An unusual and interesting version of this popular moral and religious map, probably published in Pennsylvania, where a number of other versions were published, and showing an unusual goat-like devil staring directly at the viewer. Consisting of three paths proceeding from left to right, this vividly colored map depicts the.....
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).....