[Washington, DC.]: U.S. Coast Survey, [1879.]. Sheet size: 11 ¼ x 20 ½." Image size: 6 1/8 x 19 ¼." Art and utility come together in this image of three coastal views of the Boston area. Three approach views -- two of Boston Harbor and one centered on Minot Ledge..... 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
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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
[Paris.]: from Petite Atlas Maritime. [1764.]. 8 ½ x 6” plus margins. A classic map of Boston and the immediately surrounding area from near the end of the French & Indian War. The map appeared in Bellin’s Petit Atlas Maritime in 1764. A 16-item legend above the map identifies various..... More
No place, but likely Concord, MA: Garfield, Alva Scott. Ca. 1950. Alva Scott Garfield (1902-1993) created and published five “Scott-Maps” in the 1950s and 1960s, all with New England subjects. This delightful pictorial map of Salem, Massachusetts appears to have been one of the first two in the series, the..... More
