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  1908 (dated)         1 : 70000 Description A monumental and detailed 1908 Malcolm Phillip Youker map of Sonoma County, California, the heart of Californias famed wine country. Depicting the entirety of Sonoma County, individual ranches, farms, and homesteads are delineated throughout. Each is identified by the owners last name and acreage owned. Other land tracts, such as those owned by the Empire Redwood Company or the Bender Mill and Lumber Company, are labeled as such. The towns ...

  1911 (dated)         1 : 9000000 Description A striking and rare discovery - this is a 1911 Waterlow and Company chromolithograph promotional broadside issued to promote the Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR), Asias first and greatest railroad. Boldly promoting the GIPRs expansive sub-continent wide rail network, this map was designed for display in railroad stations throughout India. The map covers the entire subcontinent, with GIPR trunk lines highlighted in red and subsidia...

Title Coltons Plans of U.S. Harbors Showing the Position and Vicinities of the Most Important Fortifications on the Sea-Board and in the Interior.   1862 (dated)     Description This is a separate issue 1862 J. H. Colton map of the United States focusing on its many harbors and their fortifications during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). Twenty-one plans are printed on a single sheet. Colton highlights the most important ports in both the Union and the Confederacy. Maps highlight Ne...

  1799 (undated)         1 : 1058201 Description This is the 1799 French edition of George Vancouvers 1799 nautical map of the region around Vancouver Island, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the mouth of the Columbia River, and Queen Charlotte Sound, extending from Cape Lookout (in modern-day Oregon) to Cape Swaine (Alaska). It is considered to be the great navigator George Vancouvers most important and influential map, among those he produced in his foundational reconnaissance of the nor...

  1654 (undated)         1 : 70000 Description This is a classic 17th-century map Dutch of Bermuda, printed by Jan Jansson in 1654 and here in an original color example from the collection of the illustrious map collector, dealer, and scholar Kenneth Nebenzahl. Actually engraved by Janssons brother-in-law Henricus Hondius, this map was based on Richard Norwood’s chart produced in 1618 for the Bermuda Company. Norwoods chart provides the primary depiction of the island available for ...

    1 : 25000 Description An extremely rare find of considerable historical significance, this is a 1912 Italian military map of Benghazi (Bengasi), Libya, during the Italo-Turkish War (1911 - 1912). Benghazi was one of the Lybian first cities occupied by the Italian army, along with Tripoli, Tobruk, and Derna. The city itself appears on the left side of the map, with city streets and blocks recognizable. Roads and railroads are also depicted, along with smaller settlements scattered along ...

MiddleStates-lauriewhittle-1794 $2,250.00 Title A New and General Map of the Middle Dominions Belonging to the United States of America, viz. Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware-Counties, Pennsylvania, New Jersey etc…   1794 (dated)         1 : 2300000 Description This is the Laurie and Whittle 1794 updated edition of Lewis Evans foundational 1755 map of the middle part of the British Colonies in North America. Evans map was the earliest to accurately detail the American frontier a...

Antique Maps of the United States. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of the United States from the colonial era to the 19th century.

Antique Maps of California. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of California from the 16th to the 19th century.

Title NavWarMap No. 1 The Mediterranean. / NavWarMap No. 2 The South China Sea Area. / NavWarMap No. 3 World War 2 in the North Sea Area. / NavWarMap No. 4 The North Pacific Area. / NavWarMap No. 5. Southwest Pacific. / NavWarMap No. 6 We Fight a Global War.   1944 (dated)     Description This is a full set of all six 1944 Navy Department pictorial maps of the worldwide battlefronts during World War II. The NavWarMap SeriesThe NavWarMap series is a series of six maps created by the Burea...