Week Eleven

American Atlantic ports N. Sheet (1922)

Color lithographed map. Depths shown by layer tints. Shows mail routes and duration, steamship routes, distances, navigable waters for large steamers, canals, principal railways, cables, lighthouses, lightships, docks, coaling stations, British and…

Nova Scotia Relief Map at Amherst, Nova Scotia (ca. 1930s)

A physical map presenting the province to tourists arriving by car. Part of an interwar project of highway-based tourism.

Trip - planning map of the United States (1950): Know Your America

"The Heritage of every American reaches across a continent: Trip - planning map of the United States"
Text Page/ Map: Trip - planning map of the United Stats : Showing principal highways and National Parks.

Pictorial map in color on sheet 62x81,…

Ride the roads to romance along the Golden Coast and thru the sunshine empire of Southern California (1963)

A lively and highly artistic pictorial map of Southern California, on sheet 56x88.5, border with various attractive vignettes. Folded into self wrappers 21.5x9.5. Extends from Malibu Beach, Topanga Canyon and Mission San Fernando to Ensenada,…

Trans-Canada Highway (1952)

Couple consulting a road map in front of the Trans-Canada highway sign, intersection of highways 15 & 17, Ottawa, Ontario (July 1952). NFB still by Chris Lund, LAC.

Visit Faraway Friends Tonight (1953)

Highway map of the United States with telephone rates/coverage. Similar to General Drafting Company's 1950 road map, but with insets/features solely of New Jersey.

Composite map: 1-3. The road from London to Aberistwith

(Composite map) The road from London to Aberistwith : on the sea coast com. Cardigan, wherein are included the roads to Oxford and Worcester, Actually surveyed. I. Senex Sculpt. (to accompany)The roads through England delineated, or, Ogilby's survey…

Sheet 170. London S.W.

1940s ordnance survey maps of London

London Street Map and Transport Plan (German Military High Command).

In preparing to invade Britain, the German military preparations included the production of a series of military/geographical assessments, showing what might be found by those arriving. This material was also used in a military evaluation of the…

England, Wales Roman, modern.

A general and classical atlas: accompanied with a concise treatise on the principles of geography; and with a few practical remarks on the application of maps to the purpose of instruction. By the Rev. Edward Patteson, M.A. of Richmond, Surrey.…

British Isles - railways & industrial.

This is the second issue of the 1920 edition, which was the first edition to use Bartholomew's maps (the only earlier edition used maps by Andree, published in 1895 (see our #1010). Superb maps, beginning a run of Times Atlas editions that continues…

Great Britain. Ordnance Survey: Sheet 124. King's Lynn.

Series published 1940-1947, but omitting the war years 1941-1944. Complete set of published 115 maps in New Popular Series. The discontinuous numbering system begins with Sheet No. 64. Bound in 4 large volumes in which each sheet has been mounted on…

English Channel

2nd edition, 1905 Philip's Philips' Mercantile Marine Atlas. Edited by George Philip. Published by George Philip & Son and London Geographical Institute in 1905. Maps are double page, printed in full color, including general maps and diagrams,…

The North Atlantic Ocean