Search Results: Atlases and Maps from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1989. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. ix, [1], 226 pp., illus. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A bright copy with little in the way of shelf-rubbing. Uncommon in hard cover.

Richmond: West & Johnston, 1862. Hard Cover. Good binding. Confederate imprint, first edition, thus. 37" x 25". As issued, folded in printed paper over boards case; fore-edge ties are lacking; staining and wear to the case. Paper is toned with some staining; several closed tears at the folds and intersections of folds, one of which is significant spanning nearly 12". This is the second iteration of the Bucholtz-Ludwig map of 1858. Of the origin of this map, William C. Wooldridge writes, "At least four maps of Virginia published between 1858 and ca. 1868 derive in whole or in part from the same lithographic stone--or were copied with such minute care as to make their common parts indistinguishable. The maps have different borders, different sizes, and different publisher's imprints. They look different.... The common denominator of these four maps is the lithographic stone prepared by Charles L. Ludwig in 1858 for Ludwig von Bucholtz's new map of Virginia" (p. 26). Wooldridge goes on, "This new… Read More

[France?], 1800. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Oblong quarto. 265mm x 210mm. 17 maps, drawn and colored on the recto only; two are folding. Bound in later cloth-backed decorative paper boards. Front board with earlier oval pastedown label with printed border and printers name: "By de Weduwe de Moor en Zoon" ("by the Widow of Moor and Son," a publishing house). All maps are hand-drawn in ink with neat labeling in French in black ink; all hand-colored. Light soiling and some ink remnants to paper label. Sporadic spotting, mostly along margins, generally not impacting maps. The detailed and elegant maps include a map of the world, one of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America as it stood at the turn of the 19th century, South America, a very detailed map of France, the Low Countries, The British Isles, Spain and Portugal, Italy, German speaking Central Europe, Poland in 3 parts as it was after 1795 until 1807 when the Duchy of Warsaw was created, Scandinavia, European Russia, Switzerland and Hungary… Read More

Paris: Charles Simonneau, 1840. 43" x 39", 109cm x 99cm. Folding, linen-backed map as issued in marbled paper covered chemise with matching case. Case is missing two rails and the third is chipped; retains gold stamped label; chemise is worn. Both the chemise and the back of the map have Charles Simonneau's engraved label. Linen backing is discolored but seems in good condition and supple. Ownership note on the back of the map, under Simonneau's label identifies this as a gift from Francis Peyre Porcher (1825-1895) to his daughter Julia P. Wickham. Wickham's note, dated 1902, says Porcher picked the map up in Paris before 1850. Porcher was a physician and botanist from South Carolina. He was an enslaver and secessionist. He served as a surgeon for the Confederacy and is perhaps most known for his book, "Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests" (1863). A beautifully printed map of France with a most interesting association.

Paris: chez Fatout, 1841. Hard Cover. Good binding. Large folding map as issued, hinged into pastepaper-over-boards case with publisher's engraved pictorial pastedown on the front cover. Covers are quite worn with fraying at the corners and spine, small piece of the spine is missing; covers darkened. Printed on heavy paper, map is fairly solid with closed tears at the intersections of the folds and some at the perimeter of the map. Largely clean and stable. A nice mid 19th century souvenir map by a prominent French cartographer with engraved images of notable monuments around the city.