Maps

Lot 135: C.L. Hawkins, Chicago the Greatest Inland City in the World, color-lithographed perspective map of Chicago looking west from Lake Michigan, Chicago, 1938. Estimate $800 to $1,200.
Maps of the American Continent and Revolutionary War Lead Swann Auction
Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books sale on December 7 is set to include a wide assortment of maps and graphics
The American Atlas by Thomas Jefferys
Jefferys' The American Atlas and Nelson Mandela's Personal Law Handbook at Frieze Masters London
Peter Harrington returns to Frieze Masters - currently running until October 15 - with a catalogue concentrating on the many ways the illustrative arts have enhanced, decorated, and illuminat
The earliest map of the Lothians, from Scotland's first atlas, by Joan Blaeu (1654).jpg (155.45 KB)
Scotland's First Atlas and Shakespeare’s First Folio at National Library of Scotland
The National Library of Scotland’s Shakespeare First Folio is now on display alongside a new selection of items as part of its revolving ‘Treasures of the National Library of Scotland’ exhibition.
Two first edition copies of the Greenwood London maps published in 1827
London Book Dealer Paul Bentley's Map Collection to Auction
Sworders’ upcoming Books and Maps sale will include the collection of London book dealer Paul Bentley (1931-2022).
One of the Armada maps, here showing Cornwall
Rare Spanish Armada Maps on Display for the First Time
The Armada Maps National Treasures exhibition offers the chance to view 10 incredibly rare
John Speed's atlas
John Speed 17th Century Atlas Makes Auction Debut
A market-fresh copy of the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman comes for sale at 
18th century map of California
18th Century California Map the First to Depict San Francisco Bay
New York – On October 25, Bonhams will present the most important 18th century map of California as the highlight of its Exploration and Travel Literature, fea
Journal of Magellan's Voyage
Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale
A research trip to the Beinecke Library at Yale University gave me the opportunity to visit its new exhibition, The World in Maps: 1400-1
Olaus Magnus’ Carta marina
Cartographer Olaus Magnus' Map of Sea Monsters
Disappointed with the maps of Scandinavia that were circulating throughout Europe in the early sixteenth century, Olaus Magnus (1490–1557) set out on a twelve-year quest to map the region to a leve
cerographic printing
Rail & Road
Maps set “the stage on which the drama [of politics and business] is played,” reads Rand McNally’s full-page advertisement from 1924, “[and] without this stage, the plot is meaningless.” The statem