World. QUAD, M. [Cologne, 1600] Typus Orbis Terrarum, Ad Imitationem Gerhardi Mercatoris... 8 ½ x 12 ¼ inches. Strong impression, margins close but no loss, excellent condition. .....
Portraits & Prints
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William Penn/ Pennsylvania. DELAUNEY, Robert (eng.)/ LE ROUGE, G. L. (publisher), WEST, Benjamin (artist). 19 x 11 ¾ inches. Copperplate engraving. Excellent condition. .....
Geographic Allegorical Figures. W.B. WALKER (publisher) [London: 4 Fox & Knot Court, Cow Lane: 1805] EUROPE. ASIA. 10 ½ x 14 3/8 inches. Mezzotint, transferred to glass, finished with oil color. Sightly age-toned, small area of lower right corner chipped off, two areas of bubbling; color rich & vibrant, overall.....
BONAR, Thomas [New York, c. 1855] Compo House. The Residence of Richard H. Winslow Esq. at Westport, Conn. 17 ¼ 21 ¼ inches. Color lithograph. Expertly mounted on acid-free paper; well-mended split lower right imperceptibly extending into printed surface, light mat burn, very good overall. .....
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.....
MORSE, Charles L. [Nantucket, 1987] Nantucket, South Beach. 13 ¾ x21 inches. Watercolor. Matted & in original frame. Fine condition. A skillful rendering of South Beach cottages in Nantucket as seen from the water, with the steeple.....
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Gerardus Mercator . . . Iudocus Hondius . .
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers in a richly colored example. Created by the widow of Jodocus Hondius as a tribute to her late husband who died in 1612. It appeared as the frontispiece in editions of the Mercator-Hondius atlas beginning in 1613. In the well-executed design, the.....
Title Page. CELLARIUS, Andreas [Amsterdam, 1660] Atlas Coelestis, seu Harmonia Macrocosmica… Image sized: 17 x 10 ¼ inches; with frame: 25 x 18 ¼ inches. Superb original color, heightened with gold; a few rubbed areas else excellent. A magnificent example, in full original color heightened with.....
WEBBER, John (1752-1793) artist [London: G. Nicol & T. Cadell, 1784]. A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing. Etched and engraved by C. Grignion after a drawing by Webber. Image size: 10 1/4 x 7 inches. Sheet size: 16 ½ x 14 inches. Lightly toned, faint tide mark upper right margin, faint.....
Antigua/ Slave Emancipation. STOBWASSER, L./ HURLIMANN [Basel, 1835] Vue de Gracehill dans I’Isle d’Antigoa aux Indes occidentales. 8 ¾ x 11 1/8 inches. Aquatint with fine original color; slight mended edge split, few spots, else excellent. Rare, luminously colored view that relates directly to the then recent emancipation of slaves.....
NIC. MULLER (Printer)/ NICHOLS, David (Engraver) [New York: dated October 1854] BUSSINES (sic) DIRECTORY OF WESTPORT. 20 ½ X 25 ½ inches. Two-stone lithograph (red and blue) mounted on heavy card stock. Two mended 4-inch splits at right and left, a few other mended splits entering printed surface, some edge.....
WELLS, C. H. (Artist)/ COLLINS, F. (Printer)/ BYRAM, J. H. (Publisher) [Philadelphia: 1859] Mount Vernon. 18 ¼ x 19 ¾ inches. Color-printed lithograph. Lightly toned, darker on back, two mended marginal splits, overall very good. .....
Militaria/ Arms Export History. MAKER UNKNOWN [Spain, c. 1880s] Panuelo De Instruccion Militar... 25 x 30 ¾ inches. Lithograph in red & black printed on cotton. Lightly age-toned, few small holes, overall excellent of this type. A fascinating broadside printed on cloth, illustrating the Springfield rolling block rifle, Model.....
Cuba/ Cuban Revolution. MAUCCI, M. [Barcelona: Maucci, 1896.] Mapa Ilustrado De La Isla De Cuba. Color lithograph. 29 ½ x 41 inches (75 x 104 cm) Mounted on linen as issued; chipping along edges, some splits at folds, light water staining in upper border, still overall good to very good. .....
PERRY & BISHOP [New Britain: 1935] CONNECTICUT STATE COLLEGE. Image size: 20 x 27 inches. Original printed poster; fine condition; nicely framed. .....
England/ Scotland/ Anglo Saxon History. SPEED, J. [London, 1676] Britain As It Was Devided in the tyme of the Englishe=Saxons especially during their Heptarchy. 15 x 19 ¾ inches. Fine hand color; re-cornered lower left & right, no loss of engraved surface, overall very good. .....
Sun Valley, Idaho. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (publisher) [n.p.: c. 1940] SUN VALLEY, IDAHO Reached via UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 20 x 30 inches. Color print. A few mended edge splits, a few tape stains along top edge, crease at upper left, else excellent. .....
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