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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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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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Kyoto - the Heart of Japan

c1785

A Tenmei era, colour-printed woodblock map of Kyoto, Japan, oriented with north to the left, created during the reign of Emperor Kokaku, who came to power during a great famine, but whose reign (1780-1817) is generally thought to have been peaceful. He...

 

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Digital Deli Map of Personal Computer America

1984

Meyerowitz's original manuscript map, for the illustration commissioned by the Workman Publishing Company, as both a promotional poster for, and published in, their book ‘Digital Deli: The Comprehensive, User-Lovable Menu of Computer Lore, Culture, L...

 

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TWA - the Gentleman's Airline - World Route Map

1948

TWA was formed in 1930, when Transcontinental Air Transport merged with Western Air Express. By 1939 the new airline was owned by the legendary Howard Hughes, under whose stewardship it gained a reputation as the gentleman’s airline. The Royal Am...

 

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A Souvenir of the Legendary Hotel Hana Ranch

after 1946

White's map of the Island of Maui appears on the inside of a folding souvenir for the ‘Hotel Hana Ranch. Hana Maui, Territory of Hawaii’.White’s first ‘cartograph’ of the Island of Maui was published in colour i...

 

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