Printed & Ms Americana

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New York State] ALS 31 March 1797 – Abraham Van Vechten (1762-1837) to Stephen A. Bayard,...

Abraham Van Vechten / John Van Alen

[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

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

Price: $650.00

Mato-Tope]. after, Karl Bodmer

[after] Karl Bodmer

[Mato-Tope]

likely Paris: Manuscript, c.1836-40. Anon., [Paris?], c.1836 -40. Gouache on laid paper, heavily sized both recto and verso, 17” x 12.25”. Mandan Indian Chief Mato-Tope with headdress, axe and war insignia. Undoubtedly executed in studio with Bodmer’s original watercolor at hand. The most obvious indication of this appears when Bodmer’s..... More

Price: $4,250.00

At A Meeting of the board of Property, March 3rd 1806, On Petition of [Dr.] Robert H. Rose…....

Andrew Ellicott

At A Meeting of the board of Property, March 3rd 1806, On Petition of [Dr.] Robert H. Rose…

Lancaster, Andrew Ellicott, 1806. Folio, 13” x 8”, 1 page , pen & ink on laid paper exhibiting watermark R G [Gravell 815-816, PM-81], boldly signed by Ellicott. Luzerne Co. District Surveyor George Haines copy, sent to him in the field at Wyalusing. Lightly toned at folds, tissue reinforcements on..... More

Price: $800.00

Memorandum – 1792 manuscript account of a 44 day land survey expedition through northern...

Anon

Memorandum – 1792 manuscript account of a 44 day land survey expedition through northern Northumberland County Pennsylvania by a land agent likely in the employ of Samuel Wallis & James Wilson

Williamsport PA, Anon, 1792. Folio, 3 pp. pen & ink on laid paper without watermark, 13” x 8”. Two short fold separations with a few small edge chips, unsigned, nearly fine condition. Diarized travelogue of an unidentified land agent, likely in the employ of Samuel Wallis, from 29 July..... More

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Map or Draught of the Land late of Thomas Robinson Esqr Dec'd Situate in the County of Chester...

Anthony Wayne

Map or Draught of the Land late of Thomas Robinson Esqr Dec'd Situate in the County of Chester and Province of Pennsylvania and now Pursuant to the annex’d Writ Divided by his heirs agreeable to the Under written Partition / Survey of 1773 / Anty Wayne

Chester County, PA: Henry Hayes, 1773. Anthony wayne. 1st. Prior to his service in the Revolutionary War, Anthony was a highly respected Chester County, Pennsylvania surveyor. Wayne’s survey expertise attracted the attention of Benjamin Franklin who employed Wayne in 1765 to survey a large tract of land in Nova Scotia..... More

Price: $6,500.00

Original Manuscript Surveys and Valuation of Cicero and Hannibal Military Township Lots. Benjamin...

Benjamin Wright & Elisha Johnson

Original Manuscript Surveys and Valuation of Cicero and Hannibal Military Township Lots

By an act of the New York State Legislature on 11th of May,1784 granting certain lands promised to be given as bounty lands to Revolutionary War soldiers, initially 25 military townships were created and given classical names. Each township was subdivided into 100 lots of 600 acres each. Additional lots..... More

Gerogia, The within Plat is a Representation of a Body of Land containing one hundred &...

Claud Thomson

Gerogia, The within Plat is a Representation of a Body of Land containing one hundred & forty-seven thousand, seven hundred & seventy-three Acres in all granted in the Name of Daniel Beall situated in Franklin County, on the Waters of Broad River….

N.p. but likely Savannah, Claud Thomson, August 1794. Broadside, pen, ink and watercolor on laid paper watermarked J Kool with large shield and fleur-de-lis countermark, 19.3” x 23.5”. Verso nearly filled with 32 line parcel description. Very fine condition overall, old folds and a few minute spots, paper cream color..... More

Price: $4,500.00

EXONERATED From New York State Artillery MILITARY DUTY ~ after seven years faithful service,...

George Thresher

EXONERATED From New York State Artillery MILITARY DUTY ~ after seven years faithful service, Except An Invasion On Your COUNTRY or a REBELLION of it’s CITIZENS

New York, March 12th, George Thresher, 1810. Pen, ink and woodcut vignette on (4) four joined vellum membranes, 91.5” x 9.7” overall. Affixed with linen thread to a turned and ebonized maple rod, housed in the original gilt stamped roan case. Case exhibits minor rubbing wear and erosion of cover..... More

Price: $4,500.00

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, ADOPTED in convention at Philadelphia, September 17, 1787. To...

J.L. Church

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, ADOPTED in convention at Philadelphia, September 17, 1787. To Which is added the Amendments Since Made.

New Haven: Baldwin & Ellis, 1833. Broadsheet, letterpress and woodcut, 30.7” x 21.5”. Rare letterpress broadside printing of the U.S. Constitution. Tile in six lines continued with the Preamble followed by Articles 1-7 signed in type by Geo. Washington, Pres’t [sic] and William Jackson, Secretary followed by amendments 1-13 arranged..... More

Price: $4,800.00

A PERPETUAL ALMANACK, by which may be found in a few seconds time the DAY of the WEEK or MONTH...

James Aiken

A PERPETUAL ALMANACK, by which may be found in a few seconds time the DAY of the WEEK or MONTH Any YEAR to Come

Portland: G. Goold, January 1st 1805. Engraved broadside printed in blue, 13.7” x 18.5”. Upper and lower left corners expertly restored, backed with Japan tissue, some minor stains, overall about very good. A remarkably pleasant presentation by Akin decorated with architectural & floral elements with the title banner flanked by..... More

Price: $1,200.00

A DRAFT of 20,121 Acres, 32 Ps & all cer &c of Land Situate in Mifflin County, State of...

John Adlum, attributed

A DRAFT of 20,121 Acres, 32 Ps & all cer &c of Land Situate in Mifflin County, State of Pennsylvania

No place but likely Sunbury, unsigned but attributed to John Adlum, c.1795-96. Folio, pen, ink and watercolor on laid paper bearing BUDGEN watermark, 12.5” x 17.7”, mysterious docket title on verso: “Doctr Cahearts[?] Land Sold to Talleyrand / Mifflin”. Old fold lines showing a few minute splits and chips, overall..... More

A Map of Symmes’ Survey between the Miami Rivers drawn Sept. 5th. 1824 by Charles Heaton....

John Cleve Symmes / Charles M. Heaton / James Watson Riley

A Map of Symmes’ Survey between the Miami Rivers drawn Sept. 5th. 1824 by Charles Heaton. Copied August 19th 1847 by James Watson Riley.

No place but likely Cincinnati, James Watson Riley, 1824 / 1847. Pen, ink and watercolor on wove paper, 22.5” x 12.7”. Annotation at lower left “Gov Bebb”. OCLC locates a single copy dated 10 August, 1847 held at Miami University Library. Symmes original survey manuscripts were lost to fire..... More

Approaching Solar Eclipse. John Poulson

John Poulson

Approaching Solar Eclipse.

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

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776. THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION Of The Thirteen UNITED STATES OF AMERICA....

Prentiss Whitney

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776. THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION Of The Thirteen UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Boston: Boston Bewick Co., 1835. Stereotyped broadside on linen with hand colored border, 25.7” x 20.7”. Title in four lines consisting of four separate typefaces. The body arrangement is clearly influenced, almost precisely, by Benjamin Tyler’s 1819 printing, primarily using script interspersed with a variety of boldface ornamental types to..... More

Price: $3,250.00

The State of South Carolina / Land Grant & 1000 acre for Survey Christopher Lewis, Orangeburg...

South Carolina

The State of South Carolina / Land Grant & 1000 acre for Survey Christopher Lewis, Orangeburg District

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

Price: $350.00

A Map of the Hardenbergh Patent / granted in the year 1704 / Compiled and laid down from actual...

William Cockburn

A Map of the Hardenbergh Patent / granted in the year 1704 / Compiled and laid down from actual survey.

N.p. but likely Kingston unsigned but attributed to William Cockburn, circa. 1790-92. Pen, ink & watercolor on laid paper, 16 joined sheets backed on original linen with silk selvage, 48” x 57”. De-ascension notation in manuscript at lower left corner of map "D H S / Ex I-3 / C...... More

Map of Tioga Point 1785 / Lottery Warrant No. 1 Surveyed to Josiah Lockhart. William MacClay,...

William MacClay [attributed]

Map of Tioga Point 1785 / Lottery Warrant No. 1 Surveyed to Josiah Lockhart

1785. XXXX. No place but likely Sunbury, unsigned but in the hand of William MacClay, June 27, 1785. Folio, pen, ink and watercolor on laid paper, 16” x 13”. Old folds, light scattered foxing, edge chips and old paper and tissue reinforcement of horizontal fold separations, very good to nearly..... More

Price: $8,500.00

Map and Indenture Partitioning the Lands of Phillip French in the Province of East Jersey, County...

William Mackdowell et al

Map and Indenture Partitioning the Lands of Phillip French in the Province of East Jersey, County of Somersett [sic].

Elizabeth, NJ, William Mackdowell & others, 1722. Pen, ink and gouache on vellum, 3 interleaved membranes two of which are 26” x 31” and one map measuring 15” x 13”. Four wax seals intact, docketed on verso “Secretar [sic] Office / Perth Amboy 1723 / Recorded in Libres D No..... More

Price: $6,500.00

Map of Ohio by Zillah Embree. Zillah Embree

Zillah Embree

Map of Ohio by Zillah Embree

Westtown Boarding School, West Chester, Pa, Zillah Embree, c.1815-18. Pen, ink and watercolor on wove paper, 10” x 10”. Fine condition with crisp bright color. Based on Bourne & Hough 1815 map. Accomplished while Zillah was enrolled at the Westtown Quaker boarding school in Chester, PA. More

Price: $1,600.00

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