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![L[ucien] R[inaldo] Burleigh / The Burleigh Litho. Establishment, PETERBOROUGH, N. H. 1886. Troy, NY: L. R. Burleigh, 1886.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/BRM4244-Burleigh-Peterborough-1886_lowres-150x150.jpg)
An attractive, sweeping and carefully-rendered 1886 bird’s-eye view of the town of Peterborough, New Hampshire as seen from the east, with Mount Monadnock towering in the background, by one of the most prolific American viewmakers of the 19th century. First settled by Europeans in 1749 and incorporated in 1760 by Governor Benning Wentworth, Peterborough was […]
A monumental and richly informative map of Coos County, New Hampshire, including the northern ranges of the White Mountains. By Henry F. Walling, one of the preeminent American mapmakers of the latter half of the 19th century. Published in 1861, this is by far the largest and most detailed map of Coos County and the […]
Executed at ½ mile to the inch, this map shows Concord’s major topographical features, street layout, with distances from the city center marked off at regular intervals. The locations of dwellings are shown, a legend at lower left identifies 20 public buildings and churches, and tiny symbols indicate cemeteries and the sites of garrisons erected […]
A rare, attractive and terrifically informative map of Concord New Hampshire by Henry Walling, arguably the preeminent American mapmaker of the mid-19th century. This very rare map depicts the center of Concord at a terrific level of detail for the time. The very large scale of 500 feet to the inch permits Walling to show […]
An immensely detailed view of Dover New Hampshire in the early 19th century. In addition to its intrinsic rarity, this is remarkable as one of the very few printed plans of New Hampshire towns issued prior to 1850. The print consists in fact of two maps. At left is a map of the town on […]
A most important 1826 map of New England by Nathan Hale, being the first significant large-scale map of New England issued in the 19th century. As such, it is best viewed as the successor to Thomas Jefferys’ Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England (1755), the great regional map of the 18th century. […]
![[J.F.W. Des Barres, [A View of Portsmouth in Piscataqua River.] London: J.F.W. Des Barres, ca. 1780-81.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/BRM3290-Des-Barres-Portsmouth-e1554324117121-150x150.jpg)
A very rare and quite lovely aquatint view of Portsmouth Hew Hampshire, which supplanted an inferior line engraving of the same subject in The Atlantic Neptune. Background In 1764 the Lord Commissioners of Trade & Plantations appointed engineer Samuel Holland as Surveyor General of the Northern District of North America. In this capacity he was […]
A nice example of what was for its time the finest chart of the coasts of New Hampshire and southern Maine. It was issued in 1776 in The Atlantic Neptune, an atlas of the East Coast used by British captains during the Revolution. The charts were so respected that they remained in use for decades, often […]