MAPS & ATLASES, NATURAL HISTORY, TRAVEL BOOKS
Catalog Information: 380 lots | 92 with images | View lots
Date: December 3, 2009
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Viewing Notes:
Exhibition & Sale Schedule: Sale 2198 - Maps & Atlases, Books With Plates, Historical Prints, Travel Books & Ephemera - begins at 1:30pm in New York on Thurs, Dec 3. All material in Sale 2198 on display at our premises in New York City, 104 East 25th Street, as follows - Mon, Nov 30: 10am to 6pm - Tues, Dec 1: 10am to 6pm -Wed, Dec 2: 10am to 6pm - Thurs, Dec 3: 10am to Noon.
Lot 1: BILDER-ATLAS. Ikonographische Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste.
BILDER-ATLAS. Ikonographische Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Over 450 plates. Volumes 1-7 (of 10). Oblong small folio, publisher's cloth, variously worn; virtually all plates dampstained along fore-edges and slightly bleeding onto image [...more]
Lot 2: BONNE, RIGOBERT; and DESMAREST, NICOLAS. Atlas Encyclopédique, contenant la Géographie Ancienne, et quelques Cartes sur la Géographie d
BONNE, RIGOBERT; and DESMAREST, NICOLAS. Atlas Encyclopédique, contenant la Géographie Ancienne, et quelques Cartes sur la Géographie du Moyen Age, la Géographie Moderne [etc.]. 77 double-page engraved maps. 4to, early 1/2 calf over paste paper boar [...more]
Lot 3: BRAUN and HOGENBERG. Remnants of a volume of Civitates Orbis Terrarum,
BRAUN and HOGENBERG. Remnants of a volume of Civitates Orbis Terrarum, containing some preliminaries, the index, and 8 double-page mapsheets. Folio, contemporary calf, intricately stamped in blind; maps generally moderately toned and with some soilin [...more]
Lot 4: (CANALS.) Davis, Charles H. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy . . . in relation to various proposed lines for interoceanic canals and
(CANALS.) Davis, Charles H. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy . . . in relation to various proposed lines for interoceanic canals and railroads. 13 folding maps. 8vo, contemporary cloth, worn at edges and along joints; minor short tears to the ma [...more]
Lot 5: CARY, JOHN. Cary's New Itinerary; or, An Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads . . . throughout England and Wales. 1817
CARY, JOHN. Cary's New Itinerary; or, An Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads . . . throughout England and Wales. Engraved title, 7 engraved folding maps. 8vo, later mottled calf gilt. Seventh edition, with improvements. London, 1817
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