A large and handsome carriage-road map representing the extensive network of roads in the city of Hartford, Connecticut and the surrounding area, published during the peak of the carriage era. This highly detailed map shows cities, towns, roads, mills, factories, dwellings and their owner’s names, railroads, rivers, lakes, etc......
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.....
![Item #3547 [Penobscot Bay to Blue Hill Bay, Maine]. J. F. W. Des Barres](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3547_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669739002)
A rare chart depicting the Penobscot Bay region of Maine, from the most celebrated maritime atlas of the eighteenth century, The Atlantic Neptune. CONDITION: Good, trimmed close at top and bottom, with loss of a portion of neat line at top and all of neat line at bottom, lower portions.....
The first chart of Casco Bay published in the United States and the first attempt to improve upon the Samuel Holland / J. F. W. Des Barres chart of the same region published in London nearly fifty years before in The Atlantic Neptune. The “additions and corrections” were quite extensive.....