Featured Maps
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,...
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...
South Africa
1958
A dramatic map of South Africa at a time when it was “The Union of South Africa" and included the former German colony of Southwest Africa. Also published in the same year in a smaller version, this example was printed in The Netherlan...
A Pictorial Map of the British Isles
1935
First edition, printed without colour. “Riding the wave of public interest, Chase began a side business turning out pictorial maps of Europe and North America. By the mid-1940s, he had designed enough maps to fill his own mail-order catalog,...
“The Palm of God’s Hand” - A Map of the Coachella Valley
1950
An attractive and privately published 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 Indio, California, specializing in...
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 represen...
Sunny Hawkes bay, New Zealand
1960
A promotional map, probably produced by the local tourist bureau, centred on the towns of Hastings “The Fruit Bowl of New Zealand” and Napier “New Zealand’s Riviera”, in the Heretaunga Plains area, close to Hawke’s Bay, hom...
Mapa de Ruta. Pan American Grace Airways Inc.
1934
“Ahora Si, El Mundo es Chico” (Yes, now the World is smaller)A rare Spanish language route map and guidebook published by Pan American & Grace Airways Inc. The front cover is illustrated with a portrait of a DC-2, while inside is a small ...
Your Shell Map of 1960 Winter Olympic Games. Squaw Valley California
1960
Commissioned by Shell Oil to promote their sponsorship of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games. The map shows not only the games’s site, but the surrounding area as far east as Virginia City (and including Lake Tahoe) and as far west as Grass Valley. ...
America for the Foot-Loose: An Indispensable guide for Married Couples Contemplating Seperate (sic) Vacations
c1952
Apparently unpublished, but possibly intended for publication in Esquire Magazine. There are many humorous little details… from “Farm house (ask for daughter)” to the red lights on Havana, Tijuana, Mexicali and Cuidad Juarez and on and o...
