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Map of Lands Belonging to the Forest Preserve Situated in the Counties of Delaware Greene Sullivan and Ulster. Compiled from the Official Maps and Field Notes on File in the State Departments at Albany, N.Y. By Authority of the Fisheries, Game & Forest Commission

[State of New York]. Forest, Fish and Game Commission · 1899

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

Wynkoop Hallenback Crawford Co. State Printers, 1899. First edition. Cloth with gilt titles, stamped in blind, string tied. 1 colored map on 2 joined sheets (102 x 121 cm.). Each map is 32 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches. Issued in portfolio (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches) with cover title: Map of...

The Nicaragua Canal. Expected Earnings - a Study of Its Commercial Geography -Effect on Ocean Routes - New Trade Advantages for the United States

New York Evening Post · 1888

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, Evening Post Job Print, 1888. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 15 pp. 8vo. "From the New York Evening Post, March 24, 1888." Morrison: List..Interoceanic Canal and Railway routes p. 28. Front wrapper chipped, with a few numerical markings and one label, rear w...

The Errors and Fallacies of the Inter-Oceanic Transit Question. To Whom Do They Belong

Ammen, Daniel · 1886

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, For sale by Brentano Bros. 1886. First edition. Paper wrappers. ii, 68 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w folding map. 8vo. Further arguments against the Ship-Railway plan of E. L. Corthell and in favor of the Nicaragua canal. Daniel Ammen (1819-1898), "naval officer, author, and...

The Charter and by-Laws of the New Granada Mineral Land Company, Incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, April 3, 1856: Charter Perpetual

New Granada Mineral Land Company · 1856

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Philadelphia, Printed by C. Sherman & Son, 1856. First edition. Original beige wrappers, stitched. [1-5] 6-51 [1 blank] pp. Illus. with 1 [of 2] plates, the folding map. 8vo. Geological report by J. King Merritt, First annual report of the president, for 1855, and a chromolith...

A Map of Bengal, Bahar, Oude & Allahabad: With Part of Agra and Delhi, Exhibiting the Course of the Ganges from Hurdwar to the Sea. [Western Half]

Rennell, James · 1824

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

London, Jas Wyld, (Successor to Mr. Faden) geographer to the King, & H.R.H the Duke of York. Charing Cross, 1824. Handed colored double page map. 52 x 72 cm. (sheet size: 58 x 80 cm). From James Wyld: "A General Atlas of Modern Geography: consisting of a complete collection of...

An Accurate Map of Hindostan or India, from the Best Authorities. J.T. Scott Sculp. Engraved for Carey's American Edition of Guthrie's Geography Improved

Carey, Mathew. Scott, J.T. · 1796

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

Philadelphia, Mathew Carey, 1796. First edition. 40 x 41 cm. Sheet size: 42 cm x 56 cm. From Carey's "General Atlas" .. Philadelphia: Published By Mathew Carey. May 1, 1796, the first general atlas printed in America. Phillips 683-21. A very good copy, some marginal tears at t...

A New and Accurate Map of the Southern Provinces of Hindoostan, Showing the Territories Ceded by Tippoo Saib, to the Different Powers

Wilkinson, Robert · 1800

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

[London], R. Wilkinson No 58 Cornhill, 1800. First edition. 9 x 11 inches. Hand-colored map from "A General Atlas, being a collection of maps of the world and quarters: the principal empires, kingdoms, &c. with their several provinces & other subdivisions, correctly delineated...

Hindostan. Southern Part

George Philip & Son · 1853

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

[Liverpool], n.p. 1853. First edition. 1 sheet. 20 x 24 inches. Colored map based on Thomson's engraved map, c.1817, from his World Atlas. This 1853 lithograph contained numerous changes reflecting the current state of geography, at that time and was issued by George Philip & ...

Memorial-Ajustado, Hecho de Orden Del Consejo-Pleno, á Instancia de Los Señores Fiscales, Del Expediente Consultivo, Visto Por Remision de Su Magestad á éL, Sobre El Contenido, Y Expresiones de Diferentes Cartas Del Rev. Obispo de Cuenca D. Isidro de Carbajal Y Lancaster

Carbajal y Lancaster, Isidro de, Bishop of Cuenca · 1768

$275.00 (€249.50 | £208.12 | ¥43,919)

Madrid, En la oficina de Joachin de Ibarra, 1768. First edition. Old paper-covered boards. [2], [10] pp. 2-204 leaves. 4to. Mostly consists of comments on certain writings of Isidro Carbajal y Lancaster, Bishop of Cuenca, who had accused the monarchy of setting the country "ho...

Catálogo Da Exposição Bibliográfica E Cartográfica Comemorativa Do V Centenário Da Morte Do Infante D. Henrique

Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Distrital de Angra do Heroísmo · 1960

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Angra do Heroísmo, Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Distrital de Angra do Heroísmo, 1960. First edition. Paper wrappers. vii, 47 pp. 8vo. Manuel Coelho Baptista de Lima, intro. Cites 494 items and sources located during a careful search in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and Belgiu...

Considerations on the Order of Cincinnatus. To Which Are Added Several Original Papers... A New Edition

Mirabeau, Honore Gabrielle Riquette, comte de · 1786

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

Philadelphia, Printed by T. Seddon, 1786. A new edition with considerable corrections. 19th c. three quarter morocco over marbled boards. iv, 68 pp. 8vo. First American edition. "The Society was not greeted so warmly in the United States. Within months of the adoption of the I...

Report from the Committee Appointed to Examine and State to the House of Commons the Matters of Fact in the Several Petitions of the Manufacturers of, and Traders and Dealers in, the Linen Manufactory

[Linen Trade]. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons · 1751

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

[London], n.p. 1751. Modern marbled paper-covered boards. [1], 57, [1] pp. Folio. "Very rare and valuable. It contains an Appendix of Premiums paid by the Irish Linen Board," Higgs, Bibliography of Economics, p.8. An important source document. There is also a 28 page edition. ...

Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and the Shipwreck of the Princess of Wales Cutter, with an Account of a Two Years' Residence on an Uninhabited Island by One of the Survivors

Goodridge, Charles Medyett · 1838

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

Exeter, Printed and published by W.C. Featherstone, 1838. Second edition. Cloth with gilt title. [23], [14]-180 pp. Illus. with frontispiece and a second plate, both with tissue guards. 16mo. Includes lists of subscribers and opinions of the press. Goodridge had signed on to a...

Histoire de la Marine Française

Farrère, Claude · 1956

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Paris, Flammarion, 1956. Second edition. Cloth with gilt title and decoration. 439 pp. Illus. with color plates, b/w photos and reproductions. 4to. Publisher's advertising laid in loose. A very good copy, faint soiling to fore edge, plates brilliant, in a like dust jacket.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting the Annual Statement of the District Tonnage of the United States on the 31st Day of December 1814; with a Letter from the Register of the Treasury Explanatory of the Same

[United States, Department of the Treasury] · 1816

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Washington [D.C.], Printed by William A. Davis, 1816. First edition. Paper wrappers, in a quarter cloth over marbled boards folding portfolio, in a slip case. 7 pp. + charts. Illus. with 2 b/w folding charts. Folio. January 22d, 1816, read, and ordered to lie upon the table. U...

Poësies Diverses

Frederick, King of Prussia; Louis de Beausobre and Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens, marquis d' · 1760

$200.00 (€181.45 | £151.36 | ¥31,941)

Berlin, Chretien Frederic Voss, 1760. First edition. [2], 306 pp. Illus. with b/w in-text drawings. 12mo. About very good; spine scuffed, worn at ends and along joints, lacking label on spine, boards rubbed, partially removed bookplate from verso free front end-paper; tiny dat...

Jérusalem Délivrée. Poëme Du Tasse. Nouvelle Traduction Par Lebrun [Two Volumes]

[Tasso, Torquato]. Lebrun, [Charles Francois, Duke de Plaisance], trans · 1794

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

Paris, Vol. 1: De L'imprimerie de Fr. Dufart; Vol. 2: Chez Bossange, Masson & Besson, 1794. Later printing. Full contemporary mottled calf with gilt rules, seven compartments, morocco spine lablessilk book mark sewn in. frontis, 364 pp; frontis, 351 pp. Illus. with 22 b/w plat...

Zur Kulturhistorischen Stellung Der Chinesischen Provinz Shansi. [from Anthropos. Internationale Zeitschrift Für Völker-Und Sprachenkunde Aus Bd. V, Heft. 1]

Laufer, Berthold · 1910

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Wien, Druck und Verlag der Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei, 1910. First edition. Paper wrappers. [181-203] pp. Sm. 4to. Im Auftrage der Österreichischen Leo-Gesellschaft, Mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Görres-Gesellschaft. Herausgegeben: Unter Mitarbeit zahlreicher Missionäre vo...

Chronological History of the West Indies [Three Volumes]

Southey, Thomas · 1827

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. First edition. Vol. I: original paper-covered boards, rebacked. Vol. II and III: Three quarter morocco over marbled boards, marble endpapers, gilt titles and decoration. [8], 336; [4], 552; [4], 620 pp. 8vo. Scarce. A regist...

The Mediterranean, Physical and Historical

Playfair, R. Lambert · 1891

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

[Washington, D.C.], [Smithsonian Institution], 1891. Offprint. Paper wrappers. [259-276] pp. 8vo. From Nature, September 11, 1890, vol. XLI, in Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, The Inst...