![[Early American Image of a Sea Monster] [Almanac] An Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1784. Daniel George.](/pictures/thumb/3689.jpg?v=1516151078)
Boston. Printed and Sold by Adams and Nourse... [1753.]. String-tied. The clear highlight of this almanac is a full-page engraving of a gruesome sea monster, or canis carcharias. The monster is caught in the act of mauling a hapless fisherman while two other fisherman in the distance raise their arms... More
![Anno Regni Annae Reginae... [caption title:] An Act for the Preservation of White and other Pine-Trees growing in Her Majesties Colonies of New Hampshire, the Massachusets-Bay, and Province of Maine...for the Masting Her Majesties Navy. Great Britain: Act of Parliament., The Queen's Broad Arrow on North American Pine Trees.](/pictures/thumb/3685.jpg?v=1516129996)
Lomdon. Printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceased... 1711. Disbound. This Act of Parliament made it illegal to harvest trees that were "fit for masts, not being the property of any private person" in many of the North American colonies. The fine for felling such a.... More
Portland. Published by Order of the Legislature. 1820. Contemporary calf. Boards well-scuffed and with small gouged area. Significant chipping of spine leather; hinges and joints cracked. Age-toned and areas of staining throughout. An unsophisticated but appealing example of a very scarce book. A very scarce and early printing of the... More
![[Pictorial Map of UConn in 1935.] Connecticut State College. University of Connecticut.](/pictures/thumb/3688.jpg?v=1516150667)
New Britain, CT. Perry & Bishop. 1935 copyright. This colorful, informative and somewhat whimsical map is of the UConn campus in 1935, during the six-year period when the school was known as Connecticut State College. Surprisingly scarce. In fact, we find no record of the map in OCLC nor in... More
![[Satiric Map of New York.] A New Yorker's Idea of the United States of America. Daniel K. Wallingford.](/pictures/thumb/3687.jpg?v=1516205159)
New York, NY. ca. 1939. This map is a prime example of the Satiric Geography School of Cartography as practiced by Daniel Wallingford. Together with a companion map, This Map Presents a Bostonian's Idea of the United States of America, Wallingford gently skewered the chauvinism of the inhabitants of Boston... More
