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UAT Route Map of Africa

c1956

“la plus importante compagnie privee Francais de transport aerien”This colourful poster map was created for ‘UAT Aeromaritime’, a French airline originally founded as ‘Aeromaritime’ in 1937 by the shipping line Les Chargeu...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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Dai Nihon Dochu Saikenzu (Japan)

1882

Large color-printed engraved map of Japan on three sheets joined. 14x57 inches overall, folding into original self-wrappers with printed paper label; covers a bit worn, map excellent.  A fine Meiji map of Japan profusely illustrated with over 70...

 

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Pan Am. On the Routes of the Flying Clipper Ships

1949

Pictorial map of North and South America.  Covers from San Francisco to south of Buenos Aires. showing the routes of Pan American Airways "Flying Clipper Ship" routes, a commercial airline service in operation from 1931 to 1946. The fl...

 

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A Hysterical Map of the Grand Coulee

1935

Large dams, like the Grand Coulee, constituted an important part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. These included the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State. A concrete gravity dam, Grand Coulee took eight ye...

 

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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 ti...

 

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"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 navigationa...

 

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Untitled Map of the World

1480 [but 1590]

One of four known examples of “the most visually satisfying of all the incunable maps” (Campbell).The map appears to be an original piece of fifteenth century mapmaking with no obvious cartographic ancestor.“Although the information conveyed...

 

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Manuscript Mappemundi and Solar Eclipse

c1200

A thirteenth century manuscript map of the world from an early copy of William of Conches’ ‘Dragmaticon philosophiae’. The map depicts the world as a circle with east at the top, the points labelled “Oriens”, “Occi...

 

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