A rare and early map of the city of Pierre, published eight years after it was founded, and one year before it became the capital of the newly formed state of South Dakota. Founded in 1880, during the Great Dakota Boom of 1878-1887, Pierre began as a ferry landing.....
A bilingual map of the city of Shanghai, printed in Japanese and English, showing the heart of the city, bissected by the Whangpoo (Huangpu) River. Many wharves, streets and green spaces are identified in English, while many other features are in Japanese only, including the keys on the bottom.....
A rare and quite detailed, large-scale map of Tarrytown, New York, showing both the more densely developed village, as well as outlying areas. Commercial, public, and domestic buildings are identified (their very footprints, in fact, are shown), as well as a number of large estates. Among the latter are the.....
A scarce bird’s eye view of the north shore town of Beverly, Massachusetts, a seaside resort, residential, and manufacturing community. This view shows the town’s residences, manufacturing sites, railroads (the Boston & Maine R.R. and its Gloucester branch), churches, municipal buildings, and the city’s bustling harbor where numerous vessels are.....
Styled the “First Annual Edition” on the title page, this is the only directory of Madison issued by Seymour. Pages 9 to 78 consist of a history and description of Madison, as well as a list of state and federal government officials. Pages 79 to 126 lists the citizens and.....
A scarce, early real estate promotion map of Spokane Falls—around this time, the largest city between Minneapolis and Seattle—showing the booming town shortly after the Northern Pacific Railroad reached the Pacific coast and the 1889 fire which destroyed part of the town. Showing the entirety of the town, situated.....
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A plat map for a development in Oldham County, Texas, accompanied by three related land purchase documents. Located in the western Panhandle, Oldham County, Texas, formed in 1876 and organized in 1881, is named after Williamson S. Oldham, Sr., a Texas pioneer and Confederate Senator. The county, at one.....
A large-scale promotional map of North Augusta, South Carolina, issued by the North Augusta Land Company just a year after the company was established. Situated on the Savannah River opposite Augusta, Georgia, the city of North Augusta developed during the late 19th century on the site of the antebellum.....
A handsome and highly informative plan of the Siege of Charlestown, one of the worst colonial defeats during the Revolution. First published by Faden in 1784, this is the later state of the map, published by Stedman in 1794. This plan of Charleston Harbor—located at the nexus of the.....
One of the largest and most spectacular bird’s eye views of Boston ever published, with the built environment of the city rendered in meticulous detail. This magnificent view shows the city from an elevated imaginary vantage point in the east, looking toward the Charles River and Cambridge in the.....
A very scarce map of the historic town of Danvers in Essex County, Mass., situated just north of Salem. This informative and handsome map shows the town’s streets, buildings, and landowners, as well as rail lines and topography. Seven detailed vignettes of local scenes embellish the margins, including a......
A skillfully drawn manuscript map, which appears to have been compiled for an official purpose, but does not appear to have been published. This map focuses on the waterfront villages of Marshfield, Massachusetts, a town perhaps best known as the home of Daniel Webster, whose house in Green.....
A lovely example of this scarce Maine bird’s eye view, one of the largest and most interesting of any Maine town and similar in format and scale to Bird’s Eye View of the City of Portland, Maine, produced by the same publisher and lithographer the following year (1876). This.....
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A most unusual and striking schoolboy map of Essex Massachusetts. A striking manuscript map of Essex Massachusetts, drawn in 1849 by local schoolboy Sidney Lowe (1833–1882). The large size, bold color scheme and highly-local subject matter all combine to make the map a most unusual example of the “schoolboy”.....
A very scarce and dramatic map produced by an important engraver in Boston during the Revolutionary War, including details of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The first map of the Battle printed in Boston, it shows all of Boston and Charlestown, and depicts the Battle at its height, including the.....
A scarce bird’s eye view of Tallapoosa, Georgia, published at the peak of the city’s investment boom while the chief developer was being exposed for massive fraud. Tallapoosa was first settled in the 1830s amid America’s first Gold Rush which took place in Northern Georgia. Only in 1882—when a......
An uncommon bird’s eye view of Waterville, Maine, showing the central and northern part of town stretching along the western side of the Kennebec River, as well as a portion of the town of Winslow on the eastern side. This view shows the city from Sherwin Street on the.....
A beautifully preserved example of this scarce map of the city of Hallowell, Maine, situated on the Kennebec River, near Augusta, the state capital. The map consists of an overview of the portion of the city nearest the river; an inset map depicting the entire city, which comprises five.....
A scarce map of the Pacific Electric Railway, published a year after Henry E. Huntington lost possession of the company, as it began to rapidly expand, becoming—only a decade later—the world’s largest electric railway system. Boasting of "Comfort–Speed–Safety," the Pacific Electric Railway (fondly called the Red Cars) was a......
A large and handsome bird’s eye view of the historic sea-side town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This richly detailed view depicts the city and the surrounding area, as seen from an imaginary elevated vantage point in the northwest looking southeast. In the foreground, various vessels are shown plying the waters.....
An early, important and very rare depiction of the Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Roughly equidistant from Cape Town and Durban, Port Elizabeth was founded in 1820. As a seaport it great rapidly, to the extent that in 1861, the year before Bowler drew this image, the town was granted.....
An attractive map of Gloucester and Rockport by one of the most accomplished and prolific U.S. mapmakers of the mid-nineteenth century. The map is divided into four sections, with maps of Rockport Village and Gloucester Harbor Village on the left, a general map of Rockport and Gloucester at the.....
A large and quite impressive bird’s eye view of Portland, Maine, as it appeared after a decade of rebuilding, following the great fire of 1866. This fine, richly detailed view of Portland depicts the city—viewed from an elevated eastern vantage point—as a lively, prosperous place, with a busy harbor, an.....
A map of Kansas City and vicinity projecting the construction of developer Willard E. Winner’s bridge over the Missouri River and an associated railway. The “Winner Bridge” was the brainchild of Iowa-born Willard E. Winner (1849–1929) who moved to Kansas City around 1860 and by age twenty-six had built.....