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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 […]
![[Nicolas Scull & George Heap /] Matthaüs Albrecht Lotter, A PLAN of the City and Environs of PHILADELPHIA ... [Augsburg:] Matthaüs Albrecht Lotter, 1777.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/BRM4174-Lotter-Philadelphia-1777_lowres-scaled-e1656500489356-150x150.jpg)
An uncommon and most attractive German map of Revolutionary-era Philadelphia and its immediate environs, published the year the city was captured by the British Army under General Howe. The Continental Congress had first met at Philadelphia in 1774 and continued to meet there during the early years of the American Revolution, until the city was […]
A mammoth, detailed and rare 18th-century American chart of Chesapeake Bay. From John and William Norman’s American Pilot, one of the earliest atlases published in the United States. This impressive chart depicts the complex coast from New Jersey south to just below Cape Henry, Virginia. It provides an immense amount of detail for Delaware Bay […]
![Drawn under the direction of John A[dams] Paxton by Wm. Strickland / W. Harrison Sct. / Printed by C.P. Harrison, TO The Citizens of Philadelphia This New Plan of the City and its ENVIRONS, Taken from Actual Survey Is Respectfully Dedicated by their Humble Servt. John A. Paxton. Philadelphia: John A. Paxton, [1810].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/BRM3868-Paxton-Philadelphia-1811_lowres-scaled-e1630009642828-150x150.jpg)
A scarce plan of Philadelphia, originally issued in John Adems Paxton’s (The Stranger’s Guide.) An Alphabetical List of all the Wards, Streets, Roads, Lanes, Alleys, Avenues, Courts, Wharves, Ship Yards, Public Buildings &c. in the City and Suburbs of Philadelphia. This plan depicts the city in considerable detail, with streets, important buildings, parks &c numerically […]
![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 […]
![Mr. Radiation, NRC TOURS presents… THREE MILE ISLAND VACATION PACKAGE. Mechanicsburg, PA: Mr. Radiation Products[!], 1979.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/BRM3998-Three-Miles-Island-Tours-1979_lowres-scaled-e1658933121474-150x150.jpg)
An unrecorded poster by “Mr. Radiation”, sending up the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. The worst nuclear accident in American history began at 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979 at the Three Mile Island (TMI) plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A routine maintenance procedure led to a stuck coolant valve, and […]