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![[Anonymous], A Front VIEW of YALE-COLLEGE, and the COLLEGE CHAPEL, NEW HAVEN. [:] A compendious History of Yale-College, and a general Account of the Course of Studies pursued by the Students. New Haven: Daniel Bowen, [1786].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/BRM4324-Bowen-Yale-College-1786_lowres-150x150.jpg)
An appealing, informative and extremely rare woodcut view of Yale, one of the earliest extant views of the institution. With provenance to one of America’s greatest collectors and one of its greatest dealers of the 20th century. The woodcut is a low-level architectural profile taken from a vantage point on New Haven Green and looks […]
A lovely chromolithographic view of the so-called New England Fair, the exhibition building of the New England Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute. Extremely rare in any form, but particularly unusual for being a publisher’s mockup, with extensive material in manuscript. In 1881 the building was the site of the first exhibition of the Institute, which organization […]
![President Walter A. Carl / Draftsman D.W. Gurton, …BREWERY, AND BOTTLING HOUSE PREMISES OF THE BOSTON BEER COMPANY 225/49 & 230/44 W.2ND ST., SOUTH BOSTON, MASS. [with 8 architectural plans of the premises.] Boston, 1938.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BRM3046-Boston-Beer-Company_1-of-9-copy-e1541157073328-150x150.jpg)
A 1938 plat, floor plans and sections for the brewery and bottling complex of the Boston Beer Company in South Boston. At the time the Company was the oldest operating brewery in the United States. The plat and plans depict the Boston Beer Company premises sprawling across two South Boston blocks bounded by Bolton, D, […]
![[ United States Capitol ] “Drawn & Etched by C[harles] A[ugustin] Busby, Architect, from measurements and documents obtained by himself on the spot, 1819”, THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON. ELEVATION OF THE PRINCIPAL FRONT. London: by the Author, 1823.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BRM3874-Capitol-at-Washington_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A very fine and rare engraved elevation view of the United States Capitol Building. Drawn by British architect Charles Busby during its restoration following the burning of Washington during the War of 1812. Busby’s view depicts the façade of the Capitol as seen from the East. Other than the symmetrical north (Senate) and south (House) […]
A beautiful chromolithographic view of the Centilivre Brewing Co., founded in 1862 along the St. Joseph River in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This view shows the enormous brewery and its satellite buildings, including the Victorian-style offices, storage building, stables and wagon shed, and at far center left what appears to be the Centlivre residence. The view […]
![[Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (aka le Corbusier)] / Printed at Survey of India Offices, PLAN OF NEW CAPITAL PUNJAB [:] CHANDIGARH. Simla, Punjab: Director Public Relations, 1951/1953.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/BRM3772-Corbusier-Chandigarh-1951_lowres-scaled-e1614988426843-150x150.jpg)
A rare 1951 map illustrating the le Corbusier design for Chandigarh, the new capital city of Punjab, India, one of the largest projects of his long career. Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965) was a pioneer of modern architecture, best known for the use of reinforced concrete buildings to meet the housing needs of growing urban […]
A large and impressive manuscript plan of the Cistercian abbey of Saint-André-de-Gouffern, founded in the 12th century in La Hoguette, Normandy. The plan depicts the abbey in great detail, including not only the church and adjacent cloister but also less spiritual features such as the gardens, cider cellar, latrines and even a “prison.” The unknown […]
A rare pamphlet by George Whitefield summarizing his failed attempt to obtain a royal charter for the first American college south of Virginia. With an all-but unknown map of the area and a large architectural plan of the proposed institution. Background George Whitefield (1714-1770) was an electrifying Methodist minister who along with Jonathan Edwards played […]
A spectacular set of Erno Goldfinger designs for the rebuilding of the East End of London after the Second World War. This set of 20 posters was designed for a popular audience, to be displayed at traveling exhibitions. It lays out in simple terms an argument for planning on a “neighbourhood” model, which seeks to […]