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One of the best preserved of the many Colorado mining towns is depicted in this attractive, fully colored view. It, the similar view listed below, and the Denver lithograph of 1874 were the work of Eli S. Glover.
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| Size: 14¾" x 17½" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
| Georgia, The Gulf Coast, and The Lower Mississippi |
Date: 1748 |
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Emanuel Bowen prepared this map to illustrate the new material on Georgia ad-ded to a revised edition of Harris's Voyages. In addition to the many coastal towns, the Indian settlements of the interior are identified.
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| Size: 14¼” x 19” - Color, Text-weight paper: $10.00 |
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By the middle of the 18th century French explorers had mapped the Great Lakes and adjoining region in astonishing detail and with substantial accuracy. Their findings are recorded on this appealing map by Bellin in the version published in Nuremberg by the Homann Heirs.
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| Size: 15” x 19” - Color, Text-weight paper: $10.00 |
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This is perhaps the most attractive of the many views of Missouri towns. In the foreground Concord coaches and a steam ferry are meeting the train on the Illinois side of the Mississippi. Beyond the log raft in midstream is the town where a few years earlier Mark Twain loitered at the river landing and dreamed of his future as a steamboat pilot.
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| Size: 20" x 23¼" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $30.00 |
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This is perhaps the most attractive of the many views of Missouri towns. In the foreground Concord coaches and a steam ferry are meeting the train on the Illinois side of the Mississippi. Beyond the log raft in midstream is the town where a few years earlier Mark Twain loitered at the river landing and dreamed of his future as a steamboat pilot.
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| Size: 14” x 16” - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
| Hawaiian Islands |
Date: 1794 |
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Our attractive map of these Pacific islands is reproduced from an atlas published to accompany the French translation of the voyages of Captain Cook.
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| Size: 14½” x 20½” - Colored, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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The gold strike at Last Chance Gulch in 1864 quickly attracted thousands of miners to this site in the Montana Rockies. The rough frontier atmosphere gradually gave way as Helena became the state capital in 1875 and was incorporated as a city in 1881.
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| Size: 19" x 29" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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When this lithograph was published the Hawaiian capital city was still a small town stretching along the beach near Diamond Head. A series of border views shows the appearance of the most important buildings.
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| Size: 20¾" x 27¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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By the end of the 19th century Houston was beginning to fill the vast gridiron of streets that speculators had platted around the modest nucleus of settlement survey-ed by the Allen Brothers in 1836. This impressive view captures the city on the eve of its modern period of development after Buffalo Bayou was deepend to accommodate ocean-going ships.
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| Size: 11” x 17¾” - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Hygeia was to be located in Kentucky across the Ohio River from Cincinnati on a site owned by William Bullock. This remarkable plan appeared in Bullock's Travels in North America.
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| Size: 14" x 23¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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