Cartography

  • Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    # 29462

    LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)

    Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    London : T. &​ W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …

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  • China and Japan pocket map showing political divisions, cities and towns, railroads, waterways, etc.

    # 50391

    RAND McNALLY & COMPANY

    China and Japan pocket map showing political divisions, cities and towns, railroads, waterways, etc.

    [Cover title]. New York ; Chicago ; San Francisco : Rand McNally & Company, [c.1938]. Tall octavo folding card (235 x 110 mm), front annotated by the original owner ‘Purchased 1952 March’; containing the large folding colour map ‘Rand McNally Standard Map of China and Japan’, 500 x 680 mm, scale 1:8,744,000; verso with printed …

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  • Peter Parley's atlas of modern maps, and geographical tables.

    # 51039

    DARTON AND CLARK

    Peter Parley’s atlas of modern maps, and geographical tables.

    Also, his remarks upon the right mode of using them, and of learning geography. With a compete index. London : Darton and Clark, 1842. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (stained), pp. 20, twelve hand-coloured maps (The world – double hemisphere, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, The United States, Australia), geographical tables, …

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  • Relations de divers voyages curieux,

    # 48825

    THÉVENOT, Melchisédec (1620-1692)

    Relations de divers voyages curieux,

    qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …

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  • [COOK] Newton’s new terrestrial pocket globe 1818

    # 49880

    NEWTON FAMILY

    [COOK] Newton’s new terrestrial pocket globe 1818

    London : John Newton, 1818. Terrestrial pocket globe, 2 inches in diameter; engraved gores with original hand-colouring over papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the surface in fine order with original varnish, very small areas of abrasion; two metal pins resting the globe in the original publisher’s shagreen case, with engraved diagrams of the sun showing the …

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  • Planisphère mobile.

    # 49136

    DESROYS, Ginot

    Planisphère mobile.

    Au moyen du quel on peut apprendre l’Astronomie seul et sans le secours des Mathématiques. Imité de l’Anglais par Melle. Ginot Desroys. Prix 4 f. Paris : chez Bachelier, 1847. Planisphere, 355 mm in diameter, comprising four die-cut discs (or volvelles) of engraved paper over card, pointer, central screw, and holes for suspension at the two …

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  • Kunyu quantu [A map of the whole world]

    # 50090

    VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623-1688)

    Kunyu quantu [A map of the whole world]

    [Korea, between 1860 and 1931; after the original map printed in Peking in 1674]. World map, printed by woodblocks in six sheets, each measuring 182.0 x 57.5 cm; expertly cleaned and lined by paper conservators on Japanese kozo tissue, traces of old fold lines; a superb example with full sheets, untrimmed. A monumental map of …

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  • Carte de l'île de la Réunion, par Bory de S.t Vincent, officier d'État-Major, pour servir à son Voyage dans quatre îles des mers d'Afrique;

    # 50497

    BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, Jean-Baptiste (1778-1846)

    Carte de l’île de la Réunion, par Bory de S.t Vincent, officier d’État-Major, pour servir à son Voyage dans quatre îles des mers d’Afrique;

    Dédiée à son Excellence le Maréchal Berthier, Ministre de la Guerre. [Paris, Dépôt de la Guerre, 1804]. Engraved map, dissected into eighteen panels and laid on linen,  645 x 860 mm., some light stains and wear along the folds, title label with manuscript Carte de Bourbon, a very good example. The very rare separately issued version …

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  • [IMPERIAL RUSSIA] St.-Pétersbourg et ses environs : guide pratique illustré. (With an extra map, issued only to conference delegates)

    # 50457

    [Société M. O. Wolff]

    [IMPERIAL RUSSIA] St.-Pétersbourg et ses environs : guide pratique illustré. (With an extra map, issued only to conference delegates)

    At head of title: Conférence Internationale des Horaires des Trains a St.-Pétersbourg pour le service d’hiver 1899-1900. St.-Pétersbourg & Moscou : Société M. O. Wolff, Imprimeurs-Editeurs-Libraires de la Cour Impériale, 1899. Small octavo (185 x 130 mm), original red cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt (nice and bright); half-title leaf, photographic frontispiece, title-leaf, …

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  • Géographie de l'Empire de Chine (Cours Inférieur) = Fa wen Chung-kuo kʻun yü lüeh chih

    # 50492

    RICHARD, L., S.J.

    Géographie de l’Empire de Chine (Cours Inférieur) = Fa wen Chung-kuo kʻun yü lüeh chih

    Chang-hai [Shanghai] : Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique a l’Orphelinat de T’ou-Sè-Wè, 1905. First edition. Small octavo (187 x 127 mm), publisher’s tan cloth with pictorial device and lettering in English and Chinese in black, spine lettered in English and Chinese in gilt (flecking to both boards and spine); front pastedown bearing the original owner’s …

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  • The History of Japan : giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire; ... together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam.

    # 48351

    KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651-1716)

    The History of Japan : giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire; … together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam.

    London : for the Publisher, and sold by T. Woodward and C. Davis, 1728. First edition in English, second issue (with the ‘Second Appendix’). Two volumes, folio, contemporary full speckled calf with double gilt rule (boards a little scuffed), expertly rebacked with new spines in period style, spines in compartments with raised bands, contrasting leather …

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  • Recüeil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers & curieux

    # 49506

    TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste

    Recüeil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers & curieux

    de J.B. Tavernier, escuyer, Baron d’Aubonne, qui n’ont point esté mis dans ses six premiers voyages : divisé en cinq parties. I. Une relation du Japon, & de la cause de la persecution des chrestiens dans ses isles … II. Relation de ce qui s’est passe dans la negociation des deputez qui ont este en Perse …

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  • 北海道沿海圖 / Japan Yezo Islands Coast of Hokkaido. The 16th year of Meiji 1883

    # 49935

    吉田晋 / YOSHIDA, Susumu

    北海道沿海圖 / Japan Yezo Islands Coast of Hokkaido. The 16th year of Meiji 1883

    [Tokyo], Matsui Chūbē, Meiji 16 [1883] / [東京], 松井忠兵衛, 明治 16 [1883]. Lithographed map, outline hand colour, 77 x 75 cm, folded into cover 23 x 16 cm, mounted in cover boards with title label, a few small worm holes and tears, a very good copy. Scarce separately issued map in English and Japanese of …

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  • Matthew Flinders : navigator and chartmaker

    # 50219

    INGLETON, Geoffrey C.

    Matthew Flinders : navigator and chartmaker

    Foreword by HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Guildford, Surrey [U.K.] : Genesis Publications in association with Hedley Australia, 1986. Large quarto, publisher’s green cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, upper board with pictorial onlay of Flinders’ Investigator and Baudin’s Le Géographe, front endpapers with map, rear endpapers illustrated with …

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  • Plan of the city of Mantua, Italy, published in Tbilisi, Georgia

    # 50164

    Anon.

    Plan of the city of Mantua, Italy, published in Tbilisi, Georgia

    Lithographed map, 195 x 260 mm (image), folds as issued, dates circa 1900. Text in Georgian. A cartographic curiosity.

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  • Hawaii. The big island of the Hawaiian group

    # 50155

    Hawaii. The big island of the Hawaiian group

    Honolulu : Hawaii Tourist Bureau, circa 1950. Single sheet, folded to make a tourist brochure on the Big Island, map.

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