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Description This is a beautiful 1907 presentation-issue birds-eye view map of the Charles River, Massachusetts by the Boston publisher George H. Walker. Printed in chromolithography, Walkers view covers the winding Charles River from Waltham to Medway and includes Riverside, Newton, Wellesley, South Natick, Dover, Needham, Waban, Dedham, Medfield, Rockville and Highlandville. Several landmarks are also noted, including the Waltham Watch Factory, Mount Feake Cemetery, Norumbega Park, Walker-Gord...

Ankara-tcharitamudurlugu-1924 $7,500.00 Title Ankara Şehir Haritası. / Ankara City Plan. / آنكارا شهير حاريتاسي.   1924 (dated)         1 : 4000 Description This is the first accurate topographical survey of Ankara, modern-day capital of Turkey, published by the T.C. Harita Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Republic General Directorate of Maps) in 1924 (Şevval 1340). The map emerged from military surveys during the...

    1 : 2455000 Description A striking and impressively proportioned cartographic curiosity this is a c. 1920 manuscript map of Florida and the Gulf Littoral as far as Texas. The image is surrounded by front and back-facing images of American Indians. Most likely this is the original art for an unpublished educational poster, as is exhibits a professional level of execution. The map is drawn in ink with color added using what appears to be colored pencil or pastels. Sources - the Map The ma...

  1886 (dated)     Description A rare and highly unusual 1886 birds-eye view of Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine. This view was drawn and published to publicize the rebuilding of the Green Mountain Hotel (following a fire) and the inauguration of the Green Mountain Railroad - here visible at the summit of Cadillac Mountain. The view looks southwest on Bar Harbor from a hypothetical point somewhere above Sheep Porcupine Island. Bar Island appears in the lower right. From a conver...

  1867 (dated)         1 : 1000000 Description A striking, cyan-toned railroad map of New York State issued in 1867 by Jonas Platt Goodsell. The map offers expansive coverage of New York, as well as some of the adjacent states, including all of Vermont, western Massachusetts and Connecticut, and northern Pennsylvania. This map was issued in Godsells final year as State Engineer and Surveyor, and indeed the final year of his life. New York RailroadsThe railroad system came to New...

Description This is an attractive 1970 map of Kathmandu, Nepal, issued by Suresh B. Malla. The map is printed on both sides. The recto details the city of Kathmandu and the verso the Kathmandu Valley. It was designed with the foreign tourist in mind and features a wealth of practical information of use to the traveler - locations of embassies, banks, grocers, hospitals, police, hotels, trekking companies, and more. On the verso, there are advertisements for Royal Nepal Airlines. The City Ma...

RussianChineseFrontier-murray-1861 $575.00 Title Map of Russian and Chinese Frontier Illustrating the Journey of Semenof to the Tian-Shan Mounts. and R. Jaxartes and Golubofs Issyk-kul Expedition.   1861 (dated)         1 : 2112000 Description This is an 1861 John Murray map of Central Asia tracing Pyotr Semyonovs (1827 - 1914) first European ascent into the Tian Shan Mountains. The map depicts the region from Lake Balkash south to the Tian Shan Mountains, encompassing modern-day Kyr...

Antique Maps of Minnesota, North Dakota & South Dakota. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of Minnesota, North Dakota & South Dakota from the 17th to the 19th century.

  1825 (dated)         1 : 1013760 Description An extraordinary 1825 large-scale map of the Empire of Burma, modern-day Myanmar, issued by the Surveyor-General (QMG) and the private Asiatic Lithographic Press in Calcutta/Kolkata at the height of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824 - 1826). Issued in four dissected and linen-backed sheets (18.75 x 39.25 in), the map is impressive, measuring nearly 76 inches high and 40 inches wide. Coverage extends from the Brahmaputra River in norther...

    1 : 9150000 Description This is Gerard Mercators map of the Arabian Peninsula, based on the second-century mapping of Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 - 170), the progenitor of modern geography. Mercator - both an authoritative geographer and a gifted engraver - executed this map for his 1578 Duisberg edition of Ptolemys Geographia, intended to be the definitive edition of that foundational work. Exceeding all Previous WorksPrevious editions, both copperplate and woodcut, had been comparative...