Paris: Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine [?], 1764
37.6 x 32.5 cm / 14.8 x 12.8 in
Description This elegant map is from Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s Le Petit Atlas Maritime. With close to 600 charts and a strong focus on harbour cities and towns, this atlas is considered.....
Paris: Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine [?], 1764
16.4 x 21.2 cm / 6.5 x 8.3 in
Description This fascinating chart depicting colonial New York City is from Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s Le Petit Atlas Maritime. With close to 600 charts and a strong focus on harbour cities and.....
Paris: LE ROUGE, Georges-Louis, 1778 (dated)
45.0 x 57.7 cm / 17.7 x 22.7 in
Description This important plan of Philadelphia from the time of the American Revolutionary War was published by Georges-Louis le Rouge in 1778. It is based on a 1777 William Faden edition of a plan originally.....
Paris: LE ROUGE, Georges-Louis, 1778 (dated)
52.5 x 39.8 cm / 20.7 x 15.7 in
Description This important chart of the Carolina coastline from the time of the American Revolutionary War was created and published by Georges-Louis le Rouge in 1778. It is based on a chart by English sailor.....
Paris [or] Lyon [?]: PERISSE, Louis-Henri [or] BERNUSET, Pierre [or] Cormon et Blanc [?], c. 1799
21.7 x 17.6 cm / 8.5 x 6.9 in
Description This unusual map by Pierre Bertholon centres on Virginia and Maryland, partially showing adjoining states. Relief is depicted pictorially, numerous waterways and settlements are.....
Hildburghausen: Bibliographisches Institut, c. 1840
15.4 x 10.0 cm / 6.1 x 3.9 in
Description This elegant steel engraving depicts Baltimore, as seen from – what we believe to be – Reservoir Hill, around the middle of the 19th century. Looking across the historical centre of Baltimore, the view takes.....
New York: MEYER, Herrmann Julius, c. 1855
15.9 x 11.4 cm / 6.3 x 4.5 in
Description This elegant steel engraving from the U.S. edition of Meyer’s Universum depicts the Crystal Palace, New York – an architecturally ground-breaking exhibition hall, built in 1853 for the Exhibition of the Industry of.....
New York: MEYER, Herrmann Julius, c. 1855
15.9 x 11.0 cm / 6.3 x 4.3 in
Description This elegant steel engraving from the U.S. edition of Meyer’s Universum depicts the Astor House, New York – a luxury hotel which opened in 1836 as the Park Hotel. The building stood at.....
New York: MEYER, Herrmann Julius, c. 1855
16.6 x 11.4 cm / 6.5 x 4.5 in
Description This elegant steel engraving from Meyer’s Universum depicts New York Bay, as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey, around the middle of the 19th century. Looking across the Hudson River in a southeasterly direction.....
New York: MEYER, Herrmann Julius, c. 1855
16.4 x 11.3 cm / 6.5 x 4.4 in
Description This elegant steel engraving from Meyer’s Universum depicts New York Bay, as seen from Staten Island, “near the lighthouse”, around the middle of the 19th century. Considering the time period as well as.....
New York: MEYER, Herrmann Julius, c. 1855
16.0 x 11.0 cm / 6.3 x 4.3 in
Description This elegant steel engraving from Meyer’s Universum depicts Jefferson City, Missouri, around the middle of the 19th century. Prominently displaying the Missouri State Capitol, the view takes in the Missouri River, to the.....