Scarce “Plan of the City of Knoxville, Tennessee” drawn by R. W. Patterson, surveyed and compiled under the direction of Albert Miller Lea, lithographed and published by Ferdinand Mayer and Company, New York, 1855. Rare map depicting the city of Knoxville, TN with streets, including Gay Street, railroads and railroad depots, including East Tennessee-Georgia and […]
Lot 277: Marshall Family, Bowditch, New American Practical Navigator, 1802
The New American Practical Navigator, First Edition, by Nathaniel Bowditch, 1802. Printed by Edmund M. Blunt, Newburyport, MA, for John West, Boston, MA. Octavo, 589 pages with copper plate illustrations including "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean" frontispiece folding map, errata pages and Catalogue of Blunt's publications, hardbound with brown leather covers and gilt lettering to […]
Lot 278: Tennessee Map, Samuel Lewis & Alexander Lawson, 1804
"Tennessee" Map, drawn by Samuel Lewis, engraved by Alexander Lawson, published by John Conrad and Company, Philadelphia, 1804. From "A New And Elegant General Atlas: Comprising All the New Discoveries, to the Present Time: Containing Sixty-Five Maps" by Aaron Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis. Copper plate engraving of early Tennessee depicting early towns and roads, including […]
Lot 276: Morden 1673 Virginia Map of English Plantations
Robert Morden (d. 1703) and William Berry (fl. 1669-1708) : A NEW MAP OF THE ENGLISH PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA BOTH CONTINENTS AND ISLANDS, “Shewing their true Situation and distance from England or one with another. By Robert Morden, at the Atlas, in Cornhill nere the Royal Exchange, and William Berry at the Globe between York […]
Lot 275: Hondius Map of VA – Nova Virginiae Tabula,
NOVA VIRGINIAE TABULA by Hondius, Amsterdam, copper-engraved map of Virginia based on the 1612 Virginia map by John Smith, engraved on laid paper. Framed with double sided glass showing English text en verso, "Description of Virginia". According to Philip D. Burden, "The Mapping of America," the notation 9.Q on the bottom of the page of […]
Lot 273: 5 Colonial Documents, inc. S. M. Mitchell Letter
Five (5) colonial documents including ALS from Stephen Mix Mitchell to Ebenezer Baldwin, Thomas Penn inventory list, Land deed, and bank note. 1st item: ALS from Stephen Mix Mitchell (1743-1835), Newtown, MA, to Ebenezer Baldwin (1745-1776), Tutor of Yale College, New Haven, MA, dated July 5, 1770 in which he speaks primarily of their friendship […]
Lot 274: King Charles II Manuscript
King Charles II letters patent circa 1677, ink on parchment, with calligraphy and hand drawn decoration, including a portrait of the monarch upper left, float mounted in an ebonized molded frame under glass. Sheet – 29 1/2" H x 31 3/4" W. Framed – 47 1/4" H x 49 3/4" W. Note: Charles II was […]
Lot 272: Boyd/Wingate Family Archive, 37 items total
Boyd/Wingate Family Archive, 37 items total. 1st item: Handwritten passport on laid paper issued by order of Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd K.B., Governor of Gibraltar, permitting the bearer Nathaniel Culling, Esqr., of the United States of America, "to pa[s]s to Spain (with 12 his servant and baggage) and return to Lisbon, without any hindrance, molestation […]
Lot 271: Samuel Stearns Almanack, 1776
THE NORTH-AMERICAN'S ALMANACK, AND GENTLEMAN'S AND LADY'S DIARY, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST 1776 by Samuel Stearns (1741-1810), printed by Isaiah Thomas, Worchester, et al. Octavo, self wrappers, 18 double-sided pages. Includes, An Account of the Commencement of Ho(s)tilities between Great Britain and America, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, written by Rev. […]
Lot 270: Monody on Major Andre by Miss Seward, handwritten
Handwritten copy of "Monody on Major Andre" by Miss Anna Seward, 1781. Octavo, self wrapper, stitched, 14 double-sided pages. Pamphlet contains the entire poem dedicated to the life and execution of John Andre, along with three other poems titled "Absence", "Song", "To a Candle Elegy", and "A Critical Moment". Also includes footnotes explaining certain allusions […]