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(North Africa) [Ortelius, Abraham].

Barbariae et Biledulgerid, Nova Descriptio. Double-page map of North African region of Libya and the Sahara desert, colored by a....

[N.p: ca. 1590]. Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) was a Flemish geographer of German origin. His major work, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570, with later revisions and addendums), was the first modern atlas. It was based on contemporary charts and maps, and contained a collection of plates engraved by Frans Hagenberg in a....

Price: $450

(Numismatics) Green, Benjamin Richard.

A Numismatic Atlas Comprising a Series of 360 Grecian Coins of Kings Arranged in Chronological Order from the Earliest Period...

London: Priestley and Weale and by the Author, 1829. Map of Ancient Coins. The large and wonderful Atlas, the only one of its kind we have seen, was done by Richard Benjamin Green (1808-18760), watercolorist, portrait and landscape artist, lecturer, drawing instructor, and apparently, a student of ancient coins.

Price: $1,500

(Ohio).

Railway and Township and Map of Ohio.

Cincinnati, Ohio: E. Mendenhall 157 Main Street, 1867.

Price: $550

Ortelius, Abraham.

Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannica Insularum Descriptio. Double-page Map of England, Scotland and Ireland, with Royal Crest in upper...

np: [c. 1590]. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a Flemish geographer of German origin. His major work, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570, with later revisions and addenda) was the first modern atlas. It was based on contemporary charts and maps, and contained a collection of plates engraved by Franz Hagenberg in a....

Price: $750

[Ozanam, Jacques].

Methode de lever les Plans et les Cartes du terre et de mer avec toutes sortes d'instrumens, et sans instrumens.

Paris: Quay des Augiustin...Jombert, 1750. Nouvelle edition. Jacques Ozanam (1640-1718) was self-taught maths teacher. This book was very popular and was first published in 1693. There are several chapter on mapping the sea.

Price: $500

(Paris) Oudiette, Charles.

Dictionnaire Topographique des Environs de Paris, jusqu'à 20 lieues a la Ronde de Cette Capitale.

Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1817. Second edition.

Price: $300

(Paris) Vaugondy, Robert de.

Les Promenades des Environs de Paris, en Quatre Cartes avec un plan de Paris précédées d'une Description abrégee & historique...

Paris: Chez l'Auteur et Antoine Boudet, 1761.

Price: $750

Peary, Commander Robert E., editor.

International Flat-Globe and International Geographical History of the World. Accompanying The "International Flat Globe"

New York: International Globe Co for John Wanamaker, [1905]. Uncommon survival, being a "flat-globe" produced by the International Globe Company for Wanamaker, with an accompanying text booklet edited by Commander Peary, as the president of the American Geographical Society. From the front wrapper: "The international flat globe is printed upon...

Price: $450

(PENNSYLVANIA) Walling, Henry F. & O.W.Gray.

New Topographical Atlas of the State of Pennsylvania with descriptions Historical, Scientific and Statistical. Together with a Map of the...

Philadelphia: Published by Stedman, Brown & Lyon, 1872.

Price: $600

(PENNSYLVANIA) Walling, Henry F.

New Topographical Atlas of the State of Pennsylvania with descriptions Historical, Scientific and Statistical. Together with a Map of the...

Philadelphia: Stedman, Brown & Lyon, 1872.

Price: $950

(Philadelphia).

Smith's Map of Philadelphia and Vicinity.

np: U.S.G.S. Edition of 1902 reprinted in October, 1908.

Price: $150

(Planisphere).

Phillips Planisphere showing the Principal Stars visible for every hour in the year, with leather disc overlay over circular paper...

London: George Philip & Son, Geographical and Educational Depot, 22 Fleet Street, c. 1890. A planisphere -- a star chart in the form of two adjustable discs -- can be adjusted to display the visible stars for any time and date. Rotating the upper leather disc alters the stars that...

Price: $600

Reid, John J.

The American Atlas.

New York: Published by John Reid, 1796. First Edition. The Reid atlas is the second strictly American Atlas, preceded only by the 1795 Mathew Carey General Atlas. It includes detailed engraved maps of North America, South America, and the United States; and maps of New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode...

Price: $15,000

Rochette, L. S. de la.

A Chart of the Coasts of Spain and Portugal with the Balearic Islands and Part of the Coast of Barbary.

London: Wm. Faden, Successor to the Late T. Jeffrys, Geogr. to the King, June 28th, 1780. Second edition.

Price: $300

(South America) Bowen, Emannual.

An Accurate Map of South America drawn from the Best Modern Maps and Charts and Regulated by Astrological Observations.

London: [1747].

Price: $250

(South America).

Carte de la Terre Ferme, du Perou, du Bresil, et du Pays des Amazones, Dressée sur les Mémoires les plus...

[c. 1700].

Price: $300

(St. Lawrence River).

Chisholm‘s Panorama of the River St. Lawrence.

N.P. [probably Montreal: C.R. Chisholm & Bros., 1860s]. Drawn by Alfred R. Waud, Boston. The map shows the St. Lawrence from Horseshoe Falls and Cynthia Island to Quebec with illustrations.

Price: $200

Stanford, Edward.

Davies' Central Europe. Map of Central Europe Containing all the Railways in use with the Stations, also the Principal Roads...

London: Stanford, 6, Charing Cross Road, July 28, 1870. Stanford's Series of New Library Maps.

Price: $500

Starling, Thomas.

Geographical Annual or Family Cabinet Atlas.

London: Published for the Proprietors by Mr. Bull Holles Street, Cavendish Square, 1832. First edition.

Price: $900

(Stereographic Maps) Woodman, T. I and H. Mutlow.

Two engraved maps.

[London: Harrison & Co, 1783-1784]. Maps of the Hemispheres. The first “A General Stereographic Map, on the Plane of the Meridian” and the other showing a “Stereographic Projection on the Plane of the Horizon” and “Orthographic Projection on the pLane of the Meridian”.

Price: $150