L'Usage des Globes celeste et Terrestre et des...
Paris: J. Guerin et Nyon Fils, 1751. Sixth edition. Nicolas Bion (c. 1652-1733) was the chief instrument maker... Read More
Price: $1,500
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A New System of modern Geography or a General Description of the Most Remarkable Countries throughout the Known World.
Philadelphia: Published by Jacob Johnson & Co, 1805. First Edition.
Price: $150
Map: Dania Regnum in quo sunt Ducatus Holsatia et Slesucium Insulae Danic et Provinci, Iutia, Scania, Blekingia et Hallandia.
Frederick de Wit, c. 1650.
Price: $750
A Chart of the British Channel and the Bay of Biscay with a Part of the North Sea and the...
London: W. Faden, 1780. Second edition.
Price: $350
A New General Atlas of the World, Compiled from the latest authorities both English and Foreign, Containing separate Maps of...
London: Henry Teesdale, 1837. A fine and attractive atlas, with Maps 35-42 relating to the Americas. The map of Mexico and Guatemala shows the constituent provinces of Mexico on the eve of the Texas rebellion. The finely detailed map of Van Diemen’s Land shows new settlements and mining areas.
Price: $3,500
Railroads and Steamships
Karte der Eisenbahnen Mittel-Europa's mit Angabe sämmtlicher Bahnstationen, Hauptpost und Dampfschiffahrts Vergindungen. Entworfen und nach den zuverlUassigsten Quellen bearbeitet von...
Glogau [Polland]: Verlag von Carl Flemming, 1864. 8th edition. Railroads and Steamships.
Price: $200
Colored Mounted Maps
A Modern Historical Atlas for the Use of Colleges, Schools and General Readers.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1869. First edition. Colored Mounted Maps.
Price: $150
Carte Itineraire de lAllemagne. Post Charte von Teutschland.
Weimar: im Verlage des geograph. Instituts, 1817.
Price: $300
Neue und vollkomene Postkarte durch ganz Teutschland nach Italien, Franckreich, niederland, Preussen, Polen, und Ungarn.
Wien: zu finden bey Artaria Compagnie, 1790. Showing poste routes.
Price: $350
Needlework Map of England.
Bristol: March 1786. A nice example of an embroidered map sampler, which were an important component of girls' education in Britain and America from 1770-1840. This one meticulously labels all of the English counties, the seas and channels, and includes part of Scotland to the north, and the east coast...
Price: $950
16 Hand-colored maps
The Child's Book of American Geography: Designed as an Easy and Entertaining Work for the Use of Beginners.
Boston: James B. Dow, 1837. Second edition. 16 Hand-colored maps.
Price: $350
Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children. With Nine Maps and Seventy-Five Engravings, Principally for the Use of...
Hartford: F.J. Huntington, 1836.
Price: $200
With 16 Maps
The Second Book of History, including the Modern History of Europe, Africa and Asia.
Boston: Charles J. Hendee, 1836. Eleventh Edition (First 1832). With 16 Maps.
Price: $75
An Accurate Map of the Seat of War in the Mediterranean including the Morea and Archipelago.
London: Gentleman's Magazine, July 1770. In 1770 the Greeks, with the assistance of the Russians, had rebelled against the Turks. The rebellion was put down.
Price: $150
Philips' Authentic Imperial Maps for Tourists & Travellers: Greece and the Crchipelago.
Liverpool: George Philip and Son Ltd; C. S. Hammond & Co., New York, [ca. 1930's]. Submarine cables noted, as is the demilitarized zone between Greece and Turkey, and railways and steamer routes.
Price: $175
Engraved map entitled "Peru" Mar del Nort upper right from Blaeu's Atlantis Appendix, Amsterdam 1631.
Amsterdam: Blaeu, n.d.
Price: $1,000
Hand-colored steel-engraved map: Depicting Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina. From “Colton's Atlas of the World lllustrating Physical and Political...
New York: J.H. Colton & Co, 1855. Map No. 30.
Price: $175
An Introduction to Universal History. Translated from the Latin of Baron Holberg. With Notes Historical, Chronological, and Critical by Gregory...
London: Printed for A. Millar in the Strand, J. Ward in Cornhill, 1758. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.
Price: $500
Atlas of the City of Philadelphia, 22nd Ward. Properties near Philadelphia, Germantown and Chestnut Hill Railroad.
Philadelphia: G.M. Hopkins,C.E, 1885.
Price: $1,000
City Atlas of of Philadelphia, by Wards...Volume 1.Comprising the 22nd Ward.
Philadelphia: G.M. Hopkins,C.E, 1876.
Price: $1,000
Discovery of America by Northmen. Address at the Unveiling of the Statue of Leif Ericksen delivered at Faneuil Hall, Oct 29, 1887.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. First edition. In an attempt to answer criticisms of "The most incautious linguistic inferences, and the most uncritical cartographical perversions" (points raised by Justin Winsor) Horsford assembles evidence to assert the claim for the antiquity of the Norse presence in America; and rather startlingly, he continues...
Price: $250
Handbuch für Reisende in Italien.
Munich: Verlag der Literarische-Artistischen Anstalt, 1840.
Price: $300
Albert Durer Revived: or, a Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing, or Coloring of Maps and Prints: and the Art of...
London: for Thomas Glass, 1731. Later edition. A generously illustrated manual for the 17th- and18th-century print and map seller, with detailed instructions for the making, printing, and presentation of prints. Originally published in 1652 under the title, A BOOK OF DRAWING, LIMNING, WASHING OR COLORING OF MAPS AND PRINTS, and...
Price: $3,750
Atlas to Alison's History of Europec onstructed and arranged, under the Directions of Sir Archibald Alison...with a Concise Vocabulary of...
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1855. In the original 10 volume set (1833-1842), this period covered volumes 5 through 10. Complete unto itself.
Price: $450
Block Island. I. A Map and Guide. II. A History (Abridged).
Hartford, Ct: Press of The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1886. Later printing, first published 1882. A guide book and history abridged from Livermore's HISTORY OF BLOCK ISLAND (1877). With a folding map of the island and numerous wood engravings depicting Monhegan Bluffs and Block Island Bay and illustrated advertisements...
Price: $400