Featured Maps
The San Diego Exposition / 1915 Panama-California Exposition 1915
1912
Published also as a post card by Eno & Matteson of San Diego, in November of 1913. Townsend Brown’s view represents an early design for the Goodhue - Allen vision of the exposition after the resignation of the Olmsted first in mid-1911.In spite of intens...
The 'Ratzen Plan' of the City of New York
1769
This very rare first state of the 'Ratzen Plan' is one of the most important eighteenth-century maps of New York City. Prepared by Bernard Ratzer a decade prior to the start of the American Revolution, the map is by far the most accurate pu...
Historic and Scenic Reaches of the Nation's Capital
1838
A fine colour printed map of the northeast of the United States. Published for 'The National Geographic Magazine', and showing D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, southern New Jersey, southern Pennsylvania, with their counties, state capitals, ci...
Map of Lancaster County with Pennsylvania Dutch and Historic Interest
1949
Comprehensive tourist map all of Lancaster County, awaiting copyright, and possibly one of very few examples printed. Only two institutional examples known, at the Library of Congress and Pennsylvania State Archives.
London Underground Advertising Poster - "In the Heat of the Summer you will find me cool.."
1922
Set against a black background is a central pictorial map, similar in decorative style and comic content to Gill's original "Wonderground" map of 1914, which shows central London from Docklands & Whitechapel in the East to Barnes Br...
Carta Esferica le las Costas y Golfo de California....hasta el Puerto de S. Diego
1825
Rare large scale map of Baja California, prepared for the Mexican Government shortly after its Independence from Spain.The map is dedicated to Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of the Mexican Republic. In addition to all of Baja California, the...
South Africa
1958
A dramatic map of South Africa at a time when it was “The Union of South Africa" and included the former German colony of Southwest Africa. Also published in the same year in a smaller version, this example was printed in The Netherlan...
A Pictorial Map of the British Isles
1935
First edition, printed without colour. “Riding the wave of public interest, Chase began a side business turning out pictorial maps of Europe and North America. By the mid-1940s, he had designed enough maps to fill his own mail-order catalog,...
“The Palm of God’s Hand” - A Map of the Coachella Valley
1950
An attractive and privately published map of the Coachella Valley, known as “The Palm of God’s Hand”, and in Spanish as “La Palma de la Mano de Dios”. D’Ambly was a resident artist of Indio, California, specializing in...
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...
