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Important Land Claim Map, Yankee-Pennamite Wars

Township of Willksbarr [sic] and Vicinity

No place cited but likely Wilkes Barre,Pa: 1790-1802. Four joined sheets backed on linen, pen, ink and watercolor on mould-made paper, 40.5” x 30.5”. Some staining and light browning, few small losses, overall very good or better. Item #100254

1790's Land Fever Speculation in Pennsylvania - John Adlum & James Chapman

A Draft of Different Tracts of Land in Luzerne County, State of Pennsylvania. Surveyed for the Honourable[sic] James Wilson, Esq^r. & Henry Drinker, Esq^r.

Manuscript, John Adlum & James Chapman, no place cited but likely Sunbury, Pa., 1796-7. Ink and watercolor on 2 joined folio sheets of laid paper bearing Whatman watermarks, dissected into 10 panels and mounted on contemporary linen, 24.5” x 34.5”. Light dampstains, slight paper loss and age toning along folds, very good overall.

Rare Pictorial Route Map

Black Valley Railroad.

Boston, C.H. Crosby, 1863. 1^st edition 1^st state, folio, chromolithograph, 15” x 15.8”. Top and bottom margins trimmed close, otherwise fine.

Rare first state of Stedman Wright’s masterful composition lithographed in colors

A Model Colonial American Settlement

A View of Bethlehem, one of the Brethren’s Principal Settlements, in Pennsylvania, North America.

London, Robert Sayer, 1757/1825. Folio, hand colored engraving, 12.7” x 17.6”. Old paper backing, margins trimmed but ample, overall nearly fine.

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