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Paris: A. Levy (Rue De Seine, 29), 1868. This is a 13 inch folio. All 24 lithographed maps present, generally in very good or better condition. Original heavy paper boards with remnants of original ties. Edges of spine a bit chipped and split, upper edges of boards a bit dampstained, but title completely legible. A small ex-libris stamp is on the front cover (Libreria Estrangera de A. Vedauger..Barcelona). Lenormant was a notable scholar, publishing his first article by age 14 in an archeological review. He... more information

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Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press, 1976. DJ torn and chipped at edges. Boards are very clean. The book interior is very good and the binding is tight. Included is the New York Times Book Review page on this title from September, 19, 1976. Exquiste detail of the times, with commensurate historical detail. A truly fine historical atlas, originally issued at $125 with the intent of being the first of a series, with plans to extend coverage to about 1830. Other volumes never came to pass, because of th... more information

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Amsterdam: Chez Francois L'Honore & Compagnie, 1705. VG engraving, b&w as issued, with some general browning. A very handsomeplate with many small busts depicting the Kings of Spain (including Portugal and various regions at the time). This is from Tome I (vol. 1) of Chatelain's wonderful "Atlas Historique". The engraved double-page image 114x17 inches.. ... more information

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Amsterdam: Chez Freres Chatelain Libraries , 1708. VG engraving, beautifully hand colored (recent). This is a striking plate, with map images of the British Isles, fanciful costumes of native inhabitants, and the busts of Norman and Saxon Kings. As expected, the text is in French. This is from Tome III (vol. 3) of Chatelain's wonderful "Atlas Historique" (the first atlas to bear this name). The handsome engraved double-page image with surrounding text mesures 18.5x24.5 inches.. ... more information

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Amsterdam: Chez Freres Chatelain Libraries , 1708. VG engraving, detailing the interrelationships of the English (Richard II-Henri II) and French (Anne-James I) and more, with family trees showing the ties. The map image includes most of France, England and Ireland, Switzerland, and much of Germany, with an inset into regions ruled in the environs of the Mediterranean (east to Cyprus). As expected, the text is in French. This is from Tome III (vol. 3) of Chatelain's wonderful "Atlas Historique&q... more information

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Amsterdam: Chez Freres Chatelain Libraries, 1708. VG+ engraving, b&w as issued. A very attractive and interesting map detailing major principalities along the Danube, broken into ancient and modern place-names, with extensive textual remarks on the history. This is from Tome II (vol. 2) of Chatelain's wonderful "Atlas Historique". The engraved double-page image with surrounding text mesures 14x17 inches; the map is 9.5x12.5 inches.. ... more information

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Paris: Garnier Freres, 1880. Very good, hand colored outlines, later Malte-Brun map from "Atlas de Geographie Universelle...". The above date is approximate. The attractive image measures 8.75x12 inches.. ... more information

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Venice: Varisco & Paganini, 1564. Eight inch octavo, leather spine chipped with first gilt lettered title just legible, hinges a bit tender in probable early 18th century marbeled boards, which are a bit wrinkled. A small piece is cut from the inner border of the title page (no image loss). Very little browning or foxing to text, with supple pages. 252pp, 32pp, 48 pp (star maps), 68 pp (25-93; tables of stellar locations). Both works were initially published in 1540. Ours is a later edition of Piccolomi... more information

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Montreal: McGill University Library , 1958. This facsimile production was limited to 250 copies, and the 9 folding sheets with 10 plans are in their original 17-inch folio paper wrap. Bourdon wore many hats during his life, and these plans were drawn while he was Surveyor-General of Quebec. These plans are "without a doubt the earliest Canadian maps to survive..". Fortified town plans of Montrieal, Quebec, Trois Rivieres and others are shown, and the manuscript plans are reproduced in faded ink wi... more information

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Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press , 1977. Fourteen inch folio in orginal brown, gilt-lettered slipcase, produced as a limited (unnumbered) edition of 500. Wright's introduction is nicely referenced, and the four loose maps sheets are all present. In spite of numerous criticisms (including those of Thomas Pownall), this is a major piece of Virginia cartographic history, as it was the first map to show the county boundaries within the state. Henry (Patrick Henry's father) was hoping his ef... more information

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Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999. New copy, dark blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. viii, 455 pp. The 14 papers in this volume were taken from a conference of the same title,held in July 1996 at the University of Edinburgh's Instute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Each chapter has its own references, along with the cummulative index at the end of the book. Contributors included geographers, science historians, social anthropologists, and general historians. The book deals with both the geo... more information

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Washington DC: The National Geographic Magazine, 1924. This is the complete March 1924 issue, but the article of note is a late article of Joseph Conrad's from pp. 239-274, by the title above. The other articles are all present (vol XLV, number 3). Conrad's article has 13 illustrations, including maps, ships and antarctic views. This article divides the history of geography into 3 eras: fabulous, militant and triumphant. The phrase "Geography Militant" has been used to title a recent book ... more information

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London: J. Barfield (Wardour-Street), 1814. Eighteen inch, half leather, elephant folio, with original boards and embossed label, expertly rebacked with deep red Harmattan leather with new leather at corners, 22k gold tooled leather spine. Original endpapers, title page, and dedication page to Prince Charlotte of Wales. All 64 engraved maps and charts present, with minimal browning/foxing, and original hand color. Some browining to edges. Although Phillips indicates an 1807 issue (entry 3315), that edition ... more information

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London: The Hakluyt Society, 1944. Two 8.75 inch 8 vo volumes (578 pp total). Second Series No. LXXXIX (xcvi, 228 pp) and No. XC (pp 229-578) of this work issued for by The Hakluyt Society and translated from the originals by the notable scholar of Portuguese cartography, Armando Cortesao. All 42 illustrations / maps present; some folding. Tome Pires' 'Suma Orient' was arguably the most important account of the East in the first half of the sixteenth century. There is a detailed introduction an... more information

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Washington (DC): Bureau of Topographical Engineers, 1842. Very good b&w map, folds as issued, with image measuring 17 x 20 inches (43 x 51 cm). This is the map referenced in Howes 199, and in footnote 34, vol. 2, p. 161 of Wheat's "Mapping the TransMississippi West". The map was originally published in 1838, then several times and in several reports thereafter. The map was drawn by MH Stansbury, after an 1834 map of British North Amreica by Arrowsmith, to accompany a report "urging th... more information

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Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1877. This volume was sponsored by the Maine Historical Society, and published as part of the "Documentary History of the State of Maine" vol. II, second series). Dr. Woods had previously been president of Bodin College. Original dark brown cloth, original endpapers, first edition, lxi, 253pp (including index) with the a facsimile of the first page of Hakluyt's original letter, and Heads of Records, bound after the text. Upper spine edge chipped off, binding sli... more information

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Washington (DC): Gales and Seaton (by order of the Senate), 1836. Rebound 9 inch 8 vo., with gilt lettered leather spine and marbeled boards, new endpapers, 168 pp including index, with complete 4 pp of plates bound after p. 160, and the two, very large folding maps bound at the rear. The text is quite clean, with very little browning and full margins. The maps are in excellent condition (A Reconnoissance of the Minnay Sotor Watapàh or St Peter's River to its sources..; A Map of a Portion of the ... more information

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Toronto: Department of the Interior (Canada; The Hunter Rose Co. Limited), 1898. Small, 10 inch 4to. Full contemporary pebbled brown leather, gilt lettered spine (some rubbing and a bit hard to read), with binding tight and embossed library stamp to front cover (New South Wales Library of Parliament), but no other library markings. There is some browning, but most of the text is clean and easily legible (overall very good). Contemporary end papers, marbled fore-edges. Many b&w photos of regional scenes,... more information

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Oxford: Stratford-upon-Avon, Printed at the Shakesperare head press & pub. for the Press by B. Blackwell, Oxford, 1927. Eight quarto vols, 9.75 inches, original linen-backed boards, handmade paper with deckle edges, paper spine labels, and two single sheets ads included (in vol. 1 of part 1 and vol. 1 of part 2). Minimal scuffing to boards. "Three hundred and fifty copies of this edition have been printed ... of which three hundred and twenty are for sale. Seven more copies have been printed on vel... more information

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London: John Osborn and Thomas Longman , 1732. Large, heavy 14.5 inch folio, with full contemporary leather boards, 6 banded gilt decorated spine (chipped but legible), hinges starting (front cover would not take much to come off; binding relatively tight). Ex-library (Hampstead Public Libraries, small stamps on verso most maps, and upper right margin of most plates- not on images). Leather covers scuffed, rubbed, chipped at edges. Interior, other than the library marks, is very good or better, with the 105... more information

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