First Edition of De L’Isle’s Influential Map of the Northern Hemisphere Fine example of the first state of De L’Isle’s polar projection, focused on the Arctic. This map would become the prototype for a number of other eighteenth-century maps...
Fine Map of the Northern Hemisphere Rare Henri de Leth edition of Guillaume De L'Isle's map of the Northern Hemisphere, originally published by De L'Isle in 1714. The map shows the entire Northern Hemisphere. The projection has the opposite effect of...
One of the Most Detailed and Important Map of the Americas made by a Scandalous Geographer This is a nice example of the northernmost sheets of 1775 edition of this important six sheet chart of North and South America, originally compiled by John...
The Earliest Printed Map of Le Maire's Voyage Around Cape Horn and Across The Pacific Nice example of Joris van Spilbergen's rendering of Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire's map / sea chart of a portion of his circumnavigation of the world, showing...
Rare Golden Age Dutch Sea Chart of the Island of California and Western Pacific Rare Johannes Van Loon sea chart of the Western Pacific. The map appeared in the first edition of Van Loon's Zee Atlas. It derives from Doncker's map of the Western...
Interesting map charging the course of the trade winds in the Pacific Ocean, published by Bellin in the Histoire Generale de Voyages, based upon the obseravations of Dampier. California is shown as an island. An odd piece of the southern hemisphere...
Nice example of Reinecke's map of the Western Pacific Ocean, Australia, Southeast Asia, etc. Neu Holland vormals Ulimaroa is named, along with an New South Wales. The coastline of Australia is incomplete. New Zealand is shown as two islands. Hawaii...
Interesting map of the Southern Part of the Pacific Ocean, published in Augsburg by Walch. Includes Hawaii and fascinating early configurations for Australia and New Zealand.
Rare Italian Map of the South Pacific, extending from Australia and the Philippines in the east to Hawaii and the Marquesas in the west, The map illustrates the recent discoveries in Australia and provides good detail in Australia and a good sense of...
Wonderful detailed map of the whole of the Pacific Ocean, centered on Hawaii and extending from the west coast of America to the east coast of Asia.
The Gold Age of Radio Theater -- The Air Adventures of 16 Year Old Crime Solving Pilot Jimmie Allen Rare pictorial map of the Pacific printed as a promotional premium for the Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen, theatrical radio production that aired from...
An attractive lithograph showing the art forms of the Pacific, after the eponymous mural by the talented Mexican intellectual Miguel Covarrubias. Many examples of traditional art forms are shown overlaid on a map that includes all of the Americas,...
An attractive lithograph from 1940 showing the peoples of the Pacific, after the eponymous mural by the talented Mexican intellectual Miguel Covarrubias. The map shows the Pacific in its entirety and extends to all of the Americas, Oceania, and most of...
This is a series of six works, lithographed after Covarrubias's mural the Pageant of the Pacific, which was first displayed at the 1939 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition. Covarrubias was commissioned to create this mural that would be...
Nice old color example of Pieter Goos' sea chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and India. First published in Goos' Zee Atlas. The chart is the second of two charts encompassing the sea routes from Southern Africa to the Far East,...
Rare Sea Chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean from the Dutch Golden Age of Cartography Early pair of sea charts of the Indian Ocean and contiguous regions. Australia is remarkably delineated for this early date and reflects recent...