Maps by type

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• They Cheer When You Forget Your Maps

  This whimsical World War II poster, promoting aviation safety practices with US Air Force pilots, is as charming as it is rare.

  Cartographer(s): Directorate of Air Traffic and Safety, Directorate of Safety Education C—L—4

  Place/Date: Not listed / ca. 1943

  $1,200 Add to cart
• 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 / 1935

  $175 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.

  Cartographer(s): Friedrich Bernhard Werner, Georg Balthasar Probst

  Place/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1760

  $4,800 Add to cart
• United Nations Map of the World

  The idealism of the United Nations represented visually.

  Cartographer(s): Bullock, L.G. (Leslie George), John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.

  Place/Date: Edinburgh / ca. 1947

  $475 Add to cart
• Report on a plan for San Francisco by Daniel H. Burnham. Assisted by Edward H. Bennett. Presented to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors by the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco.

  Daniel Burnham’s plan to reshape San Francisco, resurrected after the 1906 earthquake but scrapped after backlash from property owners.

  Cartographer(s): Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward H. Bennett

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1905

  $2,800 Add to cart
• Atlanta Karte der Besatzungszonen mit neuen Postleitgebieten; Map of the Occupation Areas. Carte des Zones d’Occupation. Der Besatzungs-Zonen mit Neuen Postleitgebieten. Karta Okkupacionnych Zon

  A post-WWII map of occupied Germany and Central Europe divided into American, British, French, and Russian zones.

  Cartographer(s): Atlanta Service

  Place/Date: Franfurt am Main / 1945

  $375 Add to cart
• The World According To Ronald Reagan

  A satirical look at The World According To Ronald Reagan [First State].

  Cartographer(s): David Horsey

  Place/Date: Seattle / 1982

  $1,900 Add to cart
• Southern California as seen from fabulous Long Beach

  A wonderful 1950s-era pictorial map of Long Beach.

  Cartographer(s): Long Beach Chamber of Congress

  Place/Date: Long Beach, CA / 1957

  $450 Add to cart
• Historic Kansas

  A ‘prairie parallelogram covered with glamorous history’ — F.A. Cooper’s vivacious mid-century pictorial map of historic Kansas.

  Cartographer(s): F.A. Cooper, The Weekly Kansas City Star

  Place/Date: Lyons, Kansas / 1941

  $300 Add to cart
• Map of San Francisco Showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest

  The greatest and grandest pictorial map of San Francisco, representing the best of Roaring Twenties cartographic wit and optimism.

  Cartographer(s): Harrison Godwin, Schmidt Label & Litho. Co.

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1927

  $2,500 Add to cart
• California.

  Jo Mora’s iconic 1945 map of California, “designed to help you keep the corners of your mouth on the up and up.”

  Cartographer(s): Jo Mora

  Place/Date: Carmel-By-The-Sea / 1945

  $1,800 Add to cart
• La Città di Palermo

  Vasi’s remarkable Baroque town plan and view of mid-18th century Palermo and surroundings.

  Cartographer(s): Giuseppe Vasi

  Place/Date: Rome / ca. 1757

  $2,800 Add to cart
• Latest Map of the Situation in Europe (with an overview of the national strength and defenses of the major powers) [最新歐洲大地圖 (附列強國勢國防一覽)]

  A Japanese perspective on the European Crisis in the lead-up to World War II.

  Cartographer(s): Dai Nippon Printing

  Place/Date: Tokyo / 1936

  $525 Add to cart
• (Monterey Area, California.) Honoring the Memory of Fray Junipero Serra, Founder of the California Missions.

  Rare 1933 pictorial map honoring Junipero Serra and depicting Monterey and surroundings, including Pebble Beach and Carmel Bay.

  Cartographer(s): Jos. Smith

  Place/Date: Not listed / 1933

  $975 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

  $575 Add to cart
• Chart of the Bay of San Pablo Straits of Carquines and part of the Bay of San Francisco California

  Marvelous Gold Rush-era sea chart from the Golden Gate to San Pablo Bay.

  Cartographer(s): Cadwalader Ringgold

  Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1850

  $1,600 Add to cart
• Map of the Overland Railroad

  Rare early map showing the proposed route of the Central Pacific Railroad during a relatively early period of its construction.

  Cartographer(s): Anonymous

  Place/Date: Not listed / ca. 1866

  $850 Add to cart
• Sausalito…a city of many neighborhoods

  A fabulous pictorial map of Sausalito by the late beloved local cartoonist Phil Frank.

  Cartographer(s): Phil Frank

  Place/Date: Sausalito or San Francisco / 1982

  $900 Add to cart
• Chart of the Sacramento River From Suisun City to the American River California

  The 1851 Ringgold chart of the Sacramento River with Sacramento-Boston inset.

  Cartographer(s): Cadwalader Ringgold

  Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1855

  $680 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
• Flag Map of California [Signed in pencil by W.J. Goodacre]

  Goodacre’s wonderful flag map of California, signed by the mapmaker.

  Cartographer(s): WJ Goodacre

  Place/Date: Santa Barbara, CA / [copyright] 1936

  $875 Add to cart
• Peter’s San Francisco locator: The bird’s-eye-view of the Exposition city

  Wonderful little guidebook and birds’s-eye-view for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition.

  Cartographer(s): San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1915

  $400 Add to cart
• [First State] Panorama of the Seat of the War Birds Eye View of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia

  Bachmann’s dramatic 1861 panoramic view of the central theater of the American Civil War.

  Cartographer(s): John Bachmann

  Place/Date: New York / 1861

  $3,900 Add to cart
• Parys.

  1638 Merian panorama of Paris — first plate with a self-portrait.

  Cartographer(s): Matthäus Merian

  Place/Date: Frankfurt / 1638

  $1,500 Add to cart
• República Argentina / Ministerio de Obras Publicas / Red de ferrocarriles en la fecha del centenario / Confeccionado con los dalos obtenidos por la dirección general de ferrocarriles…

  A fabulous large-format official Ministry of Public Works 1910 railroad map of Argentina.

  Cartographer(s): Lit. Comp. Sud-Americ. de Billets de Banco

  Place/Date: Buenos Aires / 1910

  $1,600 Add to cart
• San Francisco

  An exciting and highly detailed pictorial bird’s-eye-view of San Francisco.

  Cartographer(s): Archar Inc.

  Place/Date: Ontoria, Canada / 1978

  $400 Add to cart
• The New Pictorial Map of London.

  A rare Interwar period pictorial city map of London.

  Cartographer(s): Geographia, Ltd.

  Place/Date: London / ca. 1930

  $650 Add to cart
• California Wine Land of America

  A fabulous 1960s pictorial map promoting the emerging wines of California.

  Cartographer(s): Amado Gonzalez

  Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1965

  $1,000 Add to cart
• 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 Board

  Place/Date: London / 1975

  $750 Add to cart
• Diarium vel Descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi Itineris, factia Guilielmo Cornelli Schoutenio, Hornano. Annis 1615, 1616 & 1617.

  Willem Schouten’s journal of the famous 1615-7 Le Maire-Schouten expedition, one of history’s greatest voyages of discovery.

  Cartographer(s): Louis Vlasbloem, Willem Corneliszoon Schouten

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1662

  $8,000 Add to cart
• Ellis Landing Richmond: Industrial Harbor and Business Properties. California’s Richest Investment Opportunity

  Rare 1928 promotional brochure for Richmond, California, as it sought to become a major industrial hub and a residential center as well.

  Cartographer(s): Ellis Landing and Dock Co.

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1928

  $450 Add to cart
• Cassell’s Children’s Book of Knowledge Wonder Map of the World.

  Thematic mapping for children: a fabulous circa 1930 world map depicting the history of exploration.

  Cartographer(s): Cassell's Children's Book of Knowledge

  Place/Date: London / ca. 1930

  $1,300 Add to cart
• Panormo

  A superb late 17th century Merian town-plan of Palermo.

  Cartographer(s): Matthäus Merian

  Place/Date: Frankfurt / ca. 1688

  $650 Add to cart
• Peiping

  John Kirk Sewall’s famous pictorial 1930 map of Beijing.

  Cartographer(s): John Kirk Sewall, Peiyang Press

  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.

  Cartographer(s): David Hughson, Joseph Robins and Sons

  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 Commission

  Place/Date: Detroit / 1950

  $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 Thrasher

  Place/Date: Chicago / 1927

  $3,500 Add to cart
• San Francisco Bay Cities Map

  Understanding the natural landscape of northern California: an unusual 1967 San Francisco Bay Area panoramic view.

  Cartographer(s): B/C Associates, Inc.

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1967

  $175 Add to cart
• Lago di Como

  Francesco Citterio’s fantastic mid-19th century panorama of Lake Como.

  Cartographer(s): Francesco Citterio

  Place/Date: Milan / 1840

  $4,000 Add to cart
• Maps of the New and Popular St. Louis and Texas Short Line!

  An eye-catching 1878 broadside inviting people to come and settle in Texas; a state in which a formal civilian government had only been restored eight years earlier.

  Cartographer(s): Woodward, Tiernan & Hale

  Place/Date: St. Louis / 1878

  $1,800 Add to cart
• Watson’s New Rail­ Road and Distance Map of the United States and Canada

  Watson’s New Rail­ Road and Distance Map of the United States and Canada — in an exceptional railroad-style frame, if desired.

  Cartographer(s): Gaylord Watson

  Place/Date: New York / 1869

  $4,500 Add to cart
• Congo Belge

  An in-depth study for the regional peoples and cultures of Congo as it was.

  Cartographer(s): James Thiriar

  Place/Date: Courtrai, Belgium / 1958

  $575 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
• 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

  $1,250 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
• Nova Pulcherrimæ Civitatis Florentiae Topographia Accuratiss Delineata

  Gorgeous and richly-detailed Late Renaissance bird’s-eye-view of Florence, Italy.

  Cartographer(s): Donato Rascicotti

  Place/Date: Venice / ca. 1598

  $6,500 Add to cart
• [Pair of views] Rade et Ville de Sincapour & Rade de Sincapour prise de la maison du Gouverneur

  Two of the earliest obtainable views of Singapore.

  Cartographer(s): Etienne Eugène Cicéri, Thierry Frères

  Place/Date: Paris / 1846

  $7,000 Add to cart
• Roma

  Old color 1572 bird’s-eye-view of Rome by Braun and Hogenberg.

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Cologne / ca. 1572

  $1,200 Add to cart
• PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO. WHERE THE FAR EAST BEGINS [Japanese language version]

  Rare Japanese language bird’s-eye-view in the style of Saul Steinberg showing the port of San Francisco as the gateway to Pacific commerce.

  Cartographer(s): Port of San Francisco, Waffoner

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1984

  $875 Add to cart