A real estate map promoting property at Lands End in Rockport, Massachusetts, a popular seaside summer community for Bostoners. Beginning as a village on Cape Ann, known for its rocky coast, fishing industries, quarries, coves, and granite production, Lands End was promoted as a summer community beginning in the...
![Manuscript receipt for a copy of his Map of Boston and Vicinity.]. John G. Hales](/pictures/thumb/3987_1.jpg?v=1560463483)
A rare manuscript receipt in the hand of mapmaker John G. Hales for the advance purchase of a copy of the map that would prove his most notable cartographic achievement. Recorded here is Hales’ receipt of “the sum of three dollars” from one “En. Silsby” for “a Map of.....
An important and beautiful map of Boston and its surroundings, reflecting Hales’ pioneering application of advanced surveying techniques to the mapping of New England. The region represented in this map extends from Boston as far north as Danvers and Beverly, to Concord, East Sudbury, Dover and Medfield 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...