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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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.

 

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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...

 

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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,...

 

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Carta Esferica le las Costas y Golfo de California....hasta el Puerto de S. Diego

1825

Rare large scale map of Baja California, prepared for the Mexican Government shortly after its Independence from Spain.The map is dedicated to Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of the Mexican Republic. In addition to all of Baja California, the...

 

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