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Maine's fashionable summer resort on Mount Desert Is. is shown in its magnificent natural setting on our fine, toned lithograph. The town's elaborate hotels and mansions are all clearly depicted by the artist from high above the harbor.
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| Size: 15½” x 19¾” - Toned, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Maine's fashionable summer resort on Mount Desert Is. is shown in its magnificent natural setting on our fine, toned lithograph. The town's elaborate hotels and mansions are all clearly depicted by the artist from high above the harbor.
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| Size: 20¼" x 26¼" - Toned, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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Founded in 1847 by Thomas Larkin and Robert Semple on land owned by General Mariano Vallejo, Benicia served briefly as the capital of California. This plan, published in 1850, was used to promote land sales at the time of the California gold rush.
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| Size: 20" x 29¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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This bucolic view of the Moravian settlement in Pennsylvania was published jointly by the leading print dealers of London under the title Scenographica Americana.
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| Size: 13¾" x 20¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock paper: $25.00 |
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The Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania founded in 1741 is handsomely portrayed in this charming view from Weld's Travels Through the States of North America.
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| Size: 6½" x 9" - Black & White, Cover-stock paper: $25.00 |
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Date: 1896 |
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The landscape architectural firm of Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot prepared this guide map of the 8,600 acre property of George Vanderbilt on the outskirts of Asheville, North Carolina. The French Chateau-inspired house - 250 rooms with pool and bowling alley in the basement - was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and had just been completed when the Olmsted firm received the commission to design the grounds. The landscape plan included the house, gardens, parkland, farms and forests.
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| Size: 12" x 18¾" - Color, Text Weight paper: $10.00 |
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Published when Bismarck became the government seat of Dakota Territory, this view shows the projected capitol completed. Its cornerstone had been laid that year in a ceremony attended by President Grant.
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| Size: 11¾" x 21" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Published when Bismarck became the government seat of Dakota Territory, this view shows the projected capitol completed. Its cornerstone had been laid that year in a ceremony attended by President Grant.
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| Size: 11¾" x 21" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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This is the earliest plan of Boston and the first town plan to be engraved and published in America. Only one copy of the original exists-that in the Stokes Collection of the New York Public Library, from which our facsimile has been made.
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| Size: 17" x 23" - Black & White, Cover-stock paper: $27.50 |
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This plan by William Burgis showing Boston in the early 18th century is a useful record of the Massachusetts capital not quite a century after its founding. A legend below the elaborate cartouche identifies the major buildings.
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| Size: 10¼" x 14¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock paper: $25.00 |
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