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1890H22859Battle Creek MI: Wm. C. Gage & Son 1890. Paperback. Very Good. Stated Third Edition Revised. 8.25 x 5.5 inches gray printed wraps very good contents tanning. 108 pp full page map on inside front cover no other illustrations. A more substantial 264 pp. version seems also to have been issued interspersed with many ads. This promotional pamphlet is rarer. Wm. C. Gage & Son paperback
189028246isere 1890 2 photographies originales albuminées en noir, insérées par les angles sur une feuille de papier beige, format : 32 x 23,5 cm, format de chaque photographie : 12 x 17 cm, 2 photos prises à 2 endroits différents sur la "ROUTE DES GOULETS", sans date (1890), noté à l'encre brune sous les 2 photos : Route des goulets et noté aussi à l'encre brune en haut à gauche Photo Joseph Allard ,
1835203763Philadelphia.: W. Marshall. Circa1835. Handcoloured engraved map 26.5 x 41.3 cms; 29.6 x 48.3 cms sheet central fold insets of "Oceanica" and "New Holland" central table some light staining in the image and margins in good condition. Eurocentrism laid bare. This 19th Century map includes a "State of Society" for each part of the world declared with a symbol to represent "Barbarous Half Civilized Civilized and Enlightened Societies" as well as noting religion and ethnicity. It includes a table of distances between chief towns or capitals and between these towns and Washington DC. Australia "New Holland" is styled principally as pagan barbarous unexplored and African a thin sliver of what is now New South Wales and Victoria is labelled civilized European and Protestant. Scarce. . (W. Marshall). unknown
1852180552London.: Longman Brown Green & Longmans. Second Edition. 1852. 5 folding mathematical projections at the rear. v 143pp plus 5 pages of publisher's adverts. Original cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and ruled in blind title page slightly browned head & tail of spine slightly chipped else a lovely clean copy. A presentation copy "With the Author's Cordial Regards' dated July 6th" 1854. 17.5x 10.5cm Born in Westminster London in 1818 William Hughes was a prolific mapmaker geographer engraver printer and publisher. . Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans. hardcover
1897176109London.: Macmillan and Co. Limited. 1897. Photographic frontispiece of 'The Shah returning to Teheran' and numerous full page photographic illustrations four folding printed colour maps marginal spotting xii 275 pages 23 x 15 cm original red glazed red cloth boards occasional spotting the cloth a little marked and flecked the spine sunned but in very good condition.<P> An extensive and intrepid modern Grand Tour account through Constantinople and Turkey to Persia and Central Asia with 34 striking photographic plates. Clive Bigham was an Honorary Attaché to the British Embassy at St. Petersburg and war correspondent in the Near East travelled at the very height of the Armenian troubles when the strict orders had been issued by Turkey that Asia Minor was to be closed to Europeans. Burrell 94. <br> <br>This item is held off-site. Please note there may be a few days delay while it is brought into our shop for viewing or mailing to you. Thank you for your understanding.<P> <b>When referring to this item please quote stockid 176109</b> . Macmillan and Co. Limited. hardcover
1806009589London: Printed for Richard Phillips Sold By Souter No. 1 Pater-noster-row. 1806. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 4to. A very good "large paper" copy with uncut edges leaf size approximately 285mm x 225mm with a few additional items bound in. Pp. xiv 2 530 ii ii. 16 hand-tinted aquatints of which several folding map plus an additional contemporary hand-coloured map of Ireland as frontispiece. Contents: frontispiece quarto format map - engraved for the Poem of Erin. The folding plate of Dublin shown as the frontispiece in the "Directions for Placing the Plates" has been bound in opposite the first page of text title page dedication prefacecontents errata directions for placing the engravings main body of the text additional page on St. Patrick from "Guide to Knowledge" bound in at rear before the Publisher's adverts cutting from the Times 1842 entitled "Robert Emmet and the Gaoler of Kilmainham" pasted to rear paste-down. Original paper-covered boards with recent pebbled cloth spine to match original with the original paper title-label applied to the spine binding in very good condition. Contents very good the uncut edges are a little worn in places and a couple of a small near-contemporary oval stamps of the "Baptist College Bristol" to the front end paper no other marks. Paper in very good condition without any obvious staining minimal foxing almost completly confined to the tissue guards maps and plates all very good clean and crisp short repaired tear to the edge of page 318 not nearly affecting the text. A very good to fine copy. Printed for Richard Phillips, Sold By Souter, No. 1, Pater-noster-row. Hardcover
1883178272Paris.: Service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine. 1883 but1894. Engraved hydrographical chart on watermarked double sheet 99 x 63 cm soundings in metres lighthouses picked out in yellow and red inset map of the port and town of Tenedos central fold a few very slight edge tears to the generous margins light spotting and surface soiling but in very good condition. Fine and impressive large naval chart of this strategically important strait then still under the control of the Ottoman Empire. <br> <br>From a private collection; "Lord John Fitzroy Royal Yacht Squadron" in manuscript on the verso. . Service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine unknown
188525162Riverhead New York 1885. Hardcover. Very good condition. The original manuscript title to a very large tract of land near Brookhaven Long Island acquired by John A. Bowman from the individual proprietors and conveyed here by Bowman in its entirety to the Long Island Improvement Company Ltd. <br /> <br /> The Long Island Improvement Company was formed by Austin Corbin then president of the L. I. Rail Road and others in 1881. Corbin sought the land in order to develop expensive summer residences on Long Island; Bowman was acting as Corbin's agent in the acquisition of this valuable property. Austin Corbin 1827 – 1896 was an American railroad executive plantation owner resort operator banker and robber baron. In Iowa as a bank president he engaged in mortgage scams. Later through theft and corruption he consolidated the individual rail lines into the profitable Long Island Rail Road. He was widely despised in his day: Puck Sept 1882 printed a caricature in which Corbin appears at a Louis XIV styled party where he carouses with Jay Gould and other robber barons. <br /> <br /> The Abstract a bound sml. folio volume records that Bowman paid $5 per acre for most of the parcels in 1882 then conveyed January of 1883 the incalculably valuable entire tract to the LI Improvement Co for $1. The Abstract volume concludes with the Suffolk County embossed seal and is signed by the Clerk at Riverhead 1st June 1885. It includes the ownership history of each parcel as well as a history of the town of Brookhaven from its founding.<br /> <br /> The Abstract volume is accompanied by the original hand colored manuscript map on architectural vellum of the entire tract with silk ribbon binding showing the 25 property owner names and parcel sizes. Surveys were conducted by Justus Roe. The map is titled "Map of Property of the Long Island Improvement Company Limited at Medford LI". The scale is 300 feet to the inch. The northern boundary of the tract shows the Brewster Terry Property and Horse Block Road; the western edge defined by Tunnel and Progues Road and the Austin Roe and Daniel Gerard property; the southern boundary with Georgianna Rider property and Canaan and Medford Roads; the eastern boundary with the Robinson property and Lime Road. The Long Island RR can be seen running from east to west at approximately one third of the way through the tract at the north side. The map signed in ink at the lower right corner E. H. H. Forder.<br /> <br /> The Abstract bound in full gilt tan leather 9 x 14 3/4" attorney's name stamped in gilt at lower corner James Armstrong Attny 115 B'Way N. Y. Boards slightly rubbed; front board detached but present. Pages very bright and clean. The map 67 x 44" a few short splits at folds but very bright and clean in very good condition.<br /> <br /> A remarkable record of Long Island land speculation in the late 1880s. hardcover
1830176607London.: Robert Jennings. 1830. Engraved map 11.5 x 14.3 cm showing route of European explorers faint added outline colour in an early hand and manuscript note to the verso in the same ink edges age-toned but in very good condition. Detailed pre-colonial map of Africa "Regions Unexplored" marked and "no fresh water to be found" on the west coast. An early manuscript inscription on the verso refers to Lander's ."wanderings of Clapperton" the Scottish naval officer and explorer. Richard Lander had returned with Hugh Clapperton's journal following his death and the account was published in the same year as Fenner's "Pocket Atlas of Modern & Ancient Geography" for which this map was prepared. . (Robert Jennings) unknown
1894177068Chicago.: Geo. F. Cram. 1894. Chromolithographed maps 54.3 x 34.1 cm sheet central fold a few small edge tears and marginal age toning but in very good condition. Detailed maps prepared for George F. Cram's 1894 "Standard American Atlas": one of the first American firms to publish a world atlas. Maps of Oceania and South Africa printed on the verso. . Geo. F. Cram. unknown
1877177229New York.: Ivison Blakeman Taylor & Co. circa1877. Printed colour map 27.5 x 21.7 cm large inset of Northern Africa and a smaller of Southern Africa two small edge tears lower corner neatly strengthened the sheet toned but the map in good condition unrelated text printed on the verso. Map of Africa as a whole before the Imperial race for colonies in the 1880s with interesting insets of Northern and Southern Africa. . Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. unknown
1895175108London.: Times Atlas of the World. 1895. Double-page folding map printed in colour 46.5 x 36.5 cm. edges gilt central fold with an inset map of Somaliland Somalia and the island of Sokotra key to European possessions outlined in colour small edge fold tears affecting the margin only and two other small edge tears slight toning at the edgaes but in very good condition. Attractive and detailed map prepared for the first edition of "The Times Atlas of the World". . (Times Atlas of the World). unknown
1880174956London.: The London Printing and Publishing Company. Circa1880s. Printed map 24 x 32.1 cm decorative border two original vertical folds paper toned mainly at the edges inner margin of the sheet ragged but in good order. A late edition of the map used for the well-known Tallis map this without the characteristic vignettes and on thinner paper. . The London Printing and Publishing Company. unknown
1899174902New York.: Rand McNally & Co. 1899. Printed colour map 36.3 x 24.3 cm inset map of the Suez Canal and two smaller insets of the Cardagos Crayos Islands Mascarene Islands and Cape Verde Islands central fold and on the verso a printed panel listing the countries in Africa with their territorial governance area and population lower corner creased at the outer margin but in very good condition. An interesting late nineteenth-century map noting colonial governance. . Rand, McNally & Co. unknown
183539444México: Impreso por Ignacio Cumplido 1835. Paperback. Good. 44p wrps. Gutiérrez Estrada 1800-1867 was Secretary of Interior and Exterior Relations under Santa-Anna and Barragán in 1834 and 1835. Here he explains and documents that his resignation was not an attempt to discredit the government but to respond to his federalist convictions. Later he was forced into exile served as ambassador in several posts and was named head of the commission to offer the throne of Mexico to Maximillian. Impreso por Ignacio Cumplido paperback
18822111902160200908Ikaho bussan 1882. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Ikaho bussan paperback
185316365Philadelphia: John C. Clark 1853. Original printed wrappers stitched 20pp. A bit of edge chipping to the wraps else Very Good. Statutes beginning with the Act of Incorporation under Pennsylvania law in 1850 relating to this railroad with the Act of the Virginia legislature authorizing a right of way through that State. FIRST EDITION. Haynes 13907. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BRE BEAL. John C. Clark unknown
184025276Saco: Stephen Webster Printer 1840. 14 1 1 blank pp. Stitched some loosening. Title and last page lightly dusted Very Good.<br/><br/> The Act authorizes construction of a Railroad from Portland to New Hampshire "at such place as will best connect with the Railroad to be constructed from Portsmouth to Boston."<br/>Page 15 is an Act "to extend the time to locate and construct" the Road. It is dated February 14 1840. Other than the Maine Legislature's contemporary printing of the 1837 Act this is its first publication. No earlier edition is recorded of the printing of both Acts. <br/>Not in American Imprints Sabin. Thomson 2602. OCLC 191245715 1- AAS. Stephen Webster, Printer unknown books
185316365Philadelphia: John C. Clark 1853. Original printed wrappers stitched 20pp. A bit of edge chipping to the wraps else Very Good. Statutes beginning with the Act of Incorporation under Pennsylvania law in 1850 relating to this railroad with the Act of the Virginia legislature authorizing a right of way through that State. FIRST EDITION. Haynes 13907. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BRE BEAL. John C. Clark unknown books
18368052Albany 1836. 8pp uncut and untrimmed folio leaf wide margins and light uniform tanning faint old institutional blindstamp. Caption title as issued. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Thomson 1417 1. Not in Sabin or AI. unknown books
18297369Bourg, P.F. Bottier ; in-8, broché ; 188 pp. SUIVI DE : Quelques idées sur les moyens de conserver les routes de la France et d’ajouter celles qui sont encore nécessaires ; par l’ingénieur en chef (M. Cherrier ainé). Même imprimeur, supplément à l’Annuaire ; 11 pp., (1 bl.), (4) pp., couverture gris-bleu imprimée.
184719019Auxerre Perriquet 1847 In-8 146 + 296 pp + 2planches , rousseurs d'usage ; traces de frottements au dos Il manque probablement une grande planche dépliante d'après Belleforest
184719060Auxerre Perriquet 1847 In-8 146 + 296 pp + 3 planches , DONT une grande planche dépliante d'après Belle-forest en 1575? Cette planche est complète mais séparée à la pliure supérieure, morceau volant dos légèrement passé
1851174952London & New York.: Tallis J & F. 1851. Lithographed map 24.5 x 32.3 cm borders picked out in original hand colour four inset vignette illustrations decorative Greek key border edge worn and discoloured paper toned but the attractive map in good condition. Attractive decorative map prepared for "Tallis's illustrated atlas and modern history of the world." one of the last great illustrated series of world maps. The fine vignettes are of Mt. Olympus Rhodes a ketch in the Mediterranean Sea and two costumed Ottomans. . Tallis, J & F. unknown
1855173439Gotha.: Perthes Justus. Circa1855. Engraved map 44.1 x 36.3 cm sheet size 35.8 x 29.7cm map size plate mark map with original hand colouring and hand coloured key noting Islamic "Mohammedanische" Buddhist "Buddhaistische" and European territories by country. Unusual map in an early issue. It was included as map 39 in Stieler's "Hand-Atlas uber alle Theile der Erde und uber das Weltgebaude by Frederic von Stulpnagel" revised by Hermann Berghaus in 1855. The issue is noted to the top right: Ausg. in 63BI. no XIV. Fine outline hand colouring denotes territories by religion and Chinese ports open to European trade and Japanese ports open to American trade. . Perthes, Justus. unknown
