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Defiance and Development in Warsaw.
Warszawa Варшава / [Warsaw].
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A scarce 1876 hand-colored lithograph city plan of Warsaw, Poland, in both Polish and Russian, prepared by Feliks Kasprzykiewicz. It is an early edition, likely the first, of Kasprzykiewicz's map of Warsaw, which was revised and reissued in multiple editions into the early 20th century. (more details)
The Elusive Dream of Tidal Power in the Bay of Fundy.
Proposed Utilization of Tides of the Bay of Fundy.
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A unique historical survival, this 1925 manuscript planning map of proposed tidal barrages on the Bay of Fundy was drawn by American engineer Thomas Kennard Thomson for the Maple Leaf Canadian Club of New York. (more details)
Wonderful pictorial map of Key West.
Key West.
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This is a comical 1976 Robert G. Carawan pictorial map of Key West, Florida. (more details)
Timber for the Mother Lode!
Buell's Map of part of California showing the Mother Lode Mineral Belt with Rail Road and Stage Line Connections to The City of Stockton.
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A striking example of Park Arbington Buell's important 1898 map of the Mother Lode in the vicinity of Stockton, California. The booklet is hand signed by Buell and dedicated to mining engineer Louis Janin. Coverage extends from Bouldin Island (just west of Stockton) to the Yosemite Valley and from Amador County south to the Merced River, embracing San Joaquin, Calaveras, Amador, Tuolumne, Stanislas, and Mariposa Counties. The 'Mother Lode' mining belt is boldly highlighted in orange. Throughout the cartographer has marked the largest and most important mines, as well as railroad connections with the Buell yards in Stockton. (more details)
Earliest known map to include an image of Woodsy Owl.
You Helped Build a Forest / Helped Build the First National Children's Forest.
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A charming 1972 pictorial map, drawn by an artist named Ayupvin for the U.S. Forest Service and Hunt-Wesson Foods, depicting the First National Children's Forest, with sites in the San Bernardino National Forest, the Mark Twain National Forest, and the George Washington National Forest. It is the earliest known appearance of Woodsy Owl on a map. (more details)
The Caribbean in striking detail.
Carte Générale des Îles Antilles, des Îles et Bancs de Bahama, des États-Unis de l'Amérique-Centrale, de la Mer du Mexique, etc.
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This is a beautiful and wonderfully detailed Adrien-Hubert Brué and Charles Picquet 1845 map of the West Indies. Published 4 years after the Federal Republic of Central America ceased to exist, the map still illustrates that short-lived Central American republic. (more details)
Bordeaux and its world-class wine.
Les Vignobles de France. Vins de Bordeaux.
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This is a c. 1954 Rémy Hétreau pictorial map of the Bordeaux wine region, France - specifically the Gironde Estuary. The map identifies smaller regions as well as specific wineries. (more details)
One of the earliest contemporaneous depictions of Jerusalem.
Die heylige Statt Ierusalem / contrafehtet nach Form und Gestallt wie sie zu unsern zeiten erbawen ist.
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One of the earliest printed views of Jerusalem, executed in woodcut by Jacob Clauser for Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia, from a 1598 German edition. Unlike most early depictions, this bird's-eye view is not a purely retrospective depiction of the ancient city but rather a modern view, showing the city at the time of publication. As explained in the view's title, it is meant to depict the Holy City in the 'form and shape as it was built in our times'. In its initial 1550 printing, this was one of the earliest contemporaneous images of the city. (more details)
French champagne.
Les Vignobles de France. Vins de Champagne.
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This is a 1954 Rémy Hétreau and J. LeBlanc pictorial wine map of the Champagne wine region, France. (more details)
'Black Rome.'
Mappa da cidade do Salvador.
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An intriguing 1931 city plan or map of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, produced by the local publisher Papelaria Brazileira. It presents the city during a time of modernization and transformation, especially in the historic city center. (more details)
One of the earliest Acquirable Post-Magellan Maps of Southeast Asia.
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
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This is Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 / 1574 map of the East Indies and Southeast Asia, considered to be among the earliest maps of Southeast Asia. Although based on Giacomo Gastaldi's 1548 map of the same title, it is roughly twice the size and better engraved. (more details)
Bestiary of fantastical northern monsters - in a rare superior edition.
Les Monstres Marins, et Terrestres, Lesquelles on Trouve en Beaucoup di Lieux es Parties Septentrionales.
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Euphemistically referred to as Munster's Monsters, this is the rare 1575 Belleforest edition of Münster's bestiary of sea serpents and other astonishing monsters. Bellforest editions are highly desirable for their superior presentation and engraving. The image first appeared in the expanded 1550 editions of Munster's Cosmographia, a work which, for more than half a century, provided the European literate layperson their best source of information about the world. This scarce second block was cut in Paris for inclusion in the 1575 Belleforest edition of Cosmographia. (more details)
Soviet-themed anti-Nazi propaganda in Poland.
Walki z Najeźdźcą Hitlerowskim i Zbrodnie Hitlerowskie na Terenie Woj.: Kaliskiego, Konińskiego, Miejskiego Łódzkiego, Piotrkowskiego, Sieradzkiego i Skierniewickiego w Latach 1939 - 1945. / Armed Struggle Against the Nazi Invader and Nazi Crimes in Kalisz, Konin, Łódź, Poitrków Tryb., Sieradz and Skierniewice Voivodeships in the Years 1939 - 1945.
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A chilling 1971 wall map detailing Hitler's crimes and the fight against the Nazi invasion and occupation in the voivodeships of Kalisz, Konin, Łódź, Piotrków Tryb., Sieradz and Skierniewice in central Poland. It was published by the Provincial Committees for the Protection of Monuments to 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 this piece is in Polish, Russian, English, French, and German.The map depicts the 6 voivodeships east of Warsaw. Icons detail Nazi crimes. The largest marks Chełmno, the first Nazi extermination camp. Two others mark concentration camps for children. Black Iron Crosses mark mass execution sites, with the size of the cross corresponding to the magnitude of the massacre. The largest crosses, such as those in Łódź and near Kazimierz Bisk and Gołuchów, symbolize massacres of over 10,000 individuals. Corresponding symbols mark towns that were destroyed and their populace exterminated, towns that were partially destroyed and exterminated, and towns where the population was deported. Small red shovels surrounded by barbed wire identify forced labor camps. Symbols also mark prisoner-of-war camps and sites of crimes committed against Polish and Soviet Prisoners of War. (more details)
Finely engraved double hemisphere celestial chart.
Planisfero del Globo Celeste Artico Antartico.
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An intricately engraved 1687 double hemisphere celestial chart prepared by Francesco Brunacci for inclusion in Giacomo Giovanni Rossi's atlas Mercurio Geografico, overo Guida Geografica in tutte le parti del Mondo, one of the most beautiful Italian atlases of the 17th century.. (more details)
Insular Korea.
Japoniae nova Descriptio.
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This is a scarce. original-color example of Jan Jansson's map of Japan and Korea, featuring an insular Korea. The map follows the model of Luís Teixeira, the 16th-century court cartographer to the King of Spain. (more details)
Small local Polish museums dedicated to local Polish history.
Izby Pamięci Narodowej w Polsce.
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This is a 1977 Polish map of Poland highlighting Chambers of National Remembrance (Izby Pamięci Narodowej) across the country. These small museums, usually no more than a handful of rooms and sometimes only a single room, commemorate local history and collect artifacts that tell the stories of local citizens and their lives. Many of these are related to the Holocaust, but others deal with much less traumatic subjects. (more details)
Bucolic Panorama of Paris and her Countryside.
Prosp. der Statt Parys wie solche an ietzo an zusehen.
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This is a 1655 Caspar Merian view of Paris, France - a superbly executed view showing that in artistry, Caspar was indeed his father's son. The view is oriented to the west-south-west, from a perspective both farther from the city and more to the east than the elder Merian's 1638 view. Rather than border the view with stylized or fanciful floral decoration, Caspar Merian has - following the lead of his father - chosen to frame the panorama in realistic semi-wild trees and bracken akin to that of the hillside from which the view was drawn, which has the effect of emphasizing that it was drawn from life. (more details)
Most influential map of the Philippines of the 19th century.
Islas Filipinas Primera Hoja Central. Islas Filipinas Segunda Hoja Central. Posesiones de Oceania. Islas Filipinas. Atlas de España y sus Posesiones de Ultramar.
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This is Francisco Coello's 1852 map of the Philippine Islands, published on 3 sheets. It is considered the first scientific map of the Philippines. It is the most influential general map of the Philippines to appear in the mid-19th century, used in treaty negotiations for both the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Philippine-American War (1899 - 1902). (more details)
Wipe the sweat from your brown and navigate the elevated train!
McIntire's Pocket Handkerchief and Guide of New York City.
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This is a rare c. 1869 Bridgman and McIntire pocket guide map of New York City. It follows shortly after the development of New York's Elevated Train System - the city's first viable public transportation and the precursor of the modern system. Straphangers need a practical guide, and what could be better than the 'weatherproof,' 'tearproof,' and utilitarian handkerchief map - wipe the sweat from your brow and find your way! Published as 'McIntire's Pocket Handkerchief Guide of New York City,' the map depicts Manhattan from the Battery north to West 155th Street and the southern Bronx. (more details)
War and Privateering in the West Indies.
Mappa Geographica Regionem Mexicanam et Floridam Terrasque adjacentes, ut et Anteriores Americae Insulas, Cursus itidem et Reditus Navigantium versus flumem Missisipi et alias Colonias ob oculos ponens cura et sumtibus.
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An old-color example of Mattheus Seutter's c. 1740 map of North America below the Great Lakes, including Mexico and the Caribbean. It reflects improvements in European cartography of the New World in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, as well as the ongoing competition between colonial empires, namely the contemporaneous War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748). (more details)