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The disposition of French and American forces during the unsuccessful siege of Savannah, then held by the English, is revealed in this plan from Stedman's History of the American War. It is also a valuable record of the city's open squares and topographical details.
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| Size: 15¾" x 22¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Edward Vincent published his extremely detailed map just as the city completed its expansion on the former city common. The new neighborhoods followed the pattern established 120 years earlier by James Oglethorpe, with each having its own central square. Vincent's map shows the location of every building, all lot lines, and it names the numerous squares and wards.
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| Size: 15¾" x 16¼" - Black & White, Text Weight Paper: $12.00 |
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Eli Glover's handsome toned view shows Washington's largest city at the end of its first quarter century of development. Seattle's port facilities were expanding to accommodate the growth of maritime trade, and land developers were cutting streets through the wooded hills of its splendid site.
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| Size: 13” x 21” - Toned, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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This detailed and attractive view was drawn by Henry Well-ge, one of the most prolific of America's 19th century lithographic artists. Wellge also drew Tacoma, below.
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| Size: 16½" x 32½" - Black & White, Text Weight Paper: $27.50 |
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Date: 1757 |
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William De Brahm’s seminal map of South Carolina and Georgia, engraved by Thomas Jefferys in London, is both extremely rare and influential. It was the first scientific survey of the southeastern coast, its islands and rivers, and identifies proprietors, parishes, forts, churches, roads and more. Lands containing swamps, marshes, oak and pine forests are also shown. “Charles Town” (Charleston), Savannah, New Ebenezer, and other early settlements are depicted. De Brahm, a German engineer who immigrated to America in the 1750s, relied upon the work of earlier cartographers to a certain degree but traveled extensively over the territory to compile the information needed for this large, informative map. A special feature is the highly detailed cartouche, illustrated with local flora and showing African slaves producing South Carolina’s leading export at the time, indigo. Originally published in four sheets, our version joins them in a single sheet for ease of handling and framing. The original is from the Collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem Museums and Gardens.
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| Size: 21" x 22½” - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $40.00 |
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The massing of soldiers and ships is displayed in this visual interpretation of Drake's attack in 1586, with the gridiron town some distance from the fort guarding the harbor entrance. The battle is shown as involving hand to hand combat even in the cornfields.
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| Size: 8½" x 8½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Reproduced from the original in Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weerld, this view of the oldest city in the United States shows the massive Spanish fort looming above the small civil settlement to the south.
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| Size: 10½" x 14" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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This nicely detailed plan of St. Augustine shows the town as it existed when the English took control of Florida. It was published in 1766 in William Stork's Description of East Florida.
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| Size: 8½" x 11¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Engraved about 1764 from a survey by Don Juan de Solis, this extremely rare plan from the Library of Congress may have been the source for the similar but smaller plan shown above. This version in full color includes an elaborate cartouche and an inset map of Florida with many place names and showing the road from St. Augustine westward to Apalachee Bay.
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| Size: 14¼" x 18¼" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $30.00 |
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Engraved about 1764 from a survey by Don Juan de Solis, this extremely rare plan from the Library of Congress may have been the source for the similar but smaller plan shown above. This version in full color includes an elaborate cartouche and an inset map of Florida with many place names and showing the road from St. Augustine westward to Apalachee Bay.
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| Size: 14¼" x 18¼" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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