An unusual mechanical greeting card, evidently issued shortly after Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight across the Atlantic ocean. Lindbergh’s plane moves in a track representing his flight path from New York and Paris, below which are verses reading: Lindbergh landed in ParisBut this card lands here to say“I think of you.....
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.....
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 (1846–48).....