Hand Colored Map of the World

Turn of the century map of Harwich, Massachusetts. Plate from a Cape Cod County Map book showing the Barnstable county town of Harwich including Allens Harbor, Pleasant Lake, Harwich...

Original 1891 map showing Sandwich, Bourne, Plymouth Carver, Middleborough, Plympton and Kingston. Showing Long Beach in Plymouth also as well as all shore points. Cape Cod Bay is ma...

Later copy of a nineteenth century map of Boston and surrounding towns. Showing parts of Quincy, Milton, Hyde Park, Winthrop and Revere. Showing all of B...

1891 map of Norfolk county Massachusetts including the towns of Wrentham, Franklin, Medfield, Sherborn, Norwood etc., measures: 23 x 31.

Original 1891 map of Massachusetts by Walker. Towns include Cambridge, Boston, Dedham, Ashland, Brookline, Newton etc... burl wood frame. Measures...

Spectacular solid brass ships binnacle by Keuffel and Esser Company of New York in 1918. Builders plate is marked type VII no 1200, Bureau of Navigation, US Navy...

“Mappe Monde, contenant les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre” CHAMBON, Gobert-Denis (France, 17.. - 1781) Paris, Longchamps et Janvier, 1754 Size H. 115 x W. 145 cm. Gobert-Denis Chambon made copper engraving after the work of Guillaume De L’Isle, published in 1754 by Jean Janvier and S.G. Longschamps. A huge wall map of the world in two hemispheres printed on two sheets, depicting the Eastern and Western hemispheres supported by two male figures, decorated at the bottom right and left with two celestial hemispheres (boreal and southern) and at the bottom in the middle with an armillary sphere, in addition. This map is most notable for its depiction of the Sea of Japan labeled "Mer de Corée" and of "Mer de L'Ouest" or Sea of the West - a great sea, easily the size of the Mediterranean, to flow from the then-known Strait of Juan de Fuca...

This is a highly desirable hanging wall map of the "World at One View", published in 1847 by Ensign and Thayer, New York. This pictorial map was printed as a broadside and features...

Antique map titled 'Dépt. de l'Eure'. Map of the French department of Eure, France. This region of France is home to Giverny, where impressionist Claude Monet’s home and garden can...

Framed 1820s hand colored map photos of North America and South America. As found framed in giltwood frame.

Framed hand colored map of the United States of America from 1839. Newly framed in a giltwood frame.

300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics, map dealers and collectors, the maps represent over 5,000 years of cartographic innovation drawing on a range of cultures and traditions. Comprehensive in scope, this book features all types of map from navigation and surveys to astronomical maps, satellite and digital maps, as well as works of art inspired by cartography. Unique curated sequence presents maps in thought-provoking juxtapositions for lively, stimulating reading. Features some of the most influential mapmakers and institutions in history, including Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Phyllis Pearson, Heinrich Berann...