Boston Rare MapsSpecializing in antique American maps & prints
![Color printing. [Jacques-Fabien] Gautier [D’Agoty] / Gautier fils (engraver), CARTE ABR[E]GEE du CANADA levee sur les lieux par M.*** resident a Quebec année 1754. Paris: [Gautier], 1755.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BRM3127-Gautier-Canada_lowres-e1537367250157-150x150.jpg)
A rare and fascinating thematic map of northeastern North America by a French artist, printer, anatomist and crackpot geologist, remarkable also as an early example of color printing. A former pupil of Jacob Christoph Le Blon, and a pioneer in color-printing, Jacques Fabien Gautier D’Agoty (1717-1785) improved on the methods of his teacher by developing […]
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 […]
![[After William Burgis], The South Prospect of the City of New York in North America. [London: R. Baldwin, August 1761].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/BRM4152-South-Prospect-City-New-York-1761_lowres-scaled-e1650994447227-150x150.jpg)
A most appealing 1761 view of New York City as seen looking west from Brooklyn Heights, capturing the city’s splendid natural setting and commercial vibrancy. The view depicts perhaps a couple of miles of the city’s East River waterfront, from the very southern tip of Manhattan Island to the fine country houses at the far […]
![Governor [Thomas] Pownall (artist) / John Bowles et al. (publishers), A View of the City of Boston the Capital of NEW ENGLAND, in North America. London, ca. 1760 (first issued separately) / ca. 1768 (present issue).](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BRM0849-Pownal-Boston-view-ca.-1768_lowres-scaled-e1578430070836-150x150.jpg)
An important early view of Boston, taken from the vantage point of Castle William across the Harbor to the southeast. From left to right one makes out South Cove, South Battery, Fort Hill, a line of vessels docked along Long Wharf, and the mouth of the Charles River. Behind Long Wharf are visible the three […]
A small archive of material related to the 1842 donation to the Library of Congress of two interesting French and Indian War-era maps of North America. In 1842 Doctor Andrew Nichols (1785-1853), a distinguished citizen of Danvers, Massachusetts, enquired of his Congressman, Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845), whether the Library of Congress would welcome a gift from […]