An unusually beautiful pictorial advertising map, by a leading French poster designer specializing in cartographic images. This vivid pictorial world map represents numerous flight routes from France to North America, South America, Europe, Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East, and even Iceland. Imaginative illustrations are distributed across land and.....
A large and lively pictorial map for the education of children, presenting the ethnic and religious diversity of America's population, filled with illustrations of the inhabitants, products, etc. of the diverse regions of the United States, described by Stephen Hornsby as “one of the most striking maps of the era.” .....
MacDonald Gill’s iconic and foundational pictorial map of London and its underground railways. This is the third of three states of this map, indicated by the greyhound in the upper-left, located in the triangle of land above the sign reading "On to Wembley." Houses appear in the same triangle in.....
A rare “serio-comic” map of Europe in 1914 with warring nations represented as dogs and other countries represented as caricatured soldiers displaying their attitudes toward the war. Issued shortly after the French and British forces stopped Germany’s advance at the Battle of Mons on 23 August 1914, this map represents.....
A graphically appealing and richly detailed pictorial map of Bermuda created by three women based in Boston. Promoting tourism and highlighting Bermuda history and recreation, this colorful map shows the entirety of the island and the surrounding ocean waters and adjacent islands, its border replete with sea creatures. Numerous whimsical.....
An American edition of Friedrich Strass’s Strom der Zeiten, an extraordinary chart depicting history as a great system of streams and lakes. . Colton’s version of Strass’s influential chart was first published in 1842. The edition offered here is updated to 1846, which witnessed the outbreak of the Mexican–American War.....