A most attractive map of southern Bavaria, from the very first edition of the first modern atlas.   The map focuses on the region just north of the Bavarian Alps from Augsburg to Salzburg, along the dividing line between upper and lower Bavaria. In addition to..... More about Tipus Vindeliciae Sive utruiusque, Bavariae, Secundum…

Rare, separately published, richly engraved plan of Antwerp--home of the famed mapmaker Ortelius and Europe’s first great center of trade. This beautifully composed engraving has at its center a detailed plan of Antwerp and its surroundings, with an inset map of the Flemish-Dutch border along the Schelde River. The borders..... More about Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii… C.J. Visscher Excudebat

A remarkable document for New York City and State infrastructure--a map of the construction plan of the New Croton Aqueduct, built between 1885 and 1890.  It was the city's second aqueduct, which was necessitated by the inadequacy of the Old Croton Aqueduct, which opened in 1842. We have not found... More about The Aqueduct Commission Sheet No. 2 ½ Map and Profile of the Route of the New Aqueduct from...

An elegantly engraved plan of the fortifications of the Belgian city of Ath, shown at the time of the Spanish War of Succession. An attractively engraved cartouche encloses the names of various numbered bastions, castles and other earthwork, and the plan shows the courses of the Eastern and Western Dender... More about Aeth a Strong Frontier Town in Brabant, taken by the Duke of Marlborough in 1706

A beautiful, detailed bird’s eye view of the Saxon city of Magdeburg, printed in the 1572 first issue of Braun & Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first city atlas. The city’s churches are accurately depicted and named, and its medieval defenses – the walls, the moat– are shown as well..... More about Magdeburgum

Attractive woodcut view of the walled town of Cheb (Egra) now a small town near the Czech border with Germany but one of the larger towns in Bohemia in the 15th and 16th centuries. As the Latin title points out, The town had been part of the Holy Roman Empire;... More about Egrana civitas olim de imperio Romanorum, hodie vero regno Bohemiae subiecta

Very rare: only one copy in OCLC of this detailed and attractive bird’s-eye view of Aurora, Illinois, about 36 miles southwest of Chicago. The northern-oriented view portrays Aurora as it was in 1875, just 6 years before the electrification of the city’s streets that would earn the city its nickname..... More about Aurora, Ill. 1875 from Jennings Seminary

            An entertaining, pictoral map of Yellowstone National Park. This extremely rare first state of the map was printed in Mora’s shop in Carmel, California. The 1935 second state, bearing the imprint of J. E. Haynes in whose Yellowstone store it was sold, is itself scarce..... More about Yellowstone

 An attractive, scarce map focusing on St. Augustine, the major Spanish settlement in East Florida.  Seen to the right of the plan of St. Augustine here is a small, fortified area called “Fuerte Negro,” which was Fort Mose, the first legally sanctioned African-American community in what is now the United..... More about Plano della Citta, e Porto di Sant. Agostino