Boston Rare MapsSpecializing in rare, important and unusual American maps and prints
A lovely and richly-informative map of Leicester Massachusetts, a Worcester County mill town. Only the third example located, and in very nice, unconserved condition. Founded in 1714, Leicester citizens were involved in the early battles of the Revolution. Thereafter it became an early participant in the American Industrial Revolution, for over a century producing some one-third of […]
A spectacular map of great rarity, with only three other examples located. This huge map depicts the Hudson River towns of Cornwall and Highlands in great detail. Kirby employs hachuring to delineate the area’s interesting and varied topography, upon which are superimposed roads and rail lines, property boundaries and landowners’ names, plans of Cornwall Landing […]
A scarce wall map of the United States in vibrant original color, published by Lewis Robinson in the hinterlands of Vermont. This map is representative of a fascinating period in early American cartography, when mapmaking flourished in the hinterlands of Vermont. Beginning with James Whitelaw’s official map of the state (1796), the state produced a […]
![[ Hanover New Hampshire ] From actual survey by E[dgar] M[aurice] Woodford, MAP OF THE TOWN OF HANOVER GRAFTON COUNTY N. H. Philadelphia: E. M. Woodford, 1855.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BRM3193-Woodford-Hanover-NH-1855-e1541687423578-150x150.jpg)
An attractive and richly-informative wall map of Hanover New Hampshire, the home of Dartmouth College. Chartered by Governor Wentworth in 1761, with Dartmouth College founded in 1769, the town grew gradually, reaching some 2300 residents in 1855 when this map was published. Woodford’s map provides a wonderfully detailed depiction of Hanover, located just east of the […]
A scarce map and a wonderful example of folk cartography. Description Robinson’s map depicts Vermont and adjoining parts of New York and New Hampshire, including county and township boundaries, roads and major geographical features. Along the left side is a long table giving 1830 census data organized by county and town. The title block is […]
One of the first printed maps—along with Franklin Leavitt’s of the same year—to focus on the Lakes and White Mountains regions of New Hampshire. This scarce map depicts the region at a very large scale, depicting county and town boundaries, as well as those of public and ungranted lands. Coverage extends from Portsmouth and […]
The second official map of New Jersey, compiled by William Kitchell to replace Thomas Gordon’s map of 1828. A spectacular, important and surprisingly scarce piece, not described in the cartographic literature until John Delaney’s Nova Caesaria (2014). State Geologist William Kitchell oversaw the compilation of the map from the finest available sources, in particular the findings of […]
![Geo[rge] Stevens Civil Engineer / Lith. of W. H. Rease, N.E. Cor. 4th & Chestnut St. Phila. / Printed by Wagner & McGuigan Franklin Place, VILLAGE OF SHELBURNE FALLS FRANKLIN CO. MASSACHUSETTS From actual Survey… Philadelphia: George Stevens, 1856.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/BRM3195-Stevens-Shelburne-Falls-1856_lowres-150x150.jpg)
An unrecorded 1856 wall map of the lovely town of Shelburne Falls along the Deerfield River in Franklin County, Massachusetts, with terrific detail of local topography and architecture. This extremely rare map depicts Shelburne Falls at the very large scale of 200 feet:inch, showing details of the natural topography, street layout and street names, property […]
![J[acob] R[ichards] Dodge, L. H. Bradford & Co., TOWNSHIP AND RAIL ROAD MAP OF NEW HAMPSHIRE compiled from the best authorities with corrections and alterations of town lines from actual surveys…. Second Edition. Nashua: J. R. Dodge, 1854.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BRM3746-Dodge-New-Hampshire-1854_lowres-scaled-e1612214824377-150x150.jpg)
A large and most attractive 1854 wall map of New Hampshire depicting the state in a period of intense economic development, by eminent journalist and statistician Jacob Richards Dodge. Drawn at a scale of 1”:6 miles, the map depicts town and county boundaries, roads and railroads, and major topographical features such as the White Mountains. […]
The first official map of the State of New Hampshire, and for its time the largest-scale map of the state. David Cobb calls it “the most detailed and accurate map of the state produced in the early nineteenth century.” Based largely on new surveys, the map depicts the state with the surveyed boundaries of counties […]