[Salem, Mass. ?]: No publisher, 1904. This is the second edition of the first guidebook to focus on the Waterville Valley. The author, Arthur Lewis Goodrich, was an 1874 Harvard graduate and a founding member of the Appalachian Mountain Club. He and his son were prominent early trail makers in..... More

[Boston]: Mien and Fleeming, [1769]. Page size: about 6 3/4 x 4 1/4." In the summer of 1768 -- a year and a half before bullets would actually fly at the Boston Massacre -- a musical skirmish broke out between patriots and loyalists. It began with John Dickinson, author of..... More

[Boston]: [Greenleaf and Freeman], [1784]. 9 1/8 x 5 7/8." This extremely scarce little map of Boston appeared as part of the Geographical Gazetteer of the Towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a work issued in parts as a supplement to The Boston Magazine from October, 1784 through December, 1785..... More

Williamsburg, VA: John Pinkney [publisher], 1775. 16 ¾ x 10 ½”. The text of the "Causes and Necessity of their Taking Up Arms" appears on pages 2 and 3 of the newspaper. The Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, only about seven months after the..... More

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1789. 7 ¼ x 8 1/8.”. Appearing in the March, 1789 issue of the American Museum magazine, this engraving is the second American version of Franklin's famous chart of the Gulf Stream printed in America. Both American versions were preceded by English and French printings. The Chart..... More

Boston: Printed and sold by John W. Folsom, No. 10, Union-Street. Prolific Boston printer, publisher and bookseller John Folsom issued this almanac for just this one year. This is the second edition of the almanac which O’Neal describes as “very scarce.” O’Neal speculates that the Osgood Carleton was the primary..... More

Newport [RI]: Printed by Solomon Southwick. 1774. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4. The title cut of this barely pre-Revolutionary War almanac is an elaborate woodcut of an astronomer seated behind a globe and looking through a telescope as two fanciful creatures fill the night sky. As if looking into the..... More

Dublin: 1935, 1938, [1952] and 1959. Various illustrators, designers and printers. A grouping of four delightful pamphlets featuring “parodies, imitations of verses and scenes from Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass.” These richly-imaginative and handsomely-illustrated booklets are from the series of promotional pieces distributed to physicians in..... More

[Pliadelphia]: From Carey & Lea's A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas... 1822. Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 22." Map size: 12 x 8 3/4." A nice example of the New Hampshire map from Carey & Lea's popular American Atlas published in Philadelphia in 1822. The success of the..... More

[Boston]: [Little, Brown.] From: Our U.S.A., A Gay Geography. 1930s. Image area: 8.75 x 11.5.”. A colorful and whimsical pictorial map of the State of New Hampshire by Ruth Taylor – history, industry, geography and culture all entertainingly portrayed. Our U.S.A., A Gay Geography was a juvenile gazetteer..... More

New York: U.S. Army, 1944. Newsmap was a poster/newspaper issued weekly during World War II by the U.S. War Department to military installations and government and civic groups working on War Department projects. Issues generally contained one or more maps as well as reports of recent military actions. A good..... More

New York: Currier and Ives, 1883. This very attractive trade card for the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company features a delightful scene of the steamship Penobscot underway with other sailing craft and a lighthouse providing nautical accents. The reverse of the card provides a narrative format sailing timetable of the..... More

Augusta, ME: Luther Severance, 1838. This is the Augusta printing of Jackson's second report on the geology of Maine. It features nine full-page plates plus an in-text woodcut “View of Mt. Ktaadn.” The full-page plates include: * View of Sugar-loaf Mt. from Seboois river… * View of Mt. Ktaadn..... More