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![DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF THE GLORIOUS BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS With the first struggle for American Independence at Boston, and the final Accomplishment of the same, by the Surrender of Genl. Cornwallis at York Town. [Scotland, 1815?]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/BRM4412-Glorious-Battle-of-New-Orleans_lowres-150x150.jpg)
Only the second known example of this spectacular patriotic textile celebrating the American victory at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815. The textile a large central image of the Battle of New Orleans, surrounded by patriotic vignettes of earlier events in American history and surmounted by a portrait of George Washington. The composition […]
An extremely rare broadside program for an irreverent Washington’s Birthday celebration at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. The large size, dramatic display type and unusual content combine to render this a most suitable display piece. The broadside features several lines of headline type followed by a program for “cremation exercises by the juniors,” apparently a […]
![Times Steam Job Office, Cincinnati Weekly Times A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Adapted to the Wants of the People of the United States. Cincinnati: Times Company, [1873].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BRM3208-Cincinnati-Weekly-Times_lowres-e1547759938468-150x150.jpg)
A spectacular and unrecorded four-color broadside issued in 1873 by the Cincinnati Weekly Times, using patriotic imagery to promote its ambitions as “A National Newspaper.” The broadside touts the Times as “a national paper adapted to the wants of the people of all the United States.” It emphasizes the point with a variety of patriotic […]
Separately issued presentaion copy of a map showing the route of the proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, presented by General Simon Bernard to Mrs. Eliza Custis. After the Revolutionary, George Washington was the chief advocate of using waterways to connect the Eastern Seaboard to the Great Lakes and Ohio River. He founded the Potowmack Company in […]
The most detailed period battle plan of the Fall 1776 New York campaign, which culminated in the October 28 Battle of White Plains. The campaign was a major defeat for the Americans and compelled the Continental Army to withdraw to New Jersey. The map depicts the theatre of war in October-November of 1776, a 1000-square […]
A decorative, historically-rich and extraordinarily rare map of George Washington’s estate along the Potomac, issued in 1859, the year the estate was acquired by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association. Background George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate lies on the west bank of the Potomac River, just a few miles downstream from Alexandria. The land on which […]
A lovely example of this dramatic 1775 map of the siege of Boston and depicting in some detail the Battle of Bunker Hill. After the April 1775 encounters at Lexington and Concord the British forces under General Gage retreated to Boston. There they were besieged by American forces entrenched on the heights surrounding the town […]
The rare second printed map of Washington, D.C. being the small-scale edition of the “Ellicott Plan” engraved by Samuel Hill for the Massachusetts Magazine. Due to the vicissitudes of war and sectional politics, the site of the American capital remained unsettled for years after independence. Indeed, prior to 1790 Congress met variously at Philadelphia, Lancaster […]
A cartographic rarity of the American Revolution, being the first printed plan of the Battle of Yorktown, published in 1781 within weeks of Cornwallis’ surrender. “The timeliness of this engraving, in addition to the clear picture it renders of the beginning of the end in Virginia, helps make it an exciting document.” (Nebenzahl, Atlas of […]
The only contemporary plan of an iconic event in American history. By December 1776, the American Army was in desperate straits. Driven from New York by the British the previous September, then pursued across New Jersey, General Washington had taken refuge in Pennsylvania on the west bank of the Delaware. The Americans seemed on the verge […]