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[After Robert Sayer and John Bennett], CARTE DE LA BAIE DE CHESAPEAKE et de la Partie navigable des Rivieres, James, York, Patowmack, Patuxen, Patapsco, North-East, Choptank et Pokomack. REDIGÉE POUR LE SERVICE DES VAISSEAUX DU ROI, au Dépôt Général des Cartes Plans et Journaux de la Marine ... 1778. Paris: Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, 1778.

French edition of the best Revolutionary War Chart of the Chesapeake… used by the French fleet in the Yorktown campaign?

$7,500.00

“The best map of Pennsylvania to appear in the 18th century” (Wheat and Brun)

$17,500.00
Binding of John Reid's 1796 American atlas

John Reid’s “American Atlas,” including the plan of Washington, D.C.

$20,000.00
William Coffin, Jr. / Pendleton’s Lithography, MAP OF THE TOWN OF NANTUCKET, in the State of MASSACHUSETTS. SURVEYED BY WM. COFFIN JR. 1834. Nantucket: Henry Clapp, 1834.

William Coffin’s “Map of the Town of Nantucket”

$35,000.00
William Mitchell (surveyor) / E[phraim] W. Bouve’s drawing & Lithography (printer), MAP OF THE ISLAND OF NANTUCKET, Including TUCKERNUCK. Surveyed by Wm. Mitchell. 1838. Boston, 1838.

William Mitchell’s “Map of the Island of Nantucket”

$42,500.00

A Western rarity: The first edition of the Nicollet map of the Upper Mississippi River basin

$7,500.00
H. Acheson, lithographer, GALENA AND CHICAGO UNION RAIL ROAD THE ONLY RAIL-ROAD ROUTE FROM CHICAGO THROUGH NORTHERN ILLINOIS TO WISCONSIN IOWA AND MINNESOTA. Chicago, [1854].

A rare and handsome map of Chicago’s first railroad

$4,500.00
CHICAGO. New York: Charles Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., [1854–1868].

A rare surviving copperplate for a Charles Magnus view of Chicago

$3,500.00

Colton’s spectacular map of North Carolina and the Chesapeake under Union blockade

$6,000.00
Dwight D. Eisenhower, General, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, MILITARY GOVERNMENT—GERMANY [:] SUPREME COMMANDER’S AREA OF CONTROL [:] PROCLAMATION No. 1 [:] To the People of Germany… [Occupied Germany?], [Sept. 28, 1944-May 1945?]

“We come as conquerors, but not as oppressors”: Eisenhower assumes supreme authority in occupied Germany

$7,500.00
By Neil Randall / Illustration by Timothy Edward Downs, PC Computing[:] Map to Navigating the Web. New York: Ziff-Davis, 1996.

Timothy Edward Downs charts a course through cyberspace

$1,600.00
Henricus Hondius, America Septentionalis. [Amsterdam: 1636/1639-1642.]

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

$7,500.00
Johannes van Keulen / [Jan Luyken, engraver], PASKAART Van ‘t Noordelykste deel der NOORT ZEE Beginnende van der Neus, tot: Nova Zemla Naaukeurig opgestelt en van veel fouten verbetert. Amsterdam: Johannes van Keulen, [ca. 1682].

Van Keulen’s striking chart of the northern seas, with a delightful ethnographic cartouche

$1,500.00
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
MORAVIA SILK COMPANY. [Pennsylvania?]: Moravia Silk Company, [ca. 1838-1840?]

Broadside pitching silk and land speculation in western Pennsylvania, with an optimistic promotional map

$1,500.00
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

Perhaps the first map of the Internet for popular consumption

$1,800.00
Map OF THE WORLD Showing the Western Pacific Railway Company AND Toyo Kisen Kaisha (ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP CO.) Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1911.

An American-Japanese venture to conquer the Pacific

$1,750.00