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  1945 (undated)         1 : 2700000 Description This is a bilingual English and German 1945 World War II (WWII) Atlanta Service map of Germany delineating the Allied Occupation Zones after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Germany follows its 1937 borders. The Oder-Neisse Line, the basis for the border between Germany and Poland, is in bold. The four Occupation Zones, administered by the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, are divided and shaded. What was formerly Eastern Germany, is coded in red and white stripes where it was merged with a reconstituted Poland. B...

  1901 (undated)     Description A striking chromolithograph Edwardian Era pictorial plan of London issued in 1901 by Charles Baker and Co. Ltd. Centered on Charing Cross, the map covers from Albert Bridge and Kensington Palace to the London Docks and Southwark Park. It extends south to the Grand Surrey Canal and north to include all of Regents Park and Kings Cross Station. The cartographer combines pictorial elements with axonometrical style mapping in which important buildings are represent from equidistant elevated perspective - similar to the great 1738 Bretez/Turgot Plan of Paris...

  1940 (dated)         1 : 19700000 Description This is a 1940 or Showa 15 Japan Indochina Association map of French Indochina detailing agricultural production. At the time, French Indochina consisted of modern-day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Indochinese cities and villages, such as Hanoi, Haiphong, Saigon, Vientiane, and Phnom Penh, are labeled with either their Vietnamese name or their French name. Geographic locations throughout are labeled in the same manner, either in Vietnamese or French. A table in the lower left corner details different agricultural products, which include...

USSRForPeace-tradeunions-1950 $1,250.00 Title Po Boku SSSR S Pracujícím Lidem Celého Světa - za Mír! / By The Side Of The USSR With The Working People Around The World - For Peace!   1950 (dated)         1 : 35000000 Description Published by the Cultural Promotion Department of the Central Council of Trade Unions of Czechoslovakia in 1950, this persuasive propaganda map of the world promotes the Communist (and Soviet) narrative that the Soviet Union and its Communist allies stood for world peace while the 'war-minded, imperialistic' capitalist countries, led by the U...

Hamarich, the capital of the kingdom of the mythical Christian king Prester John. A Visually Compelling MapOf the early maps of Africa, Münster's is the most entertaining, with its decorative elements such as parrots, an elephant, and a giant Cyclops. The grand ship shown sailing near the Cape of Good Hope does more than decorate: it reinforces the news that those waters were navigable, a reality not reflected in Ptolemy's mapping of the world until scholars began revising the 2nd century geographers' work at the end of the 15th century. By the time atlases such as Ortelius' began entering ...