http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/antiquemaprss.gif http://www.geographicus.com 144 30 Rare and Antique Map Gallery, New York City Our online antique map gallery is updated daily. This is our feed detailing the last rare antique maps added to the Boston category. http://www.geographicus.com en-us Geographicus Rare and Antique Maps Wed, 04 Dec 2013 05:01:16 GMT 10 Selection of Rare and Antique Maps recently added to the Boston category of Geographicus Antique Map Gallery. http://www.geographicus.com Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:50:00 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-dearbornboynton-1839"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/Boston-dearbornboynton-1839-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> A separately issued 1839 map of Boston offered in its scarce first edition. This very uncommon map was compiled by George Washington Boynton for the Boston publisher Nathaniel Dearborn. Presented with an unusual westward orientation, this map covers early 19th century Boston and the surrounding cities of South Boston, East Boston, and Charlestown with parts of adjacent Cambridge, Roxbury, and Chelsea. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-dearbornboynton-1839>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-dearbornboynton-1839 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-dearbornboynton-1839 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-dearbornboynton-1839 2000.00 USD Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:20:00 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonFireRuins-harpersweekly-1872"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/BostonFireRuins-harpersweekly-1872-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> A dramatic journalistic view of Boston, Massachusetts prepared to illustrate the Great Boston Fire of 1872. Issued just three weeks after the tragic fire (November 7-8, 1872), this is one of the first publications to illustrate the fire's fury. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonFireRuins-harpersweekly-1872>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonFireRuins-harpersweekly-1872 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonFireRuins-harpersweekly-1872 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonFireRuins-harpersweekly-1872 100.00 USD Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:40:00 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonFire-harpersweekly-1872"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/BostonFire-harpersweekly-1872-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> A dramatic journalistic view of Boston, Massachusetts prepared to illustrate the devastation following the Great Boston Fire of 1872. Issued just three weeks after the tragic fire (November 7-8, 1872), this is one of the first publications to illustrate the full extent of the fire. Eager to provide their readers with a graphic representation of the fire, the publishers of Harper's Weekly turned to Currier and Ives, who had contracted illustrator Charles R. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonFire-harpersweekly-1872>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonFire-harpersweekly-1872 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonFire-harpersweekly-1872 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonFire-harpersweekly-1872 250.00 USD Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:05:00 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarbor-terreni-1763"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/BostonHarbor-terreni-1763-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> Issued between the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War, this is a fascinating 1763 map of Boston, Massachusetts, and its vicinity by G. M. Terreni. Centered on Boston Harbor, this map covers the Boston area from Hingham to Charlestown. Terreni offers extensive detail both inland as well as along the coast, noting several islands, capes, shoals, reefs and depth soundings. Relief is beautifully rendered in profile. This map was issued by G. M. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarbor-terreni-1763>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarbor-terreni-1763 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarbor-terreni-1763 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarbor-terreni-1763 500.00 USD Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:12:00 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-walling-1859"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/Boston-walling-1859-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> An expansive 1859 dissected case map of Boston, Massachusetts and its immediate vicinity compiled by Henry F. Walling. This enormous production is one of the large and most detailed maps of Boston to appear in the 19th century. Centered on Boston proper, Walling's map covers from Lexington to Quincy and from Newton to North Chelsea. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-walling-1859>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-walling-1859 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-walling-1859 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-walling-1859 4500.00 USD Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:33:00 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BunkersHillView-thomas-1875"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/BunkersHillView-thomas-1875-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> An uncommon 1875 mezzotint view of the Battle of Bunker Hill drawn by Henry Atwell Thomas. The view illustrates the landing of British troops at Morton's Point and the subsequent shelling and burning of the town by the British Man-of-War Somerset, shown at the left. In the background we can see the cannonading of the town by a battery on Copp's Hill and from floating batteries on the Charles River. This view was published by C. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BunkersHillView-thomas-1875>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BunkersHillView-thomas-1875 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BunkersHillView-thomas-1875 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BunkersHillView-thomas-1875 2200.00 USD Tue, 07 May 2013 14:34:00 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarbor-unionnews-1920"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/BostonHarbor-unionnews-1920-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> This is a remarkable 1920 chromolithograph map and view of the Boston Harbor from Boston to Provincetown. It covers all of Cape Cod Bay, Quincy Bay and Dorchester bay with the communities of Boston, east Boston, south Boston, Dorchester, Quincy, Hough's Neck, Mingham, Nantasket, Duxbury, Plymouth, Cohasset, Scituate, and Provincetown noted. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarbor-unionnews-1920>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarbor-unionnews-1920 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarbor-unionnews-1920 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarbor-unionnews-1920 350.00 USD Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:10:00 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborBay-uscs-1857"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/BostonHarborBay-uscs-1857-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> A stunning 1857 U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart or maritime map of Boston Bay, Boston Harbor, and environs. The map covers the Massachusetts coastline from Cape Ann southward past Gloucester, Marblehead, Lynn, Boston and Cohasset to Green Harbor River. It offers astounding inland detail noting individual buildings, roads, communities, fields, and smaller waterways. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborBay-uscs-1857>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborBay-uscs-1857 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborBay-uscs-1857 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborBay-uscs-1857 600.00 USD Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:06:50 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/AmericanRevolutionaryWarCards-chodowiecki-1784"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/AmericanRevolutionaryWarCards-chodowiecki-1784-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> The full set of Chodowiecki's twelve 1784 card views illustrating the American Revolutionary War. Chodowiecki's twelve engraved images are among the first printed illustrations of the events in the colonies and were intended to capitalize on German popular interest in the American Revolution. These views were issued both as cards - such as the present example - and as illustrations in Matthias C. Sprengel's Historisches Taschenbuch . <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/AmericanRevolutionaryWarCards-chodowiecki-1784>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/AmericanRevolutionaryWarCards-chodowiecki-1784 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/AmericanRevolutionaryWarCards-chodowiecki-1784 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/AmericanRevolutionaryWarCards-chodowiecki-1784 8000.00 USD Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:03:47 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborView-walker-1897"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/BostonHarborView-walker-1897-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> An uncommon 1897 early example of a George H. Walker aquatint view of Boston Harbor. Centered on South Boston, the view covers Boston Harbor from East Boston and Nahant eastward as far as Squantum and Slate Island. The bustling harbor is shows full of ships and ferries traveling between its various islands and cities. Includes Thompson's Island, Castle Island, Spectacle Island, Governors Island, Deer Island, Lovell's Island, Calf Island, and Peodock's Island, among many others. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborView-walker-1897>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborView-walker-1897 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborView-walker-1897 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborView-walker-1897 300.00 USD Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:03:40 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborView-mottram-1857"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/BostonHarborView-mottram-1857-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> An extremely attractive panoramic view of Boston Harbor by J. Hill and Charles Mottram. The view reveals a busy harbor with ships of all nations and types plying the waters. In the foreground fisherman and dockworkers ply their trade. In the background the Bunker Hill Monument as well as various church steeples are clearly visible. This view is dated 1857, but we believe it is most likely produced later. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborView-mottram-1857>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborView-mottram-1857 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborView-mottram-1857 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/BostonHarborView-mottram-1857 1500.00 USD Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:25:02 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-shields-1852"><img src="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/S/Boston-shields-1852-S.jpg" alt="antique map" title="Antique & Rare Maps" border="0" /></a> An extremely scarce and dramatic 1852 wall map of Boston, Massachusetts and vicinity. Depicts the greater Boston area from Dover in the southwest to part of Concord in the northwest to Hingham southeast and to Danvers northeast. Includes all of Brookline, Newton and Waltham and much of Weston and Needham. The names of various families and landholders are indicated throughout with the exception of Boston proper. Based upon original surveys by F.G. Sidney. <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-shields-1852>... more</a> </p><br> http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-shields-1852 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-shields-1852 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/Boston-shields-1852 3500.00 USD