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Henricus Hondius, America Septentionalis. [Amsterdam: 1636/1639-1642.]

A remarkable synthesis of North American geography, with California as an island

$7,500.00
A[lexander] A[nderson] invt. et sculp., THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE. [New York, ca. 1814-1820.]

An American take on the “Wheel of Fortune,” with L’Ouverture, Louis XVI, and Napoleon

$17,500.00
Simeon Borden and Henry Francis Walling, TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS BASED ON THE TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY BY SIMEON BORDEN, The details from Actual Surveys under the direction of H.F. Walling. New York: H & C.T. Smith & Co., 1861.

The definitive map of Massachusetts on the eve of the Civil War

$3,500.00
George F. Cram, Proprietor of the Western Map Depot, CRAM’S SECTIONAL MAP OF NEBRASKA. Chicago: George F. Cram, 1872.

Nebraska during its post-Civil War settlement boom

$3,500.00
GUADALCANAL ISLAND TRACED FROM OVERLAY PREPARED BY G-2 ROSES MAP # G2-R. [likely 1st Marine Division, July-August 1942.]

A hand-drawn pre-invasion intelligence map of Guadalcanal

$4,500.00
[U.S. Navy, probably Terrain Model Workshop, Amphibious Training Base, Camp Bradford, Virginia], [Three-dimensional foam-rubber terrain map of Iwo Jima.] [Late 1944–early 1945.]

A mammoth 1:5,000 terrain model of Iwo Jima, prepared for the 1945 invasion

$25,000.00
André Basset [after François Chereau], LE MISSISSIPI ou la Louisiane dans l’Amerique Septentrionale. [Paris:] [André] Basset, [ca. 1770.]

Rare, early map of the Gulf Coast, printed in reverse!

$7,500.00
VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, PENNSILVANIA, East & West NEW JARSEY. London: Sold by Jn:o Mount & Thos. Page Tower Hill, [1689/1743 or a bit later].

Chesapeake Bay from the English Pilot. The Fourth Book

$4,000.00
Hendrick Doncker, De Custen van Noorwegen, Finmarken, Laplandt, Spitsbergen, Ian Mayen Eylandt, Yslandt als mede Hitlandt, en een gedeelte van Schotlandt. Amsterdam: Hendrick Doncker, [1660.]

An interesting Doncker chart of the northern seas, with the little-known “Kimmen Line”

$1,500.00
J[ohn] H[arvey] Kellogg, M.D., ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. [Five charts from the ten-chart series advertised as A Pictorial Encyclopedia of Hygiene and Temperance.] Battle Creek, Michigan: [Health Publishing Company], 1886.

Five large chromolithographic teaching charts by John Harvey Kellogg, with graphic lessons on alcohol, narcotics and stimulants

$8,500.00
[Andrew Ellicott] / [James] Thackara & [John] Vallance Sc[ulpsit], PLAN of the City of WASHINGTON. [Philadelphia, March 1792.]

“The first known publication of the Andrew Ellicott survey of Washington” (Wheat & Brun)

$17,500.00
Various authors, [Sammelband of 13 mid 19th-century pamphlets relating to official efforts to improve the water supply of Boston.] Boston: John H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1834-1855.

Sammelband of 13 pamphlets (with maps) from Boston’s long campaign for clean water

$2,750.00
[After Isaac de La Peyrère.] the Map of GROENLAND. [London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1744-1746.]

A fascinating interpretation of Arctic geography, including a short-lived Danish claim to Hudson Bay

$495.00

Ravenstein’s Plastischer Schul Atlas

$3,750.00

“The first topographic map of the White Mountains”

$850.00