Pacific Shore Maps

06/21/2023

1933 US Coast Pilot, Hawaii, 2nd edition with 1941 Supplement included. Cover all islands plus Midway, French Frigate Shoal and other outlying reefs and shoals. VG+ 128pp. $35 ppd any where in the US of A

12/01/2022

Whoa…

Imagine living in a world where music is not only heard but also seen. Where words have flavors, and colors have a smell. That is a reality for some people with the rare neurological condition synesthesia, and some artists are using it to expand their creative limits. Michelle San Miguel of Rhode Is...

09/10/2022

a circa 1938 "Historical Fun map of New Zealand". Color press, verso with data about Kiwi land

08/29/2022

The Map & Atlas Museum of La Jolla will be open by appointment only from Sept 1,2022 to June 1, 2023. Contact [email protected] to schedule a visit

05/15/2022

New York's Cental Park, 1873 ("Picturesque America", etching,)

04/19/2022

On the last post, the hours should be 11-4 vice 10-4. Excuse my inability to type

04/19/2022

MAP MUSEUM TO RE-OPEN IN JUNE

After two years of "by appointment only" visits due to COVID restrictions, the Map & Atlas Museum of La Jolla will open once again to general visiting
The new hours will be 10-4 Wednesdays and Thursdays. The Museum will also be open the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month in July and August. More information is available on the Museum web site: www.lajollam,apmuseum.org.
The Museum, located at 7825 Fay Ave, Courtyard Level, houses the personal collection of Mr. Michael Stone and features cartography from the 15th to 20th Centuries. As always, admission is free, and no donations are accepted.

02/21/2022

c1958. Gas company map, but a fun "read"

07/17/2021

Baltimore in 1864. S.A. Mitchell. Engraving with origiubnal hand color

06/15/2021

The Map & Atlas Museum of La Jolla is re-opened

05/17/2021

itle: “Emigrants Crossing the Plains"”

Cartographer/Artist: F.O.C. Darley (Engraved by Francis Hall)

Date and Place: 1874; New York.

Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.

Reference: Picturesque America

Dimensions & Type: 6 x 9 on a 8 x 11 sheet; BW steel plate engraving

Condition: VG+; Very nice example

Description: Taken from the "Picturesque America " series (Issued both as a 2 Volume set and as weekly subscriptions.) Edited by William Cullen Bryant, this series was one of the earliest to give Americans an arm-chair view of the country, now stretching coast to coast.

One of the most stunning and iconic engravings from the series, there a bit of everything in this view. Note the couple in the upper left pointing westward while in the foreground a dog laps water from a stream and behind the main characters, the wagon train stretches' out of sight. Given the realities of westward emigration, this is probably a bit overdrawn, but still it is very dramatic. In a small way, the image foreshadows Thomas Hart Benton (my opinion only) $35