Search Results: Titles starting with V from Original Antique Maps

Details:color lithograph, coast and harbors in green, buoys in redcondition: professionally conserved, paper overall bright and color highlights like new, some yellow toning to paper in lower right quadrant Description:This large scale U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of Vineyard Sound & Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts was prepared to be used on board a ship for navigation. The chart shows depth soundings throughout Vineyard Sound and Buzzards's bay, including right to the shoreline. This chart is a color lithograph and employs a green wash to show shallower water and shoals, an unusual feature for the charts in this series that are typically black and white only. Tides and magnetic variations are presented in charts. Buoys are shown in red.
Martha's Vineyard and Chappaquidick Island are shown in their totality. The Elizabeth Islands, a chain of five private islands that lie between Buzzard's Bay and Vineyard Sound, creating an island border are shown also in fine detail, with certain… Read More

Details:hand colored engravingcondition: professionally cleaned, toning to paper, good original colorDescription:This 1835 hand colored engraving, is Pl.V. from Elija H. Burritt's Atlas, Designed To Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens. Elijah H. Burritt, A.M. was a Connecticut school teacher who decided that the then available school astronomy books were not adequate. He trained himself further in astronomy by traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts to use the Harvard Telescope. His illustrated celestial Atlas, Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens of 1835 and accompanied in the classroom by a published text book, the Class Book of Astronomy
is in fact the second edition of his seminal 1833 work of the same title, and became the standard astronomy atlas and text book for students in the United States. The recommendations published on the back cover of the 1835 edition of Burritt's Atlas explain "This book is now used in the principal Seminaries of the United States" and is recommended… Read More

Details:color lithographdimensions: 29" x 43.5" condition: professionally flattened, original strong colors and bright paper, very good conditionDescription: This is a highly decorative bird's eye view of central Paris ("vue a vol d'oiseau"), printed in French, showing all of the city's important historic buildings, such as the Palais du Justice, the Tour Eiffel, the Place Vendome, Palais Royale, Arc De Triomphe De L'Etoile as well as Paris gardens and parks such as Jardin Des Tuileries. The major train stations are shown. The Seine is filled with boats and ships under sail. The Ile De La Cite is drawn with the same level of detail. Paris neighborhoods are shown on the map with fine architectural detail and invite the viewer in for a stroll. This colorful map was produced as an advertising piece and tourist map by Grand Marnier Liquor whose name appears in the "cartouche", typically a map element reserved for a royal sponsor. The map key identifies both points of historic interest to… Read More

details:color lithograph dimensions: 29" x 43.5" condition: professionally flattened, original strong colors and bright paper, very good conditionDescription: This is a highly decorative bird's eye view of central Paris ("vue a vol d'oiseau"), printed in French, showing all of the city's important historic buildings, such as the Palais du Justice, the Tour Eiffel, the Place Vendome, Palais Royale, Arc De Triomphe De L'Etoile as well as Paris gardens and parks such as Jardin Des Tuileries. The major train stations are shown. The Seine is filled with boats and ships under sail. The Ile De La Cite is drawn with the same level of detail. Paris neighborhoods are shown on the map with fine architectural detail and invite the viewer in for a stroll. This colorful map was produced as an advertising piece and tourist map by Grand Marnier Liquor whose name appears in the "cartouche", typically a map element reserved for a royal sponsor. The map key identifies both points of historic interest to tourists… Read More