Boston Rare MapsSpecializing in antique American maps & prints
![Hal Shelton, Vail [:] COLORADO . . . SKI COUNTRY USA. Colorado Springs: Looart, ND [but ca. 1965.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BRM3213-Hal-Shelton-Vail-ca-1967_lowres-e1546614337648-150x150.jpg)
An attractive 1960s bird’s-eye view of Vail ski resort, one of the America’s iconic Winter destinations. The main image is a bird’s eye view of the resort’s front bowls, trails and lifts, complemented by a view of the back bowls at lower right and a photograph of the base resort at lower left. It was […]
![[ Containment Policy ] Draper Hill, [Two versions of an untitled Vietnam War-era political cartoon featuring Lyndon Johson, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara.] Probably Worcester, Mass., ca. 1865-68.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BRM2941-Draper-Hill-LBJ-cartoon_2-150x150.jpg)
A rare political cartoon by Draper Hill satirizing the United States’ Cold War-era Containment Policy, which sought to limit the expansion of Soviet communism but ended up precipitating the catastrophe of the Vietnam War. Present here in both working manuscript and printed form, enabling one to see changes from conception to the final copy. The […]
![Map of domestic terrorism from THE BLACK PANTHER [:] Black Community News Service. San Francisco: The Black Panther Party Ministry of Information, Feb. 6 1971.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/BRM3385-Black-Panther-Feb-6-1971_map_lowres-e1567206666866-150x150.jpg)
An issue of the weekly newspaper published by the Black Panthers, featuring a most interesting thematic map of “acts of sabotage and terrorism in the United States.” The Black Panther newspaper was first published in 1967, and over its 13-year run became an important vehicle for the Black Panthers’ campaign to raise consciousness, organize at […]
![Beatles map [:] John Paul George Ringo. Liverpool: City of Liverpool Public Relations Office, [1974.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BRM3228-The-Beatles-1974_lowres-e1569062540728-150x150.jpg)
An extremely rare poster-size Beatles Map highlighting The Fab Four’s many connections to Liverpool and promoting that city as a tourist destination. Rendered in the graphic style of the Beatles’ animated film Yellow Submarine, this pictorial map highlights areas of Liverpool where the Fab Four were born, lived, studied and performed. It also features Penny […]
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 […]
![Timothy Edward Downs, PC Computing[:] Road Map to the Internet. New York: Ziff-Davis, 1994.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BRM3428-Downs-Internet-1994_recto_lowres-e1571777972977-150x150.jpg)
Possibly the first map of the Internet for popular consumption, 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 Computing were in a three-way race for subscribers and newsstand sales. […]
A highly-decorative mid 19th century-style trade sign for an unidentified dealer in naval stores, charts and globes, with three superbly-detailed applied relief carvings of navigational instruments. This trade sign was constructed from old, evenly-patinated oak boards joined horizontally and cut to a “tombstone” shape, with a “kerf-cut” molding around the edges. To this the maker […]
Archive of two manuscript and three printed charts of the lower Yangtze River and Poyang Lake, descended in a North Shore, Massachusetts family after having been brought back to the United States by a ship on the Yangtze Patrol after the Second Opium War. Three of the charts are backed with silk and mounted on […]
![[Anonymous], ΧΑΡΤΗς ΤΗς ΜΕΔΒΑς [Map of Medaba]. [Jerusalem, ca. late 1897-1900?]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BRM3136-Madaba-map_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A rare and lovely manuscript based on the famed Madaba Map. One of the most spectacular cartographic relics of the ancient world, this enormous sixth-century mosaic floor map includes the earliest extant map of the Holy Land. Created in the late seventh century, the mammoth mosaic of the Middle East now known as the Madaba Map […]
A striking bird’s-eye view of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, produced to supply the burgeoning tourist trade of the late 19th century. By the end of the 19th century the Lakes and White Mountain regions of New Hampshire had become major tourist destinations, with a well-developed network of rail and coach links, hotels and inns, and guide […]