Cercles de Longitude, from Description de L'Univers by [Mallet, Allain Mannesson] - 1685

Havana: Insituto Cubano del Libro, 1971. Very Good. Havana: Insituto Cubano del Libro, 1971. With author's ( Furrazola-Bermudez, Gustavo) signature of FFP. Complete with 10 inserts including the 1:3000000 geological map of the area dated 1965. Very clean 288 yellowing pages in decorated hardboard binding. Format 22 cm. high X 28 cm. width. For more details and photos consult bookseller.. Very Good.

London: W.Peacock, 1795. Hardcover. Good. Hand colored in outline Folding Maps (12 + frontis) by Russell. Duodecimo red roan gilt (spine quite chipped down at head/foot & heavily rubbed/tips worn) All Edges Gilt xxii+404pp +(4p index) 2 leaves nearly loose but clean and square. Nice 19th century inscription on FEP. All folding maps crisp and untorn with outline coloring. Maps: Chart of the world - East Indies - Spain and Portugal - France - Italy - Netherlands - United Provinces - German Empire and Switzerland - Prussia and Poland - Dominions of Russia - Sweden, Denmark and Norway - Great Britain and Ireland - States of America.

London: E.and F.N. Spon, 1874. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 2339 Folio. With charts and tables, all as called for. In original black cloth-covered boards, blind stamped, gilt titles. An account of the surveying of three of the largest rivers in the world, undertaken under considerable pressure of time, to enable proposed engineering works. The work included development of an improved current meter, based on one that was just being offered to market as the expedition was being planned. Of the device offered to him, which had been simplified from a sound design in order to make it "easier" to use, the author wrote "all these attempts at making things very easy is a mistake, for they tend to make things very useless" - a sentiment which is likely to ring true for many of us today. Condition notes: Boards bumped and rubbed, title page just starting to pull away from its binding, and some foxing to the prelims. Apart from the early foxing, the pages are clean and… Read More

Philadelphia: Elvino V. Smith. Good+. 1912. Hardcover. A very large folding map (56" x 43") mounted in a light blue, lightly faded, hardcover cloth folder with gilt lettering on front. Map in nice condition except for a few tears along the folds. Folder has paper tears along interior hinges. Condition--Folder: G+, Map: VG. Pennsylvania ; Fold out Map; Thin 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Philadelphia: J. L. Smith. Very Good+. 1898. Hardcover. One large map Issued in two separate sheets; each 23" x 27 1/2". The folding maps are backed on linen. The maps are mounted in a green cloth hardcover folder with bright glit title on front. Pennsylvania; Thin 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Havana: Insituto Cubano del Libro, 1971. Very Good. Havana: Insituto Cubano del Libro, 1971. With author's ( Furrazola-Bermudez, Gustavo) signature of FFP. Complete with 10 inserts including the 1:3000000 geological map of the area dated 1965. Very clean 288 yellowing pages in decorated hardboard binding. Format 22 cm. high X 28 cm. width. For more details and photos consult bookseller.. Very Good.

London: W.Peacock, 1795. Hardcover. Good. Hand colored in outline Folding Maps (12 + frontis) by Russell. Duodecimo red roan gilt (spine quite chipped down at head/foot & heavily rubbed/tips worn) All Edges Gilt xxii+404pp +(4p index) 2 leaves nearly loose but clean and square. Nice 19th century inscription on FEP. All folding maps crisp and untorn with outline coloring. Maps: Chart of the world - East Indies - Spain and Portugal - France - Italy - Netherlands - United Provinces - German Empire and Switzerland - Prussia and Poland - Dominions of Russia - Sweden, Denmark and Norway - Great Britain and Ireland - States of America.

London: E.and F.N. Spon, 1874. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 2339 Folio. With charts and tables, all as called for. In original black cloth-covered boards, blind stamped, gilt titles. An account of the surveying of three of the largest rivers in the world, undertaken under considerable pressure of time, to enable proposed engineering works. The work included development of an improved current meter, based on one that was just being offered to market as the expedition was being planned. Of the device offered to him, which had been simplified from a sound design in order to make it "easier" to use, the author wrote "all these attempts at making things very easy is a mistake, for they tend to make things very useless" - a sentiment which is likely to ring true for many of us today. Condition notes: Boards bumped and rubbed, title page just starting to pull away from its binding, and some foxing to the prelims. Apart from the early foxing, the pages are clean and… Read More

Philadelphia: Elvino V. Smith. Good+. 1912. Hardcover. A very large folding map (56" x 43") mounted in a light blue, lightly faded, hardcover cloth folder with gilt lettering on front. Map in nice condition except for a few tears along the folds. Folder has paper tears along interior hinges. Condition--Folder: G+, Map: VG. Pennsylvania ; Fold out Map; Thin 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Philadelphia: J. L. Smith. Very Good+. 1898. Hardcover. One large map Issued in two separate sheets; each 23" x 27 1/2". The folding maps are backed on linen. The maps are mounted in a green cloth hardcover folder with bright glit title on front. Pennsylvania; Thin 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .