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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.
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