A beautiful, very scarce bird’s-eye view of Chicago, Illinois, published to promote and celebrate the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. It shows the Exposition’s buildings in the foreground in Jackson Park along the shore of Lake Michigan with the rest of the city in the distance. Sailboats, clipper ships, and.....
A beautiful example of this fascinating and desirable 16th century woodcut--Munster’s visual compendium of sea and land monsters. Many of the former were inspired by whale sightings, as is suggested by the several creatures in the image spouting water. Other beasts seem quite familiar, though.....
A beautiful and very rare print, heightened in gold, celebrating American industry, technology, and culture at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, the first modern “world’s fair.” OCLC records just one copy. The print displays, as if in a Baroque cabinet, the fruits of American manufacturing that were showcased during.....
A very attractive example of the true first issue of Mercator’s world map, produced to illustrate Casaubon’s edition of Strabo’s geography of 1587 – the only issue of this map printed prior to Mercator’s death in 1594. It is the only acquirable modern world map.....
Attractive woodcut view of Solothurn, including its churches and famous clock tower. The age, and perhaps the condition of the city’s defenses are attested to by trees sprouting from them in several places. Indeed, the forest seems to press closely against the city. Deer can be seen grazing in the.....
An apparently unrecorded, separately-issued map of Iraq, Kuwait and southwestern Iran, published towards the end of World War I in Constantinople by the important Croatian-Turkish cartographer, Jacques Jacques Pervititch (Jakub Pervitić) (1877-1945). Entirely in French text, the map is beautifully colored and designed, and although its printing is technically a......
The most richly decorative, early map of the island with very attractive hand color of the period. As were most 17th century maps of Bermuda, Blaeu’s was based on Richard Norwood’s 1618 chart, executed in behalf of the Bermuda Company. The map thus includes the parishes and tribes allotted to.....
An excellent example of this early, woodcut world map, rich in the imagery of the Discovery Period with its many sea monsters and surrounding wind heads. The map provides an overview of the known world of the mid-16th century, just after the first great wave of New World discoveries. The.....
A scarce, unusually well-preserved street plan of Atlanta. We found no copies in map market records, and OCLC lists only digital copies, of the 1921 edition. Atlanta is considered to have fully come of age as a major metropolitan area in the 1920s.....
An excellent copy in a contemporary binding of the first edition of an early American atlas with its maps having particularly vibrant coloring of the period. In addition to the atlas's strong concentration on the United States, it also provided thorough coverage of the Caribbean and Latin America; included are.....
A very attractive, scarce plan of Tehran, in both English and Farsi, with over 130 buildings and locations listed and keyed to the map. Vignettes of the city's notable monuments run along the top margin. The plan was based on a hand drawing by Addas Sahab, the most important mapmaker.....
A beautiful examples of one of the finest nautical charts of the Indian Coast in the region including the ports of Surat, Mumbai and Goa. It was produced at the beginning of the long conflict between the British and the Maratha Confederacy over control of western India. The chart includes.....
First edition of this very attractive map, engraved by Gerard Mercator himself, of the ancient geography of Eastern Europe. This region was known in the Roman period as Sarmatia Europae, and it represented the limit of the Roman world’s accurate knowledge of geography to the northeast. The map is particularly.....
A rare and most unusual chart that was clearly only partly finished, affording a rare look at what an 18th-century map in mid process would look like. In relatively complete form on the chart are Block Island, Montauk, Shelter and Gardiner's islands, and some of the coast of Peconic Bay. .....
Although this is labelled a "souvenir model," this scarce work in fact provides an excellent depiction of the entire length of the 51-mile canal, and the raised surface of the map suggests the torturous terrain through which the canal was dug. Maduro published several works relating to the canal, but.....
A very scarce and precise "Aero View" of Washington, DC, as seen from the southeast, self described, not entirely without justification, as "the most remarkable picture map that has ever been made." With a 48-page travel guide to the city illustrating its notable attractions. Referring to a larger version of.....
The complete set of six views (on two sheets), all relating to Boston; very rarely seen complete. These fine engravings of various vistas of Boston are important records of the area prior to as well as just after the beginning of the Revolution. Three of views show Boston itself, from.....
Very rare. One of the Holy Grails of map collecting--the earliest, acquirable map to show America. A very rare untrimmed example; nearly all copies we've seen have had at least some trimming. Suarez notes that the Ruysch was “the first published map made by an actual explorer of the.....
A superb example with original color of the earliest obtainable sea chart to focus on New York Harbor, Long Island Sound and its associated coastlines. It was preceded in this regard only by the extremely rare Roggeveen chart of 1675. However, van Keulen’s chart.....
Large, attractive map of the lovely highlands of Berkshire County, one of the premier cultural-recreational destinations in the United States. Issued as a promotional instrument for the Berkshire Life Insurance Co., the map dates from the early days of the area as a recreational area. It notes the mountain peaks.....
Pair of rare 17th-century French satirical engravings – here in vibrant contemporary hand-color – which treat the theme known as the ‘debat pour la culotte,’ a discussion about who ‘wears the pants’ in a marriage and, by extension, how non-traditional gender roles and authority structures at home broadly affected (and.....
A fine copy of the first separate printing, the offprint issue, of this key work in aeronautical engineering “from the private library of Orville Wright” hand-stamped on the verso of the front wrapper. “Using a glider construction of earlier experimenters, Wilbur and Orville Wright (1871-1948) added motive power to wings.....
An extraordinary volume – previously unrecognized in bibliographic scholarship – which once formed part of the library of George Sandys (1578-1644), the poet, traveler, colonial treasurer of the Virginia Company, and “one of the most important men in the history of Colonial Jamestown” (Grizzard, p. 193), whose English verse translation.....
Very rare first and only edition of an official document providing an insider’s view of 18th-century Catalan trade with Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo and Margarita Island, with information on both “the immense visible riches of the continent of America” (p. 1) and the use of slaves to support Spanish ventures.....
Large, detailed, up-to-date map of the entire theatre of the American Civil War, accompanied by a booklet that provides a day to day history of the war from its beginning to November 30th, 1863. Red circles on the map indicate the sites of engagements. Railroad lines are shown throughout, and...
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