Featured Maps
Map of the North Island, New Zealand
c1892
New Zealand General Survey Office map of New Zealand’s North Island. Covers the area from the Tasman Sea to the South Pacific and from the Three Kings Islands to Karamea Bight. Very detailed including railroads as of 1887. Numerous coastal islands,...
Stanford's Library map of Australasia
1859
Stanford and Johnston's large map of Australasia, shows the 'relative positions of Australia and the other British possessions’. It extends to east of the Sunda Islands, the south-west Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Austra...
A Correct Map from Actual Surveys and Examinations Embracing a Portion of California between Monterey and the Prairie Butes in the Valley of the Sacramento Shewing the Placeres, 1849
1849
Published in Wilkes' 'Western America, Including California and Oregon, with Maps of Those Regions, and of 'The Sacramento Valley', Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1849, and one of three large folding maps included in the volume. &l...
Topographical Map of the City of New York
1865
"The most enduring nineteenth-century map of Manhattan is Egbert Ludovicus Viele's Water Map, which was first published in 1859 and is still in use today” (Augustyn & Cohen).Viele’s iconic map of New York: 'Topographical Map of the City...
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 tint...
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...
A New Map of the City of San Diego California
1906
The earliest map of San Diego printed by Rodney Stokes, San Diego's first major mapmaking establishment.A large scale map showing the subdivisions of San Diego, distributed by the Richards Realty Company, of 922 Sixth Street, in San Diego. Of not...
Colour of an Old City: A Map of Boston Decorative and Historical
1926
Houghton Mifflin’ first pictorial map and Clark and Olsen’s first joint venture, which they began in September of 1925: “spending six months of ‘exhaustive study and incessant sketching’, with much research taking place in...
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...
Map of the Colony of New Zealand from Official Documents
1853
One of Arrowsmith’s scarcest maps, first published in 1841. John Arrowsmith was the nephew of Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1833). The younger Arrowsmith introduced ‘The London Atlas’ in 1834. Subsequent editions appeared with title pages da...
