Featured Maps
Map of San Diego's Oil Field
1920
The only known example of this map showing supposed oil drilling operations in the La Jolla, Pacific Beach, Clairemont, and Bay Park neighborhoods of San Diego, published for M. Hall Investment Co. in 1920.The map's purpose is embodied in a tag lin...
Map of Burlington. Vermont, 1853
1853
As with all Presdee & Edwards maps, the very large scale of 16 rods (264 feet) to the inch is sufficient to provide immense detail, including not only the street plan and rail lines, but property lines, landowners, and the placement and footprints of...
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, “perhap...
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 intens...
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...
Historic and Scenic Reaches of the Nation's Capital
1838
A fine colour printed map of the northeast of the United States. Published for 'The National Geographic Magazine', and showing D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, southern New Jersey, southern Pennsylvania, with their counties, state capitals, ci...
Descrittione Universale Della Terra Con L'Uso Del Navigare
1660
A superb example of this rare and magnificent 10-sheet map of the World, first published on this scale by Matteo Florimi in Siena in 1600. A Belgian artist, who worked with Giovanni Magini in Italy, this extraordinary and beautiful map is among Ar...
Map of Lancaster County with Pennsylvania Dutch and Historic Interest
1949
Comprehensive tourist map all of Lancaster County, awaiting copyright, and possibly one of very few examples printed. Only two institutional examples known, at the Library of Congress and Pennsylvania State Archives.
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...
A New Mapp of the Whole World
1738
The map describes the world in two hemispheres, with two smaller pairs of hemispheres above and below, showing the heavens and the polar regions respectively. This design reflects the world maps published by Gerard Valk at the end of the seventeenth century,...
