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A Cartograph of California's Picturesque Peninsula
1938-39
Ruth Taylor [White]; c1938-39Publisher unknown, but likely printed in San Francisco18 x12 color-press map, originally folding with verso containing information and coversFull title is: “A Cartograph of California’s Picturesque Peninsula...
The San Zeno Astrolabe
c.1455
The San Zeno Astrolabe[Verona, cloister of San Zeno c.1455]Ink and polychromy on wood and vellum.A unique calendar, approx 4 feet in diameter, and the only object of its type to have survived from the Middle Ages.Wall mounted and hanging for over three...
A New Map of the Gold Region in California
1851
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND RAREST MAPS OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. "This map...because of its large scale [about 20 miles to the inch] and clear markings in colors of the different counties, is one of the most satisfactor...
Geographiae opus novissima traductione a Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum
1513
A map from the folio atlas by Martin Waldeseemuller and based on the work of Claudis Ptolemy, two parts in one volume, including the supplement of modern maps, with final blank, three woodcut diagrams in text, 47 woodcut maps, 45 double-page, th...
The Wonderground Map of London Town
1914 (1915)
The 1914(1915) retail edition of Macdonald Gill's much-renowned, delightfully personal, playfully anarchic and idiosyncratically comic vision of London which had first appeared in poster format in Underground stations across London just a fe...
Leo Belgicus. Ampliss. ac Prudentiss D.D. Praetori, Consulibus Totique Senatui Reip... 1665
1665
Leo Belgicus. Ampliss. ac Prudentiss D.D. Praetori, Consulibus Totique Senatui Reip... 1665.GERRITSZ, HesselAmsterdam, Hugo Allard, 1665.Engraved map, contemporary outline hand-colour. 430 by 555mm. (17 by 21.75 inches).Sixth state of the first plate, with Allar...
The Unique Map of California
ca 1888
Unique variant of Johnstone's rare decorative promotional map of California. This map was published by the Southern Pacific Railroad and the State Board of Trade of California as a promotional item for prospective immigrants."The Unique Map of Ca...
