World. WALDSEEMULLER, M. [Strasbourg, 1513] Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem. 17 3/8 x 22 1/2 inches. Woodcut with complete margins; some weakening of impression in areas, else excellent condition. An exceptional, uncropped example of one of the earliest world maps of the Discovery.....
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Connecticut. ROMANS, B./ COVENS & MORTIER & COVENS [Amsterdam, 1780] Connecticut and Parts adjacent… 20 ½ x 23 ¼ inches. Copperplate engraving with original outline color; all edges deckled, uncut; mint condition; in a fine archival frame. Very rare; separately published. The earliest acquirable map of Connecticut.....
Connecticut. WARREN & GILLET/ GEORGE GILLET ESQ./ WILLARD, A. (PUBLISHER) [Hartford, 1847] Connecticut from the actual Surveys of Warren & Gillet With addition of new towns turnpike roads &C by George Gillet Esqr. 17 5/8 x 21 ¾ inches. Lithograph with original hand color, refreshed; expertly conserved & re-backed with.....
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.....
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.....
Brooklyn Bridge/ New York City. CURRIER & IVES/ PARSONS & ATWATER (artists & lithographers) [New York: 1876] The City of New York. 22 x 33 ¼ inches. Color lithograph; mounted on heavy stock; a few minor abrasions, else fine condition. A breathtaking bird’s-eye view capturing the dynamism and animation of.....
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.....
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.....
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Pictorial Map/ United States/ Canada. CASS, Katherine "Kae" Dorn [Cleveland, Ohio: 1928] Untitled Manuscript of the Northeast & Midwest U. S. & Part of Canada. 26 ¾ x 21 inches. Watercolor & ink on poster board; excellent condition. Highly animated and well-executed biographical map chronicling the travels, activities, adventures and.....