The Beatles Map of Liverpool was published in 1974 to commemorate the buildings and places where the Beatles started their career. As noted on the Liverpool Museums website: Featured here is one of the first Beatles maps of Liverpool that was ever...
Map of the United States, surrounded by illustrations of mushrooms with psychotropic compounds, along with illustrations of Cannabis sativa (marijuana) and Lophophora williamsii (Peyote). The map includes numbers scattered around the US identifying...
Attractive vintage Soviet poster celebrating the first joint French-Soviet space flight. The poster artist was R. Suryaninov ("Р. Сурьянинов"). Soyuz T-6 was a human spaceflight to Earth orbit to the Salyut 7 space station in 1982. Along...
First Edition of Randall Munroe's Online Communities Map Fine example of Randall's first map of Online Communities, issued the year after Facebook became open to all users on September 26, 2006. As noted below the title "Geographic Area Represents...
One of Two Known Examples. Shows the Lost First Captain John Smith Mapping of Virginia. Exceptionally rare engraved globe gores prepared by Jodocus Hondius II, sometime shortly after the discovery of the Le Maire Strait in 1618. These gores correspond...
Fantastic Matching Set of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globes, Including Captain John Smith's Lost Earliest Mapping of Virginia. Exceptional matching pair of 17-inch (44 cm) globes by the famed mapmakers Johannes Janssonius and Jodocus Hondius II,...
The Most Important Isolario of the First Half of the 16th Century. 6 double-page woodcut maps and 108 smaller woodcut maps in the text. Small Folio. Nineteenth-century "forged" binding, by the famed Louis Hague of Belgium. The whole binding with...
"This rare map has a special place in the early cartography of Australia" -- Schilder %5BClick+here+for+an+image+of+the+world+map.%5D Fascinating double-page engraved world map, featuring a large landmass in the approximate place and shape of the...
1574 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with 1584 Addiamentum and Several Extra Maps! Theatrum: [A6], [B4]; 70 double-page engraved maps; [a-h6]. Complete. The name Andreas Donelli appears on the title page of the Theatrum. This is likely a member of the...
With Bünting's Clover Leaf World, Pegasus as Asia, Europe as a Queen, and Africa. Small quarto (12.5 x 8 inches). Very attractive contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, contemporary metal clasps with images of the Crucifixion (leather...
A Rare American Atlas, Bound With A Rare Suite of Maps of 13 Europe Geographische und historische Beschreibung der uberauss grosser Landtschafft America, welche auch West India und ihrer grösse halben die New Welt genennet wirt. Gar artig und nach...
1598 Edition of Ptolemy's Geography An excellent example of Rosaccio's improvement on Ruscelli's Ptolemy, adding contemporaneous knowledge and interpretations and extensively reworking the copperplate-engraved maps with decorative sea monsters and...
Exceptionally Rare Dutch Edition of the Theatrum Published in Amsterdam by Cornelis Claesz. A superb, full original hand-color, Dutch-language Ortelius atlas published by Cornelis Claesz, Amsterdam's "great motive force behind publications in the...
Quad's First Atlas of the Whole World; First Edition with this Title, Early Variant. Small folio (10.75 x 7.75 inches). 20th-century calf antique, spine gilt (very slightly rubbed). Engraved title and 82 double-page engraved maps (3 hand-colored)...
The First and Only English Edition of Ortelius's Magnum Opus. A Fine, Tall Example with Dark Impressions of this Extremely Rare Atlas. The First English-Language Folio Atlas of the World. The 1606 edition of Ortelius's Theatrum is the both the most...
A Well-Titled Travel Guide to the World This is a great example of Heylyn's scarce Mikrokosmos, with added late 17th century maps. The text is fantastic and detailed, detailing not only the geographies of the various places described, but also their...