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Carey's General Atlas
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Carey's General Atlas

by CAREY, Mathew (1760-1839)

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Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1800. Folio. (17 x 14 inches). 49 engraved maps, including 25 folding, and "A Map of Part of the N. W. Territory of the United States" with contemporary hand-coloring printed on heavy laid paper and dated 1796. 4 maps dated 1794, 2 dated 1795. With the title / table of contents page dated 1800, priced ten dollars, and with Philadelphia spelled "Ppiladelphia" Bound to style in half calf over contemporary speckled paper-covered boards, the flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment with gilt title An exceedingly rare edition of Carey's important and early General Atlas, here with remaindered US state maps dating to 1794 and 1795. Carey, one of the most important publishers in American history, first issued his American Atlas in 1795 with 21 maps. Carey's was the first atlas printed in America. His General Atlas followed in 1796 with 45 maps. Most of the present atlas is devoted to the Americas with… Read More
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Map of Massachusetts proper compiled from Actual Surveys made by Order of the General Court, and...
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Map of Massachusetts proper compiled from Actual Surveys made by Order of the General Court, and under the inspection of agents of their appointment

by CARLETON, Osgood (fl.1792-1806)

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[Boston: B. & J. Loring, 1801. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, folded and mounted on linen. Publisher's paper label to verso, in good condition apart from some slight browning. Modern cloth chemise, within a morocco-backed cloth slipcase. A very rare and highly important early map of Massachusetts. The revised and much improved first "official" edition of the most important early map of Massachusetts. In three key ways, this edition is a great improvement over Osgood Carleton's 1798 original which was rejected for official sanction by the government of the Commonwealth. Firstly, the coastline and coastal islands have been more correctly rendered, largely due to the incorporation of information from the charts of Joseph Des Barres. Secondly, roads and streams that had been left incomplete in the earlier map were extended. Thirdly, some of the clutter of the 1798 map, engraved by Carleton's partner, John Norman, was removed, and the map is more attractive and informative, with a… Read More
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Asia Distinguished in its Principall Parts uiz Turky in Asia, Arabia, Persia, India, China,...
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Asia Distinguished in its Principall Parts uiz Turky in Asia, Arabia, Persia, India, China, Tartaria, The Islands of Japan, of the Philippines, of the Moluckes, of the Sundaes, of Ceylan, and of the Maldivies, where are set down the Empires, Monarchies...

by Sanson, (Nicolas)/Berry, William

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London: William Berry, 1680. ...Kingdoms, and States, which are found there at present/Described by Sanson/Corrected and amended By William Berry (=Kopftitel); Text der figürlich reich verzierten Kartusche oben rechts: Asia Divided into its Principall Regions in which may be seen the extent of the Empires Monarchies Kingdoms and States which at present divide Asia/To the Most serene and Most Sacred Majesty of Charles II./By the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland/This Map of Asia is humbly Dedicated and Presented By Your Majesties Loyal Subject and Servand William Berry; Text der reich verzierten Kartusche links oben: Scale (es folgen Maßstäbe verschiedener Länder)/London/Sold by William Berry at the Sign of the Globe between Charing-Cross and White-Hall/1680; SW-Kupferstich-Landkarte nach (Nicolas) Sanson (d'Abbeville) gestochen von William Berry; ca. 51 x 39 cm; Falzspuren, einige Tintenflecken, hauptsächlich ausserhalb des Druckbildes, mässige… Read More
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A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, State and Republics of...
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A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, State and Republics of the World. With a Special Map of each of the United States, Plans of Cities, &c.

by Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

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Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1849 Folio. (17 3/8 x 14 inches). Lithographed title with large vignette, letterpress "Table of Contents," and 73 hand-colored lithographed maps, charts and city plans. Three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards, large red morocco title label on front cover, elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt. Spine and corners renewed in red leather. Boards rubbed and scuffed at edges. Maps in fine condition. Overall, a fine copy. A very nice copy of this very scarce atlas, with hand-colored maps of all the individual States and Territories, and including the rare and famous map of "Oregon, Upper California & New Mexico" showing the large yellow-colored area in California labeled "Gold Region." The Atlas concentrates on the American continent with 43 maps of the area, including a fine double-page coast-to-coast map of the United States. Samuel Augustus Mitchell and his sons were the leading publishers of maps in the United States during… Read More
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(History of Cartography, Geographic description of the Antilles): Description geographique des...

(History of Cartography, Geographic description of the Antilles): Description geographique des isles Antilles possédées par les Anglois

by Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

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A Paris: De l'imprimerie de Didot, 1758. This 10.5 inch quarto is in very good condition, sound hinges, 171 pp. with all 22 maps (several folding), plans and views in very good or better condition on heavy paper. Contemporary calf boards with original marbeled pastedowns, two title pages (one decorative with attribution to Bellin), "Tables des Titres" and "Table des Cartes, Plans et Vues." Six compartment, banded spine, with red, gilt title label.Triple (French), gilt fillets on front and rear boards. Bellin was the first chief hydrographic engineer of the French Hydrographic Office (see Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, revised ed.). Ref: Beinecke, Lesser Antilles Collection, 215; Sabin 4553. This is an extremely nice copy.. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good.
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Map of Clear Creek County, Colorado. Drawn and compiled by Theo. H. Lowe and F.F. Bruné, C.E.,...
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Map of Clear Creek County, Colorado. Drawn and compiled by Theo. H. Lowe and F.F. Bruné, C.E., Idaho, Colorado, Ter

by LOWE, Theodore H. and Francis F. BRUNÉ

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Louisville: Hart and Mapother Lithographers, 1866. Lithographed map on six sheets unjoined, period hand-colouring in outline, three inset views (two attributed to be after Alfred E. Mathews), within an ornamental border (backed onto linen at an early date, inked library stamp on verso). An incredible, large-scale wall map of Clear Creek County, Colorado published less than a decade after the discovery of gold in the mining district and at the very outset of the area's settlement: a significant Colorado cartographic and mining rarity. Clear Creek County, located approximately 30 miles west of Denver, was one of the original 17 counties of Colorado Territory created in 1861. Settlement in the region, however, began in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, when prospectors settled along Clear Creek hoping to strike it rich. The large scale of this breathtaking map, projected at two thousand feet to the inch, allows for incredible detail of the county to be shown in the earliest years of its existence.… Read More
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OTTOMAN ATLAS CONTAINS THIRTY NINE HAND COLORED MAPS PREPARED AND PRINTED IN THE MUHENDISHANE I...
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OTTOMAN ATLAS CONTAINS THIRTY NINE HAND COLORED MAPS PREPARED AND PRINTED IN THE MUHENDISHANE I BERRI HUMAYUN (THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MILITARY ENGNEERING) IN ISTANBUL. POSSIBLY THE FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE ATLAS TO BE PRINTED IN USKUDAR AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TELEGRAPH LINES IN THE OTTOMAN WILAYAS (STATES)

by THE OTTOMAN AUTHORITY

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Uskudar: MuhendisHane-i Berr-i Humatun (The Royal school of military engneering) Atlas. Illus. by YUMNI. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 1860's THIRTY NINE HAND COLORED MAPS MOSTLY SIGNED BY (YUMNI). MOST OF THEM ARE DESCRIBED IN THE OTTOMAN TURKISH. ALL MAPS ON DOUBLE PAGES, TITLED AND WITH PRINTING DETAILS. LATER HARD COVER. FOLIO 40 X 28 CM. SCARCE. the maps are the followings: (1)Arabistan (Arabian peninsula) 56 x 47 cm. (2)Tarablus Gharb wa tunus (Libya and Tunisia) 56 x 39 cm. (3)Tarablus Gharb (Libya) 56 x 40 cm. (4)Misir ayalet I mumtaza si (territory of Egypt) 56 x 46 cm. (5)Yemen 69 x 33 cm. (6)Hejaz, 56 x 39 cm. (7)Ankara . (8)Sivas . (9)Ma'muat ul Aziz. (10)Diyar Bekir. (11)Bitlis. (12)Erzurum . (13)Van. (14)Mosul 56 x 39 cm. (15)Bagdad 56 x 39 cm. (16)Basra 55 x 39 cm. (17)Zor mutasarrifligi (Part of Mesopotamia. (18)Halep (Aleppo). (19)Adana. (20)Konya. (21)Kibris (Cyprus). (22)Caza'ir I Bahr I Sefid (the Wilaya of the Mediterranean sea islands). (23)Aydin. (24)Pega… Read More
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Tuhfet ul Kibar fi Esfar il Bihar, complete with the all maps contemporarly hand colored
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Tuhfet ul Kibar fi Esfar il Bihar, complete with the all maps contemporarly hand colored

by katib Celebi, Haci Halife

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complete fine copy with the 5 maps of which 4 are colored in contemporary hands.In modern fine Ottoman style binding. on The naval expeditions, printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika in 1141 H. (1728-1729).
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Avrupa-i Osmani Haritasi (Wall map of the Ottoman Europe), extra ordinary copy of an Ottoman...
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Avrupa-i Osmani Haritasi (Wall map of the Ottoman Europe), extra ordinary copy of an Ottoman lieutenant

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205 x 137 cm. extra ordinary Ottoman wall map of the Ottoman Europe prınted ın colors, folding paper on cloth. Signatures by the first lieutenant M. İhsan.
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The Edinburgh Geographical and Historical Atlas
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The Edinburgh Geographical and Historical Atlas

by John Hamilton

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Edinburgh: John Hamilton, ca. 1831. Leatherbound. Very good +. 16, 288, 4 p. 49 cm. 68 hand-coloured maps, many fold-out, and one fold-out of Mountain Chains with b&w engraving. Plate 32 missing as stipulated in Contents. Scales differ. Rebound in half leather by Keith Felton. Gilt trim. Original boards. Occasional dampstains and thumbing. Tear in fold of plate 61. Repairs to edges and corners of Contents page. Earlier repairs to edges of Table of Mountain Chains, Chart of the World, fold-out map of the Russian Empire. Title continues: "Comprehending A Sketch of the History of Geography; A View of the Principles of Mathematical, Physical, Civil, and Political Geography; An Account of the Geography, Statistics, and History of Each Continent, State, and Kingdom, Delineated. And a Tabular View of the Principal Mountain Chains in the World. Engraved on Sixty-nine Copperplates, and Compiled from Materials Drawn from the Newest and most Authentic Sources." This magnificent atlas was published about 1831… Read More
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cihannuma or Jihannuma (Mirror of the world)
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cihannuma or Jihannuma (Mirror of the world)

by KATIB CELEBI (Mustafa ibn Abd Allah, aka Haci Halife, 1609-1657)

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FIrst page of the preface and last page of the index are facsimiles, else; complete with 39 original maps and shapes, mint condition and wide complete margins. 698pp of Ottoman Turkish text, printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika in 1145 AH. - 1732 AD. In contemporary hard covers binding. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THE JIHANNUMA. Planned as a great cosmosgraphy, the work was never completed, although Katib Celebi wrote two versions. The text contained here is the second version, rewritten after the author had acquired a Mercator-Hondius Atlas minor (Koemans mistakenly considered the Jihannuma a translation into Turkish of that Atlas). It covers the world from Japan to the Ottoman borders and is well-illustrated with engraved maps, including: the World in twin hemispheres, the World in oval projection, Europe, Africa, Asia, America, the North and South Poles, Arabia, Japan and various other parts of Asia and Asia Minor. Several of the maps and diagrams had appeared in earlier books printed by Mteferrika.The… Read More
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A General Atlas, containing Maps illustrating some important periods in Ancient History and...
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A General Atlas, containing Maps illustrating some important periods in Ancient History and distinct Maps of the several Empires, Kingdoms and States in the World,: From Original Drawings according to the latest Treaties by J. Wyld and Engraved by N. R. Hewitt

by WYLD, James

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Edinburgh: Printed for John Thomson & Co. for Baldwin, Craddick & Joy, London, & John Cumming, Dublin, ca. 1819-1825. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xxviii, Plates, 18 p. 38 cm. Frontispiece Mountains table, title page vignette, engraving p. viii, 8 in-text illustrations before plates (6 colour, 2 tables), 44 engraved hand-coloured plates, most with small vignettes. Bound in half leather with marbled paper boards. New endpapers. Signed by previous owner William Hossack (1829) on front and rear endpapers. Foxing. Repaired edges to plates 36 & 37. An attractive atlas engraved by N. R. Hewitt from maps drawn by James Wyld the Elder (1790-1836). One of the foremost geographers of his time, Wyld is credited with introducing lithography to map printing during the Peninsula Campaign in 1812. A prolific publisher, he is reputed to have died of overwork. The detailed maps in this atlas emphasize Europe but there are several maps showing the Americas and Australia. Most maps feature a vignette… Read More
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Map of Peking.  京城內外全圖 .[Jing cheng nei wai quan tu].

Map of Peking. 京城內外全圖 .[Jing cheng nei wai quan tu].

by [BOXER REBELLION MAP OF BEIJING].

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(Circa1900).. Large illustrated map of Beijing showing the city in the period following the invasion of the military forces of the Eight National Alliance, old folds, scale not given. Some scattered light foxing particularly at edges, short closed tear at fold lower edge, neat non acidic tape repair short section upper edge wear along folds, and a couple of small, unobtrusive holes with minor image loss. Blocks of text in traditional Chinese right and left upper sections stating each nation's occupied zone, Japanese text title accompanies the English title along the upper section of the map. 63.7 x 56.9cm. Very good overall. A rare and significant large Japanese woodblock map of Peking (Beijing), issued just after the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion. Centred on the Forbidden City, the map depicts Peking following the multinational suppression of the Boxer Rebellion or Yihetuan Movement of 1900. The map was issued to illustrate the areas of occupation associated with each of the powers in the Eight… Read More
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Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller Länder herrschafften, fürnemsten Stetten, geschichten,...
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Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller Länder herrschafften, fürnemsten Stetten, geschichten, gebreüche, hantierungen etc. Beschriben durch Sebastianum Munsterum, auch durch in selbst gebessert, an welt und natürliche historie, jetzunder aber bisz auff das 1569 jar….

by MUNSTER, Sebastian.

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Basel, in der Officin Henricpetrina, Im Jar 1569.
Folio [310 x 205 mm] of (100) prel. ll. including 1 engraved frontispiece, followed by 1467 pp. of text and engravings, the last one not numbered bearing the printer's mark. Full brown calf, double gilt fillet on the covers with a gilt medallion in the center decorated in an Arabic manner, and surmounted by the monogram H.C.H. on the front cover with the date 1570 gilt-stamped underneath, spine ribbed decorated with blind-stamped fleurons, extremities of the spine and corners restored, sprinkled edges. Interesting and elegant contemporary binding.

Very rare edition not described by Sabin of one of the most famous travel and geography books from the Renaissance, illustrated with 26 double-page maps including the map of the "New World" showing the American islands and continent, 37 views and maps of cities on double-page including for example the oldest map of Paris and the first map of Switzerland, 3 folding views of cities (Worms, Heidelberg and… Read More
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Theatro del mondo.
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Theatro del mondo.

by ORTELIUS, Abraham.

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Venetia, Per Scipion Banca, 1667.
16mo [133 x 93 mm] of (4) ll., 232 pp., (8) ll. 108 full-page engraved maps.
Bound in contemporary stiff vellum. Handwritten exlibris on the half-title: " Bibliotheca Neorelli ".
Italian pocket-edition of Ortelius' atlas, illustrated with 108 full-page engraved maps.
Philips 478 ; Tooley 31.
" The commercial success of the pocket-atlas was considerable. It was translated into French and Latin (now in prose) and was reprinted several times, long after Pieter Heyns had moved into the Netherlands together with his son Zacharias in 1588. In the year of Pieter Heyn's death (1598), his son, Zacharias, then living in Amsterdam, repeated the successful best-seller of his father by publishing another Miroir du Monde, using woodcut". Koeman.
The illustration contains a world map and the continents' maps: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. The 103 other maps represent each country for which a note has been written on the opposite page.
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