An attractive full dark blue polished calf with gilt title and designs to spine. Written in French and Dutch. Gilt borders to covers. Five raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Black and white plates, some of which fold-out. No previous owner's names or other markings. Pp. [lv] 59 7.5 x 10.5 View More...
Mottled full calf. Includes ten maps: 1. Asia, 2. Turkey in Asia, 3. Persia, 4. Mogol, 5. India & S.E. Asia, 6. China, 7. Tartarie, 8. Philippines & Japan, 9. Africa & 10. the elusive America with California as an island. Loss of spine leather. ; 10mo; 110, 176 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. View More...
This is the second edition of Bellin's original of 1749 but whereas the earlier map rightly showed Florida as a peninsula, this second edition portrays it an archipelago, each island with its own distinctive coast. Seal of the prestigious Depot de la Marine to lower left. Overall 60 x 80 cm; 23.5 x 31.5 inches. View More...
Full limp calf. Engraved title & forty-four double page hand colored maps, plans and views on stout paper. Plate 1 (Eastern hemisphere map) separated at fold; Plates 2 & 3 (Europe & Iberia) top dampstained; map of Roman Britain rather poorly colored. Occasional splits at gutter fold (please ask for details); thumbing. 355 x 240 mm. Ex Library of Congress copy with their bookplate to front pastedown and stamp to margin foot of title (only). Contents page supplied 1760. First Edition. View More...
Twelve hand-colored 45 x 60.4 cm sheets. Sheets previously folded with some loss to fold intersections; green coloring oxidized to olive-brown in plates 2-8 (see images). Each sheet mylar corner-mounted on acid free 20 x29 inch mat with mylar cover and mat overlay. View More...
Nine volume set. Limited edition facsimile of the original 1909 edition. Green cloth with gilt titles on spines. A nice clean set with no previous owner's names or other markings. This set was a multiple bought by us when published and never used. Please expect extra postage. 7.25 x 9 in View More...
Map of Japan dry-mounted to acid free foam-board. Original hand coloring in outline. Image size: 21 x 19 in Paper size: 26.25 x 20 in Board size: 28.75 x 27.25 in View More...
Burden, 701. River de Chekagou as eponym for Chicago. An unusually exact 17th century portrayal of the Great Lakes albeit with such anomalies as an alligator's eating one of the indigenous folk near the border of later day Minnesota and Canada. Neatline: 26 x 42 cm. This map is archivally framed in ruled mahogany with removable back. First Edition. View More...
Modified Orthographic Projection. A well preserved large format (nearly 5 x 6 feet) map of post World War I Asia. Slight foxing, otherwise a remarkably well preserved image of the Asian continent. Four joined sheets with overall fine linen backing; attached to a springed roller bar and so spared ever being folded. (image: 180 cm (71 inches) wide x 155 cm (61 inches) high. Scale: 1: 6,336,000,000 of nature, or 100 miles to an inch. This item will be sent via FedEx in a 74 inch industrial grade mailing tube to avoid folding. View More...
Publisher:
Edinburgh and London, W. & A.K. Johnston, Limited : . 1928
Seller ID: 7447
A remarkably well preserved large format (nearly 5 x 6 feet) map of post World War I Europe. Slight foxing, otherwise a remarkably well preserved image of the European continent. Four joined sheets with overall fine linen backing on a roller & so without folds. Modified Orthographic Projection. (image: 180 cm (71 inches) wide x 155 cm (61 inches) high. Scale: 1: 3,500,000 of nature, or 56 miles to an inch. No copies found on WorldCat. View More...
