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Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1917. Very good lithographic color, folds as issued, with virtually no fold separations. Original paper lettered wraps intact, with rear cover trimmed a bit at outer edge. Inset: General War Map, lower left corner. Very detailed, with coded city/town locations verso for Belgium, Luxemburg and France. The image measures 20.5 x 30.5 inches (52 x 78 cm), with elaborate road and waterway detail. Folds into paper covers measuring 6 x 4 inches. This was one of a series of "Fi... more information

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Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1917. Very good lithographic color, folds as issued, with virtually no fold separations (vertical cut extending approximately 7 inches lower map, without image loss, repaired verso with archival paper tape). Original paper lettered wraps intact. Inset: General War Map, lower left corner. Very detailed, with coded city/town locations verso for France and a small portion of Germany. The image measures 30.5 x 20.5 inches (78 x 52 cm), with elaborate road and waterway detail. Fo... more information

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London: George Phillip & Son (32 Fleet St. in association with "Times & Tide"), 1956. Near fine printed color map measuring 36x46 inches, with folds as issued. Decorative, with keys for his Sea, Air, Rail and Road journeys, and for the major conferences of the time. Also 10 colored vignettes with various aircraft and ships applicable to the individual journeys. Churchill's journey's criss-cross the Atlantic. The 8.5x6 inch cardboard case, with a famous b&w view of the leader on... more information

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1855. VG, with one or two early, small separations at crease junctions. Minimal browning. This was done by Warren and Abbot while Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War. Includes profile sketches of almost all western waterway profiles (Puget Sound, Columbia river, Great Salt Lake, North Fork of Platte River, Gulf of California and others). This was done to accompany Goveurneur Warren's maps. This large b&w image (folds as issued) measures 20x45 inches.. ... more information

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The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 1905. VG, HB, no DJ (as issued), 471pp including index, with 6 b&w folding maps in rear (From the Rapidan to the James, The Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, The North Anna, The Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor). All the maps are in excellent conditon (there are a few minor marginal tears, none crossing neatlines of map). This book contains 16 separate essays read before the society between 1887 and 1899. The cover is a bit bumped and rubbed, with m... more information

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Paris: apud autorem and Aut. Boudet, 1752. Very good, early hand color, wide margins on laid paper. This is a rather decorative double hemisphere (eastern and western) image.Two watermarks visible verso. Two cartouches upper (title) and lower (notes) central map. The date on the map is 1752, but this is from an "Atlas Universel..." ca. 1757. An image of the map appears in the online David Rumsey Map Collection. Each hemisphere is 35 cm (13.75 inches) in diameter, on a sheet measuring 53 x 83 cm (2... more information

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Hammond Inc., Maplewood (NJ), 1960. HB vg, blue leather, 4vo, 352pp, no DJ. Very nice copy of this well-known atlas.. ... more information

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Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 1874. VG, with tw-toned printed color and a good bit of topographic detail. The Mongol Empire is noted, along with the period routes of Marco Polo and other explorers. South Africa is cut off, as expected for the times. This is from Vivien's scarce "Atlas Dresse Pour L'Histoire de la Geographie et Decouvertes Geographiques...". A very nice, double-folio image measuring 14x18 inches. . ... more information

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Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 1874. VG, with tw-toned printed color coupled with hand-colored outlines. This is from Vivien's scarce "Atlas Dresse Pour L'Histoire de la Geographie et Decouvertes Geographiques...". A very nice, double-folio image measuring 14x18 inches. . ... more information

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Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original printed two-toned coloring with 4 plates on a single sheet. Several appear to be variations on the T-O maps, ranging from 900-20 BCE. The dominant plate, attributed to Eratosthenes (but dated well after the Greek astronomer's death) and Strabo (more prominent intellectually with his contemporaries, and temporally closer to the date applicable to the image) is coded into temperature zones. Eratoshtenes used his mathematical backgrou... more information

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Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original hand coloring with multiple, striking images of continental interrelationships. This is plate 5 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.5x117.5 inches (21.5x30cm).. ... more information

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Paris: Hotel De Thou, Rue Des Poitevins, 1787. VG+, b&w as issued, copperplate on heavy paper. A very nice image from "Atlas Encyclopedique...", done by Bonne and Desmarest and published in two volumes in 1787-88. This is a nice world map (small stain just above the plain cartouche area, without significant image impact), with the whole known world (not much inland detail for Australia, consistent with the knowledge of the times; most of western N. America also uncharted; longitudes based on a... more information

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Paris: Chez le Sr. Fortin , 1780. VG+, minimal edge browning and foxing. Nicely hand colored outlines, heavy paper, double hemisphere, peninsular California. This is from a 1778 edition (later issue; clearly marked on title page, even though map itself lists 1780 in cartouche) of the family's "Nouvel Atlas Portatif" (see Pedley's "Bel et Utile" re: historical details for this prominent mapmaking family). The image measures 10.5x16.5 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. Mild marginal soiling with a few small stains, but quite a nice plate. The attractive double plate image measures 12x16.5 inches.. ... more information

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Paris: Hotel De Thou, Rue Des Poitevins, 1787. VG, minor offsetting, b&w as issued, copperplate on heavy paper. A very nice image from "Atlas Encyclopedique...", done by Bonne and Desmarest and published in two volumes in 1787-88. These maps are a bit larger than those from the 1780 Bonne atlas. The image of the eastern hemisphere, with a deocrative compass rose (Rose de Bussole) (plate 20), measures 9.5x13.5 (24x34cm). Australia has an intact coastline, with almost no inland detail. . ... more information

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Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier , 1730. VG, scarce, hand colored on heavy paper. A small stain at right upper corner at far edge of a generous margin. Minimal chipping at upper and right edges. Lower centerfold tear barely noticeable and repaired verso with archival tape. A handsome map of the eastern hemisphere, with just the shell of western Australia, Madagascar under its old name (Menuthias Island), after De L'Isle. The date is approximate, as the combined house of Covens and Mortier began about 17... more information

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Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 1874. VG, with two-toned printed color and modest topographic detail. A nice image, with both eastern and western hemispheres, hand colored outlines (partial). There are 3 insets: two of which pertain to views by Martin Behaim in 1492, and a third from Toscanelli in 1474 This is from Vivien's scarce "Atlas Dresse Pour L'Histoire de la Geographie et Decouvertes Geographiques...". A very nice, double-folio image measuring 14x18 inch... more information

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Paris: Chez le Sr. Fortin , 1778. VG+, minimal edge browning and foxing. Folds as issued. Color coded by religious distribution. Nicely hand colored outlines, heavy paper, double hemisphere, peninsular California. This is from a 1778 edition (later issue) of the family's "Nouvel Atlas Portatif" (see Pedley's "Bel et Utile" re: historical details for this prominent mapmaking family). The image measures 9.5x15.5 inches.. ... more information

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Paris: Chez le Sr. Fortin , 1778. VG+, minimal edge browning and foxing. Folds as issued. Color coded by ethnic groups (Europeans, Africans, others). Same basic map as item 2503. Nicely hand colored outlines, heavy paper, double hemisphere, peninsular California. This is from a 1778 edition (later issue) of the family's "Nouvel Atlas Portatif" (see Pedley's "Bel et Utile" re: historical details for this prominent mapmaking family). The image measures 9.5x15.5 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 double plate image measures 12x16.5 inches.. ... more information

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