Sale 2464 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 5, 2017

351  ​c  ​ (ALABAMA.) Lee, George S. This Chart Shows the Means of Conveyance Through the State of Alabama, Also aView of the Materials for Improvement, to be Used When the People Deem it Necessary. Drawn from the Best Authorities in 1849. Engraving on folio sheet, 11 3 / 4 x15 inches sheet size; partially trimmed, staining and closed tears. Mobile, 1849 [but after] [300/500] Satirical chart showing the track surveyed for the rail-road diminishing into the mountains with a town beyond them. Scenes of the hardship and misfortunes experienced in traveling by wagons fill the foreground. Forsaken carriages, a broken bridge, deep mud and the fact that “an honest team & an energetic driver average ten miles a day” implore for the building of the rail-road and an opening up of the resources of coal, iron, marble, timber, water power and “rich prairie uncultivated for want of roads” that lie in the hills beyond which settlers desperately sought to access. 352  ​c  ​ (AMSTERDAM.) Schenk, Leonardus; and Rademaker,Abraham. Gesigt van den Vermaakelyken Overtoom. Large engraved view of canal pontoons in the modern day Leidseplein section of Amsterdam. 22x37 3 / 4 inches sheet size; trimmed to neatline, tears and small losses, mounted to heavy board. Amsterdam, circa 1730 [150/250] 351 352