Maps & Atlases | Lots 296-307

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296 CAREY, Henry Charles (1793-1879) and Isaac LEA (1792-1886). Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Illinois. [Philadelphia, 1822].

Engraved map of Illinois with hand-coloring in wash and outline, 457 x 563 mm sheet. Three text borders describing the rivers, climate, chief towns, government and history of Illinois. (Short tears to vertical fold, tear repaired upper corner, some minor toning.)

THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE MAP OF ILLINOIS, which had been granted statehood in 1818. The map shows 19 counties in southern Illinois, and the boundary lands to the west. Chicago is named, and the map includes boundary lines of Native American territory in the north.

[With:] Two additional maps of Illinois, comprising: Upper Territories of the United States. N.p., ca 1813? Engraved map, 206 x 175 mm sheet. (Mounted to backing board, browned). Bears some similarity to Carey’s map of the same title, though in a smaller format. -- MITCHELL. County Map of the State of Illinois. Philadelphia, 1867. Engraved map with hand-coloring, 378 x 314 mm sheet. With inset plan of Chicago. $400 - 600

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297 CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham (1684-1743). Carte Tres Curieuse de la Mer du Sud. Contenant des Remarques Nouvelles et Tres Utiles non Seulement sur les Ports et Iles de Cette Mer. Amsterdam, 1719.

Engraved map on 4 joined sheets of the Americas, with hand-coloring in outline and wash, visible area 820 x 1430 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame), manuscript pagination upper right. Spanish and Dutch navigation routes delineated, over 34 insets and vignettes of scenes and regions of the New World, portrait medallions of explorers, including Columbus, Dampier, Drake, Vespucci and Magellan.

“ONE OF THE MOST DECORATIVE MAPS OF NORTH AMERICA OF THE 18TH CENTURY” (Tooley)

Chatelain’s map, published in his Atlas Historique of 1719, was intended to encourage French investment in the Americas. Though the map depicts California as an island, a notation indicates that many Europeans believe it to be connected to the mainland. “One of the most elaborately engraved maps of the Western Hemisphere ever produced” (Schwartz & Ehrenberg). McLaughlin 190; Schwarz & Ehrenberg 85; Tooley p.130. Property from The Western Union Company $6,000 - 8,000

298 KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715). pas Kaart Van de Zee Kusten van Virginia Tusschen. Amsterdam, ca 1695.

Engraved map with hand-coloring in outline of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay region, 530 x 603 mm sheet. Figural cartouche, galleon, compass roses. (Some overall browning, a few short tears occasionally crossing image.)

A rare coastal chart based on Augustine Hermann’s map of 1670. North is oriented to the right in the map, and the map shows the shoreline from Cape Henry to southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Place names are included along the shoreline, including the new settlement of “Filadelfy” (Philadelphia). $2,000 - 3,000

299 LAURIE, Robert (1755-1836) and James WHITTLE (d.1818). A New and General Map of the Middle Dominions Belonging to the United States of America, viz. Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware-Counties, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. with the Addition of New York, & of the Greatest Part of New England... London: Laurie and Whittle, 1794.

Engraved map with contemporary hand-coloring of the Northeastern United States, 495 x 673 mm visible area, matted and framed (laid down on backing board). Inset map of the Great Lakes.

Laurie and Whittle first re-issue, issue unknown (watermark unobservable). Originally published by Thomas Kitchin in 1756, the plate was revised numerous times by Thomas Jefferys, Sayer & Jefferys, Sayer & Bennett, and finally, Laurie & Whittle. See Tooley p.68-69. $500 - 700

300 MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus (1792-1868). Mitchell’s New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1880.

Folio (384 x 316 mm). 77 engraved hand-colored maps and plans (23 double-page, one folding). (Some browning, a few short tears occasionally crossing into image, some minor creasing.) Original publisher’s half roan over brown cloth gilt, smooth spine, front cover gilt and stamped in black, red-speckled edges (worn, corners bumped). Provenance: John T. Morton (inscription, 29 April 1895).

Later edition, including maps, plans, statistical tables, a list of post offices of the United States and territories, and census information of 1860 and 1870. Phillips 892; Rumsey 586A.

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana

$500 - 700

301 ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae descriptio... [Antwerp, 1588].

Engraved map with hand-coloring in wash and outline of Russia including Moscow, Spanish text verso 410 x 537 mm sheet. (Some minor soiling, a few mostly marginal holes, repair to lower margin.)

The map, based on the surveys of English merchant Anthony Jenkinson, includes a depiction of Ivan the Terrible top left, with illustrations of encampments, armies, Cossacks, and a burial scene with the dead hanging from trees. Van den Broecke, 162. $400 - 600

302 PHELPS & ENSIGN, Publishers. Phelps & Ensign’s Traveller’s Guide, and Map of the United States... New York: Phelps & Ensign, 1841 [copyright 1837].

Steel-engraved wall map of the United States on 5 sheets hand-colored in outline, 671 x 987 mm visible area, framed (unexamined out of frame). Map within ornate border, insets of a world map, chief rivers of the world, principal mountain ranges, and the text of the Declaration of Independence reproducing the signatures and with a cartoon rendering of the signing, inset plans of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Mobile, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Charleston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, and the District of Columbia; several steel-engraved vignettes in bottom margin (see below). (Some overall browning, some cracking or minor losses, a few stains.)

With vignettes in lower margin, including portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson. With vignettes of the Landing of the Pilgrims, the Battle of Lexington, the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, and Washington’s farewell to his army, and with a large engraved vignette of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Phelps and Ensign’s map was issued with various copyright dates, from 1837 to 1840. The present edition includes Stephen F. Austin’s colony in Texas, and reaches further west than most maps of the period, extending to the Rockies, and including Missouri territory, New Mexico, and Texas as a separate political entity. RARE: OCLC locates only three copies of this edition, none of which include the steel-engraved vignettes in the lower margin. Property from the Collection of Julie Riedl, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin $400 - 600

303 PHELPS, ENSIGNS & THAYER, publishers. Phelps’s National Map of the United States, A Travellers Guide [map only]. New York, 1848.

Steel-engraved wall map of the United States on 5 sheets handcolored in outline, 532 x 822 mm visible area, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Map within pictorial borders, inset plans of Washington D. C., New York, Baltimore, Boston, Birmingham, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago. (Separations with minor losses along folds repaired verso, map backed with linen, some overall browning.)

Second edition, without the large inset map of Oregon, California and Texas which would appear in later editions. Pictorial borders include images of the seals of 30 states including Texas (but not California), and several Presidential portraits. Border vignettes depict the Great Seal of the United States and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The map extends just past the Mississippi river into the Great Plains, and includes part of Texas and two unnamed regions extending north. Property from the Collection of Helena Szepe, Tampa, Florida $400 - 600

304 PITT, Moses (1654-1696). A Map of the North-Pole and the Parts Adjoining. Oxford, 1680 (or later).

Engraved map of the North Pole with hand-coloring in wash and outline, 525 x 653 mm visible area, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Inset map of Nova Zembla, inset whaling vignette, dedicatory cartouche with coat of arms. (Some minor burn-through of pigment, some minor soiling.)

Prepared by Pitt for The English Atlas, this map “is one of the most evocative of the region ever published” (Burden). “This decorative map combines the primitive concepts of ‘Frisland,’ ‘Frobisher Strait’ as bisecting southern Greenland; and the three-island concept of Arctic Canada introduced by Sanson” (Kershaw). Burden II, 525; Kershaw 120.

$2,000 - 3,000

305 SPEED, John (1552-1629). A Newe Mape of Tartary. London: G. Humble, 1626 (but later). (English, 1552-1629)

Engraved map with hand-coloring in wash and outline of Tartary, Russia and China, 420 x 543 mm sheet. Decorative cartouches, side borders with 8 costumed figures of Tartar men and women, top border with city views and vignettes, English text verso. (Some marginal chipping or short tears, centerfold with minor separations and reinforced verso.)

Views in the top border include Astracan, Samarchand, Cambalu, and The “House of Nova Zemla.”

$400 - 600

306 [U.S. DEPT. OF STATE] – Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the nineteenth ultimo, a Copy of the Maps and Report of the Commissioners under the Treaty of Ghent, for Ascertaining the Northern and Northwestern Boundary between the United States and Great Britain. Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton, 18 March 1828.

Oblong folio (409 x 508 mm). Letterpress title-page, one leaf of commissioner’s text, 8 lithographed maps with partial hand-coloring (one folding). (Chipping, staining and creasing with a few tears.) Disbound (stabholes in left margins).

Rare set of maps denoting the boundaries between the United States and Great Britain in the Great Lakes region after the War of 1812 according to the 6th and 7th articles of the Treaty of Ghent. Each map is “shaded on the British side with red, and on the American side with blue” with information about the commissioners and surveyors (Decision of the Commissioners). “Neither the series nor individual maps is recorded in Phillips or Karpinski. The only copy located by the Union Catalog is in the U. S. State Department Library. This folio edition is not to be confused with the octavo edition that consists only of text” (Streeter sale 1080). $1,500 - 2,500

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