Featured Maps
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...
Plan of the Siege of Plattsburg and Capture of the British Fleet on Lake Champlain
1816
Tanner's map shows the positions of the American ground forces around Plattsburg, and of the British and American fleets in Plattsburg Bay.It was printed to accompany Benjamin Tanner's large engraving of 'Macdonough's Victory on Lake Champlain, a...
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 City of Quebec with Historical Notes
1932
This eye-catching pictorial map of Quebec City is in the style of Macdonald Gill, best known for his humorous London Underground map. The densely filled map displays parks, buildings, named streets and historic notations. A note in the bottom right co...
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...
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 co...
Le Maroc
c.1948
Published in Morocco for Perceval, limited edition, one of 500 copies. Boucher also created a poster covering a larger area of northwest Africa than the present poster, for Credit Lyonnais.Designed by Lucien Boucher, “an illustrator much sought afte...
'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”.“This Cartograph of Pasadena is af...
A Hysterical Map of the Grand Coulee
1935
Large dams, like the Grand Coulee, constituted an important part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. These included the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State. A concrete gravity dam, Grand Coulee took eight ye...
The Panama Canal
1925
“Mr Owens was the first civilian artist to fly over the Canal Zone. This bird’s-eye view of the big canal, with its inserted sketches of the locks and interesting Canal Zone scenes, is the result” (legend on the map).“One of Owen’s...