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USA5643

Cartographer: Johannes Metellus
Title: : Granata Nova et California
Date: 1598 Size: 9 x 8 inches
Published: Cologne
Description: California and the Southwest. RARE piece from Acosta's "De Natura Nova Orbis". [Burden 120]
Map Ref: USA5643

USA9476

Cartographer: Robert Morden
Title: : New Mexico vel New Granata et Marata et California
Date: 1688 Size: 6 x 7 inches
Published: London
Description: Early miniature map of the American Southwest showing California as an island without the descriptive text below. Original colour. [Burden 654, State 2]
Map Ref: USA9476

USA8598

Cartographer: Heinrich Scherer
Title: : Delineatio Nova Et Vera Partis Australis Novi Mexici
Date: c. 1700 Size: 14 x 9 inches
Published: Munich
Description: Baja California and contiguous Mexico from the information of Fra. Eusebio Kino, a Jesuit Missionary credited with ending the California as an Island myth.
Map Ref: USA8598

USA5480

Cartographer: Nicolas De Fer
Title: : De Californie et du Nouveau Mexique
Date: 1700 Size: 13 x 9 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Important map of California as an island including for the first time Father Eusebio Kino's explorations of the American Southwest. Coloured. [Burden 760, state 1]
Map Ref: USA5480

USA4073

Cartographer: Nicolas De Fer
Title: : La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline
Date: 1720 Size: 26 x 18 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Rare map of the American Southwest showing California as an Island. Original hand-colour.
Map Ref: USA4073

USA9119

Cartographer: Eusebio Francisco Kino
Title: : Tabula Californiae
Date: 1726 Size: 9 x 15 inches
Published: Augsburg
Description: This is the larger and rarer version of Kino's landmark map of California which rejoins it to the mainland. It shows the whole of the Baja Peninsula as well as the headwaters of the Colorado.
Map Ref: USA9119

USA7955

Cartographer: Miguel Venegas
Title: : Mapa de la California
Date: 1757 Size: 12 x 15 inches
Published: Madrid
Description: The most decorative of the Eusebio Kino California maps with beautiful figurative borders. Based on contemporary Jesuit sources.
Map Ref: USA7955

USA9050

Cartographer: Isaac Tirion
Title: : Kaart van het Westelyk Gedeelte van Nieuw Mexico en van California
Date: 1765 Size: 14 x 13 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Lower California and the Baja Peninsula as far north as San Diego by Isaac Tirion, a Dutch mapmaker and bookseller. Jesuit missions and outposts are prominently marked on the map. Bright original hand-colour.
Map Ref: USA9050

USA8890

Cartographer: Miguel Venegas
Title: : Carte de la Californie
Date: 1767 Size: 8 x 12 inches
Published: Spain
Description: California. French edition of the influential Jesuit map of the region published in the major work about California in the mid-eighteenth century.
Map Ref: USA8890

USA9332

Cartographer: Robert de Vaugondy
Title: : Carte de la Californie
Date: 1772 Size: 15 x 11 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Five maps on one page comparing different mapmakers' depictions of California, both as an island and as a peninsula, from 1604 to 1767.
Map Ref: USA9332

USA7268

Cartographer: Johann Jakob Baegert
Title: : California
Date: 1773 Size: 7 x 9 inches
Published: Mannheim
Description: Baja California. Important map of the peninsula based on a new Jesuit survey by Father Consaq. Coloured.
Map Ref: USA7268

USA7212

Cartographer: Eusebio Francisco Kino
Title: : Passage Par Terre a La Californie
Date: c. 1785 Size: 8 x 9 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Late French rendition of the important map by Eusebio Kino (1645-1711) showing that California is part of the mainland from the Atondo Expedition (1683–1685) with Spanish Admiral Isidro de Atondo y Antillón (1639-85).
Map Ref: USA7212

USA6930

Cartographer: Jean Francois de La Perouse
Title: : Plan du Port de St. Diego
Date: 1787 Size: 13 x 19 inches
Published: Paris
Description: San Diego and San Blas. Two maps on one sheet. Charts of both harbours. Coloured.
Map Ref: USA6930

USA9140

Cartographer: Jean Francois de La Perouse
Title: : Plan du Port de St. Francois
Date: 1797 Size: 20 x 13 inches
Published: Paris
Description: First issue of the first commercially available map of San Francisco Bay, issued in La Perouse's posthumous accounts of his voyages in the Pacific.
Map Ref: USA9140

USA8190

Cartographer: Philippe Vandermaelen
Title: : Nouvelle Californie
Date: 1825 Size: 22 x 18 inches
Published: Brussels
Description: Map of the California coast centring on San Francisco Bay and going from Monterey to C.St. Sebastian. (N.46) (SL)
Map Ref: USA8190

USA2006

Cartographer: Philippe Vandermaelen
Title: : Amer. Sep. De La Vieille Californie
Date: 1827 Size: 23 x 20 inches
Published: Brussels
Description: Important early map of the Baja Peninsula and adjacent Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa. Original hand colour. (SL)
Map Ref: USA2006

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