Featured Maps
Go ye into all the World and preach the Gospel to every creature...
after 1902
A monumental missionary map of the world, colour-coded to show the diaspora of religious denominations: Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek and Eastern [Churches], Jews, Mohammedans, and Heathens. The whole interpolated with religious epithets, quotes f...
Colour of an Old City: A Map of Boston Decorative and Historical
1926
Houghton Mifflin’ first pictorial map and Clark and Olsen’s first joint venture, which they began in September of 1925: “spending six months of ‘exhaustive study and incessant sketching’, with much research taking place in...
You've Only Got to Choose Your Bus
1920
Created for the London General Omnibus Company, Gill's map, centred on Reigate, of the bus routes in the area between Epsom and Horley, north to south, and Godstone to Effingham, east to west, is illustrated in the same medieval modernist manner as...
Digital Deli Map of Personal Computer America
1984
Meyerowitz's original manuscript map, for the illustration commissioned by the Workman Publishing Company, as both a promotional poster for, and published in, their book ‘Digital Deli: The Comprehensive, User-Lovable Menu of Computer Lore, Cul...
Southern Pacific Lines follow the trails blazed by the pioneers
1928
An uncommon and visually appealing map poster "done in the old style" with decorative galleons and sea monsters and an elaborate compass rose. Southern Pacific's Shasta Route, Overland Route, Golden State Route and Sunset Route are marked, &q...
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 represen...
Carte du Theatre de la Guerre entre les Anglais et les Americains
1777
An important French map of the north American colonies at the beginning of the American Revolution, based on Jefferys' map. Separately published, it is an early issue, not noting Saratoga, nor the location of Burgoyne’s surrender to the American ar...
Globo Terrestre Delineato Sulle Ultime Osservazioni Con...
1792
A beautiful, complete set of gores for the construction of Giovanni Maria Cassin i's 1792 terrestrial and celestial globe pair, including the calottes and printed matter for the horizon and meridian rings. The gores are paired in four bordered sh...
A Map of the State of Vermont
1798
As a map of Vermont, Allen’s has at least two curious features, one glaring, the other all-but hidden. The first is the coverage: Allen’s map takes in not just the state, but almost all northern New England, Northeaster New York and a large sw...
Isola di Madagascar
1697
Typical of Coronelli's meticulously researched work, this chart of Madagascar, with the adjacant coast of Mozambique, and the charts in-between provides an detailed catalogue of the are. The interior of Madagascar has been divided into administrative re...