Titles starting with N from The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ®

Wien (Vienna), 1819. Remarkable, and uncommon complete 8 map folio set pertaining to the Napoleonic campaigns in Germany and Switzerland in 1799 (Second Coalition was formed in 1798, and included Russia, Great Britain, Austria, the kingdom of Naples, and the Ottoman Empire). The 8, loose (as issued) folding sheets are mostly b&w engravings, with some color coding for troop positions and German text of other details on some plates. They are carefully excecuted, all near fine or better on thick laid paper... more information

Featured in: Rare Books > Maps and Atlases

Offered by The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ® (Virginia, United States) +/-

Chicago: J. V. Farwell Co., 1891. G+ w/browning. Full printed color. 48 vignettes showing coats-ofarms of various nations. From "New Popular family Atlas of the World...". 31x23.5cm.. ... more information

Offered by The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ® (Virginia, United States) +/-

National Geographic Society, 1960. VG, 1st ed., gilt cover lettering, bookplate of BG Brett on title page, extensive index, unusual folio, 72pp (maps pp6-31). (2 Copies of this atlas are available). ... more information

Offered by The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ® (Virginia, United States) +/-

National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1960. Folio, soft-cover, 1st ed., 25pp individual maps. Cover slightly soiled with very small tear midspine. Maps vg, some soiling/browning edges. (2 Copies available). ... more information

Offered by The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ® (Virginia, United States) +/-

Washington (DC): US Coast Survey, 1866. Very good, b&w with folds as issued. A few small extra creases from being folded in book in upper right corner. Inset of Charlotte Harbor. The map date is 1864, but this appeared in the 1866 report of the superintendent of the US Coast Survey, then Alexander Dallas Bache, the great grandson of Benjamin Franklin. This is a very detailed chart, with elaborate depth soundings and sailing directions. Triangulations by Lieuts. J.C. Clark and W.R. Terrill. Topography by... more information

Offered by The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ® (Virginia, United States) +/-

London: T. Osborne (et al), 1761. All 4 volumes, contemporary banded calf, banded spines (some legibility difficult). Most hinges loose and starting. Gilt-ruled coves. Ex-library with plate of the Theological Seminary Library (Gettysburg, Pa.), with de-acquisition stamp; numerous library markings, including on spine. All 6 folding, copperplate engraved maps by Thomas Jefferys (Europe, Africa, Madagascar & Zanzibar, Asia, North America, South America) are very good or better (b&w as issued). Numerous... more information

Featured in: Rare Books > Rare Military Books

Offered by The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ® (Virginia, United States) +/-

London: Sold By Blachford & Imray at their Navigation Warehouse. No. 116. Minories., 1839. Very good, uncommon, rolled, b&w (as issued), blue-back chart (remarkably well preserved) with very little browning/soiling. Very striking chart with depth soundings and form lines. This nautical chart is "Dedicated to the Honorable Commissioners for Inspecting Charts, for the use of the Royal Navy..." The full image measures 92 x 182 cm (36 x 72 inches). Coastal views include: Ushant (2), View of th... more information

Offered by The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ® (Virginia, United States) +/-

Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwaite, 1850. Very good, with some mild general browning. Decorative border. Elaborate list of steam boat routes, and other details. Fully hand-colored. Detailed inset of "Charleston" w/city plan. Detailed local Charleston references incl. banks, hospital, jail, etc. 29x36cm. The above date is approximate for this well-known map.. ... more information

Offered by The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ® (Virginia, United States) +/-

New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1918. Very good condition, complete 3 vol. set on Berkshire linen (limited to 600 copies), very little internal use with several pages uncut. Original endpapers present. Numerous illustrations, including the folding maps in vols. 1 and 3 (this one is a copy of Colton's 1848 map of Long Island), with sound bindings and original spine labels. All vols. 9 inch quartos, top edges gilt, with frontispiece buts of Thompson in vol. 1 (original tissue guard present). Vol I: xlix, 538; ... more information

Offered by The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ® (Virginia, United States) +/-

New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1918. Very good condition, complete 3 vol. set on Berkshire linen (limited to 600 copies), deckle edges. Early owner's bookplates on front pastedown, and some indication that this set had come from the library of the late Alistaire Cook. Original endpapers present. Numerous illustrations, including the folding maps in vols. 1 and 3 (this one is a copy of Colton's 1848 map of Long Island), with sound bindings and original spine labels, minimally scratched, with some scuffin... more information

Offered by The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books ® (Virginia, United States) +/-