Featured Maps
Complete Map of Vermont Showing Highways and Natural Features
1902
This is a striking, large and colorful antique case map of Vermont, published right at the turn of the 20th century in 1902.As noted in the title, the map presents the state with abundant detail regarding its highways, natural features, cities, villages,...
Fun Map of New Zealand
1940
Pictorial map of New Zealand designed for the tourist trade. Inset shows internal railways and external sea and air routes. Whimiscal vignettes dot the map. The verso has a varierty of useful information for the tourist, including&nbs...
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...
Map Showing the Overland and Overseas Flights of Charles A. Lindbergh
1928
This is a pictorial celebrating Lindbergh's Transatlantic flight. It traces Lindbergh's flying career from his 1923 first solo flight at Americus, Georgia, to the delivery of his now world-renowned airplane The Spirit of St. Louis to the Smit...
East Africa Land of Sunshine (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika)
1949
Nice vintage pictorial map of British east Africa in 1949. Today the map would ecompass Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Ragbrai XIV
1986
Carolyn Blattel-Britton was a local Iowa artist. This pictorial map was done for the XIV running of the Ragbrai Bicycle cross-country race*. The race covers over 400 mile from Mineola to Muscatine and the artist shows many of the small towns and local si...
Northwest Orient Airlines System Map
c1955-59
2 x 37 inch silkscreen pictorial showing the airlines' routes, current and projected. At the time, a direct flight to Moscow may have been wishful...or hopeful.. thinking. Vibrant color
Historical Fun Map of New Zealand
c1938
This charming pictorial map of New Zealand packs in nearly 600 years of history. Over 50 historical events and facts are illustrated throughout the map with captions. A short description of each event is on verso. Also on verso is space for a mailing add...
Map of San Diego's Oil Field
1920
A little gem of a map showing supposed oil drilling operations in the La Jolla, Pacific Beach, Clairemont, and Bay Park neighborhoods of San Diego, published for M. Hall Investment Co. in 1920.The map's purpose is embodied in a tag line under the...
A New Mapp of the Whole World
1738
The map describes the world in two hemispheres, with two smaller pairs of hemispheres above and below, showing the heavens and the polar regions respectively. This design reflects the world maps published by Gerard Valk at the end of the seventeenth c...
