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ЕРЕВАН ПАНОРАМА ЦЕНТРА. [Yerevan Center Panorama.]
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This is a 1990 Armenian Traveler's Encyclopedia pictorial map of Yerevan, Armenia. Sites throughout the city are illustrated and identified, and the Hrazdan River beautifully winds its way through the city. (more details)
The education of a young sailor.
[Cyper Books of a Maine Sailor].
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A set of four c. 1808-1823 manuscript cypher books containing the lessons of a young sailor in training - likely from Belfast, Maine. The books offer unique insights into the education and training of gifted young sailors in the arts of mathematics and navigation. The voyage log and navigational studies suggest these works were compiled over several sea voyages. Points of coverage include navigation, trigonometry, general mathematics, calculation of duties and poundage, calculations of bank interest, winds and sailing guides, and more - all of the education a young man would need for a career as a sea captain. (more details)
Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, including today's Hudson Yards.
Map of the Glass House Farm Also the Schroepple, Ray, and other estates down to the Franklin and Robinson and the Widow Mary Clarke and Thomas B. Clarke.
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A rare 1873 John Bute Holmes cadastral map of part of the Manhattan neighborhoods Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, New York City. It is likely the earliest obtainable specific map of this part of Manhattan. (more details)
Navigating liberated Manila.
Manila Area North of Pasig River. / Manila Area South of Pasig River. / Manila Area North of Pasig River.
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This is a set maps of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, published by the Bachrach Motor Company in October 1945. Published just over 8 months after the Americans liberated Manila, the maps highlight American military bases and other locations across the city. (more details)
Unique insights into WWII Route Maps.
83d United States Infantry Division. The Thunderbolt Division. The Thunderbolt Across Europe.
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This is a 1945 83rd Infantry Division Information-Education Section World War II pictorial route map of Western Europe accompanied by a letter from General Robert Macon, the commanding officer of the 83rd Infantry Division. The letter offers unique insight into the production of this, and other, similar WWII route maps. (more details)
Locates mills, paper factories, and the public school.
Easter Pepperell, Mass. 1886.
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This 1886 Lucian Rinaldo Burleigh bird's eye view map of East Pepperell, Massachusetts provides a look at a modern-day community near the end of the 19th century. Overlooking East Pepperrell from the southeast, several roads that still exist in town are illustrated and labeled, including Groton Street, Leighton Street, Mill Street, Tucker Street, and Hollis Street. Both the Nissitissit and Nashua Rivers are illustrated, and the Pepperell Covered Bridge across the Nashua River is illustrated to the right of center. Seventeen locations throughout town are numerically identified and correspond to an index below the bottom border, including several mills, two paper companies, the post office, train station, and public school. (more details)
Southern (Central) Luzon during the Philippine-American War.
Southern Luzon. Showing Portion of Theater of Operations. 8th Army Corps, Major General Elwell S. Otis, Commanding.
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This is a scare map of Central Luzon, the Philippines, issued at the height of the Philippine-American War (1899 - 1902) by the Military Governor in the Philippines, Major General Elwell Stephen Otis, and the 8th Army Engineering Corps. It ranks among the most detailed cartographic productions from the Philippine-American War. (more details)
Luzon during the Philippine-American War.
Map of Northern Luzon Showing a portion of the field operations of the 8th Army Corps, Major General Elwell S. Otis Commanding.
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This is a rare map of Northern Luzon, the Philippines, issued in 1900 at the height of the Philippine-American War (1899 - 1902) by the Military Governor in the Philippines, Major General Elwell Stephen Otis, and the 8th Army Engineering Corps. This map is one of the largest and most detailed cartographic productions from the Philippine-American War. (more details)
Dark Days for Catalonia.
Principatus Cataloniae nec non Comitatuum Ruscinonensisz Et Cerretaniae Nova Tabula.Principatus Cataloniae nec non Comitatuum Ruscinonensis Et Cerretaniae Nova Tabula.
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A lovely example of Johann Baptist Homann's c. 1710 map of Catalonia. It depicts the region during the War of Spanish Succession (1701 - 1714), a catastrophic event in local history which caused Catalonia to (temporarily) lose its historic autonomy. (more details)
A wartime summary of World War II in the Mediterranean region.
NavWarMap No. 1 The Mediterranean. / NavWarMap No. 2 The South China Sea Area
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This is a 1944 Navy Department pictorial map of the Mediterranean region with a Navy Department pictorial map of Southeast Asia on the verso. This visually stunning map summarizes Allied operations in the Mediterranean theater through the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943 and the early months of the Pacific War on the other side. (more details)
A 'Strange and Bewildering' Wonderland.
Map of the Yellowstone National Park. / Northern Pacific R.R. The Wonderland Route to the Pacific Coast / Alice's Adventures in the New Wonderland The Yellowstone National Park.
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This impressive, early promotional chromolithographic map of Yellowstone National Park was prepared by Carl J. Hals and Arvid Rydstrom in 1882 and was printed by Poole Brothers for the Northern Pacific Railroad. It coincided with the Northern Pacific's opening of a rail link to the park, the first easy means for the masses to access it, which helped boost the park's image in the popular imagination and spur Western American nature tourism. (more details)
Celebration of American WWII Aviation.
Aviation Cavalcade. Wings Over the World…Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
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This is a 1944 World War II era F. E. Cheeseman and Albert Richard pictorial propaganda map celebrating U.S. military aviation. Among other novelties, the map predicts a future with flying cars! (more details)
Political and Environmental Shifts in Italy.
Status Ecclesiastici Magnique Ducatus Florentini Nova Exhibitio.
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A striking first edition example of Johann Baptist Homann's c. 1710 map of the Papal States of central Italy, including Rome, Florence, and the other grand cities of Tuscany and nearby regions. It was produced during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 - 1714), which reshaped the political landscape of much of Italy. (more details)
First Edition Mercator Map of Southeast England in the Elizabethan Era.
Warwicum, Northhamtonia, Huntingdonia, Cantabrigia, Suffolcia, Oxonium, Buckinghamia Bedfordia, Hartfordia, Essexia, Berceria Middelsexia, Southhatonia, Surria, Cantiu et Southsexia.
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An old color, first edition 1595 Gerard Mercator map of southeastern England, including London. It highlights the tricky waters of the English Channel, which had so recently rescued England from the 1588 Spanish Armada. (more details)
Hungarian Transylvania.
SZÉKELYFÖLD.
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This is a 1942 Royal Hungarian Institute of Military Cartography map of Székely Land (Székelyföld in Hungarian). This region was awarded to Hungary as part of the Second Vienna Award in August 1940 by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. (more details)
One of the First Union Victories of the Civil War.
Kentucky et Tennessee.
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This impressive 1890 map of Kentucky, Tennessee, and portions of neighboring states was prepared by Ernest Dumas-Vorzet for his Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique. Among the larger maps in the atlas volume of the work, it highlights a large portion of the Western Theater, a bright spot for the Union early in the war. (more details)
The Western Theater - a Bright Spot for the Union.
Fort Henry Fort Donelson Shiloh.
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This sheet includes three highly detailed 1890 Dumas Vorzet maps of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh, Tennessee, sites of early battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It was issued to illustrate the scarce atlas volume of the French edition of Philippe d'Orléans' Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique. (more details)
Where do all the rivers come from?
Typus Hydrophylacy intra Alpes Rheticas, quod Fundit totius Europae Celeberrima Flumina; uti patet.
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This is Athanasius Kircher's 1665 map of the Alps, illustrating that scholar's novel hydro-geographic theory. (more details)
First scientific survey of the Islamic holy city of Madinah.
حرم شريف ايله سائر اماكين مباركه وعسكريه وباشلوجه اسواقى كوسترر مدينه منوره شهرينك طپوغرافياى منظمه اصوليله اخذ اولنان خريطه سيدر. / [Map of the Prophet’s Mosque (Haram Sharif) with All Sacred Places, Military Buildings and Main Squares Showing Topography of the City of Medina Al-Munawwarah with a Legend]
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A seminal map. This large-scale Arabic manuscript map is the first scientific survey of the Islamic holy city of Medina (المدينة المنورة / Madinah), in modern-day Saudi Arabia. The map was compiled for Abd al-Mutalib ibn Ghalib, Emir and Grand Sharif of Mecca, known for his pro-slavery anti-Ottoman positions, as well as for his modernization of infrastructure in both Mecca and Medina. (more details)
Rare, Distinctive World Map with a Unique Projection.
Hemispheriū Ab Aequinoctli Linea, Ad Circulū Poli Arctici / Hemispheriū Ad Circulū Poli Ātarctici.
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This is Cornelis De Jode's rare 1593 double-polar projection map of the world. It is among the most striking early world maps and among the earliest to introduce the double hemispheric polar projection. Moreover, as a competitor to Ortelius' cartography, it is the sole obtainable map to preserve the innovative Guillaume Postel/Antwerp Unicum cartography. The map is quite rare, having been published in only a single edition. (more details)