Boston Rare MapsSpecializing in antique American maps & prints
![Timothy Edward Downs, Road Map to the World Wide Web [and on verso:] PC Computing The World Wide Web Business and Beyond. New York: Ziff-Davis, 1995.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/BRM3353-Downs-Road-Map-to-World-Wide-Web-1995_lowres-e1564421249193-150x150.jpg)
A rare and striking map of the World Wide Web capturing the excitement of the earliest days of the new technology. Designed by legendary technical artist Timothy Edward Downs as a bonus for purchasers of PC Computing magazine. PC Computing and Timothy Edward Downs Back in the early nineties PC Magazine, PC World and PC […]
![Chieko Shiomi [and George Maciunas], spatial poem no. 2[:] a fluxatlas[:] THIS IS THE RECORD OF VARIOUS DIRECTIONS TO WHICH PEOPLE WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY MOVING OR FACING AROUND 10PM ( GREENWICH TIME ) OCTOBER 15TH 1965. [NP:] Fluxus, 1966/reprinted 1992.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BRM3173-Shiomi-Fluxatlas-1965_1992-map-lowres-scaled-e1607457245196-150x150.jpg)
A crowdsourced cartographic work documenting a moment on October 15, 1965, spatial poem no. 2 was the second of nine such events staged by artist Chieko Shiomi. In 1964 Japanese artist and composer Chieko (or Mieko) Shiomi (1938- ) was invited to New York City by George Maciunas, founder of the Fluxus network of artists, […]
An entertaining 1987 persuasive map offering a liberal caricature of the world view of President Ronald Reagan. The map uses a pictorial style to depict the United States and Soviet Union wildly out of scale with the rest of the world. Reagan in full gunfighter regalia stands astride a hypertrophied California, while a dour Gorbachev, […]
![[ ROTC ] Research by Ed Hedemann / Design by Rick Bickhart, THE MILITARY INVASION OF AMERICAN SCHOOLS [:] Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. New York: War Resisters League, [prob. 1984/5].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BRM3710-War-Resisters-Military-Invasion-American-Schools-1985_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A persuasive map highlighting the “military invasion” of American secondary and higher education by Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) programs. The poster features a map of the United States covered with symbols indicating the locations of ROTC programs at high schools (circles) and colleges (triangles). A long index on the verso, organized by state, lists […]
A 1983 persuasive map by the War Resisters League, highlighting the deployment of intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe. Issued at a time when NATO’s deployment of such weapons had catalyzed huge protest there and in the United States. This is one of a suite of anti-nuclear maps published in the 1970s and-80s by the […]
![[Archive of film location maps for distribution to cast and crew of dozens of films and TV shows.] Los Angeles area, 1983-1987.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BRM3609-Film-location-map-archive-1983-1987_lowres-150x150.jpg)
An enormous collection of 281 film location maps from the mid-1980s, distributed to film cast and crew just in advance of their shoots. Ephemeral in the extreme, designed to be used for a few days at most and then discarded. The archive represents a great swathe of mid-‘80s mainstream American film and TV culture, from […]
![[After David Horsey], THE WORLD ACCORDING TO RONALD REAGAN. Information Center of the World Peace Council , [1982-83?].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/BRM3543-World-According-to-Ronald-Reagan-scaled-e1586699863308-150x150.jpg)
An entertaining persuasive map from the early years of the Ronald Reagan Presidency, published by the Helsinki-based World Peace Council and offering a liberal caricature of the Great Communicator’s world view. The map depicts the United States and Soviet Union wildly out of scale with the rest of the world. The United States is divided […]
![[David] Horsey, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO RONALD REAGAN. Seattle: Seattle Post Intelligencer, 1982.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BRM3640-Horsey-World-According-to-Ronald-Reagan-1982_lowres-scaled-e1599773756377-150x150.jpg)
An entertaining 1982 persuasive map by David Horsey offering a liberal caricature of Ronald Reagan’s Cold Warrior world view. The map uses a pictorial style to depict the United States and Soviet Union wildly out of scale with the rest of the world. Reagan in full gunfighter regalia stands astride a hypertrophied California, while Leonid […]
A compelling persuasive map by the War Resisters League, highlighting the pervasiveness of the American nuclear complex, emphasizing the close link between civilian and military applications of nuclear energy, and calling for grassroots mobilization. The poster features a thematic map of the United States covered with symbols indicating nuclear facilities, the shape and color of […]
Adz Gayzette, which ran under variant titles from 1970-1972, was a free newspaper targeting the San Francisco gay community. In addition to occasional news reporting, it provided a weekly calendar of events, classifieds and personals, an advice column and more. Despite the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the newly-emergent Gay Pride movement, one source describes […]