Cartography

  • World maps published in Tokugawa Japan : an illustrated catalogue

    # 47644

    海田俊一 (KAIDA, Toshikazu)

    World maps published in Tokugawa Japan : an illustrated catalogue

    Tokyo : Arsmedica and Nagoya : Sankeisha, 2022. English language edition, revised edition. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 600, illustrated. Printed in a limited edition of 200 numbered copies. New copy. Text in English with Japanese characters for names and quotes. The most scholarly and detailed reference books on Japanese world maps from the seventeenth …

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  • 官許 新刊輿地全圖 [Kankyo shinkan yochi zenzu] [Officially Licenced New Map of the World]

    # 47642

    竹口瀧三郎 [Takeguchi Takisaburō]; 上村福三郎 [Uemura Fukusaburō]

    官許 新刊輿地全圖 [Kankyo shinkan yochi zenzu] [Officially Licenced New Map of the World]

    Edo (Tokyo), Japan : 萬屋兵四郎 [Yorozuya Heishirō], [1862] (Bunkyū 2). Hand coloured woodblock print, 1360 x 1350 mm., original cloth covers and paper portfolio, both with title labels (portfolio with some silverfishing and lacking left-hand flap), map with some foxing and silverfishing, repaired with Japanese tissue. A detailed map of the world on Mercator’s projection …

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  • The China Mission hand-book. First issue

    # 46653

    American Presbyterian Mission Press

    The China Mission hand-book. First issue

    Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1896. Octavo, half roan over cloth (rebacked, a few small stains), ex-library Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, with bookplate to front pastedown and small wet stamp to title page, pp. [vi]; 335; folding hand coloured map of China ‘To illustrate Mr. Mollendorff’s paper’ (neatly detached with paper repairs …

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  • Mapping our world : Terra Incognita to Australia

    # 47455

    WOODS, Martin et al.

    Mapping our world : Terra Incognita to Australia

    Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, 2013. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xxix, 256, illustrated. An extraordinary exhibition of manuscript and printed maps of Australia, the Pacific and the world from the medieval period to nineteenth century.

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  • Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States in the Years 1804, 1805 and 1806.

    # 47321

    LEWIS, Meriwether, & CLARK, William

    Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States in the Years 1804, 1805 and 1806.

    London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1817. Third English edition. Three volumes, octavo, finely bound by the London firm of Root & Son in half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with gilt-lettering, ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (binder’s stamps verso), pp. xxvi; (2); large folding map …

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  • Globe terrestre

    # 46572

    DESNOS, Louis-Charles (1725-1805); NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste (1686-1762)

    Globe terrestre

    Dressé sur les Relations les plus nouvelles de Mrs. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences par L. C. Desnos et J. B. Nolin Géographe. Se fait et se vends chez Desnos, rue St. Jacque St. Severin, Quartier de la Place Maubert. Paris, 1760, avec privilége du Roy. Dedié au Roy, par son trés humble trés obéissant …

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  • Sands & McDougall's map of Melbourne and suburbs : showing tramways, railways streets, municipalities quarter mile radii etc. Revised to date

    # 47166

    SANDS & McDOUGALL

    Sands & McDougall’s map of Melbourne and suburbs : showing tramways, railways streets, municipalities quarter mile radii etc. Revised to date

    [Cover title : Map of Melbourne]. Melbourne : Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd., [circa 1911]. Lithographed map, printed in black with red concentric circles, 98 x 74 cm, folded into titled cloth case, lightly marked, offsetting to one panel from the cloth case, a very good copy. An attractive street map of Melbourne extending from …

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  • Political railway map of China

    # 46762

    FAR EASTERN REVIEW

    Political railway map of China

    [Shanghai] : Far Eastern Review, circa 1914. Map, printed in colour, 520 x 425 mm (sheet), a couple of small chips and edges and small stains lower left, showing the railways of China which are operational, under construction, contracted for, and projected, under French, Belgian, Russian, British, German, Japanese, American and Chinese control. The train …

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  • J. M'Douall Stuart's explorations across the continent of Australia. With charts. 1861 - 62.

    # 29256

    STUART, J. McDouall (1815-1866)

    J. M’Douall Stuart’s explorations across the continent of Australia. With charts. 1861 – 62.

    Melbourne : F. F. Bailliere, 1863. First edition. Octavo, lettered pink papered cards (lightly discoloured), cloth spine, pp. [vi, advertisements], folding map (short tear at gutter), title page, 97; [3]; occasional foxing. Account of Stuart’s fifth and sixth expeditions from Adelaide to the north of Australia in search of new grazing land and a passage …

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  • Globes at Greenwich : a catalogue of the globes and armillary spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

    # 47194

    DEKKER, Elly et al.

    Globes at Greenwich : a catalogue of the globes and armillary spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

    Elly Dekker ; with contributions from Silke Ackermann … [et al.] ; edited by Kristen Lippincott, Pieter van der Merwe, and Maria Blyzinsky. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum, 1999. Quarto, buckram in illustrated dustjacket, light handling marks, slipcase slightly marked, pp. xi, 592, illustrations and maps. An …

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  • Stanford’s Library Map of Australasia constructed by A. Keith Johnston F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. &c.

    # 43594

    JOHNSTON, Keith, 1844-1879

    Stanford’s Library Map of Australasia constructed by A. Keith Johnston F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. &c.

    Cover title: Stanford’s map of Australasia. London : Edward Stanford, [1859]. First edition. Steel-engraved map with hand colouring, total dimensions 1550 x 1740 mm, dissected into 48 sections, laid onto linen edged with blue silk, folding to 255 x 215 mm, housed within original embossed brown morocco boards with gilt lettering and ornament (rubbed, spine …

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  • [GLOBE] The earth.

    # 47150

    KLINGER, J. G. (firm)

    [GLOBE] The earth.

    Published by J. G. Klinger in Nuremberg. Constructed, delineated and etched by J. A. Buhler. Nuremberg : J[ohann]. G[eorg]. Klinger, [between 1841 – 1852]. Wooden and plaster globe (6 inches in diameter), covered with 12 glazed and hand-coloured gores, fitted and spinning with metal polar axis in a circular card box, the lid provided in …

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  • The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition, and resources

    # 46524

    MARTIN, Robert Montgomery (1801 - 1868)

    The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition, and resources

    By Montgomery Martin, Esq., late Treasurer to the Queen at Hong-Kong; and member of Her Majesty’s Legislative Council in China. London and New York : The London Printing and Publishing Company [J. & F. Tallis], circa 1851. Six volumes bound in twelve (which are labelled as ‘Divisions’), quarto, publisher’s original gilt-lettered and decorated red cloth …

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  • A true and exact history of the Island of Barbadoes.

    # 43061

    LIGON, Richard (1585? - 1682)

    A true and exact history of the Island of Barbadoes.

    Illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales, together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the …

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  • [MAP] How to get about in Cairo

    # 46814

    CASINO FONTANA (Cairo)

    [MAP] How to get about in Cairo

    At head ad foot of title: Fontana … with the compliments of the management. [Cairo : Casino Fontana, Manial al-Roda, c.1960]. Single sheet, 490 x 350 mm, folding to 170 x 125 mm; recto with several b/w photographic illustrations, including a panoramic shot of the Casino Fontana, verso with large colour map of Cairo (indicating the …

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  • 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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