Thirty pieces from the 17th century to the 20th, including both printed and manuscript items. Click below to view the catalog on the website or as a PDF. The PDF is fully illustrated and interactive, with all images linking to the items on our website, where more images will frequently be found. Please direct inquiries to info@jamesarsenault.com.
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A richly detailed and lively factory view, reflecting and idealizing the expansion of American industry in the second half of the nineteenth century. This pleasing chromolithograph, executed by leading New York lithographers Major & Knapp, depicts the extensive and variegated complex of a prominent starch manufacturer, situated on the shores.....
A rare tinted lithograph picturing an early stamp mill in one of the most prosperous gold-quartz mining districts in California, including an extensive text on the operation and evidently issued for promotional purposes. In October of 1850, George Knight’s discovery of gold-bearing quartz in California’s Grass Valley set off over.....
A handsome chromolithograph issued by the Lowell Machine Shop of Lowell, Massachusetts in the heyday of locomotive builders’ advertising prints, picturing the locomotive engine Leader, which, according to the plaque mounted on its side, was built in 1854. Picturing Leader in meticulous mechanical detail and printed in a pleasing combination.....
A rare wall map of Burlington, Vermont replete with property information and enhanced with illustrations of the homes of prominent citizens and other notable buildings. This handsome plan of Burlington shows the city as it appeared in 1853, documenting land titles, property lines, and building footprints (shown in hatching). Churches.....
A late nineteenth-century broadside advertising the Old Colony Line as a means of traveling to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, incorporating a map showing Old Colony’s rail network in eastern Massachusetts and its connections to steamboat lines. Chartered in 1844, the Old Colony Railroad transformed the inland transportation system in eastern.....
A New Deal-era propaganda map celebrating the breadth of projects throughout the land commissioned by the Public Works Administration (PWA). This government-issued map is replete with a colorful smattering of several dozen vignettes—each indicating a specific PWA project—that span every state in the continental U.S. An additional forty-three projects, depicted.....
A striking and informative series of World War II-era military maps showing combat actions of the U.S. Army 100th Infantry Division during the liberation of France and invasion of Germany. Also included is an introductory letter bearing the printed signature of Major General William A. Burress, who expresses his wish.....
![Item #9952 Utah Sights and Scenes for the Tourist [panel title]. Tourist Map of Union Pacific The...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9952_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770379205)
A scarce railway map and guide to Utah, published by the Union Pacific Railroad to promote their series of “Salt Lake Tours” almost a decade before the territory was granted statehood. The nine “Salt Lake Tours” described here offer a variety of sight-seeing itineraries, from boat rides on the Great.....
A rare, amply illustrated folding brochure promoting a 1920s real estate development near Babylon, Long Island. Forget Brooklyn—this pamphlet, published by the E. A. White real estate organization, promotes its latest shoreland development near Babylon, Long Island. “No other suburban area of New York has more to offer…in easy accessibility.....
A very scarce birds-eye view of Manhattan, illustrating the ferry and rail routes connecting at Whitehall Terminal (South Ferry) with “all parts of New York and Brooklyn,” as well as Staten Island and New Jersey. Taken from an imaginary vantage point over New Jersey and looking to the northeast, this.....
First edition of Bachelder’s set of three maps depicting the topography and disposition of forces at the Battle of Gettysburg, detailing with great authority the battle often described as the turning point of the Civil War. Having spent a year with the Army of the Potomac documenting various battles, John.....
A fascinating folk art pictorial map blending drawn and photographic imagery with extensive text to form a richly detailed and wonderfully quirky representation of the military situation along the James River during the latter part of the Civil War. This remarkable map shows the disposition of forces along the James.....
A news map of southeast Virginia showing the locations of the rebel military along the coast and in Richmond, created by publisher Casimir Bohn and lithographer Edward Sachse, who frequently collaborated. This map shows a number of important rebel cities and towns, including the Confederate capital of Richmond and Petersburg.....
A rare and historically-rich pictorial map by Dorothy Linscott Clark depicting the town of Lexington, Mass., inscribed by her to a friend. Clarke’s vibrant rendering of Lexington is centered around, as one would expect, the town’s Revolutionary War heritage. Other sites of historical interest from the colonial period and Early.....
A striking and extensively detailed map of Yellowstone National Park, in a Northern pacific Railway brochure promoting travel to both Yellowstone and Alaska. This map depicts the park and its surrounding areas, with relief represented pictorially. At the top of the map, the Northern Pacific R.R. runs parallel to the.....
A brilliantly colored and richly detailed case map of Ulster County, New York by John Homer French, the compilation of which was part of the foreground to the publication of his landmark map, The State of New York from New and Original Surveys, which appeared a year later. The map.....
An important Seven Years’ War map highlighting British and French positions during the 1759 siege of Quebec and Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which culminated in the British capture of the city. Jefferys’ finely detailed plan captures the critical months leading up to the confrontation of September 13th, 1759.....
A rare and charming tourist map of Nantucket Island designed for road travel and sightseeing, enriched with engaging snippets of local history. Equal parts decorative, functional, and informative, this charming map of Nantucket, Mass. once oriented vacationers making their way around the island on summer holidays. As indicated by the.....
A dramatic visual and cartographic document of the city of Chicago, published in the wake of the Great Fire of 1871. The first images in this volume contrast “Chicago in 1820” with “Bird’s-eye View of Chicago in 1871—before the fire,” and are followed by a history of the city and.....
![Item #9803 [Richard Nixon as a vampire-eagle tearing the heart out of Indochina.]. René...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9803_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764854654)
A phantasmagoric anti-Vietnam War map by a noted Cuban artist and designer, depicting an eagle with the head of Richard Nixon bearing his vampire fangs as he grasps the heart of Indochina with his claws. The bright red wound torn by the eagle is centered along the Ho Chi Minh.....
![Item #9988 Plan of the Town of Stratham [New Hampshire]. Phinehas Merrill](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9988_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763323493)
An extraordinary discovery, this is an original manuscript draft by Phinehas Merrill for his seminal Plan of the Town of Stratham, published in 1793—the only map of a New Hampshire town published in the eighteenth century, and a key example of early American mapmaking. This remarkable survival in Merrill's own.....
![Item #9063 Plan of the Town of Stratham [New Hampshire]. Phinehas Merrill](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9063_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721228352)
The first edition of the first printed plan of a New Hampshire town, compiled and drafted by a surveyor known for his contributions to the early mapping of the state. Depicted here is the town of Stratham bounded on the northwest side by the Squamscott River and a portion of.....
A beautiful, un-trimmed example of a French edition of the “most comprehensive map of North America produced during the Colonial Era” (Edney), widely considered the most important map in American history. This circa 1783 edition is especially notable for showing the boundaries of the newly independent United States First published.....
One of the most impressive Maine real estate promotion maps published in the nineteenth century, showing the proposed development of Petit Manan, just to the east of Bar Harbor, in Washington County. This large and captivating plan shows Petit Manan Point in its entirety, featuring a plat on its western.....
The second state of Payne’s map of Tennessee, one of the first maps of the state based on the surveys of Daniel Smith, showing the region during the period of early statehood when it was still at the edge of westward expansion. This remarkable early map shows Tennessee—spelled “Tennassee”—as it.....