A fine, beautifully colored example. “The first sea chart of the western portion of the Gulf of Mexico detailing the coastal waters of present-day Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas” (Burden). This attractively engraved work is oriented with north to the right, and it was evidently based on Spanish manuscripts..... More
The rare first state (without New Orleans) of the first edition in a superb example. “This map is the mother and main source of all the later maps” (Kohl) of the interior United States and the Mississippi River. It was, in fact, “the first large-scale map accurately showing the lower..... More
A beautiful example in full, vibrant, period color of a majestic, folding world map. A rare issue with very important updates. The map is an extraordinary compendium of oceanic exploration and contains voyage tracks from the 15th century to those contemporaneous with the map including those relating to polar and... More
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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
To our knowledge, this very handsome work was the largest and most detailed, commercial map of the Confederacy published during the Civil War. Notably, however, the Confederacy is nowhere mentioned by name on the map. Even given the map's large scale, the density of its detail, especially roads and railways..... More
The scarce first edition, in a fine, vibrant example. This map was an early iteration of what Wheat called "the great 'map of the Pacific states'" by William H. Knight published in 1863, also by the Bancroft firm. This map and its many offspring established Bancroft as "the greatest map..... More
The first edition of the map that provided the definitive depiction of the United States at the conclusion of the Civil War. It would appear through the mid 1880’s in many, progressively updated editions. The map’s primary purpose was to record the progress of the surveys of the General Land..... More
A very scarce, elegant Spanish chart of the Gulf Coast including the entire Texas coastline and extending east to the Florida Panhandle. Three of its insets relate to Texas; they are of the Matagorda Inlet, the Galveston Inlet and Bay, and the mouth of the Sabine River. The chart also..... More
A most interesting survey of lands in Hunt, Texas by the hand of the patriarch of a family, in which land bequests to various family members are laid out and precisely described. The work has a unique visual style with an attractive stenciled border and title. John (here inexplicably though..... More
A bright, vibrant example of a map of California and the western states by "the greatest map publisher of the Pacific Coast" (Wheat). The map descended from what Wheat called "the great 'map of the Pacific states'"--that of William H. Knight, published in 1863, also by the Bancroft firm. The... More
An important, wonderfully detailed, signed and dated watercolor view of arguably the most storied western American fort, here called Camp Apache, later becoming Fort Apache. The fort was located near present-day Whiteriver in the central eastern part of Arizona. It was at the flashpoint of the decades-long Apache Wars and..... More
A scarce, pocket land atlas, made for use in the field, of the properties owned by members of the Five Civilized Tribes--the Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. The work remains to this day one of the best and most reliable sources for locating original land ownership titles in... More
The now seldomly seen first state of an important, early Dutch map of North America. It one of the first Dutch atlas maps to show California as an island, preceded in this regard by only the Hondius world map of 1633. A note on the map recounting the story of... More
A mint example of the rare first edition of “the first published sea chart of [the Gulf of Mexico] and, therefore, had significant influence on later attempts”—Martin & Martin. Moreover, it is an engraving of singular beauty and is here in optimum condition. Since this chart was plotted on the..... More
The first state of the first edition in a superb example. "An important map, the first in a printed atlas to put the greatest emphasis on California and New Mexico” (Tooley). “A map of great influence, [Sanson’s map] became the model for the delineation of California for the next..... More
The rare, first state of a foundational map of the American Southwest in a superb example. "This beautiful map is the most momentous map of the American south-west published to date and would remain seminal for decades to come. The major significance of the map is its depiction of the..... More
A scarce map and certainly one of the most significant in the history of the cattle industry in the United States. In addition to illustrating the cattle range and ranching area of the United States, the map also depicts the proposed route of a National Cattle Trail. Texas cattlemen petitioned..... More