Rare City Plans
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Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.
Braun & Hogenberg’s extraordinary rendition of Elizabethan London as Shakespeare knew it.
Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz HogenbergPlace/Date: Cologne / 1574$8,500 Add to cart -
Nouveau Plan Illustré de la Ville de Paris
A scarce third edition of Vuillemin’s illustrated map of Paris after the fortifications of Adolphe Thiers.
Cartographer(s): Alexandre Aimé VuilleminPlace/Date: Paris / 1846$800 Add to cart -
Roma Vetus In usum scholarum editit Herm. Rheinhard Tymn Stuggt. Prof.
A rare and spectacular vision of ancient Rome, compiled by a German scholar in the mid-19th century.
Cartographer(s): Hermann RheinhardPlace/Date: Stuttgart / 1868$2,400 Add to cart -
Pianta Topografica di Roma Pubblicata Dalla Direzione Generale Del Censo ed Aggiornata a Tutto il Corrente anno MDCCCLXVI
The most important 19th-century plan of Rome.
Cartographer(s): Direzione Generale del CensoPlace/Date: Rome / 1866$3,400 Add to cart -
Alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Benedetto XIV La Nuova Topografia di Roma Ossequiosamente Offerisce e Dedica l’Umilissimo Servo Giambattista Nolli Comasco
The famous Nolli wall map of Rome: one of the finest urban plans ever made.
Cartographer(s): Giovanni Battista NolliPlace/Date: Rome / 1748$35,000 Add to cart -
Map of the Central Park. April 20th 1871
Olmsted and Vaux’s 1871 plan of Central Park.
Place/Date: New York / 1871$1,500 Add to cart -
Venetia.
A stunning and highly detailed view of the lagoon city of Venice, compiled in the early 18th century and issued by Probst, Augsburg’s most famous publishing dynasty.
Place/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1760$4,800 Add to cart -
Thomas Bros Map of the City and County of San Francisco.
Large and attractive 1938 Thomas Brothers map of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Thomas Bros.Place/Date: Oakland / 1938$475 Add to cart -
Latest map of Los Angeles county and points of interest.
A beautiful, hand-colored 1950 map of Los Angeles.
Cartographer(s): Bekins Moving & Storage Co.Place/Date: Los Angeles / 1950$275 Add to cart -
Peiping
John Kirk Sewall’s famous pictorial 1930 map of Beijing.
Place/Date: Tientsin, China / ca. 1930$1,250 Add to cart -
Plan of London in the reign of Queen Elisabeth.
Attractive 1835 city plan of Elizabethan London.
Place/Date: London / ca. 1835$625 Add to cart -
Land Use & Generalized Plan. City of Detroit – Master Plan
Detroit’s Master Plan from 1950, the apogee of boom town Motor City.
Cartographer(s): City Plan CommissionPlace/Date: Detroit / 1950$1,875 Add to cart -
Chicago’s Gangland. Prepared by Frederic M. Thrasher 1923-26
A first edition presentation copy inscribed by the author — Frederic M. Thrasher’s study and map of Gangs in Prohibition-Era Chicago.
Cartographer(s): Fredric Milton ThrasherPlace/Date: Chicago / 1927$3,500 Add to cart -
Map of the City of Ottawa, Published by A.S. Woodburn. Ottawa.
A.S. Woodburn’s rare 1885 map of Ottawa: one of the earliest acquirable large-scale city plans of Canada’s national capital.
Cartographer(s): A. S. WoodburnPlace/Date: Montreal / 1885$4,800 Add to cart -
San Francisco
Special 1974 pictorial map of San Francisco issued by the Mark Hopkins Hotel.
Cartographer(s): Hollmann Publishing CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1974$950 Add to cart -
[Old Damascus]
Unrecorded large-scale cyanotype archaeological plan of Old Damascus during the Crusades.
Cartographer(s): Syrian Department of AntiquitiesPlace/Date: Damascus / ca. 1923$1,900 Add to cart -
[Milan and environs]
Extremely rare town-plan of Milan and its environs at time of great upheaval for the city.
Cartographer(s): Franz ValmaginiPlace/Date: Milan / ca. 1850$2,800 Add to cart -
Map of the Old Saucelito Land and Dry Dock Co.’s Lands Showing the Property for Sale at Auction By Maurice Dore & Co. Auctioneers Tuesday July 22nd 1873
Rare 1873 Sausalito property map with old town spelling.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1873$6,500 Add to cart
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安政改正 府鄉御江戶繪圖 / [Sketch Map of the City and Villages of Edo, Ansei Revised Edition].
The Japanese capital on the verge of modernity.
Place/Date: Tokyo / ca. 1855Read more -
Map Showing Property of South San Francisco Land and Improvement Co at South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California
A large-format urban plan of South San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1907Read more -
Map and Street Directory of Sioux City
A 1935 promotional map and street index for Sioux City, Iowa, where Lewis and Clark once camped.
Cartographer(s): Bekins Moving & Storage Co.Place/Date: Not listed / 1935Read more -
La Città di Palermo
Vasi’s remarkable Baroque town plan and view of mid-18th century Palermo and surroundings.
Cartographer(s): Giuseppe VasiPlace/Date: Rome / ca. 1757Read more -
Town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Manhattan District, Corps of Engineers.
Building the town that helped build the atom bomb.
Cartographer(s): Skidmore, Owings & MerrillPlace/Date: Not listed (presumably Chicago or NYC) / September 27, 1945Read more -
City of Scottsdale Arizona
An attractive hand-watercolored map of Scottsdale, Arizona.
Cartographer(s): Scottsdale Chamber of CommercePlace/Date: Scottsdale, AZ / ca. 1970Read more -
Britton & Rey’s Guide Map of the City of San Francisco. 1887. Copyright. (with) Index to Street Guide Map of San Francisco, Cal. by Britton & Rey
Unusual 1887 Britton & Rey map of San Francisco with a rare depiction of the Bay District Racing Track.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1887Read more -
Hudson’s New Twin City Map
Hand-colored 1961 map of the Twin Cities.
Cartographer(s): Hudson Map CompanyPlace/Date: Minneapolis, Minnesota / 1961Read more -
Official Map of San Francisco, Compiled From The Field Notes of the Official Re-Survey made by William M. Eddy, Surveyor of the Town of San Francisco, California, 1849.
Eddy’s 1849 map — One of the earliest obtainable maps of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): William EddyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1850Read more -
Ashburn’s Map of Oklahoma City
1966 map of Oklahoma City with city skyline vignette.
Cartographer(s): J. Foster AshburnPlace/Date: Fort Worth, TX / 1966Read more -
Map of Oakland and vicinity: Alameda, Berkeley, Fruitvale and Piedmont.
The most spectacular early map of the East Bay that we have ever seen, plotting everything from shell mounds to railroads to real estate holdings and more.
Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1892Read more -
Piano Regolatore Città di Roma
Fine 19th century cadastral map of Rome — indicates the proposed area of the Victor Emmanuel II National Monument.
Cartographer(s): Ing. E. ZanottiPlace/Date: Rome / 1883Read more -
Fiorenza
A Late Renaissance bird’s-eye-view of Florence, with the Medici family crest.
Cartographer(s): Matteo FlorimiPlace/Date: Siena / ca. 1600Read more -
Amman in Panorama
A graphic vista of Amman as a modern Arab Metropolis, published less than a decade after Jordanian Independence.
Place/Date: Beirut / 1953Read more -
Dallas. Texas Sesquicentennial Edition
A fun and lively pictorial map of 1980s Dallas, TX.
Cartographer(s): Old San Francisco Steak HousePlace/Date: Dallas / 1985Read more -
Map of Boston and Vicinity
An excellent late 19th century large-format city plan of Boston.
Cartographer(s): George H. WalkerPlace/Date: Boston / 1893Read more -
Historical Map of the Underground Railways
A Tube map unlike any other: telling the story of London’s famed transit system.
Cartographer(s): London Transport BoardPlace/Date: London / 1975Read more -
New Orleans. Louisiana
A fabulous, hand-watercolored, post-WWII city plan of New Orleans.
Cartographer(s): A. HirschwitzPlace/Date: New Orleans / 1950Read more -
Panormo
A superb late 17th century Merian town-plan of Palermo.
Cartographer(s): Matthäus MerianPlace/Date: Frankfurt / ca. 1688Read more -
Plano de Barcelona Especial para los Grandes Almacenes El Siglo
On the eve of civil war: a large and beautiful early 1930s city plan of Barcelona.
Cartographer(s): Grandes Almacenes El SigloPlace/Date: Barcelona / ca. 1931Read more -
Map of Seattle Washington Compliments of Bekins Moving & Storage
Lovely hand-colored c. 1955 city plan of Seattle.
Cartographer(s): Bekins Moving & Storage Co.Place/Date: Seattle / ca. 1955Read more -
Official Map of Chinatown in San Francisco [bound in] San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1884-85
One of the great thematic maps of a 19th American city: a rare 1885 map of San Francisco Chinatown, “a city within the city.”
Cartographer(s): B. Farwell, John E. Kunklet, E. B. Pond; A.L. Bancroft & Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1885Read more -
A Map for the City of Seattle and adjacent territory accompanying a report of MUNICIPAL PLANS COMMISSION.
The famous ‘Bogue Plan’ of Seattle: an ambitious urban design for the city and environs from 1911.
Place/Date: Seattle / 1911Read more -
Poverty Areas of New York City: Distribution of Public Assistance Recipients by Census Tracts (September 1977)…
Social cartography: a thematic city plan that purports to document the extent and distribution of poverty in New York City in the late 1970s.
Cartographer(s): Allied Map Company, Inc.Place/Date: New Rochelle, NY / 1980Read more -
E. C. Sessions’ Map of Oakland and Brooklyn
Excellent 1871 map of Oakland with Transcontinental Railroad terminus – lithographed by famous African American artist G.T. Brown.
Cartographer(s): G.T. Brown & Co. Lith.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1871Read more -
Plano Comercial de la Capital Federal y sus Alrededores por A. Bemporat [AND] Gran Mapa de Ferrocarriles Sud Americanos compilado por A. Bemporat
Two of Bemporat’s iconic and monumental Argentinian wall maps: a stunning city plan of Buenos Aires and a national railway map.
Cartographer(s): Oficina Cartografica BemporatPlace/Date: Juncal/Buenos Aires / 1914Read more -
Map of the City of San Francisco, full and complete to the present date. Compiled by Wm. M. Eddy, City Surveyor. January 15th, 1851
A unique and unrecorded variant of William M. Eddy’s iconic 1851 Red Line Map of San Francisco. With evidence of ownership by the great San Franciscan jurist Samuel Wirth Holladay, the first known civil rights lawyer to fight for African-American rights in California.
Cartographer(s): William EddyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1851Read more -
Map of Manila and Vicinity.
Map of Manila belonging to a commander of the anti-guerilla ‘Ilocano Scouts’!
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: Manila (?) / January 1905Read more -
Ganz neu aufgenommener und einzig richtiger Plander Hauptstadt Prag in Böhmen
The jewel of Bohemia: a rare town plan of Prague on the eve of Jüttner.
Cartographer(s): Franz HaasPlace/Date: Prague / ca. 1810Read more -
Ierusalem, et suburbia eius, sicut tempore Christi floruit…
Illustrating the last days of Jesus in Jerusalem: a magnificent 1588 plan of the city in the Second Temple Period.
Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz HogenbergPlace/Date: Cologne / 1588Read more -
Sana’a: Nortech Surveys (Yemen)
A large, separately-issued map of Sanaʽa, capital of the newly reunited Republic of Yemen.
Cartographer(s): The Survey AuthorityPlace/Date: Sana'a / 1992Read more -
[Cairo Islamic Monuments Map] Kharitat al-Qahira tubayyinu al-athaar al-Islamiyya
Fine large-format city plan of Cairo with Islamic monuments color-coded by era.
Cartographer(s): Survey DepartmentPlace/Date: Cairo / 1948Read more -
Lands In and Near San Rafael Marin County Cal. Owned by John W. Mackay and Jas. L. Flood. Formerly known as the Coleman Tract
A rarity of Marin County: 19th century San Rafael silver baron map.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1888Read more -
Plano de la Ciudad de San Sebastian. 90 Aniversario 1879-1969. Caja de Ahorros Municipal de San Sebastian
Huge town plan of San Sebastián commemorating the city’s 90th anniversary
Place/Date: San Sebastian / 1969Read more -
Necrópolis de Barcelona. Plano de Distribucion
Gorgeous 1883 chromolithograph of Montjuïc Cemetery in Barcelona.
Cartographer(s): Lit Suc Ramirez y Ca Barcelona; Leandro AlbaredaPlace/Date: Barcelona / 1883Read more -
Rollandet’s Map of the City of Denver Colorado — Fourth Edition– February 1st, 1889
Rare 1889 map of Denver with vignettes of important buildings
Cartographer(s): Edward RollandetPlace/Date: Denver / 1889Read more -
Grondvlakte van Nieuw Orleans, de Hoofdstad van Louisiana [with] De Uitloop vande Rivier Missisippi [and] De Oostelyke ingang van de Missisippi met een Plan van het Fort
1740 plan of New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta
Cartographer(s): Isaak TirionPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1740Read more -
Salt Lake City, 1887
1887 bird’s-eye-view lithograph of Salt Lake City.
Place/Date: Salt Lake City / 1887Read more -
Antiquae Urbis
1641 town plan of ancient Rome with illustrated monuments.
Cartographer(s): Giacomo LauroPlace/Date: Rome / 1641Read more -
Map of the City of San Francisco Published by Britton & Rey
Never-folded mid-19th century map of San Francisco by Britton and Rey.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1856Read more -
Official Map of San Francisco, Compiled From The Field Notes of the Official Re-Survey made by William M. Eddy, Surveyor of the Town of San Francisco, California, 1849…
Eddy’s 1849 map — One of the earliest obtainable maps of San Francisco!
Cartographer(s): William EddyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1850Read more
