Search Results: Titles starting with P from Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB

Published by Baldwin & Cradock, 1839. 15" x 12"- -38.1 x 30.4 cm. . Outline colour. Margins chipped else very good A detailed map Punjabi regionds, and the border along Afghanistan.

A very good map of the St. Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to Quebec City with two inset maps-one of the city of Montreal showing various public buildings, the other showing Montreal island. General Amherst led an attack on Montreal in 1760 leading to its fall. This French Indian War map is significant as it was published only one month after the fall of Montreal.Jolly Gent-145 Kershaw I#1094

From "Nuovo Atlante DI Geografia Universale..." published in Milan by Batelli & Fanfani [c. 1821] . 7" x 8-1/4"-17.7 x 20.9 cm. Hand-coloured in outline nice wide margins, a very good impression. A detailed map of the Middle East including Armenia, Khorasan, Candahar, Kerman, Khohistan, Segistan the Caspian Sea and the Perisan Gulf.

London, [c. 1920's]. . Diam. 12"-30.4 cm. Printed blue and white spherical device with printed leather sliding onlay, Light rubbing, gilt lettering worn, o/w very good. An interesting chart of the constellations.

London: : Gentleman's Magazine,, 1757. 12" x 11-1/2"- 30.4 x 29.2 cm. Copper engraved map. A few creases and one closed tear to left margin otherwise fine. The map is after Phillipe Buache's north polar projection. Buache, who worked for his father in law De l'Isle, theorized that the mountain ranges of the world continued as chains under the oceans. 

From "Histoire Generale des Voyages": Paris, , 1752. 9-1/2" x 9-1/2"- 24.1 x 24.1 cm. Copper engraved map. Offsetting, else very good. A plan of the city of Jedo (Tokyo) including the Emperor's Palace. Two temples adorn the upper right and lower left corners.

1754.. Offsetting, crease to lower left corner, otherwise very good.. 8-1/4" x 6"- 20.9 x 15.2 cm.. From "Histoire Generale des Voyages". Paris, Copper engraved map. A plan of Vera- Cruz with legend showing the main church, the Governor's house, several roads,and Jesuit quarters. etc. Map, Mexico, Vera Cruz

Paris: Published in "Voyage en Italie, 1786. Copperplate engraving with hand colouring. Very Good a nice bright example. 9-1/2" x 14-1/4"-24.13 x 36.1 cm.. A detailed city plan of the city of Florence with 79 key points including churches, public buildings, piazzas, roads and gardens. Lalande travelled extensively within Italy during 1765-66 and his travels were recorded into 8 volumes.

From "Histoire Generale des Voyages": Paris, , 1754. 8-1/4" x 6"- 20.9 x 15.2 cm. Copper engraved map hand coloured in outline. Offsetting, crease to lower left corner, otherwise very good. A plan of Vera-Cruz with legend showing the main church, the Governor's house, several roads,and Jesuit quarters. etc. According to legend the Island off of Vera Cruz "Isle de Sacrifices" was so named because it was where the Spaniards first witnessed human sacrifices.

Published in Peter Pallas' "Voyage à travers l'Empire Russe", , 1788. 7-1/2" x 101/4"- 19 x 26 cm. . Copper engraved map. Light crease lower right corner & lower margin ragged (not visible when matted), else very good. Peter Simon Pallas was a zoologist who at the invitation of Catherine II went to teach at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. While in Russia he travelled to Siberia to collect natural history specimens. The map shows the fortress at Sol-Iletsk along with waterways and salt flats.

From "Histoire Generale des Voyages": Paris, , 1754. 7-3/4" x 6-1/2"- 19.6 x 16.5 cm. Copper engraved map hand coloured in outline. Slight offsetting, right margin trimmed close, otherwise very good. A plan of Acapulco with legend showing the fort, the Governor's house, several roads etc.

From "Histoire Generale des Voyages": Paris, , 1754. 7-3/4" x 6-1/2"- 19.6 x 16.5 cm. Copper engraved map hand coloured in outline. Slight offsetting, marginal stains, otherwise very good. A plan of Port Royal on the Bay of Campeche in the Yucatan peninusula.

From "Histoire Generale des Voyages": Paris, , 1754. 7-3/4" x 6-1/2"- 19.6 x 16.5 cm. Copper engraved map. Slight offsetting, rmarginal stains, otherwise very good. A plan of Port Royal on the Bay of Campeche.

From "Histoire Generale des Voyages": Paris, , 1752. 7-1/2" x 13"- 19 x 33 cm. Copper engraved map hand coloured in outline. Offsetting, small closed tear extending just into neatline below cartouche, else very good. A detailed plan of the city of Nangaski (Nagasaki) including the Emperor's Palace, Governor's houses, temples, the house of the Port inspector and the Chinese quarter. The port indicates an area where Dutch ships were docked.

From "Histoire Generale des Voyages": Paris, , 1752. 7-1/2" x 13"- 19 x 33 cm. Copper engraved map. Offsetting, else very good. A detailed plan of the city of Nangaski (Nagasaki) including the Emperor's Palace, Governor's houses, temples, the house of the Port inspector and the Chinese quarter. The port indicates an area where Dutch ships were docked.

London: , J. Stockdale, . 1800. 6" x 9"- 15.2 x 22.8 cm. Copper engraved map.

A detailed map of the soundings of Awatska Bay on the east coast of the Russian peninsula of Kamtschatka. Inset plan of St. Peter's and St. Paul's Harbour as surveyed by Captain William Bligh.

1760.. Light browning, right margin trimmed close else very good.. 6-3/4"x 4" x - 17.1 x 10.1 cm. . London: London Magazine, A hand coloured copper engraved map. Jolly LOND-184 A map of the port of Stralsund on the Baltic Sea. The port of Stralsund held by the Swedish beseiged by the Danes, Saxons and Prussians during the Great Northern War of 1715. The Isle of Rugen was taken and soon after the Swedes retreated. Map, Germany, Great Northern War, Swedish, London Magazine

London: , 1749.. Upper margin trimmed close otherwise very good.. 7-1/2” x 9-1/2”- 19 x 24.1 cm.. Jolly GENT-64. A detailed map of London from St. James’s Park to Stepney. Twenty Three forts are shown along the London wall intended to keep back the troops of Charles I.

c. 1736. Light vertical crease o/w a very good dark impression with wide margins. . 7-3/4" x 10-1/2"- 19.6 x 26.6 cm.. From "Atlas minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps....” Copper engraved map hand coloured in outline. See Cumming. Southeast in early maps, 200 A detailed map of Port Royal in South Carolina showing the soundings, Port Royal and St. Helena Islands, and two proposed forts-one off of Elizabeth Point and one on St. Helena Island. America, South Carolina