Featured Maps
Sketch Map of the North Island of New Zealand. Native Tribal Boundaries
1869
Rare 1869 map of New Zealand’s North Island showing Māori iwi (tribal) boundaries, confiscated land, location of armed police and military bases, and where gold was found.The map illustrates the more than 1.2 Mill...
Kyoto Kaisei Ezu
c1785
Color-printed folding woodblock map of Kyoto on two sheets of sturdy paper joined. 18x24 1/2 inches, folding into embossed self-wrappers with printed paper label; map excellent, covers slightly worn. Tenmei era map...
Digital Deli Map of Personal Computer America
1984
a fun and fascinating pictorial map showing the digital landscape of the united states in 1984 The three main divisions depicted are Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, and Silicon Prairie, with fun plays on names such as "Silicon Sally," the "Cracker 2...
[Untitled World Map]
1504
In 1981, the American dealer Walter Reuben acquired an unusual variant map, believed to have come from a 1504 (Schott) edition of Reisch’s ‘Margarita’. The map very closely follows Reisch (1), but retains only the four principal windheads, w...
Untitled World Map
1480 (1590)
A Ptolemaic world map drawn on his first, conical, projection. One of four known examples of “the most visually satisfying of all the incunable maps” (Campbell).The map appears to be an original piece of fifteenth century mapmaking with no obvious...
Tahiti
c1950
Color pictorial map, 16 x 24 1/2 inches, folding as issued to pamphlet 8 x 4 inches, text and black and white photo illustrations on verso.Brightly colored and humorous map by Jean Rousaute showing the peoples, wildlife, and tourists found around Tahiti....
[Manuscript Mappemundi and Solar Eclipse]
c1200
A 13th Century manuscript map from an early copy of William of Conches’ ‘Dragmaticon philosophiae’. The map depicts the world as a circle with east at the top, the points labelled “Oriens”, “Occidens”, “Sep...
Map of San Francisco showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest.
1927
“One of the most ambitious of the early pictorial maps” (Hornsby) “Godwin’s affectionate depiction of the city is a riot of cartoon characters, buildings, trains, and watercraft” (Hornsby). Godwin’s is a very lively map, “p...
'Crown of the Valley'
1933
“In 1770 Don Caspar de Portola, poetically impressed with the beauty of this flower strewn valley exclaimed, ‘Le Grane Sabinalla de San Pasqual’, or, ‘the Great Altar Cloth of Easter’ and to see is to believe”.&ldqu...
A Map of the most Inhabited part of New England...
1755
The very rare first state, with “Konektikut” in the title, of the pre-eminent 18th-century map of New England, and of great geographic and political significance. Issued in 1755, Green’s “Map of the Most Inhabited Part of...
