Featured Maps
PWA Rebuilds the Nation.
1939
“Cartographic monument to the New Deal” (Hornsby) Nearly one hundred projects commissioned by the PWA are illustrated in and spread evenly over the map. The border, which includes more than forty vignettes depicting men at work and the ...
Map of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia shewing the Architecture and History from the Most Ancient Times Down to the Present.
1926
Clark and Olsen collaborated on two other maps of Boston (their first map) and Philadelphia, which all hold much in common with Gill’s “Wonderground Map of London. Their map of Washington was to “be the most prestigious in the series,… it...
Map of the University of California
1939
Beautifully designed map of the University of California, extending to the Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Riverside, La Jolla, Mt. Hamilton and Davis campuses. “This Map of the University of California sponsored by The California Club ...
Map of Gaya
2nd half 20th-century
This vibrant pictorial map of Gaya in India is oriented with west at the top, the title and place names are in English and in Hindi, the whole is surrounded by a border of vine-leaves. The map, possibly designed for those on a religious pilgrimage, cent...
Panair do Brasil. Nos Ceus de Tres Continentes. A Frota Bandeirante
1947
Eymonnet’s vibrant map, heightened in gold, is very much in the style of the planispheres created by Lucien Boucher for Air France. The image shows the origin of airline in Brazil and the many destinations that it reached at the time of the map. It...
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 18th-century map of New England, and of great geographic and political significance. Issued in 1755, Green’s “Map of the Most Inhabited Part of...
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...
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...
Le Grand Atlas, ou Cosmographie blaviane, en laquelle est exactement descritte la terre, la mer, et le ciel
1663
A magnificent example of “the greatest and finest atlas ever published” (Verwey).The ‘Atlas Major’ in its various editions was the largest atlas ever published. It was justly famed for its production values, its high typogr...
