Featured Maps
You've Only Got to Choose Your Bus
1920
Created for the London General Omnibus Company, Gill's map, centred on Reigate, of the bus routes in the area between Epsom and Horley, north to south, and Godstone to Effingham, east to west, is illustrated in the same medieval modernist manner as...
Colour of an Old City: A Map of Boston Decorative and Historical
1926
Houghton Mifflin’ first pictorial map and Clark and Olsen’s first joint venture, which they began in September of 1925: “spending six months of ‘exhaustive study and incessant sketching’, with much research taking place in...
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...
A Hysterical Map of Yellowstone Park and the Jackson Hole Country. Slightly Cockeyed.
c1936
First issue, subsequently printed as a King Size mapcard in the 1950s. The Lindgren’s humorous pictorial map "Drawn in Broken English by Jolly Lindgren" features highlights of the area of the Jackson Hole country and Yellowstone National Pa...
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 ...
Map of Gaya
2nd half 20th-century
This vibrant pictorial map of Gaya in India is oriented with west at the top, the title and place names are in English and in Hindi, the whole is surrounded by a border of vine-leaves.The map, possibly designed for those on a religious pilgrimage, cen...
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...
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...
Panair do Brasil. Nos Ceus de Tres Continentes. A Frota Bandeirante
1947
Eymonnet’s vibrant map, heightened in gold, is very much in the style of the planispheres created by Lucien Boucher for Air France. The image shows the origin of airline in Brazil and the many destinations that it reached at the time of the map. It...
A Correct Map from Actual Surveys and Examinations Embracing a Portion of California between Monterey and the Prairie Butes in the Valley of the Sacramento Shewing the Placeres, 1849
1849
Published in Wilkes' 'Western America, Including California and Oregon, with Maps of Those Regions, and of 'The Sacramento Valley', Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1849, and one of three large folding maps included in the volume. &l...
