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A New Toponymy.
A New Map of the most considerable Plantations of the English in America.
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This is Edward Wells' 1700 map of the British colonies in North America, including insets of the islands of Bermuda, Barbados, and Jamaica. (more details)
Baltic Sea near Stockholm!
Ostersoens Nordlice Deel.
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This is a rare 1871 blueback chart or nautical map of the northern Baltic Sea, including Stockholm, Sweden. (more details)
'Most Desolate and Uninviting.' -Forrest
Map showing the route of the West Australian Exploring Expedition through the centre of Australia from Champion Bay on the west coast to the Overland Telegraph Line between Adelaide and Port Darwin.
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An 1875 map prepared by John Forrest, head of the Western Australia Exploring Expedition. It traces the progress and discoveries of the first extensive exploration of Western Australia's interior. (more details)
Frontier of France and Italy, with a Snarky Cartouche.
A New Map of Savoy and Piedmont From the latest Observations Revis'd by I. Senex.
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This is John Senex's 1721 map of the Duchy of Savoy and the Principality of Piedmont. The map is retrospective, illustrating the region in the wake of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 - 1714). Coverage extends from Lake Geneva and Switzerland in the north to Nice and the Mediterranean Sea in the south, including parts of Dauphiné and Provence, and part of the Duchy of Milan to the east. (more details)
The First Mapping of the Great Desert of Eastern Arabia.
Arabia Routes between 'Oqair and Jabrin Oasis in Eastern Nejd.
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An impressive 1925 map recounting the incredible journey of R. E. Cheesman, the first European to cross the 'Great Desert' or 'Empty Quarter' (Rub' al Khali) in eastern Arabia. Based on Cheesman's surveys, the map appeared in conjunction with an article penned by him that appeared in The Geographical Journal. (more details)
Der Freistaat.
Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America: Californien, Texas und die Territorien New Mexico u. Utah.
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An uncommon and under-appreciated 1852 map of the American southwest and northern Mexico by Joseph Grassl and Joseph Meyer. It is most notable for its anachronistic and unusual presentation of the borders of New Mexico and Texas, and other cartographic oddities. (more details)
The Birth of Japan's Business Hotels.
京都市街地圖 / [Street Map of Kyoto].
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A scarce 1928 city map of Kyoto published by Kojima Ainosuke for the Hotel Hokke Club, a chain that pioneered the 'business hotel'. It presents the ancient capital in the midst of a modernization drive, including the expansion of its light rail and streetcar networks. (more details)
Constructing Modern Cairo.
Guide Plan of Cairo and District Prepared by the Survey of Egypt for the Xth. Congress of the International Society of Surgery.
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A scarce 1935 Survey of Egypt city map of Cairo under the British Protectorate, here produced for an international conference of surgeons. It displays the city undergoing a tremendous revitalization when new infrastructure, planned communities, and public institutions remade the cityscape. (more details)
'For an earnest collector of old maps of Persia, this could be the first map.' ~ Alai
The Kingdome of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described. By John Speede.
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This is John Speed's map of Persia in its 1676 Bassett and Chiswell edition. This beautiful map is one of the most desirable early maps of the Near East, combining superb engraving, attractive Dutch styling, and entertaining and abundant English text. While Speed cannot be accused of innovation as a mapmaker, he was an accomplished historian and compiler. His atlases of the British Isles and the World are among the signal cartographic works of the 17th century. (more details)
One of the earliest maps to promote the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Map of Chicago and Suburbs, Hyde Park, Englewood, South Chicago, Pullman and Other Suburbs, showing Parks, Boulevards, Railroad Connections, Depots, Street Stations and Horse and Cable Car Lines.
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A striking and rare find, this is an 1891 city plan or map of Chicago distributed by the real estate firm Turner and Bond. It is one of the earliest maps, if not the earliest, to promote the 1893 Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair). (more details)
Defining Dai Nippon.
大日本國全圖 / [Complete Map of Japan].
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An impressive 1887 folding pocket map of Japan, edited and published by Tsujimoto Kyūbei. It is notable for highlighting Imperial Japan's acquisitions and territorial claims of the early Meiji period. (more details)
Apparent Retrograde Motion Explained.
Ephemerides Motuum Coelestium Geometricae.
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This fascinating 1710 celestial chart is a collaboration between mathematician and astronomer Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr and Johann Baptist Homann. It was produced to explain Copernicus' theories of planetary motion and apparent retrograde motion using data from observations in 1708 and 1709. (more details)
Take a steamship to Florida from New York!
The Clyde Steamship Co. Map of Florida Showing Routes and Railroad Connections.
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This is a 1903 Clyde Steamship Company map of Florida. Overprinted red dashed lines mark the Clyde Steamship Company's routes out of Jacksonville north to Charleston, New York, and Boston, as well as the St. John's River Line from the coast inland south along the river to Sanford. An inset map along the left border traces the company's many routes from their terminal in Florida to destinations along the coast. A second inset map, in the lower left, details the Florida panhandle from the Alabama border to Washington County. (more details)
First Anglo-Afghan War.
Route of the British Mission proceeding from Kandahar to Herat in June and July A.D. 1839.
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This is an 1839 James Bedford and H.M. Smith 'Great Game' map of Afghanistan, covering from Kandahar to Herat in the first few months of the First Angl-Afghan War (1838 - 1842). This map and the attendant conflicts mark the beginning of the Great Game. (more details)
Censored Map: One of the first specific printed maps of the Gulf of Thailand and Cambodia.
Carte plate qui comprend le Golfe de Siam, les costes de Cambodia, de Tsiompa et les Isles adjacentes, avec une partie de l'Isle Bornéo.
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This is a rare 1745 d'Après de Mannevillette nautical chart or maritime map of the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. It is one of the first specific printed maps of the Gulf of Thailand and Cambodia. This map, and others from the 1745 edition of Mannevillette, were censured by the French Admiralty, and mostly destroyed - making them both exceedingly rare and poorly understood. (more details)
Scarce edition of Tanner's New England.
Map of the States of Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island.
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This is an 1825 Henry S. Tanner map of New England. This map, like others from Tanner's New American Atlas, is considered an apex achievement of the 'Golden Age of American Map Publishing.' It features an intriguing early Maine county configuration. (more details)
Under the Antarctic ice.
Submarine and Subglacial Topography.
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This is a 1972 American Geographical Society map of Antarctica depicting submarine and subglacial topography. Compiled by geologist Bruce Heezen and glaciologist Charles Bentley, this revolutionary map reveals the bizarrely shaped continent hidden under miles of Antarctic ice. (more details)
In the Wake of the Age of Greatness.
Scandinavia complectens Sueciae, Daniae et Norvegiae Regna ex tabula Joh Bapistae Homanni Norimbergae Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Maj.
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This is Johann Baptist Homann's map of Scandinavia, bringing the dominant 17th-century mapping of the northern parts of Europe up-to-date with the events of the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721). The map is based primarily on Anders Bure's 1626 mapping of the region - the authority for more than a century. The political borders reflect the state of affairs following the disastrous Great Northern War with Russia. (more details)
Shanghai Souvenir.
上海最新地圖 / Most Recent Map of Shanghai.
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This is an attractive c. 1940 map of Shanghai issued by the Japanese-run Shanghai 'Souvenir Shop'. The map is based on an earlier map by Fusazō Sugie, but incorporates information and advertisements for Japanese travelers. (more details)
African Great Lakes and the Mombasa-Victoria Railway.
Map of the Uganda Protectorate to illustrate the paper by Sir Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.
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This is a 1902 Royal Geographical Society and Harry Hamilton Johnston 'Scramble for Africa' map of the Uganda Protectorate - including modern-day Uganda and western Kenya. The map was issued to accompany a descriptive article by Johnston, which emerged as the British were working to assert administrative and economic control over the region through the building of the Mombasa-Victoria Railway, the establishment of new administrative zones, and the construction of colonial trade towns. (more details)