Maps depicting regions, locales and sites in the eastern United States.
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
New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton, 1886. Pocket map, gilt and blind stamped cloth, folding map colored by county, 24.5” x 16.5”. Not in Phillips Maps. Attractive and rather late map of the state issued by the Colton firm. The last Colton map of New Jersey listed in Phillips is..... More
New Tork: H. Schile, no date but 1870. Large folio, 2-stone lithograph, 19.2” x 25”. Ref: Peters America on Stone pp. 358-359. Composite of 7 mountain vistas with the central presentation being a 8” x 25.5” panorama Viewed From Mt. Hope, Ulster County identifying six peaks with three smaller captioned..... More
1703. Chester County Pa, Isaac Taylor, 1703. Pen, ink & watercolor on laid paper exhibiting the upper half of a “Pro Patria” watermark. Signed and dated by Taylor, 6.5” x 8”. Fine condition overall. On the 8th day of the 4th month, 1697, George Willard executed a deed for..... More
Baltimore: Edward Sachse & Co., 1855. Multi-stone lithograph with resin highlights, 21.2” x 32.2”. Impressive panoramic view of Pennsylvania’s capitol city looking from the north, drawn from nature and daguerreotype by J.T. Williams, York Pa. Twenty-one vignettes form the primary border and include "View of Bridgeport", "Susquehanna River & Harrisburg..... More
New Haven: E.L. & J.W. Barber, c.1830. Medium folio, woodcut broadside with original wash color, 12.5” x 17.5” including descriptive text. Scarce first state of Barber’s separately issued view of New Haven Green. Stokes – It shows both churches still with the bricks in their original red. The old Methodist..... More
no place cited but likely Sunbury, Pa. John Adlum & James Chapman, 1796-7. Pen,ink and watercolor on 2 joined folio sheets of laid paper bearing Whatman watermarks, dissected into 10 panels and backed on contemporary linen, 24.5” x 34.5”. Signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court..... More
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
Philadelphia: Author, 1786. Pen, ink and watercolor on vellum, 14.5” x 18.5”, on a 19.7” x 31" membrane. Housed in a tall quarto cloth portfolio with gilt stamped leather spine. (original) and cover labels – DEED BOOK – J. COWPERTHWAIT - 1786. During the American Revolution, Lieutenant John Hills served..... 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
New York: Author, 1829. Pen & ink on linen backed wove paper, 29” x 25”. The Cayuga Nation consisted of Onondaga peoples in the east and Seneca peoples in the west settlements along the northern shores of Lake Cayuga and in the lowlands of the Seneca River. The Cayuga were..... More
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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
Boston, B. & J. Loring[?], 1801. Case map, 32 segments on original linen with original outline hand color, 32” x 47.5”, blind stamped and decorated full calf slipcase impressed “Map Of Mass”. Map unevenly and lightly toned, slipcase worn and defective, about very good for this map which is typically..... More
Philadelphia And Warren: R.L. Barnes and R.R. Russell, 1865. 1st edition, 16mo embossed cloth, folding map, lithograph, wash and outline color, 23" x 28.5" Not in Streeter, Phillips or Simonetti. Ref: Stephenson Land Ownership Maps 808. The best period map of the Warren oil district published at the time and..... More
[Tallahassee?], Robert B. Ker, 1839. Pen, ink and watercolor on wove paper bearing a WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1835 watermark, signed and dated by Ker, signed also by Surveyor General Robert Butler, 15.5” x 19.5”. Two short closed tears, remnants of old paper backing on verso, paper, ink and color very..... 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
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
New York: George Nesbitt, 1864. Four sheets joined,linen backed with linen selvage, lithograph, 28" x 80" with wide margins. Not in Phillips Maps, Marcou or Simonetti. Large topographical map of this rugged Anthracite coal mining region of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania encompassing a 6 by 20 mile area bisected by the..... 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