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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”. In 1666 King Charles II granted charter to the Connecticut colony to certain lands in America including the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. Ironically, King Charles II... More
![[New York State] ALS 31 March 1797 – Abraham Van Vechten (1762-1837) to Stephen A. Bayard, Schenectady in response to a boundary dispute concerning the Stone Arabia Patent / accompanied by two (2) manuscript maps of the Stone Arabia Patent. Abraham Van Vechten / John Van Alen.](/pictures/thumb/100253.jpg?v=1518269178)
Albany, NY: 1797. Letter – small folio, pen & ink on watermarked laid paper, 12.5” x 8”, wax seal broken resulting in small paper loss. Maps – pen, ink and water color on folio sheets laid paper, 17.5” x 21”, one partial fold separation closed.Documents overall very good condition. Van... More
Philadelphia: John Poulson, 1806. Narrow folio broadside, two deckle edges, woodcut and letterpress, 21” x 9.5” overall. Rather rare broadside announcing the coming partial solar eclipse of 16 June, 1806 as predicted to be visible beginning at 9:42 in Philadelphia and ending at 12:35. A wonderful woodcut diagram illustrates the... More
Sedalia & St. Louis: J. West Goodwin & August Gast, 1887. Broadside, lithograph, woodblock & wax engraving on an elephant folio sheet, 30.5” x 24”. A rare Reconstruction Era promotional composed and printed for “Morey & Crawford, Real Estate and Loan Agents” located at 410 Ohio Street, Sedalia, Mo. Founded... More
Columbia? Anon, 1793. Folio, letterpress completed in manuscript on laid paper with a smaller manuscript sheet containing a plat map and surveyor general’s certification, leaves bound with linen, docketed on verso, 11” x 16.5” overall. Revolutionary Major General William Moultrie grants 1000 acres adjoining Thomas Thackman’s lands in the Orangeburg... More
New York: Rawdon, Wright & Co. 1830-35. Engraving on bank paper completed in manuscript, 12.25” x 8”. Incorporated in New York in 1830, the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company was formed to facilitate colonization of the Zavala, Vehlein and Burnet grants in the state of Coahuila comprising some 3.7... More
Louisville: City Lith. Co. 1892. Louisville land agents Sharpe & Bohne promoting 52 blocks of approximately 1,000 tracts on the south side of the city available through the Commercial Lot Co. Jacob (or Jacob’s) Addition then adjoined Jacob Park, both of which were named in honor of Louisville’ four term... More
Folio, original hand color. Unidentified 17th century frontispiece on watermarked paper. Probably Dutch. More
Auburn[?]: Hagaman & Markham, 1837. Uncolored engraving on thin paper, 16.25” x 27.25”. Decorative pictorial map of the seat of Cayuga County, New York, first settled by Col. John L. Hardenburgh in 1793 as Hardenburgh’s Corners. Hardenburgh’s choice for a settlement at the outlet of Owasco Lake provided sufficient water... More
Elizabeth, NJ: anon, 1809. Folio, pen, ink and watercolor on laid paper, 10.1” x 16.6”. The anonymous surveyor has recorded a splendidly charming view of post war reconstruction in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Survey depicts a truncated tract of land lying between ‘E. Town Creek” [Elizabeth River] and a road simply... More