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Gallia Geographica Galliae descriptio, de integro plurimis in locis emendata ac Regionum limitibus distincta; auctore Petro Plancio…
The famous Ortelius/Vrients map of Greater France.
Place/Date: Antwerp / 1609$1,800 Add to cart -
Holbrook Merrill & Stetson, Stoves, Metals Etc. Cor. of Market & Beale Sts. San Francisco.
A large circa 1881 Bosqui lithograph of an important San Francisco architectural landmark.
Cartographer(s): Bosqui Eng. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1878$1,200 Add to cart -
Etats-Unis par Th. Duvotenay
A wonderful cartographic snapshot of the United States just as it annexed Texas.
Cartographer(s): Thunot DuvotenayPlace/Date: Paris / 1846$175 Add to cart -
Map Showing Golden Gate Park, the Avenue and Buena Vista Park. Scale 400 ft. to 1 inch.
This lovely early example of Britton & Rey’s iconic plan of Golden Gate Park is an anchor of San Franciscan identity: It speaks to us about origins and progress, urban renewal and civil rights, and is ultimately a testimony to the city’s grand but turbulent history.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1893$1,250 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$1,200 Add to cart -
Carta prima generale d’America dell’India Occidentale e Mare del Zur
The earliest published sea chart to focus on the California coast!
Cartographer(s): Sir Robert DudleyPlace/Date: Florence / 1648$5,800 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 -
America Septentrionalis [First State, Original Color]
Henricus Hondius’ iconic 17th-century map of North America: an entirely new cartographic vision of the continent.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1636$4,400 Add to cart -
Map of the Outside Lands of the City and County of San Francisco Showing Reservations Selected for Public Purposes, under the Provisions of Order No. 800
Mapping the Outside Lands – a foundational map for the history of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1868$3,800 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 -
America Septentrionalis [Second State, Original Color]
Henricus Hondius’ iconic 17th-century map of North America: an entirely new cartographic vision of the continent.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1647$4,200 Add to cart -
Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio; Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula recens emendata; Totius Africae accuratissima tabula; & Nova et accurata totius Europae descriptio. Per FREDERICUM DE WIT.
A spectacular set of four continental maps, likely colored by Dirk Janz van Santen, the finest cartographic colorist of the Dutch Golden Age.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1680$20,000 Add to cart -
A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne according to ye truest Descriptions latest Discoveries & best observations yt have beene made by English or Strangers. 1651.
John Speed’s unparalleled map of the world.
Cartographer(s): John SpeedPlace/Date: London / (1651) 1676$11,500 Add to cart -
Tabula geographica generalis Imperii Russici ad normam novissimarum observationum astronomicarum concinnata a Ioh. Trescotio et Jac. Schmidio.
A beautiful map of the Russian Empire in the era of Catherine the Great.
Cartographer(s): Tobias Conrad LotterPlace/Date: Augsburg / 1780$2,400 Add to cart -
Preparations for the Great October Socialist Revolution (March-November 1917) [Подготовка великой Октябрьской социалистической революции (март-ноябрь 1917 г.)]
Teaching revolutionary history in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union.
Cartographer(s): Главное управление геодезии и картографии при Совете Министров СССРPlace/Date: Moscow / 1964$450 Add to cart -
A New & Accurate Map of Turky in Asia, Arabia &c…
Emanuel Bowen’s decorative 18th-century folio-map of the Ottoman Empire and the greater Middle East.
Cartographer(s): Emanuel BowenPlace/Date: London / 1747$600 Add to cart -
Nuclear America
A thematic protest map produced at the height of the Cold War: a powerful reminder of the tensions and anxieties that marked that period of the 20th century.
Cartographer(s): War Resisters LeaguePlace/Date: New York / 1979$325 Add to cart -
L’Amerique meridionale et septentrionale
Nicolas de Fer’s seminal map of the Americas.
Cartographer(s): Nicholas de FerPlace/Date: Paris / 1727$1,800 Add to cart -
Le Chili. Tire de celuy que Alf-de-Oualle P. d la C.d.I. a fait imprimer a Rome en 1646
Sanson’s 1656 map of Chile: based on the most iconic and important map of the region produced in the 17th century.
Cartographer(s): Nicolas SansonPlace/Date: Paris / 1656$475 Add to cart -
Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti Pars I, in qua longitudines stellarum fixarum… exhibentur.
1742 Northern Hemisphere Celestial Chart from Doppelmayr’s Atlas Coelestis.
Cartographer(s): Johann Gabriele DoppelmayrPlace/Date: Nuremberg / 1742$1,500 Add to cart -
Map of Sutro Heights Lots for Sale by Will E. Fisher and Co. Agents.
An 1893 commercial broadsheet for the real estate development at Sutro Heights – the site of San Francisco landmarks like the Sutro Baths and Cliff House.
Cartographer(s): Bosqui Eng. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1893$650 Add to cart -
Faust’s Map of the City and County of San Francisco, California
Faust’s late-19th century map of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1890$975 Add to cart -
San Joaquin, the Gateway County of California
How the Central Valley became America’s agricultural powerhouse.
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: Not listed / 1915$1,250 Add to cart -
Israel and the Arab states – Area and population
Six Day War persuasive cartography: a demographic map of Israel and the Arab states in 1969.
Cartographer(s): Merkaz ha-hasbaraPlace/Date: Jerusalem / 1969$975 Add to cart -
Slavonic Bay
Celebrating San Francisco’s Slavic Communities during the 1915 Expo.
Cartographer(s): Cardinell-Vincent Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1915$2,200 Add to cart -
Novissima et Perfectissima Africae Descriptio
De Wit’s Africa triumph in lovely old color.
Cartographer(s): Frederick de WitPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1680$1,500 Add to cart -
United Nations Map of the World
The idealism of the United Nations represented visually.
Place/Date: Edinburgh / ca. 1947$475 Add to cart -
La Chine Nouvelle en Marche
French Communist Youth Cheer on Communist Forces in the Chinese Civil War.
Cartographer(s): Avant garde / Union de la jeunesse républicaine de FrancePlace/Date: Paris / ca. 1950$775 Add to cart -
Panoramic and Monumental Map of Havana – Plano Panoramico y Monumental de la Habana
A colorful 1950 bird’s-eye-view of Havana.
Cartographer(s): Rogelio L MirabalPlace/Date: Havana / 1950$450 Add to cart -
Novorossiysk, with insets of Tuapse and Batumi, Soviet Navy Nautical Chart [Порт Новороссийск]
Cold War-era Soviet Navy Nautical Chart of Ukraine.
Cartographer(s): Картфабрикой ВМФ (Военно-морской флот) [Naval Map Factory]Place/Date: Not listed / 1956$975 Add to cart -
From the Port of Anapa to Dzhubga Bay, Soviet Navy Nautical Chart [От Порта Анапа до Бухты Джубга]
Cold War-era Soviet Navy Nautical Chart of the northeastern coast of the Black Sea.
Cartographer(s): Картфабрикой ВМФ (Военно-морской флот) [Naval Map Factory]Place/Date: Not listed / 1956$475 Add to cart -
Novorossiysk, with insets of Tuapse and Batumi [Порт Новороссийск]
Cold War-era Soviet Navy Nautical Chart of eastern Black Sea ports.
Cartographer(s): Картфабрикой ВМФ (Военно-морской флот) [Naval Map Factory]Place/Date: Not listed / 1956$375 Add to cart -
A New Map of the Great West
From the creator of the dime-novel and the pulp fiction genre: this is Erastus Flavel Beadle’s rare and highly desirable map of the Great West.
Cartographer(s): Erastus Flavel BeadlePlace/Date: Buffalo, NY / ca. 1856$1,200 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.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1905$2,800 Add to cart -
[Set of Four Allegorical Mezzotints of the Continents] America. Europa. Africa. Asia.
A set of four allegorical mezzotints referencing the great continents of the world.
Cartographer(s): Johann Elias RidingerPlace/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1770$3,400 Add to cart -
Official Record. The First United States Manned Orbital Flight.
Mapping the First United States Manned Orbital Flight.
Cartographer(s): Rand, McNally & Co.Place/Date: Fairborn, OH / 1962$1,900 Add to cart -
To Capt. P. Heywood…this chart… for navigating to from and in the East Indies
An especially rare chart of South India, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
Cartographer(s): James HorsburghPlace/Date: London / 1811$2,900 Add to cart -
Carte Du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles du Cours et des Environs de la Riviere Mississipi
De l’Isle’s paradigm-setting chart of the Gulf of Mexico, the first accurate plotting of the full course of the Mississippi River.
Cartographer(s): Guillaume De l'IslePlace/Date: Paris / 1708$1,800 Add to cart -
Algerie
A gorgeous pictorial tourist map of Algeria in the 1960s.
Cartographer(s): Ofalac-AlgerPlace/Date: Algiers/Oran / ca. 1960$375 Add to cart -
A Guide Map of the RUINS OF TIKAL Guatemala.
An archaeological plan of the ruins of the great Mayan city of Tikal, a site that still baffles historians to this day.
Cartographer(s): Asociación TikalPlace/Date: Guatemala / 1969$675 Add to cart -
Aztec Calendar – Easy Map – full color – History and Symbolism
A vivacious color depiction of the Aztec calendar with extensive explanatory notes.
Cartographer(s): Adrian Garcia ValadesPlace/Date: New York / 1992$350 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 ServicePlace/Date: Franfurt am Main / 1945$375 Add to cart -
Carte générale des États-Unis, du Haut et Bas-Canada, de la Nouvle. Ecosse, du Nouvau. Brunswick, de Terre Neuve &a.
1832 Brué map of the United States prior to decades of dramatic westward expansion.
Cartographer(s): Adrien-Hubert BruéPlace/Date: Paris / 1832$250 Add to cart -
Nova totius Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
Frederick de Wit’s large folio of the British Isles in old color.
Cartographer(s): Frederick de WitPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1680$450 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$1,900 Add to cart -
Regni Daniae, Novissima et Accuratissima Tabula
Visscher’s seminal map of the Kingdom of Denmark, borne out of the ashes of the Thirty-Year-War.
Cartographer(s): Nicolas VisscherPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1680$400 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 CongressPlace/Date: Long Beach, CA / 1957$450 Add to cart -
PLANISFERO CELESTE. Contenente le principali stelle visibili ad occhino nudo.
A splendid mid-19th century Celestial Planisphere from Italy.
Cartographer(s): Ernesto Sergent-MarceauPlace/Date: Milan / 1850$1,250 Add to cart -
San Francisco 1849, Drawn on the Spot by Henry Firks
Henry Firks’ iconic birds-eye-view of San Francisco at the height of the Gold Rush.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1886$2,800 Add to cart -
Map of Columbia, S.C.
1914 Town plan of Columbia, South Carolina.
Cartographer(s): Columbia Chamber of CommercePlace/Date: Columbia, SC / 1914$375 Add to cart
