Featured Maps
Sekai Shin Manga Chokanzu
1924
Issued as a supplement to the educational publication ‘Kokuisai shashin jōho / 国際写真情報’, this is a rare Taisho 13 or 1924 Japanese manga (or cartoon) map of the world. Centered on Japan, the map covers most of the known w...
Maps of the City & County of San Diego
1914
A very detailed map of the city of San Diego on the right, extending north to Pacific Beach and south to Division Street. The map on the left sets the City within its wider context of Riverside County to the north and Mexico to the south. Within the C...
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 ...
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...
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 former ...
"Colorado: the Centennial State"
1958
This lively map of Colorado, was, according to OCLC, created by local 11th-grader, Gerald Herndon, of North High School, in aid of the Junior Red Cross, in 1958. Given how evident his artistic talent at such a young age is, it is strange not to find ...
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...
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...
The 'Ratzen Plan' of the City of New York
1769
This very rare first state of the 'Ratzen Plan' is one of the most important eighteenth-century maps of New York City. Prepared by Bernard Ratzer a decade prior to the start of the American Revolution, the map is by far the most accurate pu...
Carte de la Partie de la Virginie ou l'Armee Combinee
c1782
Esnauts and Rapilly's map is widely regarded as one of the most important of all Battle Plans of the American Revolution and one of the very few to be drawn from a French eyewitness perspective. Their fine depiction of the Battle of Yorktown is on...