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A collection of 30 manuscript political cartoons, many with cartographic content, drawn by Frank 'Ket' Kettlewell for the Oakland Tribune. As a group, they constitute a unique comic record of world events c. 1916 - 1935. Each hand-drawn cartoon is a visually striking San Francisco-centric commentary on domestic or international affairs. 'Ket' has signed each, with many most featuring his signature tiny bird (which occasionally comments). (more details)
First state of a groundbreaking map of North America.
Carte d'un tres grand Pays entre le Nouveau Mexique et la Mer Glaciace Dediee a Guilliaume IIIe. Roy de La Grand Bretagne Par le R. P. Louis de Hennepin Mission: Recol: et Not: Apost: Chez G. Broedelet a Utreght.
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This is the rare 1697 first state of Louis de Hennepin's map of North America. Wheat hailed this foundational work as 'an important cartographic stepping stone … the first made by a Frenchman from on-the-spot experience'. It is the first map to place Hennepin's firsthand mapping of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River in the broader context of the mapping of the continent, and it would exert a lasting impact on the next century's mapping of America. It also, bucking the era's conventions, presents California as a peninsula. (more details)
Japan's first train.
橫濱往返鐵道蒸氣車海上之圖 / [View of Steam Engine on the Seaside Yokohama Line].
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A fascinating 1874 ukiyo-e triptych by Utagawa Hiroshige III celebrating Japan's first passenger railway and the astonishing modernization of Yokohama under the Meiji. Opened between Yokohama and Tokyo in 1872, the steam railway became one of the most potent symbols of a country transforming itself at extraordinary speed, linking Japan's leading international treaty port with the imperial capital. Published two years after the railway's inauguration, the triptych captures not simply a train, but a defining moment in the Meiji Restoration, when foreign technology was being rapidly absorbed and transformed into the infrastructure of modern Japan. (more details)
Yokohama emerging as an international port.
橫濱海岸圖會 / [View of the Coast at Yokohama.]
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An early 1860 ukiyo-e triptych by Utagawa Hiroshige II, capturing Yokohama, Japan, as it emerged as an international treaty port. Published just months after Yokohama opened to foreign trade in 1859, this panoramic view presents a city poised between the insular world of Tokugawa Japan and the profound transformations that would soon accompany sustained contact with the West. Among the earliest printed views of Yokohama, it offers a Japanese vision of the nascent port: cherry blossoms, temples, teahouses, theaters, and the notorious Miyozaki pleasure quarter occupy a landscape only beginning to accommodate global commerce. Most evocative is a woman seated in a waterfront teahouse, telescope in hand, gazing across the harbor - an image that seems to encapsulate Japan itself, watching with fascination as an unfamiliar world approaches. (more details)
Thirteen Colonies on the Brink of Revolution.
Carte Nouvelle de L'Amerique Angloise contenant tout ce que les Anglois possedent sur le Continent de L'Amerique Septentrionale savoir le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse ou Acadie, les treize Provinces unies
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This is an uncommon 1776 French-language map of the Thirteen Colonies and emerging United States by Augsburg cartographer Matthias Albrecht Lotter, published at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. Drawing heavily on French cartographic traditions, the map presents British North America at the very moment the colonies declared independence and the United States began to take shape. Issued two years before France formally entered the Revolutionary War on the American side, it captures the continent on the cusp of a geopolitical transformation that would redraw North America. (more details)
You don't drink paint - so why drink beer and wine?
Characteristic Actions of ALCOHOL.
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This iconic 1935 Denoyer-Geppert persuasive anti-alcoholism poster highlights the product's negative effects on the human body. Issued after Prohibition's 1933 repeal, this piece pointedly asks: why ingest beer, wine, and liquor when the same key chemicals are used in paint, shellac, varnish, perfume, and explosives? Due to its powerful imagery, this piece has been widely reproduced, but this is our first time encountering an original. (more details)
World's most disputed waters.
China Sea Northern Portion.
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This exceptional 1867 / 1873 British Admiralty map of the South China Sea includes Hong Kong and the Philippines, depicting some of the world's most disputed waters. (more details)
Unrecorded Proof State.
L'Inghilterra Divisa in sette Regni quarttro de Sassoni e'tre dell' Inglesi, et il Principato di Galles, ciascuno diviso ne loro Shire, overo Contadi. La Scotia Regno diviso in due parte principali, di qua'e di la del Tay, overo ne due Regni, dei Pitti, e de Scoti. L'Irlanda Regno diviso in quattro Provincie, e queste ne suoi Contadi.
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This is the unrecorded first state of Paolo Petrini's c. 1700 map of the British Isles, including England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The engraving here is so fresh and the strike so early that the plate haze and text guidelines remain visible. (more details)
Last Days of Japan's Occupation of Hong Kong
Hong Kong and Lema Islands. South Sheet. Second Edition - AMS 3.
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This is a 1945 Army Map Service map of Hong Kong, produced in the closing days of World War II. By this time, Hong Kong had suffered through nearly four years of starvation and oppression under Japanese occupation. (more details)
Barbados, the heart of a global sugar empire.
Barbadoes, surveyed by William Mayo, Engraved and Improved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King.
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A striking 1794 Thomas Jefferys map of Barbados in fine original color, capturing the island at the height of its extraordinary wealth as the powerhouse of Britain's Caribbean sugar empire. Based on the first systematic survey of Barbados, the map reveals a landscape intensively organized around sugar production, with hundreds of plantations, an extensive road network, coastal fortifications, and one of the densest populations in the British West Indies. (more details)
Underground Manuscript Map of Japan's Northern Frontier.
蝦夷國全圖 / [Complete Map of Ezo].
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A vividly colored and historically significant c. 1785 Hayashi Shihei manuscript map of Ezo (today's Hokkaido) and environs, including the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin, and part of Manchuria. Based on the earliest detailed Japanese surveys of Ezo, this map is one of the most important maps of the Edo period, an early manifestation of a Japanese-Russian territorial struggle that is still disputed. (more details)
Celebrating Italian cuisine.
Carta Gastronomica del Bel Paese.
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This is a 1949 Vsevolode Nicouline pictorial gastronomic map of Italy. The map celebrates Italian culinary tradition with pictorial illustrations of delicacies filling the peninsula, Sicily, and Sardinia. (more details)
Transformation of Tokugawa Edo into a Imperial Tokyo.
改正 東亰區分明細圖 / [Revised Detailed Map of Tokyo Divided into Wards].
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A striking 1880 Meiji-era city plan of Tokyo, Japan, by Naoha Shūhei, capturing the imperial capital as it transformed from Tokugawa Edo into a modern metropolis. Published shortly after the creation of Tokyo's 15 urban wards, the map combines traditional Japanese cartographic aesthetics with Western conventions, vividly documenting both the city's new administrative geography and its rapidly changing infrastructure. (more details)
Use your Playmobil to race across the U.S.!
Mappa Transamerica. L'Avventura Sulle Strade playmobil.
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This is a 1987 GiG Playmobil pictorial game map of the United States published as part of a promotional scheme where children could send proofs of purchase to win 10 million lire. The game combines traveling across the United States with promoting Playmobil sets related to traveling. (more details)
Shenzhen, in the Old Days.
Hong Kong and the New Territories. Sha Tau.
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A 1949 British War Office topographic map of a portion of the border between Hong Kong and Bao'an County, today's Shenzhen Municipality. The bottom portion of the map includes the border between Hong Kong's New Territories and mainland China, which took on new significance with the establishment of the People's Republic of China the same year this map was produced. (more details)
Personal insights into the 301st Field Artillery during World War I.
Over There' and Back with the 301st First Field Artillery.
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This rare 1933 Lewis Rothe and Warren Gibbs pictorial map of Europe playfully commemorates the peregrinations of the 301st Field Artillery during World War I (1914 - 1918). The map traces the 301st's movements from Boston through Nova Scotia and England to France, then back across the Atlantic to New York City after the war ended. Lewis Rothe drew the map in collaboration with Warren R. Gibbs, a veteran of the 301st. A series of 'close-ups' in the lower left offers interesting personal insights into the unit: Lieutenant Dowd's luck at gambling and Colonel Brooke's habit of buying souvenirs. (more details)
Medieval Acre, as a Hospitaller Stronghold.
Civitas Acon Sive Ptolomaida.
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This is J. Picart's striking 1629 plan of the fortified city of Acre (in modern day Israel / Palestine), based on the c. 1320 manuscript plan of Pietro Vesconte: a depiction of the medieval port as a stronghold of the Knights Hospitaller in the Holy Land and the most important Crusader beachhead to the east. (more details)
Prescient Warning Weeks before the Pearl Harbor Attack.
Philippines Need Fortification...
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Published in the Herald-American Pictorial Review in late September 1941, this map of the Philippines is a prescient warning of the coming catastrophe. It portrays the Philippine Islands as dangerously unprepared for a foreign invasion, with Japan's threat looming over the archipelago. Less than three months later, those fears became reality: within hours of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Japanese forces struck the Philippines, beginning an invasion that would overwhelm the islands and inaugurate more than three years of brutal occupation. (more details)
Decrying the Revolutions of 1848 in Italy. Or Just The Disorganization?
La Torre di Babilonia. Almanacco per l'Anno 1849.
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This is a c. 1848 Italian satirical broadside decrying the chaos of the 1848 People's Revolutions in Italy. The evocative political propaganda piece combines a woodcut image, a poetic description of said image, and an almanac for 1849. It is an excellent example of 19th-century Italian political ephemera. (more details)
Richly detailed China and Korea.
Charte von China nach Murdochischer Projection entworfen, nach den neuesten und zuverlässigsten astronomischen Ortsbestimmungen berichtiget, und gezeichnet.
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This is H. F. A. Stieler's scarce 1804 German-language map of China and Korea, presenting the region broken into provinces and applying the novel (and accurate) Murdoch Projection. It was one of the first maps Stieler produced for the newly formed Geographical Institute of Weimar. (more details)