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Geographicus Rare and Antique Maps New Acquisitions
Our online antique map gallery is updated daily. For your enjoyment and consideration, please find below a list of our most recent acquisitions.
This week we have an exceptionally interesting and varied list with a number of one-of-a-kind items, including a map capturing the rise of organized labor in Shanghai, China (May Thirtieth Movement), the first national map of Guatemala, the best early 20th-century wall map of Denver, a wonderful WWI pictorial route map, Clegg's Lindbergh Map, and more!
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General Plan of No.n 5-7-8-12-15 Mill N.W.K. Shanghai.
One-of-a-kind map documenting the buildup to the May Thirtieth Movement, the birth of organized labor in modern China, and the beginning-of-the-end of the Unequal Treaties!
Recording the beginnings of the May Thirtieth Movement, a pivotal moment in the rise of labor unions and communism, as well as the end of the Unequal Treaties, in pre-war China, this is a striking 1925 cyanotype map of the Nagai Wata Kaisha Cotton Mills (NWK) in Shanghai, just north of Suzhou Creek (or Soochow Creek). Dating to May of 1925, the map focuses on those NWK Mills attached to a series of historic labor strikes against Japanese operated textile mills operating in Shanghai. PRICE: 7500.00 USD
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Mapa General de la Republic de Guatemala.
The first official map of Guatemala! A cornoerstone piece for Central American 'Decolonization'!
A seminal production, this 1959 map by Maximilian von Sonnenstern and August van de Gehüchte is the first official map of Guatemala and a key document associated with Guatemalan independence. The map was commissioned by first president of Guatemala, Rafael Carrera Turcios (1814 - 1865), and is the first broadly accurate meticulously detailed map of that country. PRICE: 6000.00 USD
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E. M. Beeler's Map of City and County of Denver 1907.
One-of-a-kind early map of Denver, Colorado, with mauscript additions relating to the city's development as a national railroad hub.
An extraordinary find, this is the finest early 20th century large format wall map of Denver, Colorado, with manuscript additions relating to railroad development. Issued by Edwin Mead Beeler in 1907, the present map is a white print, also known as a reverse blueprint/cyanotype, and is without a copyright, suggesting it is a made-to-order product based upon his work for the city of Denver Board of Public Works. PRICE: 6000.00 USD
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Map of the World, on Mercators Projection.
Illustrates the Republic of Texas the year before it joined the United States and the Oregon border dispute between the United States and Canada.
This is a rare 1845 Edward Hooker Ensign map of the world on Mercator's projection depicting both the Republic of Texas and the Oregon border dispute between Canada and the United States. A visually striking and incredibly detailed piece, countries throughout the world are labeled, along with innumerable cities and towns. Myriad coastal locations are identified as well. PRICE: 4000.00 USD
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Prout and Burnham's Official Map of Wheaton, Dupage County Illinois.
A real estate map of Wheaton, Illinois featuring a profile illustration of Wheaton College.
Created as a promotional piece to entice city dwellers to move to Wheaton, this rare 1892 Charles A. Prout and Graham Burnham city plan or map of Wheaton, Illinois, is divided into lots, with numerous different 'additions' identified. Depicting the city from Carleton Avenue (modern-day N. Carlton Street) to President Street and from Prairie Avenue to the Chicago and Batavia Road (modern-day Roosevelt Road), streets throughout town are illustrated and labeled. PRICE: 3500.00 USD
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Carte des Lacs du Canada Dresse sur les Manuscrits du Depost des Carts, Plans et Journaux de la Marine et sur le Journal de RP. De Charlevoix.
The earliest obtainable example of the first map to introduce four fictional islands in Lake Superior. Islands later used to draw the post-Revolutionary War US-Canada border.
This is the 1744 Bellin/ Charlevoix map of the Great Lakes, the most accurate map of the Great Lakes to date and the best to be produced since the De l'Isle map of 1718. It is also the earliest obtainable map, preceded only by a 1742 proof noted by Kershaw, to depict the four fictive islands in Lake Superior (Philippeux, Pontchartrain, Maurepas, and St. PRICE: 3000.00 USD
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Map Showing the Overland and Overseas Flights of Charles A. Lindbergh.
Illustrating the aeronautical achievements of Charles Lindbergh to 1928.
This is a 1928 Ernest Clegg pictorial map of the world celebrating Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. The map depicts the world from Alaska to Norway and from the Yukon and Greenland to Brazil and traces Lindbergh's flying career from his first solo flight at Americus, Georgia in 1923 to the delivery of his now world-renowned airplane The Spirit of St. Louis to the Smithsonian Institution in 1928. PRICE: 3000.00 USD
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This limned Carte protraying with most exacting fidelity the History, Romance, and Humor of the glorious City of San Diego by the Pacific…
A striking and hilarious map of San Diego by the celebrated cartographic artist Jo Mora.
This is a 1928 Jo Mora pictorial map of San Diego, California. With San Diego at its center, the map depicts the California coast from La Jolla to Tijuana. Described by Mora as a 'whimsical map and history of a city in California', comical vignettes abound. Mora, as is his style, effortlessly blends the humor with a celebration of the city and The Marston Company, a department store in San Diego whose founder commissioned the map to commemorate the store's Golden Anniversary. PRICE: 1500.00 USD
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Kâ'be-i Muazzama nin Haritasi ve Hac ile Umrenin Menâsiki.
The Holiest site in Islam.
This is a c. 1930 Turkish map of the holiest site in Islam, al-Masjid al- Ḥarām, the Great Mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. As is common for maps of Mecca, this plan of the Great Mosque is oriented to the East-Northeast. The map is meticulously drawn with Kaaba at the center and over one hundred locations throughout numerically identified and corresponded to an index. A table providing important distances - useful for the pilgrim - is included in the lower right. PRICE: 950.00 USD
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Over There' and Back with the 301st First Field Artillery.
Traces the route of the 301st Field Artillery during World War I.
This is an extremely rare 1933 Lewis Rothe and Warren Gibbs pictorial map of Europe playfully commemorating the peregrinations of the 301st Field Artillery during World War I. The map traces the movements of the 301st from Boston through Nova Scotia and England to France and then back across the Atlantic to New York City after the end of the war. Created in conjunction by Lewis Rothe, the artist, and Warren R. PRICE: 950.00 USD
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The Evergreen Playground. Neither Europe nor Asia nor South America has a prospect in which sea and woods and snow mountains are so united in a landscape.
A visually striking map of the Pacific Northwest, including Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia.
A stunning 1945 Kroll Map Company pictorial bird's-eye view map of the Pacific Northwest, the Puget Sound, and the surrounding region, including Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Oriented to the west-northwest, the map depicts from the Pacific Ocean to the mountains east of Seattle and from the Canadian Rockies north of Vancouver to Mount Rainier. PRICE: 950.00 USD
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Campus Plan of the State University of Iowa.
The only obtainable example of an extremely rare bird's-eye view of the University of Iowa.
The only obtainable example of this piece, this is a 1930 bird's-eye view of the campus of the University of Iowa published by the University itself. The view presents the campus aspirationally, not as it was when the view was issued, but as the university imagined itself in the future - including projected building projects and other expansions! Perhaps the most notable projected buildings is the campus library, proposed in an architectural ethic similar to the Pentacrest buildings to its left. PRICE: 950.00 USD
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City of Montgomery Alabama.
A rare city map of Montgomery, Alabama at the turn of the 20th century.
This is a rare 1899 State Abstract Company city plan or map of Montgomery, Alabama. A highly detailed real estate map, individual lots throughout the city are illustrated and labeled, although some areas appear to have not yet fully divided lotted. Streets are identified, as are city wards, cemeteries, and parks. Mills, a distillery, a gun club, the stock yards, and the brick yard are also noted. PRICE: 950.00 USD
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City of San Francisco and its Vicinity California.
Blends a detailed city plan with a coast survey chart of San Francisco Bay.
This is an 1853 U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart or maritime map of San Francisco, California and its immediate vicinity. The San Francisco Peninsula dominates nearly two-thirds of the map, which depicts the region from the Mission de Dolores to San Francisco Bay and from Tonquin Shoal north of the city to Point San Quentin. The city itself is illustrated in detail. Major streets are labeled, and myriad individual buildings are included as well. Numerous wharves are identified. PRICE: 950.00 USD
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Mark! When you want a Pointer regarding your western trip…
When you want a pointer…'
An utterly charming 1896 lithograph pictorial map issued to promote travel to the Pacific Northwest via the Northern Pacific Railway. This map was issued in 1896 by Charles S. Fee, general passenger agent for the Northern Pacific Railway. It covers the western part of the United States roughly from the Great Lakes to the Pacific. Superimposed upon the map is the image of an English Pointer dog in classic 'pointer' pose. PRICE: 750.00 USD
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Map of the Along the Hudson Park Spuyten Duyvil Hill, Borough of the Bronx, City of New York. Property of the Along The Hudson Company.
Very Rare, Evocative Map of a Bucolic Corner of New York City
This is a separately issued 1909 broadsheet map of the northern part of New York City's Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood, promoted here as 'Along the Hudson Park.' The development extends from about W. 227th up to W. 232nd, and from the Spuyten Duyvil Parkway (now the Henry Hudson) to the Hudson River. This neighborhood had long been - and largely remains - an enclave of residences that were picturesque and oddly remote despite being situated within the city limits. PRICE: 750.00 USD
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(verso) E-Z Guide Map of Los Angeles California with Patent Indicator.
Extremely Rare, Ingenious Map of Los Angeles
The earliest example we have found, dated 1915, of this ingenious and detailed map of Los Angeles and its surrounds. Produced by the advertising firm of Fred B. Bain, it was received by a grateful world, as testified by a doubtless completely unbiased party in the October 1916 Long Beach Press: There has been nothing handier turned out in the way of a map, so far as I have been able to discover,’ said Philetus A. PRICE: 450.00 USD
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Sunday Post's Up-to-the-Minute Picture Map of Nazi Germany.
A disturbing and fascinating look at Nazi Germany by an American newspaper just months after Hitler's official rise to power.
This 1933 H. Boylston Dummer pictorial map of Nazi Germany is both fascinating and disturbing. Published a little less than two months after the passage of the Enabling Act on March 24, 1933 effectively made Hitler the dictator of Germany, Dummer's map presents the reality of life in Nazi Germany in the spring of 1933 while at the same time highlighting many of Germany's best cultural and historical attributes, with the stated goal of helping teachers present current events to their students. PRICE: 400.00 USD
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The Odyssey of F.D.R.
Issued during the election of 1940 wherein Roosevelt won an unprecedented 3rd term.
This 1939 Constantin Alajálov allegorical pictorial map chronicles the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt not as 'a history, but a free-wheeling trip through the headlines of the last seven years.' It must be noted that all these headlines fall largely on the negative side, probably because Henry Luce, the publisher of Fortune Magazine, was a harsh critic of Roosevelt, even stating after F.D.R.'s death that it was his 'duty to go on hating him'. Tracing the Odyssey of F.D.R. PRICE: 350.00 USD
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Plan de la Ville de Quebec.
First state first edition of an iconic map of Quebec City.
A scarce 1744 first state first edition of Bellin's important map of Quebec City, Canada. Oriented to the west, Bellin's map covers the fortified center of Quebec City at the conjunction of the St. Laurence River and the St. Charles estuary. The map illustrates various fortifications as well as some 24 individual buildings including churches, schools, batteries and government buildings. Some of the surrounding farmland is also illustrated. PRICE: 350.00 USD
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Carte De L'Ocean Occidental et Partie De L'Amerique Septentrionale Dressee pour l'intelligence du Journal du V oyage.
Elegant Map of the Atlantic, Showing Charlevoix' Voyage to and from North America.
This is a 1744 Bellin map of the colonized regions of North America and the Caribbean Islands shown in relation to the coasts of Europe and Africa. It appeared in Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix's 1744 Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France , one of the most comprehensive works on North America predating the French and Indian War. PRICE: 300.00 USD
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Rand McNally Map of Outer Space.
Visually spectacular map of the Solar System.
This is a 1958 Rand McNally map of the Solar System. The map focuses on the Solar system and illustrates all eight planets (at that point there were nine). Moons orbit Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each of which is situated in its own orbit around the Sun. PRICE: 275.00 USD
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Daytona Beach Recreational Area.
Daytona Beach, 'The World's Most Famous Beach'.
Created by Wadad and Charles Corsi, this is a c. 1958 pictorial map of Daytona Beach, Florida. Promoted as 'The World's Most Famous Beach', the map depicts Daytona Beach from Ponce de Leon Inlet to Tomoka State Park. Activities that cater to tourists, such as horseback riding, bicycling, golf, and bathing in the ocean are illustrated by vignettes. PRICE: 250.00 USD
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Carte Du Cours de la Riviere Saguenay appellee par les Sauvages Pitchitaouichetz
An Attracive Map of Quebec in the Vicinity of the Saguenay River
This is a 1744 Bellin map of the region of Quebec surrounding the course of the Saguenay River, reaching just short of Lake Saint-Jean. It shows the settlement of Chicoutimi (Chekoutimi on the map) in the location of present-day Saguenay. A track, running southwest, leads to Lac St. Charles near Quebec City. PRICE: 200.00 USD
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Netherlands East Indies.
A map of the East Indies created to help educate soldiers during World War II.
This is a c. 1943 Army Orientation Branch map of the East Indies. Depicting the region from the Indian Ocean to New Guinea and from Hainan and French Indochina to northern Australia, maps like this one created by the Army Orientation Branch were meant to help educate soldiers about where World War II was being fought in a general sense. Major cities are marked throughout, including Haiphong, Saigon, Darwin, Manila, Singapore, and Batavia. PRICE: 150.00 USD
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Princeton University.
Rare, Delicately Colored Panoramic View of Princeton Univeristy by artist Richard Rummell.
A rare c. 1906/7 photogravure small-format editon of Richard Rummell's bird's-eye view of Yale University. The view is oriented to the east with Richardson Auditorium prominent at center. To the right, the iconic fortress-like Blair Hall clock tower is visble. At the far right is the old Halstead Observatory, site of today's Joline Hall. Nassau streets runs at a diagonal through the foreground. PRICE: 700.00 USD
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