Walker's Tour through England and Wales. A New Pastime. by Walker (linen-backed map game) - 1809

Storrs-Mansfield, CT / Parsippany, New Jersey: Martino Fine Books / About Books, 1995. 6 separate volumes, complete [5 volumes bound in 6 books WITH LARGE FOLD-OUT MAPS -- just like the first edition]. SEE PHOTOS. Each of the 6 books in this 1995 large format edition measures 9.25" wide by 12.25" tall. [This is NOT the later, smaller format 3-volume reprint in which the maps are reduced in size]. Unlike later reduced-size editions, the maps in this 1995 six-volume edition measure as large as 21" by 33" when unfolded. SEE PHOTOS. As original co-publisher, we are pleased to offer the few remaining sets of the 1995 large-format 6-volume edition (recently rediscovered in our warehouse). They are BRAND NEW in perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP and the PUBLISHER'S CARDBOARD SHIPPING BOX. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously… Read More

1805 Surveying Method Topography COLOR Map Making Landscaping Construction Lecoy
Francois Lecoy's 'Simple and Easy Methods for Surveying' is a fine, early 19th-century treatise on the systems used in construction and map preparation. Lecoy discusses the means by which French surveyors level land through the means of linear trigonometry. This 1805 first edition is an exception example of early 19th-century landscaping and topography. Note that this book includes impressive, folding color engravings of topographical examples and surveying tools.
Item number: #11652
Price: $599
LECOY, François
Méthode simple et facile pour lever les plans, suivie d'un traité du nivellement, d'un abrégé des règles du lavis et des élémens de trigonométrie rectiligne
A Paris : Chez Duponcet ..., an XIII=1805. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o xxxii, 119, [1], 12
o 12 folding plates
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Provenance: Handwritten – Duponcet
o Signed by the publisher
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1861 RARE Gall Inglis ATLAS Geography China America Australia 31 COLOR MAPS

Gall and Inglis' "School Atlas of Modern Geography" is a civil war compilation of 31 royal quarto maps. This 1861 edition includes maps of Europe, England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, North America, South America, Switzerland, Turkey, Hindostan, and much more!
Item number: #13467
Price: $750
Gall and Inglis
Gall and Inglis' School Atlas of Modern Geography
Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1861.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o 31 color maps
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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Cloth
· Size: ~12.5in X 9.75in (31.5cm x 25cm)

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1874 Astronomy Star ATLAS Zodiac Constellation MAPS Richard Proctor Astrology
Richard Proctor was a 19th-century English astronomer known for his studies on the planets in the solar system as well as the moon and the sun. In his many astronomical books, Proctor discusses his research on the planets, stars and constellations, and the sun, as well as his observations on meteors and comets. His most fascinating work was 'A Star Atlas' – an impressive collection of star and constellation charts and night sky maps.

Item number: #19450
Price: $599
PROCTOR, Richard A
A star atlas for the library, the school, and the observatory showing 6,000 stars and 1,500 objects of interest
London : Longmans, Green, 1874.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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14, [2]
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14 double-page charts
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Cloth
· Size: ~14.75in X 9.75in (37.5cm x 25cm)
· Quite scarce
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1792 Guthrie ATLAS & Geography 21 MAPS Illustrated Navigation America Asia India
William Guthrie was well known during the mid-18th-century for his many contributions to world history, especially through his extensive and thorough books. As a Scottish historian, he published one of the world's best and most popular geography texts of the 18th-century.
This truly impressive 1792 single-volume edition is illustrated with 21 maps! Other interesting inclusions of note:
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Chronological table/list of world events
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An illustration of an armillary sphere
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Coin equivalency tables
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An early, important description of the discovery of America – though, according to Evans, much of Guthrie's section on America is attributed to Jedidiah Morse (Evans 27077, 28782). Sabin even notes that this work includes "much matter relating to America").

Item number: #21076
Price: $750
GUTHRIE, William
A new system of modern geography : or, a geographical historical, and commercial grammar;… Read More

Augsburg: Seutter, 1740. VG+, copperplate engraving with original hand coloring (color similar to Homann, with whom Seutter apprenticed before going out on his own in about 1707). There is minimal right marginal soling, but the image and color are exceptionally bright. Decorative cartouche, as usual, probably an allegorical representation of imperial Russia. The map measures 19.25x22.5 inches. .

Paris, Librairie Larousse, (1915-19).. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. 41 issues bound in one volume. Thick royal quarto. Unpaginated. With hundreds of letterpress maps, many of which are in colour, printed on recto only on 246 leaves of plates. Some photo-plates. Explanatory text to each map. Introductions. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary quarter cloth, bit rubbed and scuffed in places, paper-covered boards, cloth inner hinges, spine gilt. All 41 original yellow card wrappers, printed in red, are preserved and bound-in, few with old institutional stamp; expert paper repair to one leaf with minor loss. In about fine condition. Excellent copy, very well preserved. ~ FIRST EDITION. Very rare. F-3

[Boca Raton, Florida]:: Jaffe Center for the Book Arts,, 2015.. Edition of 10 variants. 7.25 x 3.5"; 12 pages. Flutter book. Letterpress printed. Colophon with a map of Florida laser-printed. Cover and pages incorporate letterpress printing on a Vandercook 4 proof press using wood type, metal and collagraph plates. Blind printing of an area map. Printed on Arches 88 paper. Plant inclusion endpapers. Laid in handmade paper wrapper with slit-and-slot closure. Signed and numbered by the artists. Statement: "During Stephanie Wolff's residency at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, she and Dorothy Krause, the first resident artist, collaborated on this brief ode to Florida. A variety of Pigment prints of vintage documents, maps, photographs and botanicals were transferred onto the pages of this edition of 10 variable copies.

Speed, John : Penbrokshyre described and the sittuations both of Penbroke and St Davids Shewed in due form as they were taken by John Speed. Sold by Bassett and Chiswell. Size approx 510mm x 380mm ( 20 x 15 inches). Early hand coloured double page copper engraved map. From Speed's "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain" with English text on verso with a description of the county and town listing. Inset town plans of Penbroke [Pembroke] and Saint Davids. Eleven coats of arms, scale and decorative title cartouche. Very small loss to lower blank margins not affecting printed area. An attractive Speed map in very good condition.

Scarce Chart of Oahu: Pearl Harbor to Diamond Head
This is a wonderfully detailed chart of the Pearl Harbor/Honolulu area. It names Diamond Head, Waikiki, Honolulu (with street grid shown), and Pearl Lochs (later, Pearl Harbor) and locates numerous landmarks: school, windmill, leper asylum, prison and several areas with heavy surf and breakers.
The chart appears to be directly derived from a larger, separately issued chart of the same title that covered a somewhat larger area (Hydrographic Office Chart no. 867). The larger chart was first issued in 1880 and updated at least through 1901. While a very short segment of Oahu R.R. is shown just west of Honolulu on the present chart, the much longer stretch of the railway that looped around the northern portion of Pearl Lochs is not shown here as it is on the 1899 edition of the larger map. Since the main portion of the Oahu Railway was completed in late 1889, it suggests that the present map was completed prior to that date. We have been unable to… Read More