8.5x11, looseleaf mimeographed report, 30 pp. plus 14 fold-out exhibits, including two foldout maps depicting Oakland and Alameda and a dozen exhibits displaying technical details of the proposed tunnel and tube.The Posey and Webster Street Tubes are two parallel underwater tunnels connecting the cities of Oakland and Alameda, California, running beneath the Oakland Estuary. Both are immersed tubes, constructed by sinking precast concrete segments to a trench in the Estuary floor, then sealing them together to create a tunnel. The Posey Tube, completed in 1928, carries one-way (Oakland-bound) ... View More...
B/w copper plate engraving; Image size 6-3/8”x 12-3/4” plus margins to 8”x12-3/4”. The view depicts the British siege under General Oglethorpe, on St. Augustine [Spanish Florida]. This siege failed and the British troops retreated back to Georgia. A lettered key identifies the positions, identifies the ships and gives a general history of the battle.
Good condition with several light folds and creases, several small edge-nicks, some browning to lower third.. View More...
Hand-colored copper engraving “Geography”, World Map, 1686
#####Size: approx. 9.3 x 15 inches #####
This unusual illustration of the science of geography centers on a simple double-hemisphere map of the world depicting California as an island. The surrounding oval contains engravings showing how the land is measured and divided; The Earth is divided into Realmes, Realmes into Provinces, Provinces into Regions, Regions into Countreys, Countreys into Territories, Territories into Lands, Lands into Acres, Acres into Rodds, Rodds into Paces, Paces into Feet, Feet into Inches and Inches into Bar... View More...
Surveyors Office Little Rock 30th Sept. 1840David Fulton Surveyor Public LandPrinted by W.J. Stone etc. Wash. for 28th Congress 2d Sess.This is the scarce, annotated version of the map of the Arkansas Surveying District "shewing the extent of public surveys in said district on the 30th September, 1840." Unlike other versions of this map that have appeared, this hand-colored version indicates by color the finished, unfinished, and relinquished townships and lines "the field notes of which have been sent to the General Land Office." The map also depicts the Arkansas and other Rivers, Choctaw a... View More...
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