Americas

Pacific Northwest left blank with notations on Russian exploration in 1743 a thought of a Northwest Passage seen via the Great Lakes.

Classic steel engraving showing Alaska as Russian America and the Nebraska Territory extending to the Canadian border.

Unique, pre-Civil War depiction of the central U.S. states with insets of Cinncinnati, Nashville and Lexington. Showing important railways and waterways. Titled “United States of North America”.

Attractive city plan by Mitchell showing wards, streets, buildings, rail lines etc.  The wards are highlighted in colors.

From The Illustrated Atlas with vignettes showing gold mining in Brazil, condors and llamas of Peru, natives of Chili, Valparaiso, and a view of Rio de Janeiro.

Classic Levasseur from Atlas Universel Illustre. Map of North America post Louisiana Purchase and pre-statehood for Texas. Surrounded by beautiful, colorful vignettes of human native inhabitants and native wild animals.

An early edition of Homann’s map of the Americas shows California as an island. Also shown is the mythical Terra Esonis Incognita, which forms a nearly continuous land bridge from North America to Asia. The Mississippi River and Great Lakes follow the reports of the early French Jesuit explorations. In South America, the Amazon and other interior features are beginning to take realistic form. The map is complete with two fine cartouches with scenes of natives, Jesuits, and European merchants.

Detailed copper plate map filled with fascinating notations on the movements of Spanish galleons. The seas are fully engraved with trade wind directions indicated.