Featured Maps
East Africa. Land of Sunshine
1949
This lively map of East Africa, includes modern day Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda. Centered on the Rift Valley, which is colored in a darker green, the map covers from Lake Tanganyika to the Indian Ocean and from the Sudan/Ethiopia border to...
Trans-Mar de Cortes Route map
c1955
Pictorial Route guide for an airline that has disappeared without a trace. The map side shows the airline’s routes in Sonora and Baja California. Using “luxurious” DC-3s, Trans Mar de Cortes flew from Tijuana and Juarez to...
Map of the Airlines of K.N.I.L.M
c1935
A c1935 art deco map of the East India archipelago and parts of Southeast Asia drawn for KNILM, or the Royal Netherlands Indies Airways (1928-1942). The map covers from Bangkok to Darwin, Australia, and from Sumatra to New Guinea. The former Dutch Ea...
Geschichte des Kakos
1955
~This is circa 1955 unpublished manuscript pictorial map of the world illustrating the history of the cacao trade. The map was drawn by the female graphic designer Ingeborg Gessner (Inge Klatte) for the Stuttgart chocolate company, Eszet (1857-1974). It...
Dutch Lines West Africa
c1949
Very nice pictorial showing the routes of the ships and then local scenes peculiar each country. Also, there are the flags of the various then-colonial powers.Holland West-Africa Lijn was a joint service operated by Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart-Maat...
The United States as seen by Californians
1947
Orren Arnold's marvelously distorted map of the United States, providing a California-centric view of the United States.Published by the Brags Publishing Company, the map is adopted from the book California Brags.As noted by Rumsey:“A humo...
Danny Arnold's Pictorial Map of The Old West
1962
While styled as an Indian map and displaying the territorial borders of the United States prior to the formation of Nebraska Territory in 1854, the present map is more of a history of Indians, famous Americans and the west. The map is ringed with portraits of...
Where We Grow Our Trees
1943 (48)
Colorful map showing, both by shading and actual images of trees, the distribution and types of forests in the US. First published in 1943 by the Americna Forest Products Industries, Inc., this edition carries the notation in the lower left &ld...
Didactic Manuscript Map of Africa
c1813
An exceptional manuscript composition most likely done in, or for, a German school classroom. The central map of Africa is surrounded by finely detailed vignettes including a coastal view of the mountains from the south east coast, exotic natural h...
Dai Nihon Dochu Saikenzu (Japan)
1882
Large color-printed engraved map of Japan on three sheets joined. 14x57 inches overall, folding into original self-wrappers with printed paper label; covers a bit worn, map excellent. A fine Meiji map of Japan profusely illustrated with over 70...
