An early manuscript plan of Boston, based on Osgood Carleton’s 1796 plan of the city and perhaps rendered by a Boston-area schoolboy or schoolgirl. Carleton’s plan, and this carefully-rendered copy, depicted Boston in greater detail than any map of the town since the American Revolution. The street layout is shown.....
![E[astern].M[aine]. R[ailwa]y. Co. Buckland Surveys [title on wooden trunk]. L. L. Buckland,...](/pictures/thumb/4468_1.jpg?v=1603318923)
An archive of six survey notebooks and three extensive profile maps for eastern Maine railroad lines, compiled in the 1870s. This archive consists of railroad survey manuscripts generated by L.L. Buckland and Parker Spofford (b. 1842), the latter a noted civil engineer of Bucksport, Maine, who served as engineer.....
![A NEW AND CORRECT MAP of the WORLD According to the latest Discoveries. [with:] W.G. Krebs, A NEW...](/pictures/thumb/5344_1.jpg?v=1560464364)
A remarkable pair of schoolboy maps, drawn concurrently at the Washington Academy. Two nearly-identical schoolboy maps of the United States, large in size, detailed in content and refined in execution. Remarkable for having been produced at the same school on the same date. Aside from the intrinsic appeal.....
A rare manuscript plan of the Civil War prison on Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, by a Confederate officer imprisoned there, created for a fellow inmate whose name, date of capture, etc. are inscribed in the upper-left. The map shows Johnson's Island in its entirety and includes a plan.....
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.....
An appealing and varied group of ink-and-watercolor school maps from the early years of the 19th century, remarkable for their Kentucky origins, interesting subject matter, pleasing design, relatively good condition, and superb provenance. The group includes a double-hemisphere map of the world, a map of the United States copied from.....
![Didactic manuscript map of Europe.]. Odo Staab](/pictures/thumb/5215_1.jpg?v=1571924464)
A unique and utterly charming early 19th-century manuscript visual compendium, combining cartography and natural history and most likely executed for classroom or tutorial use. The composition features a central map of Europe, likely based on one from Johannes Walch’s Allgemeiner Atlas, first issued in 1803. The map is.....