Boston, Ma: George H. Walker & Co., 1879. A Beautiful large folding original 1879 hand-colored street map of South Abington, Massachusetts, in Plymouth County, showing property owner names at the time as well as 19th-century building footprints and street names. Depicted are individual homes, schools, churches and local..... More
Boston, Ma: George H. Walker & Co., 1879. A Beautiful large folding original 1879 hand-colored street map of Hingham and the village of South Hingham, Massachusetts, in Plymouth County, showing property owner names at the time as well as 19th-century building footprints and street names. Depicted are individual..... More
Millwood, NY: Kraus, 1974. Quarto. Two-Volume 1974 reprint set combining these individually published guides of the early 20th century. Tan typographical wraps. Volume I - 81pp + index; Volume II - 162pp + 15 plates. Profusely illustrated with plates and in text illustrations. Square tight bindings. Clean..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Alfred, Maine and surrounding area in York County, ME. This map includes property owner names, building footprints and lines of the defunct Portland and Rochester Railroad. "Abenaki Native Americans called the..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Hollis, Maine. This map includes property owner names and lines of the districts, and the now defunct Portland and Rochester Railroad line. Featuring the Saco River. Includes the Waterborough, North Hollis and Hollis..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Kennebunk, Maine and surrounding area in York County, Maine. This map includes property owner names, building footprints in Wells Point and lines of the defunct Boston and Maine Railroad. Vignette of Wells..... More
Sanborn Insurance Company, 1912. Elephant Folio. A vibrant and exceedingly rare 1912 Sanborn Insurance Map of the historic business district of Easton, Maryland, depicting detailed building footprints as well as property owner names. This beautiful piece is matted and framed under UV-protective glass. While on the..... More
New York: WILLIAM HELBURN, 1924. 1st Edition. Folio. A Gorgeous 1924 folio-sized Architecture coffee-table book. Original red cloth with titling stamped in gilt. Square tight binding. Clean interior. 104 black and white plates, some photographic and others illustrative, featuring various types of Spanish architecture, such as patios, doorways, crestings..... More
Gardiner, Me: Tilbury House Publishers, 1997. 1st Edition. Large octavo. A beautiful 1st Edition of an uncommon Maine history. Trade paperback. Square tight binding. Profusely illustrated with early Maine photography. Near Fine, with a very slightly age toned spine being the only flaw, else as new. 379 pp. A superior edition. More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2013. 1st Edition. Quarto. A GORGEOUS photo-documentary on the architectural heritage of the historic residential structures of the Chesapeake region, signed by six of the contributors, including Edward Chappell, the renowned historical architect and researcher, from whose library this volume comes. Chappell..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Newfield and west Buxton, Maine. This map includes property owner names, building footprints and avignette of West Buxton. Also featured is a listing of original business sponsors. This map measures 16"..... More
Gagosian Gallery, 2006-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Quarter white cloth over illustrated boards. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior. Very slight bow to boards. Mild wear. More
New York: Twayne Publaishers, 1950. Edward Gorey. 1st Edition. 8vo. A handsome 1st printing of this later work from one of the core members of the Fugitive Poets, warmly inscribed on the front endpaper. Illegitimate Sonnets is known primarily for its endpapers, featuring six individual cartoons illustrated by..... More
Munchen: Verlag der, n.d. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful large portfolio, string-bound, consisting of 12 color reproductions of Munzer paintings, mostly the female nude, each pasted down to a tan stiff cardboard sheet. Each work is titled on the front page but no text accompanies the works. "From..... More
Frankfort, NY: Charles Magnus, 1864. A gorgeous 1864 original lithograph printed during the Civil War. This was one of several chromolithographs published by Magnus depicting the soldier hospitals in the nation's capital during the conflict. "Located on Corcoran Farm on 7th Street, NW, Harewood General Hospital operated..... More
Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2013. 1st Edition. Quarto. A beautiful, high quality trade paperback profusely illustrated with historic photographs and illustration of Dutch architecture. 514pp. Thick card stock wraps, with folded flaps. Square tight binding. Clean interior. A lovely edition with virtually no wear. More
Philadelphia, Pa: L.N. Rosenthal, 1862. Rosenthal, Max. A scarce original 1863 lithograph depicting Fort Pennsylvania, Washington, DC Fort Pennsylvania, then not in the city of Washington, DC was located in what is now the Tenleytown historic neighborhood in Northwest DC. This print was one of many produced by..... More
Banaras Hindu University, 1981. Quarto. Brown cloth with white titling. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Mild rubbing and edge wear to binding. Five pages with 10 tipped-in color plates. More
1932. A nifty little 1932, Great Depression Era illustrated map of the Grand Canyon with a bird’s-eye view from the South Rim just above the El Tovar Hotel. El Tovar opened in 1905 during the administration of Teddy Roosevelt following his 1903 visit to the Canyon and remains..... More