Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts: Maps
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Brazil and Guayana
New York, J.H. Colton & Co, 1855. 13 3/4" X 16½" (image 13¼" X 16¼"). Hand colored. Near fine. Faint age toning. A beauty, clean margined and striking. Small insets at lower left showing "Pernambuco" and "Rio de Janeiro." Full text ("The Republic of Chili") on verso. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 28012
USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 88.75 | £UK 76.25 | JP¥ 15031]
Catalogue: Maps
Keywords: BRAZIL, GUAYANA
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1975. Wide 8vo. (4pp). Near fine. This handsome, colorful card was printed in modest quantities and intended for distribution to top vendors, suppliers and distributors. Printed on fine heavy stock in red, white and blue, it opens up (to 19" X 25½") to reveal a beautifully reproduced color facsimile of the famed "A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia (London: William Faden, 1777) -- which map Rand McNally published in 1974 in their superb "Atlas of the American Revolution," edited by Kenneth Nebenzahl. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 40343
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 20.25 | JP¥ 3955]
Catalogue: Maps
Merry Christmas Happy New Year
Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, n.y. Small 4to. Three panel. Near fine. This lovely and colorful card was printed in a small quantity meant for distribution to top vendors, suppliers and distributors. Printed in color on fine heavy stock, it opens up (to 24" X 18") to a wonderfully reproduced color facsimile of a two-page map spread "Frankfurt and Environs" from the third volume of Blaeu''s "Grand Atlas" -- likely from Rand McNally's 1977 "Grand Atlas and Picture Book of the World." A blank inner panel gives the history of this circa 1638 Amsterdam map. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 40344
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Catalogue: Maps
Merry Christmas Happy New Year
Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1979. 8vo (9" X 5½"). Top-to-bottom four panel. Near fine. This attractive, colorful card was printed in a small quantity meant for distribution to top vendors, suppliers and distributors. Printed in color on fine heavy stock, it opens up (to 9" X 22½") to a high-quality color photographs of an "elegant sixteenth century scientific instrument.. an astronomical compendium," a 1557 brass three-dimensional contraption featuring a world map and "thirteen leaves of scientific devices and table" -- sundials and other navigational tools. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 40345
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Catalogue: Maps
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1978. Narrow small 4to (4 3/4" X 10½"). Six panels. Near fine. This lovely and colorful card was printed in a small quantity meant for distribution to top vendors, suppliers and distributors. Printed in color on fine heavy stock, it accordion folds opens (to 28" X 10½") to a high-quality color facsimile of "The Earliest Surviving Manuscript Showing Drake's Voyages," a recently-discovered hand-drawn world map of circa 1587 on which Sir Francis Drake's 1577-80 circumnavigation has been drawn. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 40346
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 20.25 | JP¥ 3955]
Catalogue: Maps
Collection of 14 Company Christmas Cards
Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1972. Collection of 14 company Christmas cards, one each for the years 1972 through 1985 plus year three undated. Near fine overall. Printed in modest quantities and intended for distribution only to top vendors, suppliers and distributors, this delightful collection ranges in size from narrow 4to to wide 8vo, some bigger and some smaller. All are handsomely and colorfully printed on fine heavy stock. Most are at least three panels and many are more, and all open up to reveal superb reproductions of famed antiquarian maps from around the world. Some open up to small poster size, and two contain separate folded maps that open to full poster size. Several have been signed by various company executives. Most unusual and attractive -- a collection that would be near-impossible to duplicate. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 40342
USD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 163.5 | £UK 140.25 | JP¥ 27688]
Catalogue: Maps
Chicago
N.p.: N.p. n.y. [ca. 1890s?]. 10½" X 13". Very good. Slight bit of edgewear, with quite small loss of coated surface (only) at upper right and lower right corners, not affecting image and touching upon outermost printed border at upper corner only. Printed entirely in black on heavy orange coated stock, with lake and major thoroughfares accented in green. Titled simply "Chicago" at upper right, with "Reference to Figures" in fine print below and two small columns below this itemizing "Depots" (22 stops) and "Some of the Principal Hotels" (12 locations). "Steam Roads" and "Horse Roads" are also identified. Attractive if cryptic -- possibly printed by George F. Cram for one of the many editions of his "Universal Atlas" or "Unrivaled Atlas of the World," for the similarities are striking. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 28050
USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 88.75 | £UK 76.25 | JP¥ 15031]
Catalogue: Maps
Chili, Argentine Republic, Paraguay and Uruguay
Philadelphia, Charles Desilver, 1856. 13 3/4" X 17¼" (image 12½" X 15"). Hand colored. Very good. Unfortunate but not terribly disfiguring discoloration at upper right corner (touching image slightly). Clear, colorful map. Nice, brightly colored example with interesting small inset at lower right showing "South Part of Patagonia." Sharp decorative border. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 28016
USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.75 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10284]
Catalogue: Maps
Keywords: CHILE, ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, PARAGUAY, URUGUAY
Rand, Mcnally & Co. S' New Business Atlas Map of Connecticut & Rhode Island
N.p. Rand, McNally & Co, 1888. 20 3/4" X 14¼" (image 19½" X 12¼"). Printed coloring. Very good. Faintly age toned, with a few small edge tears, but overall attractive. Printed text on verso. Handsome copy of this atlas map. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 28035
USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 42.25 | £UK 36.25 | JP¥ 7120]
Catalogue: Maps
Keywords: RHODE ISLAND, CONNECTICUT
Golfo Del Mexico
Chicago, The Newberry Library, 1977. Color printed facsimile on heavy stock 12" X 19" cream stock. Near fine. Handsome high-quality facsimile of one gore housed at the Herman Dunlap Smith cartographic collection, being a portion of a 42" globe Coronelli produced in 1688. It depicts a central portion of North America and the Great Lakes, including the Mississippi River that la Salle explored just a few years previous (1682) -- with the mouth of the Mississippi placed much too far to the west. Accompanied by printed Newberry Library transmittal letter. Original Coronelli gores are virtually unobtainable and even this nice facsimile seldom seen. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 39557
USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 42.25 | £UK 36.25 | JP¥ 7120]
Catalogue: Maps
Map of Rice Township
Chicago, Geo. A. Ogle & Co, 1913. Folio (14½" X 17½"). Handsome plat map colored in yellow (page 63) issued in the "Standard Atlas of Jo Daviess County Illinois: Including a Plat Book of the Villages, Cities and Townships of the County.." Verso blank. Very good. Moderate even age toning, else clean and unflawed, with none of the edge tears often found on these maps. A nice example of this map, colored entirely in yellow, of this area with the Mississippi River running down the left side -- just south of U.S. Grant's adopted hometown of Galena. Clean margined and with a nice decorative border. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 41270
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 37.5 | £UK 32.25 | JP¥ 6329]
Catalogue: Maps
Map of New Hampshire & Vermont
Philadelphia, CharlesDesilver, 1856. 13 3/4" X 17" (image 12" X 15"). Hand colored. Ornamental border. Near fine. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 28026
USD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 51.5 | £UK 44.25 | JP¥ 8702]
Catalogue: Maps
Keywords: NEW HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT
Eastern Hemisphere / Western Hemisphere
Mitchell. Two maps published by Mitchell, 1880. Both measuring 12" X 15" (images 10" X 14"). Hand colored. Decorative borders. Near fine. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 28019
USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 117 | £UK 100.25 | JP¥ 19777]
Catalogue: Maps
Keywords: EASTERN HEMISPHERE, WESTERN HEMISPHERE
A Map of Niagara River 4 Miles Above and 3 Below the Falls
Buffalo, E.A. Maynard Book and Job Printer, 1849. Folio (25½" X 19½"), folded into 24mo marbled paper over boards case with printed label. Very good. Original folds visible but with almost no separations; bit of wear to some map edges; case hinge delicate, but expertly, archivally strengthened, thus tight. A lovely, bold copy of this exceptional pictorial lithographed map, printed on unusually thin paper -- making this a rare survivor indeed. A large "Explanation of the Map" fills the entire lower left third, offering both detailed text on twenty specific numbered features on the map and panoramic lithograph of the Falls, while a small "Remarks" box at lower right offers details about the Falls. The map itself is dramatic and simple, showing the landmarks, streets and select buildings around the Falls itself. A boxed list of five hotels featured immediately below the map's title near the center suggests the mercantile nature of this map -- tourism. Printed label on front case board lists title as "Johnson's New Map of Niagara Falls" and includes a small steel-engraved vignette, while the front pastedown is a full-length portrait of an Indian. Rear board bears 1909 engraved bookplate of "The Americana Library of Charles D. Marshall," 1100 books and maps of which were selected by the Buffalo Historical Society and appropriately bookplated by permission of this wealthy collector's niece, Hazel Marshall Koerner, supposedly following her uncle's wishes; but the gift was never made official by the estate, and in the fall of 1913 the heirs demanded that the material be sent to a New York auction house, where it was auctioned to the public on March 16-18 of 1914. Interestingly, the David Rumsey Map Collection depicts a similar 1849 printing of this map, but it shows "H.G. Johnson" rather than "G.W. Johnson" as the cartographer, and the lower left corner of the Rumsey map does not show the "E.A. Maynard Book and Job Printer, Republic Office, Buffalo" which appears in fine print of this copy, below the "Copyright Secured according to Act of Congress -- 1849" citation that appears on both maps. Other 1848 printings, however, cite G.W. Johnson and show the E.A. Maynard text line, which suggests that the Rumsey copy is some other, perhaps later reprint. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 40647
USD 1500.00 [Appr.: EURO 1401.25 | £UK 1200.75 | JP¥ 237326]
Catalogue: Maps
Arcobispado de Caragossa
N.p. [Amsterdam]: N.p. [Blaeu], n.y. [1665]. 21½" X 17½" (image 20½" X 16"). Hand colored. Elaborately-colored insets featuring putti at both lower corners. This "Archdiocese of Zaragoza" ecclesiastical map of this region of Spain was owned by bestselling historical novelist KENNETH ROBERTS (1885-1957), author of "Northwest Passage" among other titles, who had a sizable map collection. In the lower left corner he inscribes this map "For Robert Oldmixon, with the / best wishes of Kenneth Roberts, 1957 / Done by / Blaeu, / 1665, / Amsterdam." The map has been beautifully and archivally double matted using 100% acid-free materials and framed under UV-filtering conservation glass (overall size 29" X 24"). .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 28045
USD 795.00 [Appr.: EURO 742.75 | £UK 636.5 | JP¥ 125783]
Catalogue: Maps
Keywords: ZARAGOSA, SPAIN; BLAEU