Featured Maps
Untitled Map of the World
1504
Probably an intermediate state of Reisch's unusual world map. He published his first world map in his ‘Margarita Philosophica’ of 1503. This map is a reduced version, with four rather than twelve windheads, published in Gruninger...
Visit Saratoga Springs . King of Resorts. Queen of Spas
c1941-49
A charming small pictorial touting the many attractions of Saratoga Springs. On the map, about 40 ‘Points of Interest” are noted, most with a cartoon-ish vignette shown. Thre is a guide at the bottom of the map. 14 x 16 in...
Manuscript Mappemundi and Solar Eclipse
c1200
A thirteenth century manuscript map of the world from an early copy of William of Conches’ ‘Dragmaticon philosophiae’. The map depicts the world as a circle with east at the top, the points labelled “Oriens”, “Occi...
Edo
c1840
A beautiful woodblock map of Tokyo from the golden age of Japanese woodblock map printing. Combining the elements of traditional Japanese map-making: rice paper, woodblock printing, delicate application of colour, the inclusion of topographical views in...
British Commonwealth
c1942
Rare separately issued pictorial map of the world, published during World War II by the British Information Services.At the bottom, the map presents a pictorial image of the resources, agriculture and manufacturing specialties throughout the Britis...
Manuscript pictorial map archive
2002-16
Nearly half of the 215 maps in this archive illustrate the Americas, from the northernmost reaches of the Arctic Circle to the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. Africa and Asia are also very well repres...
Kyoto - the Heart of Japan
c1785
A Tenmei era, colour-printed woodblock map of Kyoto, Japan, oriented with north to the left, created during the reign of Emperor Kokaku, who came to power during a great famine, but whose reign (1780-1817) is generally thought to have been peaceful. He...
Digital Deli Map of Personal Computer America
1984
Meyerowitz's original manuscript map, for the illustration commissioned by the Workman Publishing Company, as both a promotional poster for, and published in, their book ‘Digital Deli: The Comprehensive, User-Lovable Menu of Computer Lore, Culture, L...
The World Centrifuged
August, 1941
“The situation is as of July 7, 1941, and is subject to change without notice” (legend on the map).Issued in the August, 1941, special edition of ‘Fortune Magazine’, devoted to ‘Total War in the US’. The featured map,...
Anchorage & Cook Inlet, Alaska
1983
Published for the ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC (Vol 10, Number 2), this colorful map covers from Anchorage to Seward and NE to Mt McKinley (Denali name not yet present).This is one of the better examples of this genre. Susan Schumacher (who was on the maga...
