Featured Maps
Carta Esferica del Reyno de Mexico...
1802
A Hidden Cartographic Gem – The Earliest Printed Map To Depict the Escalante-Dominguez Expedition of 1776, with Highly Accurate Information in Colorado, Texas and California.While virtually unknown until recent years, the map is an ...
The Seventeen Mile Drive
c1950
Folding brochure with pictorial guide map of the famous “Seventeen Mile Drive”. Likley was given to this who chose to pay a fee and take the trip. Verso and keyed to the map are 22 points of interest plus a short blurb on the Del Monte Lo...
Pasadena..."Crown of the Valley"
1933
A pictorial map of Pasadena in1933 by Howard Wookey. 14 vignettes surround the map and show important places and scenes of the area. “In the 1920 and 1930s, Pasadena was a important winter resort for affluent Easterners. Wookey&rsq...
Carte de la Partie de la Virginie ou l'Armee Combinee
c1782
Esnauts and Rapilly's map is widely regarded as one of the most important of all Battle Plans of the American Revolution and one of the very few to be drawn from a French eyewitness perspective. Their fine depiction of the Battle of Yorktown is on...
The First Woodcut Map of the World
1486
A FINE MAP OF THE WORLD, FIRST ISSUED BY HOLL OF ULM IN 1482, AND SHOWING GREENLAND AND SCANDINAVIA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A PTOLEMAIC MAP. This magnificent map of the world comes from the second edition of the first atlas to be printed in Germany, the ...
Carta Esferica le las Costas y Golfo de California....hasta el Puerto de S. Diego
1825
Rare large scale map of Baja California, prepared for the Mexican Government shortly after its Independence from Spain. The map is dedicated to Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of the Mexican Republic. In addition to all of Baja California,...
Map of Burlington. Vermont, 1853
1853
As with all Presdee & Edwards maps, the very large scale of 16 rods (264 feet) to the inch is sufficient to provide immense detail, including not only the street plan and rail lines, but property lines, landowners, and the placement and footprints of...
“The Palm of God’s Hand” - A Map of the Coachella Valley
1946
An attractive and possibly unique example of an apparently unpublished map of the Coachella Valley, known as “The Palm of God’s Hand”, and in Spanish as “La Palma de la Mano de Dios”. D’Ambly was a resident artist of...
Weekend Vacation Guide in the Western Southland
c1957
A lovely pictographic map of the US Southwest created by James Lewicki for the the Ford Motor Company and included in an edition of "Ford Times. A Car Owners Magazine". Lewicki's style, while unique, is closer to that of...
You've Only Got to Choose Your Bus
1920
Created for the London General Omnibus Company, Gill's map, centred on Reigate, of the bus routes in the area between Epsom and Horley, north to south, and Godstone to Effingham, east to west, is illustrated in the same medieval modernist manner as...
