MAPS/ATLASES, NATURAL HISTORY, HISTORICAL PRINTS
Catalogue Information: 267 lots | 70 with images | View lots
Date: 11 June 2009
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Viewing Notes:
Exhibition & Sale Schedule: Sale 2183 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History, Historical Prints & Ephemera - begins at 1:30pm in New York on Thurs, June 11. All material in Sale 2183 on display at our premises in New York City, 104 East 25th Street, as follows - Sat, June 6: 10am to 4pm - Mon, June 8: 10am to 6pm - Tues, June 9: 10am to 6pm - Wed, June 10: 10am to 6pm - Thurs, June 11: 10am to Noon.
Lot 1: (ALASKA.) Report of the Behring Sea Commission, and Report of British Commissioners.
(ALASKA.) Report of the Behring Sea Commission, and Report of British Commissioners. 4 folding colored maps, 2 charts. Folio, removable modern wrappers; new page numbers added in manuscript. London, 1893
Lot 2: ARROWSMITH, AARON. Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Noti Descriptio. A Comparative Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography.
ARROWSMITH, AARON. Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Noti Descriptio. A Comparative Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography. Engraved title and preliminaries, 53 maps; hand-colored in outline. 4to, publisher's 1/2 roan, needs rebinding; scattered soiling and s [...more]
Lot 3: BONNE, RIGOBERT. Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur toutes les parties du Globe Terrestre.
BONNE, RIGOBERT. Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur toutes les parties du Globe Terrestre. Engraved titles and "Avertissement" leaves, engraved plate of armillary spheres; 76 engraved mapsheets, each hand-colored in outline [complete]. 2 parts [...more]
Lot 4: BUCHON, JEAN ALEXANDRE. Atlas Géographique, Statistique, Historique et Chronologique des Deux Amériques et des Îles Adjacentes.
BUCHON, JEAN ALEXANDRE. Atlas Géographique, Statistique, Historique et Chronologique des Deux Amériques et des Îles Adjacentes. 51 hand-colored double-page engraved maps, 2 engraved double-page charts, 10 double-page letterpress tables. Folio, contem [...more]
Lot 5: BURRITT, ELIJAH H. The Geography of the Heavens . . . New and Revised Edition * Atlas designed to Illustrate Burritt's Geography of th
BURRITT, ELIJAH H. The Geography of the Heavens . . . New and Revised Edition * Atlas designed to Illustrate Burritt's Geography of the Heavens . . . Revised and Corrected. Together, 2 volumes. Text volume with numerous illustrations; Atlas volume wi [...more]
