Fine Books and Manuscripts

02 Jul 2021  |  USA, New York, NY
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Schedel, Hartmann | The world before Columbus sailed

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Montalboddo, Fracanzano da | The earliest accounts of travels to Asia and the New World and the first such printed in German

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Waldseemüller, Martin | America appears on the map , Waldseemüller, Martin | America appears on the map

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Fries, Laurent | The first atlas map to use the word "America"

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Munster, Sebastian | The famous Discovery-era world map

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Thomaeus, Nicholas Leonicus | The 1555 Gryphius edition of De Varia Historia Libri Tres

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Strabo — Guilielmus Xylander [editor and translator] | Among the earliest and most important works on historical geography

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Ortelius, Abraham | The first map of the Americas in a modern atlas

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Lopes De Castanheda, Fernao | One of the first works in English on world exploration

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Mercator, Michael | Evidence of early colonial efforts

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Wytfliet, Cornelius | The first separate map of California , Wytfliet, Cornelius | The first separate map of California

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Linschoten, Jan Huygen van | An English Linschoten in contemporary vellum

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Ortelius, Abraham | One of the most influential atlases ever published

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Hondius, Jodocus | The height of Dutch cartography

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Wytfliet, Cornelius | The first atlas of America, Wytfliet, Cornelius | The first atlas of America

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Speed, John | From the first atlas of the British Isles

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[Speed, John] | A charming map of Cambridge

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Mercator, Gerard [and Jodocus Hondius] | One of the most significant atlases in the history of cartography

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Blaeu, Willem | The most famous "carte-à-figures" map of the Americas

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Blaeu, Willem | "The greatest and finest ever produced"

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Jansson, Jan | The most important map in the adoption of California as an island , Jansson, Jan | The most important map in the adoption of California as an island

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Sanson d'Abbeville, Nicolas | Establishing the shape of the West

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Speed, John | Map of New England and New York, with original color and noble provenance

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Danckerts, Justus | A good example of an important map

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Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria, and Jean-Nicolas De Tralage | A striking world map, produced by one of the greatest cartographers of the period

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Valk, Gerard | A map of the Americas from the late Dutch period

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Le Bruyn, Cornelius | First edition in French of this classic of Middle Eastern travel

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Mortier, Pierre | First state of the first map of the Carolinas printed outside of England

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Aa, Pieter van der | The height of Dutch engraving , Aa, Pieter van der | The height of Dutch engraving

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Le Bruyn, Cornelius | An important illustrated account of a voyage to Russia, Persia, India, and Java

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Chatelain, Henri Abraham | One of the most decorative maps of North America

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Johannes, Kip | A striking panorama of Westminster from the Thames

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Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel | A dramatic star chart, featuring Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn

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Seutter, Matthäus | The Island of California

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Moll, Herman | The famed "Beaver Map"

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Lotter, Tobias Conrad | The world accurately drawn in general outline

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Mitchell, John | The primary political map in American history

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Desnos, Louis Charles | Revival of interest in the Northwest Passage

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Jefferys, Thomas, William Fuller, and William Gerard De Brahm | A rare set of sea charts of Amelia Island

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Faden, William | A rare issue of one of the most important maps of the United States

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Vaugondy, Robert de | The boundaries of the newly formed United States

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Cook, Capt. James, and Captain James King | The famous accounts of Captain Cook's three voyages

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Humboldt, Alexander Von, and Aimé Bonpland | "The most beautiful and generally interesting of all Humboldt's works"

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Melish, John | Melish's War of 1812 atlas with contemporary military provenance

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Petermann, Augustus | Barth's famed expedition to the Sudan

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[United States] — General Land Office | The opening of the West

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[Ship's Logs] — E[dmund] P[ercy] F[enwick] G[eorge] Grant | A logbook by an officer on board the HMS Achilles

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Adams, John | Signed by Adams as president

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Adams, John Quincy | John Quincy Adams celebrates the "last surviving Signer of the Great Charter of Mankind, the Declaration of Independence"

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(American Revolution) | A rare transferware jug, celebrating the newly formed United States

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Audubon, John James | Audubon negotiates the copyright of his "little work"

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[Boulton, Thomas] | A scarce poem by a Liverpool Loyalist

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Brown, John | A remarkable letter leading up to the events of the Bleeding Kansas crisis

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Brown, John | A letter requesting arms prior to the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre

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Carey, Mathew | A complete set of America's first literary magazine

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Catesby, Mark | The "most famous colorplate book of American plant and animal life..."

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(Civil War) — Johan Anton Adolf Carlsson Warberg | A rare memoir by a Swedish officer , (Civil War) — Johan Anton Adolf Carlsson Warberg | A rare memoir by a Swedish officer

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[Collins, John, and William Reeve] | A rare piece of early American anti-slavery sheet music

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Columbian Museum — Daniel Bowen | One of the earliest American museum publications

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Continental Congress — [John Dickinson] | A famous precursor to the Declaration of Independence

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Declaration of Independence | Copied from the original Declaration of Independence in the Department of State

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Declaration of Independence | Among the rarest broadside printings of the Declaration

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Gallatin, Albert | A remarkable table mapping the Indian languages of the United States

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(Great Awakening) | An eyewitness to the Great Awakening

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Hamilton, Alexander | Hamilton dines with two Senators

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Hershfield, Harry | A group of signed drawings

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Howe, Julia Ward — Charles M. Jenckes [artist] | Autograph transcription of the greatest patriotic hymn of all time

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Hughes, William | First edition of an important description of Caribbean flora

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Jefferson, Thomas | A letter to a scoundrel

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Jefferson, Thomas | A letter comparing Europe to the United States: "the mass of [our people] is advancing in the regions of light"

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[Lee, Charles] | By the former British officer who joined the Continentals

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Mason, George Champlin | A rare and early collection of Newport views

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