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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 Golubof's Issyk-kul Expedition.   1861 (dated)         1 : 2112000 Description This is an 1861 John Murray map of Central Asia tracing Pyotr Semyonov's (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 Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and western China - at the time considered one of the most remote and inacces...

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 northern Assam to Domel Island (Letsok-aw Island) and the Mergui Archipelago. Despite its impressive size ...

    1 : 9150000 Description This is Gerard Mercator's 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 Ptolemy's Geographia, intended to be the definitive edition of that foundational work. Exceeding all Previous WorksPrevious editions, both copperplate and woodcut, had been comparatively crude renditions that often omitted detail and were prone to ambiguities. Mercator, produced hi...

  1908 (dated)         1 : 70000 Description A monumental and detailed 1908 Malcolm Phillip Youker map of Sonoma County, California, the heart of California's famed wine country. Depicting the entirety of Sonoma County, individual ranches, farms, and homesteads are delineated throughout. Each is identified by the owner's 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 of Sonoma, Petaluma, Sebastopol, and Santa Rosa are identified. Wine CountryToday, Sonoma County m...