Featured Maps
London Underground Advertising Poster - "In the Heat of the Summer you will find me cool.."
1922
Set against a black background is a central pictorial map, similar in decorative style and comic content to Gill's original "Wonderground" map of 1914, which shows central London from Docklands & Whitechapel in the East to Barnes Br...
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 ...
Leo Belgicus, one of only two known examples by Jacob van Doetecum
1630
Extremely rare, one of only two known examples of this separately published map, first published by Johan van Doetecum in 1598. The plate was still in van Doetecum's possession in 1626, when an inventory was made of his stock after the death of his wife Magd...
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...
Le Grand Atlas
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 typo...
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...
Hydrographical Chart of the World According to Wright's or Mercators Projection
1814
Arrowsmith's towering achievement of English cartography of the early 19th century: arguably the most advanced and detailed map of the world available at the time, and a superb example. A map of great scale on eight, unfolded, elephant-folio sheets-it wo...
