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Hercules holding up the world.
Planisphere representant toute l'etendue du monde dans l'ordre qu'on suivi dans ce livre.
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This is the 1715 Louis Renard map of the world on a polar projection. The map utilizes Jean-Dominique Cassini's ground-breaking work from the Paris Observatory and served at the frontispiece for Renard's Atlas de la navigation et du commerce qui se fait dans toutes les parties due monde. The frontis' interesting iconography substitutes Hercules for Atlas in supporting the world - the message being clear: 'out with the old, in with the new.' (more details)
Ancient Egypt in Central Park.
The Obelisk. Presented to the city of New York by the Khedive of Egypt, and erected in Central Park on the 9th of October, 1880.
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This is a c. 1880 Charles S. Higgins view of The Obelisk, also known as Cleopatra's Needle, located on Greywacke Knoll in Central Park, New York City. Fashionable New Yorkers surround and admire New York's oldest artwork. Central Park's trees and paths appear in the background. (more details)
One of the Earliest Acquirable Views of Venice.
Contrafehtung der fürnemen Statt Venedig sampt den umbligenden Inseln.
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This is Sebastian Munster's attractive 1598 woodcut view of Venice. It displays the famous city, emphasizing the turbulent waters beyond the sand banks and the calm shallows in which the city lies protected. Many of the city's famous buildings and churches are labeled, including the iconic Piazza San Marco. (more details)
Planning New York City's Highway System.
General Plan of the Highway System for New York and Its Environs.
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A highly detailed 1928 planning map of highways in the New York City metropolitan area produced by the nonprofit organization Regional Plan of New York and Environs. It presents the ambitious scheme, partially realized, for accommodating the growth of the city and the greater use of automobiles over trains as the primary means of urban and suburban transportation. (more details)
Rare Italian comparative chart.
Prospetto comparativo della lunghezza del corso dei principali fiumi e altezza delle principali cascate della terra.
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A hand-colored 1860 comparative chart of world rivers and waterfalls, prepared by Filippo Naymiller and engraved by Pietro Allodi. This is one of the few examples of a comparative geographical chart published in Italian. (more details)
Seaside Resort and Final Resting Place of Roman Elites.
Veue de Caiete du Royaume de Naples. vers le Golfe de Venise.
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A lovely c. 1704 view of Gaeta, Italy, originally prepared by Johannes Blaeu in 1663 for the Theatrum Civitatum et Admirandorum Italiæ and reissued with minor changes by Pierre Mortier for his Nouveau Theatre d'Italie. (more details)
Southern California in the Early Jet Age.
Los Angeles Local Aeronautical Chart. 24th Edition.
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An impressive, large-format aeronautical chart of the Los Angeles metro area, prepared in 1958 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Among other features, it records Los Angeles' pioneering contributions to American aviation. (more details)
Baroque Masterpiece in the Mapping of America.
L'Amerique selon les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs. de l'Academie des Science, etc./ America in Praecipuas ipsius Partes Distributa, ad Observationes Academiae Regiae Scientiarum, et Exquisitissimas Tabulas, quae nunquam Antehac Lucem Viderunt, Excusa A Francisco Halma, Cum privilegio Ordinum Hollandiae et Westfrisiae.
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This is the rare first state of François Halma's c. 1699 separately-issued map of America. Its unusually large folio size, bold and sophisticated engraving, and rich original color set this map apart as one of the most beautiful late-17th-century maps of the Americas available to the collector. It dramatically presents some of the most notable geographic ideas of its era, including a prominent insular California after the Sanson model. The Great Lakes and the course of the Mississippi, as well as the rest of the American coastline, closely resembles that of Nicolas de Fer's 1699 L'Amerique. (more details)
Anti-Nazi, Pro-Soviet Propaganda in Poland.
Walki Zbrojne z Najeźdźcą Hitlerowskim na Ziemiach Polski w Latach Wojny 1939 - 45. / Armed Campaigns in Poland Against the Nazi Invader in the Years of War 1939 - 1945.
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This is a 1972 Polish multilingual educational wall map of Poland chronicling the resistance to the World War II Nazi invasion. The map lionizes Polish and Red Army accomplishments in resisting the Nazi plague but, as a product of the Eastern Bloc, conveniently ignores the 1939 Sovient Invasion and related atrocities. (more details)
Published by Krakow's Committee for the Protection of Monuments of Struggle and Martyrdom.
Walki Z Najeźdźcą Hitlerowskim I Zbrodnie Hitlerowskie na Terenie Woj. Krakowskiego w Latach 1929-1945. / Armed Struggle Against the Nazi Invader and Nazi Crimes in the Voivodeship of Kraków in the Years 1939 - 1945.
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A chilling 1971 wall map detailing Hitler's war crimes and the fight against the invasion and occupation in the voivodeship of Krakow. It was published by Krakow'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 this piece is in Polish, English, French, and German. (more details)
Masterwork of Dutch Engraving in Original Color Heightened with Gold.
Britannia prout divisa fuit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum praestertim durante illorum Heptarchia.
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This is a beautiful original color example of Joan Blaeu's map of England in the early Middle Ages. It features masterfully engraved illustrations of early British kings. (more details)
Spain eyes Britain's most profitable West Indian colony.
Carta de la isla de la Barbada.
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This is a 1780 map of Barbados by Juan Lopez, who later became the 'geographer to the king' of Spain. The map emerged from ongoing power struggles between Britain and Spain over colonial dominance of the West Indies. Here, Lopez provides key details, including notations of military fortifications, that would have been invaluable to Spanish efforts to seize the lucrative island. (more details)
Highly decorative map of America.
L'Amérique Méridionale et Septentrionale dressée sur les Nouv.les Decouv.tes et Dernieres Relations des Meilleurs Navigateurs decetemps Conformes aux Observations Astronomiques.
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This is a scarce, separately-issued 1731 Guillaume Danet map of America. The map combines the cartographic innovation of Guillaume De L'Isle with the decorative flourishes of Nicholas De Fer. (more details)
Highways for War.
National Highways Map of the United States Showing One Hundred Thousand Miles of National Highways Proposed by the National Highway Association.
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This is a 1915 National Highways Association map of the United States depicting its proposed 100,000-mile highway network. It is an early example of the grassroots effort to promote a national highway system. The present example is significant for being issued shortly before the United States entered World War I (1914 - 1918), thus emphasizing the value of such a system to any war effort. (more details)
Rare Edition Mapping the Spread of Christianity in America.
Americae Mappa Generalis.
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This is an elegant 1746 map of the Americas, prepared for Homann Heirs by the mathematicians and geographers Johann Matthias Hase and A. Gottlob Böhme. The present example includes a color key indicating the dominant religions on the map, a feature unique to an extremely rare 1754 edition of the work. (more details)
Best mid-19th century map of Connecticut.
Clark and Tackabury's New Topographical Map of the State of Connecticut.
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A 1859 first-edition example of Richard Clark and Robert and George Tackabury's important wall map of Connecticut. When published, it was by far the best and largest map of the state obtainable. (more details)
Key Caribbean islands.
Cuba Insula. / Hispaniola Insula. / Insula Jamaica. / Ins. J. Ioannis. / I.S. Margareta Cum Confiniis.
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This is a superb, original color example of Jodocus Hondius's 1609 map of Cuba and Hispaniola, with inset maps of Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Margarita Island. It is a beautifully engraving, whose rich detail, ships and sea monsters make it a most desirable work. (more details)
Electric railways in New England.
The New England Commercial and Route Survey Showing all Postoffices, Railroads, Electric Roads in operation and proposed, GOOD ROADS, Population (showing latest Massachusetts Census) and a comprehensive Distance Table.
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An important and scarce 1905 map by F. S. Blanchard detailing New England's extensive, if ephemeral, electric interurban trolley network. When this map was issued, interurban railways (more akin to trolleys) stretched from New York to Boston to Maine and were a key driver of tourism and commerce. The short-lived and ill-documented trolley system served as a transitionary public transit, supplementing large-scale railroads until the rise of the automobile. (more details)
Heart of the Dutch Revolt.
Zelandicarum Insularum Exactissima et Nova Descriptio, Auctore D. Iacobo A Daventria.
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This is a beautiful example of Abraham Ortelius' 1570 map of the Zeeland province of the Netherlands. The province was inclusive of Antwerp, where Ortelius lived and worked, thus presenting the mapmaker's homeland. It is, moreover, the best map of the lands at the heart of the Dutch Revolt and Eighty Years’ War (1568 - 1648). (more details)
Dubrovnik and Chalcis.
Ragusa / Negroponte.
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This is a 1638 Matthias Merian engraving of two city views: Ragusa (Dubrovnik, Croatia) and Negroponte (Chalcis, Greece). Each city is viewed as if from a high point, with its harbor in the foreground. Then, as now, grand medieval walls surround each, but within both church steeples and minarets are apparent, underscoring how each city frequently changed hands in the ongoing wars between the Ottoman Empire and the Venetian Republic. (more details)