Maps & Atlases

Maps & Atlases

Politics & Satire: The Etchings of James Gillray

With the presidential primary election in full swing, we’re all up to our eyeballs in satirical columns and ca…

Lot 32: Isaak de Graaf, a fine manuscript map of the Java Sea, ink and watercolor on vellum, Amsterdam, 1743.
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A Rare Manuscript Map from the Dutch East India Company: Java

With an almost two hundred year history, the Dutch East India Company (known in Dutch as Vereenigde Oost-Indische Co…

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The Foundation of a Capital: Early Maps of Washington D.C.

Washington, D.C., with its neoclassical architecture and grand monuments, almost seems as if it arose organically ov…

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A Famous Cartographic Blunder: The Island of California

For more than a century the state of California was thought to be an island. How? Misinformation by way of maps. In …

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Taking a Closer Look: A Map of Kyoto as the Imperial Capital of Japan

The June 3, 2014 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books is marked by a number of uni…

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Battle of the Nile Sketch: The French Fleet on the Eve of Its Destruction

Swann Galleries’ June 3, 2014 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books offe…

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Notes from the Catalogue: John Randel’s Map of New York

Among the highlights of Swann’s June 6 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Historical Prints,…