Featured Maps
Untitled Map of the World.
c1960
A whimsical, double hemisphere world route-map with illustrations of early forms of aviation and sea travel, was created for TAI (Transports Aeriens Intercontinetaux). The good-natured feeling can be summed up by the small notice in the bottom right ...
A New Map of the City of San Diego California
1906
The earliest map of San Diego printed by Rodney Stokes, San Diego's first major mapmaking establishment.A large scale map showing the subdivisions of San Diego, distributed by the Richards Realty Company, of 922 Sixth Street, in San Diego. Of note are...
A Dog’s Idea of the Ideal Country Estate
1930
Held's is an 'imaginative' pictorial map of a dog’s idea of the ideal country estate, published in 'Country Living' magazine. The map depicts numerous locales, activities, and items that any dog would include in its ideal co...
The San Diego Exposition / 1915 Panama-California Exposition 1915
1912
Published also as a post card by Eno & Matteson of San Diego, in November of 1913. Townsend Brown’s view represents an early design for the Goodhue - Allen vision of the exposition after the resignation of the Olmsted first in mid-1911.In spite of int...
Sunshine Air Trails
1947
A very early “road map of the air” where surface roads are replaced by air routes and airfields predominate over gas stations. Playing into the post-war interest in private aviation (the cover features a Piper Cub) this colorful map is...
'Crown of the Valley'
1933
“In 1770 Don Caspar de Portola, poetically impressed with the beauty of this flower strewn valley exclaimed, ‘Le Grane Sabinalla de San Pasqual’, or, ‘the Great Altar Cloth of Easter’ and to see is to believe”.&ldqu...
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 ...
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...
“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...
