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[LA ROCHELLE] Il vero sito della Rocella hora occupata da heretici et Ribelli di sua Maestà Christianissima della Quale sono Assediati.
Den of the Templars: a rare and exciting plan of the great French port of La Rochelle.
Cartographer(s): Antonio LafreriPlace/Date: Rome / ca. 1573$8,500 Add to cart -
Powell & Kingman’s Map of Southwestern New Mexico
An unrecorded wall map from pre-statehood New Mexico.
Cartographer(s): E. Kingman, Jr.Place/Date: Not listed / 1883$9,500 Add to cart -
Whitney’s Map Of Seattle And Environs, Washington. Compiled From Official Records By O.P. Anderson And Co. Engineers and Draughtsmen. 1890.
Whitney’s iconic 1890 map of Seattle: the Emerald City in its infancy following Washington statehood.
Place/Date: Seattle / 1890$2,200 Add to cart -
Carta particolare della parte ocidentale dell nuoua Spagnia è della California. La longitudine Comincia da l’Isola di Pico d’Asores. D’America Carta XXXI.
Dudley’s Sea Chart from Southern Baja California to South of Acapulco.
Cartographer(s): Sir Robert DudleyPlace/Date: Florence / ca. 1647$1,900 Add to cart -
Map of Mexico & California Compiled from the latest authorities by Juls Hutawa Lithr. Second St. 45 St, Louis, Mo. 2nd Edition 1863
Hutawa’s mysterious 1863 map of the American West: an icon in St Louis publishing history and a forerunner of the Santa Fe mining industry.
Cartographer(s): Julius HutawaPlace/Date: St. Louis / 1863$4,200 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 -
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 / 1985$1,600 Add to cart -
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.
Place/Date: London / 1855$6,500 Add to cart -
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.
Place/Date: London / 1855$6,500 Add to cart -
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.
Place/Date: London / 1899$3,200 Add to cart -
La Catastrophe du “Titanic”
An early illustrated account of the Titanic Disaster.
Cartographer(s): ExcelsiorPlace/Date: Paris / 17 April 1912$975 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 -
Official Map of Chinatown in San Francisco.
One of the great thematic maps of a 19th-century American city.
Cartographer(s): B. Farwell, John E. Kunklet, E. B. Pond; A.L. Bancroft & Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1885$3,800 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 -
Battle of the Nile, at 10 O’clock at Night, To the Right honorable Admiral Lord Nelson of the Nile…
Robert Dodd’s dramatic aquatint of Nelson’s Battle of the Nile.
Cartographer(s): Robert DoddPlace/Date: London / 1799$1,400 Add to cart -
Piping Petroleum In Iraq
A decorative broadsheet explaining and promoting the early petroleum industry in Iraq, on the eve of a new World War.
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: Not listed / 1939$775 Add to cart -
View of San Francisco, Formerly Yerba Buena, In 1846-7 Before the Discovery of Gold
San Francisco Before Gold: the town of Yerba Buena as it appeared in March 1847, shortly after its capture by the U.S.S. Portsmouth.
Cartographer(s): Bosqui Eng. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1884$3,200 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 -
A MAP of the most INHABITED part of NEW ENGLAND, containing the PROVINCES of MASSACHUSETS BAY and NEW HAMPSHIRE, with the COLONIES of KONEKTIKUT AND RHODE ISLAND. Divided into Counties and Townships: The whole composed of Actual Surveys and its situation adjusted by ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS.
An exquisite FIRST EDITION-FIRST STATE of Braddock Mead and Thomas Jefferys’ authoritative map of New England; the finest chart of the region produced in the 18th century.
Place/Date: London / November 29th, 1755$59,000 Add to cart -
A New Map of Spain and Portugal, Exhibiting the Chains of Mountains with Their Passes, the Principal & Cross Roads, with Other Details Requisite for the Intelligence of Military Operations.
Napoleonic War military intelligence.
Cartographer(s): William FadenPlace/Date: London / 1810$2,200 Add to cart -
U.S. Navy Yard. At Mare Island, California
Early view of the U.S. Navy Yard at Mare Island, with Marin and Mount Tamalpais in the background.
Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1856$2,800 Add to cart -
Past & Present of California.
The elusive ‘Elephant’ pictorial letter sheet of life in California.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1855$3,200 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$2,800 Add to cart -
Alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Benedetto XIV La Nuova Topografia di Roma Ossequiosamente Offerisce e Dedica l’Umilissimo Servo Giambattista Nolli Comasco
The famous Nolli wall map of Rome: one of the finest urban plans ever made.
Cartographer(s): Giovanni Battista NolliPlace/Date: Rome / 1748$35,000 Add to cart -
The Seattle Waterfront [Colorized Panoramic Photograph]
Seattle as the anchor of the Pacific Northwest.
Cartographer(s): Pierson & CompanyPlace/Date: Seattle / 1917$5,500 Add to cart -
The Golden Gate
Possibly the first American view of The Golden Gate ever produced.
Cartographer(s): Thomas & Samuel HardgrovePlace/Date: New York / 1855$1,000 Add to cart -
Das Jahr der Kirche [The Year of the Church]
A large-format German liturgical calendar in the Medieval style.
Cartographer(s): Johannes Stauda VerlagPlace/Date: Kassel / 1951$775 Add to cart -
Undecima Asiae Tabula.
An early printed map of Southeast Asia from the first modern atlas.
Cartographer(s): Martin WaldseemüllerPlace/Date: Strasbourg / 1513$7,000 Add to cart -
L’Amerique Septentrionale Dressee sur les Observations de Mrs. de l’Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens…
The Dutch edition of Guillaume de l’Isle’s seminal map of North America, which saw one of the first attempts at rectifying the erroneous notion that California was an island.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1708$1,400 Add to cart -
[South Africa] Photograph panorama of Cape Town, c. 1870
Panoramic photograph showing Cape Town and the Cape Colony during the heyday of British colonial rule.
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: Not listed / ca. 1870$2,000 Add to cart -
Prima Asiae Tabula.
The first printed map of Turkey.
Cartographer(s): Claudius PtolemyPlace/Date: Rome / ca. 1478$14,500 Add to cart -
Typus montis Aetnae ab authore observati
Athanasius Kircher’s glorious depiction of the 1637 eruption of Etna on Sicily – based on the author’s personal observation.
Cartographer(s): Athanasius KircherPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1665$2,000 Add to cart -
Schema corporis Solaris
Athanasius Kircher’s stunning chart of the Sun.
Cartographer(s): Athanasius KircherPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1665$2,000 Add to cart -
Atlantic Fleet. Guantanamo Bay from Radio Tower – U.S. Naval Station
An evocative WW1 panoramic photograph of the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet stationed at their new base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Cartographer(s): Harris Bros.Place/Date: Not listed / ca. 1917$1,300 Add to cart -
Typus Corporis Lunaris Panselini [First edition]
Athanasius Kircher’s pioneering map of the Moon.
Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1665$1,000 Add to cart -
Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827. [First Edition]
The narrative of Captain John Franklin’s second great expedition into the Arctic Canadian wilderness.
Place/Date: London / 1827$3,500 Add to cart -
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21 and 22. [First Edition, First Issue]
The narrative of Captain John Franklin’s first expedition to the Polar North. A landmark of historic travel literature from an icon in the history of Arctic exploration.
Place/Date: London / 1823$5,000 Add to cart -
Venetia.
Merian’s spectacular bird’s-eye-view of Venice.
Cartographer(s): Matthäus MerianPlace/Date: Frankfurt / ca. 1640$3,500 Add to cart -
Costantinopoli città principale del gran turcho
Lafreri-school 1568 Zenoi reverse-image bird’s-eye-view of Istanbul.
Place/Date: Venice / 1568$1,700 Add to cart -
Africa Tertia Pars Terrae
Excellent woodcut map of Africa with Mountains of the Moon and mythical cities.
Cartographer(s): Heinrich BüntingPlace/Date: Leipzig / ca. 1585$1,300 Add to cart -
Map of the Central Park. April 20th 1871
Olmsted and Vaux’s 1871 plan of Central Park.
Place/Date: New York / 1871$1,500 Add to cart -
Hayastan: hamaynagitakan Hayastan (Armenia: Encyclopedic Armenia)
A cartographic celebration of Armenia and Armenian culture.
Place/Date: Paris / 1933$2,600 Add to cart -
Americae pars magis cognita. [First State]
De Bry’s seminal map of South America: a manifestation of the courage, determination, and megalomania of those who went forth to explore an unknown world.
Cartographer(s): Theodore de BryPlace/Date: Frankfurt / 1592$9,000 Add to cart -
Alameda County
A most unusual bird’s-eye-view pamphlet of Alameda County and the Greater Bay Area during a pivotal period in California’s history.
Place/Date: Oakland / 1919$975 Add to cart -
La table des isles neufues lesquelles on appelle isles d’occident & d’Indie pour diuers regardz.
Sebastian Münster’s Map of the Americas: The first printed map of the new continents in their entirety.
Cartographer(s): Sebastian MünsterPlace/Date: Basel / 1568$6,800 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 -
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$900 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
