Featured Maps
Anchorage & Cook Inlet, Alaska
1983
Published for the ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC (Vol 10, Number 2), this colorful map covers from Anchorage to Seward and NE to Mt McKinley (Denali name not yet present).This is one of the better examples of this genre. Susan Schumacher (who was on the maga...
Le Maroc
c.1948
Published in Morocco for Perceval, limited edition, one of 500 copies. Boucher also created a poster covering a larger area of northwest Africa than the present poster, for Credit Lyonnais.Designed by Lucien Boucher, “an illustrator much sought after by ...
UAT Africa Route Map
1950
Double sided poster map of UAT (Union Aeromaritime de Transport) African routes. One side is a pictorial representation while the other is a more typical route map. While the maker in unknown, it could well be Maurice Penard who did other poste...
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, “perhaps the larg...
South Africa
c1957
A dramatic map of South Africa at a time when it was “The Union of South Africa and included the former German colony of Southwest Africa. A pictorial map is surrounded by vignette drawings and photos. Inset tables tell the history of...
Wild Bill Hickok Treasure Map
1952
Wild Bill Hickok Secret Treasure Guide map (1952) is a promotional item published by Rand McNally & Co. for the Kellogg Cereal Company. It is accompanied by a guide that provides more than 300 of the better known, and some of the lesser kno...
Edo
c1840
Color Woodblock folding map of Edo (Tokyo)c1840; N.P.Anonymous3 sheets joined; Overall dimensions 23 x 28.5 inches, Including lower overlay extensiopn. ...
Untitled Map of the World
1480 [but 1590]
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 cartographic ancestor.“Although the information conveyed...
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...
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 eighteenth century map of New England, and of great geographic and political significance. Issued in 1755, Green’s 'Map of the Most Inhabited Part of...
