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Berlin: Schoneberg. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Trade PB.

Washingtion, D.C: National Geographic, 1964. exact source unknown, a colored map, 18.5" x 24", as shown in the image. Quite lovely.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Colored Map. 18.5" x 24".

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

map. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Roycroft, 1658. hardcover. Title page printed in red and black. xxiv, 266pp., [6]pp. index. Short 4to, bound in old mottled calf with leather spine label (hinges and joints repaired; fairly heavy foxing on the first 6 pages, otherwise leaves are uniformly toned; one hole at bottom of p. 205 with slight loss of text). London: Tho. Roycroft, 1658<br/><br/> Wing B6185.<br/><br/>

Amsterdam: Printed for J. Covens and C. Mortier, [c. 1740]. Hand-colored copperplate engraving, 19.875" x 18.75" plus margins. CONDITION: Very good, bit of separation at fold just slightly into image at bottom; a fine, dark impression, with pleasing outline color. This is the Dutch edition (title in French, the rest of the map in English) of the index map for Henry Popple's monumental 20-sheet map of North America, the first large scale British map of the American Colonies, and the first English map to name all thirteen. The map extends from lower Canada to northern South America, and from the eastern seaboard as far west as the Mississippi and its western tributaries. Inset views of Niagara Falls (after Father Louis Hennepin, 1698), Mexico City, Quebec (after J.B.L. Franquelin, 1688) and New York City (after William Burgis, 1720) appear in the upper left and right hand corners respectively. On the right is a series of eighteen inset maps depicting Boston, New York, Charlestown, Bermuda, St.… Read More

London: Sold by the Proprietors S[amuel] Harding on the Pavement in St. Martins Lane, and W[illiam] H[enry] Toms, Engraver in Union Court near Hatton Garden Holborn, 1734. Folio. (21 x 15 inches). Engraved folding key map in Babinski State 4, showing the track line of Spanish Galleons. Large engraved wall map on 15 double-page and 5 full-page map sheets, numbered in plate and in contemporary ink manuscript, in Babinski State 7, with Harding and Toms's imprint on map sheet 17, on laid paper with Strasbourg Lily watermarks. Ink manuscript sheet key opposite key map, which also carries ink manuscript configuration guidance. Finely bound to style in period diced quarter calf with tips on marbled paper boards, six raised bands forming seven gilt-ruled compartments with gilt-titling in second. A bound example of the largest eighteenth-century wall map of the Thirteen Colonies, and the first to name all thirteen. Popple's was the first detailed map of British, French, and Spanish colonial possessions in… Read More

London: Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms, 1733 [but ca. 1735].. Engraved map by William Henry Toms on fifteen double-page and five single-page sheets, mounted on guards throughout, with the double- page key map by Toms, and the contents leaf tipped in as a fold-out from the rear free endpaper. Folio. Original half calf and marbled paper boards, raised bands. Boards with moderate wear and rubbing, loss to marbled paper in a few places, joints starting to separate but still strong, spine ends chipped. Bookplate and pencil notes on front pastedown (see below), light rumpling to endpapers. Minor worming at lower margin near gutter on the first few leaves (no text affected), one instance of slight staining, but overall very clean internally. Near fine. The Thomas W. Streeter copy of the first large-scale map of North America, and the first printed map to show the thirteen colonies, in original boards, complete with the separate key map and the contents leaf. Henry Popple produced this map under the… Read More