Handsome map of North America, with a speculative, but fairly accurately depicted Arctic coast, (this map was drawn thirty years or so before the discovery of the North-West-Passage). Most of the west and north is left blank, except for the names of the Indian tribes and the courses of the main ...

Dimensions (W x H): 59.9 x 50 / 23½ x 19½

Map of north America, fairly accurately depicted apart from the north-west Canadian coast and Alaska, which were still unexplored. With pictorial cartouche at lower left with trees, nuts and vegetation, and a fence surrounding title. Antonio Zatta was one of the leading cartographers and ...

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 33 / 16½ x 13

A detailed map of North America. Fullarton’s Royal Illustrated Atlas of Modern Geography was the last highly decorative atlas published in England, and the maps are much sought after.

Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 49 / 15½ x 19½

This beautiful map, accurate and concise, is from John Cary’s Universal Atlas. This was a compact version of his General Atlas, and shows the high standard of design, printing, and geographical accuracy that has led many to consider Cary as the finest of English map-makers.

Dimensions (W x H): 28 x 23 / 11 x 9

Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 26.5 / 14 x 10½

A map showing the whole of North America with cartouche decorated with trees and plants

Dimensions (W x H): 23.5 x 27.7 / 9½ x 11

A large clear and interesting map, with coastline and rivers coloured in blue, shows Alaska as ‘Russian Territory’. The north west passage had not yet been discovered, (McClure struggled through in 1854) so the coast is guessed, otherwise a detailed and accurate map

Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 50 / 16 x 19½

An accurate and detailed map, within an attractive decorated border. The North West Passage is shown, and, apart from a few arctic islands, the coastline of North America is complete

Dimensions (W x H): 24 x 35.5 / 9½ x 14

An early steel engraving of North America, from Alaska to Panama. Coloured in four regions: Russian Territory, British Territory, United States and Mexico

Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 50 / 16 x 19½