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![Engraved by Tho[ma]s Jefferys, A PLAN of the TOWN and FORT of CARILLON at TICONDEROGA; with the ATTACK made by the BRITISH ARMY Commanded by Genl. Abercombrie, 8 July 1758. London: Tho[ma]s Jefferys near Charing Cross, [1758].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/BRM4281-Jefferys-Ticonderoga-1758_lowres-scaled-e1668669575904-150x150.jpg)
The most important contemporary plan of Fort Ticonderoga and surroundings, a handsome and valuable delineation of the layout of the fortress, its strategic location commanding the river between Lakes George and Champlain, and troop positions during General Abercromby’s catastrophic frontal assault during the French and Indian War. Early in the Summer of 1758, the British […]
This extraordinary document is a working draft of a parliamentary speech articulating Great Britain’s global strategy for prosecuting the Seven Years’ War. The writer argues for massive financial support for Frederick II of Prussia, that he might occupy French attention, manpower and treasure on the Continent. This would enable the British to exploit their advantages in […]
![[Henry Southwood], A New and Correct CHART of the Coast of NEW FOUNDLAND from Cape Raze to Cape Bonavista, With Chebucto Harbour in NOVA SCOTIA Done from the latest Observations. [London:] W. & I. Mount & T. Page [i.e., William Mount, John Mount & Thomas Page], [1753, or later].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/BRM2789-Newfoundland_English-Pilot_lowres-scaled-e1646425130527-150x150.jpg)
Uncommon English chart of the Avalon Peninsula at the south-eastern corner of Newfoundland, based on surveys performed by the English hydrographer Henry Southwood in the 1670s. Henry Southwood is the most significant figure in the mapping of Newfoundland prior to Captain James Cook in the 1750s. For all that, remarkably little is known about him. […]
![A MAP OF THE Harbour of NEW YORK by Survey. [New York, ca. 1735-1770s.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BRM3680-Harbour-of-New-York-manuscript_lowres-scaled-e1604444828147-150x150.jpg)
An early manuscript map of what is now New York City, based closely on William Bradford’s New Map of the Harbour of New York, one of the great rarities of 18th-century American cartography. Like the Bradford map, our manuscript depicts New York and northeastern New Jersey from roughly present-day Marlboro Township in the southwest, to Little Falls in […]
![[Cyprian Southack?], A Correct Map of the Coast OF NEW ENGLAND. London, [1731/1749-1773].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BRM4175-Southack-Correct-Map-Coast-of-New-England_lowres-scaled-e1687982521565-150x150.jpg)
An important chart of New England waters by Cyprian Southack, one of Colonial America’s most colorful early figures. A Correct Map of the Coast of New England depicts the northeast coast from Sandy Hook to the southern edge of Cape Breton. Intended as a working chart, it provides much information on soundings, banks and shoals, […]
![Eman[uel] Bowen, Geographer to his Majesty, A NEW MAP of Georgia, with Part of CAROLINA, FLORIDA and LOUISIANA. Drawn from Original Draughts, assisted by the most approved Maps and Charts. [London: Thomas Woodward et al., 1748].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BRM3756-Bowen-New-Map-of-Georgia-1737_lowres-scaled-e1615389846787-150x150.jpg)
An early, important English map of the Georgia colony, chartered in 1732, here depicted with its borders extending to the Mississippi River and presumably on to the Pacific, although actual physical settlement was then limited to a narrow band along the Atlantic coast. The original charters of the English colonies in North America established boundaries […]
An extraordinarily rare, interesting and sumptuously decorated allegorical map of the Island of Felicity, produced for one of the first Masonic orders to admit women. Background The map was designed and printed for l’Ordre de la Félicité. This short-lived Order was a quasi-Masonic secret society established in France in the early 1740s by Louis-Joseph Scipio La […]
![Thomas Pelham-Holles (Duke of Newcastle), James Oglethorpe, Francisco del Moral y Sánchez, et al., From the Duke of Newcastle. July 1736. Enclosing Papers on Georgia [Official copies of letters and other documents relating to the affairs of Georgia and its boundary dispute with Spanish Florida, submitted to Newcastle by Oglethorpe, and transmitted by Newcastle to Prime Minister Robert Walpole.] England, July 2, 1736.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BRM4204-Newcastle_Oglethorpe_Georgia-archive_combined_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A remarkable gathering of letters and other documents, submitted in 1736 by James Oglethorpe to the Duke of Newcastle and addressing the festering boundary dispute between the Colony of Georgia and Spanish Florida. Copied in a secretarial hand for transmission to King George II, with a signed cover letter by Newcastle. In all, a rich […]
![Zacharias Landteck, ZACHARIAS LANDTECKS Neu inventierte GEOGRAPHISHE UNIVERSAL-ZEIG UND SCHLAG-UHR[:] ZACHARIAS LANDTECKS Nieuw Uytgevonde WEERELD-BEELDIGH WYS EN SLAG WERK. [Nüremburg: Johann Baptist Homann, ca. 1705?]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/BRM3118-Landteck-Schlag-Uhr_lowres-150x150.jpg)
An interesting, attractive and very rare print depicting a remarkable universal clock purportedly developed by Nuremburg clock- and watchmaker Zacharias Landteck (1670-1740). Not to be confused with the vastly more common version attributing the clock to map- and instrument maker Johann Baptist Homann. The print depicts one face of Landteck’s clock, flanked left and right […]
![Johannes van Keulen , Pas-Kaart Vande Zee Kusten van Niew Nederland Anders Genaamt Niew York
. Amsterdam, [1684/ca. 1702.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BRM1914-Van-Keulen-Niew-Nederland-1-scaled-e1644343079376-150x150.jpg)
Van Keulen’s important chart of the waters off New York and southern New England, much enhanced by its detailed treatment of coastal settlement and inset charts of the Hudson and Connecticut Rivers. The main chart depicts the coast from Rensselaer Hook in New Jersey to roughly the “elbow” of Cape Cod, with extensive soundings and notations […]