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

Depicted here with exceptionally fine color is Wolf Point, a seminal area in the Chicago's development, where its earliest hotel, taverns, theatre and other buildings of note were located.  The area is shown as it was in 1833, the year the city was first organized.  Wolf Point is located at..... More about Wolf's Point in 1833

            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

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

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..... More about Eur: VIII Tab:

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..... More about Washington The Beautiful Capital Of The Nation

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..... More about Railway And Highway Map of the Famous Berkshire Hills Region, Showing Villages And Also Points Of...