Maps and Atlases

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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Chalet Magnificat, n. R1998. 966579283. Very Good. Includes short not to previous owner and Signed by Author

1839 HUGE Colton MAP of OHIO David Burr Geography Atlas Cincinnati 19x22in
Colton maps are often considered the very best of 19th-century maps. Known for their accuracy and attention to detail, Colton maps have maintained their desirability even into the 21st-century. Cartographers such as David Burr would use Colton to publish their maps.
This huge folding map of the state of Ohio was published in New York, bound in a small pocket-size tome.
Item number: #14799
Price: $599
BURR, David H. (cartog.)
Ohio
New York: J.H. Colton, 1839.

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· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Cloth
· Map size: ~19in X 22.5in (48cm x 57cm)
· Tome size: ~5.25in X 3.25in (13.5cm x 8.5cm)
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1764 ATLAS MAPS & Voyages Pluche Geography Asia Arabia Greece America Egypt
Noël-Antoine Pluche was an early 18th-century French priest and historian who is most remembered today for his landmark work of natural history 'Spectacle of Nature'. While this work would have significant influence on botanists and naturalists, Pluche designed the work to be for the general population, not of scientific merit.
Pluche, however, was not known for just 'Spectacle'. He wrote several other works including a large geographical concordance. This book, published in 1764, is an alphabetical concordance supplemented with 14 folding plates and maps.
Item number: #18476
Price: $750
PLUCHE, Noël Antoine
Concorde de la géographie des différens âges
Paris : Les frères Estienne, 1764.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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511, [5]
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14 engraved plates
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)
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1864 Thiers 66 ATLAS MAPS to Consulate Empire French Revolution Napoleon France
Born during the French Revolution, Adolphe Thiers became a famous French historian, focusing on the history of France and the importance of the French Revolution. He began writing his "History of the French Revolution" in the early 1820s, which would be the foundation for his literary fame and reputation, also providing a boost to his political career.
This ENORMOUS volume is the Atlas tome of Thiers' "History of the Consulate Empire" which includes 66 incredible maps depicting various aspects of the Napoleonic Wars and the French Consulate.
Item number: #16953
Price: $750
THIERS, Adolphe
Atlas de l'histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire
Paris : Lheureux et Cie, 1864.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o Illustrated with 66 maps (French titles)
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Notable topographical maps include:
The English Channel
The Netherlands
Spain and Portugal
Nile River Delta, Egypt
Southern France, Lombardy
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[Nantucket] [Cape Cod] Ferdinand C. Ewer. Historical map of Nantucket, 1869. [Boston]: [publisher not identified] [Circa 1886-1900] Map 22 x 35 cm. Has been folded. Splits at folds, else very good. OCLC shows ten holdings (Harvard; Salem St.; Univ. Chicago; Boston Public. Lib.; RB Hayes Ctr; Brown Univ.; Dartmouth; Bryn Mawr Col.; Wisc. Hist. Soc. [2]) Surveyed and drawn by the Rev. F.C. Ewer, D.D., 1869. Reduced copy issued by the Old Colony Railroad as an advertisement of its Old Colony Line of steamboats to the Island. Includes historical text. Will frame and display well.

Venetia, Per Scipion Banca, 1667.
16mo [133 x 93 mm] of (4) ll., 232 pp., (8) ll. 108 full-page engraved maps.
Bound in contemporary stiff vellum. Handwritten exlibris on the half-title: " Bibliotheca Neorelli ".
Italian pocket-edition of Ortelius' atlas, illustrated with 108 full-page engraved maps.
Philips 478 ; Tooley 31.
" The commercial success of the pocket-atlas was considerable. It was translated into French and Latin (now in prose) and was reprinted several times, long after Pieter Heyns had moved into the Netherlands together with his son Zacharias in 1588. In the year of Pieter Heyn's death (1598), his son, Zacharias, then living in Amsterdam, repeated the successful best-seller of his father by publishing another Miroir du Monde, using woodcut". Koeman.
The illustration contains a world map and the continents' maps: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. The 103 other maps represent each country for which a note has been written on the opposite page.
The first edition in Italian was printed in… Read More

1768 Forests Eu Normandy France French Agronomy Rivers MAPS Atlas Estancelin

Louis Estancelin, a 19th-century French politician, is best remembered for his book "Collection of Engravings on Forests and Woods in Eu" This work provides descriptions and views of forests, rivers, cities, and harbors in Eu, Normandy and their agronomic and economic implications in in pre-Revolutionary France.
Item number: #19556
Price: $1500
ESTANCELIN, Louis
Collection de cartes concernant les forêts, triages et bois taillés du Comté-prairie d'Eu
1768. 1st edition
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40 (plates)
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Wanting #2, 3, 29, 32, 34, 35
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~10.25in X 8.25in (26cm x 21cm)
· Exceedingly rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at upwards of $6,000
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1842. "Nouvelle Carte Routiere et Administrative de la FRANCE - toutes les Routes de Poste avec les Distances en Kilometres, Les Chemin de Fer les Canaux de Rivieres navigables ainsi que Les lieux Celebres on Remarquable. Par Charle, Geographe. Paris. Chez Maison, Editeur en France de Richard. Quai des Anonistins, No. 29.1942." Measures 32" x 24". Good condition. Lightly soiled, lines and names unmarked and legible. Some of the panels have separated from backing at bottom edges along fold lines. Slip case is badly worn.

Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwaite & Co., 1848. This map is from the 1848 edition of A NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS CONTAINING MAPS OF THE VARIOUS EMPIRES. The atlas was based primarily on the H. S. Tanner UNIVERSAL ATLAS, the rights to which were purchased by Mitchell from Carey & Hart. The early Mitchell maps are distinguished by their vivid hand-coloring and attractive decorated borders. They are among the most sought-after ante-bellum maps published in the United States. This map is guaranteed to be authentic and more than 170 years old. It is in very good condition: clean and bright, with some toning. There is one tiny chip out of one corner of the sheet--far away from the image.. Original. Single Sheet. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Map.

1854 Illustrated ATLAS Traveler's Guide MAPS Midwest Railroads New Orleans Texas

In the mid-19th-century, Appleton produced numerous travel guides for the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. This guide is an interesting 1850s travel guide to the 'Southern and Western' states. The Railroad and Steamboat companion concentrates on the American Southeast as well as the mid-west and central states including:
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Railroad routes throughout the Midwest
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Missouri, Illinois, Indiana
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Ohio, map of Cincinnati
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Louisiana, map of New Orleans
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Southeast states – South Carolina, map of Charleston
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Virginia, Maryland
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Texas
This 1854 edition by Wellington Williams is illustrated with maps and city views, as well as numerous in-text engraved vignettes, of which many plates are double page and fold out maps!

Item number: #21132
Price: $750
WILLIAMS, Wellington
Appletons' southern and western travellers' guide : with new and authentic maps,… Read More

Neosho. Missouri/ St. Louis : Missouri Land and Live Stock Company/ Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co No date, after 1881, circa mid-1880s to mid-1890s. Single Sheet, Folded, 16 1/2" x 16 3/4" folded 4 times to make a 4 1/4" x 8 1/2" brochure. Verso a single map - "Map of Christian & Stone Counties Missouri" measuring 16 1/2" x 16 3/4" Recto includes front and rear covers, 4 fold description of the two counties with terms of sale, and an 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" map - "Map showing the Railroads of Southwest Missouri already in operation in the vicinity of Christian and Stone Counties". Very Good, small tears at edges of folds, a 1" internal tear at fold. The Missouri Land & Live Stock Company (Limited, of Scotland) was in operation from 1882-1908. The Company bought 350,000 acres of land in SW Missouri in 1882 to use primarily for cattle grazing, playing a big role in the development of the cattle industry in the region. The purpose… Read More

Cairo, Egypt :: Islam Aly,, 2023.. Edition of 50 + 5 proofs. Box: 9 x 9 x 2.5 inches. Book size: triangle with each side 8 inches x 1 inch, enclosed in a cloth-covered box with plexiglass sides. Leather bound book, with leather wrappings connected to brass cut pieces, laser-cut Fabriano paper, inkjet printed text, linen thread, book board, museum board, paper, and Coptic binding. Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Islam Aly: "The book 'Delta' uses the symbol ? to represent a change or difference in quantity between two values in mathematics and science. The term 'Delta' also refers to Lower Egypt, where the Nile River delta is located. This delta is one of the world's largest, stretching from Alexandria to Port Said. However, rising sea levels put much of the northern delta, including the historic port city of Alexandria, at risk of being submerged in the Mediterranean. "'Delta' highlights the global crisis of rising sea levels and its impact on… Read More

This large atlas is Volume 1 of the eventual 13 volume set printed by the University of Nebraska Press. It includes all the maps from the Lewis & Clark expedition from St. Louis, Missouri to the mouth of the Coumbia River on the Pacific Coast and many of the return journey, including many others by earlier explorers that the expedition relied upon. Includes a preface and introduction that provides the historical context of the expedition and the short biographies of the main players along with a detailed explanation of how the maps were discovered, organized and included in the book. Due to the size of the atlas, extra shipping charges will apply, not to exceed $24. NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING ON THIS LARGE BOOK.
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No Expedited Shipping outside of the United States.

Paris: Chez Theodore la Gras, 1722. First Edition First Printing . Leather Bound. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mos. xxxvi, [8], 525; [6], 598; vi, 549; vi, 558; vi, 524; vi, 514, [14] pages. Collates complete with 102 plates and maps, many folding. INCLUDES THE FOLDING MAP OF NORTH AMERICA WITH CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND. Hardcovers rebound in mid-20th century full brown leather with titles on the spine in gilt. Light wear to the bindings. New endpapers, but the old endpapers are preserved. Title pages in black and red. Each title page has an inkstamp noting "Case 45 / Shelf B". Occasional tears or chips at the top edges of the pages near the gutter at the front. In Volume I, there is a tear and crease at the fore edge of page 15 and a tear running into the text on the leaf for pages 391-392. Browning to some of the plates in Volume IV. Otherwise the plates are generally in quite good condition. Plates as follows: Vol. I: 3 Maps & Plans… Read More