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Beautifully engraved New Orleans.
Grondvlakte van Nieuw Orleans, de hoofdstad van Louisiana. / De uitloop van de Rivier Missisippi. / De oostelyke ingang van de Missisippi, met een plan van het fort, 't welk het kanaal beheerscht.
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This is an attractive example of Isaak Tirion's 1769 map of New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta: it is prized as one of the most beautiful 18th-century depictions of the city. Significantly, the map captures New Orleans as the center of Spanish Louisiana during a period of political transition. (more details)
Fall of Khartoum and the Death of a Victorian Hero.
Letts's Map of the Nile Embracing the Soudan, Abyssinia, the Red Sea, and Western Arabia. / Letts's New of the Soudan...
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This is a c. 1885 folding map of northeastern Africa prepared by Letts and Son. Produced in the midst of the Mahdist War (1881 - 1898), it was issued to meet public demand for information on the Gordon Relief Expedition, which struggled up the Nile to the besieged city of Khartoum in late 1884 and early 1885. (more details)
One year after KL became the capital of Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur.
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A rare 1964 large-scale Survey Department of Malaya map of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is notable for presenting the city just after its designation as capital of the reorganized coutnry of Malaysia, which succeeded the earlier Federation of Malaysia. (more details)
Golden Age of Pakistan International Airlines.
[On verso] PIA Pakistan International Airlines.
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This is a colorful c. 1960 map of the world prepared by Gordon Davey for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). Though reminiscent of European maps of the 17th and 18th centuries, the map alludes to PIA's pioneering work as an early non-Western airline to adopt jets and establish long-distance international routes. (more details)
French wine and cheese.
Fromaiges et Vignobles.
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This is a 1963 Daniel-Louis Derveaux map of France, illustrating French wine and cheese regions. It is part of a popular series of historical and thematic maps issued by Derveaux between 1960 and 1980. His maps mimic the cartographic style of Homann and Blaeu, but incorporate modern thematic content. (more details)
Repulsing North Vietnam's 'Easter Offensive'.
[On verso] Map Locates Thanh Hoa...
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This is a 1972 Associated Press wirephoto map of Vietnam, demonstrating developments in the Vietnam War, which at this point had seen U.S. ground forces withdraw while U.S. air and logistical support for South Vietnam remained robust. The events discussed both relate to the 1972 Easter Offensive by North Vietnam, which was ultimately repulsed with massive U.S. air support. (more details)
Better map of the NYC Subway.
Official New York Subway Map and Guide, 1961 Edition.
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This is George Salomon's 1961 map of the New York City Subway network, an important stepping-stone in the development of today's standard map. Salomon pioneered many features adopted by later subway map designers, including Massimo Vignelli. (more details)
New Extraction Methods After the Oil Boom.
12N - 12E Okmulgee Co., Okla.
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This is a c. 1959 plat map of Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, noting the location of oil wells produced by the Midcontinent Map Co. It demonstrates the state of the oil industry in the county at a time when primary and secondary extraction methods had been exhausted, prompting a move to tertiary methods for extracting oil. (more details)
Oldest map of any part of Shanghai.
Regional map of Wujun Kangcheng. / 吳郡康城地域圖 / Full map of Jinshan County. 金山縣全圖
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This is an extraordinary Qing-era Chinese manuscript map by Huang Tingxi (黄廷熙) illustrating Jinshan County, today the Jinshan District of Shanghai Municipality, as it was c. 322 AD / CE. Much of the territory depicted here is underwater today, but this map nonetheless represents the earliest specific cartographic representation of the Shanghai region. (more details)
Brooklyn equivalent of the 1811 Commissioners' Plan.
Map of the city of Brooklyn, as laid out by commissioners, and confirmed by acts of the Legislature of the state of New York, made from actual surveys the farm lines and names of original owners being accurately drawn from authentic sources. Containing also a map of the Village of Williamsburgh, and part of the city of New-York: compiled from accurate surveys and documents and showing the true relative position of all.
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This is J. H. Colton's impressive large-scale 1852 map of Brooklyn and Williamsburg. In its 1839 first edition, it is the Brooklyn equivalent to both the 1811 Commissioner' Plan and Colton's great 1836 map of Manhattan, and as such can reasonably be considered the most important and best map of Brooklyn to appear in the 19th century. The present map, 1852, is, in so far as we can tell, the third edition, retaining much of the significance of the first, while also featuring fascinating updates illustrating the break-neck pace with which Brooklyn was then urbanizing. (more details)
Earliest published sea chart focusing on the California coast!
Carta prima generale d'America dell'India Occidentale e Mare del Zur.
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This is the 1646 first state of Robert Dudley's chart of the middle part of the Americas, illustrating the proximity of the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean and emphasizing the narrow parts of Central America dividing the two bodies of water. The chart features the western part of the Caribbean, but it is particularly noted for being the first printed sea chart to focus on the Pacific coast, including California. It is, along with Dudley's more narrowly focused charts, the first printed chart of the West Indies and South Florida to employ the Mercator Projection. An inset chart in the lower left focuses specifically on the coast of California, from Baja to Cap Mendocino. (more details)
First Specific Printed Maps of Florida and Peru.
Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus./ La Florida./ Guastecan.
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This is an elegant example of Ortelius' 1584 engraving that includes the first specific map of Florida, the earliest specific map of Peru, and the first map focusing on the Guastecan province of Mexico. The map is a prime example of Ortelius' strength, not only as a mapmaker, but also as a compiler. All these maps combined here are relevant to each other in that they all derive from Spanish sources and reveal parts of the Spanish Empire in America, despite Spain forbidding the production and dissemination of such maps. Two of these maps credit specific Spanish sources, reflecting Ortelius' position as geographer to the king of Spain. Antwerp was part of the Spanish Empire at the time, and it is a testimony to Ortelius's far-reaching network of contacts throughout Europe that he was able to obtain maps such as these for publication. (more details)
A modernized, hybrid city.
東京市實測明細全圖 – 附錄諸官衙并名所圖画及日本鐡道線路里程 / [Complete Detailed Survey Map of Tokyo Municipality – with illustrations of government offices and famous places, and course of Japanese railways appended].
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This is a striking and rare 1895 Shimizu Bunzō map of Tokyo, Japan, along with insets of Yokohama and the Japanese rail network. It was meant to highlight recent administrative changes, but also shows the combination of Japanese culture and outside influences that had come to characterize Tokyo by the mid to late Meiji era. (more details)
The making of Kaohsiung.
Map of Existing Roads in Kaohsiung City. / Kaohsiung City Planning Map. / Geographical Map of Kaohsiung City Zones. / 高雄市都市既成道路圖 / 高雄市都市計畫圖 / 高雄市都市計書地域圖
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This is a rare collection of three 1961 or Minguo 50 official urban planning maps of Kaohsiung City (高雄市), Takau, Taiwan. The maps are part of a city-wide urban development project intended to turn Kaohsiung into a major port. The plan was originally proposed in 1937 (Showa 12) under the Japanese but was sidelined during World War II. The plans were revived by the KMT and put into development in the 1960s. Since that time, Kaohsiung has grown from a small trading village into the political and economic center of southern Taiwan. It is also Taiwan's largest and busiest harbor. (more details)
From imperial capital to modern metropolis.
北京内外城街市詳圖 / [Detailed Street Map of the Inner and Outer Cities of Beijing].
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This is a very rare and detailed c. 1930 Chinese map of Beijing, showing the city in the midst of its transition from imperial capital to modern city, fitted out with streetcars, plumbing, railway stations, and telegraphs. (more details)
Demilitarized concessions after the 1932 Shanghai War.
[Shanghai and Vicinity.]
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This is a scarce 1932 (Showa 7) Japanese map printed for the Shanghai Textile Company by the Fine Printing (Seiko) Company. It illustrates the vicinity of Shanghai shortly after the Shanghai Incident of 1932, which destroyed part of the city and set off a refugee crisis, presaging even greater upheaval five years later. (more details)
Ho Chi Minh's declaration of Vietnamese independence.
Cách Mạng Tháng Tám. / August Revolution.
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This is a 1975 Vietnamese Ministry of Education wall map of Vietnam depicting the 1945 August Revolution, an armed revolt against the Japanese occupation and French colonial rule. (more details)
Mandatory Period Jerusalem.
Jerusalem / Jerusalem Pictorial Plan.
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This is a scarce 1930 pictorial map of Jerusalem prepared by Spyro Spyridon and printed by Michael Pikovsky. The map depicts the city during the middle of the period of the British Mandate with handwritten annotations likely made by a member of the Irgun paramilitary group that date to the period when the city was besieged in May 1948 during the Arab-Israeli conflict. (more details)
One of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Kua Lakh to Kao Tao Islands Including The Delta of the Song Ka.
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This is a 1926 British Admiralty nautical chart or maritime map of northeastern Vietnam in the vicinity of Hanoi and Ha Long Bay. Today, this area is regarded as one of the most beautiful places on Earth. (more details)
After the conquest of Khiva.
Khanate of Khiva after Russian sources.
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This is an 1875 Herbert William Wood map of the Khanate of Khiva in modern-day Uzbekistan - issued shortly after the 1873 Russian conquest of Khiva, a defining moment in the Great Game. (more details)