Maps and Atlases

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

[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

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

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.

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

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

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).

1555. Romae, (Colophon: Apud Ioannem Mariam de Viottis Parmensem, in aedibus Birgitttae), 1555. Folio. Bound to style in later (around 1950) full vellum with 4 raised bands to spine. Endpapers renewed. Old owners name on foot of titlepage. 42 unnumb. leaves + 815 pp. (p. 815 is the full page woodengraved printers device, verso blank). With 472 fine woodcuts in the text, the greatest part measuring 59x93 mm, a few half-page and some 1/3-page, among these the full-page map over Scandinavia (the smaller sized "Carta Marina"). Only few scattered brownspots, probably lightly washed by the rebinding. From ab. p. 500 the upper margins have some faint dampspots, which on ab. 25 leaves has left some small loss of paper, and on a few places the loss of a letter in the caption title, but everywhere professionally repaired with paperpulp where needed. First edition of Magnus' great work, which constitutes the first larger geographical-ethnographical description of Scandinavia and one of the most important… Read More

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

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

London: Printed for T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Birt, et al., 1744 - 1748. Second edition, considered by many to be the best. Revised from the 1705 first edition adding a number of new maps including one of Australia. Two folio volumes (approximately 10.5 x 16.5"). Bound in tan, full-leather boards with 5 raised spine bands and gilt-stamped black leather spine labels to upper compartments; title pages printed in red and black; text in double columns; frontis portraits ("Four Admirals") in vol. II; this copy lacking privilege leaf often found facing title page in vol. I. ILLUSTRATED WITH 61 ENGRAVED CHARTS, PLATES AND MAPS, INCLUDING 15 FOLDING MAPS. All of which have been collated using the list of engraved plates at rear of vol. II, revealing the occasional misplacement or reversal but showing all plates to be present and accounted for. Some staining to vol. I title page which is worn along the edges, list of plates at rear of vol. II somewhat soiled and stained and with touch of wear to edges;… Read More

London: Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward, et al., 1747. First edition. Two massive full-leather folio volumes with A TOTAL OF 68 MAPS AND 2 PLATES. Lacking only 1 map in first volume. VOLUME ONE -- includes 27 of the 28 maps called for with 9 folding maps; 2 double-plate maps; 16 single-plate maps; plus 2 single plates, "Solar System" and "Artificial Sphere" (lacking only "The World in Two Hemispheres"). VOLUME TWO -- complete with 41 maps as called for with 12 folding maps; 23 double-plate maps, and 6 single-plate maps. AN ENDLESSLY FASCINATING SET BOTH FOR THE MAPS AND THE ACCOMPANYING TEXT DESCRIBING PEOPLES AND PLACES AROUND THE GLOBE. In surprisingly nice condition overall with only the "Chart of the World" (double plate, volume 1) detached from its stub. Otherwise, despite the occasional chip, light stain or tear, this set is altogether near fine with most pages surprisingly fresh and  remarkably bright. Quite scarce to rare, especially so very nearly complete.

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

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.
The first edition in Italian was printed in… Read More

London : John Newton, 1st January 1817. Terrestrial pocket globe, 3 inches in diameter, engraved gores with original hand colour over papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the surface in fine order with a recent wax applied for protection, two metal pins resting the globe in the original publisher's shagreen case, titled Newton's improved pocket celestial globe, with engraved diagrams of the constellations, the lips coloured red, original metal hinge and two hook and eye clasps. A fine example of a rare pocket globe, sitting perfectly within its case. A rare and attractive miniature pocket globe showing Cook's third voyage. John Newton (1759-1844) was the founder of a firm of globe makers in London, established in the 1780s and continuing on, with the involvement of Newton's sons, throughout the nineteenth century. This small terrestrial globe in its original case shows the track of Cook's third voyage of 1776-80, with its return to England under the commands of Clerke and Gore. New Holland is shown… Read More