Featured Maps
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...
Historic and Scenic Reaches of the Nation's Capital
1838
A fine colour printed map of the northeast of the United States. Published for “The National Geographic Magazine”, and showing D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, southern New Jersey, southern Pennsylvania, with their counties, state capitals, ci...
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...
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...
Descrittione Universale Della Terra Con L'Uso Del Navigare
1660
A superb example of this rare and magnificent 10 sheet map of the World, first published on this scale by Matteo Florimi in Siena in 1600. A Belgian artist, who worked with Giovanni Magini in Italy, this extraordinary and beautiful map is among Ar...
“The Palm of God’s Hand” - A Map of the Coachella Valley
1946
An attractive and possibly unique example of an apparently unpublished map of the Coachella Valley, known as “The Palm of God’s Hand”, and in Spanish as “La Palma de la Mano de Dios”. D’Ambly was a resident artist of...
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 form...
Southern Pacific Lines follow the trails blazed by the pioneers...
1928
An uncommon and visually appealing map poster "done in the old style" with decorative galleons and sea monsters and an elaborate compass rose. Southern Pacific's Shasta Route, Overland Route, Golden State Route and Sunset Route are marked, &q...
Carte des Lignes, French Line
1959
This fine map of the Atlantic Ocean, outlines the routes taken by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, French Line between Europe and the Americas. The company was founded in 1861, and began sailing from Le Havre to Mexico in 1862. From 1864 they ad...
