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![[English Pilot] VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, PENNSILVANIA, East & West NEW JERSEY. London: Sold by Jno. Mount & Thos. Page Tower Hill, [1689/ca. 1773].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BRM1767I3-English-Pilot-Chesapeake-ca-1773-e1550173339819-150x150.jpg)
An important early chart of the Delaware and Chesapeake Bay regions from The English Pilot. The Fourth Book, based upon the seminal work of Augustine Hermann. The chart depicts the coast from Staten Island as far south as modern-day Virginia Beach. The geography is based largely on that of Augustine Hermann’s monumental 1673 map Virginia and […]
![Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, A MAP of the most INHABITED part of VIRGINIA containing the whole PROVINCE OF Maryland with Part of PENSILVANIA, NEW JERSEY AND NORTH CAROLINA. London: Robert Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street & Thomas Jefferys at the Corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross [but Sayer & Bennett], 1775.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BRM4004-Fry-Jefferson-Virginia-1775_edited_joined_lowres-scaled-e1636421916599-150x150.jpg)
The 1775 edition of Fry and Jefferson’s epochal Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia, praised as “the basic cartographical document for Virginia of the eighteenth century [and] the first map of Virginia by Virginians” (Coolie Verner) and “the definitive eighteenth century cartographic document for the colony of Virginia.” (Taliaferro) In scope, content and […]
![Andrew Duluc, FIRST VIEW of the BATTLE of PATAPSCO NECK [:] DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO LOST THEIR FRIENDS IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY [:] SEPTR 12 1814](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/BRM2983-Battle-Patapsco-Neck-1814_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A contemporary view by an American participant of the September 1814 Battle of North Point, at which Maryland militia bravely defended Baltimore against a large force of British regulars. Extremely rare, and here in an unrecorded proof or first state. Background The early land campaigns of the War of 1812 took place along the Canadian […]
A rare, large-scale map of Baltimore County Maryland and one of the very few maps of southern counties published before the Civil War. This minutely-detailed wall map depicts the county’s twelve districts, road network, railroads, post offices, mills, foundries, schools, taverns, country seats, and the names of thousands of landowners. There is a large inset plan […]
![Drawn and lith. by J. Schedler 358 Pearl st. N.Y. / Sarony, Major & Knapp Liths. 119 Broadway N.Y., THE SEAT OF WAR[:] BIRDS EYE VIEW OF VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. New York: W. Schaus 629 Broadway (and Francois Delarue, Paris and H. Graves & Co., London), 1861.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/BRM3605-Schedler-Seat-of-War-in-VA-etc-1861_lowres-scaled-e1595257808107-150x150.jpg)
A striking and unusual depiction of the seat of Civil War in the Middle Atlantic States. Published in 1861 for a large public, both here and abroad, that may not have been conversant with map reading but sought a geographic context with which to follow news of the early battles of the Civil War. The […]
![Fielding Lucas, Jr. / Engraved by John and William W. Warr / [Sold by] Hagger & Brother, A Chart of the CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE Bays. Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., [1832] / copyright 1852 / 1862.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BRM2015H-Lucas-Chesapeake-and-Delaware-Bays-1852_lowres-scaled-e1592944756734-150x150.jpg)
A scarce and very appealing chart of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, with coverage upstream to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and well up the Rappahanock, York and James Rivers. Soundings extend along the eastern shore into the lower Chester River, Eastern Bay, the mouth of the Choptank, and Tangier Sound, and the entrances to both […]