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The 'Ratzen Plan' of the City of New York

1769

This very rare first state of the 'Ratzen Plan' is one of the most important eighteenth-century maps of New York City. Prepared by Bernard Ratzer a decade prior to the start of the American Revolution, the map is by far the most accurate pu...

 

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Carte de la Partie de la Virginie ou l'Armee Combinee

c1782

Esnauts and Rapilly's map is widely regarded as one of the most important of all Battle Plans of the American Revolution and one of the very few to be drawn from a French eyewitness perspective. Their fine depiction of the Battle of Yorktown is on...

 

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Weekend Vacation Guide in the Western Southland

c1957

A  lovely pictographic map of the US Southwest created by James Lewicki for the the Ford Motor Company and included in an edition of 'Ford Times. A Car Owners Magazine'. Lewicki's style, while unique, is closer to that of Ru...

 

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Untitled Map of the World.

c1960

A whimsical, double hemisphere world route-map with illustrations of early forms of aviation and sea travel, was created for TAI (Transports Aeriens Intercontinetaux). The good-natured feeling can be summed up by the small notice in the bottom right ...

 

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A New Map of the City of San Diego California

1906

The earliest map of San Diego printed by Rodney Stokes, San Diego's first major mapmaking establishment.A large scale map showing the subdivisions of San Diego, distributed by the Richards Realty Company, of 922 Sixth Street, in San Diego. Of note are...

 

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A Dog’s Idea of the Ideal Country Estate

1930

Held's is an 'imaginative' pictorial map of a dog’s idea of the ideal country estate, published in 'Country Living' magazine. The map depicts numerous locales, activities, and items that any dog would include in its ideal co...

 

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The San Diego Exposition / 1915 Panama-California Exposition 1915

1912

Published also as a post card by Eno & Matteson of San Diego, in November of 1913. Townsend Brown’s view represents an early design for the Goodhue - Allen vision of the exposition after the resignation of the Olmsted first in mid-1911.In spite of int...

 

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Sunshine Air Trails

1947

A very early “road map of the air” where surface roads are replaced by air routes and airfields predominate over gas stations.  Playing into the post-war interest in private aviation (the cover features a Piper Cub) this colorful map is...

 

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'Crown of the Valley'

1933

“In 1770 Don Caspar de Portola, poetically impressed with the beauty of this flower strewn valley exclaimed, ‘Le Grane Sabinalla de San Pasqual’, or, ‘the Great Altar Cloth of Easter’ and to see is to believe”.&ldqu...

 

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Topographical Map of the City of New York

1865

"The most enduring nineteenth-century map of Manhattan is Egbert Ludovicus Viele's Water Map, which was first published in 1859 and is still in use today” (Augustyn & Cohen).Viele’s iconic map of New York: 'Topographical Map ...

 

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