Featured Maps
A Pictorial Map South Africa
1950
This charming souvenir map was created by Bernard Sargent for the South African Tourist Corporation. The map shows the major roads and the sites that can be seen along those roads, representing "diverse places and extraordinary manner of strange ...
La Jolla "The Jewel"
1968
A delightful and quite scarce pictorial of the Village and vicinity in 1968. Covers as far south as Bird Rock and North to the Torrey Pines Golf Course which is noted as “Golfer’s Paradise”. Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the esta...
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,...
New Haven
1928
Carina Eaglesfield Mortimer Milligan (1890-1978) was an American architect, who joined Anne Morgan (1873-1952)’s Comite Americain de Secour Civil / CASC, during WWII, after the death of her first husband. Unlike most young architects, Eaglesfi...
Fun Map of New Zealand
1940
Issued by the New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau and printed by E.V. Paul after designs by Charles Haines, the first advertising agency in New Zealand, founded by Haines in 1891. While the promotional material on the verso of the map is designed to...
East Africa Land of Sunshine (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika)
1949
Depicting modern day Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda, the map extends from Lake Tanganyika to the Indian Ocean and from the Sudan/Ethiopia border to the Ruvuma River. The map features many of East Africa’s Great Game parks: the Seren...
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...
"Hysterical Map of Yellowstone ...."
1948
The “Famous Hysterical Map of Yellowstone Park including a few minor? Changes”, was first published in 1936. "Hatched & Scratched by Jolly Lindgren", it includes most of the humor of the previous iterations, and includes...
"Meddo" Sea Chart-Marshall Islands
c1920
This ‘Meddo’ sea chart from the Marshall Islands, where navigation was, and still is, an essential survival skill, was a closely guarded secret and only passed on within a small number of families. In order to memorise the main navigational...
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...
