Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. Sea chart. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 36" x 29" This fantastically detailed sea chart issued by the United States Coast Survey in 1867 beautifully depicts the Boston Harbor and broader Massachusetts Bay. The chart extends from Nahant and Lynn Harbor in the north to Scituate Bay at the southern limit, including the Boston Harbor as well as the Quincy Bay, Nantasket, and Cohasset Harbor. The map notes numerous depth soundings throughout and other important maritime..... More

Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1756. Map. Engraving. Page measures 10 3/4" x 15 5/8". Image measures 8.5" x 10.5". Beautifully drawn early map of Bombay Harbor, known today as "Front Bay". Shows depths and sandbars. Also includes pictorial details including churches, forts, and ships. Very good condition. Map by Jacob van der Schley, after Bellin, published in the Dutch edition of Bellin's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages" Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), was the official hydrographer to the French king and the..... More

Philadelphia. Broadside. 19 1/2 x 13 inches. Some scuffing and rust marks and stamp remnants, otherwise in good condition. Broadside manifesto with two colums of text and 17 diagrams that accompanied the Dymaxion Air ocean World Map. Fuller claims that his patented Dymaxion map will benefit air travel as much as "the Mercator map was appropriate to the square rigged east-west sailings with the Trade Winds closely paralleling the Equator, around which the Mercator projection was least distorted." Richard Buckminster..... More

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. Map. Engraving. Uncolored. Image measures 12" x 20". Page measures 21.25" x 17.5". This late-18th-century map illustrates the phenomenon of the Gulf Stream as named and first charted by Benjamin Franklin in 1762. A thick band of engraved lines visualize the ocean current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico up the Eastern seaboard and then east to the coast of Africa, labelled as "Azanhaga." Jones' map builds on Franklin's initial example by providing contextual information that..... More