Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps

05/31/2026

The first state of John Speed’s landmark double-hemisphere map of the world, the earliest world map in an atlas to depict California as an island, fundamentally shaping the European geographical conception of the American West.

Check it out on our website RareMaps.com, stock number 123254.

05/14/2026

This fantastic map of Sicily and Sardinia was produced by Johann Reger in Ulm, Germany, in 1486, based on the work of 2nd-century cartographer Claudius Ptolemy.
The map covers Sicily, Sardinia and neighboring islands, including Isola di San Pietro,Sant’Antioco, the Isole Eolie and Isole Egadi.

Check it out on our website RareMaps.com stock number 101893

05/11/2026

A 17th-century map of Russia, derived from manuscripts compiled by Tsar Fyodor II Godunov and the Dutch diplomat Isaac Massa, featuring an early plan of Moscow.

Check it out on our website RareMaps.com stock number 123464

05/07/2026

An original manuscript plan and decree defining the colonial frontier between the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada and the Portuguese State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão - today’s border between Brazil and Peru.

Drafted by Francisco Requena, Spanish military engineer, governor of Mainas, and commander of the Fourth Spanish Boundary Commission, it features an elevation and ground plan for a stone obelisk alongside a calligraphic proclamation marked “PARA FUTURA MEMORIA.” On 5 July 1781, Requena and his Portuguese counterpart Teodosio Constantino Chermont formally agreed on the boundary markers along the Yavarí and Yapurá rivers, under the 1777 Treaty of San Ildefonso.

Check it out on our website RareMaps.com stock number 121591.

05/05/2026

Barry showing Mary Senex’s Grand Folio “English Atlas” (c. 1748) - an exceptional full wash color example with 34 large-scale engraved maps, including Senex’s important map of North America and Whiston’s Scheme of the Solar System. Stock #100165 on our website RareMaps.com for more details.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

05/01/2026

The is here! Come find at booth B17 the Park Avenue Armory all weekend.

A few of the items we’ve brought along:
- Polydore Vergil’s Anglicae Historiae (Basel, 1555) —featuring one of the earliest printed maps of England
Stock #108127
- Lewis Evans’s General Map of the Middle British Colonies (1755) — among the most important American maps of the 18th century
Stock #121627
- A 16th-century portolan chart of the Mediterranean, Europe, and North Africa
Stock #122612
- The Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) — in a stunning 15th-century binding
Stock #119719

Swipe through, then stop by to see them in person. Search the stock numbers at RareMaps.com for full details. We can’t wait to see you!

04/19/2026

A New Map of Denmark and Sweden is an exquisite work by renowned British cartographer Herman Moll, produced in London about 1726. The map portrays a highly detailed representation of Scandinavia, focusing predominantly on Denmark and Sweden, with an extensive inset map that covers the North part of Norway, Lapland, and Greenland.

Check it out on our website RareMaps.com, stock number 102212

04/12/2026

An exquisite, brilliantly colored example of the foundational printed map of Italy from the Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia.

Conceived by the pioneering printer Conrad Sweynheym and completed by Arnold Buckinck, this magnificent map of Italy stands as a masterwork of early Renaissance printmaking. Depicting the Italian peninsula from the Alps to northern Sicily, the map was created for the Rome edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s Cosmographia, an enterprise that set a new standard for cartographic publication. Initially printed in 1478, the copper plates were reissued with no significant geographic changes by Petrus de Turre in 1490. Sweeping across classical Roman provinces and embracing Corsica and Sardinia, the work is universally celebrated as one of the finest and most technologically innovative maps produced in the fifteenth century.

Check it out on our website, stock number 122655

03/26/2026

A fine example of John Speed’s highly decorative map of the Low Countries.
This attractive map embraces all of the 17 traditional provinces of the Netherlands, including the modern nations of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. At the time, the Netherlands was engaged in the Eighty Years War (1568-1648), during which the independent Dutch Republic (comprising the northern provinces) was engaged in a long battle against Spain, who controlled the southern provinces.
The borders of the map are adorned with vignettes including views of the cities of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Ghent, Middelburg, Groeningen, Zutphen, Utrectht and Atrecht, as well as images of various inhabitants of the Low Countries in costume.

Check it out on our website stock number 59143mp2

03/22/2026

📜Save the date for the 66th Annual ABAA New York International Book Fair. 🗺️📖

Planning to attend? Tell us what to bring by writing us an email at [email protected]. Send your requests by April 15 to ensure we can accommodate them.

Opening hours
Thursday, April 30 | 5pm - 9pm (Opening Preview)
Friday, May 1 | 12pm - 8pm
Saturday, May 2 | 12pm - 7pm
Sunday, May 3 | 12pm - 5pm

Location
Booth B17
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065

Should you need a ticket, please let us know and we will gladly send one.

: At this year’s New York Antiquarian Book Fair, San Diego-based Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. will offer a newfound 460-year old copy of Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia atlas formerly owned by Queen Mary I, the first woman to rule England. The dealer has dubbed it “the most significant artifact of Tudor intellectual history still in private hands.” For $1.6 million, the atlas could be yours—though there are strings attached.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3NjlidQ

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Pictured: England and Wales as seen in Queen Mary I's copy of "Urbinatis Anglicae Historiae Libri Vigintiseptem"(1555-58) by Polydori Vergilii. Photo courtesy of Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.