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Rare steam locomotive promotion.
Breese, Kneeland and Co. Jersey City N.J.
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This is a c. 1858 Alexander Lyman Holley chromolithograph of a steam locomotive named 'Young America.' This is something of a holy grail for railroad collectors due to its fine coloration, impressive design, and overall rarity. The broadside was issued as a promotional piece for Breese, Kneeland, and Company, locomotive manufacturers in Jersey City, New Jersey. (more details)
French Catholicism and the Secular State.
Carte allégorique du Vice et de ses Résultats.
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This is a rare c. 1880 broadside allegorical map of Vice made by the French Catholic curate Abbé Faure. The image reflects the tensions facing French Catholicism, which was undergoing a transformation and gradual decline, caught between the legacy of tradition and the emergence of a secular Republican state. (more details)
The Spirit of America turns the tides of WWI.
Mais quelle flotte formidable a pu conduire ici une pareille armée? - Le Lusitania. / [But! What tremendous fleet could ever have brought over such an army? - the LUSITANIA.]
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A striking 1918 Jules Abel Faivre French broadside celebrating the United States' entry into World War I (1914 - 1918). The broadside was issued shortly after the American Expeditionary Force landed some 1.2 million soldiers in Europe, marking a turning point toward inevitable Allied victory. The image is centered on Winged Liberty representing the 'Spirit of America'. Her wings take the form of American Flags, and she carries a sword in her right hand, ready to defend liberty. Her eyes are frozen white and distant, underscoring both detachment and purity. Behind her march endless troops of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). In the foreground, the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941), looks on despondently, aware of his impending and inevitable defeat. (more details)
Massive chromolithograph geographical advertisement.
Nouvelle Géographie Générale par Maurice Wahl.
$2,250.00
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A massive and lavish French chromolithograph poster promoting the 1899 Garnier Frères release of Maurice Wahl's Nouvelle Géographie Générale. Wahl's Géographie was a two-volume mass-market geographical text by the well-known academic geographer and pedagogue Maurice Wahl (1853 - 1900). As an affordable production rich with practical information, it received wide acclaim and was a publishing success - no doubt in part because of this poster. (more details)
Last Stage of the French Protectorate in Morocco.
Maroc sous le regne de S.M. Mohammed V / المغرب الأقصى خريطة الإيالة الشريفة أيام سلطنة سيدي محمد الخامس.
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This is a rare c. 1947 Gabriel Carriat-Rolant bilingual French and Arabic pictorial map of Morocco - issued to promote tourism. At the time, Morocco was divided into three administrative zones: protectorates managed by France and Spain, respectively, and the remarkable, cosmopolitan Tangier International Zone. (more details)
Epic Map of Echigo.
[Echigo Province].
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This is a very large format (81.75 x 42 in.) c. 1850 folding map of Echigo Province, now today's Niigata Prefecture, in Japan, based on an 1842 map of the same by Ikeda Tōritei. It presents the province in the late Tokugawa era, a period of considerable unrest and upheaval. (more details)
Navigating Shanghai's Waters and Turbulent Politics.
China The Whangpoo.
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This is a 1948 British Admiralty nautical chart or maritime map of the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River. It was produced during the Chinese Civil War (1927 - 1949), shortly after World War II (1939 - 1945), when Shanghai was in a state of turmoil, anxiety, and uncertainty. (more details)
Institutionalizing Pan-Arabism
Map of the Arab League States / خَرِيطَة جَامِعَةِ الدُّوَلِ العَرَبِيَّة.
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This is a rare c. 1956 bilingual (Arabic-English) map of the Arab League States, spanning the Arabian Peninsula, northeastern Africa, and the Levant, prepared by the Beirut Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It reflects the region during the early years of Gamal Abdel Nasser's presidency of Egypt, when he and his country took a leading role in the Arab League and the wider pan-Arab movement. (more details)
Tourism in occupied Paris?
Plan-Guide Monuments de Paris. Pictorial Plan of Paris. / Plan-Guide des Promenades Autour de Paris. Plan of Paris and Surroundings.
$500.00
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A striking art deco style c. 1942 map of Paris issued during the World War II German occupation of Paris. Published at the height of the German occupation of Paris, this map captures the City of Lights at one of its darkest moments. It survives today as a fascinating wartime artifact, reflecting the uneasy coexistence of everyday life, propaganda, and occupation. (more details)
Northern Terminus of the Appalchian Trail - made by a Mainer.
The Phillips Road and Trail Map of Baxter State Park.
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This is a 1965 Augustus Phillips and Son pictorial map of Baxter State Park and environs in Maine, including Mt. Katahdin, Maine's highest peak and the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. The pictorial maps of Luther S. Phillips and his son, Augustus, are much beloved in Maine, where they have a strong local following. (more details)
Struggle for dominance in the Arab World.
بلاد العرب / [Arab Lands].
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This is an extremely rare c. 1968 Arabic-language wall map of the Arab Lands, prepared by one S.H.A., printed by Ahmed Al-Bajuri, and published by Mustafa Al-Babi Al-Halabi and Sons. It was produced during a period of upheaval and the independence of new nations, resulting in ephemeral and contested borders. While expressing a Nasser-style pan-Arabist perspective, it also evokes a standing struggle for cultural and political dominance over the Arab World. (more details)
Most Detailed Ottoman Map of Montenegro Ever Produced.
... ١٨٦٩ سنه سی اوستريا دولتی جغرافيا جمعيت عسكريه سی واسطه سيله تنظيم قلنان قره طاغ وجوارينك خريطه سی اولوب / [This is a map of Montenegro and its Surroundings, prepared by means of the Austrian Militärgeographisches Institut in the year 1869...].
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This is a rare 1875 Ottoman Turkish large-format folding map of Montenegro produced by the Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi, the General Staff Department of the Ottoman military, based on an earlier 1869 Austrian map prepared by the Militärgeographisches Institut. Combining Austrian and Ottoman cartographic knowledge, largely gained during the Ottoman-Montenegrin War (1861 - 1862), it is the most detailed Ottoman map of Montenegro produced before the kingdom's independence. (more details)
Uniquely British Cheap Print: Earliest printed representation of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Vitoria.
Field Marshal the Marquis of Wellington's Victory of Vittoria.
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The only known surviving example of this large-format woodcut 'cheap print' issued by George Thompson in 1813, celebrating the Duke of Wellington's stunning triumph over French forces at the Battle of Vitoria (June 21, 1813), a decisive battle in the years-long Peninsular War (1808 - 1814). It is likely the earliest printed representation of the battle, being a news-as-it-happened publication. The victory helped to solidify Wellington's stature as the ablest British commander of land forces, earning him the rank of field marshal and later the title of Duke. The 'cheap print' is a uniquely British form of graphic news publishing issued for distribution among the uneducated but engaged populace. (more details)
Iranian reaction to Russian Imperialism.
New Map of Europe. / خارطه جديده اوروپا
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A rare c. 1880 Iranian-issued Ottoman Turkish / Farsi version of Englishman Fred Rose's iconic 1877 Serio Comic War Map, in which expansionist Imperial Russia is analogized as a menacing, grasping octopus. The map was issued in Qajar Iran (Persia), but for an Ottoman Turkish audience (there is also a Farsi variant). Both countries were then being menaced by Russia, Turkey in the recent Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, and Iran as a field of contention in the Great Game - so the work would have proved widely resonant with a possible hope of fostering mutual support. Text is partially in Turkish, partially in Farsi. (more details)
Colonial rivalries in early America - fine original color.
Virginiae Partis australis, et Floridae partis orientalis, interjacentiumqus regionum Nova Descriptio.
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This is Willem Blaeu's map of Virginia and Florida, engraved in 1638 and appearing here in an early, 1642 Appendix issue of the map in beautiful original color. This classic Dutch map, which encompassed the Carolinas and what would become Georgia and part of Florida, has been called 'the most correct map of this area yet to appear.' (Cumming) (more details)
'...most likely spots for pirate gold.'
Treasure Trow. Davy Jones' Locaker.
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This is a fascinating, information-dense 1952 Everett R. Graichen pictorial map of Cape Cod, illustrating potential treasure sites. According to the map, 'popular imagination regards Cape Cod as one of the most likely spots for pirate gold.' (more details)
Pioneering submarine geography.
Planisphere Physique.
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A striking 1781 Philippe Buache map of the world, presented on an unusual polar projection rendered from the North Pole. This is the first work to attempt to map the ocean floor - a revolutionary work connecting submarine with surface geography. Although Buache's geography was speculative at best, the work is a landmark achievement in its attempt to illustrate and scientifically assess the unknowable oceanic depths. (more details)
Colonial Competition in the East Indies.
Carte Hydro-Geo-Graphique des Indes Orientales en deca et au dela du Gange avec leur Archipel Dressee et assujettie aux Observations Astronomiques.
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This is Rigobert Bonne's 1771 map of South and Southeast Asia (the East Indies) that appeared in Jean Lattre's 1778 edition of the Atlas Moderne - here in a full color joined example. It depicts the region during a period of competition between colonial empires in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763). (more details)
Interwar 'Golden Age' of Spain's Railways.
Mapa de los ferrocarriles de España y Portugal.
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This is a striking c. 1930 railway map of Spain and Portugal that appeared in the Guia Rich railway guide. It captures the Iberian rail network during a brief 'golden age' on the eve of the Great Depression and Spanish Civil War. (more details)
One of the most beautiful, important, and enduring maps of Manhattan ever published.
Sanitary and Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York Prepared for the Council of Hygine and Public Health, of the Citizens' Association.
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This is a beautiful example of Egbert L. Viele's 1865 topography and waterways map of Manhattan, one of the scarcest, most important, and most enduring maps of New York City ever published. Viele's map details the canals, swamps, rivers, ditches, ponds, meadows, and drainage basins of Manhattan as they existed prior to the city's urban development. A version of the Viele map remains in use today by architects and contractors who need to be certain they are not building over underground rivers and swamps that may destabilize a new construction's foundation. (more details)