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Tying together the East Bay.
E-Z guide map of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley, California with patent indicator.
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An example of Fred Bain's 1924 E-Z Guide Map of Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, and nearby cities in the East Bay portion of the San Francisco Bay area. Employing Bain's trademark, the E-Z Guide uses a rotating indicator surrounded by numbers rather than a conventional grid in the border to provide more precise locations of sites. (more details)
God, gold, and guns.
The Pageant of History in Northern California its colorful and adventurous beginnings.
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A richly illustrated c. 1950 pictorial map of Northern California, drawn by Millard Sheets and commissioned by the American Trust Company. It provides an overview of the early history of the region, from its indigenous inhabitants through the gold rush and beyond. (more details)
Containing the Tonkin insurgency.
Indo-Chine Française Carte du Tonkin.
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This is an 1891 French Bureau topographique des Troupes de l'Indo-Chine map of Tonkin, Vietnam, Indochina. Depicting a region ravaged by war and still fighting against French occupation forces, the map was issued to provide the newly appointed governor-general of Indochina Jean-Marie de Lanessan, with a comprehensive view of Tonkin. Cities, towns, and villages are identified, and roads are illustrated throughout. (more details)
Chinese perspective on events that heralded the Sino-Soviet Split.
Peking Review 47 and 48, Sino-Indian Border Dispute.
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An extensive 1962 set of historical maps of the Sino-Indian border, published in the Peking Review, an English-language periodical tied to the Chinese Communist Part. They represent a rarely-seen Chinese perspective on a little-known but significant episode in the Cold War. The focus is the Sino-Indian War, a border conflict fought at extreme elevations. The war soured relations between Russia and China, the world's largest nations and heralded the Sino-Soviet Split. (more details)
Unusual pictorial map of Peru.
Peru.
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A rare and mysterious 1947 map of Peru by the artist Pierre Hébrard. Stylistically playing on maps of the Dutch Golden Age, it also employs etching and bright, brilliant colors to represent the lushness of the Peruvian interior. (more details)
Enjoy Monterey!
The Monterey Peninsula.
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This is a 1981 Richard Bibler pictorial map of the Monterey Peninsula, California. (more details)
Manila on the eve of World War II.
Complimentary Map of the City of Manila Prepared under the Direction of the Engineer. Phil. Dept. U.S. Army 1935. Corrected to 1938.
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A detailed 1938 city plan or map of Manila in the Philippines from the Commonwealth period issued by the Manila Branch of the Army-Navy Y.M.C.A. It reflects the city's complex identity and history, strongly influenced by Spanish and then American colonial presence. (more details)
Incredible trek map of the Khumbu (Everest) region - with manuscript notations referring to a trek!
Latest Trekking Map Lamosangu to Mt Everest Showing whole of the Kumbu Himal, Rolwaling Himal, Namche Bazar to Everest Base Camp, Kokyo Course and Namche Bazar.
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This is a one-of-a-kind c. 1977 Mandala Trekking Maps mimeographed map of the Khumbu, or Everest, region of Nepal. (more details)
Access to Alaska's natural wealth.
When You Think Alaska - Think Alaska Steamship Co.
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This is a 1929 Poole Brothers map of Alaska promoting the Alaska Steamship Company and their routes from the northernmost Alaska to Seattle, Washington. The map highlights American enthusiasm over the mineral wealth and natural resources of Alaska and the Yukon. (more details)
Cincinnati's first suburb.
Plat of P. M. Price's Subdivision of Prospect Hill.
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This is a c. 1867 Phillips and Hickenlooper plat map of the Prospect Hill district in Cincinnati, Ohio. Today Prospect Hill is part of the Mount Auburn neighborhood and is just outside downtown Cincinnati. (more details)
Philly makes its mark.
New map of the city of Philadelphia : from the latest city surveys.
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A rare 1882 first edition example of John L. Smith's large-scale folding map of Philadelphia. It depicts the city at a time when it was growing quickly and undertaking projects to reflect its size and ambition, such as the enormous new city hall, constructed between 1871 and 1901. (more details)
Go Michigan!
Ann Arbor.
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This is a 1976 Dave Buffington and Joe Gohl pictorial map of Ann Arbor, Michigan. (more details)
Rome, Naples, and Messina.
South Italy.
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This is an 1831 John Dower and Henry Teesdale map of southern Italy, then known as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. (more details)
Early geological map of the American frontier.
Part of Central Wyoming F.V. Hayden, U.S. Geologist in charge.
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An impressive, large-scale 1878 map of Wyoming produced by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden and the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (USGGST), the forerunner to the U.S. Geological Survey. It is among the earliest geological maps of Wyoming. Though some earlier geological maps of the territory had been undertaken by the military and by Hayden himself, the surveys by USGGST were significantly more comprehensive. (more details)
An Early Map of Western Africa.
Mauritania Nuova Tavola.
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This is Girolamo Ruscelli's 1574 map of western Africa, here termed 'Mauritania' but extending south to include northwestern Africa from Gibraltar in the north to the Guinea coast in the south. The map spans from the Canary Islands in the west, eastwards to modern Tunisia and Nigeria. Ruscelli's work is an enlarged and improved version of the 1548 map of fellow Venetian Giacomo Gastaldi. (more details)
Mining, resistance, and revolution.
Mexico, compliments of Greene Consolidated Gold Company.
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A historically-significant 1904 Rand McNally map of Mexico issued by the Greene Consolidated Gold Company, one of several ventures owned by William Cornell Greene, an American businessman who operated a massive copper mine at Cananea, Sonora. The map was meant to entice American investors to fund Greene's sprawling empire, one destined to rapidly collapse only two years later. (more details)
Uncredited Instance of the Strahlenberg cartography.
Nuova Carta della Tartaria Secondo l'Ultime Oservationi fata in Amsterdam per Isak Tirion.
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This is a 1740 Italian edition of Isaac Tirion's map of Tartary, or Russia in Asia. This is one of the few obtainable derivative maps to be based upon the little-known but groundbreaking cartography of Phillip Johann von Strahlenberg, created while he was a prisoner in Tobolsk. (more details)
Great Game: Tsar's Acquisition of Transoxiana.
Notes on M. Fedchenko's Map of Maghian.
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This is an 1873 map of 'Maghian,' that is, the area that now comprises the westernmost portion of Sughd Province in Tajikistan, along the border with Uzbekistan. Based on a Russian map by Alexei Fedchenko, it was lithographed by Edward Weller and published by John Murray in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. (more details)
Florida's celebrated Orange Blossom Trail!
Orange Blossom Trail. Florida's Scenic Route thru Central Florida.
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This is a c. 1950 Orange Blossom Trail Association highway map of Florida. It highlights the roads (mostly US routes and state highways, including US Route 441 and US Route 17/92) comprising the trail, as well as the towns and cities traversed, including Gainesville, Ocala, Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, and Miami. (more details)
First map of Russia based on actual exploration.
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. Auctore Antonio Ienkensono Anglo, edita Londini Anno. 1562 et dedicata illustriss: D. Henrico Sÿdneo Wallie presidi.
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This is a 1601 example of Abraham Ortelius' 'Russia, Moscoviae et Tartariae', the first atlas map of Russia, and the first to be produced based on actual exploration. Its content is based on the travels of English merchant and diplomat Anthony Jenkinson, who visited Russia four times between 1557 and 1571. The map details the lands revealed by Jenkinson's first voyage which lasted from 1557 to 1560. His map, which was provided to Ortelius, was completed after that voyage, in 1562. (more details)