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A monumental and richly informative map of Coos County, New Hampshire, including the northern ranges of the White Mountains. By Henry F. Walling, one of the preeminent American mapmakers of the latter half of the 19th century. Published in 1861, this is by far the largest and most detailed map of Coos County and the […]
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 […]
![Geo[rge] H. Walker & Co., LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Boston, 1903.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/BRM4265-Walker-WInnipesaukee-1903_lowres-scaled-e1664659793126-150x150.jpg)
An attractive chromolithographic edition of this 1903 bird’s-eye view of Lake Winnipesaukee by prolific Boston publisher George H. Walker. By 1903 the Lakes and White Mountain regions of New Hampshire had become major tourist destinations, with a well-developed network of rail and steamer routes carrying visitors from Boston, New York and elsewhere, and grand hotels […]
A wonderful 1859 pictorial map of the White Mountains from the famed series by White Mountain “character” Franklin Leavitt. By the mid-19th century the transmission of the Romantic ethos across the Atlantic, the rise of a middle class with disposable income, and the development of rail links with coastal cities transformed the White Mountains into […]
An early manuscript plan of the town of Durand in the White Mountains, drafted prior to the town’s incorporation as Randolph New Hampshire in 1824. This attractive lot division plan lays out the town in a grid of twelve range rows, each consisting of lots numbered 1 to 19, with an additional short row with […]
![Franklin Leavitt, guide / J. H. Bufford’s Lith., MAP OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. [Lancaster, NH?], 1852.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/BRM3937-Leavitt-White-Mountains-1852_lowres-scaled-e1628238631331-150x150.jpg)
A rare and wonderful 1852 pictorial promotional map of the White Mountains by Franklin Leavitt, being the first of several produced by him over three decades. Possibly the first map to focus on the White Mountains, but certainly one of the most desirable early images of the region. By the mid-19th century the transmission of […]
A wonderful and very rare pictorial map of the White Mountains. The map depicts the region from Lake Winnipesaukee in the south to Berlin in the north, and from eastern Vermont all the way over to Conway. At the center, superimposed on and yet somehow integrated with the base map, is an image of the […]
A striking bird’s-eye view of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, produced to supply the burgeoning tourist trade of the late 19th century. By the end of the 19th century the Lakes and White Mountain regions of New Hampshire had become major tourist destinations, with a well-developed network of rail and coach links, hotels and inns, and guide […]
A wonderful and scarce pictorial map by the renowned White Mountains cartographer, adventurer and poet Franklin Leavitt. By the mid-19th century the transmission of the Romantic ethos across the Atlantic, the rise of a middle class with disposable income, and the development of rail links with coastal cities transformed the White Mountains into a major […]
This charming little map depicts the White Mountains region in raised relief, with a horizontal scale of 1:400,000 and vertical scale of 1:1333,333. The map is color coded, with white indicating areas more than 1000 feet above sea level. Rivers and streams are shown in black; railroads, roads and hotels in red; and many major […]