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HISTORIC MAPS AND PRINTS

These attractive and historically important maps and views are exact facsimiles of original engravings, lithographs and manuscript drawings from major museums, libraries, archives and private collections. All of them are reproduced on text weight paper and are  suitable for framing. The colored views and maps faithfully reproduce the bold or more subdued tints used by the artists or printers of the time. Other views are published with a single sky and shadow tone added to the basic black and white of the print just like the originals. Original impressions of these maps and views now are scarce and sell, when available, only at very high prices. Our museum quality reproductions make it possible to begin or add to a collection at a reasonable cost and with the assurance of outstanding value.

Dimensions indicated are only for the printed surface, including titles. They do not include the generous margins that facilitate easy handling and permit framing or mounting without mats if desired.

Georgia, The Gulf Coast, and The Lower Mississippi: 1748
Georgia, The Gulf Coast, and The Lower Mississippi: 1748

Emanual Bowen prepared this map to illustrate the new material on Georgia added to a revised edition of Harris's Voyages. In addition to the many towns,the  Indian settlements of the interior are identified. SIZE: 14 1/4" x 19". COLORED.


$12.50

Fort Michilimackinac: 1766
Fort Michilimackinac: 1766

Five years after the British occupied this important French fort and trading post Lt. Perkins Magra produced this detailed, fully colored manuscript survey now in the collection of the William L. Clements Library. SIZE: 121/2" x 181/2". COLORED.


$12.50

Montreal 1758
Montreal 1758

This interesting plan of Montreal originally appeared in Thomas Jeffrey's famous work, The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America.  Many of the streets and buildings  can still be found in the old part of the modern city.  SIZE: 13 1/4" X 20". TONED.


$12.50

French Louisana 1705
French Louisana 1705

The French Colonial settlements along the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi River are shown here, in the second edition of a map by Nicholas de Fer, first published in 1701.  The colorful image demonstrates the relationship of many of the early native villages and European forts of the region.  SIZE 12 3/4" X 17 3/4" COLORED


$12.50

New Orleans 1759
New Orleans 1759

Thomas Jefferys published this first English plan of Louisiana's capital city.  It included inset maps showing the river approaches to New Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi.  The reproduction is colored in the typical red, green, and blue tones of the period.  SIZE: 13 1/4" X 19"


$12.50

Canada 1719
Canada 1719

The maps in the Atlas Historique published by Henri Chatelain are unsurpassed in quality of their engraving.  The Canadian map drew on Delisle's classic portrayal of 1703 with the addition of a text panel describing the region and summarizing early French explorations.  It is distinctively colored with important boundaries outlined in double tones.  SIZE: 15" X 19 1/4"  COLORED


$12.50

Montreal 1768
Montreal 1768

In 1768, the leading print dealers of London jointly published a magnificent set of American views under the title Scenographia Americanna.  Amoung the cities depected was Montreal.  SIZE: 12 1/4" X 18"  COLORED


$12.50

Yorktown: 1781
Yorktown: 1781

Major Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy drew this suberp manuscript map for General Lafayette to record the decisive battle ot the American Revolution. It's colors are clear and bright, and it shows in great detail the fortifacations and military positions of the two armies in and around this little Virginia town. SIZE: 12"x18". COLORED.


$12.50

The Province of Quebec: 1763
The Province of Quebec: 1763

Inset plans of Montreal and Quebec and maps of the vicinity of Montreal and a portion of the St. Lawrence River provide additional detail on this important map. It was published in 1776 as one of the plates in William Faden's, North American Atlas, but was based on earlier French surveys and those made by Captain Jonathan Carver after the Treaty of Paris. SIZE: 15" x 21 1/4". COLORED.


$12.50

St. Augustine: 1764
St. Augustine: 1764

Engraved about 1764 from a survey by Don Juan de Solis, this plan shows the oldest city in the United States when it passed from Spanish to English hands. Every building in town is located, and the sheet includes an inset map of Florida and an elaborate title cartouche. SIZE: 14 1/4" x 18 1/4". COLORED.


$12.50

Fort Caroline: 1671
Fort Caroline: 1671

The French Huguenot settlement in Florida of 1564 is depicted in this view from Montanus," De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weerld". Fully colored in delicate tones, this reproduction is both highly decorative and historically informative. SIZE: 11" x 13 3/4". COLORED.


$12.50

Virginia and Maryland: 1755
Virginia and Maryland: 1755

Published in France by Robert de Vaugondy, this highly detailed and delicately colored engraving was based on the map prepared by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1751. It includes all of Delaware and the southern portions of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. SIZE: 15 1/4"  x 20 1/4". COLORED.


$12.50