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Alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Benedetto XIV La Nuova Topografia di Roma...Alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Benedetto XIV La Nuova Topografia di Roma...
The famous Nolli wall map of Rome: one of the finest urban plans ever made….
Cartographer(s): Giovanni Battista Nolli
Date: 1748
Place: Rome
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Pianta della Città di Firenze rilevata esattamente nell'Anno 1783, e dedicata a S.A.R. Pietro Leopoldo P.R. di Ungh. e di Boe. e Granduca di Toscana.
1783 Magnelli & Cosimo Zocchi Six-Sheet Plan of Florence, Dedicated to Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo….
Cartographer(s): Cosimo Zocchi, Francesco Magnelli
Date: 1783
Place: Florence
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Sexta Europe. Tabula.Sexta Europe. Tabula.
The earliest obtainable map of Italy, a gorgeous impression in original black & white….
Cartographer(s): Claudius Ptolemy, Pietro de la Torre
Date: 1478
Place: Rome
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Palestine Land Values.
Unrecorded and Data-Rich Palestine Land Value Atlas, circa 1945….
Cartographer(s): Survey of Palestine
Date: 1945
Place: Not listed
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Geografi della Toscana [Ferdinand de Medici Horse Map].
The rarest acquirable map of Tuscany….
Cartographer(s): Stefano Scolari
Date: 1662
Place: Venice
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The Structural History of the Aqsa Mosque. A record of archaeological gleanings from the repairs of 1938-1942.
The only comprehensive architectural history of one of the world’s most important mosques….
Cartographer(s): Robert W. Hamilton
Date: 1949
Place: London, Oxford, Jerusalem
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Totius Galliae Exactissima Descriptio.
The first modern map of France….
Cartographer(s): Paolo Forlani
Date: 1566
Place: Venice
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Islandia
A beautifully preserved example of the most decorative and famous map of Iceland ever produced – with an additional hand-drawn sea-monster on the verso….
Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius
Date: 1592
Place: Antwerp
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Septentrionaliu regionum Svetiæ Gothiæ Norvegiæ DaniæSeptentrionaliu regionum Svetiæ Gothiæ Norvegiæ Daniæ
Gerard de Jode’s iconic Scandinavia chart: a testimony to undervalued genius….
Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de Jode
Date: 1593
Place: Antwerp
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[Libya and Egypt] Tabula Tertia Di Libya.
A rare and stunning 15th-century rendition of Greater Egypt, in full color and heightened in gold….
Cartographer(s): Francesco di Niccolo Berlinghieri, Niccolò Tedesco
Date: 1482
Place: Florence
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[Two maps sold together] The First Ordnance Surveys of Jerusalem. By Captain Charles W. Wilson R.E. Under The Direction of Colonel Sir Henry James, R.E. F.R.S. & C. Director of the Ordnance Survey. 1864-5.
The British Ordnance Survey of 1864-65 was the first scientific attempt to map Jerusalem and its environs, a watershed survey that saw two of the finest Victorian maps ever created….
Cartographer(s): Ordinance Survey Office
Date: 1865
Place: London
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Laguna Veneta.
Ludovico Furlanetto’s Monumental Map of the Venetian Lagoon (1780)….
Cartographer(s): Ludovico Furlanetto
Date: 1780
Place: Venice
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Topographical Map of Jerusalem from the Ordnance Survey.
No Copies Traced — an 1889 Colton Co. topographical wall map of Jerusalem, printed on silk….
Cartographer(s): The Colton Mapmaking Company
Date: 1889
Place: New York
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Sposalizio del Mare con Bucintoro.
Giovanni Temini’s elusive 1618 Marriage of the Sea ….
Cartographer(s): Stefano Scolari, Giovanni Temini
Date: 1618
Place: Venice
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Nova Descriptio Geographica Tattariae Magnae Tam Orientalis Quam Occidentalis In Particularibus Et Generalibus Territoriis Una Cum Delineatione Totius Imperii Russici Imprimis Siberiae Accurate Ostensa.Nova Descriptio Geographica Tattariae Magnae Tam Orientalis Quam Occidentalis In Particularibus Et Generalibus Territoriis Una Cum Delineatione Totius Imperii Russici Imprimis Siberiae Accurate Ostensa.
A special issue of Strahlenberg’s masterpiece map of Imperial Russia and Siberia….
Cartographer(s): Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Johan Anton von Matérn, Philipp Jacob Frisch
Date: 1730
Place: Paris
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VenetiaVenetia
A superb bird’s-eye-view of Venice, finely-engraved and exceptionally adorned….
Cartographer(s): Giovanni Antonio de Paoli
Date: 1600
Place: Rome
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Geologic Map of the Arabian Peninsula.Geologic Map of the Arabian Peninsula.
The first complete geological profile of Saudi Arabia and her neighbors; the result of a collaboration between ARAMCO and the U.S. Geological Survey….
Cartographer(s): Arabian American Oil Company, U.S. Geological Survey
Date: 1963
Place: Washington, D.C.
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[Ottoman Hajj scroll with a personalized incantation].
A stunning depiction of the Holy Cities of Islam….
Cartographer(s): Muhammad ʿAbd al-Bari ibn Muhammad Amin
Date: 1830
Place: Hijaz
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Nova Pulcherrimæ Civitatis Florentiae Topographia Accuratiss DelineataNova Pulcherrimæ Civitatis Florentiae Topographia Accuratiss Delineata
Gorgeous and richly-detailed Late Renaissance bird’s-eye-view of Florence, Italy….
Cartographer(s): Donato Rascicotti
Date: 1598
Place: Venice
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Vestiges of Assyria. Sheet 3rd being a map of the country included in the angle formed by the River Tigris & The Upper Zab showing the disposition of the various ancient sites in the vicinity of Nineveh.
Felix Jones’ third map in the Vestiges of Assyria series, in which the densely inhabited flood plain surrounding the capitals of Nineveh and Nimrud has been depicted….
Cartographer(s): Felix Jones, John Walker
Date: 1855
Place: London
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Vestiges of Assyria. Sheet lst an Ichnographic Sketch of the remains of ancient Nineveh with the enceinte of the modern Mosul.
Felix Jones’s map of Nineveh: the first modern cartographic visualization of Assyria’s great capital….
Cartographer(s): Felix Jones, John Walker
Date: 1855
Place: London
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[Map of the (Ottoman) Vilayet of Ioannina and the part of Greece neighboring the frontier, prepared by the General Staff]
An unrecorded and very unusual Late Ottoman Historical Map….
Cartographer(s): Mehmet Nafiz
Date: 1875
Place: Istanbul
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Deliniantur in hac Tabula, Orae Maritimae Abexiae, Freti Mecani; al Maris Rubri; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, Supra Sindam usq, Fluminis Indi, Cambriae India & Malabaris, Insulae, CeylonDeliniantur in hac Tabula, Orae Maritimae Abexiae, Freti Mecani; al Maris Rubri; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, Supra Sindam usq, Fluminis Indi, Cambriae India & Malabaris, Insulae, Ceylon
Linschoten’s iconic 1596 navigational chart of the Indian Ocean in spectacular full color….
Cartographer(s): Jan Huygen van Linschoten
Date: 1596
Place: Amsterdam
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Venetia.Venetia.
A stunning and highly detailed view of the lagoon city of Venice, issued by Augsburg’s most famous publishing dynasty….
Cartographer(s): Georg Balthasar Probst, Friedrich Bernhard Werner
Date: 1760
Place: Augsburg
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[Manuscript] Plan du Port de Mombase
Anonymous French manuscript map of Mombasa Island, likely created by an early French slaver sailing on Omani-controlled East Africa in the mid-18th century….
Cartographer(s): Anonymous
Date: 1742
Place: France
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[Jerusalem, Holy Land, Syria Photo Album]
Palestine and the Levant – A Remarkable 19th-Century Travel Album….
Cartographer(s): Maison Bonfils, Adelphoi Zangaki
Date: 1897
Place: Not listed
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Africa Ioanne Baptista Nicolosio S.T.D. Sic DescribenteAfrica Ioanne Baptista Nicolosio S.T.D. Sic Describente
A landmark map for the historical cartography of Africa….
Cartographer(s): Giovanni Battista Nicolosi
Date: 1660
Place: Rome
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War of Independence; The Six-Day War; Retaliatory Actions, 1953-1956; Battles in the Syrian Sector 1957-1967; Battles in the Sinai.
[Set of 5 maps] Israel Celebrates 20 Years of Independence, in the Wake of the Six-Day War….
Cartographer(s): Ministry of Defence Publishing House
Date: 1968
Place: Not listed
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Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo & Angolae ultra Promentorium Bonae spei susq...Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo & Angolae ultra Promentorium Bonae spei susq...
Linschoten’s gorgeous 16th-century chart of West Africa and the Southern Atlantic….
Cartographer(s): Jan Huygen van Linschoten
Date: 1596
Place: Amsterdam
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Africae nova descriptio.
Excellent old color example of Willem Blaeu’s seminal map of Africa, the most influential depiction of the continent produced in the 17th century, and a cornerstone of any collection focussing on the cartography of Africa….
Cartographer(s): Willem Blaeu
Date: 1630
Place: Amsterdam
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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
Date: 1949
Place: England
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The Battells One the 28th of May 1672.
A monumental Navy Records Society chromolithograph of the 1628 Battle of Solebay….
Cartographer(s): Navy Records Society
Date: 1901
Place: London
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Polska W Trzech Zaborach W Granicach Przedrozbiorowych W 1770 R. Oraz W Innych Wazniejszych Okresach HistorycznychPolska W Trzech Zaborach W Granicach Przedrozbiorowych W 1770 R. Oraz W Innych Wazniejszych Okresach Historycznych
An independent and unified Poland was created after the Great War….
Cartographer(s): Józef Michal Bazewicz
Date: 1922
Place: Warsaw
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[Mining Map of the Donetsk Coal Basin] / Горнопромышленная карта Донецкого каменноугольного бассейна.
A superb 1894 coal mining infrastructure map of eastern Ukraine, published in Kharkiv….
Cartographer(s): Apollon Fedorovich Mevius
Date: 1894
Place: Kharkov (Kharkiv)
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Carte du Duché de Bourgogne, Comtés et Pays adjacents dressée par Ordre de M.M.Carte du Duché de Bourgogne, Comtés et Pays adjacents dressée par Ordre de M.M.
1782 Gauthey wall map of Burgundy (Bourgogne) wine region in France….
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Date: 1782
Place: Bourgogne
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Prospetto della situazione delle dogane e posti di guardia dépendti. dalle sei direzione provinciali de D.I. in Sicilia.Prospetto della situazione delle dogane e posti di guardia dépendti. dalle sei direzione provinciali de D.I. in Sicilia.
Unusual map of Sicily with a rich array of information….
Cartographer(s): Francesco Arancio
Date: 1845
Place: Palermo
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[Mining Map of the Donetsk Coal Basin] Горнопромышленная карта Донецкого камнеугольного бассейна[Mining Map of the Donetsk Coal Basin] Горнопромышленная карта Донецкого камнеугольного бассейна
A superb 1890 coal mining infrastructure map of eastern Ukraine, published in Kharkiv….
Cartographer(s): A. Mevius
Date: 1890
Place: Kharkiv
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FiorenzaFiorenza
A Late Renaissance bird’s-eye-view of Florence, with the Medici family crest….
Cartographer(s): Matteo Florimi
Date: 1600
Place: Siena
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The Persian Gulf Command.
Rare World War II propaganda map published in Tehran….
Cartographer(s): Frank Agar
Date: 1945
Place: Tehran
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La Tour de 300 mètres, construite en 300 versLa Tour de 300 mètres, construite en 300 vers

A remarkable 1889 thematic calligram of the Eiffel Tour.

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Cartographer(s): Imprimerie Lefebvre, Armand Bourgade
Date: 1886
Place: Paris
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Masjid Haram / Great Mosque of MeccaMasjid Haram / Great Mosque of Mecca
A highly decorative and deeply symbolic plan of the Holy Precinct in Mecca following a late 19th-century renovation….
Cartographer(s): Fahmy/Sultani Order
Date: 1893
Place: Mecca
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Africa.
Likely the first printed map of Africa by a female cartographer….
Cartographer(s): Margaret Whiting Spilhaus, George Philip & Son Ltd.
Date: 1925
Place: Cape Town
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[Map for the Blind] Afrika...Hergestellt im Lehrmittel-Verlag der Marburger Blindenstudienanstalt[Map for the Blind] Afrika...Hergestellt im Lehrmittel-Verlag der Marburger Blindenstudienanstalt
World War II German relief map of Africa for the blind, with Arabia and the Middle East….
Cartographer(s): Lehrmittel-Verlag; Marburg Institute for the Blind
Date: 1941
Place: Marburg
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Accurata delineatio Nobilissmi toti Europae Fluminis Wolgae olim RHA dictae per Adamum OleariumAccurata delineatio Nobilissmi toti Europae Fluminis Wolgae olim RHA dictae per Adamum Olearium
The greatest early map of the Volga River, with excellent color and condition….
Cartographer(s): Adam Olearius, Christian Rothgiesser
Date: 1647
Place: Schleswig
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Carte des Pays Situès entre Richard-Toll (Fleuve), et Dakar.
Pujol’s map of the Saint Louis-Dakar Railroad in Senegal: A masterful cartographic visualization of French Colonial Dominance in West Africa….
Cartographer(s): Auguste Marie Joseph Pujol, A. Vandenkerckhove
Date: 1899
Place: Senegal
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“SWORD AREA” BEACH CHARTLET. Enlargement of Portion F.1016“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
Date: 1944
Place: London
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Société de Géographie de Paris AFRIQUE 1895
Jules Hansen’s seminal map of colonial Africa….
Cartographer(s): Jules Hansen
Date: 1895
Place: Paris
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Mapa Litwy i Rusi (Litwa, Białoruś, Podole, WołyŃ i Ukraina) [Map of Lithuania and Rus’ (Lithuania, Belarus, Podolia, Volhynia and Ukraine)].
A masterpiece in political cartography, showcasing a collapsing Russian Empire….
Cartographer(s): Józef Michal Bazewicz
Date: 1911
Place: Warsaw
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Europam et Asiæ partem Sic describere Conabar Ioannes Baptista Nocolosius S.T.D. Secondarily: Imperium Romano-Germanicum Secundum Decem Circulos Diuisum Describebat Ioannes Baptista Nicolosius S.T.D. & Italia Secundum Dominatus Descripta per Ioannem Baptistam Nicolosivm.S.T.D.Europam et Asiæ partem Sic describere Conabar Ioannes Baptista Nocolosius S.T.D. Secondarily: Imperium Romano-Germanicum Secundum Decem Circulos Diuisum Describebat Ioannes Baptista Nicolosius S.T.D. & Italia Secundum Dominatus Descripta per Ioannem Baptistam Nicolosivm.S.T.D.
Nicolosi’s impressive four-sheet map of Europe, with the Holy Roman Empire and late-Renaissance Italy….
Cartographer(s): Giovanni Battista Nicolosi
Date: 1660
Place: Rome
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[Montenegro] КАРТА ЦРНЕГОРЕ | قرطاغ مملكت خريط | Carte du Pays de Montenegro dressée d'après des opérations géodétiques sur les lieux et recherches les plus soigneuses.[Montenegro] КАРТА ЦРНЕГОРЕ | قرطاغ مملكت خريط | Carte du Pays de Montenegro dressée d'après des opérations géodétiques sur les lieux et recherches les plus soigneuses.
The first modern map of Montenegro….
Cartographer(s): Fedor Graf von Karacsay
Date: 1838
Place: Vienna
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Chart of Southern Africa, and of the Islands of Madagascar, Bourbon and Mauritius.
1856 Imray Nautical Chart of Southern Africa and Madagascar….
Cartographer(s): James Imray & Son
Date: 1856
Place: London
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Pictorial Map of the Caucasus.
A fantastic 1930s Soviet pictorial bird’s-eye-view of the Caucasus….
Cartographer(s): Intourist
Date: 1932
Place: Moscow
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NEUE CARTE VON EUROPA.
“Generally considered the first economic thematic map ever produced.” (Robinson, Early Thematic Mapping )…
Cartographer(s): August F. W. Crome
Date: 1782
Place: Dessau
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Plan De Jerusalem Ancienne & ModernePlan De Jerusalem Ancienne & Moderne
Plan of the Old City of Jerusalem by the Ottoman city’s official architect and engineer….
Cartographer(s): Ermete Pierotti
Date: 1860
Place: Paris
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[Mizrach] Map of Palestine.
An American Mizrach print with Zionist undertones….
Cartographer(s): Anonymous
Date: 1937
Place: New York
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[Persuasive Cartography] Die Araber, Israel und die Supermächte.
Cold War Propaganda Map Depicting the Arab–Israeli Conflict and Superpower Rivalry….
Cartographer(s): AJL – Die aktuelle JRO-Landkarte
Date: 1973
Place: West Germany
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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): Michael Karra
Date: 1949
Place: Tel Aviv
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Map of Abyssinia and the adjacent districts laid down partly from original Observations taken in the Country and partly compiled from information collected there by Henry Salt...Map of Abyssinia and the adjacent districts laid down partly from original Observations taken in the Country and partly compiled from information collected there by Henry Salt...
Henry Salt’s scarce and important map of Abyssinia….
Cartographer(s): Henry Salt
Date: 1814
Place: London
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Ricordo storico della vittoria folgoranteRicordo storico della vittoria folgorante
1936 Italian map of East Africa with stark fascist imagery and language….
Cartographer(s): Visceglia
Date: 1936
Place: Rome/Milan
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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
Date: 1899
Place: London
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Amman in PanoramaAmman in Panorama
A graphic vista of Amman as a modern Arab Metropolis, published less than a decade after Jordanian Independence….
Cartographer(s): George Aleeff, Istaklal Publishing House
Date: 1953
Place: Beirut
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ArabieArabie
Lovely 18th century map of Arabia with large inset of the Great Mosque of Mecca [المسجد الحرام]…
Cartographer(s): Anonymous
Date: 1740
Place: Paris
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Pariser Plan: das Geschichtliche und Kunsthistorische ParisPariser Plan: das Geschichtliche und Kunsthistorische Paris
Sightseeing and occupying: a tourist map of Occupied Paris issued to German Soldiers during WWII….
Cartographer(s): Moullier & Dermont
Date: 1940
Place: Paris
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Europa Prima Pars Terrae In Forma Virginis.Europa Prima Pars Terrae In Forma Virginis.
Striking example of Bünting’s famous depiction of Europe as a Queen….
Cartographer(s): Heinrich Bünting
Date: 1581
Place: Leipzig
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[Europe as a Queen][Europe as a Queen]
Full-color example of Europe as a Queen….
Cartographer(s): Sebastian Münster
Date: 1570
Place: Basel
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[Milan and environs][Milan and environs]
Extremely rare town-plan of Milan and its environs at time of great upheaval for the city….
Cartographer(s): Franz Valmagini
Date: 1850
Place: Milan
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Wandkarte der Teppichgebiete.Wandkarte der Teppichgebiete.
A  thematic map of carpet regions in the Middle East and Central Asia, produced at the height of the ‘Persian rug craze.’…
Cartographer(s): Verlag der "Teppich-Börse"
Date: 1931
Place: Vienna
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THE EXPULSION OF AXIS FORCES FROM NORTH AFRICATHE 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
Date: 1943
Place: England(?)
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Historical Map of the Underground RailwaysHistorical 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
Date: 1975
Place: London
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Il Nilo dal Mediterraneo al Sudan.Il Nilo dal Mediterraneo al Sudan.
A fantastic bird’s-eye-view of the Nile River, with the Suez Canal, railroads, and pyramids….
Cartographer(s): Antonio Vallardi Editore
Date: 1875
Place: Milan
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Provincia de Angola. Carta Dos Districtos De Benguelila e Mossamedes. 1895.
Victorian-era case map of Angola that unfolds to depict Portugal’s largest and most important colony….
Cartographer(s): Luiz Felipe de Almeida Couceiro
Date: 1895
Place: Lisbon
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Carte de l'Île de Madagascar d'après les documents les plus récentsCarte de l'Île de Madagascar d'après les documents les plus récents
Rare broadside detailing operations of the Franco-Hova War, with a map of Madagascar….
Cartographer(s): Lèon Hayard
Date: 1894
Place: Paris