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Defending Victoria against rival colonial powers.
Contour Map of Mornington Peninsula.
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This is a rare 1891 Alexander Black map of the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne, Australia, prepared for the use of the 'Defence Department of the Colony of Victoria'. It is primarily a topographical map but also offers comprehensive information about the peninsula and its defensive potential - increasingly significant in the face of a proactive German effort to establish a colonial presence in the Pacific. It was printed directly on waxed linen, suggesting it was meant for field use, as this material resists dampness and withstands repeated folding and unfolding. (more details)
Building Bridges from Normandy to the Elbe.
Operations from Omaha Beach to Elbe River.
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This monumental 1945 John A. LeDonne route map chronicles the 1115th Engineer Combat Group's advance across Europe during the final year of World War II (1939 - 1945). Among the largest and most elaborate American unit route maps, it follows the 1115th from Normandy through France, Belgium, and Holland and deep into Germany to the Elbe, recording command posts, dates, movements, and an extraordinary 100 bridge-building operations along the way. Punctuated by humorous and sometimes risqué pictorial vignettes recalling liberation, alcohol, romance, and the everyday experiences of American soldiers abroad, the map is at once a remarkable operational record and a vivid visual memoir of the 1115th's war across Europe. (more details)
Creating the American Dream: Martha's Vineyard for Europe.
Carte de L'Ile de Martha's Vineyard avec ses dependances, pour les Lettres d'un Culuvateur Ameriquain.
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This is the earliest obtainable separate map of Martha's Vineyard, published in 1787 to illustrate Michel-Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur's enormously influential Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain. Appearing just years after American independence, the map helped introduce European readers to the Vineyard as part of Crèvecoeur's compelling vision of the new United States - a land of prosperous farms, abundant natural resources, independent communities, and seemingly limitless opportunity. Crèvecoeur's writings profoundly shaped European perceptions of America and encouraged immigration to the young republic, giving this map significance far beyond the early cartography of Martha's Vineyard. It is both an important early map of the island and a visual artifact of the powerful ideal of America that Crèvecoeur helped create. (more details)
'A towering landmark along the path of Western cartographic development' - Wheat
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles... / Tabula Geographica Mexicae et Floridae etc.
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This is the 1722 Covens and Mortier issue of Guillaume de L'Isle's groundbreaking map of North America, focusing on Mexico, the Mississippi watershed, and the West Indies. De L'Isle first published this map in 1703, at which point it was the most sophisticated map of the region obtainable: the first map to accurately denote the course of the Mississippi River, the first to accurately place the Great Lakes, and the first appearance on a map of updates from La Salle, Bienville, and D'Iberville. (more details)
Exodus as Cartographic Pilgrimage.
Reisen der Kinder Israel aus Egypten.
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This is Heinrich Bünting's remarkable 1581 map of the Exodus, a defining image of his revolutionary approach to Biblical geography. Bünting conceived Scripture as a kind of cartographic pilgrimage, allowing readers to follow the journeys of Biblical figures across an imagined geographical landscape. Here the Israelites' 40-year journey becomes a continuous visual narrative, beginning in Egypt, crossing the Red Sea, wandering through the deserts of Sinai and Arabia, and finally approaching the Promised Land. (more details)
Siberia Revealed: An Empire Mapped at Monumental Scale.
Mappa Gubernii Sibiriensis, continens procincias Toboliensem et Jenisejensem.
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This is a c. 1775 Ivan Treskot map of the Siberia Governorate, one of the great achievements of 18th-century Russian imperial cartography. Produced as part of the ambitious 1770 - 1776 project undertaken by Treskot and Jacob Friedrich Schmidt to remap Siberia, it synthesizes Russia's rapidly expanding regional geographical knowledge. Stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the Central Asian steppe and from European Russia nearly to Lake Baikal, the map reveals Siberia not as an empty wilderness, but as an increasingly organized imperial landscape structured around immense river systems, fortified settlements, and expanding networks of Russian administration. (more details)
A Separately Issued Tierra del Fuego
Tabula Magellanica, qua Tierrae del Fuego, cum celeberrimis fretis.
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This is a beautifully engraved c.1635 map of the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego by Willem Blaeu, in a likely separate issue lacking verso text. It is the second map in the Blaeu atlases to focus on this region, and brought Blaeu's mapping of the southernmost part of America up to date with the charts of the West India Company produced by Hessel Gerritsz. It is the result of over a century of exploration, revealing the discoveries of Magellan, Le Maire and Schouten, and finally the voyage made by Jacques l'Hermite with the so-called Nassau Fleet between 1623 and 1624. (more details)
10,000 Million Years: The History of Everything on One Sheet.
The Histomap of Evolution Earth, Life and Mankind for Ten Thousand Million Years.
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This is the 1949 edition of John B. Sparks's infographic triumph, Histomap of Evolution, an audacious attempt to compress Earth's, life's, and humanity's history into a single spectacular infographic. Beginning with the planet's formation billions of years ago, its great streams of color trace the emergence, diversification, and extinction of life through geological time before converging on human civilization and the geopolitical world of the mid-20th century. Part scientific diagram, part historical chronology, and part period worldview, the Histomap is an artifact of an era obsessed with organizing, visualizing, and understanding all of history at a glance. (more details)
692nd Take Destroyers in WWII.
692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion.
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This is a rare c. 1945 World War II campaign route map of the 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion in Europe prepared by 1st Lieutenant Francis L. Yost. This map highlights the battalion's movements across the continent, details its campaigns, and remembers the members of the battalion who were killed in action. (more details)
Orders and Honors in a Changing Europe.
Tableau Général des Croix des Ordres Français et Étrangers. Nouvelle Édition.
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This spectacular c. 1862 André Basset chromolithographic chart illustrates the orders of chivalry, decorations, and medals of France and dozens of foreign states. Hundreds of brilliantly colored crosses, stars, badges, collars, and ribbons transform the complex hierarchy of 19th-century honors into an encyclopedic visual display. Published during the reign of Napoleon III, the chart presents a remarkable portrait of the international world of rank, military distinction, diplomacy, and royal patronage on the eve of the political transformations that would reshape Europe later in the century. (more details)
Sunshine, Sea Monsters, and the Open Road.
Ken Friedman's Cartoon Map of Florida.
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This exuberant 1938 Kenneth A. Friedman pictorial map of Florida transforms the Sunshine State into a sprawling playground of beaches, fishing, wildlife, history, and roadside adventure. Drawn to accompany Friedman's Cartoon Guide of Florida, the map combines genuine geography and tourist information with cartoons, visual jokes, and a distinctly irreverent sense of humor. Its brilliant blue, red, and white design captures Florida at a formative moment in its emergence as one of America's great tourist destinations. (more details)
Alexandria: Ancient Glory, Ottoman Port.
De Stadt Alexandrie of Scanderik. La Ville Alexandria ou Scanderik.
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This striking 1686 Olfert Dapper view of Alexandria, Egypt, presents the legendary Mediterranean port as it appeared to European readers in the late 17th century. Viewed dramatically from the sea, the fortified city spreads across the horizon while an animated harbor crowded with sailing vessels dominates the foreground. The image combines contemporary Alexandria with reminders of its celebrated ancient and Christian past, reflecting the enduring European fascination with a city once home to the Ptolemies, the Great Library, and the Pharos of Alexandria. (more details)
French Edition of the First Chart of New Zealand's Cook Strait.
Carte du Detroit de Cook dans la Nle. Zélande.
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This is the 1774 first French edition of James Cook's landmark chart of Cook Strait, one of the most consequential maps produced from his first voyage to the Pacific (1768 - 1771). When Cook sailed through the passage between New Zealand's North and South Islands in 1770, he resolved a fundamental geographical question left unanswered since Abel Tasman's 1642 encounter with New Zealand: the two great landmasses were separated by a navigable strait. Centered on the passage that would bear Cook's name and the superb natural harbor of Queen Charlotte Sound (Totaranui), this chart records the exploration that transformed European understanding of New Zealand's geography. (more details)
Development of the Lower North Shore.
North Sydney / Mosman.
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This is a fascinating c. 1925 double-sided map of Mosman and North Sydney, capturing Sydney's Lower North Shore in the midst of dramatic suburban transformation. Dense networks of trams, ferries, railways, new roads, real-estate development, and automobile advertising document communities expanding rapidly across the harbor from central Sydney. Most significantly, the North Sydney map marks the future Sydney Harbour Bridge as the 'North Shore Bridge' and 'under construction,' recording the monumental infrastructure project that both responded to this growth and would soon accelerate it. (more details)
Unique historical record.
[Kettlewell Cartoons].
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A collection of 30 manuscript political cartoons, many with cartographic content, drawn by Frank 'Ket' Kettlewell for the Oakland Tribune. As a group, they constitute a unique comic record of world events c. 1916 - 1935. Each hand-drawn cartoon is a visually striking San Francisco-centric commentary on domestic or international affairs. 'Ket' has signed each, with many most featuring his signature tiny bird (which occasionally comments). (more details)
First state of a groundbreaking map of North America.
Carte d'un tres grand Pays entre le Nouveau Mexique et la Mer Glaciace Dediee a Guilliaume IIIe. Roy de La Grand Bretagne Par le R. P. Louis de Hennepin Mission: Recol: et Not: Apost: Chez G. Broedelet a Utreght.
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This is the rare 1697 first state of Louis de Hennepin's map of North America. Wheat hailed this foundational work as 'an important cartographic stepping stone … the first made by a Frenchman from on-the-spot experience'. It is the first map to place Hennepin's firsthand mapping of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River in the broader context of the mapping of the continent, and it would exert a lasting impact on the next century's mapping of America. It also, bucking the era's conventions, presents California as a peninsula. (more details)
Japan's first train.
橫濱往返鐵道蒸氣車海上之圖 / [View of Steam Engine on the Seaside Yokohama Line].
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A fascinating 1874 ukiyo-e triptych by Utagawa Hiroshige III celebrating Japan's first passenger railway and the astonishing modernization of Yokohama under the Meiji. Opened between Yokohama and Tokyo in 1872, the steam railway became one of the most potent symbols of a country transforming itself at extraordinary speed, linking Japan's leading international treaty port with the imperial capital. Published two years after the railway's inauguration, the triptych captures not simply a train, but a defining moment in the Meiji Restoration, when foreign technology was being rapidly absorbed and transformed into the infrastructure of modern Japan. (more details)
Yokohama emerging as an international port.
橫濱海岸圖會 / [View of the Coast at Yokohama.]
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An early 1860 ukiyo-e triptych by Utagawa Hiroshige II, capturing Yokohama, Japan, as it emerged as an international treaty port. Published just months after Yokohama opened to foreign trade in 1859, this panoramic view presents a city poised between the insular world of Tokugawa Japan and the profound transformations that would soon accompany sustained contact with the West. Among the earliest printed views of Yokohama, it offers a Japanese vision of the nascent port: cherry blossoms, temples, teahouses, theaters, and the notorious Miyozaki pleasure quarter occupy a landscape only beginning to accommodate global commerce. Most evocative is a woman seated in a waterfront teahouse, telescope in hand, gazing across the harbor - an image that seems to encapsulate Japan itself, watching with fascination as an unfamiliar world approaches. (more details)
Thirteen Colonies on the Brink of Revolution.
Carte Nouvelle de L'Amerique Angloise contenant tout ce que les Anglois possedent sur le Continent de L'Amerique Septentrionale savoir le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse ou Acadie, les treize Provinces unies
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This is an uncommon 1776 French-language map of the Thirteen Colonies and emerging United States by Augsburg cartographer Matthias Albrecht Lotter, published at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. Drawing heavily on French cartographic traditions, the map presents British North America at the very moment the colonies declared independence and the United States began to take shape. Issued two years before France formally entered the Revolutionary War on the American side, it captures the continent on the cusp of a geopolitical transformation that would redraw North America. (more details)
You don't drink paint - so why drink beer and wine?
Characteristic Actions of ALCOHOL.
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This iconic 1935 Denoyer-Geppert persuasive anti-alcoholism poster highlights the product's negative effects on the human body. Issued after Prohibition's 1933 repeal, this piece pointedly asks: why ingest beer, wine, and liquor when the same key chemicals are used in paint, shellac, varnish, perfume, and explosives? Due to its powerful imagery, this piece has been widely reproduced, but this is our first time encountering an original. (more details)