La Crosse: 1969. Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. 77, [2]; frontispiece is an original Canadian 6-cent stamp of the Copper Mine River; 4 pages of illustrations showing 36 stamps; fine in the dust-jacket which was not included on all copies. The third in a series of four books..... More
Amsterdam: Theatrvm Orbis Terrtarvm Ltd., 1967-71. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to, very good, sound set in original blue cloth. Additions and correction lists laid in, as issued. Without the supplemental sixth volume. More
Warszawa: Glówny Urzad Pomiarów Kraju, 1947. Oblong 4to, 28 leaves of color map plates; original drab printed wrappers (some soiling), spine and fore-edge foxed, spine head and foot frayed, interior mostly fine. Errata printed on p. [4]. Text in Polish, French, Russian, and English. More
Paris: chez Anselin, successeur de Magimel, libraire pour l'art militaire, les sciences et les arts ... et chez Picquet, géographe ordinaire du roi et chargé exclusivement de la vente des cartes du dépôt de la Guerre, 1835. Fifth edition, revised and corrected; folio, pp. [8] plus 41 maps (8 double..... More
Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1984. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 180; fine in original red cloth stamped in yellow and white. Review copy with notice taped to front pastedown. More
Philadelphia: John Conrad & Co., 1816. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xx, 264, cxc; plus a separately bound atlas containing 8 hand-colored maps, 7 folding (1 with a 5" x 3" loss at one corner, but neatly inlayed and several others with short splits at the folds); frontispiece portrait of Andrew..... More
Washington, D. C. [Library of Congress], Division of Maps, 1949. First edition, 4to, pp. ix, [1], 46; printed from typescript; fine in later blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. This appears to be the first book on the subject of caring for, storing, and preserving maps, charts, pocket maps, rolled maps, dissected..... More
Paris: A. Combette, n.d., [ca. 1842]. Engraved map (approx. 14" x 21") hand-colored in outline, extracted from the Atlas National Illustré. Top margin irregular from extraction, otherwise very good. "Illustré par Raymond Bonheur, Peintre." at lower left margin. "Gravé par Laguillermie, Rue St. Jacques, No. 82.," "Impie. de Lemercier Paris.,"..... More
![Item #59272 Colonies Françaises [Guadeloupe] Amérique du Sud. Victor Levasseur](/pictures/thumb/59272_1.jpg?v=1635259390)
Paris: A. Combette, n.d., [ca. 1842]. Engraved map (approx. 14" x 21") hand-colored in outline, extracted from the Atlas National Illustré. Top margin irregular from extraction, otherwise very good. "Impie. de Lemercier Paris," at lower left margin. "A Paris chez Combette, edit." at lower right margin. Attractive map of Grande..... More
Philadelphia: Griggs & Elliot, 1832. Folio, pp. [3] plus 40 full-page hand-colored maps (most a bit cockled but clean, with strong coloring); upper joint becoming tender, stitching loosening, but otherwise a good-looking copy in original half red straight-grain morocco, publisher's green printed paper label on upper cover, simple gilt lettering..... More
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, no. 31 South Sixth Street, 1871. Square folio, pp. [4], 27, [5]; 96 hand-colored maps on 70 sheets; a worn copy with joints amateurishly repaired, front free endpaper and flyleaf with creases and tears in the margins, title page with short tear in gutter, gilt on..... More
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1864. Square folio, pp. [4], 27, [4]; 84 hand-colored maps on 54 sheets; gilt on cover dull, spine a little scuffed; internally very clean; aside from the dullness of the binding, a very good, sound copy in publisher's quarter brown morocco and brown cloth lettered..... More
[Philadelphia]: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1860. Engraved hand-colored map approx. 12" x 15", decorative metalcut border, showing the state of Minnesota by counties, and the Dakota territory west to the 104th parallel; very light spotting, else near fine. More
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1859. Large hand-colored wall map on rods, approx. 64" square, with 4 engraved vignettes, 3 inset maps (2 of the world, and 1 of the Sandwich Islands), all within an elaborate floral border; some infill along the margins, slight loss in the population tables at the..... More
[Philadelphia]: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1877. Engraved hand-colored map approx. 11½" x 15" overall (image approx. 9" x 11"), extracted from Mitchell's New General Atlas, with the boot of Louisiana showing the Mississippi Delta on the verso. Generally fine and colorful. More
Philadelphia: Evans, printer, Fourth below Chestnut, 1846. Folio broadside approx. 17½" x 13¾", printed in red and blue with wood and metal type, and within an ornate typographic border printed in blue. Left-hand margin slightly ragged (but not touching the border); the whole slightly toned, but on the whole, very..... More
Boston: Thomas and Andrews, et al. 1814. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [9]-670, [1]; engraved folding frontispiece map of the world, engraved folding chart of the solar system, 5 folding engraved maps of the continents; contemporary full sheep, red morocco label on spine; wear at extremities, top of spine slightly..... More
Boston: printed by J. T. Buckingham, for Thomas & Andrews, 1805. Fifth edition of vol. I, fourth edition of vol. II, 2 vols., thick 8vo, pp. 6, [2], [17]-864; [4], [9]-664; 6 folding maps; some foxing, particularly on the maps, but generally a very good, sound set in contemporary full..... More
![Item #60701 The cerographic missionary atlas [wrapper title]. Sidney E. Morse](/pictures/thumb/60701_1.jpg?v=1659463491)
[New York]: Sidney E. Morse & Co., gratuitously and exclusively for the subscribers to the New York Observer, [1848]. Large, oblong 4to, 18 leaves, each with a full-page map; several bound in upside down, as issued; original printed brown wrappers; a few chips around the edges and mild dampstains; all..... More
London: George Virtue, 1839-38. 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xxiv, 484; [2], 582; engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved title pages, one engraved plate of Canterbury Cathedral, plus 62 hand-colored engraved maps (3 folding); apparently lacking the map of Middlesex; contemporary quarter tan calf over marbled boards scuffed and rubbed, but sound;..... More
Chicago & London: the University of Chicago Press, [1975]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 159; fine in original purple cloth, dust-jacket. More
Tokyo: Nihon Kōtsū Kōsha Shuppan Jigyōkyoku, 1979. 11" x 8.25", 122 arial photos of Tokyo in color, perfect bound in pictorial paper covers; text in Japanese; lightly age toned, otherwise fine. An image of Tokyo in the midst of its economic hayday. More
London: Seminar Press, 1974. Large 4to, pp. xv, 302; along exclusively comprised of black and white maps; original green cloth over boards in white pictorial dustjacket (some soiling), shelf wear along edges, interior fine. Each map "shows areas of lexical distribution, i.e. regions characterized by the employment of an individual..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett and Co., 1857. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 9-[160]; hand-colored folding map by Colton; ex-library copy with usual markings, several signatures starting, top of spine chipped, extremities rubbed; good in original brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Howes P-85; Sabin 58723; Graff 3189. More
Philadelphia: Wagner & McGuigan's Lith. 1856. One uncolored lithographic map (633 x 865 mm.) folded down to 205 x 130 mm.; appears to have been removed from U.S. 34th Congress, 3d Session, 1856, according to OCLC no. 742635439; near fine. Lithographically reproduced signature of Surveyor General Wm. Pelham dated Santa..... More
