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Handy guide for Japanese travelers to Honolulu.
ホノルル案内 : 布哇 / [Honolulu Guide : Hawaii].
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This is a rare 1929 (Showa 4) map and guide of Honolulu, Hawaii, made by the Aala Automotive Union (アアラ自動車組合) for Japanese tourists. It is a very detailed guide that would have helped travelers navigate with some ease. (more details)
Work of a German Jewish refugee.
Cartoon Map of New York City.
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This is a 1938 Henry Emil Salloch pictorial map of New York City. The map depicts the city from Battery Park to the Bronx and from the Hudson River and Jersey City to Brooklyn and Queens. Wonderfully illustrated, pictorial vignettes highlight neighborhoods, ... (more details)
Finest Engraved Plan of Paris in its Sole Original Edition.
Plan de Paris Commence l’Annee 1734.... Leve et Desine par Louis Bretez Grave par Claude Lucas / Et Ecrit par Aubin.
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This is Louis Bretez and Michel-Etienne Turgot's monumental 1739 map of Paris, in a beautiful, bound example. Turgot's map of Paris - possibly the most ambitious urban mapping ever undertaken - shows the whole of 18th century Paris, offering an unparalleled view of the city prior to the 19th century redesign by Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann: every structure within the city at the time is here depicted. Turgot, who held the mayor-like office of Prevôt des Marchands de Paris , commissioned Louis Bretez and Claude Lucas to produce this map. Oriented to the east on an axonometric projection, this map is best understood as an aerial view in which every building, window, tree, shadow, and park are shown from an equidistant aerial perspective. In order to produce the thousands of sketches and surveys required to complete this map, Bretez was issued a permit to enter every building in Paris. It took the team nearly five years of exhaustive sketching and surveying to assemble this masterpiece. (more details)
Atlantic City's age of nightclubs.
Map of Atlantic City Ventnor, Margate and Longport New Jersey.
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This is a c. 1934 Dolph and Stewart city plan or map of Atlantic City, New Jersey, and its immediate environs highlighting trolley routes in the area. The map depicts the region from the Borough of Longport to Brigantine and from Belvidere Place to the Atlantic Ocean, including Ventnor and Margate. Manuscript notations trace the trolley routes in different colors and a manuscript legend along the bottom border identifies the operators. Intriguingly, both the Atlantic City and Longport Branch of the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad and the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad, popularly known as the Shore Fast Line, are crossed out in pencil and labeled as the Atlantic City Transportation Company. We have been unable to unearth a concrete history for the Atlantic City Transportation Company. The red lines trace the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, which operated in New Jersey from 1933 until 1976, and was jointly-owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Atlantic City Railroad. (more details)
Railroad network in Jersey City and Hoboken.
Hagstrom's Map of Jersey City and Hoboken House Number and Transit Guide Map No. 2200A
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This is a c. 1939 Hagstrom city plan or map of Jersey City and Hoboken, New Jersey, featuring manuscript notations highlighting the region's railroad network. The map depicts from the Pennsylvania Railroad freight terminal west of the Hackensack River to the western side of Manhattan and the Battery and from Union City to Bayonne. Streets are illustrated throughout, including the Lincoln Tunnel and the Holland Tunnel, with city parks, fields, and water reservoirs also labeled. Roosevelt Field, opened in 1937, was home to the minor league baseball team the Jersey City Giants. A street index for Jersey City and Hoboken is included below the bottom border, along with a small map of Hudson County and the vicinity. (more details)
Board game made to celebrate the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
日英博覽會見物 世界一周双六 / [Japan-Britain Exhibition Showpiece – 'Around the World' Sugoroku].
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This is a rare and whimsical 1910 (Meiji 43) sugoroku game board published in the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. It was produced for the 1910 Japan-British Exhibition (日英博覽會) held in London, an event designed to bolster the Anglo-Japanese Alliance forged in 1902. (more details)
Large and charming map of Ireland.
Ireland Reduced from the Ordnance Survey Showing All Railways and Stations.
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This is a c. 1885 George Washington Bacon pocket map of Ireland. The map depicts Ireland in full, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Irish Sea and from Scotland to St. George's Channel. Cities, towns, and villages are labeled, including Dublin, Belfast, Londonderry, and Cork. Roads are illustrated throughout, and the rail network is shown by black and white dashed lines. International steamship routes are also noted, including the route from Londonderry to New York City. A key, situated in the lower left explains all these notations. Four inset maps highlight different areas around Ireland. Two, located in the lower right corner, focus on the environs of Cork and the environs of Dublin, respectively. The Lakes of Killarney are illustrated in a circular inset situated in the Atlantic off the coast of County Clare, and finally a circular inset featuring the environs of Belfast is included in the upper left corner. The whole is surrounded by a charming border decorated with clovers. (more details)
Irrigation in Nepal.
Nepal.
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This is a 1974 Department of Irrigation, Hydrology, and Meteorology ferro-gallic map of Nepal. This is a working map likely issued in an exceedingly small run - less than 30 - for internal administration of Nepalese irrigation projects. Fifteen irrigation zones are numerically identified throughout Nepal, all of which have projects that have been completed, are underway, or are being planned. Each irrigation zone is identified in a series of tables below the map, which also name projects within each zone. The dates provided in the tables are given in the Vikram Samvat, also known as the Hundi Vikrami calendar, which is still the official calendar of Nepal. Color shading indicates the current production phase of each project. Individual projects are either numerically identified or labeled by name. An inset situated in the upper right details the Kathmandu Valley, naming nine 'small' completed projects. Pictorial icons mark temples and airfields, while other notations mark roads, holy places, rivers, and streams. (more details)
Comprehensive Honolulu guide Japanese travelers.
ホノルル案内 : 布哇 / [Honolulu Guide : Hawaii].
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This is a rare c. 1930 map and guide of Honolulu for Japanese tourists made by the Aala Automotive Union (アアラ自動車組合). It is an extremely detailed guide that would have helped travelers integrate with relative ease in such a distant destination. (more details)
Santa Monica and Beverly Hills!
Annexations of the City of Los Angeles.
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This is a c. 1933 Automobile Club of Southern California city plan or map of Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, California. Depicting from the Santa Susanna Mountains and the Simi Hills to the Los Angeles and from the San Gabriel Mountains to El Segundo and Inglewood, suburbs throughout identified, including North Hollywood and Van Nuys. Major streets are illustrated and labeled, along with the Southern Pacific Railroads. An alphabetic street index occupies the lower left, along with an extensive addenda. An inset along the right illustrates Los Angeles from Manchester Street south to San Pedro and Los Angeles Harbor. A second inset in the lower left maps the entire region from the Fernando Reservoir to San Pedro. (more details)
One of Japan's first national parks.
箱根國立公園 / [Hakone National Park].
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This is a very rare 1940 bird's-eye view sketch-book mailer map of Hakone National Park, Japan, issued for tourists. (more details)
French occupation of Tonkin.
Carte pour suivre l'Éxpedition du Tonkin.
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This is an 1884 Eugène Andriveau-Goujon map of Southeast Asia and the East Indies published during the French Tonkin Campaign (Expédition du Tonkin). The map capitalizes on French public interest in the fighting in Tonkin (Tong-King). Andriveau-Goujon uses color to highlight colonial possessions of France, England, the Netherlands, and Spain, clarifying the politics in play. He also includes numerous cities and towns, along with shipping routes and undersea cables. (more details)
Working manuscript draft for a Kelly and Wash map later published.
Shanghai (1919).
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This is a unique 1919 Kelly and Walsh manuscript map of Shanghai - most likely the original working draft for Shanghai map included in Charles Ewart Darwent's Shanghai: a handbook for travellers and residents…. It dates from the height of the treaty port era, when Shanghai was home to dozens of nationalities inhabiting three distinct administrative zones: the International Settlement, the French Concession, and the Chinese-administered areas of the city. (more details)
German dirigibles over Cologne in the lead-up to WWI.
Les dirigeables PARCEVAL et GROSS en manoeuvre à Cologne.
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This is a 1909 Marguerite 'Gamy' Montaut pochoir view of the dirigibles Parceval and Gross, flying over Cologne, Germany. Illustrated above the Rhine River, the Gross (produced by Gross-Basenach) is on the left and the Parceval (by Luft-Fahrzeung-Gesellschaft) on the right. A bridge crosses the Rhine in the left foreground, with onlookers marveling at the enormous new contraptions. A German soldier outside the frame marvels at the airships as well - lending the print a menacing warlike air. Cologne's skyline fills the background, with the spires of the Cologne Cathedral recognizable. Beautiful colors bring this eye-catching piece to life. Although a European production, we recognize clear homage to Japanese woodblock prints in terms of color, composition, and style. (more details)
The Japanese consolidate their hold on Taiwan.
臺灣明細全圖 / [Complete and Detailed Map of Taiwan].
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This is a very rare 1895 Suzuki Shigeyuki Map of Taiwan, made as the Japanese military was in the process of conquering the island. Its most obvious distinguishing characteristic is that the map is meant to be rotated, Japanese style, with important information appearing both horizontally and vertically. (more details)
Drainage area of a forgotten New York City brook.
Minetta Brook Drainage Area Above 6th Ave. Sewer Gauge.
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This is an 1889 Rudolph Hering map of Greenwich Village in New York City illustrating the drainage area of Minetta Brook or Creek. Depicting from 16th Street south to Great Jones Street and from Bleecker Street east to Fourth Avenue, a solid red line delineates the drainage area. Green areas are grass or other pervious surfaces, and sewers are illustrated by parallel dashed lines. Single dashed lines mark the neighborhood's elevation above tide, which is between twenty feet and thirty-five feet. The map also provides information concerning the neighborhood's population and the area of roofs, pavements, and grass within its 221.7 acres. (more details)
Early pictorial map of Cape Cod.
A Map of Cape Cod.
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This is an unusual 1932 Walter M. Gaffney pictorial map of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Pictorial symbols, including an airplane, a deer, a windmill, lighthouses, and the Pilgrim Monument at Provincetown, add charm to the piece. Illustrations of the Mayflower, Leif Ericson's ship, and other boats decorate Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic. According to his daughter, Gaffney issued this map to make supplemental money while the architecture business suffered a downturn. (more details)
Island in the Nicobars.
Indischer Ocean Nicobaren. Bucht von Saoui auf Carnicobar. / [Sawai Bay at Car Nicobar].
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This is a rare 1858 Baron Bernhard von Wüllerstorf-Urbair map of Sawai Bay and the northern part of the island of Car Nicobar, Nicobar Islands, Indian Ocean. It is one of series of maps of Indian Ocean islands compiled by the 1857 - 1859 Austrian Novara Expedition. This map includes a brief legend noting longitude, latitude, and units of measurement ('Viennese feet'), as well as common elements of maps in this series, such as numbers on the map indicating the hourly speed of the current in stagnant or falling water. (more details)
Island paradise in the Indian Ocean.
Indischer Ocean Nicobaren. St. Georgs Canal. / [St. Georgs Channel].
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This is a rare 1858 Baron Bernhard von Wüllerstorf-Urbair map of St. Georgs Channel, Nicobar Islands, Indian Ocean. St. Georgs Channel separates Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar. This is one of a series of maps of Indian Ocean islands compiled during the Austrian 1857 - 1859 Novara. This map includes a brief explanatory note and the common elements of maps in this series, such as numbers on the map indicating the hourly speed of the current in stagnant or falling water. (more details)
Monuments and historical wonders.
Tourist Map of India.
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This is a lovely c. 1930 map of India by George Philip and Sons Ltd. The map extends from Kashmir south to Ceylon or Sri Lanka and includes modern-day India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Burma (Myanmar). Cities, towns, and villages are labeled throughout, with large block lettering marking the region's most important cities. Bold red lines highlight the railway network and differentiates between broad vs. narrow gauge. (more details)