Featured Maps
Six WWII "NEWSMAP" Issues
1943
Pictured is a poster done by Theodore Geisel., Verso is a map by Richard Edes HarrisonPrinted on both sides with very attractive graphics. Issues include work by well-known artists such as Al Capp and Theodore Geisel (not yet “Dr Seuss&rdq...
Armour Food Source Map
c1960
In this promotional pictorial map of the United States, each state is defined by its agricultural produce. A History of the American Food Industry appears on the verso. It is the fourth edition, preceded by smaller versions of the map issued as p...
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 isla...
Sunny Hawkes bay, New Zealand
1960
A promotional map, probably produced by the local tourist bureau, centred on the towns of Hastings “The Fruit Bowl of New Zealand” and Napier “New Zealand’s Riviera”, in the Heretaunga Plains area, close to Hawke’s Bay,...
Pacific Arena. A Fortune Map. Orthographic Series II
1942
Centered on the North Pacific, the map shows the American Northwest, Russia, China, Southeast Asia and Australia. “Of all great arenas of this, the first true world war, the Pacific is the most difficult to conceive and visualize as a whole. That ...
The World Centrifuged
August, 1941
“The situation is as of July 7, 1941, and is subject to change without notice” (legend on the map).Issued in the August, 1941, special edition of ‘Fortune Magazine’, devoted to ‘Total War in the US’. The featured map,...
Pictorial Map of Fresno County & Mid-California's Garden of the Sun
c1923
The anonymous bird’s-eye view, which extends north to San Joaquin, south to Kern, and west to Gala Veras, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties, is surrounded by 31 mostly photographic vignettes illustrating landmarks, natural resources and industries....
The first map dedicated to Australia in English
1744-1748
Tasman’s map of New Holland was first published in Melchisedech Thevenot’s 'Relations de divers voyages curieux' in 1663 and then revised until 1696. “Thevenot ensured that his book included maps at every juncture. Of t...
Anchorage & Cook Inlet, Alaska
1983
Published for the ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC (Vol 10, Number 2), this colorful map covers from Anchorage to Seward and NE to Mt McKinley (Denali name not yet present).This is one of the better examples of this genre. Susan Schumacher (who was on the maga...
Geographiae opus novissima traductione a Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum
1513
This is one of the most important editions of Ptolemy's geography, containing many new regional maps: twenty new maps based on contemporary knowledge "unlike many of the alleged 'new' maps produced by earlier editors, [they] contained a ...
