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A fascinating and varied atlas with very detailed maps and fine illustrations. Many statistics with the latest census being 1880 for the United States. Diagrams and the whole embellished with allegorical figures and other ornaments. Not in Phillips-LeGear. $1,200
John Codman Rope. An Atlas of the Campaign of Waterloo. Folio. New York: Scribner's, 1893. 2ll, 14 double page, hinged maps. Original black, cloth covers. Some bumps to boards; interior is excellent. Ex libris.
This atlas was designed to accompany Rope's Campaign of Waterloo-A Military History. From an initial map showing the entire theatre of the battle (northwest France and Belgium) to troop positions at hourly intervals. $275
Memorial Atlas of Ireland, showing provinces, counties, baronies, parishes, etc. Compiled and drawn from reliable official data and the latest information. 2ll., 33 double page lithographed maps, 12ll. of index. Philadelphia: L.J. Richards & Co., 1901. Excellent condition with original cloth boards with front gold stamped, and spine and corners replaced with facsimile cloth. Leather label on spine. Ref.: Phillips, Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, 2940.
In the 1890s Lucius J. Richards and Company published a number of city atlases in the United States with most in Massachusetts (Worcester, Hampden, Lawrence, Lowell, Springfield) but also Rhode Island (Newport and Portsmouth), Maine (Portland), and West Virginia (Wheeling). Some of their atlases cited Springfield, Massachusetts as place of publication. No copies of this atlas of Ireland has been recorded as sold at auction in the last quarter century. Given the number of Irish immigrants in the United States at the time, one would think that it would be more plentiful, but relatively few immigrants could afford such a book at that time.
This large format (22” x 16”) atlas contains an index map of the entire country and 32 county maps. Great detail is devoted to each map, and the extensive index on twelve leaves of small type text on large pages is most useful. A fine, scarce book. $1,800
C.S. Hammond & Co. Atlas of New York City and the Metropolitan District. New York: Pub. for Wm. H. Whiting & Co., 1915. 13 maps on 18 pages. Paper covers as issued. Ref.: similar to LeGear, 16005.
This real estate atlas has a bird’s-eye view of New York and vicinity on the front cover and six photographs of properties on the back cover. The thematic maps in the interior emphasize the great variety and extent of rail service (elevated and subway) throughout the New York-New Jersey metropolis. A fascinating study in a relatively scarce atlas that was originally designed to be thrown away after brief use. $85
American Geographical Institute. The New World Series of School Maps. Syracuse: Empire New England Company, Inc., 1925. Six maps, dissected and backed on linen. Each map ca. 40 x 52. Folded into original case and with promotional material from the Empire New England Company. All maps with some chipping and wear. Overall very good, except for South America, which has some color lines and stains, but still good condition.
A wonder set of six school maps with the original case in which they were issued. The maps represent 1) The World, 2) North America, 3) South American, 4) Africa, 5) Pacific Ocean, and 6) New York State. As stated in one of the promotional flyers included, the world went through many changes during World War I, "There has never been a greater need for new wall maps for school use than at the present time. The changes wrought by the World War have been so extensive that old maps present a world totally different from the world of to-day." Another flyer lists the changes reflected in the maps, "A New World - A Changed World Re-Mapped In This Fine Series." One of the flyers calls for a different group of maps, but probably these cases were put together differently for different regions, so that this case includes unmentioned maps the Pacific Ocean and New York, but lack some of the others. The maps have boldly presented information, focusing on economic trade, political boundaries, and colonial dominion. A wonderful and unusual picture of the world just post WW I. $550
Robinson’s Atlas of the City of Newark, New Jersey. Volume 3. Newark: Elisha Robinson, 1927. [Southeast from Pennsylvania Railroad and Market Street to Broad Street to Poinier Street to Elizabeth Ave thence to City Line]. Cover and interior very good condition. $275
Standard Atlas of Foster County, North Dakota. Chicago: Brock & Company, 1929. Folio. Cover and interior in very good condition. A classic county atlas, of Foster County in North Dakota. $650
Robert Mills. Atlas of the State of South Carolina . . .. Folio. 34 leaves include 29 hand colored, lithographed maps. Columbia, S.C.: Bostick & Thornley, 1938. Subtitle: “A New Facsimile of the Original Published in 1825.” Ex libris. Original boards, refurbished and with new spine label. Phillips, Atlases, 16983.
Robert Mills (1781-1855) is best known as an architect who studied under Benjamin Latrobe and designed major buildings and monuments in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington as well as his native Charleston. In 1825 he published the first state atlas of any state of the union by using the publishing firm of Fielding Lucas in Baltimore. In subsequent years two facsimiles were printed due to the extreme scarcity of the original. This handsome facsimile (with lovely hand coloring) was the first and limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 67. A 1965, limited edition was published in an enlarged format.
No copies of the original or either facsimile has been sold at public sale in the last twenty five years, and only one original map (that of Charleston District) from the atlas has sold as a separate since 1983, and that at $1,200. Here is a wonderful work of South Carolina history with an introduction by Francis Marion Hutson. $1,400
Atlas of Montgomery County, Maryland. Volume 1. Lansdale, PA.: F.H.M. Klingle, 1959. Folio. Cover and interior in very good condition. $600
Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia. Philadelphia & Hatboro, PA: R.H. Baist, 1945-1965. Folio. Maps backed on linen as issued. Covers and interiors in very good condition.
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