Featured Maps
TAI/ Transportes Aeriens Intercontinentaux
c.1960
A whimsical, double hemisphere world route-map with illustrations of early forms of aviation and sea travel. The good-natured feeling can be summed up by the small notice in the bottom right corner, which explains that the map was designed "in the styl...
A Dog’s Idea of the Ideal Country Estate
c.1931
This is an 'imaginative' pictorial map of a dog’s idea of the ideal country estate. The source in “Country Living “magazine. The map depicts numerous locales, activities, and items that any dog would include in its ideal country ho...
Map of the City of Quebec with Historical Notes
1932
This eye-catching pictorial map of Quebec City is in the style of Macdonald Gill, best known for his humorous London Underground map. The densely filled map displays parks, buildings, named streets and historic notations. A note in the bottom right co...
Sunshine Air Trails
1947
A very early “road map of the air” where surface roads are replaced by air routes and airfields predominate over gas stations. Playing into the post-war interest in private aviation (the cover features a Piper Cub) this colorful map is...
Le Maroc
c.1948
Published in Paris by “Perceval” as one of the “Editions Africaine”. Does not appear to be related to Air France. Highly decorative.
Map of Burlington. Vermont, 1853
1853
As with all Presdee & Edwards maps, the very large scale of 16 rods (264 feet) to the inch is sufficient to provide immense detail, including not only the street plan and rail lines, but property lines, landowners, and the placement and footprints of...
A Complete Map of the Southern Continent Survey’d by Capt Abel Tasman & depicted by Order of the East India Company in Holland
1744
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Carta Esferica le las Costas y Golfo de California....hasta el Puerto de S. Diego
1825
Rare large scale map of Baja California, prepared for the Mexican Government shortly after its Independence from Spain. The map is dedicated to Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of the Mexican Republic. In addition to all of Baja California,...
The First Woodcut Map of the World
1486
When it was first issued in 1482, this was the first woodcut map of the world, showing Greenland and Scandinavia, for the first time in a Ptolemaic map.This example, comes from the second edition of the first atlas to be printed in Germany, the first atla...
Carte du Theatre de la Guerre entre les Anglais et les Americains
1777
An important French map of the north American colonies at the beginning of the American Revolution, based on Jefferys' map. Separately published, it is an early issue, not noting Saratoga, nor the location of Burgoyne’s surrender to the Americ...
