(New York – New York) A New Yorker’s Idea of the United States Antique Maps A fine work for France

A fine work for France by DeJode

The Environs of London

This map of the world shows the directions of the Oceans currents

Wisconsin & Iowa

Great study of native distribution and culture

(New York – New York) A New Yorker’s Idea of the United States Antique Maps A fine work for France(New York New York) A New Yorkers Idea of the United States of America It seems like a common, comic approach today, but this map by Wallingford is one that helped start the whole genre of whimsical perspectival maps. Beginning as early as the late 1920's he hit on a funny style that caught on quickly. This gem for the NYC urbanite shows a jumbled funny map of the states with a radically distorted NYC, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Condition is good