Featured Maps
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...
"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...
Untitled Map of the World
1480 [but 1590]
One of four known examples of “the most visually satisfying of all the incunable maps” (Campbell).The map appears to be an original piece of fifteenth century mapmaking with no obvious cartographic ancestor.“Although the information conveyed...
Visit Saratoga Springs . King of Resorts. Queen of Spas
c1941-49
A charming small pictorial touting the many attractions of Saratoga Springs. On the map, about 40 ‘Points of Interest” are noted, most with a cartoon-ish vignette shown. Thre is a guide at the bottom of the map. 14 x 16 in...
Manuscript Mappemundi and Solar Eclipse
c1200
A thirteenth century manuscript map of the world from an early copy of William of Conches’ ‘Dragmaticon philosophiae’. The map depicts the world as a circle with east at the top, the points labelled “Oriens”, “Occi...
Edo
c1840
A beautiful woodblock map of Tokyo from the golden age of Japanese woodblock map printing. Combining the elements of traditional Japanese map-making: rice paper, woodblock printing, delicate application of colour, the inclusion of topographical views in...
British Commonwealth
c1942
Rare separately issued pictorial map of the world, published during World War II by the British Information Services.At the bottom, the map presents a pictorial image of the resources, agriculture and manufacturing specialties throughout the Britis...
Manuscript pictorial map archive
2002-16
Nearly half of the 215 maps in this archive illustrate the Americas, from the northernmost reaches of the Arctic Circle to the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. Africa and Asia are also very well repres...
Kyoto - the Heart of Japan
c1785
A Tenmei era, colour-printed woodblock map of Kyoto, Japan, oriented with north to the left, created during the reign of Emperor Kokaku, who came to power during a great famine, but whose reign (1780-1817) is generally thought to have been peaceful. He...
Digital Deli Map of Personal Computer America
1984
Meyerowitz's original manuscript map, for the illustration commissioned by the Workman Publishing Company, as both a promotional poster for, and published in, their book ‘Digital Deli: The Comprehensive, User-Lovable Menu of Computer Lore, Culture, L...
