Featured Maps
Treasure Island viewed from the Mainland. This Souvenir Cartograph A Presentation of Davidson & Licht Jewelry Company
1938
Color pictorial / pictographic map poster, 11 x 16 3/4 inches.At the upper right is San Francisco and Sausalito; on the viewer's side of the bay the map goes from Warm Springs and Mission San Jose at upper left to Berkeley and Albany at lower rig...
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...
New Map of the City of San Diego California
1906
Fine lithographed map of San Diego from Pacific Beach in the North to Coronado in the south, with an inset of La Jolla and Index lower left, folding into self-wrappers titled “A New Map of San Diego”. The earliest map of San Diego pri...
Manuscript World Map
1827
A fine manuscript double-hemisphere map of the world, with a smaller polar projection beneath and between the hemispheres, the title inscribed above and between, surrounding the map on three sides within a ribbon banner held aloft by an angel is...
“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An attractive and possibly unique example of an apparently unpublished map of the Coachella Valley, known as “The Palm of God’s Hand”, and in Spanish as “La Palma de la Mano de Dios”.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...
Map of the University of California: Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Riverside, La Jolla, Mt. Hamilton, Davis.
1939
An uncommon and most pleasingly designed map, showing the state of California with the seven university campuses identified with banners which list the special features of each. The lettering around the border lists the many areas of study, from librarianship to...
Colour of an Old City: A Map of Boston Decorative and Historical
1926
Houghton Mifflin’ first pictorial map and Clark and Olsen’s first joint venture, which they began in September of 1925: “spending six months of ‘exhaustive study and incessant sketching’, with much research taking place in...
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...
A Hysterical Map of Yellowstone Park and the Jackson Hole Country. Slightly Cockeyed.
c1936
Humorous pictorial map "Drawn in Broken English by Jolly Lindgren" featuring the highlights of the area of the Jackson Hole country and Yellowstone National Park: hotels, peaks, lakes, etc. with a constant flow of humorous quips to engage th...
Lake George and Lake Champlain
1926
"The Charm and Beauty of Lake George and Lake Champlain Can Be Fully Enjoyed Only from the Steamer's Deck" Two elegant maps, one shows both lakes from Albany to Montreal, and the other Lake George and environs in more detail. The form...
