United States
| Philadelphia |
Date: 1754 -1761 |
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Reproduced from the London Magazine on a single sheet, this is another view based on the earlier and larger Burgis work. To frame Philadelphia's streets, Mulberry, Sassafras, Vine, and Chestnut, the Jersey shore in the foreground has been handsomely embellished.
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| Size: 6¾" x 19¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Nicholas Scull's detailed plan of Philadelphia shortly before the Revolution is one of the most important and rarest of that city's cartographic records. This large and attractive engraving reveals the extent to which urban development had concentrated near the Delaware River.
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| Size: 19¼" x 25¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Four months after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, Andrew Dury published this detailed map in London. A chart of Delaware Bay shows the location of the city and its approaches from the sea.
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| Size: 15¼" x 20½" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Four months after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, Andrew Dury published this detailed map in London. A chart of Delaware Bay shows the location of the city and its approaches from the sea.
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| Size: 15¼” x 20½” - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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William Faden published this engraved map of Philadelphia and vicinity in London during the American Revolution. It is particularly valuable as an historical document because it includes the names of the owners of farms and estates outside the city. The splendid view of Independence Hall at the bottom adds to its interest.
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| Size: 9¾" x 32¾" - Black & White, Text-weight paper: $27.50 |
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In addition to its intrinsic interest as a fine drawing of the city and its environs from Faden's North American Atlas, this print is also valuable as a document showing the disposition of English troops during the Revolution.
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| Size: 18¾" x 23" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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A.P. Folie's engraved plan of Philadelphia is among the rarest of American cartographic works. This facsimile, reduced one-eighth from the original size, is from one of the few extant copies, a fine impression in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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| Size: 21½" x 21½" - Black & White, Text-weight Paper: $25.00 |
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One of the most attractive of the many Philadelphia views is this colored lithograph published in France. It was based on the view by John Bachmann showing the city from the west with the Delaware River in the background.
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| Size: 15" x 20½" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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One of the most attractive of the many Philadelphia views is this colored lithograph published in France. It was based on the view by John Bachmann showing the city from the west with the Delaware River in the background.
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| Size: 15" x 20½" - Color, Text-weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Charles Parsons prepared this brightly colored lithograph for Currier and Ives in anticipation of the Centennial Exposition in 1876. It shows the city from a point high above the west bank of the Schuylkill River with the Exposition buildings in the left foreground.
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| Size: 19" x 27½" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $32.50 |
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