Philadelphia: Lake Griffing & Stevenson, 1877. 1st Edition. An original BEAUTIFUL 1877 hand-colored street map of NORTHEAST, Maryland and surrounding area in Cecil County, along Maryland's Eastern Shore This map features property owner names and some building footprints as they were shortly after the Civil War during the last..... More
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
New York: F.W. Beers, 1872. Folio. An original 1872 map of the North Ward portion of the historic town of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, with building footprint and campus Irving Female College. This large map was originally published in the F.W. Beers Atlas of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and also features the..... More
Field Camps in Virginia: 1864-1865. Two original 1864 and 1865 MARYLAND CIVIL WAR UNION ARMY CHAPLAIN Requisition Forms, submitted by Arthur Brickman, a U.S. Army Chaplain for the 3rd Maryland Infantry and the 1st Maryland cavalry. The 1864 document is for a horse for use in the field in..... 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
New York: F.W. Beers, 1872. Folio. An original 1872 map of a portion of the historic town of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, with the layout and original building footprints of Dickinson College. This large map was originally published in the F.W. Beers Atlas of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and also features landmarks..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947. 2nd Edition. 8vo. A very nice 1947 Early Printing, increasingly uncommon with original map in rear pocket. Blue cloth. Map in rear pocket in beautiful condition with original fold lines. Square, tight binding. Mild rubbing and edge wear. Very light foxing..... More
Boston, MA: The Boston Weekly Journal, 1861. This March 7, 1861 issue of the Boston Weekly Journal contains long and detailed inside-page coverage of the 1st inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th President of the United States, along with a complete printing of his Inaugural Address, widely regarded as..... 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
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
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1825. 8vo. A scarce and very nice piece of antebellum Philadelphia history, the Philadelphia Phone Book before there were phonebooks. 160pp + [XL]. Stiff cardboard typographical binding. This informative volume lists all of the residents of Philadelphia along with their addresses. In addition, the 40-page..... More