Boston Rare MapsSpecializing in antique American maps & prints
A striking and extremely rare 1913 chromolithographic view of the Great Dayton Flood during which water and fire laid waste to much of downtown Dayton, Ohio. The worst natural disaster in Ohio history, the Great Dayton Flood was caused by a series of heavy rainstorms in March 1913. After several days of rain, on March […]
![[ William Bennett ]Painted by G. Cooke / Engd. by W[illiam] J[ames] Bennett, CITY OF WASHINGTON From beyond the Navy Yard. New York: Lewis P. Clover, 180 Fulton St. N.Y., [ca. 1834.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BRM3266-Bennett-Washington_lowres-e1568904708586-150x150.jpg)
One of the great views of Washington, D.C., emphasizing the city’s magnificent natural setting at the junction of the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers. Executed in aquatint by William Bennett, one of America’s great landscape engravers. The view depicts the capital as seen looking westward from the south bank of the Anacostia River. The city’s major landmarks […]
![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 […]
![L[ucien] R[inaldo] Burleigh (artist) / The Burleigh Litho. Establishment, WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. 1887. Troy, NY: L. R. Burleigh, 1887.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/BRM4217-Burleigh-White-Plains-NY-1887_lowres-scaled-e1659468327356-150x150.jpg)
An attractive, sweeping and carefully-rendered 1887 bird’s-eye view of the village of White Plains, New York as seen from the southwest, by one of the most prolific American viewmakers of the 19th century. One of very few known examples. First settled by Connecticut Puritans in the 1680s, White Plains became the Westchester county seat in […]
![Walker Lith. & Pub. Co., Boston, CANOBIE LAKE PARK SALEM, NH. Haverhill, NH: Massachusetts Northeastern Street Ry. Co., [undated but 1912 or a bit later].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/BRM4130-Walker-Canobie-Lake-Park-NH_lowres_web-scaled-e1656693252972-150x150.jpg)
A lovely and unrecorded early 20th-century chromolithographic bird’s-eye view of Canobie Lake Park in Salem, New Hampshire. The view depicts the Park as seen from an imaginary vantage point to the north, with Canobie Lake in the middle ground and the cities of the Merrimack Valley in the far distance. Though a roller coaster is […]
A very rare and unusual White Mountains view, produced for an early automobile rally. This view depicts the high peaks of the White Mountains and the surrounding region, bounded east and west by the Carter and Kinsman Ranges, and north and south by Lancaster and the Lakes Region. The scale is most curious, quite compressed […]
An appealing bird’s-eye view of this Plymouth County city, founded in 1637 and one of the United States’ earliest industrial centers. The view depicts Taunton as seen from the east and shows in detail its topography, road and rail network, and seemingly every structure in town. A numbered legend identifies important public buildings, businesses and factories, […]
A most unusual image, of the utmost rarity. This bird’s-eye view depicts the subcontinent as it might be seen from somewhere high above the Indian ocean just south of Sri Lanka. The coverage is from the Himalayas south to include all of peninsular India as well as Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). From east to west it extends […]
A rare and striking 1922 Ralph Carlyle Prather bird’s-eye view of the Rocky Mountain National Park as seen looking west from an imaginary viewpoint above the town of Estes Park (elev. 7547’), with 14,255-foot Long’s Peak looming in the background. This remarkable image was produced to capitalize on the region’s emerging tourist economy, catalyzed in […]
![Walker Lith. & Pub. Co., CHARLES RIVER. Boston, [ca. 1900.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/BRM1626A-Walker-Charles-River_lowres-e1444237890588-150x150.jpg)
An interesting bird’s-eye view of the Charles River and Boston’s western suburbs looking southwest from an imaginary point high over Waltham, encompassing much of Dedham, Natick, Needham, Newton, Waltham, Wellesley and other towns. Through it all winds the serpentine Charles River, passing landmarks such as the Waltham Watch Factory, Norumbega Park and the dam and […]