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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 Turkish War of Independence (1919 - 1923), conducted between roughly 1921 - 1922. As such, it is a...

    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 Most likely this is the original art for an unpublished educational poster, as is exhibits a professional level of execution.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 map is based upon the rare 1715 first edition of Nicolas De Fer's map of the southern part of North Am...

  1886 (dated)     Description A rare and highly unusual 1886 bird's-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 convergence near the old ferry terminal, Bar Harbor's two main commercial arteries (then, as now), Main S...

  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 Godsell's final year as State Engineer and Surveyor, and indeed the final year of his life. New York RailroadsThe railroad system came to New York early, with some companies operating as early as the 1820s. Nonetheless, most of these focus...

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 MapThe recto features a detailed map of Kathmandu - revealing just how small the city remained in 1970...