VINTAGE POSTERS & BROADSIDES
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The Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California. I Neither Borrow Nor Lend.
The most iconic California Gold Rush lithograph.
Cartographer(s): Nathaniel Currier & James IvesPlace/Date: New York / ca. 1849$3,900 Add to cart -
Kings of Wall Street
A scarce and highly evocative 19th-century broadside depicting the most notable entrepreneurs of the day.
Cartographer(s): Root and TinkerPlace/Date: New York / 1883$1,900 Add to cart -
The Tables Turned – “You Sabe Him? Kealney Must Go!”
Political satire from one of San Francisco’s first antiquarian booksellers.
Cartographer(s): Isidor Nathan ChoynskiPlace/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.
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.
Place/Date: Fremont / 1989$2,400 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. ArmyPlace/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 CristianaPlace/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 StudentsPlace/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. BatesPlace/Date: England / 1949$3,500 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.
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 HorseyPlace/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 AffairsPlace/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 -
[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 ShimbunPlace/Date: Osaka / 1925$500 Add to cart -
Baseball. 1987 Edition
A 1987 baseball-themed pictorial map of the United States.
Cartographer(s): World ImpressionsPlace/Date: Foster City, CA / 1987$250 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 & HalePlace/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 SampsonPlace/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 GrossmanPlace/Date: New York City / 1970$750 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): AnonymousPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1896$18,000 Add to cart
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A True Picture and Story of Two Brethern borne in Genoa in Italie, 1620, the one called Lazaz, the other John Baptist, both at this present living, and to be seene in the Strand at London, 1637. Decemb.6. [title repeated in Latin].
Exceptionally rare Parasitic Twins Broadside: a cultural prism of early modern England.
Cartographer(s): Robert MilbournePlace/Date: London / 1637Read more -
MONACO • MONTE-CARLO.
The most perfect Art Nouveau travel poster ever created.
Cartographer(s): Alphonse MuchaPlace/Date: Paris / 1897Read more -
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 BrucePlace/Date: San Francisco / 1985Read more -
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 HenleyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1976Read more -
Voyage Autour du Monde / Round the World. 1891.
One of the greatest travel posters of the Belle Époque.
Place/Date: Paris / 1891Read more -
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 HenleyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1976Read more -
Ricordo storico della vittoria folgorante
1936 Italian map of East Africa with stark fascist imagery and language.
Cartographer(s): ViscegliaPlace/Date: Rome/Milan / 1936Read more -
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 / 1909Read more -
Three Centuries Of Great Music
New York Philharmonic thematic map tracing the history of classical music from 1650 to 1950.
Place/Date: New York / 1953Read more -
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 / 1956Read more -
[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 PétrolePlace/Date: Paris / 1956Read more -
California Wine Land of America
A fabulous 1960s pictorial map promoting the emerging wines of California.
Cartographer(s): Amado GonzalezPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1965Read more -
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 KarraPlace/Date: Tel Aviv / 1949Read more -
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 GoodacrePlace/Date: Santa Barbara, CA / 1939Read more -
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 SteinbergPlace/Date: New York / 1976Read more -
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 KingPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1976Read more -
A map of Berkeley, Oakland & Alameda
Exceptional 1930 Art Deco pictorial map of the East Bay.
Cartographer(s): Eugene Neuhaus; Sather Gate Book ShopPlace/Date: Berkeley / 1930Read more