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![Lewis Evans / Benjamin Franklin (printer) / James Turner (engraver), A general MAP of the MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES, in AMERICA; Viz VIRGINIA, MARILAND, DELAWARE, PENSILVANIA, NEW-JERSEY, NEW-YORK, CONNECTICUT, and RHODE ISLAND: Of AQUANISHUONÎGY, the Country of the Confederate Indians; … By Lewis Evans. 1755. [Bound in:] Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical ESSAYS. The FIRST, Containing An ANALYSIS Of a General MAP of the MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA; And of the Country of the Confederate Indians; A Description of the Face of the Country;…By LEWIS EVANS. The second EDITION. PHILADELPHIA: Printed by B. FRANKLIN, and D. HALL. MDCCLV. And sold by J. and R. DODSLEY, in Pall-Mall, London.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BRM-3427-Evans-Essays-1755_map_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A superb example in full original color of the rare first state of the Lewis Evans Map of the Middle British Colonies, called by Schwartz and Ehrenberg “the most ambitious performance of its kind undertaken in America up to that time.” Bound in, as issued, to Evans’ Analysis of a General Map of the Middle […]
![[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 […]
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 […]
A rare Confederate plan of the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major encounter of the Civil War and an infamous disaster for the Union. Almost certainly published within weeks of the battle, it has a wonderful immediacy to the events depicted, and though rather crudely executed is replete with information. This is one […]
![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 […]
![Drawn by Adolph Lindenkolh / H[enry] Lindenkohl & C[harles] G. Krebs Lith., [North Carolina, with adjacent parts of Virginia and South Carolina.] Washington, DC: United States Coast Survey, 1865.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/BRM1767S6-Lindenkohl-VA_NC_SC-1865_lowres-scaled-e1590941520759-150x150.jpg)
Rare large-format map of North Carolina and adjacent areas of Virginia and South Carolina, compiled by Adolph Lindenkohl of the United States Coast Survey for the final campaign of the Civil War. At the outset of the Civil War, it quickly became apparent to the senior Union military leaders that they lacked detailed, reliable maps […]