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 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.....
The earliest obtainable chart of the Gulf Stream, issued in Paris in the early 1780s at the initiative of Benjamin Franklin, incorporating the knowledge of Franklin’s cousin, Nantucket whaling captain Timothy Folger. This rare and fascinating chart represents the Gulf Stream as a great river within the sea flowing from.....
![Item #9671 [Can It Be That My Tail Is Trying to Wag Me?]. Louis M. Glackens](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9671.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744632958)
A delightful pen and ink political cartoon map showing California as the “tail that wags the dog,” drawn by a notable cartoonist. This original drawing was published in the May 14th, 1913 issue of Puck and makes reference to the growing influence of California in national politics during the first.....
A marvelous pictorial map of the fresh and saltwater fish found in North and Central America and the surrounding seas, with illustrations of a multitude of species, vignettes of anglers, text regarding numerous records, and four additional inset maps showing Panama, New Zealand, Tahiti, the Hawaiian Islands, and the fish.....
Second edition of this map first published in 1887 by the Southern Pacific Railroad, showing by use of color California’s different climatic zones, and evidently intended to promote both travel and settlement in the region. The map extends from Mexico in the south to Oregon in the north, and from.....
A remarkable—and mammoth—broadside chronological chart employing text and images to depict six millennia of ecclesiastical and secular history. The Epitome was designed by the Rev. David Sherman Rowland (1719–1794), who began his career as a minister in Providence, Rhode Island but was “forced to flee his pulpit there because of.....