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 Robert
de Vaugondy, Giles , Atlas
Portatif, universal et militaire, compose’ d’apres les meilleurs
cartes….
Paris
, [l’auteur Durand], 1748/69
but later. Oblong 8vo, 3/4/
vellum over boards, later calf spine, 185 colored maps, several folding.
Covers worn but tight, lacking preliminary leaves, internally quite
clean and bright, very good or better overall.
$3,250.00
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Buffon,
[George-Louis] Comte de , Histoire
Naturelle des Mineraux Tome V. Paris,
de L’Imprimerie Royale, 1788. Large
4to, boards, [2] vii 208pp, 368pp tables, 8 large folding map sheets on
very heavy stock. Covers worn
but tight, map sheets with light uniform dampstain, very good.
$1,400.00
A
very rare group of thematic maps constructed to show geomagnetic variation
around the globe. Comprised of
four maps on eight sheets including a double-hemisphere.
Sheet sizes 17” x 20” or larger with the double polar
hemisphere comprised of two 19” diameter spheres.
Maps quite often wrongly attributed to La Perouse.
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 [UK] Cary’s New Map of England and Wales, with
part of Scotland on which are carefully laid down All the Direct and
Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals…
Lond., J.[ohn] Cary, 1794. 1st edition, folio, 19th
century ¾ leather over cloth, spine lettered & decorated in gilt, 14pp.,
colored key map & 81 mostly colored map sheets, 87pp. index. some rubbing
to covers, otherwise fine in nearly fine binding. $600.00
A fine example of Cary’s superb large map, complete with the blank
sections usually lacking from bound copies. Assembled size about 86" x
77".
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Spectacular Hudson River
Guide
Wade & Croome's Panorama of the Hudson River
from New York to Albany. Drawn from Nature & Engraved by William Wade.
NY, John Disturnell, 1846. 2nd edition, 12mo cloth covers decorated in
gilt, uncolored steel engraving, 5.5" x 151", errata, 32pp.
Backstrip restored otherwise nearly fine or better. $1,200.00
Perhaps the most impressive Hudson travel guide published during the
nineteenth century. The Hudson is presented as perspective views of both
the east and west banks extending from Manhattan to Albany. Inverting the
guide presents a clear birds-eye view of the opposite bank. A superb work
by Wade which is very finely engraved on several sheets that unfold to
over twelve feet in length. This copy is the second edition of three and
the first to contain descriptive text. The first edition appeared in 1845
and the third in 1847. All three editions are absent from Sabin and
Phillips. Very scarce.
Ref: Stokes(Inconography) 6:271; Stokes-Haskell E-59A-m (1844); Bennett
p.108.
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 Oakes,
William , Scenery
of the
White
Mountains
: With Sixteen Plates, from the
Drawings of Isaac Sprague.
Boston, Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1848.
1st ed., Folio, cloth, decorated in gilt, [4], 4pp, 16
lithograph plates with accompanying descriptive text.
Light wear, otherwise nearly fine.
$1,250.00
Outstanding
early American lithograph plate book of
New
England
scenery. One of a purported
200 copies published and sold following the untimely and questionable
death of William Oakes in 1848. Oakes
reportedly “fell” off a ferry in
Boston
harbor and drowned with ten pounds of buckshot his pockets prior to
publication. The preface
credits J.H. Bufford with lithography though the fine plates, in the
pastoral style of Currier & Ives, mostly bear credits to other
contemporary lithographers.
Ref: Sabin ; New Howes O-1; AHPCS Imprint Vol 27 No.2 [Jourdan M. Houston]
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Lange, Henry, Atlas von Nord-Amerika.
Braunschweig, George Westermann, 1854. Oblong 4to, boards with paper
label, [3] 28pp., 18 colored maps [2] + 2 pp advertisements and
prospectus, ex-lib Minnesota Historical Society with perforation stamps.
Covers lightly soiled, otherwise nearly fine.
SOLD
A very scarce atlas assembled to aid German emigrants, containing eighteen
mostly regional maps, colored in outline. Map sheets accompanied by
statistical information keyed to respective plates. The western maps are
of great interest and include a general map of the western states and
territories noting the California gold region, a separate map of Texas and
a superb map of San Francisco and vicinity with panoramic view clearly
included to aid navigation to the gold fields.
Ref: Phillips(A) 1230;
Wheat (GR) 264
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 Anon., [Manuscript Atlas] Iowa C.A.L.
R.Road Lands Ranges No 17W. No 35W Inclusive. N.p. [Chicago?] Iowa
Central Air Line, ca.1856-58. Large oblong folio (17” x 24”), full calf
ruled and lettered in gilt, decorative tooling, 245+ leaves including 113
map sheets rendered in pen, ink and watercolor. [with] General
Memoranda Book of Secretary of I.C.A.L. RR. Co. Commencing Sept 4th,
1857. Small quarto, ¾ morocco and marbled boards, 172pp. ruled ledger
completed in manuscript. [and] three unissued I.C.A.L Railroad stock land
scrips. Atlas showing minor wear to covers, first leaf creased, contents
quite clean and bright, overall nearly fine. Ledger with bottom three
inches of spine chipped, overall about very good. Stock scrips clean and
bright. $6,700.00
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 Perry, Matthew C; Francis L. Hawks,
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and
Japan; performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of
Commodore M.C.Perry, United States Navy, by order of the Government of the
United States. Wash., GPO, 1856. 1st ed., 3 volumes, 4to’s, modern
cloth, spines lettered in gilt, 106 plates many tinted or colored, 22 maps
fourteen of which are quite large, 26 charts, ex-library with discrete
marks. Volume one lacking Crucifixion plate, painting facsimiles backed,
lacks the bathing plate, volumes two and three collate complete, some
scattered browning otherwise nearly fine. $1,500.00
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 Hayes, E.L. , Illustrated Atlas of the
Upper Ohio River and Valley From Pittsburgh, Pa. To Cincinnati, Ohio.
Phila., Titus, Simmons & Titus, 1877. 1st ed, square folio, embossed
cloth lettered in gilt, [2] 5-231pp including 67 color map sheets and 73
lithographed sheets of views. Minor edge wear, spine rebacked, ffep with
hard vertical crease, internally very clean and bright, nearly fine or
better overall. $7,000.00
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 Ogden, Henry The
Army of The United States.
NY, B.M. Whitlock, 1888. Folio, ¾ cloth portfolio, 43 loose color plates
on heavy stock numbered I-LXIV as issued. Complete as issued, cloth ties
lacking otherwise fine. $1,100.00
Variant issue of Ogden’s seminal work, normally encountered bound with
text. Forty-three striking color plates, chromolithographed in New York by
G.H. Buck & Co., depicting American military dress spanning the years
1774 to 1888. Bennett: "This is the outstanding American work on the
subject, and nobody has replaced Ogden as the ultimate artist authority on
this subject".
Ref: New Howes O-38; Bennett p.85
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