Featured Maps
"Meddo" Sea Chart-Marshall Islands
c1920
This ‘Meddo’ sea chart from the Marshall Islands, where navigation was, and still is, an essential survival skill, was a closely guarded secret and only passed on within a small number of families. In order to memorise the main navigationa...
More or Less Inaccurate Map of Taos, N.M.
c1940
A humorous map of the Taos region by a well-known artist of the Taos School, Ward Lockwood. Included is the area from Rancho de Taos to the Taos Pueblo. The title notes that the map is the “Guide to the Land of Manana in a Stat...
Trans-Mar de Cortes Route map
c1955
Pictorial Route guide for an airline that has disappeared without a trace. The map side shows the airline’s routes in Sonora and Baja California. Using “luxurious” DC-3s, Trans Mar de Cortes flew from Tijuana and Juarez to...
Edo
c1840
A beautiful woodblock map of Tokyo from the golden age of Japanese woodblock map printing. Combining the elements of traditional Japanese map-making: rice paper, woodblock printing, delicate application of colour, the inclusion of topographical views in...
West Africa
1949
Very nice pictorial showing the routes of the ships and then local scenes peculiar each country. Also, there are the flags of the various then-colonial powers.Holland West-Africa Lijn was a joint service operated by Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart-Maat...
Plan de la Baie de Monterey
1797
First edition of La Perouse's plan of Monterey Bay, the earliest obtainable map of the region.During his round the world voyage, La Perouse coasted southward along the California coast in 1786, passing San Francisco on September 10, and arriving in Monterrey on September 13, where ...
British Commonwealth
c1942
Rare separately issued pictorial map of the world, published during World War II by the British Information Services.At the bottom, the map presents a pictorial image of the resources, agriculture and manufacturing specialties throughout the Britis...
Pan Am. On the Routes of the Flying Clipper Ships
1949
Pictorial map of North and South America. Covers from San Francisco to south of Buenos Aires. showing the routes of Pan American Airways "Flying Clipper Ship" routes, a commercial airline service in operation from 1931 to 1946. The fl...
Dai Nihon Dochu Saikenzu (Japan)
1882
Large color-printed engraved map of Japan on three sheets joined. 14x57 inches overall, folding into original self-wrappers with printed paper label; covers a bit worn, map excellent. A fine Meiji map of Japan profusely illustrated with over 70...
Manuscript pictorial map archive
2002-16
Nearly half of the 215 maps in this archive illustrate the Americas, from the northernmost reaches of the Arctic Circle to the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. Africa and Asia are also very well repres...
