Boston Rare MapsSpecializing in antique American maps & prints
Archive of two manuscript and three printed charts of the lower Yangtze River and Poyang Lake, descended in a North Shore, Massachusetts family after having been brought back to the United States by a ship on the Yangtze Patrol after the Second Opium War. Three of the charts are backed with silk and mounted on […]
![[Anonymous], ΧΑΡΤΗς ΤΗς ΜΕΔΒΑς [Map of Medaba]. [Jerusalem, ca. late 1897-1900?]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BRM3136-Madaba-map_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A rare and lovely manuscript based on the famed Madaba Map. One of the most spectacular cartographic relics of the ancient world, this enormous sixth-century mosaic floor map includes the earliest extant map of the Holy Land. Created in the late seventh century, the mammoth mosaic of the Middle East now known as the Madaba Map […]
A striking bird’s-eye view of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, produced to supply the burgeoning tourist trade of the late 19th century. By the end of the 19th century the Lakes and White Mountain regions of New Hampshire had become major tourist destinations, with a well-developed network of rail and coach links, hotels and inns, and guide […]
![Andrew Wilson (ca. 1750-1819), [Archive of manuscript documents including a map, most relating to his time in New Madrid, Louisiana Territory.] New Madrid; Charlestown, Virginia [now Wellsburg, West Virginia]; and Washington, Pennsylvania, 1794-1819, 1881.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BRM3202-Wilson-New-Madrid-archive_edited-e1547905381341-150x150.jpg)
A rich archive documenting the early years of New Madrid, the first permanent American settlement west of the Mississippi, through the eyes of Andrew Wilson, one of the city’s first settlers. Wilson, a minister-turned-judge, has much to say about religious freedom and the reinvention of government during the transfer of Louisiana to American control. The […]