Search Results: Titles starting with N from The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books

National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1960. Folio, soft-cover, 1st ed., 25pp individual maps. Cover slightly soiled with very small tear midspine. Maps vg, some soiling/browning edges. (2 Copies available).

Chicago: J. V. Farwell Co., 1891. G+ w/browning. Full printed color. 48 vignettes showing coats-ofarms of various nations. From "New Popular family Atlas of the World...". 31x23.5cm..

National Geographic Society, 1960. VG, 1st ed., gilt cover lettering, bookplate of BG Brett on title page, extensive index, unusual folio, 72pp (maps pp6-31). (2 Copies of this atlas are available).

London: T. Osborne (et al), 1761. All 4 volumes, contemporary banded calf, banded spines (some legibility difficult). Most hinges loose and starting. Gilt-ruled coves. Ex-library with plate of the Theological Seminary Library (Gettysburg, Pa.), with de-acquisition stamp; numerous library markings, including on spine. All 6 folding, copperplate engraved maps by Thomas Jefferys (Europe, Africa, Madagascar & Zanzibar, Asia, North America, South America) are very good or better (b&w as issued). Numerous portraits of naval figures. Text intact in all 4 volumes (587pp, 580pp, 488pp, 519pp). A very nice, uncommon, early set, although apparently Campbell wasn't that knowledgeable about some of his subjects. Samuel Johnson was a friend and acquaintance of the author. . 3rd.

Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwaite, 1850. Very good, with some mild general browning. Decorative border. Elaborate list of steam boat routes, and other details. Fully hand-colored. Detailed inset of "Charleston" w/city plan. Detailed local Charleston references incl. banks, hospital, jail, etc. 29x36cm. The above date is approximate for this well-known map..

New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1918. Very good condition, complete 3 vol. set on Berkshire linen (limited to 600 copies), deckle edges. Early owner's bookplates on front pastedown, and some indication that this set had come from the library of the late Alistaire Cook. Original endpapers present. Numerous illustrations, including the folding maps in vols. 1 and 3 (this one is a copy of Colton's 1848 map of Long Island), with sound bindings and original spine labels, minimally scratched, with some scuffing of boards. All vols. 9 inch quartos, top edges gilt, with frontispiece buts of Thompson in vol. 1 (original tissue guard present). Vol I: xlix, 538; Vol. 2: 649: Vol. 3 677 (includes complete index to all 3 vols.). This was considered the 'best' edition. Howes T187. This third edition was the one recently reproduced in CD format. The set was limited to 750 copies, 600 in our format, and another 150 on French handmade paper and issued in 4 vols.. 3rd. Cloth. Very Good.

New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1918. Very good condition, complete 3 vol. set on Berkshire linen (limited to 600 copies), very little internal use with several pages uncut. Original endpapers present. Numerous illustrations, including the folding maps in vols. 1 and 3 (this one is a copy of Colton's 1848 map of Long Island), with sound bindings and original spine labels. All vols. 9 inch quartos, top edges gilt, with frontispiece buts of Thompson in vol. 1 (original tissue guard present). Vol I: xlix, 538; Vol. 2: 649: Vol. 3 677 (includes complete index to all 3 vols.). This was considered the 'best' edition. Howes T187. This third edition was the one recently reproduced in CD format. The set was limited to 750 copies, 600 in our format, and another 150 on French handmade paper and issued in 4 vols.. 3rd. Cloth. Very Good.