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San Francisco: Lithographed by W. W. Elliott Lithograph. No date (c.1890). 24x38 inches. Lithographed in black on white. Top border edge just a bit rough, but a fine crisp copy. A magnificent bird's-eye view showing all of the city of Stockton, California and the surrounding country. All of the streets and roads are labeled. Surrounding the view are 26 insets showing public and commercial buildings. Includes promotional text for the city as well as an index of significant buildings and places, keyed by number to the view. At the bottom border, "Compliments of E.A. Crennan & Co., Real Estate Auctioneers, Stockton, California." W.W. Elliott is best known for his views in a number of the county histories produced in the 1870's and 1880's. Unlike many lithographers of similar views of that period, Elliott had a knack for artistic shading which gave his images a wonderful quality of depth and clarity. This lithograph is quite scarce and is rarely offered It is not mentioned in…
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J. PIGGOTT SMITH. Map of Birmingham, with engraved title and dedication: To The Right Honourable William Earl of Dartmouth, Viscount Lewisham &c. &c. and Liberal Patron of its Public Institutions. This Map of Birmingham, engraved from a minute trigonometrical survey made in the years 1824 & 1825.
Inset: Plan of the town of Birmingham taken in the year 1731. Birmingham, engraved by W.R. Gardner (London), Beilby, Knott & Beilby, 1828.
Single sheet, 1267 x 1362 mm, engraved map within decorative border; steel-engraved, uncoloured, dissected, linen-backed, folding, with marbled paper backed end-panels; scale [3 and 3/4'' to 4 furlongs]; contained within the original calf slipcase, 190 x 250 mm), resembling a book, spine with double gilt rule, gilt-lettered spine label; extremities a little rubbed, but a very good copy.
A fine plan of Birmingham, the earliest published plan on such a scale of England's second city, and based on the surveys of J. Pigott Smith. It is not just a map, but a business directory of Birmingham businesses and their location, just before the railway age. Numerous canals, their offices and wharves feature prominently in the plan, in addition to breweries, hotels, named manufactories of various kinds, the New Steam Mill Co., Union Rolling Mills and, of course Boulton's Soho Ironworks, churches, the synagogue, the workhouse and the hospital. Landowners and owners of individual premises are named - and if they refused to be listed and surveyed - shamed with the note 'refused access'. Most prominent was Matthew Boulton's Soho House, its park and Mint and Manufactory, where the Lunar Society had first met and where Boulton had received many visitors including Catherine the Great.
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Land Book of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Desk and Library Edition. 1925.
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New York: G. W. Bromley & Co., 1925. 1925 edition. VERY GOOD+. Pages are near fine; lightly toned along the outside margins but otherwise clean and unmarked, the colors clear and bright. Two leaves have short closed tears at bottom edge, but otherwise pages are exceptionally fine. Black cloth hardcover, red stamped title on front, is clean, moderately rubbed along edges and hinges. Cloth is frayed at spine ends, corners and several spots on the outside edges. Binding intact though loose, the hinges wobbly. All pages are firmly held. The book should stand gentle use for some time but would benefit from a professional binding reinforcement. An extraordinarily detailed record of Manhattan in a series of 191 maps clearly showing the streets and outlines of each and every structure, every park, every railroad track including elevated railroads, water and sewer pipes and even fire hydrants, from Battery Park to 228th Street. Even more miraculously, details about the buildings are supplied through…
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Le nouveau et curieux Atlas Geographique et historique...
by Chiquet (Jacques) [Antoine Menard].
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Paris: chez Chereanau, [1719].. Oblong small 4to. Full vellum with ties. Wear at edges, chip from fore-edge of lower front cover,blank end leaves are heavily annotated and written-upon in 18th & 19th century hands. Old stains to margins and a few maps, old paper-tape repairs to the verso of the Asia map, but generally very good. Engraved allegorical title page, 3 plates (two of globes), and 24 maps opposite explanatory text in French. 23 maps have contemporary hand-colouring in outline; a couple have attractively coloured cartouches. The Globe Terrestre map, of two hemispheres, is holed, slightly affecting the title. The map of North America shows California as an island. This is the second or third edition of this atlas, originally by Antoine Menard, first published by Chiquet in [1711 & 1713], with most of the maps dated 1709-1711. In this 1719 edition Chiquet has removed Menard's name entirely; on many of the maps (such as L'Amerique Septentrionale) he has changed it to his own name and altered…
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Certificate of apprenticeship for August Friederich Nicolai from Brandenburg.: Membership of the guild of merchants of exotic spices and other exotic foodstuffs.
by Christian Friederich Herr and the guild elders Samuel Rhau and Johann Jacob Gillet.
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German calligraphic manuscript on vellum, richly decorated with colourful ornaments in upper, right and left margins. Berlin 1761. German manuscript on vellum, dated Berlin, 29 November 1761. With beautifully coloured ornamental decorations in right and left margins; with a crown above "FR" (for Fridericus Rex) at the centre of top margin framed by further hand coloured ornamental decorations. Signed by the master Christian Friederich Herr as well as by the guild elders Samuel Rhau and Johann Jacob Gillet. Oblong folio (353 x 610 mm). Traces of folds. An incision at the lower margin indicates that a seal was once present. The document was issued for August Friederich Nicolai from Brandenburg, who had been apprenticed to Christian Friederich Herr for six years since Christmas 1755 and now becoming a member of the Berlin guild of merchants for exotic spices and other exotic foodstuffs. From the early days of delicatessen shops in Berlin!
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L’Utrecht suivant les nouvelles observations de Messrs. de l’Academie des Sciences etc. Augmentées de nouveau.
by Covens, Johannes et Cornelis Mortier
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Stockton Looking East. San Joaquin County, Cal. Original Bird's Eye View. [LITHOGRAPH]
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San Francisco: Lithographed by W. W. Elliott Lithograph. No date (c.1890). 24x38 inches. Lithographed in black on white. Top border edge just a bit rough, but a fine crisp copy. A magnificent bird's-eye view showing all of the city of Stockton, California and the surrounding country. All of the streets and roads are labeled. Surrounding the view are 26 insets showing public and commercial buildings. Includes promotional text for the city as well as an index of significant buildings and places, keyed by number to the view. At the bottom border, "Compliments of E.A. Crennan & Co., Real Estate Auctioneers, Stockton, California." W.W. Elliott is best known for his views in a number of the county histories produced in the 1870's and 1880's. Unlike many lithographers of similar views of that period, Elliott had a knack for artistic shading which gave his images a wonderful quality of depth and clarity. This lithograph is quite scarce and is rarely offered It is not mentioned in…
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Land Book of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Desk and Library Edition. 1925.
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New York: G. W. Bromley & Co., 1925. 1925 edition. VERY GOOD+. Pages are near fine; lightly toned along the outside margins but otherwise clean and unmarked, the colors clear and bright. Two leaves have short closed tears at bottom edge, but otherwise pages are exceptionally fine. Black cloth hardcover, red stamped title on front, is clean, moderately rubbed along edges and hinges. Cloth is frayed at spine ends, corners and several spots on the outside edges. Binding intact though loose, the hinges wobbly. All pages are firmly held. The book should stand gentle use for some time but would benefit from a professional binding reinforcement. An extraordinarily detailed record of Manhattan in a series of 191 maps clearly showing the streets and outlines of each and every structure, every park, every railroad track including elevated railroads, water and sewer pipes and even fire hydrants, from Battery Park to 228th Street. Even more miraculously, details about the buildings are supplied through…
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Le nouveau et curieux Atlas Geographique et historique...
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Paris: chez Chereanau, [1719].. Oblong small 4to. Full vellum with ties. Wear at edges, chip from fore-edge of lower front cover,blank end leaves are heavily annotated and written-upon in 18th & 19th century hands. Old stains to margins and a few maps, old paper-tape repairs to the verso of the Asia map, but generally very good. Engraved allegorical title page, 3 plates (two of globes), and 24 maps opposite explanatory text in French. 23 maps have contemporary hand-colouring in outline; a couple have attractively coloured cartouches. The Globe Terrestre map, of two hemispheres, is holed, slightly affecting the title. The map of North America shows California as an island. This is the second or third edition of this atlas, originally by Antoine Menard, first published by Chiquet in [1711 & 1713], with most of the maps dated 1709-1711. In this 1719 edition Chiquet has removed Menard's name entirely; on many of the maps (such as L'Amerique Septentrionale) he has changed it to his own name and altered…
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Certificate of apprenticeship for August Friederich Nicolai from Brandenburg.: Membership of the guild of merchants of exotic spices and other exotic foodstuffs.
by Christian Friederich Herr and the guild elders Samuel Rhau and Johann Jacob Gillet.
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German calligraphic manuscript on vellum, richly decorated with colourful ornaments in upper, right and left margins. Berlin 1761. German manuscript on vellum, dated Berlin, 29 November 1761. With beautifully coloured ornamental decorations in right and left margins; with a crown above "FR" (for Fridericus Rex) at the centre of top margin framed by further hand coloured ornamental decorations. Signed by the master Christian Friederich Herr as well as by the guild elders Samuel Rhau and Johann Jacob Gillet. Oblong folio (353 x 610 mm). Traces of folds. An incision at the lower margin indicates that a seal was once present. The document was issued for August Friederich Nicolai from Brandenburg, who had been apprenticed to Christian Friederich Herr for six years since Christmas 1755 and now becoming a member of the Berlin guild of merchants for exotic spices and other exotic foodstuffs. From the early days of delicatessen shops in Berlin!
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L’Utrecht suivant les nouvelles observations de Messrs. de l’Academie des Sciences etc. Augmentées de nouveau.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Alaska and Klondike Region; [With inset of Klondike Region on the Upper Yukon detail] [From an atlas, "Gazetteer of Alaska and Yukon Region " pp. 105 and 106]
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Chicago: J. Martin Miller, 1899. Unknown. Map. Very Good. [Map copyright 1899, printing date of Atlas later] [19.875x15.125in]; Colored map of Alaska with steamer routes from Portland and Seattle, insets of the Klondike Region on the Upper Yukon and Western portion of Aleutian Islands; On verso index of places and names with two large black and white images; Age toning to all edges, water stain marks on bottom, slight printing offset of colors, small chips and closed tears to lower edge;.
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Zemepis Sveta - Monsunova Asie
by De La Blache, P. Vidal; Gallois, L
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Aventinum, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Text entirely in Czech. Geography book on Asia with numerous photographs and maps. 1930 edition also available. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 400 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Moderate shelfwear along the spine. Corners are lightly bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Travel & Places; Non-English Language::Czech; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001228. . Additional shipping charges may apply.
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Zemepis Sveta - Monsunova Asie
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Aventinum, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Text entirely in Czech. Geography book on Asia with numerous photographs and maps. 1931 edition also available. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 400 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Moderate shelfwear along the spine. Corners are lightly bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Travel & Places; Non-English Language::Czech; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001227. . Additional shipping charges may apply.
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North America from the Best Authorities, Russell, ca.1800
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Russell, J. : A General Map of North America from the Best Authorities. Nd but ca.1800. From "A New Geographical, Historical and Commercial Grammar and Present State of Several Kingdoms of the World." Copper engraving. Size approx 200 x 230mm. Two neat folds. Some age colouring to edges, otherwise very clean and bright.
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Asia from the Best Authorities, Russell, ca.1800
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Russell, J. : Asia from the Best Authorities. Nd but ca.1800. From "A New Geographical, Historical and Commercial Grammar and Present State of Several Kingdoms of the World". Copper engraving. Size approx 200 x 230mm. Two neat folds. Some age colouring to edges, otherwise clean and bright. Includes Arabia, India, Borneo, Japan, China and eastern Russia.
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New York, Richmond, Chicago, & Toledo: H. H. Hardesty, 1885. Original color lithographed map printed by Rand, McNally & Company, Engravers and published in HARDESTY'S HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA: SPECIAL VIRGINIA EDITION. 19 3/8 inches by 13 1/4 inches on a 21" X 14 1/2" sheet. The map depicts the Territory of Utah in its final form--large areas had been removed and ceded to Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska since Utah became a U. S. Territory in 1850. The issue of polygamy prevented statehood until it was finally granted in 1896. This map features railroads and topography and uses color to set off counties from each other. Unlike most atlas maps of the period, this map identifies most small towns. The map is guaranteed to be moe than 135 years old. The map is in about very good condition: generally clean and bright, with slight toning of paper and one faint water stain near the center-left edge of the map.. Original. Single Sheet. Very Good-. Elephant…
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Philips Special Map of the Nile, The Advance on Khartum and the Environs of Omdurman. Cc1900
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Philips Special map of the Nile illustrating the Advance on Khartum [Khartoum] with an enlargement of the environs of Omdurman [Omdur]. George Philips and Son, London and Liverpool Ca 1900. 580mm x 900mm folded map. Front title wrapper has come loose, not affecting map area. Three maps are displayed within the sheet. Map1. Map of the Nile Valley 520mm x 300mm showing the approaches of Khartum. Scale 1inch to 100 Geographical miles. Coloured indicating Possessions and Protectorates of European Powers. Map 2. Special map of the Nile from Dongola to Khartum. Scale 16 miles to the inch. Coloured. In set in this map is Map3. Environs of Omdurman, Scale 5 statute miles to the inch. Some small breaks at some folds, not affecting imagery or use of map. Title label is damaged, the map is clean and bright, probably unused. A very interesting record.
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Last Tales
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Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.
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