Antique-Maps from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

Philadelphia: 1920. 109 x 68 cm. backed on linen. folding map in original cloth casing

[Buenos Aires]: Instituto Geografico Argentino, 1910. Forms a large map of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile with inset maps of Martin Garcia Island, Buenos Aires and the Meteorological Station on Laurie Island. oblong folio. 8 colour folding maps backed on linen in four sections, as issued. each map measures 20 ½” x 25” (51.8 x 63.1 cm). cloth (covers very … Read more about this item

[Paris: c1800]. 30 Ωî x 25î. engraving. horizontal & vertical folds (light foxing, several tears to folds, few short creases)

[London: 1816]. Thomson's chart traces the north Pacific explorations of Cook and Bering and Mackenzie's explorations in the Canadian West. Phillips, Atlases, 731. 19 1/2" x 23". original colour (margins foxed & light offsetting)

Ottawa: 1883. 28î x 36î (71 x 91 cm). lithograph with red grid lines. horizontal & vertical folds (margins chipped & tattered, several tears & small holes, paper cockled at upper right ñ recent linen backing)

Augsburg: [1781]. Based on Kitchen's A Chart of the discoveries made by the late Captain Cook (1780), Lotter's chart traces Cook's voyage to the northwest coast and Spanish exploration routes. Kershaw 1137 & Plate 887. Wagner 672. 19 ºî x 22 ºî (48.8 x 56.5 cm). original colour. old manuscript notes in two hands (margins little discoloured &… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, March 2d. 1775. English edition, published by Robert Sayer, of M¸llerís map of the Russian discoveries in the North Pacific. Sayerís map shows the River of the West, flowing from Lake Winnipeg to the Pacific, and the large Alaska extension. The map provides extension information on the Russian discoveries in the North Pacific, including… Read more about this item

Venice: 1776. Zattaís map of the northwest shows the influence of the 1752 Delisle/Buache Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes, including Da Fonteís elaborate system of inland seas and straits and a northwest passage. He shows Quivira and ëFou-Sangí, a colony the Chinese reputedly established on the norrthwest coast. The map is curiously decorated with illustrations of an elephant, ostrich and… Read more about this item

London: G.G. and J.Robinson, 1798. cfWagner 842 & Falk, Alaskan Maps, 1797-9 (French edition). London. 16 ºî x 20 æî (41.3 x 52.1 cm). engraving (paper weakness at centre fold)

[Paris: 1797]. This map shows La PÈrouseís 1786 northwest coast exploration route from Mount St. Elias on the Alaska-Canada border to ëBaie de Clonardí, a cove on the west side of Graham Island. La PÈrouse was appointed to lead a French expedition which would further the scientific and geographical exploration of the northwest. He was also charged with continuing… Read more about this item

London: G.G. and J.Robinson, 1798. cfWagner 841 & Falk, Alaskan Maps, 1797-9 (French edition). 16 ºî x 21 ºî (41.3 x 54.3 cm). engraving (paper weakness at centre fold)

Vancouver: Pitner & Company Limited, [c1911]. Shows Western Canada in great detail, including, railway and steamship routes, Hudsonís Bay Company Posts and an alphabetical index of the towns and villages of Western Canada. coloured map in sections, as issued, measuring 36 æî x 47 ºî (tears to folds repaired ñ backed on archival tissue). original gilt-stamped cloth covers

[London: 1784]. This chart of the northwest coast of America and the northeast coast of Asia was published in the atlas to Cookís third voyage. On this voyage Cook accomplished the monumental charting of the northwest coast of America from Oregon at 44 degrees to Bering Strait at 70 degrees (Icy Cape, Alaska). The chart traces Cookís exploration route… Read more about this item

[London: 1721]., 1721. 19 ¾” x 23 ¼” (50.9 x 59.6 cm). original colour (lightly browned, short tear to lower margin touching outer edge of border, few stains to margin). Fifth State of Morden’s A New Map Of The English Empire In America (1st State: 1695); Morden and Brown’s imprint changed to John Senex and a dedication to Edgly Hewer… Read more about this item

London, Printed for Robt. Sayer and John Bennett.16th. February 1776., 1776. 20” x 27 ½” (50.7 x 69.8 cm). original colour (masking tape attached to three corners on verso, short centre fold splits at margins repaired, light mat burns near plate marks). First Issue of this important map of Quebec. The map shows the boundaries of Quebec according to the… Read more about this item