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Vintage illustration map featuring an aerial landscape view of New York City and the Manhattan borough with the Brooklyn Bridge crossing over the East River with ships and boats sailing.

Vintage illustration bird's eye view map of Los Angeles, California, 1871 featuring views of the west coast with the Pacific Ocean, agricultural farm fields, buildings, streets and a variety if insets featuring daily life scenes and important landmarks.

Vintage illustration antique map of the City of Los Angeles California and the Santa Ana River. A bird's eye view as seen from the Electric Power House.

Vintage illustration antique map Japonia, Iaponia by Gerardus Mercator and Jodocus Hondius, 1606 featuring parts or the far east with the three main islands of Japan and includes Korea as an island and parts of China on the mainland. The map is embellished with sea monsters, a Japanese junk and a Dutch galleon ship in the Chinese Ocean.

Vintage illustration antique world map by Willem Jansz Blaeu, c1617 featuring the European continent and some surrounding areas of Africa, Asia and the Atlantic Ocean, c. 1617. This chart is surrounded by city scenes and people dressed in traditional costumes.

Vintage illustration antique map of Denmark, Danemark, 1905. This old world map includes Zealand (Sjælland), Funen (Fyn) and Jutland (Jylland) with the North Sea. The insets show the island of Bornholm and The Sound (Øresund) the strait of water that separates Denmark from Sweden.

Vintage illustration antique map with an aerial view of the City of Chicago including LaSalle Street, Chicago River and ships in the harbor. Originally published by Ed Mendel. LaSalle Street is a major north-south street in Chicago named for Sieur de La Salle, an early explorer of Illinois.

Vintage illustration bird's eye view of the streets of the capital city of Austin, Texas (Travis County) with the Colorado River in the foreground. The Deaf and Dumb Institution and the Insane Asylum and in the lower corner insets.

Vintage illustration antique world map featuring Africa and the island of Madagascar by cartographer Willem Jansz Blaeu, c. 1635. Willem Janszoon Blaeu was a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher. The sides are lined with people dressed in native costumes and along the top edge are smaller city maps.

Vintage illustration antique map of Africa by Hondius and Jansson, 1635. Africae nova Tabula. This map is filled with fictitious rivers and mountains with the origin of the Nile conforming to the Ptolemaic tradition of twin lakes located below the equator. The Kingdom of Monomotapa fills the entire southern tip of Africa which is now shown as more rounded. The border includes insets with 10 sets of costumed figures, representing the indigenous peoples of Africa and six city views along the top. The cartouche has a clock with Roman numerals and a bell, the face of the clock is a skull surrounded by the rays of the sun.

Vintage illustration antique world map featuring Africa, including the island of Madagascar by Gerardus Mercator, 1633. A beautiful cartouche, ornate inset with the title is in the corner. Also featured are the Atlantic and Indian Oceans Around South Africa, Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Vintage illustration 1891 panoramic map featuring a bird's eye view looking south of the city of Houston Texas with the Buffalo River running through it out to Galveston Bay. Inserts at the bottom of the page include various public and private buildings office buildings, Cotton Exchange building, City Hall, Town Market, Harris County Courthouse, railroads and Land and Trust Company's bank and vaults.

Vintage illustration heart shaped antique world map by Petrus Apianus (aka Peter Apian), 1530. Petrus Apianus was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography. The lunar crater Apianus is named in his honor.

Vintage illustration antique heart shaped world map by Petrus Apianus, 1520. This map is thought to be the first map to use the name America. Tipus Orbis Universalis iuxta Ptolemei Cosmographi Traditionem et Americi Vespucii Aliorque Lustrationes a Petro Apiano Leysnico Elucbrat An. Do. MDXX

Vintage illustration antique world map featuring teachers, scientists, explorers and cartographers mapping a globe by Jean Rotz, 1542. A mythological scene overhead with angels in the clouds and a banner with signs of the zodiac.

Vintage illustration antique world map detail by artist Martin Waldseemüller ( c. 1470-1520) featuring Claudius Ptolemy and the wind blowing from the west, several continents (Africa, Asia and Europe) and blue oceans and seas.

Vintage illustration antique world map featuring the British Empire, 1886 by Walter Crane. The text in the top banners reads Freedom, Fraternity, Federation and the map is surrounded by people and animals representing the international diversity of the globe.

Vintage illustration Baroque Era antique old world map Atlas Frontispiece (the title page for an atlas c. 1650). Atlas is holding up the world while cartographers and explorers are studying maps below him.

Vintage illustration antique world map by Pieter Goos, 1666. Birds are flying towards a shining sun casting rays over the hemispheres and continents. Below the chart is a set of allegorical figures representing the four seasons, summer, autumn, spring and winter. Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula.

Vintage magic poster art featuring the magician Harry August Jansen, The Great Jansen. America's Greatest Transformist and his own big American Company. Jansen's favorite surprise, the American Beatuy.

Vintage magic poster art featuring the magician Charles Carter, Carter the Mysterious with swirling smoke, devils and magic scenes floating around him.

Vintage magic poster art featuring the magician Charles Carter, Carter the Great. The World's Weird Wonderful Wizard.

Vintage magic poster art featuring the magician Clementine de Vere, aka Ionia. A British magician and illusionist she was also known as Clementine Weedon and Princess Clementine Eristavi Tchitcherine. She performed with the stage names "Ionia the Enchantress" or the "Goddess of Mystery".

Vintage illustration magic poster featuring the famous magician Harry Houdini with his Death Defying Mystery. Failure means a drowning death. Escape from a galvanized iron can filled with water and secured by massive locks.

La Rue Montorgueil à Paris fête du 30 juin 1878 (The Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878) by Claude Monet.

Bouquet of Sunflowers (1881) by Claude Monet is a vintage impressionist fine art floral still life featuring yellow blooming summer flowers from the garden in a vase.

This Floral Textile Rug Design by William Morris is a vintage Victorian Era fine art Pre-Raphaelite pattern that was originally created as a rug. The design features flowers and leaves in a scrolling pattern that is reminiscent of medieval tapestries.

This is a vintage Victorian Era fine art Pre-Raphaelite pattern by William Morris. It was originally created as a rug, and now it's available on modern products. The pattern features a repeating design of swirling leaves and flowers.

Anemone by William Morris is a vintage Victorian Era fine art Pre-Raphaelite floral textile pattern featuring cream and green flowers with a large stem pattern in diagonal lines, on a green background.

Floral Textile Rug Design by William Morris is a vintage Victorian Era fine art Pre-Raphaelite pattern originally created as a rug.

Wey by William Morris is a vintage Victorian Era fine art Pre-Raphaelite floral textile pattern featuring large white, yellow, pale blue and green flowers and large stem pattern in diagonal lines, on a deep blue background.

Snakeshead by William Morris features a dramatic flame like motif with alternating spiky foliage clusters. was influenced by Indian textiles taking it's name from nodding snakes head fritillary blooms.

Cherwell by William Morris is a vintage Victorian Era fine art Pre-Raphaelite floral textile pattern featuring a decorative floral scene in subtle neutral tones against a foliage background.

Saint James (1880) by William Morris is a vintage Victorian Era fine art Pre-Raphaelite floral textile pattern featuring bright yellows and teal blues for a burst of summer color. This floral pattern has blooming yellow spring garden flowers and acanthus leaves, a plant known for it's beautiful foliage.

Vintage illustration magic poster featuring magician Howard Thurston. The Great Magician. The wonder show of the universe. Do the spirits come back?

Pre-Raphaelite Victorian Era textile design Willow Leaves by William Morris.