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A gallery of antique prints & maps, vintage books, magazines & ephemera, from the 1600s to the 1960s - great design is not limited by date!

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Birds Eye View of Casco Bay: Portland, Maine and Surroundings. 1905.
An attractive bird's eye view of the bay around Portland Harbor, stretching to the White Mountain Range in the distance. Towns, islands, and places of interest are named, and rail lines and ferry routes are mar

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Indian Textures. A limited edition serigraph signed by Millard Sheets (1907-1989), a prominent American artist who worked in India and Burma as an artist-correspondent for Life magazine and the United States Air Force during World War II. He was a luminary of the California art w

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A Map of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park, Maine, 1938. A striking tricolor map embellished with vignettes of sailing ships. Elevation is indicated and highways, roads, foot trails, etc. are all shown.

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The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. A stunning Victorian luxury production featuring chromolithographs by architect and ornamental designer Owen Jones. Jones had an active role in the design of the 1851 Great Exhibition, and his publications of exotic ornamental motifs infl

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A bird's eye view of London from the early 20th century.

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On a 1959 Pan Am travel poster, a colorful illustration of a marketplace by Algot Stenbery (1902 - 1983) floats against a photographic background image of pre-Hispanic stone carvings.

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The Rhinopithecus Bieti (black snub-nosed monkey) was drawn and lithographed by Adolphe Millot for Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'histoire naturelle (3rd Series, Vol. X, Plate 9) circa 1898.

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Gorgeous cover image of a propeller by George Giusti from the August 1942 issue of Fortune Magazine. The magazine contains many interesting articles covering the difficulties of the Second World War -- exiled governments in London, Navy planning, air transport, and so on.

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A Map of Old Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1929. A brightly colored and picturesque bird's eye view style mapping of historic Boston.

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A Kellogg's Corn Flakes "Votes for Women" ad from the April 1914 issue of The Ladies' World. Corporate pandering? Yes, but a charming image.

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October 1938 Fortune Magazine cover by Miguel Covarrubias. This cover was beautifully preserved in a contemporary binder - many thanks to the original collector! The issue included the article "Mexico in Revolution" with a double-page color pictorial map by Carlos Merida and illu

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A 1905 map of Spokane showing numbered lots and the names of development areas. "Compiled under the direction of Chas. and H.L. McIntyre, Engineers. Approved by Allan F. Gill, City Engineer". No WorldCat listings.

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Race for the America's Cup - The Start, October Fifth. Wood engraving published as a foldout supplement in Harper's Weekly magazine, October 1893.

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Ilonka Karasz, a Hungarian-American best known for her New Yorker cover illustrations, by Eugene Speicher.

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A Pictorial Map of North America, 1945. A most attractively designed map by Ernest Dudley Chase. To left and right are vignette images of important buildings and scenic spots in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Cuba.

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Poster for the 1950 Warner Brothers film "Caged" starring Eleanor Parker. Set in a women's prison and directed by John Cromwell, the film received three Academy Award nominations. The poster was the product of Western Poster Company, San Francisco.

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Catholic America. A Pictorial Map portraying the contribution of Catholics in the development of the United States of America 1492 to 1946. An elaborate map by Ernest Dudley Chase incorporating Catholic iconography into its design, to beautiful effect.

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A striking and colorful circa 1940s tourist poster showing logs floating down a river as a herd of reindeer graze off to one side. "Published by the Swedish Tourist Traffic Association in Co-operation with the Local Tourist Associations Concerned". An uncommon item with no OCLC l

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The City of Quebec with Historical Notes, 1932. A striking lithographic map poster in blue, yellow, green and red (similar to many of the popular pictorial maps of this era), the border on this map is suggestive of a mosaic giving a historical feeling and looking somewhat like a