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

            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

  The earliest iteration of the so-called Daniel’s Dream Map, also known as the Wittenberg World Map.  The dream embodied in the map is that of the fifth century B. C. prophet Daniel, who envisioned the fate of history’s great empires as personified by various beasts depicted on the map. ..... More about Untitled Woodcut World Map

An uncommonly striking, very rare, chromolithographed advertising poster, one of the finest we've of this type we've seen.   No other examples of this work appear in either market records or institutional collections. The work presents an arresting aerial view of New York City and of the lower Hudson River up..... More about THE HUDSON RIVER from POUGHKEEPSIE TO NEW YORK

This beautiful and vibrant view captures the essence of mid-19th century New York as a bustling hub of maritime trade. The variety of ships depicted – ranging from simple river fishing sloops to state-of-the-art steam packets – emphasizes the many facets of the sea’s importance to the city. By the..... More about New York, New York

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..... More about “The Dream City,” The World’s Columbian Exhibition

            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..... More about Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio

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...... More about Irak

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..... More about La Figure du Monde Universel

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..... More about TEHRAN