Cartographic Curiosities, Games & Ephemera
World Map/ Buddhism. Zuda RŌKASHI (Priest Hōtan) [Kyōto, c. 1710-1815] Nansen Bushu Bankoku Shōka No Zu. (“Outline Map of all the Countries of the Universe”) 45 x 57 ½ inches. Period wash color; nine woodblock sheets joined; folds reinforced, slight losses at some fold intersections, overall very good. .....
United States/ Asia/ Australia/ Early Geographic Education. DAWES Jr., Samuel [Mississippi?: 1820] A Map of the United. States By Samuel Dawes Jr. 1820. [Verso:] Asia. 18 ¾ x 23 3/8 inches. Pen & ink & watercolor on woven paper. Some staining and age toning, three neatly closed splits into surface.....
The Cerographic Missionary Atlas… [Imprint inside front cover:] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, By Se. E. Morse & Co.,….
An unusually well-preserved, scarce, and quite early American atlas of areas where missionary activity was being, or could be conducted. Includes an excellent map exclusively of the Hawaiian Islands. A map entitled “Indian Territory” encompasses Texas and east from Lake Superior and the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains in.....
Field Of Gettysburg …Prepared By T. Ditterline.
This striking, oval-shaped plan provided the American public with its first detailed and accurate visual account of one of the most significant battles in American history. It is accompanied by a pamphlet that provides an in-depth, chronological account of the complex battle. Offered here is the very rare second edition.....
Panoramic Views along the Line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. The Scenic Line Of The World.
A superbly realized promotional brochure, one of the finest we've seen, issued by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, featuring a sequence of nine beautiful views of Colorado's mountainous natural wonders, many with trains cutting through the landscape. Fittingly the railroad's original motto was "Through the Rockies, not around them.".....
[Archive of Ionia the Enchantress].
An archive that sheds light on the life of an extraordinary woman, known on the stage as Ionia the Enchantress, and on the tangled process of disposing of property in Russia in the fraught years of the Russian Revolution. Many of the documents relate to the sale of estates in.....
NIPPON CHI.
Japanese History/ Humor. February 5, 1906 Issue of the Japanese Magazine Nippon Chi (The Land of Japan). 10 x 7 inches; wood-engraved; 67 pp. not including cover; very slight edge wear & toning, four intentional puncture holes for binding?, excellent. .....
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Title Page. CELLARIUS, Andreas [Amsterdam, 1660] Atlas Coelestis, seu Harmonia Macrocosmica… Image sized: 17 x 10 ¼ inches; with frame: 25 x 18 ¼ inches. Superb original color, heightened with gold; a few rubbed areas else excellent. A magnificent example, in full original color heightened with.....
Gentlemen's Driving Map Showing The Park System Of Boston…First Edition.
A rare map (not appearing in map market records) made of the "Gentleman" bicyclist, highlighting the not particularly ample park areas of Boston at the time. Noted with cautionary red lines are roads with street car tracks, presumably to be avoided by cyclists. Slanted green lines indicate unfinished roads. Bicycling.....
Elmer J. Chute’s Map of the Goldfield Mining District Nye and Esmeralda Counties, Nevada. 1905.
Rare, separately published map of the site of the last, great American gold rush. The map clearly plots out the claims of the many companies working the area with colors designating the largest of them. The great hopes for the area are expressed on the map in the route of.....