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Kitchin's post-Chaise Companion through England and Wales.
large 8vo, oblong, 8 p., hlf. vellum (modern), 104 uncol. maps (15.5 x 20.4 cm), excellent condition.A fine copy of this popular pocket atlas with index, a general map of...
Place & Date: London, R. Sayer / J.Bower / C.Bowles, 1767
Selling price: $1250
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Atlas.
Charming atlas published by Pieter Meijer of Amsterdam. Meijer gives credit on all of his maps to E.Bowen.Including a double hemisphere world map and maps of America, Afr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1768
Selling price: $1205
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Recueil des Côtes Maritimes de France en 50 feuillets tirées des meilleures cartes gravées et Manuscrites dédié à son Altesse M. le Comte de Clermont...
Very rare Atlas of the coasts of France, first published in 1757 and expanded by Brion de la Tour, who added the province names to the copper plate. The charts are printe...
Place & Date: Paris, Desnos, 1768
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2016
Atlas moderne ou collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre par plusieurs auteurs.
Typical 18th century French atlas, including maps by Janvier, Rizzi Zannoni and Bonne. Decorative title page of part one: two women holding the title in a large drape, th...
Place & Date: Paris, Lattré, 1771
Selling price: $3800
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Atlas portatif pour servir à l'intelligence de l'histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes.
Scarce atlas with maps of al parts of the world after R.Bonne. The maps have titles in French, but the scales and subtitle underneath the map are in Dutch. Each map has b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, E. van Harrevelt, D.J. Changuion, 1773
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2012
Description Géographique des Debouquemens qui sont au nord de l'isle de Saint Domingue.
Scarce Atlas of the Bahamas, including maps of Bermuda, the Strait of Florida, Turks & Caicos, St. Augustine, etc. With the engraved title dating 1768. With 34 (part...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Selling price: $2150
Sold in 2014
Le Neptune Oriental ou routier general des Cotes des Indes orientales et de la Chine. . .
b>The second, much enlarged, edition of the important French Sea Atlas of the Red Sea, India, the East Indies, Indochina and Formosa.Large folio, contemp. gilted motte...
Place & Date: Paris, Demonville & Brest, Malassis, 1775
Selling price: $10000
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Nouvel atlas geographique & historique.. / Nieuwe en geographische en historische Atlas . . .
This second edition of this charming travel compendium is becoming relatively scarce nowadays.Illustrated with a charming frontispiece, two uncolored plates of a sphere, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1778
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2013
Atlas Géographique des quatre parties du monde par Guillaume de L'Isle et Phil. Buache.
Incomplete atlas published by Ph.Buache. Including engraved title, world map in double hemispheres, Europe, Plan topo-Hydrographique du Detroit de Gibraltar (by Treutel &...
Place & Date: Paris 1780
Selling price: $2900
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[Bound collection of 22 maps in Italian after Bowen]
The only recorded example of this bound collection of 22 maps in Italian, copied after Emanuel Bowen and given credit in the cartouches. The maps have extensive text pane...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1780
Selling price: $5000
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Bybelsche Huis en Zak-Atlas....
Unusual atlas with a few pages of text followed by 15 copper-engraved folding maps of areas in the Near East, Arabia, Turkey, and northern Africa: 1) Kaart van de Oude W...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780
Selling price: $330
Sold in 2017
Bowles's Post Chaise Companion; or, Travellers Directory through England and Wales …
The 2nd edition (1782); printed at Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, London.The book includes an engraved general map of E...
Place & Date: 1782
Selling price: $320
Sold in 2023
Nouvel Atlas portatif destiné principalement..
Populair atlas with decorative title-page engraved by Groux and dated 1784. Four pages introduction and 3 fully engraved index pages. The condition of the maps throughout...
Place & Date: Paris 1784
Selling price: $2500
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Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, dressé pour l'Histoire Philosophique & Politique des Etablissemens & du Commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes.
Illustrated with 50 fine uncolored copper plate maps and 23 fold out tables. All maps have centerfold, except for plate I ("L'Ancien Monde et le Nouveau en Deux Hemi...
Place & Date: Geneve, J.L. Pellet, 1785
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2010
Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, dressé pour l'Histoire Philosophique & Politique des Etablissemens & du Commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes.
Illustrated with 49 fine uncolored copper plate maps. All maps have centerfold, except for plate I ("L'Ancien Monde et le Nouveau en Deux Hemispheres") which ha...
Place & Date: Geneve, J.L. Pellet, 1785
Selling price: $1200
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Unique world atlas by Louis Joseph Mondhare.
The atlas seems to be an attempt to publish a folio world atlas, maybe on Pierre Jean’s initiative. So far, it is the only known example of a folio world atlas publishe...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1785
Selling price: $10000
Sold in 2018
Atlas encyclopédique..
The atlas was published separately until his complete set of Encyclopédie methodique appeared. 29 Maps relating to America. 19 Historical maps: 6 World maps, continent m...
Place & Date: Paris 1787
Selling price: $4400
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Atlas du voyageur françois..
Rare atlas volume containing maps of all parts of the world: World map interesting for its depiction of Mer de L'Ouest or Sea of the West a great sea, easily the size of ...
Place & Date: Paris 1787
Selling price: $2100
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Le Pilote de L'Isle de Saint-Domingue Et Des Debouquemens De Cette Isle, Comprenant Une Carte De L'Isle De Saint-Domingue Et Une Carte Des Debouquemens, Depuis la Caye d'Argent ...
Le Pilote de L'Isle de Saint-Domingue Et Des Debouquemens De Cette Isle, Comprenant Une Carte De L'Isle De Saint-Domingue Et Une Carte Des Debouquemens, Depuis la Caye d'...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1787
Selling price: $2800
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Cartes des voyages [with 71 maps.
Superb atlas made for Prevost d'Exiles' Abrege de l'Histoire Generale des Voyages, consisting of 71 (mostly folding) maps by the French cartographer Nicolas Bellin. The m...
Place & Date: Paris, 1746-1788
Selling price: $3550
Sold in 2009
ou nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la géographie,..
Atlas for the children with 24 maps of the World and continents and maps of European countries. Size of the maps: 13x17cm size of the binding: 17x11x3cm.With fine engrave...
Place & Date: Lyon, Bruyset Père & Fils, 1790
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2008
Kurze Erläuterung des Erdbodens...
Scarce atlas with 20 small copper engraved maps. Although anonymous, according to the bibliographer Johann Georg Meusel, the author was Johann Friedrich Hähn. The maps o...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1792
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020
Atlas élémentaire de géographie physique et politique, ancienne et moderne,
Interesting and uncommon atlas with printed title page, 4 world maps, maps of the continents, many countries have a modern map, supplemented with an ancient of physical m...
Place & Date: Paris 1797
Selling price: $1800
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Atlas portatif universel.
Edited by : "Au dépôt de Géographie, Rue Geoffroy Langevin, N° 328. Se trouve A Paris au Bureau de l'Atlas National, Rue de la Harpe, N° 26. Et chez tous les Ma...
Place & Date: Paris, de Pellier, 1799
Selling price: $4100
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Atlas élémentaire, composé de 31 Cartes. . .
An attractive Atlas with 31 copper engraved double-page maps of the World after Vaugondy. Title, preface, table, 112 interesting text pages. Contains a double hemisphere ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1799
Selling price: $500
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Atlas pour servir à la relation du voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse,...
A rare complete first edition in folio with title-page, a large folding map by Barbié du Bocage, and 43 engraved plates by Copia, Perée, and Maleuvre after drawings by ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2016
Four Astronomical Diagrams (manuscript atlas).
A well executed manuscript of celestial charts and diagrams. Copernican system, Tychonic system, Ptolemaic system, planets (Uranus called Herschel), the seasons, lunar an...
Place & Date: Unknown, ca 1800
Selling price: $250
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A Book of Maps (manuscript atlas).
A well executed manuscript atlas with four maps: Canaan; Travels of the Apostles; Missionary Stations in India; Europe. Of particular interest is the map of South East As...
Place & Date: Unknown, ca 1800
Selling price: $250
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Voyage de découvertes, a l'Océan Pacifique du nord, et autour du monde...
A rare French octavo edition of George Vancouver's explorations during the years 1790-1795, first published in 1797, the present work published in Paris in the year 1800 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1802
Selling price: $990
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A new and elegant general atlas, dedicated to Her Royal Highness Charlotte Augusta, Princess . . .
With printed title "Laurie and Whittle new and accurate general atlas: chiefly intended for the use of schools, and convenience of gentlemen's libraries: also to acc...
Place & Date: London, 1810
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2021
Petit Atlas moderne ou collection de cartes élémentaires dédié à la jeunesse.
Charming pocket atlas with decorative engraved title page, 2 plates with spheres, world map in double hemisphere, Europe, France (2), The Low Countries, Spain, Italy, Ger...
Place & Date: Paris, chez Delamarche, s.d.circa 1811
Selling price: $900
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A complete course of Geography, by means of instructive games...
Interesting Atlas with 14 double-page engraved maps by Mr. Wauthier after the Abbé Gaultier and dated 1797 or 1799. First with 50 pages of text about Geography, then t...
Place & Date: London, 1811
Selling price: $355
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Geographiske chartor öfver Swerige. Afd. I-IV. 1796-1812.
This is the beautiful first four parts of Samuel Gustav Hermelins atlas of Sweden and Finland "Geografiske Kartor öfver Swerige". Each of the four title pages ...
Place & Date: Stockholm, 1796-1812
Selling price: $5400
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Whittle and Laurie's new and accurate general atlas: chiefly intended for the use of schools, and convenience of gentlemen's libraries: also to accompany the various geographical grammars, dictionaries,...
Unusual Atlas with 39 up-to-date copper engraved maps from the early 19th century. Some maps showing explorers tracks, dates, and annotations. Ninth edition, 1814. With t...
Place & Date: London, 1814
Selling price: $1400
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A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF VOYAGES INTO THE ARCTIC REGIONS; Undertaken Chiefly for the Purpose of Discovering a North-East, North-West, or Polar Passage Between the Atlantic and Pacific. BARROW, JOHN
First Edition. Barrow, second secretary to the Admiralty, was one of the prime instigators of the renewal of arctic exploration in the nineteenth century. With Banks and ...
Place & Date: London - New York, 1818
Selling price: $500
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Atlante generale dell Ab. Bartolomeo Borghi nella Stamperia Granducale Firenze 1819.
One of the most important aspects of the atlas is that it incorporated the new geo-political contours of Europe decided upon at the Congress of Vienna held at the end of ...
Place & Date: Florence, 1819
Selling price: $9000
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Ch'onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven]
A nice manuscript example of a Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] with 15 maps, one map more than usually the case. Most have a description of the region or titl...
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1820
Selling price: $5000
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Elements of General History Ancient and Modern.
Eight edition of this popular history book written by Alexander Fraser Tytler. At end of volume one, dealing with ancient history 6 folding maps are bound in: Orbis Veter...
Place & Date: London/Edinburgh, 1821
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2016
Atlas Minimus Universalis, or A Geographical Abridgement Ancient and Modern of the Several Parts of the Earth. . .
Complete with 58 Hand colored Copper engraved Maps. Near Contemporary Calf. 12mo.A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY OWNED BY DANIEL WILSON, BISHOP OF CALCUTTA AND A MANUSCRIPT LOG O...
Place & Date: London, 1821
Selling price: $2500
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Les jeunes voyageurs en Europe, ou description raisonnée des divers pays compris dans cette partie du monde.
First edition of this fine travel companion illustrated with 16 very decorative maps, each map surrounded with local products and specialties of the region. Included are ...
Place & Date: Paris, Lelong, 1823
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2015