Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #3: 24 Acres. Woodington Township, NC, 1896 R the second endpaper and front

the second endpaper and front and first at back) are loose

evoking all the romanticism of working through the night by candlelight--and with that great looping line among the ink bottles and pen nib seemingly added just for flourish

especially with those white clouds and pink in the distance

all in good sturdy and stable condition and easy to be stacked and arranged all sorts of ways

This is a wonderful copy and feels like quite a special thing to hold in your hands

Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #3: 24 Acres. Woodington Township, NC, 1896 R the second endpaper and frontI always have an eye out for hand drawn maps, but it is a rare and happy moment to find one with watercolor embellishment, and what a charmer, with big red and green compass rose star with pointing arrows and feathers, excellent inked handwriting, hand pointing to the corner of Lightwood Knot Road, and long hatched railroad, too! As detailed on reverse, it's a surveyors map, done by surveyor William A. Jones for Harvey F. Waller in 1896, showing a 24