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• Angling in Troubled Waters. A Serio-Comic Map of Europe by Frederick W. Rose, Author of the “Octopus” Map of Europe.

  A never-folded example of Frederick W. Rose’s iconic 1899 caricature map of Europe on a collision course.

  Cartographer(s): Frederick William Rose, George Washington Bacon

  Place/Date: London / 1899

  $3,200 Add to cart
• Hayastan: hamaynagitakan Hayastan (Armenia: Encyclopedic Armenia)

  A cartographic celebration of Armenia and Armenian culture.

  Cartographer(s): Hovhannes K. Babessian, Imp. Dufrénoy

  Place/Date: Paris / 1933

  $2,600 Add to cart
• Merry-Maker’s Map of San Francisco

  A 1940 pictorial map of San Francisco that captures the zeitgeist of Herb Caen’s “Baghdad-by-the-Bay.”

  Cartographer(s): Milt Schenkofsky

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1940

  $2,600 Add to cart
• Pony Express Route April 3, 1860 – October 24, 1861

  A vivid 1961 pictorial commemoration of the Pony Express centennial.

  Cartographer(s): American Pioneer Trails Association, Howard R. Driggs, William Henry Jackson

  Place/Date: New York / 1961

  $350 Add to cart
• A THING WELL BEGUN IS HALF DONE. UNCLE SAM—“Finish the canal, McKinley, and make our national expansion complete in your first administration.”

  William McKinley & Uncle Sam: a wonderful 1899 persuasive map advocating for the construction of the Nicaragua Canal.

  Cartographer(s): Frederick Victor Gillam

  Place/Date: New York / 1899

  $975 Add to cart
• Plan of Ancient Troy

  When artifact becomes cartifact — locally-published and detailed archaeological plan of Ancient Troy.

  Cartographer(s): AYLA

  Place/Date: Çanakkale / 1964

  $175 Add to cart
• Carmel-By-the-Sea Past and Present (with original envelope!)

  This information-packed, cartoon-style map of Carmel-by-the-Sea in California is a typical example of Jo Mora’s innovative style of mapmaking and one of the most iconic maps from his hand.

  Cartographer(s): Jo Mora

  Place/Date: Carmel-By-The-Sea / 1942

  $1,800 Add to cart
• “As the Crow Flies” A 200-Ft. “Airline” Boulevard Between Fort Worth and Dallas

  A highly artistic broadside for the visionary Dallas-Fort Worth Airline Boulevard: a Depression-era infrastructure project designed to bridge and unite two Texas cities.

  Cartographer(s): C.K. Chambers (Southwestern Engraving Co.)

  Place/Date: Fort Worth, Texas / ca. 1930

  $2,900 Add to cart
• Golden Gate International Exposition 1940. May 25 to September 29. Treasure Island on San Francisco Bay

  Promotional poster for the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Expo in San Francisco — an icon of late Art Deco poster art.

  Cartographer(s): Cornelius “Neil” Cogswell Sampson

  Place/Date: Not listed / 1940

  $2,900 Add to cart
• Marvelous Marin, Home of Muir Woods National Monument

  A marvelous work for a marvelous place: a 1960s pictorial map of Marin County, CA.

  Cartographer(s): Marin Tourism Bureau

  Place/Date: San Rafael / ca. 1960

  $275 Add to cart
• The Original Silicon Valley Map & Calendar [1994]

  On the eve of the dot-com bubble: a vibrant 1994 pictorial bird’s-eye-view of Silicon Valley.

  Cartographer(s): Diane Gatto

  Place/Date: San Jose / 1993

  $775 Add to cart
• San Francisco

  Special 1974 pictorial map of San Francisco issued by the Mark Hopkins Hotel.

  Cartographer(s): Hollmann Publishing Company

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1974

  $950 Add to cart
• Map of Peralta Park, Berkeley, Alameda County, Cal. Subdivided October 1878. M.C. King, C.E. Scale 80 Feet to One Inch. Property of M.B. Curtis.

  Land grants, failed endeavors, and a fabulously wealthy stage actor: the story of North Berkeley’s Peralta Park.

  Cartographer(s): Schmidt Label & Litho. Co.

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1878

  $2,450 Add to cart
• Bacon’s Bird’s-Eye View of the Holy Land

  George Washington Bacon’s iconic bird’s-eye-view of the Holy Land.

  Cartographer(s): George Washington Bacon

  Place/Date: London / 1890

  $2,600 Add to cart
• Site of Golden Gate-International Exposition: “A pageant of the Pacific”

  A masterfully-composed 1939 color panorama of San Francisco and its newly built bridges.

  Cartographer(s): Elbridge Ayer (E. A.) Burbank, Wobbers, Inc.

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1939

  $2,700 Add to cart
• They’ve got an invisible program to end an undeclared war backed by a silent majority.

  A sharp anti-Vietnam War protest broadside that captured the zeitgeist of the time, matched the moment, and pulled no punches.

  Cartographer(s): Robert Grossman

  Place/Date: New York City / 1970

  $750 Add to cart
• Map of Eastern Virginia Compiled from the best authorities and printed at the Coast Survey Office, A.D. Bache, Supdt. 1862.

  Alexander Bache’s Map of Eastern Virginia: a Union map of Washington’s Confederate backyard.

  Cartographer(s): Alexander Dallas Bache, Philip & Solomons

  Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1862

  $1,700 Add to cart
• Oakland [1993 calendar map]

  Early 1990s pictorial bird’s-eye-view of Oakland, CA.

  Cartographer(s): City Designs

  Place/Date: San Ramon, CA / 1993

  $345 Add to cart
• [Sutro Baths] ON THE SHORE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN

  A monumental and vivacious rendition of San Francisco’s magnificent Sutro Baths.

  Cartographer(s): Anonymous

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1896

  $18,000 Add to cart
• “SWORD AREA” BEACH CHARTLET. Enlargement of Portion F.1016

  World War II hydrographic chart used for planning the British D-Day landing at Sword Beach in Normandy.

  Cartographer(s): Office of the British Admiralty Hydrographic

  Place/Date: London / 18th February 1944

  $1,850 Add to cart
• Wandkarte der Teppichgebiete

  A remarkable visualization of well-known carpet regions in the Middle East and Central Asia, produced at the height of the ‘Persian rug craze’.

  Cartographer(s): Verlag der "Teppich-Börse"

  Place/Date: Vienna / ca. 1931

  $1,350 Add to cart
• Bird’s Eye View of the Famous Santa Clara Valley Looking Southerly from San Francisco

  A rare and dramatic bird’s-eye-view of Santa Clara Valley.

  Cartographer(s): Britton & Rey

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1886

  $2,400 Add to cart
• [Title in Russian] Iraq

  Cold War era Soviet map of Ba’athist Iraq.

  Cartographer(s): General Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography (USSR)

  Place/Date: Moscow / 1966

  $150 Add to cart
• [Title in Russian] Syria

  Cold War era Soviet map of Syria.

  Cartographer(s): General Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography (USSR)

  Place/Date: Moscow / 1977

  $175 Add to cart
• Hyde Park Illinois

  The University and its environs: a bird’s-eye-view pictorial map of Hyde Park Chicago.

  Cartographer(s): Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce, Timothy Shedelbower

  Place/Date: Chicago / 1987

  $675 Add to cart

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• i 50 Sbarchi in Gran Bretagna

  Persuasive cartography: 1941 Italian map of Great Britain promoting its vulnerability to invasion.

  Cartographer(s): Visceglia

  Place/Date: Milan / 1941

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• Merry-Maker’s Map of San Francisco

  A 1940 pictorial map of San Francisco that captures the zeitgeist of Herb Caen’s “Baghdad-by-the-Bay.”

  Cartographer(s): Milt Schenkofsky

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1940

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• Map of San Francisco, Points of Interest, A Birdseye View of the City by the Golden Gate

  Excellent 1952 pictorial bird’s-eye-view of San Francisco.

  Cartographer(s): Don Bloodgood

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1952

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• MapEasy’s Guidemap to San Francisco. A Location Map and Guidebook in one!

  City travel on the eve of the world wide web: a detailed two-sided tourist map of San Francisco.

  Cartographer(s): MapEasy

  Place/Date: Amagansett, NY / 1993

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• LA ’84 Summer Games

  A fun pictorial map for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

  Cartographer(s): West Coast Ventures

  Place/Date: Los Angeles / 1983

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• California [Deluxe edition screen-printed on linen]

  The Ultimate Pictorial Map of California in the late 60s, here the highly sought-after and larger limited edition.

  Cartographer(s): David Schiller, John F. Johnson

  Place/Date: San Jose / 1968

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• [Sequential Panoramic Triptych] The Burning City, The Ruins, and the Business Section of San Francisco

  A scarce R.J. Waters three panoramic photograph sequence of San Francisco destroyed and rebuilt.

  Cartographer(s): R.J. Waters Company

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1914

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• View of the World from 9th Avenue

  Original run example of Saul Steinberger’s iconic illustration of the world as seen from a typical New Yorker’s perspective.

  Cartographer(s): Saul Steinberg

  Place/Date: New York / 1976

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• Preliminary Mineralogical and Geological Map of the State of California Issued By The California State Mining Bureau. January 1st 1891.

  A pioneering map of California, in which the entire state is mapped in mineralogical and geological terms for the first time.

  Cartographer(s): Julius C. Henkenius

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1891

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• Montclair Village [Oakland, CA]

  Delightful 1987 pictorial map of Montclair Village, Oakland.

  Cartographer(s): Jim Kingwell

  Place/Date: Oakland / 1987

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• Merry-Maker’s Map of San Francisco

  A 1940 pictorial map of San Francisco that captures the zeitgeist of Herb Caen’s “Baghdad-by-the-Bay.”

  Cartographer(s): Milt Schenkofsky

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1940

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• Expedition Citroen Centre-Asie 3eme Mission G.-M. Haardt – L. Audouin-Dubreuil

  A remarkable collection of materials related to the first automobile crossing of Asia: the famous Citroën Central Asia Expedition of 1931-32, from Beruit to Peking.

  Cartographer(s): Georges-Marie Haardt, Louis Audouin-Dubreuil

  Place/Date: Paris / 1933

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• THE EXPULSION OF AXIS FORCES FROM NORTH AFRICA

  Overpowering the Desert Fox: a scarce World War II flow map celebrating victory in North Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Anonymous

  Place/Date: England(?) / 1943

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• The New California Sugar Refinery, San Francisco.

  The New California Sugar Refinery: an emblem of late 19th century industrial San Francisco.

  Cartographer(s): Arthur F. Mathews, Britton & Rey

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1881

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• San Francisco Potrero Hill Showplace Square

  Images of a different era: an exciting, block-by-block glimpse of late 1980s Potrero Hill San Francisco.

  Cartographer(s): City Graphics of America, Inc.

  Place/Date: Fremont, CA / 1988

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• Map Exhibiting the Salt Marsh, Tide and Submerged Lands Disposed of by the State of California in and Adjacent to the Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo and now Subject to Reclamation Prepared from Maps of the U.S. Coast Survey & Official Records by Order of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners for the United States Commissioners on San Francisco Harbor…

  The power of private enterprise in America: a rare and important map of the San Francisco Bay Tide Lands, showcasing ambitions behind the city’s development.

  Cartographer(s): Britton & Rey, T. J. Arnold

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1874

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• Silicon Valley

  [Unrecorded 1986 issue] Splendid pictorial map of Silicon Valley chronicling the wide array of firms and start-ups in the field of computer technology.

  Cartographer(s): City Graphics of America, Inc., Stephanie Russell

  Place/Date: Fremont, CA / 1986

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• Silicon Valley [:] Apple Computer, Inc.

  A 1990 pictorial map of Silicon Valley published by Apple Computer and giving a whimsical snapshot of the era’s enthusiasm.

  Cartographer(s): Apple Computer, Inc.

  Place/Date: Cupertino / 1990

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• VIII Corps In European Theater of Operations

  Fighting across Europe from Normandy to Czechoslovakia: VIII Corps World War II theatre of operations map.

  Cartographer(s): VIII Corps Office of the Engineer & 665th Engr. Topo. Co.

  Place/Date: Not listed / May 9th 1945

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• [Title in Russian] United Arab Republic

  Cold War era Soviet map of the United Arab Republic.

  Cartographer(s): General Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography (USSR)

  Place/Date: Moscow / 1965

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• Kauai. Hawaii

  Delightful pictorial map of the island of Kauai.

  Cartographer(s): James Olson, Travel Graphics International

  Place/Date: Minneapolis, MN / 1982

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• [Untitled map of the Soviet Union]

  Between Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan: large-format map of the Soviet Union by one of America’s great cartographic illustrators.

  Cartographer(s): Robert M. Chapin Jr.

  Place/Date: New York / Nov. 17 1941

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• Silicon Valley

  Pictorial bird’s-eye-view of Silicon Valley on the eve of the Internet age.

  Cartographer(s): City Graphics of America, Inc.

  Place/Date: Fremont, CA / 1985

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• [Spain & Portugal]

  Exceptional bird’s-eye-view of the Iberian Peninsula.

  Cartographer(s): A. Trub

  Place/Date: Aarau / ca. 1925

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• The Maltese Islands

  Excellent pictorial map of Malta with plan of Valetta.

  Cartographer(s): Aldo Ciqheri

  Place/Date: Italy / ca. 1950

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• The Spanish Heritage and Contribution to the American Independence 1512-1823

  A historical map of the United States celebrating Spanish heritage in North America.

  Cartographer(s): Alejandro de Muns

  Place/Date: Madrid / 1981

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• “Vincere!”

  The persuasive iconography of conflict: a double WWII theater of war Italian propaganda map.

  Cartographer(s): Breviario Rag. Comm. Franco, Campera Capit. Prof. Domenico

  Place/Date: Rome / 1943

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• A Map of the Marked Historical Sites of California. Compiled from the official registrations of the California State Department of Natural Resources

  Large-format pictorial map of California documenting the state’s historical sites.

  Cartographer(s): Automobile Club of Southern California, Lowell Butler

  Place/Date: Not listed / 1952

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• Carta delle Terre Antartiche Esplorate e Scoperte dalla “Belgica” Compilata da A. Faustini secondo i dati del Commandante A. de Gerlache

  Documenting a first in Antarctic exploration: the Belgian Expedition of 1897 to 1899.

  Cartographer(s): Stab. P. Casetti

  Place/Date: Rome / ca. 1900

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• Map of San Francisco, Points of Interest, A Birdseye View of the City by the Golden Gate

  Excellent 1952 pictorial bird’s-eye-view of San Francisco.

  Cartographer(s): Don Bloodgood

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1952

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• Cartes Blondel Planisphère Politique et Grandes Routes Aériennes

  Tracking the expanding sector of post-war commercial aviation.

  Cartographer(s): Blondel La Rougery

  Place/Date: Paris / 1948

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• Colonie Dell’Africa Orientale Italiana e Abissinia

  East Africa on the eve of World War II: the Italian gambit.

  Cartographer(s): Arti Grafiche Anselmo Tavazzani

  Place/Date: Milan / ca. 1937

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• Souvenir Map of San Francisco Chinatown

  Fine pictorial map of San Francisco Chinatown by a Chinese-American artist.

  Cartographer(s): Bob Chan, Jin-A-Graphics Printing Company

  Place/Date: San Jose / ca. 1967

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• i 50 Sbarchi in Gran Bretagna

  Persuasive cartography: 1941 Italian map of Great Britain promoting its vulnerability to invasion.

  Cartographer(s): Visceglia

  Place/Date: Milan / 1941

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• Walnut Creek California

  1985 pictorial bird’s-eye-view of Walnut Creek.

  Cartographer(s): Joseph C. Pipia

  Place/Date: Not listed / 1985

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• Pony Express Route April 3, 1860 – October 24, 1861

  Vivid pictorial commemoration of the Pony Express centennial.

  Cartographer(s): American Pioneer Trails Association, Howard R. Driggs, William Henry Jackson

  Place/Date: New York / 1961

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• [Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic]

  The map of Transnistria you never knew you needed, a.k.a. the only map of Transnistria you’ll ever need.

  Cartographer(s): Unknown

  Place/Date: Transnistria / ca. 2010

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• The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Los Angeles County

  Looking back at land distribution in pre-American Los Angeles County — pictorial map of Spanish and Mexican ranchos.

  Cartographer(s): Gerald A. Eddy, Title Insurance & Trust Company

  Place/Date: Los Angeles / 1937

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• The “Chevalier” Commercial, Pictorial and Tourist Map of San Francisco From Latest U.S. Gov. and Official Surveys. Designed-Engraved And Copyrighted By Aug. Chevalier, Lithographer Publisher, 507 Mission St. San Francisco.

  Splendid Chevalier map of San Francisco for the 1915 Exposition.

  Cartographer(s): August Chevalier

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1915

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• Map Showing Property of South San Francisco Land and Improvement Co at South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California

  Detailed 1907 Britton & Rey lithograph of South San Francisco.

  Cartographer(s): Britton & Rey, South San Francisco Land & Improvement Co.

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1907

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