PHELPS, Humphrey [New York: 1857] Phelps' New York City Map, With Portions of Brooklyn, Jersey City, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Astoria, and Hoboken… 25 x 45 ¾ inches. 25 x 45 ¾ inches. Lithographed wall map with fine original color, refreshed; professionally conserved & re-backed, with some stabilized tears and a few.....
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Two sheets: America West Cape Mendocino to Vancouver Id. from Cape Flattery southward... [and] America West Diego Bay to Cape Mendocino.
Scarce, finely engraved chart on two sheets of the entire west coast of the United States and including the southern portion of Vancouver Island. Each of the 27 coastal recognitions on the charts is delicately realized. These provided visual reference for the entry to the major bays and ports as.....
Perrine's New Topographical War Map of the Southern States Taken from the latest government surveys and official reports. [With booklet:] A Concise History Of The War….
Large, detailed, up-to-date map of the entire theatre of the American Civil War, accompanied by a booklet that provides a day to day history of the war from its beginning to November 30th, 1863. Red circles on the map indicate the sites of engagements. Railroad lines are shown throughout, and.....
Colton’s Map of the Oil District of West Virginia and Ohio.
Very scarce, richly informative map showing the oil, gas and coal discoveries in West Virginia at the beginning of that region’s oil boom. The key areas along the Little Kanawha and Hughes Rivers in West Virginia and on Buck Creek in Ohio are shown in great detail. Roads, railroads and.....
Manhattan. VIELE, Egbert L. [New York, 1865] Topographical Map of the City of New York,… 18 x 62 ½ inches. Lithograph with original hand color; flattened & mounted on rice paper, light discoloration & a few reinforcements at some folds, else excellent. With pamphlet (13 pp) describing the map and.....
Bancroft's Map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona,
A bright, vibrant example of a map of California and the western states by "the greatest map publisher of the Pacific Coast" (Wheat). The map descended from what Wheat called "the great 'map of the Pacific states'"--that of William H. Knight, published in 1863, also by the Bancroft firm. The.....
The First Hotel Erected by the Oak Bluffs Land & Wharf Co. 1867.
A superb chromolithograph, subtly capturing the burnishing effects of rosy dawn lighting, on Martha’s Vineyard first resort hotel. The plain, somewhat barn-like structure depicted here is in keeping with the middle-class nature of the Wesleyans who created the island’s first resort community. Other and grander hotels soon followed, resulting in.....
Singapore/ Parts of Malaysia, Borneo & Java. JAMES IMRAY & SON [London: 1880] East India Archipelago [Western Route to China. Chart No.2]… 1880. 49 x 40 inches, 124.5 x 101.7 cm. Two joined, lithographed sheets mounted on new, heavy blue paper with original trade label affixed. Courses with positions and.....
United States/ New York State/ Railroads/ Advertising. HANNIFAN & CO., Publisher/ RAND MCNALLY, Printer [New York, 1886] 1885.-Railroad Map And Business Guide in Book Form.-1886.Embracing the Principal Manufacturers, Trades and Representative Business House of Utica, Rome Camden..and Schenectady. 25 ½ x 39 ½ inches. Lithographed folding map with original hand.....
Maine/ Canada/ Passamaquoddy Bay/ Deer & Campobello Islands. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, U. S. NAVY [Washington, D. C.: January, 1891] North America United States And Canada Passamaquoddy Bay And Approaches. 29 x 34 ½ inches. Lithograph with ighthouses daubed in yellow watercolor; some mended splits entering surface, partial reinforcing of outer margins.....
U.S. COAST & GEODETIC SURVEY. [Washington, DC: 1894/ 1898] North Shore Of Long Island Sound George’s Rock To Sheffield Island Including Saugatuck And Norwalk Rivers Connecticut… 42 x 33 ¼ inches. Lithograph expertly mounted on new linen. A few closed splits in margin & outer printed areas; overall very good.....
Provincetown, Massachusetts. Walker Lith. & Pub Co. ]Boston: 1910] Walker’s Bird’s_Eye View of Provincetown… 10 ½ x 16 ¾ inches. Two-stone, folding lithograph on banknote paper, in original heavy paper covers, with street plan on front cover. Light glue stain at left else an excellent example. In.....
Map Of The Balkan Peninsula….
A rare, clearly printed, political map of this volatile region, described as "entirely new" in the advertisement included here. Although the map is not dated, the Royal Geographic Society reported its acquisition of an example in July of 1914 (see below). Since the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June.....
Iraq/ World War I. PERVITITCH, Jacques [Jakub PERVITIĆ] [Constantinople: c. 1918] Irak. 18 ½ x 23 inches (47 x 58.5 cm. Color lithography, with some contemporary manuscript additions in pencil, bearing stamp of "J. Pervititch Constantinople." Mended marginal split, a few penetrating printed surface, some staining & creasing, yet still.....
Washington The Beautiful Capital Of The Nation.
A very scarce and precise "Aero View" of Washington, DC, as seen from the southeast, self described, not entirely without justification, as "the most remarkable picture map that has ever been made." With a 48-page travel guide to the city illustrating its notable attractions. Referring to a larger version of.....
NIPPON CHI.
Japanese History/ Humor. February 5, 1906 Issue of the Japanese Magazine Nippon Chi (The Land of Japan). 10 x 7 inches; wood-engraved; 67 pp. not including cover; very slight edge wear & toning, four intentional puncture holes for binding?, excellent. .....
T-Shirt Map Series No. 1.
We are collaborating with designer extraordinaire, John Parker, of Purple Mountain Apparel, to create a series of t-shirts declaring our devotion to early maps. They are available in a full range of sizes and in several attractive colors. Free domestic shipping. To order or to see more map tee designs, click https://www.etsy.com/shop/PurpleMountainStore?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=936549897-- which.....
SANSON, Nicolas [Paris, 1656] Le Bresil, dont la Coste set possedeé par les portugais et diviseé en Quatorze Capitanieries. 15 ½ x 21 ¼ inches. Original outline color; excellent condition. An attractive, full-size edition of Sanson’s elegantly engraved map of Brazil. It shows the coast of South America.....