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First published in Amsterdam around 1705, this copperplate map by Peter Schenk translates Guillaume Delisle’s landmark 1...
10/10/2026

First published in Amsterdam around 1705, this copperplate map by Peter Schenk translates Guillaume Delisle’s landmark 1703 French map of North America into Latin for a broader European market. It depicts the region stretching from the Atlantic seaboard and Great Lakes south through the Mississippi Valley, Texas, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Delisle’s underlying geography represented a quantum leap in North American cartography, incorporating the latest reports from French explorers in Louisiana and Spanish authorities in the Southwest.

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This copperplate engraving from Andreas Cellarius’s Harmonia Macrocosmica maps the Tychonic system: Mercury and Venus ci...
09/18/2026

This copperplate engraving from Andreas Cellarius’s Harmonia Macrocosmica maps the Tychonic system: Mercury and Venus circle the Sun, while the Sun itself circles a stationary Earth. Tycho Brahe accepted that the planets orbit the Sun, but believed Earth was far too heavy to move.

Wrong — yet hard to disprove. Ignoring everything beyond the Solar System, the Tychonic model is mathematically equivalent to the heliocentric one under a change of coordinates.

It’s precise as well as beautiful: the Sun’s path is drawn as non-circular, the apogee and perigee distances of Mercury and Venus are noted, and two inset diagrams are crowned by figures taken to represent the muses of Astronomy and Mathematics.

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A spectacular map of South America, the Caribbean, Florida, and the Gulf Coast, along with a marvelous treatment of the ...
08/22/2026

A spectacular map of South America, the Caribbean, Florida, and the Gulf Coast, along with a marvelous treatment of the unknown southern continent, first published by Jan Huygen Van Linschoten.
The map is west-oriented, showing the continent on a horizontal axis. To the right, or north, is Florida with over twenty toponyms included. The Caribbean stretches between the continents, with islands, sand bars, reefs, and shallows labeled. Mexico and Central America are also thick with toponyms denoting towns, lakes, and coastal features.
South America is split into Spanish viceroyalties and other administrative units—Peruvia (Peru), Chile, Castilia del Oro (Colombia), and a vast central region called Peruviana. To the east is Brasilia (Brazil), controlled by the Portuguese. There are large mountains ranges separating the Guyana region from the south, cutting east-west across Brazil, and cutting north south in the west.

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Fine example of the rare first edition of De Jode’s modern map of the Middle East, from his Speculum Orbis Terrae, publi...
08/03/2026

Fine example of the rare first edition of De Jode’s modern map of the Middle East, from his Speculum Orbis Terrae, published in Antwerp in 1578 and engraved by Joannes & Lucas Van Deutecum.
This rare map shows the Arabian Peninsula in fine detail. A number of interesting geographical features appear. The Persian Gulf is given a second name - the Mare El Catif, named after the port of Qatif near Bahrain. Near this name, two islands appear, which allude to Bahrain and an erroneously mapped Qatar; Bahrain is mentioned as an important pearl-diving center. Detail goes eastwards to the western coast of India, which was heavily influenced by Arabian culture at the time.

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This remarkable chart stretches from “Rood Eyland” (Rhode Island) in Narragansett Bay all the way up to Cape Cod and Ply...
07/14/2026

This remarkable chart stretches from “Rood Eyland” (Rhode Island) in Narragansett Bay all the way up to Cape Cod and Plymouth. Look closely and you’ll spot Martha’s Vineyard under its early name, “Marten Swyniaerts or Elisabet’s Eyland,” with Nantucket (“Nantoket”) tucked into the southeast.
The Dutch influence is unmistakable - the Cape Cod peninsula itself bears the name “Nieuw Holland,” while its curving tip is marked “Staten hoeck.”

Map historian Philip Burden called it “a legendary rarity on the open market.” ✨

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Landmark Map of North America by Coronelli with California as an IslandFine example of Coronelli’s cornerstone map of No...
07/05/2026

Landmark Map of North America by Coronelli with California as an Island
Fine example of Coronelli’s cornerstone map of North America, one of the most influential maps of the continent published in the late seventeenth century.
The map is cartographically similar to Coronelli’s esteemed globe of 1688 and is richly embellished in his characteristic style. In the upper left is an elaborate title vignette featuring several gods who find themselves in the New World. They have sumptuous robes and voluptuous hair, but also a map, compass, ship, and other modern instruments. The title states not only the maker of the map, and his position as cosmographer of the Republic of Venice, but also lists the dedicatee, Felic Antonio Marsily, Archdeacon of the Cathedral of Bologna.

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Rare separately published example of Blaeu’s map of Virginia, and the Chesapeake region, based upon John Smith’s map of ...
06/15/2026

Rare separately published example of Blaeu’s map of Virginia, and the Chesapeake region, based upon John Smith’s map of Virginia, the most important map of Virginia published in the 17th Century.

This is the second state of Hondius’ rare separately issued map, first engraved by Jodocus Hondius in 1618 and purchased by Blaeu following Hondius’ death in 1629. The map depicts the discoveries in the region detailed by John Smith in his seminal map of Virginia, first issued in 1612. Because of the commercial success of Blaeu’s Atlases, it is Blaeu’s map of Virginia that influenced two generations of European map makers regarding the English mapping and discoveries in the region. It was the primary influence on other maps of the period and the standard map of the region until Augustine Hermanns’s map of 1673.

The first state of John Speed’s landmark double-hemisphere map of the world, the earliest world map in an atlas to depic...
05/31/2026

The first state of John Speed’s landmark double-hemisphere map of the world, the earliest world map in an atlas to depict California as an island, fundamentally shaping the European geographical conception of the American West.

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This fantastic map of Sicily and Sardinia was produced by Johann Reger in Ulm, Germany, in 1486, based on the work of 2n...
05/14/2026

This fantastic map of Sicily and Sardinia was produced by Johann Reger in Ulm, Germany, in 1486, based on the work of 2nd-century cartographer Claudius Ptolemy.
The map covers Sicily, Sardinia and neighboring islands, including Isola di San Pietro,Sant’Antioco, the Isole Eolie and Isole Egadi.

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A 17th-century map of Russia, derived from manuscripts compiled by Tsar Fyodor II Godunov and the Dutch diplomat Isaac M...
05/11/2026

A 17th-century map of Russia, derived from manuscripts compiled by Tsar Fyodor II Godunov and the Dutch diplomat Isaac Massa, featuring an early plan of Moscow.

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