Featured Maps
Panair do Brasil. Nos Ceus de Tres Continentes. A Frota Bandeirante
1947
Eymonnet’s vibrant map, heightened in gold, is very much in the style of the planispheres created by Lucien Boucher for Air France. The image shows the origin of airline in Brazil and the many destinations that it reached at the time of the map. It...
A Map of the most Inhabited part of New England
1755
The very rare first state, with “Konektikut” in the title, of the pre-eminent eighteenth century map of New England, and of great geographic and political significance. Issued in 1755, Green’s 'Map of the Most Inhabited Part of...
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...
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...
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...
New Zealand
1848
Published in volume II of the second edition of Dumont D’Urville’s ‘Voyage autour du monde publie sous la direction du contre-amiral Dumont d'Urville’, his selection of important voyages of discovery from Magellan...
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...
Hydrographical Chart of the World According to Wright's or Mercators Projection
1814
Arrowsmith's towering achievement of English cartography of the early 19th century: arguably the most advanced and detailed map of the world available at the time, and a superb example. A map of great scale on eight, unfolded, elephant-folio sheets-it wo...
