VINTAGE POSTERS & BROADSIDES

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• The Tables Turned – “You Sabe Him? Kealney Must Go!”

  Political satire from one of San Francisco’s first antiquarian booksellers.

  Cartographer(s): Isidor Nathan Choynski

  Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1879

  $575 Add to cart
• Fortunes, Follies And Far-Out Ideas. A Look Back At The Personal Computer Era.

  A period-specific broadside that maps the incredible journey of personal computing.

  Cartographer(s): Bob Reynolds, Jim Bartimo

  Place/Date: San Jose / ca. 1987

  $550 Add to cart
• San Francisco Oz by the Bay

  Zell-Breier’s whimsical pictorial map of San Francisco in the 1980s.

  Cartographer(s): City Graphics of America, Inc., Robert Zell-Breier

  Place/Date: Fremont / 1989

  $2,400 Add to cart
• The Castro, San Francisco

  A rare poster map of unknown origin depicting San Francisco’s iconic Castro District in the mid-1980s.

  Cartographer(s): Graham Bruce

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1985

  $1,600 Add to cart
• STEAMERS ON THE NILE / THEWFIKIEH NAVIGATION COMPANY.

  Gorgeous Victorian travel poster for the Egyptian Thewfikieh Navigation Company’s Nile Cruises.

  Cartographer(s): Stafford & Co.

  Place/Date: Netherfield / ca. 1899

  $4,500 Add to cart
• The Blue Ridge Path through France, Luxembourg, Germany, and Austria

  Patton’s 80th Infantry Division — liberators of two concentration camps!

  Cartographer(s): U.S. Army

  Place/Date: Not listed / 1945

  $2,350 Add to cart
• Contro La Repressione e L’Imperialismo del Comunismo Sovietico.

  Italian Anti-Communist Poster protesting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the arrest of peace activist and nuclear physicist, Andrey Sakharov.

  Cartographer(s): Democrazia Cristiana

  Place/Date: Villa San Lucia, Frosinone / 1980

  $750 Add to cart
• [Political broadside] Solidarity with the People and Students of the DPR of Korea

  A mixed-message piece of propaganda from the late stage of the Cold War.

  Cartographer(s): The International Union of Students

  Place/Date: Not listed / ca. 1987

  $550 Add to cart
• The Sunday Times China Time Chart from 1500 B.C.

  Time-chart of Chinese cultural history from 1500 BC until modern times, issued after Nixon’s first visit.

  Cartographer(s): Times Newspapers Ltd.

  Place/Date: London / 1973

  $675 Add to cart
• Cunard R.M.S. Caronia / Great African Cruise 1950

  A stunning and extremely rare advertisement for the Cunard Line’s 1950 cruise to Africa, with a stop in the new capital city of Tel Aviv.

  Cartographer(s): D.E. Bates

  Place/Date: England / 1949

  $2,800 Add to cart
• 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

  $775 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

  $900 Add to cart
• Palestine. Land of Dispute.

  1947 British broadside featuring three maps of Palestine on the eve of partition.

  Cartographer(s): Bureau of Current Affairs

  Place/Date: London / September, 1947

  $900 Add to cart
• The Historical War Map.

  Printed broadside that provided the American public with a comprehensive overview of the Civil War, with an extensive narrative on the war’s progress.

  Cartographer(s): Asher & Co.

  Place/Date: Indianapolis / 1863

  $975 Add to cart
• Baseball. 1987 Edition

  A 1987 baseball-themed pictorial map of the United States.

  Cartographer(s): World Impressions

  Place/Date: Foster City, CA / 1987

  $250 Add to cart
• Second Year of the State of Israel. . שנת שתיים למדינת ישראל

  The ultimate early Israel commemorative map, celebrating its second anniversary with Social Realist imagery.

  Cartographer(s): Joseph Szapiro & Michael Karra

  Place/Date: Tel Aviv / 1949

  $1,300 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
• “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
• 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

  $1,450 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

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• Tails of the City Alligator Oz The land of Make-Believe.

  Henley’s revolutionary 1976 thematic map of homosexual San Francisco — a testament to the city’s progressive track record for tolerance and inclusion.

  Cartographer(s): J Clark Henley

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1976

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• Voyage Autour du Monde / Round the World. 1891.

  One of the greatest travel posters of the Belle Époque.

  Cartographer(s): A. Schindler, Lith. Vieillemard

  Place/Date: Paris / 1891

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• Tails of the City Alligator Oz The land of Make-Believe.

  Henley’s revolutionary 1976 thematic map of homosexual San Francisco — a testament to the city’s progressive track record for tolerance and inclusion.

  Cartographer(s): J Clark Henley

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1976

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• Ricordo storico della vittoria folgorante

  1936 Italian map of East Africa with stark fascist imagery and language.

  Cartographer(s): Visceglia

  Place/Date: Rome/Milan / 1936

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• Authorized Birds Eye View of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Seattle, U.S.A. 1909.

  A dramatic bird’s-eye-view of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

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

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1909

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• Three Centuries Of Great Music

  New York Philharmonic thematic map tracing the history of classical music from 1650 to 1950.

  Cartographer(s): Felton Dubose Schilling, New York Philharmonic

  Place/Date: New York / 1953

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• Antartide continente del giorno

  The triumph of reaching the South Pole, and the fierce competition between Scott and Amundsen to win that great prize.

  Cartographer(s): Officine grafiche de “La Scuola”

  Place/Date: Brescia / 1956

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• [Data Visualization] Le Pétrole Dans Le Monde.

  Striking 1956 thematic map of the global petroleum industry — rare first edition published before the Suez Crisis.

  Cartographer(s): Union des Chambres Syndicales du Pétrole

  Place/Date: Paris / 1956

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• [Great European Visit Memorial Flight Game]

  A rare and splendid 1925 Japanese board game map celebrating a triumph of early aviation.

  Cartographer(s): The Asahi Shimbun

  Place/Date: Osaka / 1925

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• 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

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• Romance of the Missions. California

  1939 Goodacre poster-map presenting the missions of California as an important part of the state’s historical heritage.

  Cartographer(s): WJ Goodacre

  Place/Date: Santa Barbara, CA / 1939

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• Bart Opens Embarcadero. First port o’call in San Francisco

  Celebrating public transit — a pictorial view of downtown San Francisco announcing the 1976 opening of the Embarcadero BART station.

  Cartographer(s): Heather King

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1976

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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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• Bart Opens Embarcadero. First port o’call in San Francisco

  A celebration of public transit — pictorial view of downtown San Francisco announcing the 1976 opening of the Embarcadero BART station.

  Cartographer(s): Heather King

  Place/Date: San Francisco / 1976

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• A map of Berkeley, Oakland & Alameda

  Exceptional 1930 Art Deco pictorial map of the East Bay.

  Cartographer(s): Eugene Neuhaus; Sather Gate Book Shop

  Place/Date: Berkeley / 1930

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