Featured Maps
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 sm...
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...
Trans-Mar de Cortes Route map
after 1949
“Fly in luxurious DC3 following the routes opened by the Missionaries three Centuries ago” through Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahu; from Tijuana to La Paz, as far east as El pas, Juarez and Chihuahua. Decorated with vignettes of landmark...
Danny Arnold's Pictorial Map of The Old West
1962
Published to coincide with, and cash in on the success of, the 1962 Cinerama film 'How the West Was Won'. The film hosted an all-star cast: Carroll Baker, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Debbie Reynolds, Jimmie Stewart, Eli...
SABENA Africa Route Map
1950
Dramatic and stylish map showing the routes of Sabena Airlines throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.SABENA: Societé Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne - Belgian Corporation for Air Navigation Services – was the na...
Complete Map of the Airlines of K.N.I.L.M
c1935
Featuring a Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra, or “Lockheed 14”, the flagship of the KNILM passenger fleet, soaring over the East India archipelago and parts of Southeast Asia, formerly the Dutch East Indies, and now modern Indonesia. The rou...
British Commonwealth of Nations
October 1945-April 1946
Rare separately issued pictorial map of the world, published at the end of World War II by the British Information Services, but issued from their office at 30 Rockefeller Center, New York City. The British Information Services (BIS) was the New York b...
Didactic Manuscript Map of Africa
c1813
An exceptional manuscript composition most likely done in, or for, a German school classroom. The central map of Africa is surrounded by finely detailed vignettes including a coastal view of the mountains from the south-east coast, exotic natural history wit...
World Wonders. A Pictorial Map
1939
Chase’s Wonders of the World, include: engineering, architectural and artistic achievements of mankind through the ages, as well as marvels of nature; the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Mayan temples, Egyptian Sphinx, Great Wall of Ch...
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...
