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Earliest acquirable medieval plan of Jerusalem.
[Jerusalem.]
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This rare plan of Jerusalem is the earliest printed iteration of Pietro Vesconte's manuscript plan of the city. While not committed to print until this 1611 edition by Jacques Bongars, the map is the work of the 14th-century Venetian cartographer Vesconte, who produced it c. 1320 to promote Marino Sanudo's proposed crusade to recapture the city. As such, it is one of the earliest surviving plans to support a specific military effort. (more details)
Earliest printing of a Military Portolan of the Eastern Mediterranean.
[Holy Land, Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, Arabia and Mesopotamia.]
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This is the earliest printed iteration of Pietro Vesconte's 1611 portolan map of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Lower Nile, the Arabian Peninsula, and Mesopotamia. While not committed to print until this 1611 edition by Jacques Bongars, the map is the work of the 14th-century Venetian cartographer Vesconte, who produced it c. 1320 to promote Marino Sanudo's proposed crusade. As such, it is one of the earliest surviving maps to support a specific military effort. (more details)
The Mythical Kingdom of Prester John, in a Superb Example with a Bold Strike.
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum sive Presbiteri Joannis Imperium.
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This is the map of the mythical Kingdom of Prester John in eastern Africa, issued by Willem Blaeu in 1635, in a beautiful example. The map covers from the Bight of Benin to the Indian Ocean and from Arabia and the Red Sea to Mozambique. It includes two decorative cartouches, as well as stylized images of African fauna, including elephants, monkeys, and ostriches. While the African coast exhibits considerable advances over earlier maps of the region, the interior of Africa exhibits a cartography primarily based on the literature of antiquity and little changed from the days of Ptolemy, and its primary subject matter is that of legend. (more details)
Grandiose Statement of British Territorial Ambition. - First Map of America to name Philadelphia.
A New Mapp of America Devided According to the Best and latest Observations and Discoveries wherein are discribed by their Proper Names the seaverall Countries that Belonge to ye English which are wholly left out in all French and Dutch maps viz New Scotland, Long Iland, N. York, N. Jarsey, Mary Land, Pensilvania Carrolina etc. by Philip Lea at ye Atlas and Hercules in Cheapside and by J. Overton at the White Horse without Newgat London.
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This is a rare, important, separately issued 1688 English map of America, printed by Philip Lea and John Overton. It was first issued in 1684, explicitly as a rebuttal to French and Dutch maps and their representation of European spheres of influence in North America. It is the first general map of America to name Philadelphia, set in a boldly exaggerated depiction of 'The English Empire' in North America. (more details)
Swiss New Year Broadside promoting geographical sciences.
Geographia: Die Erd Beschreibung.
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This is a rare 1706 Johannes Meyer broadside dedicated to the science of geography, showing allegorical representations of the continents and a globe. It includes a German text describing the purposes of geography as well as briefly describing the four parts of the world: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. (more details)
War for Northern Italy.
Belli Typus in Italia victricis Aquilae progressus in statu Mediolanensi et Ducatu Mantuae demonstrans.
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This is a rare first-state example of Johann Baptist Homann's c. 1707 map of northern Italy, documenting the seesawing battle for the region during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 - 1714). As with several other Homann maps prepared during the war, it proudly champions the Habsburg cause against their French-Bourbon enemies. (more details)
Scarce Wartime Edition of Homann's Map of Southern Central Europe.
Leopoldi Magni Filio Iosepho I. Augusto Romanorum et Hung: Regi Ad capeßendum Rhenanae Militiae Imperium in Castra proficiscenti Hanc Germaniae Austriacae Generalem Tabulam...
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This is a c. 1710 Johann Baptist Homann map of southern Germany, Austria, and environs, produced for his Neuer Atlas. It is essentially wartime propaganda, celebrating the victories of the Habsburgs and their allies in the War of the Spanish Succession and supporting the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I (r. 1705 - 1711). (more details)
Mississippi Bubble and Restructuring of the French Economy.
Afbeeldinge van't zeer vermearde Eiland Geks-Kop.
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An important and charming 1720 satirical allegory map, commonly known as the 'Fools Head' or 'Fools Cap,' intended to illustrate the dangers and pitfalls of 'bubble economies.' After the bursting of the Dot-Com Bubble and the more disastrous United States Housing Bubble (and subsequent sub-prime mortgage crises), most will find the themes of this 18th-century map taunting the speculators in the Mississippi Scheme - poverty, sorrow, and despair - quite familiar. (more details)
Bellicose Depiction of the Turkish Empire.
Imperium Turcicum in Europa, Asia et Africa, Regiones Proprias, Tributarias, Clientelares et Sicut et Omnes Praefecturas Generales exhibens.
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This is a handsome example of the J. B. Homann 1725 map of the Turkish Empire in Europe, Asia and Africa. It shows the extent of the Ottoman Empire encompassing \the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the coastal parts of the empire in North Africa and Egypt. The border with the Persia is shown in the east, along with a considerable part of what is today Iran and Central Asia. The empire's contentious border in Europe, abutting Hungary, Transylvania, and Poland, is also shown. The area north of the Black Sea shows both Tatar territories and those of Muscovy on the Turkish frontier. (more details)
Earliest and most desirable printed map of Taiwan / Formosa.
Kaart van het Eyland Formosa en de Eylanden van Piscadores.
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Printed in 1726 by Francois Valentijn, this is the earliest and most desirable printed map of Formosa (Taiwan). It is considered the first specific printed map of Formosa. (more details)
Biblical wonders of the Sinai.
Abbildung Des H. Bergs Horeb und Seiner Gegend.
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This is a rare 1732 Joseph Stocklein depiction of Mount Horeb, (identifying it as Mount Sinai) Mount Saint Catherine, and a third mountain labeled 'Strasberg'. The stylized mountains are set in a dramatically foreshortened bird's eye view of the Holy Land, encompassing not only all of the Sinai Peninsula but also including the land of Canaan and (judging by the prominent Crucifixion) Jerusalem itself. Thus Stocklein's view places the site of Moses' receipt of the Ten Commandments in a markedly Christian framework. The view combines scenes from different stages in Biblical history: Atop Horeb/Sinai, a vignette numbered '7' shows Moses receiving the Commandments (the Ark of the Covenant lies beside him, awaiting the tablets.) Nestled between the mountains are the walled compounds of the Monastery of St. Catharina, built between 548 and 565 CE.
At the far left is a body of water, labeled as the Red Sea. At the top center, not to be mistaken for the sun (which can be seen rising to the right of the view, indicating east) is the radiance-streaming Tetragrammaton, reinforcing the identity of Mount Horeb as the 'Mountain of YHWH.' The view is numbered and lettered, with reference to an absent descriptive text. (more details)
At the far left is a body of water, labeled as the Red Sea. At the top center, not to be mistaken for the sun (which can be seen rising to the right of the view, indicating east) is the radiance-streaming Tetragrammaton, reinforcing the identity of Mount Horeb as the 'Mountain of YHWH.' The view is numbered and lettered, with reference to an absent descriptive text. (more details)
Britannia Propositions Persia With Intercourse.
Britannia and Persia.
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This attractive, charming engraving was the frontispiece to Jonas Hanway's An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea an account of his journey from Russia to Persia and an exhaustive collection of the journals of other travelers to the region. The book supported British efforts to establish trade with the Persian Empire and this frontispiece visually sets the tone of the work. (more details)
French Territorial Claims in North America.
Carte d'une partie de l'Amérique Septentrionale, pour servir à l'histoire de la dernière guerre.
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This is Louis Le Rouge's 1755/1787 map of the British Colonies in North America, surrounded by French territorial claims as they stood at the beginning of the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763). While the present state was published just after the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783), it was composed and first printed in 1755, and was edited in 1777 to provide a record of the earlier conflict. Hence, its focus is on the battles of the earlier conflict and the extensive inclusion of Native American tribes and settlements. (more details)
Satire and Suppression.
Tipe de la religion. Estampe, du tableau trouvé dans l'église, des ci-devant soi-disans-Jésuites de Billom en Auvergne, l’an 1762. voyez le compte-rendu aux chambres assemblées des collèges de Clermont-Ferrand et Billon le 15 juillet 1763.
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This extraordinary 1763 engraving emerged from one of the great religious and political controversies of 18th-century France. It reproduces the notorious Tableau de la Religion, a monumental allegorical painting discovered at the Jesuit college in Billom and subsequently seized upon as evidence during the campaign to suppress the Society of Jesus. At its center, an immense Jesuit galleon sails triumphantly toward salvation while popes, kings, Catholics, heretics, sinners, and demons struggle through the surrounding waters. In a remarkable reversal of meaning, an image apparently created to glorify Jesuit spirituality was transformed by the Society's enemies into propaganda against it - purported visual proof of Jesuit arrogance, ambition, and claims to spiritual supremacy. (more details)
French Edition of the First Map of New South Wales.
Carte de La Nle. Galles Meridle. Ou de la Cote Orientale de la Nle. Hollande Decouverte et visitee par le Lieutenant J. Cook, Commandant de L'Endeavour, vaisseau de sa Majeste en 1770.
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This is the 1774 first French edition of James Cook's seminal first map of New South Wales, Australia. The map is a product of Cook's search for the often speculated upon southern continent or 'Terra Australis,' which scholars from the 16th century on believed, based upon ancient Greek texts, must exist at the base of the world. This map is significant for Australia collectors as the first definitive mapping of the coasts of New South Wales. (more details)
Early American Political Satire: In the wake of the Boston Tea Party.
Liberty Triumphant; or The Downfall of Oppression.
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An iconic 1774 American political cartoon by Henry Dawkins lampooning the Tax Act and the Boston Tea Party. This is likely the most important political cartoon issued in the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). It was published after the Tea Party but before the Intolerable Acts. The image is innovative in its use of cartographic imagery, larger-than-life representations of key political figures, and use of allegory. Moreover, it stands out for its remarkable encapsulation of the complex pre-Revolution political environment. (more details)
Revolutionaries Pull Down the Statue of George III, as Imagined by a Monarchist.
La Destruction de la Statue Royale a Nouvelle Yorck.
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This is Franz Xaver Habermann's engraving, showing his conception of the unrest gripping the city of New York following the reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776 and the onset of the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). The view refers to a historical event: The reading of the Declaration so emboldened the patriotic crowd that they tore down the statue of King George III, decapitated it, broke it into pieces - and shipped the remains to Connecticut, where the 4000 pounds of lead were melted down to cast 40,000 bullets, to be used against the British. (The head was set on a pike outside of Moore’s Tavern near Fort Washington, but was rescued by loyalists - including British officer, military engineer and mapmaker John Montresor - and eventually sent back to England.) New Yorkers never did like the statue: in 1773 an anti-graffiti, anti-desecration law was enacted in the city expressly to protect the statue from the abuse it regularly received. (more details)
Pioneering submarine geography.
Planisphere Physique.
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A striking 1781 Philippe Buache map of the world, presented on an unusual polar projection rendered from the North Pole. This is the first work to attempt to map the ocean floor - a revolutionary work connecting submarine with surface geography. Although Buache's geography was speculative at best, the work is a landmark achievement in its attempt to illustrate and scientifically assess the unknowable oceanic depths. (more details)
Scatological map of England and France.
A new Map of England and France. / The French Invasion; or John Bull, bombarding the Bum-Boats.
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A wonderful example of the 1851 George Bohn restrike of James Gillray's 1793 satirical caricature map of England expelling itself on France. (more details)
Satirizing the Sans-culottes.
A View in Perspective / The Zenith of French Glory; The Pinnacle of Liberty. Religion, Justice, Loyalty and all the Bugbears of Unenlighten'd Minds, Farewell!
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This is a 1851 George Bohn restrike of a 1793 James Gillray satirical, scatological print dealing with the French Revolution. Characteristically unsparing in his caricatures, Gillray's depiction is, like its subject, irreverent, shocking, and disturbing. (more details)
'The Modern Beheading Machine.'
Massacre of the French King! View of La Guillotine; or the Modern Beheading Machine, at Paris.
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This is a 1793 William Lane broadside decrying the execution the French King Louis XVI while at the same time extolling the terrible industrial modernism of the guillotine itself. The author is justly horrified by the violence of the 'Reign of Terror' but at the same time macabrely fascinated with modern industrial efficiency of the 'killing machine.' (more details)
Gillray's Irreverent Take on Amiens and Addington.
Evacuation of Malta.
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This is a 1851 George Bohn restrike of an 1803 James Gillray satirical print dealing with an Anglo-French dispute over the island of Malta. Britain reluctantly agreed to remove its troops and ships from the island according to the March 1802 Treaty of Amiens. However, as relations broke down over the following months, Malta became a rallying cry for British resistance, eventually leading to the War of the Third Coalition. (more details)
Teaching virtue and vice.
The New Game of Emulation...
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This is a curious 1804 game board published by John Harris in London. It is a characteristic game-of-goose model didactic game of the Georgian Era, designed to instill in children an 'abhorrence of vice and a love of virtue.' (more details)
Earliest obtainable example of the influential Goerck-Mangin Plan of New York City - published while it was still relevant.
PLAN of the CITY OF NEW-YORK, with the recent and intended Improvements. New York, 1807.
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This important 1807 map of lower Manhattan, New York City, published by Isaac Riley, William Bridges, and Peter Maverick, is a most unusual piece with a confused and complex history. It predates the 1811 Commissioner's Plan, thus representing the definitive plan of New York City at the time of publication and exerting a profound influence on the developing street grid of Lower Manhattan. It is the earliest obtainable example of one of the most important founding cartographic documents relating to the development of New York's street grid - the Mangin-Goerck map. (more details)
Uniquely British Cheap Print: Earliest printed representation of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Vitoria.
Field Marshal the Marquis of Wellington's Victory of Vittoria.
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The only known surviving example of this large-format woodcut 'cheap print' issued by George Thompson in 1813, celebrating the Duke of Wellington's stunning triumph over French forces at the Battle of Vitoria (June 21, 1813), a decisive battle in the years-long Peninsular War (1808 - 1814). It is likely the earliest printed representation of the battle, being a news-as-it-happened publication. The victory helped to solidify Wellington's stature as the ablest British commander of land forces, earning him the rank of field marshal and later the title of Duke. The 'cheap print' is a uniquely British form of graphic news publishing issued for distribution among the uneducated but engaged populace. (more details)
Je reviendrai.
Retour de l'ile d'Elbe, il ramene la liberté!
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A stinging satire of Napoleon's Hundred Days, following his escape from Elba in 1815, produced by the printer Genty in Paris. It is a fine example of the genre of Napoleon satires that emerged at the time, reflecting the incredulity and anger of a war-weary European public. (more details)
Seeds of Rebellion.
A New Map of India from the latest authority.
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A symbolically rich and ferocious satirical attack on the East India Company (EIC) and British policies in India. This caricature was drawn by Thomas Rowlandson in 1815 for the book The Grand Master, or, Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos, published by Thomas Tegg the following year. (more details)
Uncommon allgorical broadside with a Masonic theme.
Keep Within Compass and you Shall Be Sure, To Escape Many Troubles that Others Endure.
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An unusual and rare c. 1820 William Darton masonic allegorical broadside intended to promote the masonic virtues of self-restraint and balance. Unlike most allegorical educational broadsides of the period that illustrate both men and women, this production by ... (more details)
A Landmark Case for Animal Rights.
The Trial of 'Bill Burn,' Under Martin's Act.
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A scarce c. 1840 satirical print dealing with the 1822 trial of Bill Burns that was engraved by Charles Hunt, overseen by Ackermann and Co., and published by P. Mathews in Stourbridge. The Burns case was the first to be tried after the passage of Martin's Act (Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act), a landmark law against animal cruelty. (more details)
Decrying the Revolutions of 1848 in Italy. Or Just The Disorganization?
La Torre di Babilonia. Almanacco per l'Anno 1849.
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This is a c. 1848 Italian satirical broadside decrying the chaos of the 1848 People's Revolutions in Italy. The evocative political propaganda piece combines a woodcut image, a poetic description of said image, and an almanac for 1849. It is an excellent example of 19th-century Italian political ephemera. (more details)
Second published map of Iowa City.
Iowa City and its Environs.
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This rare 1854 J. H. Millar map of Iowa City - considered the second published map of the city - offers an extraordinary portrait of Iowa's first state capital during a period of rapid growth, real estate speculation, and suburban development. Twelve surrounding vignette views by celebrated Iowa artist George Henry Yewell depict churches, civic institutions, prominent residences, Clinton Street, and the State House, making this scarce map an exceptional visual record of mid-19th-century Iowa City. (more details)
The Great Republic, Imperiled.
The Presidents of our Great Republic.
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A c. 1861 lithographed broadside published by Charles Magnus celebrating the 16 presidents of the United States from Washington to Lincoln. (more details)
Published eight months into the American Civil War!
The United States in Black and White. / Major General Butler's Expedition.
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Presented here is the full December 17, 1861 edition of The New York Herald published eight months into the American Civil War. This edition features two maps: a front-page map of the United States that highlighting the Confederacy and a map of the Gulf Coast of Mississippi detailing Major General Benjamin Butler's landing on Ship Island. Ship Island, located twelve miles off the coast of Mississippi in the Gulf of Mexico, provided the Union Army with a base of operations in the Gulf. It also allowed the Union some flexibility, in that they could theoretically launch attacks against Texas or New Orleans from Ship Island, which caused the Confederacy significant anxiety. (more details)
Naval Battle at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
Brilliant Naval Victory on the Mississippi River, near Fort Wright, May 10, 1862.
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A rare American Civil War naval combat scene. This is an 1862 Currier and Ives view of the American Civil War naval battle of Plum Point Bend (also known as Battle of Fort Pillow), fought on the Mississippi River in Tennessee. The view illustrates the close-quarters fighting between Confederate and Federal ironclads. The Federal ironclads Cincinnati, Cairo, Benton, St. Louis, and Carondelet occupy the foreground. Multiple vessels are sinking or on fire such that the chaos of battle is almost palpable. (more details)
Locations of the Union 'Anaconda' blockade of the Confederacy.
Map of the Southern States, Including Rail Roads, County Towns, State Capitals, County Roads, the Southern Coast from Delaware to Texas Showing the Harbors, Inlets, Forts and Position of Blockading Ships.
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This is an 1862 map of the Southern United States during the American Civil War published as a supplement to the pro-Union Cincinnati Dollar Weekly Times. Significantly, the map illustrates the specific locations of Union ships blockading the Confederate coast - a naval strangulation strategy known as the Anaconda Plan. (more details)
Commemorating service during the American Civil War.
Invincibles. Company C. 32d Regiment, Ohio Infantry.
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This is a c. 1862 American Civil War broadside roster for Company C, 32nd Regiment, Ohio Infantry. It is a scarce memorial of the company's service published as a memento for surviving soldiers. Few such records for any unit survive. (more details)
One of the most beautiful, important, and enduring maps of Manhattan ever published.
Sanitary and Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York Prepared for the Council of Hygine and Public Health, of the Citizens' Association.
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This is a beautiful example of Egbert L. Viele's 1865 topography and waterways map of Manhattan, one of the scarcest, most important, and most enduring maps of New York City ever published. Viele's map details the canals, swamps, rivers, ditches, ponds, meadows, and drainage basins of Manhattan as they existed prior to the city's urban development. A version of the Viele map remains in use today by architects and contractors who need to be certain they are not building over underground rivers and swamps that may destabilize a new construction's foundation. (more details)
Solemnly reflecting on the Civil War.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts; By his excellency John A. Andrew, Governor : a proclamation for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer...
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This is a March 1865 broadsheet of a proclamation for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer issued by Governor John Andrew of Massachusetts. It fits within a long tradition of proclamations for fasting and prayer by leading American political figures but was also shaped by the context of the ongoing, and nearly concluded, American Civil War (1861 - 1865). (more details)
A rare broadside promoting M.K. Paine's Green Mountain Balm - a medical miracle!
View of Ascutney Mountain Taken From High Bridge at Claremont, N.H.
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This is an 1868 Milton K. Paine broadside advertising view of Mount Ascutney, Vermont. Ascutney is a monadnock, a type of mountain that rises isolated from surrounding mountains. Paine, a Vermont druggist and apothecary, maintained a shop in Windsor, Vermont, at the base of the mountain. Today, Mount Ascutney is regarded as the best hang-gliding location in the Northeastern United States and also hosts the Ascutney Mountain Resort, first opened in the years after World War II (1939 - 1945). (more details)
'The cat in gloves catches no mice...'
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Poor Richard Illustrated. Lessons for the Young and Old on Industry, Temperance, Frugality and c. by Benjamin Franklin.
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A rare c. 1859 broadside illustrating the wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790). In mid-1800s, Franklin emerged as a near-mythic figure embodying the rags-to-riches dream, as well as the Amercian moral and intellectual values of ingenuity, hard work, thrift, and civic-mindedness. (more details)
Hilarious temperance allegory and broadsheet promoting Walker's Vinegar Bitters.
Dead River Grand Trunk Railway!
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An outrageously amusing c. 1869 temperance flyer in a small folio masquerading as a train schedule for the allegorical 'Dead River Grand Trunk Railroad.' The brochure rails against the twin evils of drunkenness and tobacco smoking while at the same time ... (more details)
Save the giant sequoias!
The Mammoth Trees of California. (Calaveras County.) (Sequoia Gigantea.)
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This is a c. 1870 George K. Stillman view of the giant sequoia trees at Calaveras Grove, Calaveras County, California. The grove depicted here is now part of Calaveras Big Trees State Park, the home to some of the oldest and largest surviving great sequoias. (more details)
The Paris Commune - one year later.
Guet-Apens. / Ambush.
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This is an 1872 André Gill political cartoon map of France after the fall of the Paris Commune. France appears as a gigantic spider's web, with the fly at the center representing the communards, identifiable by the symbolic red Phrygian cap. Four spiders surround the fly, apparently poised for attack. The spider on the top left represents the French government, then the Third Republic, identified by the fleur-de-lis. Proceeding clockwise, the next spider wears the iconic Prussian Pickelhaube, represents Germany and stands astride Alsace and Lorraine, two French provinces that Germany annexed after their victory in the Franco-Prussian War. The spider in the lower right corner represents the exiled French Emperor Napoleon III, who was captured by Prussia during the Franco-Prussian War. The fourth 'spider,' which is, in fact, a pear with spider's legs, represents the Royalists. The pear was the preferred symbol for the 'rotund' Louis-Philippe, the last French king. (more details)
Real Estate on Martha's Vineyard.
PLAN OF LAGOON HEIGHTS, Martha’s Vineyard, MASS.
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A beautiful 1873 promotional map of Lagoon Height, present-day Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The map consists of a detailed street plan with housing lots and parks, as well as wonderful vignettes of exceptionally elegant Victorian era summer homes. Along the left is a dramatic panoramic advertising the spectacular view potential home buyers might enjoy. A promotional imprint at the bottom center directs interested buyers to the attention of J. and W. R. Wing of New Bedford Massachusetts. (more details)
Gilpin's strange climate theories.
Map of North America delineating the Mountain System and its Details, the Great Calcareous Plain as a Unit, and the continuous encircling Maritime Selvage.
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This is an 1873 William Gilpin geological map of North and Central America. This map is the first map from Gilpin's book Mission of the North American People. A beautifully colored map, two different 'systems' are illustrated: the mountain system in detail and the 'Great Calcareous Plain' as a 'unit'. Thus, no division is illustrated between different regions of the 'Great Calcareous Plain', whereas regional differences in the mountains of North America are depicted with color. Several concentric circles are meant to show 'maritime selvage'. Our research did not provide us with a satisfactory explanation of this phrase. (more details)
England as Madman Colossus during the Russo-Turkish War.
Il Colosso di Rodi. Papagallo. No. 41. Anno V.
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An 1877 Italian allegorical image lampooning the British intervention in the Russo-Turkish War (1877 - 1878). It represents regional fear the era’s great hegemonic powers, Britain and Russia, would use the Mediterranean and a theater to play out global imperialist conflicts. (more details)
Railroads in Reconstruction-Era Texas.
Colonists' and Emigrants' Route to Texas.
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A striking 1877 Rand McNally pictorial map of Texas issued to promote the International-Great Northern Railroad (IGNRR). The map follows in the wake of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era (1863 - Mar 31, 1877) and illustrates Texas's efforts to promote emigration. The generally successful drive redefined Texas's cultural landscape and helped stabilize the state's foundering post-war economy. (more details)
A dreaming Russia attacked by Europe.
Il Sogno di Pantagruel.
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This is an 1878 Augusto Grossi political cartoon of Russia as Pantagruel (French literary character and son of a giant) surrounded by nightmarish creatures and hostile figures. (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)
French Catholicism and the Secular State.
Carte allégorique du Vice et de ses Résultats.
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This is a rare c. 1880 broadside allegorical map of Vice made by the French Catholic curate Abbé Faure. The image reflects the tensions facing French Catholicism, which was undergoing a transformation and gradual decline, caught between the legacy of tradition and the emergence of a secular Republican state. (more details)