Cartography

# 18308

CUMMINGS, J.A.

School atlas to Cummings’ Ancient & Modern Geography

Boston : Cummings and Hilliard, [c.1820]. Sixth edition. Octavo, printed wrappers, double page folding world map, double page maps of North America, the United States, South America, Europe, Britain, Asia and Africa, outline hand colour, occasional toning but very good.

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# 49446

BERTUCH, F. J. (Friedrich Justin) (editor)

[BLUE MOUNTAINS CROSSING] Neue Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden.

Verfasset von einer Gesellschaft von Gelehrten, und herausgegeben von Dr. F. J. Bertuch … … Erster Band. Weimar : im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1817. Octavo, four parts in one volume, octavo (192 x 120 mm), contemporary cloth-backed marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), expertly re-backed; front pastedown with 19th-century University College, London bookplate; frontispiece folding engraved …

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# 51368

SANDS & McDOUGALL

[Map of Melbourne and suburbs]

Melbourne : Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd., circa 1900. Lithographed map, printed in colour, 97 x 73 cm, dissected and laid on linen, folded, corners rubbed, a few minor stains, a very good copy. An attractive street map of Melbourne ranging from Broadmeadows to Mordialloc, showing their distances from central Melbourne in concentric circles at …

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# 50809

STANFORD, Edward

Stanford’s map of Scotland

London : Edward Stanford, circa 1885. Chromolithographed map, dissected and laid on linen in 48 panels, 123.5 x 104 cms, housed in publisher’s git-lettered purple slipcase (sunned and marked). London Atlas Series. A fine large format map of Scotland with an inset map of the Shetland Islands.

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# 51244

SCHILDER, Gunter & KOK, Hans.

Sailing for the east. History & catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602 – 1799

Houten (The Netherlands) : Hes & De Graaf, c. 2010. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 707, extensively illustrated, CD-ROM. A detailed study of the sea routes the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) took from Europe to Asia, illustrated with maps and charts on vellum, instruments and books from the period.

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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 51102

PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)

The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, full …

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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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