![Item #303130 Les Eaux de Paris; [The Waters of Paris]. Jean-Charles Adolphe ALPHAND, L. FAUVE](https://argosybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/303130.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1634764303)
Paris: Wuhrer, 1889. Color lithograph. 26 3/4 x 34 1/2 inches. Lovely large map of Paris showing the city's water network in 1854, drawn up by the surveyor L. Fauve. It comes from the work Les Travaux de Paris 1789-1889, retracing the work carried out in Paris between 1789 and 1889. The waters of the Ourcq, the Seine, the Grenelle well and the aqueducts of the waters of Ourcq and of sources are clearly printed in four colors as noted..... More
Milwaukee: American Publishing Co., 1890. Birds-Eye view. Uncolored lithograph. Image measures 26.5" x 39.25". Great birds-eye view panorama of Helena Montana. The detailed pictogram style street plan is surrounded by an inset panoramic view of the east side of Lenox and Corbin and 16 notable buildings including Ketchum, DeNoielle & Co., Nick Kesslers Brewery, the private residence of W.E. Cox, Hotel Helena, Merchants National Bank, Northern Pacific Repair shops, Round House and surroundings, Wallace-Thornburgh Lumber Co., Helena Daily Journal, Journal..... More
Paris. Manuscript map. Pencil crayon and ink on thick Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Carefully drawn map featuring Ile de la Cite in ancient times. The street of Old Drapery, also called street of the Drapery, is featured and is a famous ancient street of Paris that was demolished as the city modernized. It extends from Rue de la Barillerie, to Rue aux Fevres -which was demolished around 1860. Lovely orange pencil shading and tidy labeling in..... More
Paris. Manuscript map. Pencil crayon and ink on thick Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Carefully drawn map featuring Ile de la Cite in ancient times. Rue de la Juiverie is named after a large Jewish population that inhabited the street from the 5th to 7th centuries, and again from the 9th until the explusion of the Jews from France in 1183. The church labeled as "La Magdelaine", on the corner of Rue des Marmousets, was originally built..... More
Paris: Wild Editeur. View. Original color lithograph with hand coloring. Image measures 19 1/2" x 27 3/4". In archival gilt and black gesso frame. This dramatic circa 1851 bird's-eye view by John Bachmann was engraved by Leon Auguste Asselineau with French titles. It depicts New York City and Brooklyn in the beautiful detail looking north from Governors Island extending out behind it toward the horizon. The bustling harbor and the piers along the west and east bank is filled with..... More
New York: Williams & Stevens, 1852. Lithograph, in antique frame, 26 3/4 x 34 3/4 inches. This dream like bird's eye view depicts New York City and Brooklyn in the mid 19th century. The perspective of Union Square, looking south from Union Square Park is unusual. Ships dot the rivers and the docks burst with activity. Bachmann has prominently featured the oval-shaped Union Square Park in the foreground, which had opened in 1839. Fashionable dwellings eventually circled the perimeter of..... More
New York: Beers, Comstock & Cline, 1872. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 15.5" x 21.25". Fantastic town plan of Newark of Essex County. Shows in great detail streets, neighborhoods and wards, reservoirs and waterways, railroads, parks and notable buildings. Concentric circles indicate distance from town center. Includes an inset of Irvington Essex Co. Map of Plainfield with insets of Flemington and Somerville on verso. Scattered staining. Frederick W. Beers (flourished 1858-1929) came from a family of surveyors..... More
New York: Beers, Comstock, & Cline, 1870. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14 1/4" x 22 1/2" This 1870 map by Frederick W. Beers shows the town of Clinton, Massachusetts. This map was published in Beers' Atlas of Worcester County, Massachusetts (1870). Frederick W. Beers (flourished 1858-1929) came from a family of surveyors, cartographers and publishers originally from Newtown, Connecticut. F.W. Beers continued the work of his father James Botsford Beers and was known for his county..... More
New York: Beers, Comstock, & Cline, 1870. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14 1/4" x 22 1/2" This 1870 map by Frederick W. Beers shows the town of Leominster, Massachusetts. Includes a business directory, and an inset of the N.W. Section of Leominster (Morse Hollow). This map was published in Beers' Atlas of Worcester County, Massachusetts (1870). Frederick W. Beers (flourished 1858-1929) came from a family of surveyors, cartographers and publishers originally from Newtown, Connecticut. F.W. Beers..... More
New York: Beers, Comstock, & Cline, 1870. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 21 3/4" x 14 1/4" This 1870 map by Frederick W. Beers shows the town of North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Included in Beers' Atlas of Worcester County, Massachusetts (1870). Frederick W. Beers (flourished 1858-1929) came from a family of surveyors, cartographers and publishers originally from Newtown, Connecticut. F.W. Beers continued the work of his father James Botsford Beers and was known for his county survey maps..... More
New York: Beers, Comstock, & Cline, 1870. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14 1/4" x 22 1/2" This 1870 map by Frederick W. Beers shows the towns of Spencer and Oxford, Massachusetts. This map was published in Beers' Atlas of Worcester County, Massachusetts (1870). Includes business directories. Frederick W. Beers (flourished 1858-1929) came from a family of surveyors, cartographers and publishers originally from Newtown, Connecticut. F.W. Beers continued the work of his father James Botsford Beers and..... More
New York: Beers, Comstock, & Cline, 1870. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14 1/4" x 22 1/2" This 1870 map by Frederick W. Beers shows the town of Webster, Massachusetts. This map was published in Beers' Atlas of Worcester County, Massachusetts (1870). Shows Merino Village and Chase Ville. Includes a business directory. Frederick W. Beers (flourished 1858-1929) came from a family of surveyors, cartographers and publishers originally from Newtown, Connecticut. F.W. Beers continued the work of his..... More
New York: Beers, Comstock, & Cline, 1870. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14 1/4" x 22 1/2" This 1870 map by Frederick W. Beers shows the town of Winchendon, Massachusetts. This map was published in Beers' Atlas of Worcester County, Massachusetts (1870). Includes a business directory. Frederick W. Beers (flourished 1858-1929) came from a family of surveyors, cartographers and publishers originally from Newtown, Connecticut. F.W. Beers continued the work of his father James Botsford Beers and was..... More
Boston: Walker Lith. & Pub. Co. Case Map. Lithograph with hand coloring. Image measures 17.5" x 16". Colorful town plan of Marlborough in Middlesex County. Shows streets, notable buildings, rail lines and bodies water. From "Massachusetts Atlas" circa 1870. Repairs along original folds. Scattered tears to edges. More
Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 15.25" x 20.75". Beautifully detailed town plan of Bolsward in northern Holland, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view, circa 1649. Features the fortress and the town within it, and the surrounding pastoral landscape. Includes two coats of arms, both of which are hand burnished with beautiful gold leaf. Dedication cartouche is decorated in an agricultural theme. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the..... More
Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 16 5/8" x 20.5". Beautifully colored town plan of Doesburg in northeastern Holland, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view, circa 1649. Features the fortress walls and a few cottages in the surrounding landscape. Includes two coats of arms, both of which have been hand burnished with beautiful gold leaf. Scale also includes gold leaf. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic..... More
Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14.75" x 19.5". Beautifully colored town plan of Goes in western Holland, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view, circa 1649. Features the fortress and the surrounding pastoral landscape, with ships in the waters. Includes two coats of arms, both of which are hand burnished with beautiful gold leaf. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium..... More
Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 16.25" x 20.75". Exquisite town plan of Grolla in Holland, circa 1649, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view. Features the fortress and the surrounding pastoral landscape. Includes a coat of arms, which is hand burnished with beautiful gold leaf. Cartouche and scale are also decorated in gold leaf. Wonderful vignette in bottom left corner of two men fighting on horseback. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the..... More
Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13.75" x 19.75". Absolutely stunning town plan of Hasselt in northeastern Holland, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view, circa 1649. Features the fortress and the town within it, and ships in the surrounding river. Includes two coats of arms, both of which are hand burnished with beautiful gold leaf. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum..... More
Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14" x 18.25". Beautifully detailed town plan of Steenwijk in northeastern Holland, circa 1649, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view. Features the fortress and the town within it, and the surrounding pastoral landscape. Includes two coats of arms. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Liberae Ac Foederataee" ("Town books of the Netherlands"). Many..... More
Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 16.25" x 20.75". Exquisite town plan of Zwartsluis in northeastern Holland, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view, circa 1649. Features the fortress and the town within it facing the ships in the outstretched waters. North is oriented toward the bottom of the page. Scale includes hand burnished gold leaf. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum..... More
Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 15.5" x 20". Exquisite town plan of Enkhuizen, circa 1649, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view. Beautifully detailed, with delicately rendered ships in the various waterways around the city. Includes two coats of arms. Dutch text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Tooneel der Steden van der Vereenighde Nederlanden" ("Town books of the Netherlands"). Many of the town plans included in..... More
Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 16.25" x 20.75". Beautifully detailed town plan of Tiel in central Holland, circa 1649, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view. Shows the pastoral and maritime nature of the area, with farms, houses, churches and ships in the surrounding waters. Includes two coats of arms. Dutch text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Tooneel der Steden van der Vereenighde Nederlanden" ("Town books..... More
Frans Hogenberg, 1599. View. Color engraving. Image measures 17.5" x 13.25". This beautiful bird's eye view of Kempten was published by Braun and Hogenberg between 1572 and 1617. The title translates to Campidonia commonly known as Kempten, a famous city of the Holy Roman Empire in Southern Germany).The map depicts the walled city and surrounding fields in incredible detail with buildings drawn in profile. The key identifies 27 important sites of the time. The foreground features a couple dressed in..... More
1575. This creative town plan of Emden, a seaport in northwestern Germany, shows an aerial view of the city as well as a more panorama-like view of the harbor with approaches to the numerous canals. The emphasis on the harbor and waterways within the city highlights the importance of Emden's place as a seaport at this time. In the upper right and left corners are two symbols or crests for the city. This plan appeared in volume II of the..... More
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