New Jersey & Pennsylvania
Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae.
A map that is as historically important as it is attractive: it was the culmination of all the surveys conducted by the Dutch colonists of New Netherlands during their first three decades in America. It is also the first printed map to delineate the shape of Manhattan with relative accuracy;.....
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.....
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.....
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Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae.
This is the most lavishly decorative of all the early editions of the best 17th century, Dutch map of the Northeast and New York. It added illustrations of animals and other detail not found on previous issues. The map was the culmination of all the surveys of the area conducted.....
EVANS, Lewis/ FRANKLIN, Benjamin (printer)/ TURNER, James (engraver) [Philadelphia, 1755] A general MAP of the MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES, in AMERICA; Viz VIRGINIA, MÀRILAND, DÈLAWARE, PENSILVANIA, NEW-JERSEY, NEW-YORK, CONNECTICUT, and RHODE ISLAND: Of AQUANISHUONÎGY, the Country of the Confederate Indians; … By Lewis Evans. 1755. The upper left cartouche reads: To the Honourable.....
Northeast/ Mid Atlantic/ Old Northwest. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Didier. [Paris, 1755] Amerique Septentrionale, dressee, sur les Relations les plus modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs 18 ¾ x 22 ¾ inches. Original outline color; excellent condition. First state of a well-detailed map of a soon-to-be contested part.....
A Sketch of the Operations of His Majesty’s Fleet and Army under the Command of Vice Admiral the Rt. Hble. Lord Viscount Howe and Genl. Sr. Wm. Howe K. B. in 1776.
"One of the greatest of the Atlantic Neptune charts, with the best topographical information on the lower Hudson River valley, western Long Island, and Staten Island” (Nebenzahl, Bibliography). A rare and highly evocative map that provides a cartographic overview of both the ground and naval actions of the Revolutionary War.....
Sketch of the Position of the British Forces at Elizabeth Town Point after their Return from Connecticut Farm, in the Province of East Jersey….
A superb example of this rare and finely engraved plan of the Battle of Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, after a manuscript by the great military cartographer John Hills. The work chronicles one of the rare engagements in the New York/ New Jersey area of the protracted middle period of the.....
Nautical Chart: Block Island to Cuba. BLUNT, E. & G. W./ COPLEY, Charles [New York, 1853] Coast Of North America from Point Judith to Cape St. Antonio. (Island Of Cuba) Including The Bhama Banks… Every Authentic Survey, American, English & Spanish, Has Been Used In The Construction Of This Chart… 29.....
Battle of Gettysburg. DITTERLINE, T. [New York, 1864] Sketch of the Battles of Gettysburg…Compiled From The Personal Observation Of Eye-Witnesses Of The Several Battles… [Map:] Field Of Gettysburg …Prepared By T. Ditterline. Octavo in original, blue, whorled, silked paper wrappers, 24pp; now separate; chromolithographed, folding map with troop position in.....
Field Of Gettysburg …Prepared By T. Ditterline.
This striking, oval-shaped plan provided the American public with its first detailed and accurate visual account of one of the most significant battles in American history. It is accompanied by a pamphlet that provides an in-depth, chronological account of the complex battle. Offered here is the very rare second edition.....