Philadelphia: P.S. Duval, 1847. Map. Hand colored engraving. Image measures 12 x 16.5". This map of Mexico depicts the area of highlands in the central region of the country. Published circa 1847, it dates to the period of the Mexican-American War, and in particular the Invasion of Vera Cruz, in which Edmund Lafayette Hardcastle, the mapmaker, participated. Hardcastle then prepared the map for the U.S. War Department, Corps of Engineers in the wake of the fall of Mexico City in... More

London: Milan, 1757. Collected by a Gentleman of the Army. In which are included, Kane's Discipline for a Battalion in Action...and General Kane's Campaigns of King William and the Duke of Marlborough...Hand-tinted folding map of the Seat of War, Lines and Plans of Battles (some hand-tinted), and above Sixty Military Schemes, finely engraved from the originals of Generals... charts, (some folding). 146pp. + 21pp. charts and plans + 55pp. + 10pp., 8vo, original mottled calf covers, rebacked in calf with... More

New York: Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, 1918. Poster. Color lithograph. Page measures 35 3/4 x 25 inches. World War I recruiting poster by Czech artist Vojtech Preissig. Several horizontal creases, unmounted. This poster is number 10 in a series of 16 designed and printed at the the School of Printing and Graphic Arts of Wentworth Institute where Preissig was director. Poster states, issued by the Czech Recruiting Office, Tribune Building, New York. Repairs to margins. More

The Office of the Quarter Master General, 1857. Map. Lithograph. Image measures 13.5 x 29.5 inches. Sheet measures 15.75 x 31 inches. In very good condition. Shows some staining, some wear to original fold lines. Sheet trimmed to neat line at bottom left edge. A military map of the United States that indicates forts, barracks, arsenals, historic regimental routes, regional departments, as well as geographic features such as major mountain ranges and rivers. Lithograph by H. Lawrence, NY. Hard to find. More

Washington, D.C. US War Department, 1943. Original double-sided poster. Offset lithograph in both color and black and white. 35" x 47 3/4". Newsmap was a weekly educational and propaganda poster published by the US War Department during and immediately after World War II. It ran in four volumes from April 1942 to March 1946, after which an additional eight issues were published. Newsmaps were not issued for general distribution, the posters were distributed to military installations as well as government... More