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

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1917. Very good lithographic color, folds as issued, with virtually no fold separations. Original paper lettered wraps intact, with rear cover trimmed a bit at outer edge. Inset: General War Map, lower left corner. Very detailed, with coded city/town locations verso for Belgium, Luxemburg and France. The image measures 20.5 x 30.5 inches (52 x 78 cm), with elaborate road and waterway detail. Folds into paper covers measuring 6 x 4 inches. This was one of a series of "Five Great Military Maps of the Western Front in Europe," with this map being no. 2 of the series (list inside front cover). The date is approximate. (No. 2) appears at top of front cover title. Cover also indicates: "Presented in Minute Detail with Cities, Towns and Villages, Forts and Fortified Places, Railroads and Highways, Rivers and Canals, the Forests, and the Physical and Political Features of the Regions" and "Compiled from the Latest Military Maps of the Army Staffs in… Read More

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1917. Very good lithographic color, folds as issued, with virtually no fold separations (vertical cut extending approximately 7 inches lower map, without image loss, repaired verso with archival paper tape). Original paper lettered wraps intact. Inset: General War Map, lower left corner. Very detailed, with coded city/town locations verso for France and a small portion of Germany. The image measures 30.5 x 20.5 inches (78 x 52 cm), with elaborate road and waterway detail. Folds into paper covers measuring 6 x 4 inches. This was one of a series of "Four Great Military Maps of the Western Front in Europe," with this map being no. 3 of the series (list inside front cover). The date is approximate. (No. 3) appears at top of front cover title. Cover also indicates: "Presented in Minute Detail with Cities, Towns and Villages, Forts and Fortified Places, Railroads and Highways, Rivers and Canals, the Forests, and the Physical and Political Features of the… Read More

1855. VG, with one or two early, small separations at crease junctions. Minimal browning. This was done by Warren and Abbot while Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War. Includes profile sketches of almost all western waterway profiles (Puget Sound, Columbia river, Great Salt Lake, North Fork of Platte River, Gulf of California and others). This was done to accompany Goveurneur Warren's maps. This large b&w image (folds as issued) measures 20x45 inches..

The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 1905. VG, HB, no DJ (as issued), 471pp including index, with 6 b&w folding maps in rear (From the Rapidan to the James, The Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, The North Anna, The Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor). All the maps are in excellent conditon (there are a few minor marginal tears, none crossing neatlines of map). This book contains 16 separate essays read before the society between 1887 and 1899. The cover is a bit bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at ends of spine, but the binding is tigh t..

Paris: apud autorem and Aut. Boudet, 1752. Very good, early hand color, wide margins on laid paper. This is a rather decorative double hemisphere (eastern and western) image.Two watermarks visible verso. Two cartouches upper (title) and lower (notes) central map. The date on the map is 1752, but this is from an "Atlas Universel..." ca. 1757. An image of the map appears in the online David Rumsey Map Collection. Each hemisphere is 35 cm (13.75 inches) in diameter, on a sheet measuring 53 x 83 cm (21 x 32 5 inches), including margins. (Ref: Pedley. Belle et utile, p. 135, no.13.). Map.

Hammond Inc., Maplewood (NJ), 1960. HB vg, blue leather, 4vo, 352pp, no DJ. Very nice copy of this well-known atlas..

Paris: Garnier Freres, 1880. Very good, hand colored outlines, later Malte-Brun map from "Atlas de Geographie Universelle...". The above date is approximate. The attractive double plate image measures 12x16.5 inches..

Paris: Chez le Sr. Fortin , 1780. VG+, minimal edge browning and foxing. Nicely hand colored outlines, heavy paper, double hemisphere, peninsular California. This is plate 1 from a 1778 edition (later issue; clearly marked on title page, even though map itself lists 1780 in cartouche) of the family's "Nouvel Atlas Portatif" (see Pedley's "Bel et Utile" re: historical details for this prominent mapmaking family). The image measures 10.5x16.5 inches..

Williams & Norgate, London & Edingurgh, 1891. Fine printed color. Several insets at various times. Color coded w/racial info. All of Africa labelled "Aethiopia". From the 12th edition of "Atlas Antiquus. Twelve Maps of the Ancient World for Schools and Colleges". The German editions were public hed by Dietrich Reimer in Berlin. 32x41.5cm..

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 1874. VG, b&w heliographic copy of Ortelius' "Typvs Orbis Terrarvm." This is from Vivien's scarce "Atlas Dresse Pour L'Histoire de la Geographie et Decouvertes Geographiques...". A nice, double-folio image measuring 14x18 inches. .

Chicago: J. V. Farwell Co., 1891. VG w/some marginal browning. Full printed color. 2 separate sheets, w/population density grid diagrams for Great Britain and Asia (on eastern sheet); Europe/America, USA (western sheet). Each image 30x24cm..

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original printed two-toned coloring with isolinear summaries of tides around the world (after Whewell) This is plate 15 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.25x11 inches (21x28cm)..

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 1874. VG, with two-toned printed color and modest topographic detail. A nice image, with both eastern and western hemispheres, hand colored outlines (partial). There are 3 insets: two of which pertain to views by Martin Behaim in 1492, and a third from Toscanelli in 1474 This is from Vivien's scarce "Atlas Dresse Pour L'Histoire de la Geographie et Decouvertes Geographiques...". A very nice, double-folio image measuring 14x18 inches. .

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original printed two-toned coloring with 4 plates on a single sheet. Several appear to be variations on the T-O maps, ranging from 900-20 BCE. The dominant plate, attributed to Eratosthenes (but dated well after the Greek astronomer's death) and Strabo (more prominent intellectually with his contemporaries, and temporally closer to the date applicable to the image) is coded into temperature zones. Eratoshtenes used his mathematical background to calculate various details pertaining to geographical distance. ( Both men, including Strabo's criticism of Eratosthenes, are discussed in Thrower's MAPS AND CIVILIZATION). This is a very unusual and interesting set of images. This is plate 38 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.25x11 inches (21x28cm)..

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 1874. VG, with simple printed two-tone color depicting various famous maps during the middle ages. This is a 2 map set, each double-folio. Copies of map images of Peutinger, Strutt, Sanuto, Ranulphus, Mordtmann, Mauro and others are shown. A very unusual display. This is from Vivien's scarce "Atlas Dresse Pour L'Histoire de la Geographie et Decouvertes Geographiques...". A nice, interesting double-folio pair of images each measuring 14x18 inches. .

Paris: Chez le Sr. Fortin , 1778. VG+, minimal edge browning and foxing. Folds as issued. Color coded by religious distribution. Nicely hand colored outlines, heavy paper, double hemisphere, peninsular California. This is plate 2 from a 1778 edition (later issue) of the family's "Nouvel Atlas Portatif" (see Pedley's "Bel et Utile" re: historical details for this prominent mapmaking family). The image measures 9.5x15.5 inches..

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original hand coloring with multiple, striking images of continental interrelationships. This is plate 5 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.5x117.5 inches (21.5x30cm)..

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 1874. VG, with tw-toned printed color and a good bit of topographic detail. The Mongol Empire is noted, along with the period routes of Marco Polo and other explorers. South Africa is cut off, as expected for the times. This is from Vivien's scarce "Atlas Dresse Pour L'Histoire de la Geographie et Decouvertes Geographiques...". A very nice, double-folio image measuring 14x18 inches. .

Dordrecht: Keur, 1748. Very good double hemisphere world map from a Keur bible, b&w as issued. The engraver/designer for this map was J. v. Jagen (sculps. et dir.; engraved on lower central edge of plate just inside neatline). Folds as issued. Two smaller spheres upper (Polus Arcticus) and lower (Polus Antarcticus) center. The majority of place names and verso text are in Dtuch. The decorative allegorical surrounds are quite nice. The map image measures 30 x 45 cm, with the diameter of each hemisphere measuring 22 cm. The Keur family were active bible publishers from the mid 17th to mid 18th centuries. This particular map corresponds to variant K III, entry 137, p. 205 in Poortman and Augusteijn's "Kaarten in Bijbels..." The map date is approximate. There is no recto title banner for this issue.. Very Good. Map.

Paris: Hotel De Thou, Rue Des Poitevins, 1787. VG+, b&w as issued, copperplate on heavy paper. A very nice image from "Atlas Encyclopedique...", done by Bonne and Desmarest and published in two volumes in 1787-88. These maps are a bit larger than those from the 1780 Bonne atlas. An attractive southern hemispheric view with Africa, a shell of Australia, and south America and southern Africa (plate 23), measures 9.5x13.5 (24x34cm)..