Aerial Photographic Mosaic: Washington D.C. by School of Aerial Photographic Reconnaissance Staff - 1918

Amsterdam: Widow of Visscher, 1710. Single sheet copper engraved map, hand-colored. Margins trimmed but still quite ample, some small marginal stains, a handsome copy.. 515 x 595 mm. Strong image of the southern half of South America. Two insets: Carte particuliere de Detroit de Magellan and Circulus Antarcticus. Includes routes of the 18th c. explorers. Rodrigues 2556. Medina: Mapoteca Chilena, p.31, 10a (1740 ed).

Philadelphia: J. L. Smith, 1894. Fine condition. SEE PHOTOS. A very attractive, well preserved copy of this detailed two-part map of Philadelphia and vicinity, published in 1894 (copyright 1893). Tough-to-find in collectible condition as nice as this. A bright, clean copy. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. Clean and unmarked. Drawn on a scale of 1 inch to the mile. The map consists of two parts. The eastern half unfolds to 23" wide by 27" tall. The western part is 21.5" wide by 27" tall. Both are skillfully and attractively hand colored. The maps are backed in linen, as issued. They are housed in the publisher's original, green cloth portfolio, which is printed in black and embossed in gold on the front cover and in blind on the rear. Gilt lettering is still as bright and shiny as new.. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Fine condition.

Double-page hand colored engraved map, 350 x 445 mm (18" x 14", decorative cartouche. Coloring likely done at a later date, but attractively applied, wide margins, very minor aging; a bright and clear impression. Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726) was a French cartographer who was considered one of the best of his age. He has even been referred to as the father of modern geography, and was appointed Premier Geographer to Louis XV in 1718. According to Tooley and Bricker his 1700 map of Africa added a level of accuracy that would hold value for decades to come. This map of Africa is map number 84 in Norwich's Maps of Africa. The coloring was probably done at a later date, but there is an attractive cartouche with several figures, including a man spearing a crocodile. The map is from an Italian edition of Delisle’s Atlante Novissimo. Tooley & Bricker: Landmarks of Mapmaking. Norwich # 84.

Copper engraved, double page, map, hand colored, cartouche uncolored, 49 x 59 cm (19 1/2" x 23"). Some minor soiling and aging; otherwise very good and quite colorful. Valk (1651-1726) was born in Amsterdam, and was also known as Valck. He was a fairly well known engraver and publisher, and would eventually go into partnership with Peter Schenk (1655-1718), and would produce an atlas and maps together. In fact, it seems they brought the property of the Blaeu firm, which gave them material for their maps. This is a very attractive map of Britain, and includes an inset of Orkney, Shetland and Faro islands. The map also contains a large cartouche that depicts angels and Poseidon. Bagrow p. 276.

London & Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co The Imperial Map of England and Wales according to the Ordnance Survey, with the latest additions shewing clearly every feature of the country, Railways and their Stations, Roads, Canals, Rivers, Gentlemens Seats etc. on the scale of 4 miles to an inch by John Bartholomew. 19 linen backed sheets numbered 1-15 plus 16 A,B and C. together with a folded index sheet. Flat sheet size, 550x750mm, folded size 275x185mm. All the maps in first class condition with no distress to folds. The folds to the paper index sheet have at some time been rather crudely stregthened. The whole enclosed in the original leathered covered box with an envelope style lid.

Augsburg: Seutter, 1740. VG+, copperplate engraving with original hand coloring (color similar to Homann, with whom Seutter apprenticed before going out on his own in about 1707). There is minimal right marginal soling, but the image and color are exceptionally bright. Decorative cartouche, as usual, probably an allegorical representation of imperial Russia. The map measures 19.25x22.5 inches. .

Paris, Librairie Larousse, (1915-19).. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. 41 issues bound in one volume. Thick royal quarto. Unpaginated. With hundreds of letterpress maps, many of which are in colour, printed on recto only on 246 leaves of plates. Some photo-plates. Explanatory text to each map. Introductions. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary quarter cloth, bit rubbed and scuffed in places, paper-covered boards, cloth inner hinges, spine gilt. All 41 original yellow card wrappers, printed in red, are preserved and bound-in, few with old institutional stamp; expert paper repair to one leaf with minor loss. In about fine condition. Excellent copy, very well preserved. ~ FIRST EDITION. Very rare. F-3

Zurich: Orell, F�ssli et Comp., 1825 approx). Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplate engravings (100) of Swiss views and domestic scenes by Hess, Hegui, K�nig, Lory, Meyer, Wetzel and others.. Oblong octavo green morocco elaborately gilt on 4 raised bands (lacks lowest spine compartment, tips & hinges worn but sound) All Edges Gilt. Titlepage +[3]pp publisher's list +[4]pp contents + 100 plate leaves printed one side only. Clean and crisp - lovely views with a few genre scenes - wedding, peasants defending land against invaders in 1798, making cheese etc. Minor foxing almost entirely to the margins or blank back of plates, small wormhole at foot of 3 leaves. *A charming work containing views by various artists here collected together for the first time (Lonchamp 3199).

London: Christopher Brown, 1723. Fourth edition. Original Papered board covers.Front cover detached (present). Back attached.. Light discolour all prelims,initials front pastedown, ffep. Few maps minor defects,Condition Good.. Title, Preface, Advert.,Table of Maps, Twenty-nine uncoloured, copper engraved maps laid down hand made paper. (Complete as called for title page) Overalll clean, minor faults (edges, marks, folds, couple with edge tide marks, etc) Above average. Maps: World (folding - includes part of northern Australia)), Trojan War, Ulysses, Voyage of Aeneas (2), 3 world maps single page, Roman Empire (infancy, Youthful, maturity, Julius Caesar) Hannibal, Gallia Vetus (incl part of GB), Baetica, Africa, Europe/Asia/Africa, Ancient Greece, Mediterranean (Lybia), Egypt, Pyrrhus, Demetrius, Sparta, Defeat 10,000 Greeks, Syria/Assyria, Scriptual Geography, Ecclesiastical History, Cyrus the Great, Persia, Alexander. Rare cartographic publication. National Library Australia lists similar item by… Read More

[Boca Raton, Florida]:: Jaffe Center for the Book Arts,, 2015.. Edition of 10 variants. 7.25 x 3.5"; 12 pages. Flutter book. Letterpress printed. Colophon with a map of Florida laser-printed. Cover and pages incorporate letterpress printing on a Vandercook 4 proof press using wood type, metal and collagraph plates. Blind printing of an area map. Printed on Arches 88 paper. Plant inclusion endpapers. Laid in handmade paper wrapper with slit-and-slot closure. Signed and numbered by the artists. Statement: "During Stephanie Wolff's residency at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, she and Dorothy Krause, the first resident artist, collaborated on this brief ode to Florida. A variety of Pigment prints of vintage documents, maps, photographs and botanicals were transferred onto the pages of this edition of 10 variable copies.