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The Mother Lode.
Geological Map of the Mother Lode Belt in El Dorado and Amador Counties, California.
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This is a stunning large-scale 1897 diazo-print Henry Lahiff map of the Mother Lode Belt, in California's Amador and El Dorado Counties. This map details the most abundant gold-producing region in California during the latter years of the Gold Rush. (more details)
Magnificent Seventeenth-Century Asia.
L'Asie diviseé en ses Principales Regions, et ou se peut voir l'estendue Des Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes et Estats qui partagent présentement L'Asie.
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This is a beautiful example of Hubert Jaillot's two-sheet map of Asia in its 1696 Mortier issue. While fundamentally based on Nicolas Sanson's mapping of the continent, the map has been updated to reflect advances in European knowledge of the Far East. Moreover, Jaillot's background as a sculptor has resulted in the artfully engraved cartouches which grace this work. (more details)
Investment in the Witwatersrand.
Carte Du District Du Witwatersrand (Transvaal) Montrant les Propriétés de la Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited Publiée Par La Revue Sud-Africaine.
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This is a rare 1902 map of Johannesburg, South Africa, prepared during the Witwatersrand Gold Rush for Johannesburg Consolidated Investment (JCI) to promote investment from France. (more details)
Robert Moses' signature project.
Triborough Bridge Authority Projects.
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This is Edward Spofford's bird's-eye view of the Triborough Bridge and connections, New York City. The map was issued at the peak of Robert Moses' controversial efforts to build highways connecting New York's boroughs, Long Island, and Westchester. (more details)
First Disney map of Never Never Land.
Never Never Island.
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This is a 1952 Walt Disney Productions pictorial map of Never Never Island from the movie Peter Pan. It is the first printed map of Disney's Never Never Island, published one year before the 1953 film Peter Pan was released. Recognizable locales include Mermaid Cove, Skull Island, and the Indian Camp. No characters from the movie appear, but they were incorporated in later editions. (more details)
Charting Florida.
Seno Mejicano. Carta de la Costa Occidental de la Florida y Parte de La Isla de Cuba segun los trabajos mas modernos nacionales y estrangeros.
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A scarce 1866 working Spanish Dirección de Hidrografía nautical map of peninsular Florida and northern Cuba. This chart was used by the Santiago, one of the first steamships to ply the Havana-Cadiz route. (more details)
Largest and Best Map of Puerto Rico during Spanish-American War.
Outline Map of Puerto Rico.
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A remarkable 1899 wall map of Puerto Rico printed shortly after the island's annexation at the end of the Spanish-American War (April 21, 1898 - August 13, 1898). The map is derived from the U.S. Army General Staff Map, used to plan American military action in Puerto Rico. It was also the largest and best map of the island produced to date. Like the General Staff Map, this chart is incomplete, with some areas exhibiting only the most spartan cartographic detail. (more details)
Traces the 1877 expedition of British Army officer William John Gill.
Route Map of Captain W. J. Gill's Journey in Western China and Eastern Tibet.
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This is a scarce and important 1878 William John Turner map of western China and eastern Tibet tracing Captain William John Gill's 1877 expedition through the region. (more details)
First European View of the Ancient City of Palmyra.
A View of the Ruines of Palmyra alias Tadmor, taken on the Southern Side.
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This fascinating 1695 engraving is the first published view of the ruined city of Palmyra, Syria. It captures the first extended visit to Palmyra by Western European explorers, undertaken in 1691 by British cleric William Halifax. The view is understood to be the work of Gerard Hofstede van Essen, a German-born Dutch artist who lived and worked in Aleppo at the end of the 17th century. (more details)
Satirizing the Panic of 1893 - 4 years later.
The Way Gold Leaves U.S.
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This is an 1897 Victor Gillam cartographically themed political cartoon satirizing the Panic of 1893. The image is a critique of foreign investment in American industry. (more details)
Railroad land grants for sale in Arkansas.
Map Showing the Land Grands of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, and Little Rock and Fort Smith Railways in Arkansas.
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An intriguing document, with map and letter, regarding railroad grant and early town development in Arkansas. Published in 1885 by the Land Department of the Iron Mountain Railway in Little Rock, Arkansas, this map of Arkansas highlights land for sale by the Iron Mountain Railway. All rail lines are highlighted in dark red. A lighter shade of red emanates outward along both sides of most of the rail lines, illustrating where railroad land grants are located and available for purchase. (more details)
U.S. Navy's largest training center - celebrating Christmas and New Years.
Merry Christmas! And Happy New Year! A Cartoon Map of the U.S. Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Illinois.
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This is a 1949 Robert William Gadbois and Theodore J. Ritter cartoon pictorial map of the U.S. Naval Training Center Great Lakes. This example features overprinting wishing the viewer a 'Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Great Lakes' and an illustration of Santa in his sleigh with some reindeer and holly. (more details)
Father of the Israelites.
Constellatio XLV. [Sancti Israelis Sive Jacobi Patriarchæ].
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A hand-colored example of Julius Schiller's 1627 depiction of the Lupus Constellation, represented by the Biblical figure Jacob. It appeared in Schiller's rare star atlas Coelum Stellatum Christianum, which aimed but failed to have fellow astronomers exchange the classical zodiac and Greco-Roman figures for Christian icons. (more details)
Early Maneuvers of the Civil War.
Virginie et Maryland.
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This highly detailed topographic map of Virginia and Maryland was prepared by Ernest Dumas-Vorzet. It appeared in the scarce 1890 atlas volume of the French edition of Philippe d'Orléans' Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique. (more details)
One of the first maps of Yerevan after Armenian independence from the Soviet Union.
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This is a 1993 Grigor Beglaryan and Levon Travel tourist map of Yerevan, Armenia. This is one of the first tourist maps of Yerevan published after Armenia declared independence from the Soviet Union on September 21, 1991. (more details)
Lake of the Sky.
Lake Tahoe Area Eldorado-Tahoe-Toiyabe National Forests California and Nevada.
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A colorful 1963 map of Lake Tahoe and its environs, produced by the U.S. Forest Service that highlights recreational and land uses. (more details)
Otherwordly Land of Inspiration and Wonder.
Joshua Tree National Monument. / Maps of Joshua Tree National Monument, California Regional Information and Major Hiking Trails.
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A curious 1973 map of Joshua Tree National Monument (now a national park), prepared by the Joshua Tree Natural History Association. (more details)
Most important map of the Mississippi during the Revolutionary War.
Course of the River Mississipi, from the Balise to Fort Chartres; Taken on an Expedition to the Illinois, in the latter end of the Year 1765.
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A scarce, important, and dramatic map of the Mississippi River Valley from the Gulf of Mexico to Fort Chartres (Illinois). This was the best map of the Mississippi to appear before the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783) and remained significant even after the war when it was the best demarkation of the western boundary of the United States. (more details)
'Most Attractive of its Time' -Shirley
Nova Orbis Tabula In Lucem Edita, A. F. de Wit.
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This is a striking c. 1689 example, in original color, of Frederick De Wit's classic double hemisphere map of the world. Shirley praised it as 'one of the most attractive of its time'. It features many of the tropes of 17th-century Dutch mapmaking: Insular California, imaginary islands, etc., as well as new discoveries, such as Western Australia, and cartographic reconsiderations, among them the removal of the imaginary Terra Australis. (more details)
First detailed survey of the Grand Canyon.
Geologic Map of the Southern Part of the Kaibab Plateau. / Geologic Map of the Southern Part of the Kaibab Plateau. / Geologic Map of the Grand Cañon in the Kaibab Plateau. / Geologic Map of the Southern part of the Kaibab Plateau - Head of the Grand Cañon.
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The first map of the Grand Canyon based on actual surveys - this is Clarence E. Dutton's 1882 four-part map of the Grand Canyon, published for the Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (more details)