Featured Maps
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...
Untitled Map of the World.
c1960
A whimsical, double hemisphere world route-map with illustrations of early forms of aviation and sea travel, was created for TAI (Transports Aeriens Intercontinetaux). The good-natured feeling can be summed up by the small notice in the bottom right ...
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 ...
'Crown of the Valley'
1933
“In 1770 Don Caspar de Portola, poetically impressed with the beauty of this flower strewn valley exclaimed, ‘Le Grane Sabinalla de San Pasqual’, or, ‘the Great Altar Cloth of Easter’ and to see is to believe”.&ldqu...
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...
Hishu Nagasaki zu
1778
A superb map of Nagasaki, and one of the earliest examples of printing from the city.The upper and lower halves were each printed from two large woodblocks (one for the main map image in black including the outlines of the buildings and land; and the ti...
Topographical Map of the City of New York
1865
"The most enduring nineteenth-century map of Manhattan is Egbert Ludovicus Viele's Water Map, which was first published in 1859 and is still in use today” (Augustyn & Cohen).Viele’s iconic map of New York: 'Topographical Map ...
Belgiae Descriptio
1593
A very scarce example of Jodocus Hondius’ roundel Leo Belgicus. It is one of a set of five roundel maps Hondius produced while in London in 1590 (“Jodocus Hondius fecit 1590” is visible next to the lion’s left forepaw). H...
New Zealand
1848
Published in volume II of the second edition of Dumont D’Urville’s ‘Voyage autour du monde publie sous la direction du contre-amiral Dumont d'Urville’, his selection of important voyages of discovery from Magella...
Stanford's Library map of Australasia
1859
Stanford and Johnston's large map of Australasia, shows the 'relative positions of Australia and the other British possessions’. It extends to east of the Sunda Islands, the south-west Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Aus...
