tangiara/ Tzaffin/ Septa/ Arzilla/ Sala

One of the rarest and most attractive La Freri maps of all of Italy, offered here in an unrecorded state.  Borri reports that only a few examples of this finely engraved map have surfaced.  “Di questa magnifica carta, quasi sconosciuta sino a pochi anni orsono, sono noti pochissimi esemplari …” ..... More about Italia Nouamete posta in Luce et da molti errori emendata …

A beautifully colored Dutch map of Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. The cartouche is decorated with putti and a regal figure representing the city of Rome, and by extension, Civilization. On the scales in the lower left a putto plays with surveying implements. The map features many ships, and a.... More about Novissima et Accuratissima totius Italiae Corsicae et Sardiniae

A remarkably detailed and beautiful plan of Florence and its immediate surroundings, including Fiesole. No fewer that 228 structures are listed and keyed to the plan. In a departure from the usual subjects that ordinarily flank early maps, this work offers several scenes of cultural events, most being athletic in... More about Florentia Pulcherrima Etruriae Civitas

 The complete set of six views (on two sheets), all relating to Boston; very rarely seen complete.  These fine engravings of various vistas of Boston are important records of the area prior to as well as just after the beginning of the Revolution.  Three of views show Boston itself, from..... More about 1. A View of Boston from Dorchester Neck. 2. Long Island . . . 3. Boston from Willis Creek. 4....

A rare and most unusual chart that was clearly only partly finished, affording a rare look at what an 18th-century map in mid process would look like.  In relatively complete form on the chart are Block Island, Montauk, Shelter and Gardiner's islands, and some of the coast of Peconic Bay. ..... More about Untitled Nautical Chart

Very rare.  A superb example one of the finest views of Constantinople we have handled. The great city, seen here from the east, overlooking Üsküdar and the Bosphorus, appears as it was during the reign of Sultan Mahmud II. The Topkapi Palace, the Hagia Sophia, and the Sultan Ahmed Mosque..... More about Constantinople

This delicately beautiful pair provided the first mapping of the Grand Canyon “to reflect the physical, political, and geological complexity of this territory newly acquired from Mexico” (Hudson). In these works’ subtle evocation of the unique topography of the canyon, they attain a level of graphic realization suggestive of contemporary..... More about Map No. 1 Rio Colorado Of The West…14 ½ x 34 5/8 inches. [With:] Map No. 2 Rio Colorado Of...

An unusually well-preserved example of a work hailed by Wheat as "one of the most beautiful maps every published by the Army." It is, moreover, one those rare maps whose geographic import matches its exceptional aesthetics. This “landmark map for various regions” (Wheat) was the first to display Macomb’s discovery..... More about Map of Explorations And Surveys In New Mexico And Utah…

Rare, separately published folding map in excellent condition. A very detailed street plan with the city's parks shown in color. Below is a directory of the city's streets. More about Map of Chicago