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'An essential element in any serious southwest collection' - Streeter.
Carte Du Mexique et des Pays Limitrophes Situes Au Nord et a l'est Dressee d'apres la Grande Carte de la Nouvelle Espagne De Mr. A. De Humboldt et d'autres Materiaux par J.B. Poirson.
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A seminal 1811 map of Mexico and the American West by Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt, who during his lifetime was considered the 'world's greatest living man,' composed this map during his 1803 sojourn in Mexico. Though sometimes overshadowed by Humboldt's more regional Carte Generale du Royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne, published in the same volume, this map is a cartographic achievement that Wheat noted as 'An Important Map.' Streeter considered this map an essential element in any Southwest-focused collection. (more details)
Extremely Rare Candia Siege View.
Dissegno di Candia Attaccata dal Turco SAotto il Comando del Primo Visir, et Diffesa dall' Eccmo. Sigr. Marchese Villa, dal principio dl Attacco li 24 Maggio, 1667. Sino li 21 Aprile 1668.
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This is an extremely rare 1668 plan of the port of Heraklion / Candia, Crete, illustrating the Venetian-controlled city during the final years of its 21-year-long Ottoman Siege. It is one of the only known works of the engraver Giovanni Maria Belgrano (fl. 1668-1680), who produced the work to accompany the rare first edition of Giovanni Battista Rostagno's (fl. 1668) travelogue based on his experience while he was a member of General Ghiron Francesco Villa's reconnaissance of Dalmatia and the Levant during the Cretan War. The present work was engraved in late 1668: the travelogue it appeared in was printed in Turin that same year. It is thus near contemporaneous the events depicted. (more details)
Near unrecorded view of Pennsylvania's capital at the height of the state's coal and steel booms.
[Harrisburgh, Penna. 1881.]
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This is a striking 1881 Jacob Knaubner chromolithograph bird's-eye view map of Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. This map captures Harrisburg at the peak of the Pennsylvania coal and steel booms. Although appearing in Reps, there are no digitized examples, and this is the only verifiable example. (more details)
Hat Making Capital of the World.
View of Danbury Conn. 1875.
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This is a striking 1875 O. H. Bailey chromolithograph bird's-eye view map of Danbury, Connecticut, 'Hat Capital of the World'. (more details)
Station edition of the last subway map before Vignelli.
Rapid Transit Guide.
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This is a 1969 revised edition of the New York City Transit Authority map of the New York City Subway. When this map debuted in 1968, it combined several design innovations to make navigating the growing Subway system easier. (more details)
Key piece in the antisemitic campaign against Alfred Dreyfus.
Musée des Horreurs. No. 6. le Traitre!
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This is the most important and influential of Antoine-Victor Lenepveu's 1899 antisemitic Dreyfus Affair broadsides. Dreyfus was a French-Jewish army officer wrongly convicted of treason, a charge based in antisemitism. The Dreyfus Affair is considered a precursor to the ideological and societal forces that would later contribute to the Holocaust. (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)
Origins of Astoria.
Map of Property Situate in the Fifth Ward, of Long Island City.
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A remarkable find, this one-of-a-kind 1891 plat map displays a portion of Astoria, Queens, New York City, around the intersection of Ditmars Boulevard and Steinway Street. It was prepared by surveyor Cornelius Hyatt and presents lands for sale owned by F. D. Kouwenhoven, a prominent landowner descended from New York's early Dutch settlers. (more details)
Utica's golden era as a manufacturing and transportation hub.
Bird's Eye View of the City of Utica, Oneida County, New York. 1873.
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This is a rare Herman Brosius chromolithograph bird's-eye view map of Utica, New York. The view captures Utica's peak of prosperity as an industrial center and transportation hub. (more details)
Striking map of the Eastern Seaboard.
Gli Stati Uniti dell' America delineati sulle ultime Osservazioni, Quarto foglio che comprende parte della Nuova Inghilterra, la Nuova York, il Nuovo Yersey, la Pensilvania, il Delaware, il Maryland, e porzioni della Virginia, e della Carolina.
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An example of Giovanni Cassini's stunning 1797 map of the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Coverage embraces Massachusetts to Cape Lookout and inland as far as Lake Erie and western Maryland. Some of the banks and shoals of Cape Cod and Nantucket are noted. (more details)
Proto-states of Colona (pre Colorado) and Shoshone (pre Idaho), and secessionist Confederate Arizona.
Mexique, Antilles, États-Unis.
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This is an 1864 Adolphe Hippolyte Dufour Civil War Era map of the United States - one of the few maps to name Colona, the ephemeral proto-state predating Colorado, Shoshone (pre-Idaho), the unincorporated territory of Dacotah, and the secessionist Confederate Arizona. (more details)
Shifting fortunes of empires in Eastern Europe.
Regni Poloniae Magnique Ducatus Lithuaniae...
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A beautiful example of Johann Baptist Homann's 1707 map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, covering most of Eastern Europe. One of the works that Homann engraved himself, this map was produced during a transition in the relative balance of power in the region, with Poland-Lithuania, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire waning, and Russia, Prussia, and Austria on the rise. (more details)
Pirate Pleasure Pilgrimages.
Cruising in the Pirates' Paradise Hamburg-American Line. / Pleasure Pirate Pilgrimages to the West Indies and the Spanish Main Cruises by the S.S. Reliance.
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This is a c. 1927 Hamburg-America pictorial map of the West Indies promoting 'Pleasure Pirate Pilgrimage' cruises. The map evokes the romanticization of the 'pirate' and exotification of the Caribbean, as well as the decadence of the Roaring '20s. (more details)
Birth of the High Line.
Map of New York City showing the location of the Port Authority Commerce Building.
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This is a 1932 Spofford and Freedman Supervue of New York City published by the Port Authority of New York to promote the newly-opened Port Authority Commerce Building. It is the earliest presentation of Spofford's iconic super view we have identified. The Supervue occupies 3/4 of the recto, and information about the Commerce Building occupies the rest of the recto and the entire verso. (more details)
South American Steamships.
Carte générale de l'Amérique du Sud.
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A curious, unrecorded separate issue 1894 French map of South America, printed in Bordeaux by A. Bellier for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company (PSNC), a pioneer in using steamships for transporting cargo, mail, and passengers across the Atlantic. (more details)
Sebring's Boom.
Map of Sebring Florida Compiled from recorded Plats and Recent Surveys.
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This is a rare urban planning map of Sebring, Florida, issued in 1926 by Joe W. Hawkins. The view captures the ambitious early days of Sebring at the height of its boom in the 1920s. (more details)
Travel to Tahiti!
Polynesie Française Tahiti.
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Tahiti has captured people's imaginations since the 18th century when Captain James Cook returned from his first voyage to the Pacific with a map of the islands and descriptions of it as an earthly paradise. This c. 1965 Service du Tourisme de Tahiti pictorial tourist map of Tahiti must have helped continue the fascination with the island. Today, Tahiti remains a popular tourist destination. (more details)
Scarce Pictorial Map of German 'Heart Spas'.
Herzbäder.
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A scarce pictorial map of West Germany produced c. 1980 by the firm Gebrüder Hofmann for the pharmaceutical company Byk Gulden. The map highlights the locations of health spas or resorts (Bäder), specifically 'heart spas' (Herzbäder), throughout the country. (more details)
Vibrant Pictorial Map of West Germany, highlighting Spas.
Rheuma-bäder Beschreibung der Rheumabäder im beigegebenen Bäderverzeichnis.
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A rare pictorial map of West Germany produced c. 1980 by the firm Gebrüder Hofmann highlighting the locations of health spas or resorts (Bäder), specifically 'rheumatism spas' (Rheuma-bäder), throughout the country. (more details)
Preserving St. Augustine.
St. Augustine.
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This is Henry Hird III's 1980 'sightseeing' map of St. Augustine, Florida. The map illustrates the historic parts of St. Augustine during the rush to preserve the city's historic architecture, primarily driven by the St. Augustine Historical Society and the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board. Their dedicated efforts transformed St. Augustine into the popular tourist destination it is today. (more details)