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Map of Shanghai illustrating the situation in the city between the first and second phases of the Battle of Shanghai.
上海戰局全圖 / Shanghai Full War Map. / Shànghǎi zhànjú quán tú.
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A scarce pre-World War II map of Shanghai, China, issued by the Osaka Asahi Shimbun in 1937 or Showa 12, during the Battle of Shanghai (August 13, 1937). Centered on the riverfront Bund Distract, this map covers the heart of modern Shanghai including the International Settlement and French Concession. Larger scale regional maps appear in the upper left and lower right corners. (more details)
Highlights the strength of foreign armies in continental Europe and the evolution of the Colt pistol.
World News of the Week. Elementary Edition Monday, Jan 20, 1958. Covering Periid Jan. 9 to Jan 15. Volume 12 No. 22
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This is a 1958 map of the world. Presented on a semi-elliptical projection, the map depicts the world from Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean to Fiji and from the Arctic Ocean and Greenland to Cape Horn. The world map occupies the top half of the sheet and focuses on foreign troop strength in continental Europe, using pictographs to symbolize the soldiers. At this point, it was commonly believed that the Cold War would turn into a Hot War over central Europe, most likely in Germany, between forces of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc and NATO. Hence over 300,000 American soldiers were stationed in western Europe, with 225,000 in West Germany alone. The American troops were supplemented by another 100,000 British and French soldiers. Across the border in East Germany, an equal force of 425,000 Soviet troops were stationed, with more in Hungary, Romania, and Poland. (more details)
Illustrates famous sites around Manhattan in profile, including the Empire State Building and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(Map of New York City Showing Direct Routes to the World's Fair Grounds With a Complete Listing of the Hundreds of Points of Interest Which Every Visitor Should See. Presented With The Compliments of The Roosevelt.)
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This is a 1938 Fairmap Company pictorial map of New York City. The map depicts the city from the Hudson River to the Interborough Parkway between Brooklyn and Queens and from the Bronx to the Statue of Liberty. Created as a promotional advertisement for The Roosevelt Hotel, located on Madison Avenue and 45th Street near Grand Central Station, numerous tourist attractions and New York City landmarks are illustrated in profile and identified. Some of these include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Radio City Music Hall, and Grand Central. Other New York City institutions, such as Barnard College, Columbia University, the Cooper Union, and the Fraunces Tavern are also noted. The Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, and Triborough Bridge are all illustrated. In anticipation of the 1939 World's Fair, the map shows the fairgrounds in Queens and marks the best automobile routes to them from Manhattan. Routes to the fair, and auto routes to the island of Manhattan from New Jersey and Upstate New York are shown with their ultimate terminus at The Roosevelt. Major streets throughout Manhattan are illustrated and labeled, including Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, and 14th, 34th, and 42nd Streets. Express subway stops are also noted on the I.R.T., B.M.T., and Independent lines, although local stops are ignored. (more details)
A climate map that highlights average temperatures throughout the state.
Map of California. Compiled from officiala nd authentic sources by the Southern Pacific.
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This is a 1910 Matthews Northrup and Southern Pacific climate map of California. The map depicts the region from the Pacific Ocean to Nevada and from Oregon to Arizona and Mexico. Six different colors are used to highlight different average temperature zones within the state, allowing the viewer to form some idea about the climate in any given part of the state. A chart providing the temperature range associated with each color is situated in the lower left corner, next to an inset map of the San Francisco Bay Area. Myriad cities and towns are labeled throughout, but the most detail is included along the thick black lines which represent the route of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The thinner black lines are connecting rail lines. The upper right quadrant is dominated by an index of place names which provides the grid location for innumerable cities and towns in California. A second index provides the names of the counties and the county seats. A second inset map situated along the right border compares other states in the U.S. with California, both in terms of square miles and population. (more details)
An Attractive Pictorial Tourist's Map of the City of Haifa
Pictorial Map of Haifa and the Old City of Akko.
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This is a charming 1972 Pictorial tourist map of Haifa, the third largest city in Israel. The map is oriented towards the northeast, shows major thoroughfares, and identifies important neighborhoods with landmark structures shown in profile. Green spaces are indicated pictorially (and with color;) topography is indicated with shading. The port is shown with ships being loaded at the quay; sailboats can be seen heeling in the Mediterranean off shore from the now-abandoned modernist Casino Bat Galim. The map is overlaid with a letter-and-number grid providing coordinates for tables provided on the verso, allowing the traveler to easily locate streets, institutions and tourist services. The verso includes a map of the Israel Institute of Technology (highlighting its architecture.) Also on the verso is a map of the historic city of Akko (Acre, Israel) situated to the north of Haifa, across Haifa Bay. Where the emphasis on Haifa are the modern structures and amenities of the city, the focus on Akko is overwhelmingly historical: ancient city walls, the Crusader citadel, mosques and churches all attest to the long and complicated history of the city. (more details)
Scarce pictorial represention of the Bermuda city of Hamilton.
Places of Interest in The City of Hamilton and the surrounding Parish of Pembroke.
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An uncommon c. 1959 pictorial map of Hamilton, Bermuda. Printed by the Hamilton based Bermuda Press, this map looks northeast on Hamilton from Hamilton Harbor. Identifies all major streets and important buildings and offices, among them Fort Hamilton, the Government Office, the Colonial Secretariat, Churches, Hotels, municipal buildings, and more. To the right of the map, and continuing on the verso, are historical note regarding points of interest in Hamilton. Armorial crests are integrated into the map. (more details)
A Detailed and Attractive Map of Maritime Canada
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Price Edward Id.
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This is Colton's scarce 1855 map of the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. The map shows a portion of what appears to be the European and North American Railway, which would not officially opened until 1857. It would eventually extend to Shediac Bay; here, rails link St. Stephens to Portland in southern New Brunswick. In addition, map Colton identifies various cities, towns, forts, rivers, rapids, fords, with topographical features shown with hachure. The attractive map is colored in pink, green, yellow and blue hand color to distinguish national and regional boundaries, and is embellished with Colton's characteristic spiral motif border. (more details)
Puck Magazine Explodes 1881's Republican Corruption in this Gilded Age Cartoon
Puck's Pyrotechnics. Fourth-ogf-July Fireworks Free to All.
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This spectacular and scarce Puck centerfold, drawn in 1882 by cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper (1857 - 1937). True to his best satirical form, Opper has packed this image with allusions to the year's events both in jest and in celebration. In the foreground from an electric-lit stage, the magazine's titular mascot (having set off the fireworks display, torch in hand) bows to a gaping and appreciative audience: one women offers up her baby for the pantsless Puck to kiss. Puck shares the stage with another torch-bearer: a statuesque hand with a guttering torch, alluding to end of the Madison Square tenure of the Statue of Liberty's arm. The stage is backed with a fanlight, decorated with the likenesses of William H. Vanderbilt, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, and Jay Gould; these railroad barons and philanthropists were frequent butts for Puck's humor in general (and Opper's in particular) so it is equally possible that their position of 'honor' here alludes to their massive privilege, or an oblique 'thank you' from the magazine for providing so much of the year's material. Somewhat puzzlingly, all four likenesses appear on bags. Money bags? (more details)
Includes part of Bloomingdale Road, today known as Broadway, including Times Square.
Map of the Common Lands from 42nd to 59th Streets Showing the Old Streets and Plots…
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This is a John Bute Holmes 1874 cadastral map of Midtown Manhattan. The map depicts the region from Seventh Avenue to Third Avenue and from 59th Street to 42nd Street. A somewhat-confusing jumble of solid and dashed lines appears throughout the neighborhood, allowing the viewer to trace its development, particularly with regard to streets. Entire blocks were shifted between 1796, when Goerck first surveyed this part of Manhattan, and 1874, when Holmes created this work. Street angles changed, as did the width of both the streets and the avenues.
Albany Avenue, Steuben Street Cross Road, and the Eastern Post Road (also known as the Boston Post Road) were erased when the grid system was implemented. Bloomingdale Road, in the lower left corner, is known as Broadway today, thus illustrating the intersection of 42nd Street and Broadway, Times Square. At some point after Goerck's initial survey, both Madison Avenue and Lexington Avenue were cut down the middle of the blocks between Fourth Avenue and Fifth Avenue, and Fourth and Third Avenue, respectively, evident by how Holmes identifies each block by only one number and not two. (more details)
Albany Avenue, Steuben Street Cross Road, and the Eastern Post Road (also known as the Boston Post Road) were erased when the grid system was implemented. Bloomingdale Road, in the lower left corner, is known as Broadway today, thus illustrating the intersection of 42nd Street and Broadway, Times Square. At some point after Goerck's initial survey, both Madison Avenue and Lexington Avenue were cut down the middle of the blocks between Fourth Avenue and Fifth Avenue, and Fourth and Third Avenue, respectively, evident by how Holmes identifies each block by only one number and not two. (more details)
One of the earliest specific maps of the Lower East Side!
Map of the Corlear's Hook Farm, Situated in the present Seventh Ward…
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This is a rare 1881 Heinrich Windwart map of the New York City's Lower East Side, from Grand Street to the East River and from Montgomery to East Street, a region once known as the Corlear's Hook Farm. This is most likely the earliest specific published map of this part of New York. The meticulously compiled map illustrates multiple estates, including those of Nicholas Romayne, Nicholas Gouverneur, James Blanchard, Nicholas Cruger, Nicholas Low, Edward Laight, Stringham, Quackenbos, McComb, Roome, Willima Low, and the Gardner state. It illustrates the original waterline of Manhattan before the mid-19th century landfills. In addition, it shows underwater lands belonging to the Corporation of New York according to the legislative act of 1871. (more details)
Rare Temperance Broadside Depicting the Transformative Powers of Alcohol
The Down Hill Road.
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This is a rare 1878 Temperance (anti-alcohol) broadsheet, published by a Horace L. Hastings, a prolific Boston tract publisher and hymn composer. The captioned photoengraved vignettes that make up the broadside tell three discrete tales, all testifying to the destructive effect of alcohol consumption. The four corners of the sheet are dedicated to portraits of one man over the course of a drinking life. ‘A NICE YOUNG MAN’ in the upper left becomes ‘A FAST YOUNG MAN’ in the upper right, his hair grown longer and less neat, a cigarette appearing in his sneering mouth, his gaze indirect. He then transforms into ‘A SOT’ as depicted in the lower left, having developed a bulbous nose, a pipe habit, and an inability to care for hats. The lower right corner shows our hero’s final stage, ‘A BLOT,’ whose carelessness extends to the rest of his wardrobe. Presumably he can no longer afford tobacco, for his pipe is unlit and upside down. (more details)
West Indies.
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This is a first edition 1846 Samuel Augustus Mitchell map of the West Indies. The map depicts the region from Florida and the Bahamas to northern part of South America and from Guatemala and western Cuba to the 'Caribee Islands,' the Winward and Leeward Islands. Each individual island is identified, and cities and towns are labeled throughout. Points, bays, and other coastal features are also labeled. A list just below the scale entitled 'possessions of the European Powers' groups the islands together by whichever colonial power 'possessed' them at the time. It does note, however, the Haiti was an independent republic. The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive style with green border work and vivid pastels. (more details)
Striking view of the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
Battle of Manila, May 1.
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This is an 1898 James Gale Tyler chromolithograph view of the Battle of Manila Bay, which took place on May 1, 1898. The battle, between the American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey and the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo, was one of the most decisive naval battles in history and effectively ended Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines. The view depicts the Dewey's flagship, the U.S.S. Olympia, as well as the U.S.S. Baltimore and the U.S.S. Boston all firing their guns at the Spanish fleet, the Castilla (Castilia), Montojo's flagship, and the Reina Cristina, both of which are engulfed in flame. Commodore Dewey reported that the American fleet suffered nine injured and one fatality, due to a heart attack. Those numbers are disputed by some historians. (more details)
A detailed road map of Luzon created the year before Allied forces began retaking the island from the Japanese.
Northern Philippines.
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This is a 1944 Army Map Service road map of northern Luzon in the Philippines. The map depicts the region from the South China Sea and the Mindoro Strait to Cataduanes Island and from Fuga Island and Camiguin Island to Mindoro and the Sibuyan Sea. Roads throughout the region are highlighted in red and are not limited to Luzon alone. Roads of varying grades are also differentiated, with thick red lines denoting 'surfaced, all-weather, regularly maintained' roads, while 'partly surfaced, dry-weather' roads are marked by solid and white dashed lines. Not surfaced roads are illustrated by two thin parallel red lines, while a thin solid red lines mark tracks. Trails are noted by thin dashed lines.
Cities and towns throughout the region are labeled, including Manila, Pasay, and Lingayen. Bays, gulfs, points, and peninsulas all along the coast are identified as well, as are the myriad small islands surrounding Luzon. Three insets situated along the right border highlight Lingayen and the immediate vicinity, Manila Bay, and Sorsogon Bay. A small index map situated below the bottom border illustrates and identifies all thirty-three provinces depicted here. (more details)
Cities and towns throughout the region are labeled, including Manila, Pasay, and Lingayen. Bays, gulfs, points, and peninsulas all along the coast are identified as well, as are the myriad small islands surrounding Luzon. Three insets situated along the right border highlight Lingayen and the immediate vicinity, Manila Bay, and Sorsogon Bay. A small index map situated below the bottom border illustrates and identifies all thirty-three provinces depicted here. (more details)
Includes a detailed plan of the Paris International Colonial Exposition on verso - which included a reconstruction of Angkor Wat.
Nouveau Paris Monumental. / Exposition Coloniale Internationale - Paris 1931.
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This is a 1931 Leconte and Guilmin pictorial map of Paris with a map of the 1931 Paris International Colonial Exposition on the verso. (more details)
An Attractive and Entertaining Pictorial Map of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Map of Cape Cod the Land of Our Pilgrim Forefathers wherein is Indicated Cape Cod's Fifteen Towns of Provincetown, Reruro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans, Brewster, Chatham, Harwich, Dennis, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Sandwich, Bourne, Mashpee, Falmouth. Actual duplications of many shipwrecks and landmarks. Designed and Planned by Edward Rowe Snow. Drawen by Ugo Donofrio. 1946.
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A charming 1946 pictorial map of Cape Cod and its towns, created by New England author and historian Edward Rowe Snow. A lover of all things piratical and nautical, Snow brusquely marks out the towns of Cape Cod with banners, but indulges himself in his depictions of ships and shipwrecks, sea birds, whales and even a sea monster menacing Provincetown. The shipwrecks are not generic, but rather are specific, named ships ranging from the Pirate ship ‘Whidah’ (Whydah Gally, a slaver and pirate ship sunk in 1717) to Submarine S-4 (SS-109, a U.S. Submarine sunk in 1927). Camp Edwards (a major WWII training ground) is marked on the map, as is Hyannis Airport. (more details)
Coast Survey chart of Trinidad Bay, gateway to the California Coastal National Monument.
J. No. 5 Reconnaissance of Trinidad Bay California.
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This is a nice example of the 1851 U.S. Coast Survey chart or map of Trinidad Bay, California. Centers on Trinidad Head and includes details noting Trinidad City, including a street grid. A beautiful elevation profile and view of Trinidad Head and City is also ... (more details)
Includes an incredible amount of detail near Singapore and along the Vietnamese coast.
China Sea, Southern Portion, Western Sheet.
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This is an 1887 British Admiralty nautical chart or maritime map of Southeast Asia. The chart depicts the region from Singapore, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra to northern Luzon in the Philippines and from Cambodia and Vietnam (labeled here as Cochin China and Annam) to Sumatra and Luzon. Highly detailed, myriad depth soundings are indicated throughout, particularly along the coastline of Luzon, in the Straits between Sumatra and Singapore, along the coast of Vietnam, and tracing the habitual shipping lanes around the region. Cities, towns, and villages are identified, including Saigon, as are coastal landmarks, such as rivers and large hills. The dashed lines represent two different routes used to travel between Singapore and Hong Kong, both British possessions at the time of this chart's publication. Boundaries are indicated in Indochina between Cambodia, Lower Cochin China, Annam, and Siam. (more details)
One of the Only Acquirable Turkish Mountain Profile Charts
(Turkish Profile of Comparative Mountains and Ocean Depths)
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This is a rare 1909 Turkish chart relating the relative heights of mountains around the world, and comparing these with the depths found in the world's oceans. It was produced by the Turkish educator and publisher Mehmet Eşref. We suspect it to be the only such printed Ottoman work available to the collector. All titles and descriptive text are in Ottoman Turkish. Chromolithograph. (more details)
Likely the Only Printed Turkish Map of Korea, Capturing the Early Stages of Japanese Colonial Rule
(Turkish Map of Korea, Showing the South Manchuria Railway Zone)
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This is a 1909 Turkish map of Korea and Manchuria, produced by the educator and publisher Mehmet Eşref, It is certainly the first, and may be the only Turkish map of the region. Its publication reveals Korea and neighboring Manchuria at a critical historical period: just a year before Japanese colonial rule in Korea, and four years into the Japanese administration of southern Manchuria as the 'South Manchurian Railway Zone.' The latter (Mantetsu for short) was a large National Policy Company of Japan, formed in 1906 to operate the railways taken over from Russia at the end of the Russo-Japanese War. The map shows major railway lines linking Vladivostok, Harbin, and Dalian, which were the major trunk lines operated by Mantetsu. All titles and descriptive text is in Ottoman Turkish. National borders are indicated with color: Manchuria is in green, Korea in brown. Russian Free Port of Vladivostok is shown in yellow, while the Kwantung Leased Territory (acquired by Japan from China in the 1898 Treaty of Shimonoseki) is marked in pink. Chromolithograph. (more details)