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Map of the North Island, New Zealand

c1892

New Zealand General Survey Office map of New Zealand’s North Island. Covers the area from the Tasman Sea to the South Pacific and from the Three Kings Islands to Karamea Bight. Very detailed including railroads as of 1887. Numerous coastal isla...

 

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Sunny Hawkes bay, New Zealand

1960

A promotional map, probably produced by the local tourist bureau, centred on the towns of Hastings “The Fruit Bowl of New Zealand” and Napier “New Zealand’s Riviera”, in the Heretaunga Plains area, close to Hawke’s Bay,...

 

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Map of Lancaster County with Pennsylvania Dutch and Historic Interest

1949

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Pacific Arena. A Fortune Map. Orthographic Series II

1942

Centered on the North Pacific, the map shows the American Northwest, Russia, China, Southeast Asia and Australia. “Of all great arenas of this, the first true world war, the Pacific is the most difficult to conceive and visualize as a whole. That ...

 

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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,...

 

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Pictorial Map of Fresno County & Mid-California's Garden of the Sun

c1923

The anonymous bird’s-eye view, which extends north to San Joaquin, south to Kern, and west to Gala Veras, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties, is surrounded by 31 mostly photographic vignettes illustrating landmarks, natural resources and industries....

 

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East Africa. Land of Sunshine

1949

This lively map of East Africa, includes modern day Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda.  Centered on the Rift Valley, which is colored in a darker green, the map covers from Lake Tanganyika to the Indian Ocean and from the Sudan/Ethiopia border to...

 

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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...

 

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The first map dedicated to Australia in English

1744-1748

Tasman’s map of New Holland was first published in Melchisedech Thevenot’s 'Relations de divers voyages curieux' in 1663 and then revised until 1696. “Thevenot ensured that his book included maps at every juncture. Of t...

 

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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...

 

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