Antique Map of Taluti Bay by Stemler, C.1875

Antique map titled 'Kaart van een gedeelte van Midden Sumatra.' This map shows a part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. With legend. Originates from 'Tijdschrift Aardrijkskundig G...

Antique map titled 'De Kei- of Evar eilanden.' (Kai Islands.) This map shows the Indonesian Kai Islands. Originates from 'Tijdschrift Aardrijkskundig Genootschap', published by C. F....

Antique map titled 'Hoofddriehoeken - Java en madoera.' (Main triangles measured by the Geographical Service in the Dutch-Indies on Java and Madoera.) This scarce map shows the Indon...

Antique map titled 'Kaart van de voornaamste wegen in het zuidelijke deel der Residentie Palembang.' This scarce map shows the main roads in Palembang on the Indonesian island of Sum...

Antique map titled 'Kaart van de Afdeling Boemi Agoeng.' This map shows the Indonesian district of Boemi Agoeng (Lampong districts). Originates from 'Tijdschrift Aardrijkskundig Geno...

Antique map titled 'Schets van Bolaang-Mongondow.' This map shows the Bolaang Mongondow district on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Originates from 'Tijdschrift Aardrijkskundig Ge...

Presented is an original 1875 map of “North America.” The map was issued in Volume 1 of the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published in Edinburgh. The map was drawn by famous Scottish mapmaker John Bartholomew. The map depicts North America, to include Greenland, the Dominion of Canada, the United States, Mexico, the countries of Central America, and the islands of the West Indies. Prominent rivers, mountain ranges, and cities are labeled on the map, and country borders are emphasized in red. The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions. The landmark ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, often called "the Scholar's Edition," was published from January 1875 to 1889 in 25 volumes. The editor and author of the “Foreword” was Thomas Spencer Baynes, the first English-born editor after a series of Scots. After 1880, Baynes was assisted by William Robertson Smith. The 9th edition is often lauded as a high point among early editions for scholarship. The 9th edition was far more luxurious than any previously printed Encyclopædia Britannicas, with thick boards and quality leather bindings, premier paper, and a production which took full advantage of the technological advances of printing in the years between the 1850s and 1870s. The publishers took advantage of the new ability to print large graphic illustrations on the same pages as the text, as opposed to limiting illustrations to separate copper plate engravings. Although this technology had first been used in a primitive fashion the 7th edition, and to a much lesser extent in the 8th, in the 9th edition there were thousands of quality illustrations and maps set...

Presented is U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart or maritime map of Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay from 1856. The map depicts the region from Susquehanna, Maryland to the northern Oute...

Presented is an original map of Albert Boschke's extremely sought-after "Topographical Map of the District of Columbia Surveyed in the Years 1856 ...

This highly detailed pocket map is a topographical map of the state of Colorado by Louis Nell from 1907. The map "has been complied from all availabl...

Antique Map of Italy by Andriveau-Goujon, 1843. Map of Italy in two parts by Andriveau-Goujon for the Library of Prince Carini at Palazzo Carini i...

ST/619 - "Old Geographical Atlas of Italy - Topographic map of ex-Principality of Monaco" - ediz Vallardi - Milano - A somewhat special edition ---