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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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