![Item #8048 The St. Louis Explorer. [Verso:] World’s Fair Pathfinder St. Louis 1904](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8048_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685466985)
A rare and attractive fan map printed for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, showing St. Louis on one side and the grounds of the World’s Fair on the other. The map on the recto of this fan, copyrighted 1902, shows the city of St. Louis, with the Mississippi River at.....
A rare and very attractive chromolithograph of Raphael Beck’s popular western hemisphere map logo for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Beck’s art nouveau design portrays North and South America as two young women whose flowing robes form the shapes of their respective continents and whose clasped hands over Central America signify.....
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.....