Atlases: Historical from The Owl at the Bridge

Includes A Collection of Globes (lots 400-445); a Celestial Atlas; Scientific Instruments (lots 447455; Houdon's L'écorché in bronze; Books & Manuscripts (lots 457-485); Aviation (lots 486-511); Space History (lots 512-592); Technology (lots593-658)recorders, cipher machines, computers, robots). 258 lots, index; color illustrations; glossy paper covers; fine. Stock#ofc0493.

series: University of Washington Publications in Language and Literature. Volume 9, November 1935. Reprinted 1964? by Maurice Martino in an edition of 350 copies. Chapter headings: (vol. 1) Collections, Circumnavigations, General Travels and Descriptions, Continental Europe, West Europe, North Europe, East Europe, Near East, Central Asia, East Indies, Far East, Siberia, Africa; (vol. 2) Northwest Passage, Northeast… Read more about this item

A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier [1667] / facsimile Ithaca, NY, Historic Urban Plans, 1966. Printed facsimile map; 58 x 80 cm. Orientation: east at top. The Eternal City of the late Renaissance is fully portrayed on this large, highly decorative and beautifully detailed plan showing the city at the death of Pope Alexander VII.  The reproduction… Read more about this item

Yale UP [Third printing, December 1965]. Hard Cover. xii, [1] p., V facsimile plates, 291 p., indexes, maps & charts (some folding); 30 cm. Contents include The Manuscript: History and Description, by Thomas E. Marston; Facsimiles of the Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation; The Tartar Relation Edited, with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, by George D. Painter; The… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires, Dirección de Ferro Carriles Nacionales, 1892. Color topographical printed map in four parts of eighteen sections each, backed with linen. Scale: 1: 1,000,000. The map encompasses approximately 41° South latitude to approx. 20° S. latitude, and approx. 53° West longitude to a little beyond 73° W. latitude. This includes Chile along its entire western border,… Read more about this item

Firenze, 1755; facsimile reprint Ithaca, N.Y., Historic Urban Plans, 1969. Printed facsimile map; 51 x 68 cm. "This is number 247 [and 248] of an edition limited to 500 copies" showing Florence in 1755. Black & white cover-stock paper; new from publisher. Stock#Flat0022x/h.

Washington, DC, G.P.O., 1909-1920; reprint Martino 1995. "...important catalog of an outstanding collection which includes many rare and early atlases" (Sheehy CL 286). Most individual maps contained in the atlases are enumerated and named; well over one hundred thousand individual maps are listed. Complete collations accompany valuable notes and annotations. Volumes 5-9 of this work have been completed by Clara… Read more about this item

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press for Newberry Library, 1971. Hard Cover. xvii, 185, [4] p., illus., facsimiles, maps; 28 cm. Series: Studies in the History of Discoveries. The conference was held in 1966, the year after the controversial publication of the book on the map. It took 5 years to get money to publish these papers. The… Read more about this item

Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1997, c1996. Hard Cover. 216 pages, 23 plates (some folding), many illus. (chiefly color); 32 cm. Translated into English by Hann Heck and Luciano F. Farina. Volume XII of Nuova Raccolta Colombiana (English). Translation of: La tradizione cartografica genovese e Cristoforo Colombo. At head of title: Ministry of Cultural… Read more about this item

Providence, Brown University Press, 1975. Hard Cover. xx, 235 p.; 26.5 cm. All forty-eight Blathwayt maps, which form what has been called the first atlas of the British Empire, are discussed in the Commentary. Assembled by English colonial administrators, for whom they were working tools, these maps show the area of English overseas colonial and commercial interest, especially in… Read more about this item

London, Dent / NY, Dutton; Everyman's Library. Hard Cover. xiv, 231 p., index, Gazetteer, color maps. Includes G. C. Brooke, A Brief Survey of the Coinage of North and South America, pp. 99-114 with 8 plates; Maps and Plans of Notable Battles and Districts connected with Famous Authors and their Books, pp. 117-135. Red cloth; good+. Stock#24783.