Greenbush, VT: No publisher, ca. 1850. 11 1/8 x 7 1/2." In about 1810, Isaac Eddy established an engraving shop in Greenbush, Vermont. This was the beginning of an improbable yet very successful map, globe and illustrated book industry in rural Vermont over the next forty years. Eddy's best-known apprentice..... More

London: British Admiralty, 1775 and later. Two sheets, each approximately 33 ½ x 25,” with each view being about 4 ½ x 8 ¼.”. This rarely offered two-sheet set of six small views of Boston, circa 1775, is from J.F.W. Des Barres' monumental Atlantic Neptune. The views present a wonderful..... More

[Bryn Mawr, PA]: Bryn Mawr College (presumed), 1928. Image area: 18 x 14.” Framed size: 22 ½ x 18 ¼.”. This whimsical and good-natured map presents a student's-eye view of the Bryn Mawr campus in 1928. The full title is "Here is the Bryn Mawr Campus - All Its Wonders..... More

No place: No publisher, 1915. 17 ½ x 13 ¾.”. This map of the Waterville Valley is bounded, roughly, by Mt. Kancamagus to the north, the Tripyramids to the east, Sandwich Mountain to the south and Mt. Tecumseh to the west. It is a substantially larger and more detailed map..... More

[London]: Published by Laurie & Whittle. No. 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs. 1797. Image size: 18 3/8 x 24." Sheet size: 21 x 28 ¾.”. This classic map of the Virgin Islands appeared in Thomas Jefferys' West India Atlas; the first issue of the chart was dated..... More

New York: William Hooker, 1821. 25¼x17¾ inches sheet size. This wonderful early American blueback chart of Bermuda provides a detailed mapping of the islands, copious depth soundings and a panel of General Instructions for Making the Bermuda Islands at the lower right. The Hooker chart is apparently the first separately..... More

New York: Published by C. Smith, [1797]. 8 ½ x 13 ¾." This very detailed plan of the Battle of Saratoga is closely derived from Faden's 1780 map of the same title; with a shading key, it shows the position of American and "Royal" troops. Smith's rendition omits an inch..... More

Boston: From the July, 1793 issue of Massachusetts Magazine, 1793. Image area: 9 x 11 ½.” Sheet size:10 ¼ x 12 ¾.”. What is now known as "the Old State House" stands at the head of State Street in downtown Boston. It stands on the site of the first Town..... More

Boston: Gray and Bowen. Map dimensions: 8 ½ x 8.”. The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge was a Boston-based almanac published for the years from 1830 through 1862. Sabin describes it as “a compendious annual register… well worthy of being preserved as a book of reference.” This is..... More

Springfield, Mass: Art Photo Company [manufacturer]. 1932. 3 ½ x 5 ¼.”. An early eclipse-viewing apparatus on the occasion of the August 31, 1932 eclipse of the sun which crossed New England. The cardboard viewer has eye holes covered by a “Non-inflammable Filter.” The printed envelope for the “scope” features..... More

Paris: From Atlas Geographique, Statistique, Historique... 1825. Sheet size, including text and margins: 21 1/4 x 26 3/4." Map only: 12 1/8 x 8 5/8." A delightful small map of New Hampshire from the French translation (and update) of the Carey and Lea Atlas; the original Carey and Lea Atlas..... More

[London.]: From Moll's Atlas Minor, 1729 or later. 7 7/8 x 10 3/4." A wonderful early portrayal of the present-day northeastern United States from Grand Manan Island to the Delaware Bay. It is an updated and slightly larger version of Moll's 1708 map of the same title. Cape Cod is..... More

Philadelphia: From Scott's The United States Gazetteer... 1795. 7 ½ x 6 ¼." Scott's The United States Gazetteer was the first gazetteer printed in the U.S. It included maps of the individual states. This five-county map of New Hampshire from the Gazetteer identifies nine towns, “the White Hills,” main roads..... More