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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...
"Meddo" Sea Chart-Marshall Islands
c1920
This ‘Meddo’ sea chart from the Marshall Islands, where navigation was, and still is, an essential survival skill, was a closely guarded secret and only passed on within a small number of families. In order to memorise the main navigationa...
Hishu Nagasaki zu
1778
A superb map of Nagasaki, and one of the earliest examples of printing from the city.The upper and lower halves were each printed from two large woodblocks (one for the main map image in black including the outlines of the buildings and land; and the ti...
Topographical Map of the City of New York
1865
"The most enduring nineteenth-century map of Manhattan is Egbert Ludovicus Viele's Water Map, which was first published in 1859 and is still in use today” (Augustyn & Cohen).Viele’s iconic map of New York: 'Topographical Map ...
Belgiae Descriptio
1593
A very scarce copy 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). Hondius may have b...
The 'Ratzen Plan' of the City of New York
1769
This very rare first state of the 'Ratzen Plan' is one of the most important eighteenth-century maps of New York City. Prepared by Bernard Ratzer a decade prior to the start of the American Revolution, the map is by far the most accurate pu...
New Zealand
1848
Published in volume II of the second edition of Dumont D’Urville’s ‘Voyage autour du monde publie sous la direction du contre-amiral Dumont d'Urville’, his selection of important voyages of discovery from Magella...
Stanford's Library map of Australasia
1859
Stanford and Johnston's large map of Australasia, shows the 'relative positions of Australia and the other British possessions’. It extends to east of the Sunda Islands, the south-west Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Aus...
Geographiae opus novissima traductione a Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum
1513
This is one of the most important editions of Ptolemy's geography, containing many new regional maps: twenty new maps based on contemporary knowledge "unlike many of the alleged 'new' maps produced by earlier editors, [they] contained a ...
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...
