----------------------------Original message---------------------------- For Sale: The Insurance Maps of Boston, Massachusetts, Volume Five: East Boston, Breed's Island, Charlestown; published by the Sanborn-Perris Co., New York, 1900. This is a huge leather-bound atlas. Individual pages measure 26 1/2" x 18 1/2" and the whole book weighs about 25 pounds. (It's beyond being a coffee-table book; it could be the coffee table itself.) The scale is approx. one inch to 50 feet, and the detail is incredible; in addition to numerous residences, businesses, public buildings and factories, the maps also show docks and piers on the waterfront as well as railroad lines, yards and roundhouses. Plates 1-13 are not present, but 99 plates on heavy paper remain, many with carefully pasted-on corrections through 1924. The covers are scuffed and the corners are rubbed; some of the pages have minor discoloration at the edges. It is easily worth the $45 plus shipping I am asking for it. Please reserve via E-mail to [log in to unmask] Thanks.