A rare map showing the procession routes for the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in June of 1911, accompanied by a ticket to the coronation service for a prominent young woman whose affair with the future Prime Minister contributed to her husband’s rise in power. Beneath the.....
A large and handsome carriage-road map representing the extensive network of roads in the city of Hartford, Connecticut and the surrounding area, published during the peak of the carriage era. This highly detailed map shows cities, towns, roads, mills, factories, dwellings and their owner’s names, railroads, rivers, lakes, etc. It.....
![Item #6371 Little Orphan Annie’s Treasure Hunt [cover title]. “Here’s Health.” The...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6371_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1605616975)
A delightful Depression-era board game in the form of a treasure hunt map promoting the Little Orphan Annie radio show and the flavored milk supplement Ovaltine. This fantasy map depicts nine islands, various lands and rocks, vessels, hazards, and a multi-colored course snaking across the map. The players (between one.....
A rare wall map of Burlington, Vermont replete with property information and enhanced with illustrations of the homes of prominent citizens and other notable buildings. This handsome plan of Burlington shows the city as it appeared in 1853, documenting land titles, property lines, and building footprints (shown in hatching). Churches.....
An apparently unrecorded map depicting nineteenth-century expeditions to the African interior and primarily focused on contextualizing the then-ongoing expedition of David Livingstone, who became the subject of international speculation while he was unaccounted for in Africa. This intriguing “Map of Dr. Livingstone’s Travels” highlights the fervor around African exploration that.....
A scarce and appealing map of Lake Hopatcong showing the development, both current and proposed, around this vacation destination for New York city-dwellers. Depicting the lake along the border between Morris and Sussex Counties, this detailed, multi-colored map shows hotels, steamboat landings, elevations of hills, roads, coves, canals, marshes, municipal.....
An unrecorded real estate promotion map for the town of Sedalia, Missouri and vicinity, located at the junction of the Missouri Pacific R.R. and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway, and situated roughly half way between St. Louis and Kansas City. This attractive map depicts Sedalia highlighted in several colors.....
A rare, early, and large map of the first railroad across Missouri, intended to promote the lands granted by the U.S. government to fund its construction. Likely published while the railroad was under construction, this map depicts the Hannibal & St. Joseph in its entirety, extending across the northern part.....
A large promotional map of the short-lived Virginia, Kentucky & Ohio Railroad. In 1878, the Virginia General Assembly chartered the Virginia, Kentucky & Ohio Railroad Co., which was licensed to create a route from Pulaski County, Virginia to the Kentucky rail line through Giles, Bland, Tazewell, and Buchanan Counties. The.....
An apparently unrecorded map of the Solomon, Santa Cruz and New Hebrides Islands, which constituted the “field” of the Melanesian Mission spearheaded by English Bishop John Patteson, who met his end in the region at the hands of native people. This map encompasses three clusters of islands in the South.....
A bilingual map of the city of Shanghai, printed in Japanese and English, showing the heart of the city, bissected by the Whangpoo (Huangpu) River. Many wharves, streets and green spaces are identified in English, while many other features are in Japanese only, including the keys on the bottom right.....
A map of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis advertising a Washington State lumber company that exhibited at the fair. Oriented with North at the bottom, the map on the recto shows the entirety of Forest Park, the 1,200-acre site of the fair. The exhibition embraced over 1,500 buildings.....
A rare and quite detailed, large-scale map of Tarrytown, New York, showing both the more densely developed village, as well as outlying areas. Commercial, public, and domestic buildings are identified (their very footprints, in fact, are shown), as well as a number of large estates. Among the latter are the.....
A New Deal-era propaganda map celebrating the breadth of projects throughout the land commissioned by the Public Works Administration (PWA). This government-issued map is replete with a colorful smattering of several dozen vignettes—each indicating a specific PWA project—that span every state in the continental U.S. An additional forty-three projects, depicted.....
![Item #8751 Saline and Gage Counties, Nebraska. 50,000 Acres of Land For Sale…[recto] Map of...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8751_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1728944892)
An apparently unrecorded broadsheet advertising the sale of “good lands on Most Favorable Terms” in Saline and Gage Counties, Nebraska, with a map showing the available plots. Text on the recto of the broadsheet describes Saline County’s “natural physical features,” “climate and rainfall as factors in crop-growing,” “population and material.....
A striking and informative series of World War II-era military maps showing combat actions of the U.S. Army 100th Infantry Division during the liberation of France and invasion of Germany. Also included is an introductory letter bearing the printed signature of Major General William A. Burress, who expresses his wish.....
A rare, amply illustrated folding brochure promoting a 1920s real estate development near Babylon, Long Island. Forget Brooklyn—this pamphlet, published by the E. A. White real estate organization, promotes its latest shoreland development near Babylon, Long Island. “No other suburban area of New York has more to offer…in easy accessibility.....
Styled the “First Annual Edition” on the title page, this is the only directory of Madison issued by Seymour. Pages 9 to 78 consist of a history and description of Madison, as well as a list of state and federal government officials. Pages 79 to 126 lists the citizens and.....
A colorful pictorial map of Antarctica depicting the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1933–35) and commemorating the pathbreaking radio broadcasts to and from Byrd’s expedition. The expedition depicted here was led by the U.S. polar explorer, pioneer aviator, and naval officer Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957), who is pictured at the upper.....
First edition of Bachelder’s set of three maps depicting the topography and disposition of forces at the Battle of Gettysburg, detailing with great authority the battle often described as the turning point of the Civil War. Having spent a year with the Army of the Potomac documenting various battles, John.....
The second edition of this important 1860s map of California and Nevada. First published in 1864, Bancroft’s detailed and striking pocket map of California and Nevada constitutes one of the best maps of Western America published west of the Mississippi during this period. Extracted from Bancroft’s Map of the Pacific.....
The second appearance in the United States of Elihu Barker’s important map of Kentucky. This map is a reduced version of Barker’s exceptionally rare large map of Kentucky of 1794 and appeared in Mathew Carey’s American edition of Guthrie’s Geography (1795). It shows the new state of Kentucky and its.....
A large and boldly lettered map, centering on the Ottoman Empire and depicting various missionary outposts therein, constituting a powerful visual tool designed to promote the missionary cause. The map extends from the Caspian Sea in the northeast to southern Bulgaria in the northwest, and from the upper Persian Gulf.....
A news map of southeast Virginia showing the locations of the rebel military along the coast and in Richmond, created by publisher Casimir Bohn and lithographer Edward Sachse, who frequently collaborated. This map shows a number of important rebel cities and towns, including the Confederate capital of Richmond and Petersburg.....
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.....