Maps

D.APPLETON & COMPANY

MAPS ILLUSTRATING THE ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC . D.APPLETON & COMPANY

This is a very good hardcover album with 8 maps on thin paper, folded to lie loose in the album covers. The covers are a very faded purple embossed cloth with gilt title to the front cover. All maps done under the direction of Major J.G.Barnard of the U.S.Engineering Survey. The contents page lists lengthy titles for the 8 maps, but all are of the Isthmus, and various rivers, ports and entrance channels. The maps are all complete, but several are very fragile and are browned at the folded edges, with occasional pinholes. 4to, 9 1/2" high X 5 1/2" wide. Map sizes vary from about 2' square to 3' square.

Bookseller reference : 002334

THE RIVER THAT GOD FORGOT. COLLINS LONDON 1968

Very Good/Very Good First Edition Hard Cover in a Dust Jacket octavo, 320 pages, illustrated, maps, index.

ABRAHAM ORTELIUS

HAND COLORED ENGRAVED MAP OF ARTESIA (AMSTERDAM) 21.5" X 17.25" 1587 . (LBC) [G[. UNKNOWN 1587

Fine with no dust jacket Map Color Illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tal; Detailed scans available front and back including a page of Latin language script. Two small nicks at top right at edge of blank margin. In acrylic. Finely executed engraved map of Amsterdam. "Abraham Ortelius was a Dutch geographer and cartographer, born in Antwerp on April 14, 1527. He studied Greek, Latin and mathematics in Antwerp and worked as a map and book dealer. He also spent time with cartography and published the first world atlas, 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', which was probably the first collection of maps in the shape of a book, 20 years before Mercator published his world atlas. In its time, 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' was so successful, that it had to be re-printed 4 times in the first year of its publishing alone. Between 1570 and 1612 the atlas was published in 42 editions and the 7 languages Latin, German, Flemish, French, Spanish, English and Italian. It proved to be an enormous success for Abraham Ortelius and his beneficiaries. Abraham Ortelius was the first cartographer, who named the sources of his maps by mentioning the cartographers. Any subsequent editions after 1598 were published by Jan Baptiste Vrients, who purchased the rights after the death of Abraham Ortelius and his beneficiaries. Abraham Ortelius also produced a collection of place names 'Thesaurus Geographicus', which is of similar importance. Abraham Ortelius died in 1598."

POTTER, JONATHAN

COUTRY LIFE BOOK OF ANTIQUE MAPS. CHARTWELL BOOKS, INC. SECAUCUS, NJ 1989

Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket Hardcover Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 192 pages; Couple short tears to DJ, one taped- see graphic. Contents unmarked.

HOLMAN, LOUIS A.

OLD MAPS AND THEIR MAKERS. C. E. GOODSPEED AND CO. BOSTON 1925

Near Fine with no dust jacket First Edition Paperback red/b/w plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 52 pages; A well done pamphlet dealing with early geographical maps.

ANGELL, , JAMES ROWLAND

VICTORY ATLAS OF THE WORLD RARE INSERT WS676-8. C. S. HAMMOND & CO

Near Fine in Fine dust jacket Hardcover Color Illustrations; Angell, James Rowland, ILLUSTRATED Victory Atlas of the World Including Battle Maps of All Fronts INCLUDING SCARCE INSERT IN FINE CNDITION OF FOLDOUT WAR MAPS. NEW YORK: C. S. Hammond & Co. 1943 Hard Cover. Hardbound tight and clean in near fine condition. MAPS CARTOGRAPHY BATTLES WW II GEOGRAPHY BATTLE FRONTS CARTOGRAPHY Battles Ww Ii GEOGRAPHY Battle Fronts

SEWERZOW, NICOLAI:

SEWERZOW'S ERFORSCHUNG DES THIAN-SCHAN-GEBIRGS-SYSTEMS 1867. NEBST KARTOGRAPHISCHER DARSTELLUNG DESSELBEN GEBIETES UND DER SEE'NZONE DES BALKASCH-ALAKUL UND SIEBENSTROMLANDES NACH DEN ORIGINALEN UND OFFIZIELLEN RUSSISCHEN AUFNAHMEN. 2 VOLUMES. GOTHA, JUSTUS PERTHES, 1875.

4to. Pp. vi, 50; (ii), 102. With two large folding lithographed maps: "Originalkarte des centralen theiles des Thianschan-Gebirgssystems zur aabersicht von N.A. Sewerzoff's Reisen 1864/8 nach den Messtisch - Aufnahmen der westsibirischen Militertopographen 1856/8 ... " and "NUErdliche fortsetzung der originalkarte centralen theiles des Thianschan-Gebirgssystems, umfassend die Seezone des Balkasch-Alakul & das Siebenstromland umfassend die Seenzone des Balkasch - Alakul & Das Siebenstromland". Included in Petermann's 'Geographischen Mittheilungen' (parts 42-43). Survey of the north western border region between China and Russia undertaken by the Western Siberian Toptographical corps in 1859. Yakushi (1984) S153.

Bookseller reference : 32047

BRESSY, R., T. WESTHOVIUS & D. HELD.

PHILOSOPHICE ENDE MATHEMATICE WATER-SPECULATIEN, T'SAMEN GESTELT ENDE BEVORDERT, OMME DE ROOVAERT, ENDE DE HAVEN VAN SEVENBERGEN. OP DAT ALLE GEINTERESSEERDE END KONST-LIEVENDE, UYT DE SELVE, ENDE OP AFGETEECKENDE CAARTEN MOGTEN SIEN, WAT ALDAER AEN DE WATER-LOOPT SCHORT, ENDE HOE DE VOORTZ VAAR-WATERS GEHOLPEN KONNEN WERDEN. HIER ZIJN OOK BY GEVOUGD REMEDIEN ENDE VOORSLAGEN TOT VERBETERINGE VAN DE MAAS: MITSGADERS VAN DEN NEDER-RHIJN, ENDE DE YSEL. DORDRECHT, DIRK GORIS, 1691.

Sm. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and endpieces. (6), 32 pp. First edition of an interesting work on the condition and watermanagement of the waterways, (the Roovaert and Hollandsch Diep), in the neighbourhood of Zevenbergen, a town in the province Noord Brabant in the Netherlands and also including some notes on improvements and adjustements of the run and watersides of the large rivers Maas and Yssel, by R. Bressy, Theodorus Westhovius (1645-1705) and D. Held. Until 1805 Zevenbergen was part of the province Holland. A third edition of this work appeared in 1695. Very good copy.- (Small old library label with number pasted on front cover and stamp on leaf). Bierens de Haan 582; Bodel Nijenhuijs 513 A.

Bookseller reference : 832D6NIBOQMG

LEDRU, ANDRE PIERRE.

VOYAGE AUX ILES DE TENERIFFE, LA TRINITE', SAINT-THOMAS, SAINTE-CROIX ET PORTO-RICCO, EXECUTE' PAR ORDRE DU GOUVERNEMENT FRANCAIS, DEPIUS LE 30 SPETEMBRE 1796 JUSQU'AU 7 JUIN 1798, SOUS LA DIRECTION DU CAPTAINE BAUDIN, POUR FAIRE DES RECHERCHES ET DES COLLECTIONS RELATIVES A' L'HISTOIRE NATURELLE; CONTENANT DES OBSERVATIONS SUR LE CLIMAT, LE SOL, LA POPULATION, L'ARGRICULTURE, LES PRODUCTIONS DE CES ILES, LE CARACTERE, LES MOERS ET LE COMMERCE DE LEURS HABITANTS..... PARIS, ARTHUS BERTRAND, 1810.

2 vols. 8vo. Original orange wrappers with brown paper title labe and blue library shelf stamp on spine. Large folding coloured map (77,5 x 42,5 cm) of the islands of Saint Jean, Puerto Rico and the isle of Vieques. (9), XLVII, 315, (3); (4), 324, (1) pp. First edition of this account of Nicolas Baudin's expedition to the Canary and West India Islands by the French naturalist Andre Ledru (1761-1825), who served as the expedition's botanist. The expedition was a great success, they returned with a huge collection of geological samples, fauna, shells and fossils, along with 195 botanical samples. Due to this successful expedition Baudin became one of the most respected sea-farers in France and later he was given the command to a huge 1800 expedition to Australia.Present in this copy is the Ledru's updated edition of Thomas Lopez de Vargas Machuca's extremely rare wall map of Porto Rico and Vieques. Only a few Spanish maps were published at this time, as Spanish authories wished to keep detailed infomation and knowlegde of their own political interests under strickt control. This is why the are known for their rarity, and maps based on that are likewise uncommon. This is one of the earliest maps solely on Porto Rico available, notable for the detail, accuarcy and beauty that it has inherited from the Spanish exemplar. A very fine uncut set preserved in a half morocco box with cloth sides. Chadenat 113; Phillips, <I>List of maps of America in the Library of Congress</I> p. 718.

Bookseller reference : 763BD0OZMOJ3

BRUYN, M. DE.

BYBELSCHE HUIS- EN ZAK-ATLAS; BESTAANDE IN VYFTIEN NAAUWKEURIGE EN NET AFGEZETTE LANDKAARTJES; ALLE ZO TOT OPHELDERING DER BYBELSCHE AARDRYKSKUNDE EN GESCHIEDENISSEN, ALS TOT BETER VERSTAND VAN VEELE VOORNAAME DEELEN DER HEILIGE BYBELBOEKEN STREKKENDE. AMSTERDAM, MARTINUS DE BRUYN, (CA. 1778).

Contemporary boards. With 15 double-page engraved maps, 4 folding, all coloured by hand. 14 pp. text. Biblical atlas for use at schools and in the homes with 15 fine engraved hand-coloured maps of the "World of the Bible", with a short general introduction. It contains a general map of the Ancient World, maps of Israel under the Kings David and Salomon, Canaan, Judea, Samaria and Galilea, Jordania, a plan of Jerusalem, and maps of Mesopotamia, Assyria and Babylonia, the Arab World, Ancient and Modern Egypt, Ancient Africa and Lybia, Natolia or the Near East, Ancient Greece with its Archipelago, Syria, and Georgia, with Albania, Armenia and Media. Size of the maps is ca. 17,5 x 21,5 cm, the general map 18,5 x 22,5 cm. Good copy.- (Boards sl. soiled, spine repaired). Koeman De Br 1 (lists one copy in private collection).

Bookseller reference : 5460

STOOPENDAAL, DANIEL.

DE ZEGEPRAALENDE VECHT, VERTOONENDE VERSCHEIDE GESICHTEN VAN LUSTPLAATSEN, HEEREN HUYSEN EN DORPEN; BEGINNENDE VAN UTRECHT EN MET MUYDEN BESLUYTENDE.- LA TRIOMPHANTE RIVIERE DE VECHT, REMONSTRANT DIVERSES VEUEES DES LIEUX DE PLAISANCES & MAISONS SEIGNORALES & VILLAGES; COMMENCANT DE UITRECHT & FINISSANT AVEC MUYDEN. AMSTERDAM, WED. NICOLAUS VISSCHER, 1719.

Large folio. Contemp. vellum, ribbed spine, blindtooled centre piece on covers, gilt title, red sprinkled edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. van der Laan after A. de Lairesse, full-page engraved map of the river Vecht, and 98 beautiful views of country houses and gardens along the river Vecht, designed and engraved by Daniel Stoopendaal. (2), 16, 37, (1 blank) pp. text. First edition of the 'Triumphant Vecht', with the famous print-series of the rich country houses and gardens along the river Vecht, numbered 1-98, two views printed on one leaf, all versos blank. Daniel Stoopendaal was active at Amsterdam from 1685 to 1713, and he drew all the houses and gardens from nature, mostly seen from across the river, resulting in beautiful views of the meandering river Vecht. The gardens of several houses were drawn also from several other angles. The series gives a good impression of the rich and large classical gardens of the period. The beautiful country houses along the river Vecht were built in the last decennia of the Dutch Golden Age for the summer pleasures of the rich ship owners and merchants of Amsterdam, mostly mentioned by name in the titles underneath the plates. All views are also extensively praised and explained by Andries de Leth (1671-1732), who edited the print-series after the artist's death. His text, dated December 1718, covers the first sixteen pages preceeding the prints. At the end of the print-series another 37 pages of text contain a lengthy poem by Claas Bruin, describing a pleasure trip on the river Vecht, praising all houses and gardens he passes, with an extra poem inserted for "Ouderhoek", the country house of his friend Antoni van Hoek (1649-1720). On plate 49 is depicted one of the three visits of Czar Peter the Great to Van Hoeks' estate Ouderhoek in 1717.The first two views show a plan of the city of Utrecht and a profile view of Utrecht with the Dom rising high into the sky. The two last views show the two smaller cities at the end of the river Vecht, Weesp and Muiden. Weesp is seen from the side of the sluice, and the view of Muiden includes people working at the strengthening of the river bank. Like the title, the text underneath the views is bilingual, in Dutch and in French facing each other. The popularity of Stopendaals work resulted in the republishing of the Zegepralende Vecht in the same year. In 1791 a new edition appeared under the name <I>De Vechtstroom. </I>Some consider this to be an edition of less quality because of the frequent use of the same plates.The <I>Zegepralende Vecht </I>and the later <I>De Vechtstroom</I> differ on several points: Plate 19 of the estate Harteveld shows in the 1719 edition the house with windows with shutters. The 1791 edition shows English slide windows. There are also some minor differences in the depicting of the pavement in front of the house.As mentioned before <I>Zegepralende Vecht </I> was issued twice in 1719. The first edition contains 98 plates of which 4 plates of the House of Driemond (plates 93-96) . In the later 1719 edition this was extended with four more plates of the House of Driemond (plates 94a-94d). The Vechtstroom contains the 8 plates of Driemond. Another (minor) difference in the first 1719, and the later extended 1719 edition is in plate 96. This plate with the pond of the Driemond estate is different in both editions. Different plates seem to have been used. Also in plate 94, in the last 1719 edition there are two statues behind the hedge, in the first there are none. Very fine copy. Springer p. 47; Hollstein XXVIII, 55; A. Lisman, <I>Bij de nieuwe uitgave</I>, uit: <I>De zegenpralende Vech</I>t, reprint 1998.

Bookseller reference : 64SGCPV8AJXQ

BENYOWSKY, MAURITIUS AUGUSTUS COUNT DE.

MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS; CONSISTING OF HIS MILITARY OPERATIONS IN POLAND, HIS EXILE INTO KAMCHATKA, HIS ESCAPE AND VOYAGE FROM THAT PENINSULA THROUGH THE NORTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN, TOUCHING AT JAPAN AND FORMOSA, TO CANTON IN CHINA, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE FRENCH SETTLEMENT HE WAS APPOINTED TO FORM UPON THE ISLAND OF MADAGASCAR. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. LONDON, G.G.J. & J. ROBINSON, 1790.

2 vols. Large 4to. Later three-quarter brown calf, gilt spines with red and light brown labels lettered in gold. With the portrait of the author in roundel on the title 0f the first vol., engraved by Heath, and 23 (all issued) numbered engraved plates of which 17 are folding, with maps, charts, views and inhabitants of Madagascar etc. 12, (2), XXXIII, 422, (2); (4), 399 pp. First edition of the interesting account of the travels and memoirs of Count Mauritius Augustus de Benyowsky (1746-1786). According to the title the account is based on Benyowsky's original journal, which he in 1783 had presented to J.H. Magellan, a descendant of Ferdinand Magellan, for publication in the United Kingdom. It was translated by William Nicholson. Benyowsky, a nobleman of Hungarian origin, had travelled to Poland and Lithuania where he was involved in military operations relating to the struggle of independence of Poland from the Russian rule. After being captured by the Russians in 1770, he was sent into exile to Kamchatka, the peninsula at the eastern Siberian coast. With other prisoners, however, he managed to escape by sea in 1771. On their journey they visited Japan, Formosa, Canton, China and the northern Pacific, well before James Cook and La Perouse. His voyage to Macao was the first known voyage from the north-east to the south-east shores of Asia. The present work contains interesting details on Siberia, the Russian fur trade and the history, life and customs of the natives of Kamchatka. There is also a description of the Kurile and Aleutian islands and Benyowsky claims to have landed on Alaska. In the name of the French government he later led made an expedition to Madagascar to establish a French colony of which an interesting account is included. Back in Paris Benyowsky became a close friend of Benjamin Franklin and Casimir Pulasky. In 1779 he followed Pulaski to America and offered his services in the American Revolution. With Benjamen Franklin's assistance he founded an American-British company for business with Madagascar. As the independent ruler of the island he challenged in the name of his empire the European powers. That apparently was too much: Benyowsky perished as Malagasy monarch in 1786 in fights with the French.Besides being the author of this bestseller, Benyowsky became a rich source of inspiration for writers, poets and composers. The play <I>Count Benyowsky</I> (or <I>The Conspiracy of Kamtschatka</I>), a tragicomedy in five acts by the German playwright August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819), for instance, had its premier in the US in Baltimore in 1814. Even a popular TV series "Vivat Benovsky" was broadcasted in the '70s of the 20th century.A German translation appeared in 1791; an annotated English edition was published in London in 1904 and a French annotated edition in 1999. The work is richly illustrated with maps, charts, plans of the journey as well as of the French settlement on Madagascar:1.(I). Five plans of the Battle of Lelki, Grodek, Zuanciecz, Braha, and Zuka.2. (II). 'Carriage drawn by dogs; used at Kamchatka'.3. (V) The entrance of the river Bolsha. The bay Maurice on Beerings island. Drawing of a ship.4. (VI). Views on Beerings island and The Kurilles islands.5. (VII). Two views on Kamchatka seen to the Northward (Cape Apachazana), and 'Land in sight May 29, 1771'.6. (VIII). 'Land in sight, June 1, 1771. Land in sight, June 3, 1771'.7. (IX). View of the land from the anchoring place, and Aladar Sound.8. (X). 'High land in sight, June 9th, 1771. Land in the N.E. quarter, June 10th, 1771'.9. (XI). Cape Alaksinahomin; View of the island Urumusir. 10.(XIV). A plan of the bay of Usilpatchar. The island & harbor Tacasima. The sound of Usmay Ligon.11. (XIII). The order of the Japanese march.12.(XV). An affair of retaliation upon the island of Formosa. 13. (XVII). The cloathing of slaves for sale upon the island of Madagascar.14. (XVI). Large folding map of Louisbourg, the chief settlement o

Bookseller reference : 776BFFBY9SUF

OHATA, BUNJIEMON.

HISHU NAGASAKI NO ZU (PLAN OF NAGASAKI, HIZEN PROVINCE). NAGASAKI, OHATA BUNJIEMON, AN'EI 7 (1778).

615 x 875mm. Original red cloth paper boards with title label pasted on front cover and additional writing in Japanese characters; preserved in later blue cloth slipcase (170 x 95 mm), closing in Japanese style with two ivory clasps. Large folding woodcut map of the port and city of Nagasaki, printed on four sheets in black and grey. Very fine and rare map of the harbour of Nagasaki, with mountainous landscape in the background and Chinese junks, a ship from Siam and Dutch vessels standing out in the harbour, one of the Dutch ships being towed by Japanese oared craft to the Dutch trading post on the artificial island Deshima, left of the centre of the map. The plan is composed of four sheets and gives a very detailed image of the depiction of the foreign trading port, city, streets, temples, shrines, and rivers, together with a view on the harbour and mountainous surroundings. This is the second edition of the map. The first edition was printed in Horeki in 1764, making our map the first map of the city actually printed in Nagasaki, and the first which Ohata signed in his name. Ohata Bunjiemon is the founder of the Toshimaya at Katsuyama street in Nagasaki some time during the Horeki era (1751-1764). This edition of the map shows some important modifications, in that the names of the streets, temples, and government offices are given in Chinese characters (as opposed to <I>katakana</I> in the Horeki edition) was made in 1778, when the Tokugawa Shogunate government had approved trading with other countries.The two inserts with Japanese characters give the distances between Nagasaki and neighbouring domains, as well distances (by land and sea) between Nagasaki and important cities throughout Japan. Very good copy.- (Small skilfully repaired tear along one fold). Clavreuil, <I>Bibliotheque Sino-Japonaise de Jean Blondelet, </I>73; Kerlen 525; <I>Maggs Bros, Cat. 1311,</I> 223; <I>Monumenta Cartogr. Jap</I>., pl. 109; Mody, pl. 31; McGovern, 'List of Nagasaki maps', in: <I>Imago Mundi</I>, 15 (1960), p.108; Kurita, nr. 71; cf. H. Bosma, <I>Komo-Jin. Roodharige vreemdelingen op Deshima</I> (Exhib. cat. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1983), 12.

Bookseller reference : 987A5GBEJ95A