| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 8034 |  | Details | Mayson, Thomas | 1875 |
| Victorian exhibition advertisement for Mayson’s Relief Ordnance Model |
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Mayson, Thomas |
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| 1875 |
| LOC:89 |
| $200.00 | Mayson--Thomas | Victorian-exhibition-advertisement-for-Mayson’s-Relief-Ordnance-Model | Original Victorian exhibition advertisement for Mayson’s 3D Ordnance relief model of the Lake District, Cumbria, North West England, created in 1875 as a major visitor attraction in Keswick. The broadside announces the enormous 210 square foot model exhibited daily at the Lake District Repository on Lake Road, a sculpted landscape built to a scale of six inches to the mile and rendered with exactness from Ordnance Survey data. Bold Victorian lettering, fern motifs, and a vignette of the Repository building frame the promotional text, which highlights mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, villages, and roads shown in full relief and hand colored to nature.
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The model was commissioned by Keswick photographer Henry Mayson and his brother Thomas and built by the Italian sculptor Raffaelle Monti and his team using Ordnance Survey sheets as the mathematical basis for every contour. The advertisement stresses its practical value for travelers, noting that the model was an essential tool for planning excursions and understanding the correct topography of the Lake District at a time when tourism was rapidly increasing. Daily opening hours, illumination during summer months, and a one shilling admission charge appear prominently in the lower text block.
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As an example of nineteenth century exhibition ephemera, this poster documents one of the most ambitious public relief models ever constructed in Britain and preserves the original marketing for a landmark Lake District attraction. Surviving advertisements for Mayson’s Ordnance Model are scarce, and this sheet stands as a desirable item for collectors of British posters, Lake District history, and early Ordnance Survey derived cartography. |
| 8036 |  | Details | Nadon, Paul and Sandi | 1985 |
| Colorful pictorial advertising poster of Seward, Alaska |
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Nadon, Paul and Sandi |
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| 1985 |
| LOC:130 |
| $325.00 | Nadon--Paul-and-Sandi | Colorful-pictorial-advertising-poster-of-Seward--Alaska | Colorful pictorial poster map of Seward, Alaska, drawn by Paul and Sandi Nadon and published by New Sensations in 1985. The sheet presents the harbor town of Seward on Resurrection Bay as a busy cartoon landscape, with streets, businesses, and waterfront activity rendered in bright hand drawn vignettes rather than formal cartography. A large vertical Seward banner along the left margin, smiling sun over the Kenai Mountains, and playful notes in the margins firmly place the map in the late twentieth century tourist boom along the Alaska coast.
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Within the town grid the artists label motels, cafes, shops, churches, and civic buildings, while the surrounding hills show wildlife, waterfalls, and campgrounds. The harbor is packed with cruise boats, fishing vessels, sailboats, and float planes coming and going from Resurrection Bay, all keyed to short text panels that highlight local attractions such as the Silver Salmon Derby. A puffin shaped compass rose, orcas, sea otters, and seabirds enliven the water, and humorous scenes on land convey the easygoing character of Seward as a working port and visitor destination.
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More than a simple street plan, the poster functions as an illustrated directory of mid-1980s Seward, preserving the look of its downtown businesses, harbor facilities, and tourist culture at a particular moment in time. The map should appeal to collectors of Alaska ephemera, pictorial map posters, and American roadside tourism, it is an engaging wall piece that rewards close inspection, with dozens of local references and comic details scattered across the sheet.
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| 8037 |  | Details | Conrad, Maynard | 1955 |
| Ye Olde Charte Of Gull Lake Kalamazoo County Michigan |
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Conrad, Maynard |
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| 1955 |
| LOC:130 |
| $375.00 | Conrad--Maynard | Ye-Olde-Charte-Of-Gull-Lake-Kalamazoo-County-Michigan | Mid twentieth century blueprint pictorial map of Gull Lake in Kalamazoo and Barry Counties, Michigan, with hand-drawn shorelines, compass rose, and whimsical period lettering. The sheet captures the resorts, parks, beaches, and cottages that once ringed this deep spring-fed lake north of Kalamazoo, documenting the area as a regional leisure destination. The artist, Dr. Maynard Conrad (d. 1998) uses simple white linework on blue background to present an engaging portrait of the lake at a time when summer colonies, canoe clubs, and motor launches were beginning to reshape the shoreline.
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The map highlights a tight cluster of neighboring lakes that define the Gull Lake region. Little Long Lake and Miller's Lake appear to the northwest, while Grassy Lake is shown just beyond the isthmus that separates Gull Lake from its smaller companions. These lakes form part of a distinctive kettle-lake chain created by the region's glacial geography, a landscape that helped establish Gull Lake as one of the most celebrated inland waters of southwest Michigan. The sheet also notes well known features of the day, including Idlewild, Ross Township Park, Island Park, Crescent Beach, the Country Club grounds, and the string of cottages along Lover's Lane.
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This pictorial blueprint serves equally as a regional souvenir and a record of community identity around Gull Lake. Resorts such as Bayberry Inn, Hickory Point, and Walnut Inn, together with family parks, bird sanctuaries, and boat landings, illustrate a thriving recreational culture. Surviving large format blueprints of local lakeside development are scarce, and this example offers collectors an attractive combination of graphic charm, local history, and early twentieth century Michigan cartographic style. |
| 8030 |  | Details | Crowder, Cyril C. | 1935 |
| Crowder Variable Expansion Propeller Design Drawings |
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Crowder, Cyril C. |
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| 1935 |
| LOC:130 |
| $300.00 | Crowder--Cyril-C- | Crowder-Variable-Expansion-Propeller-Design-Drawings | These three manuscript drawings are a striking artifact of early aviation ingenuity, capturing a bold experimental idea that never left the drafting table. Their meticulously rendered telescoping blades, mechanical sections, and handwritten annotations reveal a level of detail and ambition rarely seen in surviving 1930s aeronautical work. As a display piece, it stands at the intersection of engineering art and aviation history: visually compelling, technically imaginative, and representing a line of research that was too impractical for its time or even for today. Framed, it becomes not just a engineering drawing but a cool conversation piece about the inventive spirit of early flight and the folly of some inventors.
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Crowder's variable expansion propellor was designed by Cyril C. Crowder of Hollywood, California. No information is found online about the designer nor is any patent found for the design.<br><br> |
| 8024 |  | Details | Paine, Howard E. | 1975 |
| Manuscript conceptual maps for Great Lakes–Midwest region |
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Paine, Howard E. |
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| 1975 |
| LOC:130 |
| $500.00 | Paine--Howard-E- | Manuscript-conceptual-maps-for-Great-Lakes–Midwest-region | Unpublished poster-size manuscript conceptual map ca. 1975 by National Geographic Art Director Howard Paine (1) presents a unified Great Lakes–Midwest region extending from Lake Superior to central Kentucky. Rendered in soft colored pencil and wash, the sheet studies regional physiography—rivers, watersheds, and upland structure—without the finished editorial layers of a production map. Paine experiments with state boundaries, drainage patterns, and implied landcover to test how a broad Midwest–Great Lakes treatment might read at atlas scale.
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The verso carries a companion terrain study in the same hand, emphasizing elevation, forest cover, and hydrology with Paine’s characteristic, lightly modeled shading. Together the two drawings show the internal design process behind a National Geographic map that was never realized in print, offering a rare look at the developmental artwork that preceded formal cartographic production. They are among the few surviving privately-held examples of Paine’s pre-press regional concept work.<br><br> These conceptual sheets can be securely dated to the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, the period when National Geographic relied on hand-rendered shaded-relief masters and watercolor terrain studies for both its Atlas of the World (6th–8th editions) and the Close-Up U.S.A. series. The green land wash, blue-gray lake treatment, and pencil-modeled hydrology match the Society’s internal cartographic style of roughly 1968–1977, placing Howard Paine’s drafts squarely within that high phase of Nat Geo’s pre-digital map production. |
| 8020 |  | Details | White Mountain Graphics | 1981 |
| Illustrated Pictorial Map of Martha’s Vineyard |
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White Mountain Graphics |
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| 1981 |
| LOC:130 |
| $300.00 | White-Mountain-Graphics | Illustrated-Pictorial-Map-of-Martha’s-Vineyard | A colorful illustrated poster map of Martha's Vineyard drawn by K. Rinaldo and published in 1981 by White Mountain Graphics. The poster is filled with hundreds of hand-drawn vignettes capturing island towns, harbors, beaches, landmarks, and summer pastimes. The artist uses a cartoonlike style to show ferries approaching Vineyard Haven, sailboats in Katama Bay, lighthouses, beaches, farms, and well-known establishments across Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, and Chilmark. Inset scenes, handwritten labels, humorous details, and decorative border elements give the sheet the character of a personal visual tour rather than a formal cartographic product.
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The map functions as a record of Vineyard culture, highlighting cottages, inns, restaurants, bicycle routes, fishing spots, and community traditions that defined the island during the period. Its composition rewards close viewing, with dozens of local references rendered in a bright palette intended to evoke the island's summer energy. A striking pictorial map for collectors of Vineyard ephemera and American resort-town cartography.
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White Mountain Graphics was a small New Hampshire-based illustration and design studio active primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Operating out of Jackson, New Hampshire, the firm produced a range of commercially printed posters, pictorial maps, and souvenir-oriented visual materials, often in a hand-drawn style similar to the Martha's Vineyard map.
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| 8022 |  | Details | Civic Pride Inc. | 1999 |
| Y2K Silicon Hills Weird Austin Texas Technology Calendar Map |
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Civic Pride Inc. |
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| 1999 |
| LOC:130 |
| $500.00 | Civic-Pride-Inc- | Y2K-Silicon-Hills-Weird-Austin-Texas-Technology-Calendar-Map | Few artifacts from the Y2K period embody Austin’s “Keep Austin Weird” identity as vividly as this eccentric promotional panorama of Silicon Hills at the dawn of Y2K.<br><br>Instead of the clean corporate campuses and tidy geography found on Silicon Valley ecosystem calendar maps, this poster erupts with visual wordplay: cartoon workers being launched skyward at Catapult Systems, janitors mopping an actual interstate near Interstate Building Maintenance, and chip-shaped rockets lifting off with passengers at Rocket Chips. Even the Outernet cluster drifts into sci-fi territory, with tiny figures reaching toward planets and swirling galaxies placed behind the company’s logo.<br><br>The map doubles as a corporate directory and a cartoon stage, with human figures literally acting out company names. Workers climb ladders into the sky, pose as greeters in front of favored start-ups, crowd between competing firms, and interact with floating planets and chip-rockets. These pun-driven scenes have no equivalent in Silicon Valley ecosystem maps, which generally stay anchored in real geography. Here, the illustrator abandons that convention entirely, letting humor and visual wordplay override any sense of place.<br><br>Against this surreal landscape, the Y2K calendar along the bottom edge adds a surprisingly earnest note, grounding the piece in a moment of real technological concern. The dense layering of logos, theatrical human activity, and playful chaos captures Austin’s tech boom at its most unconventional—an ecosystem expanding quickly, behaving unpredictably, and proudly diverging from the slightly more polished, sober aesthetic of its California and Arizona counterparts. |
| 8019 |  | Details | Taylor, Joseph | 1814 |
| Land Travelers Pocket Compass of Winds and Weather |
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Taylor, Joseph |
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| 1814 |
| LOC:78 |
| $550.00 | Taylor--Joseph | Land-Travelers-Pocket-Compass-of-Winds-and-Weather | Early 19th-century "Land Traveller's Pocket Compass," engraved and issued by Joseph Taylor. This is only the second example of this work by Taylor we can locate. No example of the item is found in WorldCat.
<br><br>Taylor prepared these pocket compasses for travelers, surveyors, and outdoorsmen who needed a simple guide for direction finding and basic weather prediction. The circular diagram is built from several engraved rings of text explaining how rainbow color, phase of the moon, and compass bearing of specific meteorological phenomena (wind, clouds, rain) were believed to signal approaching changes in the weather. These ideas reflect the early folk-meteorological rules that Taylor promoted in his printed work: "A rain-bow in the morning is the Shepherd's warning; but a rain-bow at night is the shepherd's delight."
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Published for J. Taylor in 1814. With a manuscript dedication at bottom right: "From your lonely husband in Britain. 1943."
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The piece blends practical instruction with decorative engraving. The central compass rose is surrounded by Taylor's explanatory text, while two ribbon panels carry short rules for reading clouds and winds. Although inexpensive and meant for everyday use, few examples survive because they were handled, carried, and eventually discarded. This sheet is therefore a rare artifact of early British scientific engraving and an unusual example of Joseph Taylor's work at the intersection of silversmithing, printing, and popular science. |
| 8016 |  | Details | Bower, N. E. | 1902 |
| Map of the U.S. Military Reservation, Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory |
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Bower, N. E. |
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| 1902 |
| LOC:130 |
| $2,400.00 | Bower--N--E- | Map-of-the-U-S--Military-Reservation--Fort-Sill--Oklahoma-Territory | Unrecorded and important 1902 blueprint map documents the entire U.S. Military Reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory, just five years before Oklahoma statehood and one year after the last Indian lands in Oklahoma opened for settlement. Compiled and drawn under the supervision of 2nd Lt. N. E. Bower, Corps of Engineers, the map was prepared for a Board of Officers convened on November 6, 1902 to review and verify the reservation’s boundaries, fences, roads, streams, and terrain. It presents the reservation in three components -- the Original Reservation, the Western Addition, and the Eastern Addition -- with detailed Public Land Survey System grids, contour lines, drainage, and the developed cantonment near Medicine Bluff Creek.<br><br>With the frontier gone and the cavalry mission fading, the fort shifted toward a new role as artillery units arrived, including the formation of the 39th Field Artillery Battery in 1902. This transition ultimately saved the fort from closure, and with the last cavalry regiment departing in May 1907, Fort Sill was firmly on the path to becoming the home of U.S. Army Field Artillery.<br><br>This map captures that transition with precision, drawing on General Land Office surveys, U.S. Engineer triangulations, earlier post maps, and contemporary field notes. Today the blueprint stands as an important visual record of the boundaries and landscape of one of the nation’s most significant western military posts, known as the later home of the Field Artillery School and the final residence of the Apache prisoners of war, including Geronimo.<br><br> |
| 8007 |  | Details | Desrocher, Jack | 1984 |
| Poster San Francisco DNC Wizard of Oz |
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Desrocher, Jack |
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| 1984 |
| LOC: |
| $700.00 | Desrocher--Jack | Poster-San-Francisco-DNC-Wizard-of-Oz | This rare illustrated poster was produced by the San Francisco Examiner to mark the 1984 National Democratic Convention held in San Francisco from July 16–19. It presents the political season as a narrative journey down the Yellow Brick Road, using the visual structure of The Wizard of Oz to depict the sequence of primaries, debates, and key dates leading to the convention. The timeline is printed directly on the road, providing a detailed month-by-month chronology of events from early spring through July.
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At left, the principal Democratic contenders of 1984 appear as Oz characters traveling together toward the convention site. To the right, opposing forces and political obstacles are shown in the manner of Oz antagonists, including a witch figure flying above the path. The Emerald City is reimagined as San Francisco, with identifiable landmarks such as the Transamerica Pyramid, Coit Tower, and the Golden Gate Bridge. A “Welcome to the Emerald City” sign and border of poppies frame the transition from the campaign trail to the convention city<br><br>
The artwork is signed “Desrocher,” identifying the illustrator as Jack Desrocher, a staff artist for the San Francisco Examiner during this period. Posters of this type were typically created as promotional or commemorative items connected with the newspaper’s convention coverage. The piece combines political caricature, timeline documentation, and regional iconography to present a complete visual summary of the 1984 Democratic primary season. |
| 7999 |  | Details | Landmark Adventures | 1992 |
| Greeville Avenue Dallas Texas Pictorial Map |
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Landmark Adventures |
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| 1992 |
| LOC:130 |
| $500.00 | Landmark-Adventures | Greeville-Avenue-Dallas-Texas-Pictorial-Map | This illustrated pictorial promotional poster map titled “Greenville Avenue: A Landmark Adventure – Dallas, Texas” depicts the full commercial corridor of Greenville Avenue using dense line-art drawings of individual businesses, landmarks, and street features. Drawn by Jack B. Weidner. Copyright Landmark Adventures, 1992-1993.
<br><br>The artwork organizes the avenue vertically, with north at the top, and identifies a large number of local establishments including restaurants, bars, boutiques, clubs, real-estate offices, and service businesses. Notable sites shown include the Doubletree Hotel, Old Town Shopping Center, Ada Art Gallery, Rollins, Corinthian Sailing Club, Pepe’s & Mito’s, The Diner, John’s Café, Flip’s, Nick’s Café, and many others. Corporate sponsors such as the Dallas Cowboys, Pepsi, Coors, RE/MAX, American Airlines, 94.5 The Edge, and Landmark Adventures appear within the composition, indicating commercial support at the time of publication. The map also includes playful vignettes—cars, pedestrians, musicians, hot-air balloons, aircraft, and neighborhood scenes—presented in a visually busy style meant to capture the character of the district.
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Directional labels (Deep Ellum, McKinney Avenue), street names (Ross Avenue), and inset business directories help orient the viewer, while the border incorporates a decorative pattern consistent with late-20th-century pictorial map design. The poster functions as both a promotional guide and a snapshot of Greenville Avenue’s retail environment at the time it was created, documenting a concentration of independent businesses alongside well-known local institutions. As ephemera, it records the commercial identity of one of Dallas’s most recognizable streets and provides a detailed reference to storefronts and neighborhood culture that may no longer exist in the same form today. |
| 7992 |  | Details | Menendez, Anthony E. | 1899 |
| Map of Havana and Vicinity |
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Menendez, Anthony E. |
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| 1899 |
| LOC:86 |
| $250.00 | Menendez--Anthony-E- | Map-of-Havana-and-Vicinity | First edition map of Havana, Cuba and the surrounding area. Copyright 1899. Small inset coastal recognition view of the lighthouse and Morro Castle at the entrance to Havana Harbor opposite la Punta.
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Scarce 1899 tourist map of Havana, Cuba, compiled and published by Anthony E. Menendez as the “Map of the City of Havana and Vicinity,” issued as the 1st Edition. Printed with a full street grid and surrounded by extensive indexes, the map identifies streets, parks, plazas, churches, markets, government offices, public buildings, hospitals, theaters, banks, and railway stations using an alphanumeric reference system. Major military and harbor defenses—including Morro Castle, La Cabaña, and La Punta—appear as engraved vignettes, along with illustrations of key civic structures across the city.
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The plan captures the arrangement of Havana at the turn of the twentieth century during the U.S. military administration following the Spanish–American War. The city’s waterfront, harbor entrance, wharves, and ferry routes are clearly plotted, and the western suburbs and parklands are shown with their developing street patterns. A large inset at lower right depicts the Grand Hotel Pasaje, while advertising across the top margin promotes the “Cuba” brand cigarette, indicating commercial distribution of the map.
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A detailed and visually engaging guide-map from a pivotal moment in Havana’s history, notable for its combination of practical indexing, architectural vignettes, and period promotional material. |
| 7991 |  | Details | Wehrmacht Propaganda Service | 1942 |
| German WWII propaganda poster Japanese capture of Singapore |
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Wehrmacht Propaganda Service |
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| 1942 |
| LOC:130 |
| $450.00 | Wehrmacht-Propaganda-Service | German-WWII-propaganda-poster-Japanese-capture-of-Singapore | Scarce German propaganda poster from World War II produced by the Wehrmacht Propaganda Service following the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Once considered the “Gibraltar of the East,” Singapore’s swift collapse to Japanese forces was seized upon by German propagandists to ridicule Britain’s waning imperial power and the failure of Allied defenses in Asia.
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Titled “Singapura em poder dos japoneses,” the poster presents four scenes of Japanese troops advancing through jungle terrain, tanks on the move, and aircraft strafing the island’s airfields. At the center, a map dramatizes the Allied supply routes to Singapore being severed—depicted with a pair of scissors—and highlights captured British and American bases throughout the South China Sea, the Philippines, and Malaya, symbolizing the Axis narrative of unstoppable Japanese expansion.<br></br>
Only two examples of this poster are found in WorldCat.
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At bottom: "A castello forte britanico na Grande Asia foi desbarratado Churchill e Roosevelt tambem ali perderam a jogo" reflecting the magnitude and impact of the defeat.
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Verso with Portuguese text related to Singapore and details of the conflict in Asia.
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| 7995 |  | Details | Nadon, Paul | 1985 |
| Humorous pictorial map of Breckenridge, Colorado from 1985. |
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Nadon, Paul |
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| 1985 |
| LOC:130 |
| $450.00 | Nadon--Paul | Humorous-pictorial-map-of-Breckenridge--Colorado-from-1985- | This colorful pictorial poster map of Breckenridge, Colorado, created and signed by Paul Nadon, presents a detailed illustrated view of the town’s commercial core and surrounding mountain setting as it was in the mid-1980's. The drawing highlights Main Street and nearby blocks through individually rendered storefronts, lodges, restaurants, ski shops, and local businesses, each shown with distinctive architectural and graphic detail. The map functions as a stylized guide to the businesses of the period while offering a snapshot of Breckenridge during the mid-1980s. Copyright New Sensations, 1985.
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Across the landscape, Nadon incorporates a wide variety of playful elements—skiers descending the slopes, hikers, wildlife, a hot-air balloon, a rainbow, and humorous scenes referencing local recreation. Hand-lettered notes provide bits of local history and commentary, while decorative banners and figures add to the informal, tourist-friendly tone of the piece. Despite the whimsical aesthetic, the arrangement of streets and buildings follows the real alignment of Main Street, Ridge Street, Park Avenue, and French Street.
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Produced at a time when Breckenridge was expanding as a Rocky Mountain ski destination, the map captures the town’s commercial identity at a moment of growth. Its combination of detailed storefront depictions, vibrant illustrations, and personable local character makes it both a practical period guide and a visually engaging souvenir from 1980s Breckenridge.<br><br> |
| 7987 |  | Details | Harrison, John | 1784 |
| A New Chart of the Sandwich Islands including oWhyhee Hawaii |
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Harrison, John |
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| 1784 |
| LOC:130 |
| $1,100.00 | Harrison--John | A-New-Chart-of-the-Sandwich-Islands-including-oWhyhee-Hawaii | Engraved chart of the Hawaiian Islands issued shortly after the publication of the official account of Captain Cook’s third voyage (James King; June, 1784). This chart was published one month later in London by Harrison & Co., on July 1, 1784. It traces the routes of Cook’s ships Resolution and Discovery through the Hawaiian archipelago and highlights “oWhyhee” (Hawaiʻi), where Cook met his death in February 1779.
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Based closely on Henry Roberts’ official chart but without the inset of Kealakekua Bay, Harrison’s version was created for a popular audience eager for news of the famous explorer’s final journey.
The map offers one of the earliest separately issued depictions of the Hawaiian Islands, capturing the moment when they first entered European geographic consciousness.
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Printed from a finely engraved copper plate, the chart combines geographic accuracy with contemporary drama, naming each island and noting Cook’s fatal landing. Examples of this edition are far scarcer than those bound in the official voyage atlas, making it a sought-after piece for collectors of Pacific exploration and early Hawaiian cartography.
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| 7984 |  | Details | Howells, Rulon S. | 1961 |
| Map of The Mormon Exodus to the Rocky Mountains |
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Howells, Rulon S. |
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| 1961 |
| LOC: |
| $300.00 | Howells--Rulon-S- | Map-of-The-Mormon-Exodus-to-the-Rocky-Mountains | Scarce mid-20th-century educational wall poster depicts the westward migration of the Mormon pioneers from the eastern United States to the Great Salt Lake Valley. The map traces multiple overland and sea routes—from early settlements in New York, Ohio, and Illinois across Iowa, Nebraska, and Wyoming to Utah—with fine line work and green-toned shading that visually emphasizes the journey’s progression.
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Illustrations along the route show covered wagons, handcarts, and pioneer figures, while smaller vignettes depict scenes such as the Mormon Battalion’s march and seaborne emigrant routes from Europe. At lower left, a narrative block summarizes the migration’s history, noting Brigham Young’s leadership and the founding of the Great Salt Lake settlement in 1847.
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Printed in green and black on white stock, the map carries the imprint: “A Teaching Aid – The Mormon Story – Teaching Aids, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois.” This poster was likely used in classrooms and religious education settings during the 1960s, part of a broader trend toward illustrated historical maps as visual teaching tools. An attractive and informative example of mid-century American educational cartography.
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Published by Bookcraft, Inc, 1961. |
| 7875 |  | Details | Holladay, John | 1992 |
| Rare Apocalyptic Los Angeles After Earthquake Puzzle |
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Holladay, John |
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| 1992 |
| LOC: |
| $385.00 | Holladay--John | Rare-Apocalyptic-Los-Angeles-After-Earthquake-Puzzle | Scarce and fun 1000 piece pictorial puzzle titled LA Shake and Bake, created in 1992 by illustrator John Holladay and published by F. X. Schmid. Puzzle is unopened in original shrink wrap as issued. <br><br>The puzzle presents a satirical pictorial view of Los Angeles shattered by a massive quake, with districts sliding toward the Pacific Ocean in a dense and humorous cartoon style. The image plays on long standing California earthquake lore. It was also issued by Schmid as an uncut poster. When assembled, the puzzle measures 26.5 by 17.25 inches.<br><br>
Holladay's theme draws on the popular misconception that California might someday break off along the San Andreas Fault, an idea that traces back to public misunderstanding of Andrew Lawson's 1906 report describing lateral motion after the San Francisco earthquake. His phrasing that the Pacific side moved northward relative to the American side echoed for decades, inspiring exaggerated public fears and giving artists like Holladay fertile ground for satirical disaster scenes. The puzzle captures that cultural myth with vivid color and a chaotic, engaging layout.<br><br>
LA Shake and Bake also reflects the long publishing history of F. X. Schmid, founded in Munich in 1860 and best known for toys, cards, and later board games and puzzles. By the 1970s and 1980s the company had expanded internationally, including a U.S. division that produced widely distributed puzzles like this one. Financial pressures in the mid 1990s led to a 1997 merger with Ravensburger, marking the end of Schmid as an independent maker. This puzzle stands as one of the imaginative late period Schmid releases, combining contemporary humor, geological lore, and striking packaging design.
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Box size roughly 15.5" x10". |
| 7864 |  | Details | Holladay, John | 1992 |
| Pictorial Poster View of Los Angeles Submerged After Earthquake |
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Holladay, John |
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| 1992 |
| LOC:89 |
| $800.00 | Holladay--John | Pictorial-Poster-View-of-Los-Angeles-Submerged-After-Earthquake | Fine medium-format satirical poster of Los Angeles titled LA Shake and Bake, created in 1992 by illustrator John Holladay. Very rare, with no institutional holdings found in WorldCat and no recorded sales of the poster on the Internet. <br><br>The artwork presents a dramatic cartoon vision of the city shattered by a massive quake, with hills cleaving open, and whole neighborhoods transformed into islands in a rising blue sea. Holladay fills the sheet with humorous detail, from boats navigating through canyon walls to crowds celebrating on newly formed shorelines. The Hollywood Hills, downtown high rises, and coastal districts are all reimagined as fragments of a fractured landscape, creating a lively blend of regional caricature and disaster fantasy that reflects long standing popular myths about California earthquakes.<br><br>
Issued by Holladay Prints independent of the moderately rare F. X. Schmid puzzle edition (in stock 12/25), this poster allows the viewer to appreciate the full composition without the grid of puzzle cuts. The image captures the playful anxiety of early 1990s Los Angeles culture, shaped by real seismic events like the 1992 Landers sequence and by public misconceptions that California might one day fall into the Pacific. With its bright palette, dense pen work, and packed narrative scenes, LA Shake and Bake stands as a memorable example of late twentieth century pictorial satire devoted to one of America’s most iconic urban landscapes. |
| 8017 |  | Details | Douglass, Richard M. | 1981 |
| Rare Scientology map, the First Theta Map of North America |
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Douglass, Richard M. |
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| 1981 |
| LOC:68 |
| $1,800.00 | Douglass--Richard-M- | Rare-Scientology-map--the-First-Theta-Map-of-North-America | Scarce second-edition (1) hand-colored lithographed pictorial "Theta Map of North America" created by Richard M. Douglass and published by the Friends of the Safe Environment Fund in 1981. Signed and numbered below the plate in pencil. Number 54 of 310. Provenance: the estate of Richard M. Douglass.
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Outer border of the map is filled with names of contributors to the Friends of the Safe Environment Fund. Printed by Aberdeen Road Graphics.
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In the 1970's Scientologists conducted "Operation Snow White", an effort to infiltrate and burglarize government offices, mainly in the United States, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Coast Guard, These organizations were considered to be enemies of Scientology. In 1977 the FBI raided Church of Scientology locations in Los Angeles, Hollywood and Washington, D.C. and as a result charged 11 members of Scientology including Mary Sue Hubbard, Cindy Raymond, Gerald Bennett Wolfe, Henning Heldt, Duke Snider, Gregory Willardson, Richard Weigand, Mitchell Herman, Sharon Thomas, Jane Kember, and Mo Budlong. ultimately resulting in jail time for five of the accused. The Friends of the Safe Environment Fund was established to help pay the legal expenses of the accused Scientologists. Signed on the original first monochrome edition by several of the individuals above who were charged by the government (e.g., not manuscript this edition).
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Art and Design by Paul Breeden (Credited with artwork for Ability magazine by L. Ron Hubbard in 1961).
Cartography by Pati Armstrong.
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(1) Only one copy of the colored version of Douglass's Theta Map is found online (Rumsey) and only two copies of the first edition (lacking color) are known to exist. |