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Worthless youths and the most beautiful women.
Carte des Isles du Iapon Esquelles est Remqarqué la Route tant par Mer que part Terre que Tiennent les Hollandois pour se transporter de la Ville de Nagasaqui a Iedo demeure de Roy de ces mesmes Isles.
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This is the large-format 1679 first edition of J. B. Tavernier's landmark map of Japan, eastern Korea, and the intervening sea, here named Sea of Korea (Mer de Coreer). (more details)
Pursuing Peace in Shanghai
The Reader's Map of the Sino-Japanese Conflict In and Around Shanghai / A Plan for the Administration of the Shanghai Area.
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A unique discovery! This map produced during the 1932 Sino-Japanese conflict over Shanghai by Henry Monsel Cumine. It is accompanied by a 'private and confidential' plan, addressed to a French admiral, to end the conflict and establish Shanghai as a demilitarized zone. (more details)
Building and Rebuilding Yokohama.
大港橫濱之圖 / [View of the Great Port of Yokohama].
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A scarce large-format c. 1868 view of Yokohama, prepared by Sadahide, master of the Yokohama-e genre of ukiyo-e woodblocks. It presents the extent of the port and hinterland a decade after it was opened to foreign trade, already expanding far beyond the small fishing village that had hitherto existed there. (more details)
First published view of Singapore.
View of the Town and Roads of Singapore from the Government Hill.
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The first printed view of Singapore, issued less than ten years after it was founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781 - 1826). This aquatint view was published in 1828 after a painting by Royal Navy Captain Robert James Elliot. It looks on Singapore from Government Hill, covering the Plain, Singapore River, and Chinatown. Even at this early stage, the view presents a bustling city with numerous buildings and a lively port. We have not been able to trace Elliot's original painting. (more details)
Slovak WWII propaganda to crush Nazi Germany.
Nácistické Nemecko bude dobité v najkratšom čase - tak sa rozhodli Stalin, Roosevelt a Churchill na krymskej konferencii.
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This is a powerful 1945 Slovak-language Soviet World War II propaganda poster heralding the achievements of the Yalta Conference and the Allies' agreement to continue the fight until Germany was defeated. The evocative image set against a bright yellow background features three fists (representing the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union) punching a dejected and depressed Hitler. A Nazi swastika is breaking apart in the background. The text reads, 'Nácistické Nemecko bude dobité v najkratšom čase - tak sa rozhodli Stalin, Roosevelt a Churchill na krymskej konferencii' ('Nazi Germany will be conquered in the shortest possible time - this is what Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill decided at the Crimean conference'). (more details)
Comprehensive proposal for justice for Native peoples.
Lilawaste Lake Country refuge-to-be.
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An engrossing and poignant map that merits hours of close study, this is a highly detailed and acerbic proposal for a 'Lilawaste Lake Country Refuge' drawn by the pseudonymous Iktomi. It appeared in the 1937 book America Needs Indians!, by the same author, a creative and combative work that sharply criticizes White society's destruction of indigenous cultures and proposes measures for maintaining and even reviving the latter. (more details)
Tectonic Wall Map of East Asia.
The Marine and Continental Tectonic Map of China and Its Environs.
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A visually impressive, very large 6-sheet tectonic wall map of China and East Asia, edited by Zhang Wenyou and published in 1983 by Sciences Press. (more details)
Navigating the Bay.
San Francisco Entrance California.
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This is a 1903 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey nautical chart or map of San Francisco Bay, California. (more details)
Airborne troops on D-Day.
72nd Troop Carrier Squadron (434th Group) Combat Paratroop Missions, Resupply Sorties and Other Operations October 1943 to June 1945.
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This is a 1960 folding road map of Iran, prepared by Abbas Sahab, Iran's This is a c. 1972 Victor Rigotti map of the 72nd Troop Carrier Squadron over Europe during World War II. The map highlights the squadron's most important missions (including its three missions on D-Day) as well as the thousands of resupply and freight missions flown. (more details)
Earliest lithograph of the Society Islands.
Archipel Des Iles De La Société. Océanique no. 42.
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This is the 1827 Vandermaelen map of the Society Islands, Tahiti, and French Polynesia. It summarizes the European discoveries leading up to, including, and following Captain Cook. It is the first lithographic map of these islands. It is here accompanied by an extensive French text describing the region and its recent history: the arrival of European missionaries, for example, the rise of the Põmara kingdom, and its change to constitutional monarchy. The region was still being actively explored in the 1820s, and this is reflected on the map. (more details)
The Infrastructure of Iran.
Road Map of Iran Highways - Railways - Airways - Waterways and Distances.
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This is a 1960 folding road map of Iran, prepared by Abbas Sahab, Iran's most prominent contemporary map publisher. It reflects the heavy investments in infrastructure undertaken by the Shah's government in the preceding years. (more details)
Richly-Decorative, Separately-Issued Map of Asia.
L'Asie Dressée sur de Nouveaux Mémoires Assujettis aux Observations Astronomique.
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This is a separately-issued 1732 Guillaume Danet map of Asia. It is a synthesis of the most advanced cartographic ideas of the age, including from piracies of Strahlenberg's stolen cartography. (more details)
KLM - emerging as an international airline in the wake of WWII.
KLM Su tutte le rotte del mondo.
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This is a dramatic c. 1953 J. F. van der Leeuw pictorial KLM Royal Dutch Airlines route map of the world. The map celebrates KLM's emergence as a leading international carrier in the wake of World War II (1939 - 1945). (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 a striking 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. (more details)
Navigational instruments and construction of a sailing ship.
Nouvelle carte pour conduire à la connoissance de la Marine et à demontrer la plus part des instrumens qui servent à cet art et à connoitre la construction de vaisseaux et les agrets pour servir à aquerir cette connoissance avec des remarques tendant au meme but.
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This is a 1720 Henri Abraham Chatelain chart of ships, ship construction, and naval instruments. (more details)
Dying Days of the Ottoman Empire.
عثمانلي وطن / [Ottoman Homeland].
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A scarce, large-format folding map of the Ottoman Empire, produced c. 1917 by the Ministry of Public Education (Maarif-i Umumiye Nezareti) to demonstrate the empire's historical territorial changes. Produced at a time of drastic transition, the map harkens to the Ottomans' glorious history as well as their precarious contemporary situation, as a modern, territorial sense of nationhood was supplanting an older system of suzerainty and adaptive rule over diverse, multiethnic populations. (more details)
Alsatian wines.
Les Vignobles de France. Vins d'Alsace.
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This is a 1954 Rémy Hétreau pictorial wine map of the Alsace wine region, France. The map highlights local wineries and culture. (more details)
Ranchos and Oil Rigs.
Morro Bay to San Diego California Generalized Areal Geology / Physical and Legal Limitations to Operations Morro Bay to San Diego California.
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An unusual large-format composite manuscript and diazotype geological map of Southern California, produced in 1973 by G. J. Anderson of the Challenger Oil and Gas Co., based on an earlier 1966 map by J. M. Nisbet. In addition to geological information, the map also indicates coastal reserves open for development and traces the outlines of the region's historic Spanish and Mexican ranchos. (more details)
Nazi crimes near Kielce and Radom.
Walki z Najeźdźcą Hitlerowskim i Zbrodnie Hitlerowskie na Terenie Województw Kieleckiego i Radomskiego w Latach 1939 - 1945. Armed Struggle Against the Nazi Invader and Nazi Crimes in Kielce and Radom Voivodeships in the Years 1939 - 1945.
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A chilling 1977 Polish wall map detailing Hitler's crimes and the fight against the invasion and occupation in the voivodeships of Kielce and Radom. It was published by Kielce's Provincial Citizens' Committee for the Protection of Monuments of Struggle and Martyrdom. It is ever more poignant in the light of modern revisionist historical research that has re-evaluated the Polish role in the Holocaust, as well as efforts by the current Polish government to legislate and control the historical record. All text on the piece is in Polish, Russian, English, French, and German. (more details)
Nazi crimes around Gdańsk during World War II.
Walki z Najeźdźcą Hitlerowskim i Zbrodnie Hitlerowskie na Terenie Woj. Gdańskiego w Latach 1939 - 1945. Armed Struggle Against the Nazi Invader and Nazi Crimes in the Voivodeship of Gdańsk in the Years 1939 - 1945.
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A chilling 1968 Polish wall map chronicling Hitler's war crimes and the fight against the invasion and occupation of the voivodeship of Gdańsk. It was published by the Provincial Citizens' Committee for the Protection of Monuments of Struggle and Martyrdom in Gdańsk. It is ever more poignant in the light of modern revisionist historical research that has re-evaluated the Polish role in the Holocaust, as well as efforts by the current Polish government to legislate and control the historical record. All text on this piece is in Polish, Russian, English, French, and German. (more details)