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Map of the City of Los Angeles Showing 15 and 20 Mile Speed Limits Within City Boundaries.
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This is a c. 1923 Automobile Club of Southern California map of Los Angeles speed limits. Areas of green and orange shading highlight parts of Los Angeles where the speed limit is fifteen (green) or twenty (orange) miles per hour. More detail appears in the fifteen mile per hour zones than in the twenty mile per hour zones, with cross streets marked in each of the fifteen mile per hour zones, some of which are relatively small. Major streets within Los Angeles are illustrated and labeled, but very little else appears. The only building labeled is the Automobile Club of Southern California building. (more details)
Extremely rare Greenwich, Connecticut pictorial.
Northern Greenwich in Connecticut in Ye Olden Days before 1875.
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A rare pictorial map of the northern part of Greenwich, Connecticut issued in 1948 by Roger H. Selchow. This is a companion piece to an earlier 1939 map of coastal Greenwich issued by the same artist. Coverage extends roughly from what is today Route 1 north to the New York border, and from Rye to Stamford, including the communities of Round Hill, Riversville, Stanwich, North Greenwich, and South Stanwich. (more details)
Charming pictorial map of the world, with illustrations of cannibalism.
家庭教育世界一周すごろく / [Home Education Round-the-World Sugoroku].
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This is an exceptionally charming Taisho 15 or 1926 Japanese pictorial world map and round-the-world sugoroku game published as a supplement to the New Year's Edition of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun (大阪毎日新聞). Aside from entertainment, the game was meant to inculcate geographic knowledge, especially of Europe and North America. (more details)
Gibraltar, prior to the Great Siege during the American Revolutionary War.
Plan du Promontoire de la Ville et du Port de Gibraltar avec les Ouvrages Faits Depuis le Dernier Siege et les Lignes Construites par Ordre de Sa Majesté très Catholique, pour Empescher la Communication de Gibraltar avec l'Espagne.
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This is a scarce, separately-issued c. 1770 Jean Lattré map of the town, port and peninsula of Gibraltar. This eastern-oriented map is richly detailed, showing the remarkable and forbidding topography of the peninsula and its fortifications. The map shows the positions held by the Spanish and the British during their long stalemate following the 1727 Spanish siege of Gibraltar. Lattré appears to have produced this map as a separate issue near the end of the Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763), coinciding with Spain's entrance to that conflict. Although the war ended without any action at Gibraltar, it would have been considered a possible theater of engagement. (more details)
Country of Seven Cities.
Principatus Transilvaniae in quinque Nationes earum'que Regiones es comitatus cum finitimis vicinorum Statuum Provinciis accuraté divisus.
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This is a beautiful original color example of Johann Baptist Homann's 1716 map Transylvania, covering what is today the northern part of Romania - from the Bereton River eastward as far as Castle Boza. The map is superbly engraved and detailed, noting villages, cities, forests, rivers, monasteries, castles, and lakes. Topography is indicated pictorially. (more details)
From the final, Spanish edition of the Atlas Maior.
Pars Australior Iutiae Septentrionalis, in qua Dioeceses Ripensis et Arhusiensis.
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This is Joan Blaeu's 1659 map of southern-central Denmark, or the southern part of Jutland. It is among the scarcest of Blaeu's maps, appearing in a sole edition of the Novuus Atlas and subsequently in the Atlas Maior. It shows the Dioceses of Ribe and Aarhus, the Protestant sees administering the southern Jutland Peninsula from as far south as Haderslev and the island of Fionia, as far north as Onsild in the east and Lemvig in the west. The map is superbly detailed and engraved, typical of the younger Blaeu's work at its creative peak. There is a superb cartouche, behind which three cowherds and their bovine charges are trying unsuccessfully to hide. (more details)
First British embassy to China.
A chart of the islands to the southward of Tchu-san on the eastern coast of China.
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This is a rare 1796 John Barrow map of modern day Zhoushan (舟山市; Tchu-San), China, prepared to illustrate the official report of the 1793 Macartney Embassy to China. The Embassy has been seen as a deeply consequential historical interaction between China and the British Empire which heralded the systematic crises China would face in the 19th century. (more details)
Detailing the Empires of the East.
Nouvelle carte pour servir a l'Histoire de l'Empire d'Orient Depuis les Premiers Empereurs Romains.
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A superbly engraved 1719 Chatelain map of the Middle and Near East, presenting the ancient cities and kingdoms of those regions in the time of the Persian Empire and early Roman Empire. It spans from the eastern Mediterranean to the mouth of the Indus River. It centers on the Black and Caspian Seas, and embraces from the Persian Gulf to the full course of the Volga River. The map applies what was state-of-the-art geographical information to the place names of antiquity, thus placing the ancient eastern world in a more understandable context. The map shows ancient administrative divisions, regional names, major cities, towns and forts. Mountains and forests are shown pictorially. Extensive tables - one listing cities and towns, the other listing the prefectures and Dioceses at that time under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire - use a coordinate system to aid in finding the listed places on the map itself. The map was included in Chatelain's seven-volume historical atlas of the world, one of the largest and broadest Dutch encyclopedias of the early eighteenth century. In addition to its geographical information, it was a treasure trove of historical, political and even genealogical information. Chatelain's maps drew on the work of his day's finest geographers, including De l'Isle and De Fer. (more details)
Key Fort in Dutch Brazil.
Castrum Mauritij ad Ripam Fluminis S. Francisci.
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This is a 1673 Arnold Montanus view of the Dutch defenses at Fort Maurits, controlling access to Brazil's Rio São Francisco. It shows the fort atop the bluffs overlooking the São Francisco. On the shore, traders from sailing ships and river sloops meet sugar plantationers and their slaves hauling barrels of sugar or molasses. (more details)
Texas on the eve of World War II.
Texas.
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This is a 1939 George Cram map of Texas, providing a detailed look at the state on the eve of World War II. Highways, illustrated by thick red lines, snake their way into almost every part of Texas. Roads of lesser grades, gravel and stone roads for example, are also marked, as are unimproved roads, which the key states are only good in dry weather. Federal and state highways are identified, with the Federal shield used for Federal highways and circles used for state highways. Cities and towns all across the state are labeled, and counties are outlined in blue and named with big block lettering. An inset of extreme western Texas, from El Paso to Reeves and Brewster Counties, is situated in the lower left corner. A photograph of the Texas State Capital Building in Austin is included in the upper right corner and is accompanied by a description of the Capital building. (more details)
Gold and uranium prospecting.
Placer Map of California (South Half).
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This is a c. 1956 Walter J. Robertson diazootype map of southern California placer gold and uranium deposits. Coverage extends from Bishop south to the border between California and Mexico and from Los Angeles east to the state border. Dotted circles mark gold placer deposits while 'UR' marks uranium. An index of eighteen locations along the bottom border provides information about these placer sites along with their relative position. Text at left promotes some of Robertson's other maps. (more details)
Barbados at the height of the plantation economy.
Carte de l'isle de la Barbade pour servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages.
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This is a rare c. 1758 map of Barbados by the French cartographer and hydrographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. It was prepared for the Abbé Antoine François Prévost's Histoire générale des voyages. The map shows the island in the heyday of English colonialism, when it was one of the main sources of sugar, produced through a system of brutal plantation slavery. (more details)
An early American map of the Russian Empire.
Russian Empire, in Europe and Asia.
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This is a rare c. 1811 map of the Russian Empire from Carey's General Atlas, the first atlas published in the new American Republic. It shows the Russian Empire after two and a half centuries of territorial expansion beginning with Ivan IV (the 'Terrible') through Catherine the Great. (more details)
Map cards of Paris's new arrondissements!
[Cartes des Arrondissements].
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This is a set of twelve (12) c. 1860 card maps of Paris arrondissements. Created shortly after Paris expanded to twenty arrondissements in 1859, the cards depict the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, and 17th arrondissements in impressive detail considering their size. Set against a gold background, each card features a map of the arrondissement, the Coat of Arms of Paris, and a view of sites. Streets are identified within each arrondissement, along with important locations, such as the Gare du Nord in the 10th, the Jardin des Plantes in the 5th, the Louvre and Jardin des Tuileries in the 1st, and the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th. The vignette views (most of which are in the lower left of each card) illustrate such locations as the Palais Royal, the Arc de Triomphe, the Hotel de Ville, the Opéra, and the Panthéon, among others. (more details)
Tribes of Israel.
Dese Caerte van des H. Landts Beschrijvinge/ hoe het gestelt is gheweest/ als de kinderen van Israel daer in ghewoont hebben.
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This is a scarce 1635 Dutch woodcut map of the Holy Land, presenting (as per the title) a 'map of the Holy Lands, describing how it was when the Children of Israel lived there.' The map depicts the location of present-day Israel, Palestine, and parts of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. (more details)
African exoticism equates to tourist money.
Congo Belge.
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This is a c. 1951 James Thiriar pictorial map of the Belgian Congo. Thiriar utilizes the era's fascination with African exoticism to entice tourists. Tribal Africans are illustrated via stereotypical, portraits in the lower left. The map emphasizes the Belgian Congo's biodiversity, illustrating elephants, giraffes, lions, rhinoceros, ostrich, and baboons. Traditional African art and ceremonial objects, including masks and statuettes, adorn the border and complete the exotic feel. (more details)
Dutch Golden Age map of the Czech Republic.
Bohemia.
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This is a beautiful, original-color 1680 example of Jan Jansson's map of Bohemia, the modern-day Czech Republic, and parts of neighboring Austria, Bavaria, Germany, Poland, and Moravia. (more details)
A comic map sure to reveal a new detail with every look!
A Caricature Map of South Carolina - A Humerus, hand-drawed polyglot of sum places, things and events of contimporary and histerical intrist...Pleeze Exscyuze or overlook misteaks.
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This is an entertaining 1969 Jak Smyrl pictorial map of South Carolina. Comical vignettes fill South Carolina, identifying important locations and referencing historic events. The State Capitol Building marks Columbia, alongside a stadium and a USC Gamecock for the University of South Carolina. South Carolina is home to Clemson University, represented by a tiger playing football. Colleges and universities across the state are labeled, as are state parks, lakes, and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Revolutionary War and American Civil War battles are referenced, including the Battle of Fort Sumter where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. References to the Confederacy appear as well, such as identifying the 'Birthplace of the Confederacy' and the Carolina wren adorning the title cartouche wearing a Confederate cap and brandishing the South Carolina flag. Georgia and North Carolina are both identified, but neither are spelled 'correctly'. Both appear with phonetic spellings. (more details)
One of the First Modern Maps of Poland and Hungary.
Polonia Et Hungaria Nuova Tavola.
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This is an attractive example of Girolamo Ruscelli's 1574 modern map of Poland and Hungary. An enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's 1548 map representing what was the state-of-the-art of the mapping of Europe from the Danube to Lithuania, the map depicts as far east as the Black Sea (here named Mar Mazor. Gastaldi's map was a detailed copperplate improvement on Münster's 1540 woodcut map, and would not be improved upon significantly until Ortelius. (more details)
Manuscript notations reference a pre-WWII Navy War College war game.
No. 5050, Strategic Plotting Chart No. 4.
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This is a 1939 U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office chart of the Aleutian Islands and the North Pacific, with WWII Era manuscript annotations. Coverage extends from Siberia, Sakhalin, and northern Japan to Bristol Bay and southwestern Alaska. (more details)