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Three Years in Texas. Including a View of the Texan Revolution, and an Account of the Principal Battles, Together With Descriptions of the Soil, Commercial and Agricultural Advantages.
Streeter’s own copy of what he considered to be the most sought-after book for the Texas Revolution as a whole.
Cartographer(s): Joseph E. FieldsPlace/Date: Boston: Abel Tompkins / First edition, second issue. 1836$42,500 Add to cart -
Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio.
History’s first dedicated map of the North Pole!
Cartographer(s): Gerard MercatorPlace/Date: Amsterdam / [First Edition] 1595$30,000 Add to cart -
The World in Hemispheres.
A gorgeous and clever representation of the world, with its most prominent mountains and rivers.
Cartographer(s): Alexander Keith JohnstonPlace/Date: Edinburgh / 1850$375 Add to cart -
Official Highway Map of California, Oregon, Nevada
An early, large-format highway map of California.
Cartographer(s): W.C. Eubank Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1930$275 Add to cart -
Chile
A distinctive, mind-bending view of Chile.
Cartographer(s): Richard Edes HarrisonPlace/Date: New York / 1938$675 Add to cart -
Welt-Karte der Mission.
Double-hemisphere 1844 missionary world map, complete with associated booklet.
Cartographer(s): Der evangelischen Missions-Anstalt BaselPlace/Date: Basel / 1844$950 Add to cart -
Asia.
Asia in the early stages of rapid transformation.
Cartographer(s): Alexander Keith JohnstonPlace/Date: Edinburgh / 1850$275 Add to cart -
The Turkish Empire. Newly Augmented by John Speed.
The first English map to offer a detailed view of the Ottoman Empire.
Cartographer(s): John SpeedPlace/Date: London / 1676$2,700 Add to cart -
[PRAGUE] Wahrhaffte Contrafactur der Weit Berühmbten Königlichen Haupt Statt Prag in Böhmen, Wie Solche Jetziger Zeit im Wesen Steht / Praga.
Merian’s spectacular view of Prague still reeling from the Swedish invasion and thirty years of religious war.
Cartographer(s): Matthäus MerianPlace/Date: Frankfurt / ca. 1650$1,400 Add to cart -
Panorama del Canale di Panama.
Only the second printed view of the Panama Canal in history.
Place/Date: Livorno / ca. 1880$875 Add to cart -
Vues panoramiques du désert, Afrique du Nord [Four Desert Views]
Four original gelatin prints with Middle Eastern desert scenes produced by the iconic orientalist studio Lehnert & Landrock.
Cartographer(s): Lehnert & LandrockPlace/Date: Cairo / ca. 1920$1,200 Add to cart -
Bird’s Eye View of the City & County of San Francisco, 1868.
A spectacular and rare First Edition of the most iconic late 19th-century view of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / [First Edition] 1868$24,500 Add to cart -
Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de la Terre Divisee en Deux Hemispheres Suivant la Projection la Plus Commune ou Tous les Points Principaux sont Placez sur les Observations…
An early state of De Fer’s famous world wall map — an Enlightenment masterpiece in which the highest artistic and scientific aspirations of the age coalesce.
Cartographer(s): Nicholas de FerPlace/Date: Paris / 1706$13,500 Add to cart -
Les Chutes du Niagara, Vue Generale; Niagara Falls, General View.
The most enticingly realistic depiction of Niagara Falls from the 19th century.
Place/Date: New York / 1852$2,000 Add to cart -
Les Chutes du Niagara. Fer a Cheval / Niagara Falls. The Horseshoe.
Sébron’s scarce and highly dramatic view of the Horseshoe Arch of Niagara Falls.
Place/Date: New York / 1852$2,000 Add to cart -
Special Air and Gunnery Target Map. Iwo Jima.
The scarce and historically important secret targeting map for the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima.
Cartographer(s): U.S. NavyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1944$4,000 Add to cart -
Nouveau Plan Illustré de la Ville de Paris
A scarce third edition of Vuillemin’s illustrated map of Paris after the fortifications of Adolphe Thiers.
Cartographer(s): Alexandre Aimé VuilleminPlace/Date: Paris / 1846$800 Add to cart -
San-Francisco, Vue prise d’un point elevé du côté Sud
An Exceedingly Rare Early Gold Rush View of San Francisco. One of Three Known Examples in Full Original Hand Color, Finished With Gouache.
Cartographer(s): Louis Le BretonPlace/Date: Paris / ca. 1850$8,500 Add to cart -
Central Valley Project. Annual History for 1949. Delta District.
A well-illustrated Central Valley California water-management system report, including many maps, charts, graphs, and original photographs.
Cartographer(s): United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of ReclamationPlace/Date: Stockton, CA / August 1, 1950$2,400 Add to cart -
A Cidade De Angra. Na Ilha De Iesu Xpoda Tercera Que Esta Em 39 Graos.
The first printed plan of the Atlantic frontier port of Angra in the Azores.
Cartographer(s): Jan Huygen van LinschotenPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1596$2,000 Add to cart -
Tierra Nueva.
Ruscelli/Rossacio’s 1599 map of the Eastern Seaboard: influential, important, highly aesthetic, and full of detailed and embedded stories.
Place/Date: Venice / 1599$975 Add to cart -
[1906 EARTHQUAKE PANORAMA – CITY HALL]
A Pillsbury Picture Company panorama highlighting the 1906 destruction of San Francisco’s City Hall.
Cartographer(s): Pillsbury Picture Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1906$1,200 Add to cart -
[SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE PHOTO ALBUM]
A dramatic collection of photographs taken during and just after the devastating events of April 18, 1906.
Cartographer(s): W. J. StreetPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1906$7,500 Add to cart -
Map no. 3. Salt marsh and tide lands situate in the city and county of San Francisco. To be sold at public auction by order of the Board of Tide Land Commissioners by Talbert & Leet, auctioneers, at their sales rooms no. 526 California Street, San Francisco. Sale to commence Friday Nov. 26th, 1869.
Rare cadastral and Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way tidal lands map of Mission Bay.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1869$3,400 Add to cart -
U.S. Coast Survey A.D. Bache, Superintendent, City Of San Francisco And Its Vicinity California. From a Trigonometrical Survey by R.D. Cutts, Assistant…
1853 United States Coast Survey steel-engraved master sheet map of the San Francisco Peninsula.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1853$2,500 Add to cart -
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906 and their effects on structures and structural materials
U.S. Government report on the 1906 earthquake, including two folding maps and a panoramic view of a city destroyed.
Cartographer(s): Government Printing OfficePlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1906$875 Add to cart -
The Resources of Vallejo: A series of articles, reprinted from the Solano County Advertiser, 1868-69
An early promotional booklet on Vallejo with two very rare folding maps.
Cartographer(s): John Shertzer HittelPlace/Date: Vallejo / 1869$3,200 Add to cart -
Official Map Of The City Of San Francisco, California. Published by Josiah J. LeCount…Approved By Geo. R. Turner City & County Surveyor
The definitive Silver Rush plan of a new and expanded San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1859$12,500 Add to cart -
Iapponiae Nova & accurata descriptio
A cornerstone map for the historical cartography of Japan.
Cartographer(s): António Francisco CardimPlace/Date: Rome / 1646$6,500 Add to cart -
Messages Under The Ocean
A detailed look at the telegraph as the first global system of communication.
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: Not listed / 1939$375 Add to cart -
Map of the County of San Mateo California Compiled from the County Records by Davenport Bromfield, Civil Engineer, Ex-County Surveyor, 1910.
Before Silicon Valley: a stunning, large-scale 1910 map of San Mateo County.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1910$8,000 Add to cart -
Map of the Mining Region of California 1855. Drawn and Compiled by Geo. H. Baker
George Holbrook Baker’s 1855 letter sheet mining map of northern California.
Cartographer(s): George Holbrook BakerPlace/Date: Sacramento / 1855$8,500 Add to cart -
The spaceship Earth Dymaxion globe.
Fuller’s Dymaxion Globe of Spaceship Earth: the most accurate and most revolutionary projection of the world to date.
Cartographer(s): Richard Buckminster FullerPlace/Date: Los Angeles / 1987$375 Add to cart -
Map showing the location of the Indian Tribes within the United States.
Eastman’s 1852 Map of Indian Tribes in the United States.
Cartographer(s): Seth EastmanPlace/Date: Philadelphia / 1852$375 Add to cart -
Historical Chart of Mankind – A Visual Record Of Man’s Racial, National and Cultural Progress
The original 1937 edition of Dr. Gluckmann’s pioneering visualization of human history.
Place/Date: Chicago / 1937$425 Add to cart -
Preliminary Geologic and Structural Map of the Lompoc and Guadalupe Quadrangles, California Including a Large Part of the Santa Maria Oil District.
A rare remnant from the early days of the California Oil Industry, from the collection of esteemed geologist Jorgen O. Nomland.
Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1907$4,800 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 -
Map of the City of Benicia Founded By Mariano G. Vallejo, Thomas O. Larking & Robert Semple 1847 Surveyed & Drawn By Benjamin Barlow City & County Surveyor.
Barlow’s rare and pioneering map of Benicia – the earliest comprehensive plan of one of California’s first state capitals.
Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1850$4,400 Add to cart -
Being a map of central California, showing some of the people, places and events that had to do with our early days. Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co., San Francisco, Established 76 years ago, in 1852
An unrecorded 1928 Wells & Fargo promotional map showing important people, places, and events in California history.
Cartographer(s): Patterson & SullivanPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1928$1,900 Add to cart -
Resources Development View of California
A vibrant view of how California’s water resources were harnessed and developed during the 1950s and 60s.
Cartographer(s): Irrigation Districts Association of CaliforniaPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1965$650 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’s Urban Water Cycle
Phil Frank’s depiction of San Francisco’s unseen water management system.
Cartographer(s): Phil FrankPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1995$475 Add to cart -
Salt Lake City, 1887.
The Bustling New Jerusalem of the American West.
Cartographer(s): August GastPlace/Date: St. Louis / 1887$2,900 Add to cart -
Americae Nova Tabula.
Superlative old color example of Blaeu’s famous map of the Americas.
Cartographer(s): Willem BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1642$5,200 Add to cart -
Map of That Portion of the Boundary between the United States and Mexico From the Pacific Coast To The Junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers… Showing also the Limits of the Treaty Negotiated by the Hon. James Gadsden
Gray’s 1855 map of the Gadsden Purchase.
Cartographer(s): Andrew Belcher GrayPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1855$3,200 Add to cart -
Trans-Bay Tube Study General Plan Location no. 12
The first tube across San Francisco Bay?
Cartographer(s): State of California Department of Public WorksPlace/Date: Not listed / 1946$550 Add to cart -
Bancroft’s Official Guide Map Of City And County Of San Francisco…1873.
Bancroft’s iconic 1873 Blue-Line Map of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): The Bancroft CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1873$2,600 Add to cart -
World Oil’s 1958 Middle East Oil Map
World Oil’s iconic map of the Middle Eastern Petroleum Concessions and Infrastructure.
Cartographer(s): World OilPlace/Date: Houston / 1958$2,800 Add to cart -
Roma Vetus In usum scholarum editit Herm. Rheinhard Tymn Stuggt. Prof.
A rare and spectacular vision of ancient Rome, compiled by a German scholar in the mid-19th century.
Cartographer(s): Hermann RheinhardPlace/Date: Stuttgart / 1868$2,400 Add to cart -
[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
