London: Printed by John Darby, 1716. v,3-117,[2]pp. plus folding engraved map by H. Moll. 12mo. Antique-style speckled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Minor soiling and foxing. Near fine. "A reprint of the translation printed in 1698 of the Voyage of Sieur Accarrete to Buenos Aires, from Thevenot's Collection, without any...
Rio de Janeiro: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas, 1963. Two volumes. 716; 712pp. Folding maps and facsimiles. Thick quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Some slight soiling to covers. Else very good. An exhuastive carto-bibliography for the Amazon region. Notes and descriptions in Portuguese.
Paris: George Louis Le Rouge, 1778. Copper-engraved map. Sheet size: 2 sheets 21 x 55 inches each. 4 sheets intended to be joined. Very good. The first French edition of Chesapeake pilot Anthony Smith's highly detailed chart of Chesapeake Bay and the rivers that converge in it. As Pritchard points...
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[Seattle. Alaska Homestake Gold Mining Co., 1936]. 8pp. plus folding map. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Both wrappers detached. Internally clean. Very good. Prospectus of this well-financed Alaskan mining company with numerous statistics regarding cost of operation and potential yield. The map, perfectly traced from the original, illustrates the Bluff Quartz...
Washington, D.C. 1904. Three volumes. Titlepage, two preliminary leaves and forty-eight maps (eight double-page, some colored lithograph); titlepage, contents leaf, plus thirty-seven colored lithograph maps (ten double-page); titlepage plus twenty-five colored lithograph maps (twenty-two double- page). Folio. Antique-style three-quarter leather and marbled boards, preserving original gilt leather cover labels, spines...
Washington. 1904. Titlepage plus thirty-seven maps. Folio. Original cloth, gilt title on front cover. Very good. This atlas contains maps detailing the British case in the arbitration with the United States over the Alaskan boundary. Many of the maps are earlier historically important works by Vancouver, Bouchette, Arrowsmith, Langsdorff, etc....
[Various places in Alaska & California. 1917-1920]. Includes one large colored folding map, 20 x 40 inches; three folding blueprint maps (two of them 13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches, the third 9 1/4 x 13 inches); a folding cross- section; four photographs (three of them 3 1/4 x 5...
Washington: United States Geological Survey, 1898. [2],44pp. plus folding colored map. Original printed wrappers, detached. Map with four neat closed tears. Text bright and clean. Very good. Report issued by the United States Geological Survey for the use of prospectors and miners, including descriptions of routes to the Klondike and...
[N.p.]: 1959. Various paginations. Folding map. Tall folio. Later buckram. Original red wrappers bound in. Cancelled library stamps on titlepage. Else very good. Extensive collection of vital data on Alaskan counties, place names, boundaries, and the like.
1920. 24-panel map. Mild tanning. Very good. Map of New York City. Also includes "Police Regulations for Street Traffic in New York City" and a ferry schedule with rates.
1923. 16-panel map. Some foxing, soiled. Minor tears at top of map. Good. Map of New Jersey, includes extracts from the traffic laws of the state and a ferry schedule.
1918. 24-panel map. Moderate tanning. Some contemporary marks on map. Good. Map of Pennsylvania. Includes curious advertisement for an early form of traveler's checks.
[Np. nd, ca. 1840s]. Folding map, 14 3/4 x 13 inches. Colored in blue and red. Split along one fold, expertly repaired, backed by tissue. Very good. Archival matting, and protected with Mylar sheet. A map of the United States showing the area east of the Rocky Mountains and including...
[N.p. ca. 1780-1783]. [3]pp. on two large bifolia, each approximately 17 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Previously folded. blindstamped "ARCHIVES DE CHASTELLUX" on the verso of both bifolia. Closed tear from inner margin of first bifolium, not affecting manuscript. Patches of light dampstaining. Very good. Untrimmed. A pair of illustrated...
London. 1785-1786. Four volumes. [2],448; [2],449; [2],445; [2],416,[59],[v]-xiv pp., plus twenty-four plates, six folding maps, and one single-page map (maps partially handcolored). Contemporary diced Russia, gilt; rebacked to style, gilt leather labels. Extremities rubbed. Bookplates on front and rear pastedown of each volume. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good. One...
Venice: Jo. Antonium de Nicolinus de Sabio, 1541. 24 leaves. Woodcut vignette of an astrolabe encompassing the globe on the titlepage; Melchior's device of a cat holding a mouse on verso of final leaf. Several woodcuts throughout text. Small octavo. Later vellum. Covers bowed. Light old stain at foredge of...
London. 1823. iv,[2],xxvii,[5],285,[2],297,[3]pp. plus folding map and twenty-five lithographic plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt and blind, spine elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Minor shelfwear, modern bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing on map and plates, with some offsetting to facing pages, but text.....
Bath: William Meyler, 1807. [2],38pp. plus one engraved plan. Modern half roan and boards, spine gilt. Occasional minor foxing; minor titlepage repair with no loss of text. A very good copy, with engraved bookplate of P. Francis K.C.B on front pastedown. An anonymous straight-forward account of the British attack on.....
London: Printed for and sold by the author and the booksellers, 1776. [4],6,[2]pp. plus frontispiece and forty-four engraved maps with facing leaf of text. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Minor soiling, but generally clean internally, very good. Small pocket atlas of the post roads published by British geographer Mostyn...
Boston. 1849. 36pp. folding plate. Original printed wrappers. A trifle dust soiled. Some chipping at spine. Else very good. Exhibition guide issued for the Boston showing of Brunetti's model of ancient Jerusalem. The folding plate is a map of the model. There was also an engraving published which this explained.
Sydney. 1876. Folio map, folded into original printed wrappers. Ink signature and ownership stamp on front wrap, wraps separated at seam. The map is very nice, with some foxing but no tears at folds. The map, engraved by G.W. Sharp, is shaded with seven colors representing various minerals in New...
London. 1838. viii,456pp. plus twelve lithographed plates and folding map. Original blue cloth, boards blind stamped, spine gilt lettered. Slightly cocked, spine and edges sunned, corners bumped. 20th-century bookplate on front pastedown. Scattered foxing. About very good. A scarce account of Sir George Back's 1836 expedition to complete a survey...
London. 1836. x,[2],663pp. plus sixteen plates on India paper and folding map. Thick quarto. Modern three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor rubbing, spine slightly sunned. Minor marginal foxing to plates. Very good. A large paper copy of this major source both in the early exploration of the Far...
Philadelphia. 1836. [4, ads],456pp. plus folding map. Original half blue cloth and calf boards, original calf labelon spine. Noticeable edge wear, front hinge almost detached. Minor foxing. Good. Untrimmed. Back went in search of Sir John Ross, travelling through north central Canada to the Great Slave Lake, and up the...
Paris: Jean-Luc Nion and François Didot, 1722 [vols. 1-3]; 1721 [vol. 4]. Four volumes. Titles in red and black. [12],10,15- 370,[4]; [2],356,[8]; [12],310,[6]; [2],271,[5]pp., with errors in pagination as issued. Frontispiece additional engraved title by I.B. Scotin, twenty-eight engraved plates and maps (twelve folding), including a double- sided plate of...
