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Unrecorded state of a Lafreri-style map of Italy.
L'Italia nobilissima provincia della Europa fu nominata con diversi nomi ...
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This is the 1664 second state of Donato Rasciotti's 'Lafreri School' map of Italy, engraved by Giovanni Battista Mazza and reissued in Venice by Stefano Scolari from the plate first published in 1599. It preserves Giacomo Gastaldi's geographical work through Domenico Zenoi's 1567 adaptation, extending the commercial life of a Renaissance image of Italy well into the following century. Of note, Mazza's exceptional mastery of engraving is evident; here, dense, varied stippling of the seas creates the illusion of roiling waves, setting the peninsula, islands, ships, and engraved ornaments against a vibrant, almost living background. (more details)
Asia and America Conjoined.
Carta Marina Nuova Tavola.
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This is a superb example of Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 map of the world, Carta Marina Nuova Tavola. It was one of three world maps in Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy: one depicted the ancient world, while two were modern works. This striking work, with its array of rhumb lines, was an enlarged and improved version of Giacomo Gastaldi's 1548 Carta Marina Nova Tabula, sharing with that map an abundance of unusual features. (more details)
Triumph of data visualization.
Prof. A. L. Hickmann’s geogr.-statist. Darstellungen über die Bier- und Wein-Produktion im Deutschen Reiche und in Österreich-Ungarn.
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This is Anton Leo Hickmann's c. 1897 colorful chromolithograph statistical map of beer and wine production in the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, published by G. Freytag and Berndt in Vienna. A noted master of the infographic, Hickmann turns the objects of drinking and brewing into instruments of comparison: casks measure trade, towers of barrels rank national output, and elaborate steins compare consumption. The central map provides a complementary geography of drinking, locating breweries and coloring regions according to annual per-capita beer consumption. Published during the industrial expansion of brewing and the phylloxera crisis in European vineyards, the sheet brings two industries undergoing markedly different transformations into a single comparative display. (more details)
Making Mont Blanc (Relatively) Accesible.
Le Chaine du Mont-Blanc.
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This is a c. 1905 large-format chromolithographed folding map of Mont Blanc and environs on the French-Italian-Swiss border, prepared by Xaver Imfeld. Generally known as 'The Imfeld Map', at the time it was considered the finest map of the mountain, the highest in the Alps, and the surrounding region yet produced. It also coincided with the advent of popular mountaineering in the Alps, including the creation of alpine clubs and the establishment of infrastructure (with shelters, trails, and, of course, maps) to facilitate participation by a wider share of the public. (more details)
American colonies at the outset of the Revolutionary War.
Carte des Possessions des Colonies Anglaises dans le Continent de L'Amérique Septentrionale et Partie de la Louisiane.
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This is the 1776 edition of Sebastian G. Longchamps's map of eastern North America, published at the outset of the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783) to capitalize on popular French interest in the conflict. The map was first issued in 1756, during the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763), but has here been revived with significant new engraving, additional relevant details, and a new title to illustrate the opening theaters of the American Revolution. Key revisions give greater prominence to the individual New England colonies and expand the coastal nomenclature of northern Newfoundland, where France retained valuable fishing privileges despite losing Canada. (more details)
One of the first maps to depict Tasmania as a separate island.
Kaart van Basses Straat Tusschen Nieuw Zuid Wales en Van Diemens-Land.
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This circa 1800 Dutch edition of Matthew Flinders' chart of Bass Strait and Van Diemen's Land records the surveys that helped establish Tasmania's insularity in European cartography and is among the first maps to depict Tasmania as a separate island. Engraved by Cornelis van Baarsel after the chart Aaron Arrowsmith published in 1800, it follows Flinders and George Bass through the strait and around Tasmania in the colonial sloop Norfolk. Its tracks, differentiated coastlines, and extensive Dutch annotations preserve both Flinders' achievements and the limitations of this reconnaissance, distinguishing surveyed shores from the vast stretches still imperfectly known. (more details)
Seminal Geological Map of Syria and Lebanon
Carte géologique de la Syrie et du Liban.
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This is a 1933 large-format geologic map of the Levant, prepared by Louis Dubertret and colleagues. This map was the first comprehensive, systematic geological synthesis of the northern Levant. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from Ottoman maps to French Army surveys and Dubertret's own pioneering work in rural areas of Syria and Lebanon, it was a seminal map in the geological mapping of the region, including forming a basis for the later exploitation of oil resources. (more details)
Ephemeral Confederate 'Arrizona'.
Johnson's California. Territories of New Mexico and Utah.
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This is an 1863 Johnson and Ward map of the American Southwest depicting Confederate Arizona as a horizontal 'Arrizona' extending from California to Texas. Published during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865), it preserves the southern territorial configuration ratified by the Confederacy rather than the western half of New Mexico organized as a United States territory on February 24, 1863. This configuration originated in proposals predating secession; its appearance here places the map among Johnson's late treatments of the horizontal Arizona before his adoption of the north-south division later in 1863. The map also incorporates Colorado and Nevada while retaining an unusually broad Utah and a correspondingly narrow Nevada. (more details)
Flight around the World on the Brink of War.
國威宣揚 世界一周大飛行地図 / [Promoting National Prestige Map of Round-the-World Flight].
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A large 1939 map of the world prepared by the Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun to celebrate the Nippon, the first Japanese circumnavigational flight. Although a cause for national celebration, the successful flight of the Nippon, intended to promote international peace and goodwill, was overshadowed by the start of World War II (1939 - 1945) in Europe, which caused the plane to divert from its original route. (more details)
Japan in the midst of social, economic, and geographic transformation.
改正測量皇國明細全圖 / [Complete and Detailed Revised Survey Map of the Empire].
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This is an 1893 Inoue Katsugorō folding map of the prefectures of Japan with vignette illustrations. It was issued to publicize administrative reforms adopted several years earlier, which reorganized territories and instituted a new model of local government. Moreover, it provides a comprehensive snapshot of Japan at the height of the Meiji era, including lovely vignette views of famous sites throughout Japan. (more details)
Reimagining Race at the Field Museum.
Map of Mankind.
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This is a 1946 Malvina Hoffman and C. S. Hammond map of the world illustrating the 'races of mankind'. The map is surrounded by 77 of Hoffman's bronzes from her Races of Mankind series, created for Chicago's Field Museum. Colors highlight different geographical regions and group the sculptures, associating race with geography. (more details)
Administrative Map from the Nazi Occupation of Poland
Kreishauptmannschaft Krakau-Land.
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This is a c. 1942 German-Polish administrative map of Krakau-Land, the rural county surrounding Kraków during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Its emphasis on municipal boundaries, administrative offices, and graded roads presents the countryside as a network of jurisdictions and communications rather than a military battlefield. Particularly telling is the western boundary, labeled Deutsches Reich, which separates this county of the General Government from Polish territory annexed directly to Germany. Kraków itself was the capital of the occupation government, making the surrounding county part of its immediate administrative hinterland. (more details)
The immediate aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake.
東京及近縣罹災地一般圖 / [Map of Destroyed Areas in Tokyo and Surrounding Prefectures].
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This stark 1923 map of Tokyo, Yokohama, and the Kanto region, produced by the Imperial Japanese Land Survey Bureau, depicts areas severely damaged or destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake and the resulting fires. It was issued shortly after the disaster, as the government struggled to suppress fires, quell social unrest, and assess the widespread damage. (more details)
Defining Dai Nippon.
大日本國全圖 / [Complete Map of Japan].
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This is an 1887 folding pocket map of Japan, edited and published by Tsujimoto Kyūbei. Rich in color and detail, it highlights Imperial Japan's acquisitions and territorial claims in the early Meiji period, including the colonization of Hokkaido, the annexation of Ryukyu, and maximalist (in some cases irredentist) claims to islands disputed between Japan and Russia. (more details)
Original planning map of Palm Desert by the city's founder.
Palm Desert Desert Community Riverside County California.
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This is a 1946 planning map of Palm Desert, California, by city founder and real estate developer Tommy Tomson. Located in the heart of the Coachella Valley, Palm Desert is one of California's most successful post-war planned communities - here laid out and planned when it existed only as a dream. (more details)
Long-running Franco-Brazilian Territorial Dispute.
Carte des lacs Macari et Mapa levée à vue. dans la guyane francaise.
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This is a rare c. 1837 map of a portion of Amapá state in northern Brazil, printed by Thierry Frères in Paris. At the time, France and Brazil were locked in a bitter territorial dispute over this sparsely inhabited and heavily forested area. The previous year, France took advantage of a separatist uprising in the Brazilian province of Grão-Pará, which included the area seen here, to stake a claim to the territory and extend the southern border of French Guiana. The resulting crisis nearly led to war, and even after the two sides agreed to demilitarize the area in 1841, the dispute was not resolved until an international arbitration commission ruled in Brazil's favor in 1900. (more details)
Middle East by an anarchical anti-authoritarian internationalist.
L'Asie antérieure d'après le texte de la Nouvelle Géographie Universelle et d'autres documents récent.
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This beautifully detailed 1883 map of the Middle East is the work of geographer, anarchist, free union advocate, and nudist Jacques Élisée Reclus, produced in conjunction with fellow anarchist Charles Eugène Perron as part of Reclus's 19-volume Nouvelle Géographie Universelle. Reclus' maps were widely admired for their scientific precision and detail; his atlas was notable for its reflection and support of anti-authoritarian internationalism. (more details)
The Many Monuments of the Eternal City.
Roma 50 anniversario della proclamazione del Regno d'Italia con Roma capitale.
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This is a rare c. 1911 chromolithographed pictorial bird's-eye view of Rome, Italy, prepared by Oreste Garroni and printed by Pavon. It was published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the unification of Italy, the culmination of the Risorgimento, as well as the city's co-hosting of the Esposizione nazionale and hosting of the Esposizione internazionale d'arte that same year. More generally, it highlights Rome's remarkable growth and modernization following its designation as national capital. (more details)
A possible Nazi bombardment of England - before the May 1940 invasion of Western Europe.
How Nazi Bombers May Blast Britain's Hope.
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This is a 1940 Los Angeles Examiner pictorial map of England, Scotland, Wales, and the northern coast of Europe. Published on March 31, 1940, over a month before the Nazi invasion of Western Europe, the map speculates on a possible Nazi offensive against Britain and what the targets might be. (more details)
From pebbes in the sand to cartography.
Carte des Nouvelles Philippines. / Kaart der Nieuwe Philippynsche Eylanden.
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This is a 1759 Dutch-edition of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin's map of the Caroline Islands, preserving geographical knowledge provided by indigenous Carolinian voyagers who were stranded in the Philippines in 1696. Its conspicuous numbers measure distance and island size in days of sailing, carrying an indigenous maritime understanding of the archipelago into European print. Published with French and Dutch titles, the map descends from the account and sketch communicated by the Jesuit Paul Klein, rather than from a European survey of the islands. (more details)