Grp: 94 Misc Cartography Books

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Jan 13, 2020

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An auction featuring an impressive collection of books and maps, including several notable cartographic depictions of California as an island, first editions of notable books including Sir Richard Burton’s “1001 Nights,” and a page from the Nuremberg Chronicle. Revere Auctions info@revereauctions.com

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  Large lot of miscellaneous books on maps and cartography. Includes County Atlases of the British Isles: A Bibliography 1579-1850 by R. A. Skelton; The Malaspina Expedition "In the Pursuit of Knowledge..." by the Museum of New Mexico Press; Sotheby's London Atlases, Travel and Natural History; Seas, Maps, and Men: An Atlas-History of Man's Exploration of the Oceans by G. E. R. Deacon; Mercator: A monograph on the lettering of maps, etc in the 16th century Neterlands with a facsmilie and translation of his treatise on the iralic hand and a translation of Ghim's Vita Mercatoris by A. S. Osley; Maps and Map-Makers by R. V. Tooley; The Story of Maps by Lloyd A. Brown; The History of Topographical Maps symbols, pictures and surveys by P.D.A. Harvey; Humboldt and the Cosmos by Douglas Botting; Down to Earth: Mapping for Everybody by David Greenhood with illustrations by Ralph Graeter; Investing in Maps by Roger Baynton-Williams; Five Centuries of Map Printing (three copies) edited by David Woodward; The Compleat Plattmaker: Essays on Chart, Maps, and Globe Making in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (two copies) edited by Norman J. W. Thrower; Maps, Mirrors & Mechanics by Lancelot Hogben; The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from antiquity to the space age by John Noble Wilford; The New Cambridge Modern History Atlas edited by H. C. Darby and harold Fullard; British Maps and Map-Makers (two copies) by Edward Lynam; George Washington's Map Maker: A Biography of Robert Erskine by Albert H. Heusser; Maps and Prints for pleasure and investment by D. C. Gohm; Animals & Maps by Wilma George; Cartographical Curiosities by Gillian Hill; The Leardo Map of the World 1452 or 1453 by John Kirtland Wright, Ph.D.; Maps: A Historical Survey of their Study and Collecting by R. A. Skelton; The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815) (three copies) by Colin McEvedy; Terrae Incognitae Volumes III, V, and IV; Christopher Saxon and Tudor map-making (two copies) by Sarah Tyacke & John Huddy; Map Collectors' Circle volumes I to IV ranging from 1963-1967; Beruhmte Atlanten by Franz Wawrik; First Lessons in Geography: on the Plan of Object Teaching by James Monteith; Globe Studies and Uses by S. W. Boggs and F. K. Branom; Ptolemy's Geography by Henry N. Stevens; Foreign Maps by Everett C. Olson and Agnes Whitmarsh; Progress in Geography: International Reviews of Current Research volume 9 by Christopher Board, Richard J. Chorley, Peter Haggett, and David R. Stoddart; Geography and Cartography a reference handbook third edition by C. B. Muriel Lock; General Cartography by Erwin Raisz; The Dawn of Modern Geography A.D. 1260-1420 by C. Raymond Beazley; Bibliographie de la Nouvelle-France 1545-1700 by Henry Harrisse; Cartographica Curiosa by Stephanie Hoppen; five Historic City Plans and Views; Map Collectors' Circle: No. 41 Country Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1850 part I compiled by R. A. Skelton; Map Collectors' Circle: No. 42 The Printed Maps of Jamaica up to 1825 by Capt. Kit S. Kapp; Map Collectors' Circle: No. 43 The Malinowski Collection of Maps of Poland compiled by H. Malinowski part III; Map Collectors' Circle: No. 44 The Printed Maps of New South Wales 1773-1873 by R. V. Tooley; Map Collectors' Circle: No. 45 Smith's Virginia and its Derivatives by Prof. Coolie Verner; Map Collectors' Circle: No. 46 Claes Jansz. Visscher: A Hundred Maps Described by Tony Campbell; Map Collectors' Circle: No. 47 Maps of Africa, a selection of printed maps from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century part I & No. 48 part II by R. V. Tooley; Map Collectors' Circle: No. 49 County Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1850 A Bibliography compiled by R. A. Skelton part 4; John Goss, "The City of Maps of Europe"; Tony Campbell, "Early Maps"; Text written by Charles Bricker, "Landmarks of Mapmaking. An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmakers" (three copies); translated from the swedish original by Johan Adolf Ekelof, "A. E. Nordenskiold, Facsimile-Atlas to the early history of cartography with reproductions of the most important maps printed in the XV and XVI centuries"; compiled and edited by Emerson D. Fite and Archibald Freeman, "A Book of Old Maps"; edited by R. R. Palmer, "Historical Atlas of the World"; translated and edited by Edward Luther Stevenson, "Claudius Ptolemy the Geography with 14 illustrations and 29 maps"; T. Pownall, MP, "Topographical Description of the Dominions of the United States of America"; C. Broekema, "Deutschland vor drei Jahrhunderten"; edited by Peter Barber, "The Map Book"; R. A. Skelton, "Explorers' Maps"; edited by Valerie G. Scott, "The Map Collector," September 1984 edition, issue No. 28, British Library Publications, England; edited by Valerie G. Scott, "The Map Collector," September 1985 edition, issue No. 32, British Library Publications, England; edited by Valerie G. Scott, "The Map Collector," June 1985 edition, issue No. 31, British Library Publications, England; edited by Valerie G. Scott, "The Map Collector," March 1986 edition, issue No. 34, British Library Publications, England; edited by Valerie G. Scott, "The Map Collector," June 1985 edition, issue No. 31, British Library Publications, England; edited by Valerie G. Scott, "The Map Collector," June 1986 edition, issue No. 35, British Library Publications, England; compiled by Tessa and Tony Campbell, "The Map Collector. Indexes to Issues 21-30 (1982-1985)," Map Collectors Publications; "L'evolution de la Cartographie de la region du Mont-Cenis et de ses abords Aux XV et XVI Siecles," en vente a la Librairie Dardel Chambery; Jonathan Potter, "Country Life Book of Antique Maps. An introduction to the history of maps and how to appreciate them"; Douglas Gohm, "Antique Maps of Europe, the Americas, West Indies, Australasia, Africa, the Orient"; Carole Stott, "Celestial Charts, Antique maps of the Heavens"; Kenneth Nebenzahl, "Maps of the Holy Land"; Carrington, "Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution"; edited by L. P. Stibbe, "Cartographic Materials, a manual of Interpreation for AACR2," 1982; Heather Child, "Decorative Maps"; Jonathan Potter, "Jonathan Potter's Selection of Fine, Decorative and Rare Old Maps. The World and North America" Autumn 1985; Jonathan Potter, "Fine, Decorative and Rare Old Maps," Autumn 1984; Joscelyn Godwin, "Athanasius Kircher. A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge," Thames and Hudson, 1979 (two copies); "The World Encompassed. An Exhibition of the History of Maps Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. October 7 to November 23, 1952," published by the trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, 1952; edited by R. A. Skelton, "History of Cartography"; "Acta Cartographica. A series of monographs and studies on the history of cartography, reprinted from periodicals since 1800," volume XVIII, Amsterdam, 1974; Carl Moreland & David Bannister, "Antique Maps, a collector's handbook"; edited by Joel Makower, "The Map Catalog, Every Kind of Map and Chart on Earth and Even Some Above It"; Richard van de Gohm, "Antique Maps for the Collector" five copies.

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