The second appearance in the United States of Elihu Barker’s important map of Kentucky. This map is a reduced version of Barker’s exceptionally rare large map of Kentucky of 1794 and appeared in Mathew Carey’s American edition of Guthrie’s Geography (1795). It shows the new state of Kentucky and its.....
A rare trade card for a Martha’s Vineyard chandler, featuring a small chart of Holmes’ Hole Harbor (today’s Vineyard Haven). The chart extends from East Chop to West Chop, shows their respective lighthouses, and locates Eastville, Norris’ Wharf Ship Stores, the road to the campground, Lagoon Pond, the Marine Railway.....
A marvelous War of 1812 satire by Philadelphia printmaker and caricaturist William Charles, showing the defenders of Baltimore driving off a superior number of British soldiers near Fort McHenry. Three battling Baltimoreans appear on the left, one of whom has punctured the now bleeding behind of John Bull with a......
An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures nearby.....
![Item #7796 [Uncut sheet of four Hartford & New Haven Turnpike tickets]. Amos Doolittle, engraver](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7796_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673112272)
A rare uncut sheet of four different passes for the Hartford & New Haven Turnpike in Connecticut, engraved by Amos Doolittle and illustrated with charming vignettes of various forms of transportation. During the 1790s many banks were formed throughout Connecticut and the nation. Sensing an opportunity in this trend, Doolittle.....
A rare, important, and legendary chart of the coast of North Carolina and a portion of South Carolina, taken from a survey by a North Carolina colonist. Thought to have been first published in 1761 (based on an advertisement), it later appeared in the first edition of John Norman’s The.....
An engraving illustrating the maxims of Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard,” published in Boston nearly a century after Franklin’s death and testifying to the enduring popularity of his almanac. Surrounding a portrait of “The First American” himself, with his name and the places and dates of his birth and death, are.....
![Item #8956 [Note of] Exchange for $2400 Thirty days after sight of this second of Exchange…Pay...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8956_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718659328)
A rare note of exchange for funds to provide for sick and destitute sailors, signed by a founder of the first large-scale sugar production company in Hawaii. William Northey Hooper (1809–1878) was born in Manchester, Massachusetts, into a family of merchants and shippers. In 1832 he sailed to Hawaii as.....
A presidential campaign broadside illustrating and celebrating the military service of Gen. Winfield Scott, issued during his ultimately unsuccessful run for the presidency in the election of 1852. Scott, the Whig candidate, lost to Democrat Franklin Pierce. The illustration at the top of the broadside shows Scott in uniform riding.....
A rare and bold view of “Old Iron Sides” by the noted and influential engraver Abel Bowen, published in the immediate wake of the ship’s rise to fame during the War of 1812. Built in Hartt’s Navy Yard in Boston and launched in 1797, the USS Constitution earned widespread admiration.....
A broadside published just over a decade after the death of General George Washington, featuring a fine emblematic engraving and text extolling Washington’s virtuous character. Consisting of a lively scene within a border adorned with swags, the engraving allegorizes Washington as a great rock in the sea, standing firm amid.....
A rare 18th-century chart of the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, and just the second larger scale chart of the region published in America. This chart appeared in the first edition of John Norman’s American Pilot in 1791, the second nautical atlas published in America, as well as various.....
An unrecorded broadsheet promoting a satirical musical performance by the eccentric singer-songwriter Ossian E. Dodge, including a wood engraved portrait of Dodge, as well as a biographical note and phrenological “reading” of Dodge on the verso. For this engagement, Dodge was assisted by the poet and vocalist James G. Clark.....
An apparently otherwise unknown edition of this celebratory print, originally published in England and America to mark the abolition of slavery in the British colonies, and re-published here some twenty-five years later for an American audience during the Civil War by an important member of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery.....
![Item #873 St. Louis Minneapolis and St. Paul Short Line…[panel title]. Map of the Chicago...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/873_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704382153)
This timetable map highlights the route of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, extending from Chicago through Illinois and Iowa to connect with such western railroads as the Union Pacific, Burlington & Missouri, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Kansas Pacific. A multitude of other spurs and connections are.....
A remarkable—and mammoth—broadside chronological chart employing text and images to depict six millennia of ecclesiastical and secular history. The Epitome was designed by the Rev. David Sherman Rowland (1719–1794), who began his career as a minister in Providence, Rhode Island but was “forced to flee his pulpit there because of.....
A splendid view of the U.S. Capitol building published while it was undergoing expansion in the midst of the Civil War, but showing it as the printmakers thought it would appear when completed. As the engraving was made before the new dome was finished its proportions as shown here are.....
A color-printed wood engraving depicting California’s Mammoth Trees, distributed by the Cincinnati Weekly Times to its subscribers as a premium. Published at a time when the wonders of the American West were still objects of international disbelief and fascination, this engraving shows the Mammoth Tree Hotel nestled among—and dwarfed by—the.....
![Item #7599 American Atlas [cover title]. J. H. Young, engraver](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7599_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713547759)
A rare and very appealing pocket atlas consisting of fourteen maps of North and South American subjects. All of the maps included here originally appeared along with twenty-six other maps in Anthony Finley’s New General Atlas The Five Great Divisions of the Globe, which accompanied his edition of Malte-Brun’s Universal.....