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Vineyard Haven. Dukes County. Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. [Tisbury](c.1893?)

Our eye is drawn immediately to the Vineyard Haven ferry docked at the end of Vineyard Haven's 1/ busy pier on Union Street, dark smoke blowing from its smokestack. A crowd is gathered near the ship.  George H. Walker's scarce bird's eye view Vineyard Haven. Dukes County. Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The Popular Seaside Summer Resort. Looking East.  captures the excitement of this daily Vineyard Haven scene with its sweeping eastward panoramic view of the busy harbor, the well settled town within Tisbury, and the rolling country side out to Cottage City and the horizon. The day is bright and calm,...

Military Maps illustrating the Operations of the Armies of the Potomac & James May 4th 1864 to April 9th 1865 -unique provenance-First Edition

Owner Label on Front Cover:  Wm. P. Craighill  
Precis: First Edition, with unique features, complete, seventeen color lithographed U.S. Civil War large map sheets printed on heavy paper (16 map titles listed below); original atlas covers, front and back with period marbled paper over stiff boards.1/ Original atlas binding, with new leather spine and corners of gilt tooled black leather in the style of those on the book as found and in need of replacement.  Lithographs by Julius Bien of extraordinary fine detail, demonstrating his exceptional printing skill and color work.
Provenance:
    Historic atlas...

Society of Friends Marriage Certificate, N.Y., February 15, 1838 - Manuscript

    The art of calligraphy transforms a legal document into a work of art. The preeminent 19th c. New York teacher and calligrapher 1/ Isaac F. Bragg of New York, known later as one of the "ancient teachers" 2/, has transformed the marriage certificate of Valentine Everit and Beulah E. Kirby dated February 15, 1838  as witnessed by the meeting of the New York Society of Friends from a routine record into a work of rare, fine art. This finely drawn Isaac F. Bragg marriage certificate, with several colors of gold and black inks on vellum, bears also his...

Portrait of a Seated Woman c. 1845-50, full plate daguerreotype

Portrait of a Seated Woman c. 1845-50, full plate daguerreotype
dimensions full plate: 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" approx.
dimensions framed: 7" x 9" x 1" approx.

This striking, unique c. 1845-1850 full plate daguerreotype referred to here as Portrait of a Seated Woman, shows the portrait subject set against an otherwise dark background, seated in a chair with her gaze directly addressing the viewer. The portrait is either American, possibly English or European with reference to the passé partout gold mat. Stylistically, this portrait is individualistic in good part due to the sitter's facial...

The Perpetual Acts of the General Assemblies of His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia.1767 - First Edition

unique manuscript notations:
inside front cover: iron gall ink owner name "[C-] or [ B-] urleys" (?) 2/
1st free endpaper, front, reversed imprint from inside cover manuscript above
2nd front free endpaper, top, manuscript iron gall ink: "Bot at Vendue 23 S " 3/
title page: top right corner, iron gall ink owner initials and shelf no., "EDW [?] H2LL"
inside rear cover manuscript ink "22/"

I. Description:
   This groundbreaking official, first edition of The Perpetual Acts of the General Assemblies of His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia. 1767 of which 200 copies were...

A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America, c. 1755

A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America of c. 1755 is an argument in the format of a map whose graphic elements outline the land claim by the British. There are three primary graphic elements of this medium sized map: the map, a column of text and a tiered trophy-like monument decorated with elaborate flowers. First, the map itself illustrates the territory and the competing settlements to which the map title refers. The map is labeled by place names, topography, native Indian dominions, colonial place names, forts and a record of historical settlements with dates. Next,...

Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States 1845

      Mitchell's commanding 1845 wall map titled Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States consists of the titular, primary map of the United States that fills almost the entire 6 foot wide sheet and of a one-quarter sized, inset map titled A General Map of the of the United States with the contiguous British & Mexican Possession of utmost political significance that graphically appears to emerge as the metamorphosis of the United States into its destined coast to coast boundaries. This transcontinental map shows the Republic of Texas with its stovepipe.  There are two state inset maps: the...

Virgin Islands &, 1823, Fielding Lucas, Jr.

This finely engraved and hand colored 1823 map Virgin Islands &, is from Fielding Lucas Jr.'s 1823 American A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of All the Known Countries in the World, Constructed from the Latest Authority. Various engravers produced the individual maps.  Fielding Lucas Jr. was an early and highly successful American map and chart publisher.  Fielding Lucas Jr. also engaged in other civic, printing and philanthropic endeavors.

Please see  the David Rumsey Map Collection for a thorough bibliographical description of Fielding Lucas Jr.'s A General Atlas,1823 edition along with comments about the high engraving quality of the maps.

Bermudas., 1823, Fielding, Lucas, Jr.

This finely engraved and hand colored 1823 map Bermudas. is from Fielding Lucas Jr.'s 1823 American A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of All the Known Countries in the World, Constructed from the Latest Authority. Various engravers produced the individual maps.  Fielding Lucas Jr. was an early and highly successful American map and chart publisher.  Fielding Lucas Jr. also engaged in other civic, printing and philanthropic endeavors.

Please see  the David Rumsey Map Collection for a thorough bibliographical description of Fielding Lucas Jr.'s A General Atlas,1823 edition along with comments about the high engraving quality of the maps.

Bahama's, 1823, Fielding Lucas, Jr.

This finely engraved and hand colored 1823 map Bahama's is from Fielding Lucas Jr.'s 1823 American A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of All the Known Countries in the World, Constructed from the Latest Authority. Various engravers produced the individual maps.  Fielding Lucas Jr. was an early and highly successful American map and chart publisher.  Fielding Lucas Jr. also engaged in other civic, printing and philanthropic endeavors.

Please see  the David Rumsey Map Collection for a thorough bibliographical description of Fielding Lucas Jr.'s A General Atlas,1823 edition along with comments about the high engraving quality of the maps.

Rhode Island (1799)

The map Rhode Island (1799) appeared in the 18th c. American reference work The New and Universal Gazetteer  by Joseph Scott, and printed in Philadelphia. This book is an early American imprint. It is a reference work known as a modern geographical dictionary. While its maps of other countries, such as those in Europe, Asia and Africa were well established political kingdoms, its maps of the states of the new United States were maps of a new and democratic nation. The 18th c. maps of the original American states appear in Joseph Scott's work,  and today appear more often individually...

Map of the City of Providence, Rhode Island (1896)

      Sampson, Murdock & Co. was a woman owned business directory and map publisher (Mary O. Sampson) whose later 19th c. city directories were widely distributed in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Sampson, Murdock & Co. inserted detailed, color lithographed maps into the directories that were both for business and for travel. The map at hand appears to have been published independently as a stand alone map. Therefore all points of transportation connections for both freight and passenger rail were shown. Concentric circles drawn on the map permit a pedestrian to measure the distance from the center of Providence from zone...