Found 83 books for Rare Maps and Atlases (33-40 of 83)

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Contains rare maps and atlases covering areas from around the world. Rare Maps and Atlases
	Rare Explorations: Lake Superior Copper and Western United States by Stockton and Fremont Fremont, John C.; Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-1844. Washington, SED, 174, 1845. Quarto, pp. 694, 22 plates, 5 maps including the folding 1845 “Map of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon and California in the years 1843-4" by Charles Preuss. and Stockton, John; Report of the Secretary of War communicating a Report of John Stockton, Superintendent of the Mineral Lands on Lake Superior. Washington, Senate Ex. Doc., No. 175. 1845. pp. 22, folded map (21 inches by 11 inches) titled: Map of the Mineral Lands upon Lake Superior ceded to the United States Government by the Treaty of 1842 with the Chippeway Indians”. The two works are complete and bound as a set in a modern full calf with gilt titles. The binding is tight and very clean. The text is clean and bright, plates and maps are clean and bright. The large folded Fremont/Preuss map is rolled and in a separate archival case with map rebacked with archival tissue with minor wear at folds. The Stockton map is bright and very clean with short tear at spine gutter. A very good set of two important works on the exploration of the American west and Michigan’s mineral regions. PRICE: $5,900.00
	Rare Geographic Atlas: Julius C. Solinus; Polyhistor, Rerum Toto Orbe Memorabilium Thesaurus Locpletissimus. 1543. Solinus, C. Julius; Polyhistor, Rerum Toto Orbe Memorabilium Thesaurus Locpletissimus.. Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1543. Folio, pp. 20, 230, 2, plus two folding maps and eighteen in-text maps. Woodcut vignette on title page and final leaf. This rare atlas is complete and in the original limp vellum with black spine titles. String ties are perished, light soiling to boards. Very early damp stain to lower margin of text and maps has had archival treatment. PRICE: $10,500.00
	Rare Geology Book and Map; Chester Dewey; Sketch of the Mineralogy and Geology of the Vicinity of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. American Journal of Science, Vol. 1 #4, 1819. Dewey, Chester; Sketch of the Mineralogy and Geology of the Vicinity of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. American Journal of Science, Vol. 1 #4, 1819. Octavo, pp. 337-346, 1 hand-colored map “Geological Map of the North-West Part of Massachusetts”, 1819. The work is complete and bound with two other studies from the same AJS issue on the mineralogy of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Bound in a modern archival folder. Binding is tight and clean, studies in a contemporary blue wrap with early penned notation and title label. Text is lightly soiled at margins, map is clean. In very good condition. PRICE: $350.00
	Rare geology book by Fischer de Waldheim, Gotthelf: Oryctographie du Gouvernement de Moscou... Fischer von Waldheim, Johann Gotthelf Friedrich; Oryctographie du Gouvernement de Moscou, publiee par le Directeur de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. Moscou, 1830. Atlas only. Folio, pp. half title, title page with hnd-colored vignette, ix, second half title, 25 pages of plate explanations, 7 hand-colored plates, profiles and sections, 44 engraved plates of fossils, 15 engraved plates (some colored) of zoological and botanical specimens. PRICE: $7,000.00
	Rare Geology Book, Cuvier, Georges & Brongniart, Alex.; Description Geologique des Environs de Paris Cuvier, Georges & Brongniart, Alex.; Description Geologique des Environs de Paris, Nouvelle édition dans laquelle on a inséré la descriptions d'un grand nombre de lieux de l'Allemagne, de la Suisse, de l'Italie etc., qui présentent des terrains analogues à ceux du Bassin de Paris. Par M. Alex. Brongiart. Paris, Chez G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne, 1822. Large quarto special large paper copy, pp. viii, errata, 428, frontispiece, 2 (1 handcoloured) folded engraved maps and 16 (1 handcoloured) lithographed plates. This large paper copy with wide margins is complete and in the original binders wraps with the original paper spine label. The wraps are scuffed with the spine starting to split and a few signatures starting. Owners stamp on verso of frontispiece, short section torn from half title but not effecting print, text is clean, map is very clean, light foxing to margins of some plates. Over all in very good condition. PRICE: $2,900.00
	Rare Geology Book, David Dale Owen; Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota...1852 Owen, David Dale, et.al.; Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; and incidentally of a Portion of Nebraska Territory. Philadelphia, 1852. Large quarto, text, pp. xxxviii, 638, frontispiece, engraved title page vignette, 69 text engravings. Atlas, two copper engraved folded maps, (hand colored), 27 engraved plates of fossils, 19 folded engraved plates of profiles, sections, and views (many hand colored). The set is complete and in the original decorative embossed cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Bindings are tight, text volume re-cased with modern end sheets and spine margins restored. Inscribed to owner on end sheet. Atlas is inscribed from Senator Henry Dodge to John Brackem of Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Maps and profiles have mis-folds but are intact and clean. Over all a very good set. PRICE: $650.00
	Rare Geology Book, Hager, Albert D.; Report on the Geology of Vermont: Descriptive, Theoretical, Economical and Scenographical. Hager, Albert D.; Report on the Geology of Vermont: Descriptive, Theoretical, Economical and Scenographical; by E. Hitchcock, E. Hitchcock Jr., A. D. Hager, & C. H. Hitchcock, in two volumes. Claremont, 1861. Quarto, Volume 1, pp. viii, 589, 289 woodcut text illustrations. Volume 2, pp. 4, 590-982, 75 woodcut text illustrations, 38 plates (some hand colored) , 3 folded hand colored geological maps. The set is complete and in the original cloth with gilt titles and a later cloth spine on volume 2 with gilt titles. The bindings are tight and clean. Book plate of mining institute on paste downs and stamp on title page and verso of some plates. The text, maps and plates are very clean. In very good condition. PRICE: $550.00
	Rare Geology Book, William B. Rogers, Geological Reconnoissance State of Virginia, 1836. Rogers, William B.; Report of the Geological Reconnoissance of the State of Virginia. Philadelphia, Desilver, Thomas & Co., 1836. Quarto, pp. 143, folded hand colored plate of seven geological profiles. The work is complete and in a later black cloth binding with gilt titles and the original blue title wraps bound in. The binding is tight and clean, short repair to inner front hinge. Canceled book plate of the A.M.N.H. on paste down, minor wear to folds on plate. In very very good condition. PRICE: $1,400.00

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