Very scarce—one issue only of this very early engraving.  This is earliest collectible map of the eastern seaboard and the earliest to provide a representation of the New York City area.  It is also the first map listed in Palmer's "Chronological List of Maps & Charts [of Bermuda]" and is..... More

An excellent example of the second plate (see below) of this important map. It was the "first map of the Americas to appear in a modern atlas," (Schwartz) and one that “had a great influence on the future cartography of the New World” (Burden). When this map was issued, the..... More

In vibrant original color, this is a spectacular example of Ortelius' second map (though third plate) of the Americas, improving upon its predecessor in many important ways (see below), most apparently in the removal of the large bulge on the west coast of South America. This updated revision of the..... More

A very nice example of this rare and fundamentally important map, the earliest English map specifically of North America that is realistically acquirable.  The Briggs was also among the very earliest maps to include the key place names associated with early English colonization: Plymouth, New England, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard..... More

A beautiful example of one of the earliest, acquirable maps to focus on what is now the United States. The Jansson-Hondius was also one of the first Dutch atlas maps to show California as an island, preceded only by the Hondius world map of 1630. A note on the map..... More

A very attractive, near-mint example. Speed's handsomely engraved work is one of the earliest English maps of the area and one of the first to demarcate the borders of colonial Virginia and Maryland. Just three years before the publication of Speed’s map, Augustine Herrman had conducted the first thorough surveys..... More

The very rare, first state (see below) of the first edition of a map called by Schwartz and Ehrenberg "the most ambitious performance of its kind undertaken in America up to that time” and by Stevens, “The Prototype… for the next half century.”  Printed by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, Evans..... More

Rare; a superb example of the best executed and most beautiful, printed map one can acquire of early New York, and arguably also the masterpiece of 18th century, American, urban cartography.  In addition to a plan of the city itself, the work provides a remarkable evocation of the pre-development landscape..... More

A superb example in the first edition of New Jersey’s first official map, with a distinguished provenance (see below).  With this work, “New Jersey mapping had achieved a new high” (Snyder). Rumsey calls the Gordon the “cornerstone map of New Jersey…by far the most accurate map to date.” Scrupulously revised..... More

The scarce first edition, in a fine, vibrant, fresh 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.  Its many offspring established Bancroft as "the greatest map publisher of..... More

A scarce, separately published map of Long Island Sound and its surrounding shorelines.  Counties are shown in different colors and containing an up-to-date depiction of railroads and major roads.  The latter are also provided along the Connecticut shoreline.  Also shown are canals, "Mills & Manufacturies," churches and meeting houses. The..... More