Featured Maps
West Africa
1949
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...
Pan Am. On the Routes of the Flying Clipper Ships
1949
Pictorial map of North and South America. Covers from San Francisco to south of Buenos Aires. showing the routes of Pan American Airways "Flying Clipper Ship" routes, a commercial airline service in operation from 1931 to 1946. The fl...
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...
British Commonwealth
c1942
Rare separately issued pictorial map of the world, published during World War II by the British Information Services.At the bottom, the map presents a pictorial image of the resources, agriculture and manufacturing specialties throughout the Britis...
Manuscript pictorial map archive
2002-16
Nearly half of the 215 maps in this archive illustrate the Americas, from the northernmost reaches of the Arctic Circle to the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. Africa and Asia are also very well repres...
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...
"Meddo" Sea Chart-Marshall Islands
c1920
This ‘Meddo’ sea chart from the Marshall Islands, where navigation was, and still is, an essential survival skill, was a closely guarded secret and only passed on within a small number of families. In order to memorise the main navigationa...
Nav War Maps Nos.1, 3 & 4
1944
There were 6 maps in the NavWarMap series. Shown here is #1. This impressive, separately-published propaganda map was produced in 1944 to highlight the strategic importance of the Mediterranean, which “offers many approaches to Fortress Eu...
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...
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...
