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East Penobscot Bay for mariners.
East Penobscot Bay.
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This is an 1882 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey nautical map of East Penobscot Bay, Maine. (more details)
Golden Age before 'the Dictator'.
خريطة ليبيا السياحية - دليل / [Libya Tourist Map Guide].
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This is a c. 1962 tourist pictorial map of Libya produced by the country's Public Tourist Administration. It was produced in the wake of the discovery of vast oil reserves in the country, which rapidly transformed it from one of the poorest countries in the world to among the wealthiest post-colonial states. (more details)
Californian Commemoration of the Spanish Empire.
A Map of Exploration in the Spanish Southwest 1528-1793.
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This is a large-format 1932 pictorial map of the American Southwest, produced by the Automobile Club of Southern California. It is characteristic of the early 20th-century romanticization of the Spanish colonial era, which played an important part in the development of a distinctly Southern Californian identity. The map emerged during the Golden Age of American Pictorial Mapmaking. (more details)
Largest Hydroelectric Dam in North America.
Metsker's Map of Lincoln County Washington.
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This is Charles F. Metsker's 1943 survey map of Lincoln County, Washington. Among other features, it is notable for including the Grand Coulee Dam (which was completed the previous year) and reflecting the changes it brought to the area. (more details)
Plutopia.
State of Washington / A Map of the State of Washington.
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This is a colorful c. 1955 Kroll map of Washington State. Among other features, it is notable for highlighting the location of the Hanford Site, established during the Manhattan Project, the location of the first full-scale plutonium production reactor. (more details)
Introduction of the clover-leaf junction.
The Clover-Leaf Junction.
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This is a 1938 illustration of an early clover-leaf junction that appeared in Child Safety magazine. This then-novel innovation in road design has since become a global road-building convention. (more details)
First edition of the most spectacular American Geographical Game of the 19th century - with original instructions!
Rambles throughour Country. An Instructive Geographical Game for the Young.
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A 1881 first-edition example of Bingham and Dodd's spectacular chromolithograph game board map of the United States, published by the American Publishing Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Here, accompanied by its original instructions. This is the most impressive game map published in the United States in the 19th century. The map beautifully celebrates American exceptionalism, the cultural and geographical diversity of the country, and the westward Expansion. (more details)
First printed example of a Babinet / Mollweide Projection.
Planisphère Babinet Physique et Politique.
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A stunning c. 1860 wall-sized map of the world on a Mollweide or Babinet Projection surrounded by elaborate allegorical imagery. Our research suggests this is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, published examples of a Mollweide Projection. (more details)
New Jerusalem of the American West.
Salt Lake City, 1887.
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A striking 1887 S.W. Darke bird's-eye view of Salt Lake City, Utah, lithographed by August Gast. It highlights the city's rapid development in the preceding years, following a mining boom and the arrival of the Transcontinental Railroad. (more details)
Extremely Rare Advert for an Essential Aviation Tool.
Aeronautical Charts.
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This is a very rare and possibly unique 1959 map poster advertising aeronautical charts produced by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.C.G.S.). As passenger air travel exploded in the postwar period, U.S.C.G.S. charts became an indispensable tool for pilots to ensure as safe and comfortable a ride as possible. This poster, and a similar poster for nautical charts, was issued to advertise U.S.C.G.S. charts. (more details)
Definitive Chart of the vicinity of Jakarta.
A Chart of the Coast of Java from Bantam to Batavia.
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This is William Herbert's rare 1777 nautical map of northern Java in the vicinity of Jakarta (Batavia and Bantam). The chart was issued for the 1777 fourth edition of Herbert's New Directory for the East Indies, published by his protégé Henry Gregory as an English response to Jean-Baptiste de Mannevillette's 1775 reissue of the Neptune Oriental. (more details)
Imaginative solutions to Manhattan's traffic problems.
To Relieve Traffic and Make a Great Thoroughfare of 39th St.
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This is a set of diagrams drawn in 1924 - 1925 by H.H.S. Phillips and T. Kennard Thomson proposing a tunnel to create a 'great thoroughfare' along 39th St. at the intersection of 5th Ave. in Manhattan. They were part of a wider effort by Thomson and other urban planners to alleviate congestion in Midtown Manhattan at the time. (more details)
Relieving congestion Midtown.
5th Ave. and 42nd St. Problem.
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This is a 1916 - 1917 set of manuscript proposed plans by renowned urban planner T. Kennard Thomson to alleviate congestion at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, Manhattan. The plans were developed for the 5th Avenue Association and Save New York, an organization that at this very time was championing some of the earliest urban zoning laws in the United States. (more details)
Height of the China Trade.
East India Archipelago (Western Route to China Chart no. 6).
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This is James Imray's impressive 1870 nautical map covering southeastern China in the vicinity of Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, southern Taiwan, and the northern Philippines (Luzon and Mindanao). This chart, and the others in the 'Western Route to China' series, supplemented the Horsburgh cartography of the prior generation. They represent the definitive hydrographic mapping of the Far East at the height of the China Trade. (more details)
Colonial Modernity: Minerals and Empire.
臺灣地質鑛產地圖 / [Geological Map of Taiwan (Formosa)].
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This is a rare bilingual geological 1926 wall map of Taiwan produced by the Government-General of Taiwan, showing the distribution of minerals in the Japanese colony. (more details)
Transylvania after the Great Turkish War.
Nova Transilvaniae Principatus Tabula. Novissima descriptia editia Per R. et I. Ottens. Amstelodami Cum Priviligeo.
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This is Josue and Renier Ottens / Danckerts c. 1725 map of Transylvania. The map was published in the wake of the Great Turkish War (1683 - 1699) during a period of German migration into Transylvania and the Banat. (more details)
Best English Wall Map of Asia of the 18th Century.
Asia and its Islands According to d'Anville; Divided into Empires, Kingdoms, States, Regions, and ca. with the European possessions and settlements in the East Indies and an exact delineation of all the discoveries made in the eastern parts by the English under Capt. Cook.
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A monumental 1794 wall map of Asia by Laurie and Whittle. Following the cartography of French mapmaker Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, this is the best general map of Asia to be issued by a British cartographer in the 18th century. (more details)
John Hancock and the Boston Tea Party.
Map of New England.
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This is an 1847 Ensigns and Thayer map of New England: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. (more details)
Safeguarding Saudi Arabia's Main Oil Port.
Tactical Commanders' Terrain Analysis Ras Tanura Area Terrain Analysis Map AP-1-380-46-65-INT. TacCTA Ras Tanura Saudi Arabia.
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This is a 1965 Tactical Commanders' Terrain Analysis (TacCTA) map of Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, prepared by the Army Map Service for the Defense Intelligence Agency. The area is home to a large Saudi Aramco oil refinery and port, the main avenue for Saudi Arabia's oil exports, and the map would have been vital for any military operation that might take place there. (more details)
Signed proof of Rummell's view of Yale.
Yale University.
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A scarce 1906 proof printing of the first-edition bird's-eye view of Yale University, drawn by Richard Rummell and signed by the same in pencil in the lower right corner. It was published by F. D. Nichols of Boston. This is not only Rummell's first university view, it is the first printing of such - copyrighted to Nichols and printed by Elson, thus predating Rummell's contract with Littig. (more details)