Antique Maps

In 2005, we added an attractive collection of authentic, original, antique maps from the 16th through the 19th Centuries.  The collection includes maps of Africa, the Americas, the British Isles and World maps.  Through our affiliated map dealer, Mapcarte (www.mapcarte.com), we have access to a broad inventory of beautiful maps as well as the capability to locate rare maps of particular geographic regions, countries, cities etc.  Please contact us with any questions you may have.

The continent as it was just before the American Revolution. California shown as a peninsula and the unknown Pacific Northwest left blank.

Contour map showing the ravines, streams and general topography of the North Shore of Chicago. Including rail lines, highways and towns Lake Forest, Highwood, Highland Park, Deerfield and Ravinia.

Boundaries of the new thirteen United States and frontier lands following the Revolutionary War depicted in great detail from Georgia to Lake of the Woods.

Published only three years after the Great Fire in 1871, this map shows the large area destroyed by the fire as well as city wards, streets and parks.

Rare engraving at turn of 17th/18th centuries. Covering Westminster Abbey to Mile End in the east. Landmarks identified by key

Based on Blaeu's similar map. Merian's signature appears at bottom right.

From Atlas Minor first edition, a miniature map of the British Isles surrounded by sea fully engraved and augmented with caligraphy in Mercator's elegant style.

The Visscher family was an important art dealer and map publisher in Amsterdam for almost a century. Claes J. Visscher (1587-1652), his son and grandson, Nicolaes Visscher I (1618-1679) and Nicolaes Visscher II (1649-1702), published a number of atlases, regularly updated with newly discovered information.