Maps

LA HARPE (Jean-François de). Atlas for the Abrégé des voyages. Paris, Moutardier, [1780]. In-4, red morocco, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt edges (period binding). Atlas comprising 65 maps engraved by Bellin, most of them folding: East Indies, Africa, Maldives, Ceylon, Philippines, Siam, Moluccas, China, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Louisiana, Virginia, Carolina, West Indies, Iceland, Southern Hemisphere by Captain Cook, world map, etc. A fine copy in an elegant binding, with scuffing on the lower cover.

Palma de Mallorca - 16th century copper engraving, old col. View of the fortress of Palma de Mallorca. From: Civitatis Orbis Terrarum. Brown Hogenberg. Inscribed in the pl. and inscribed in Latin with the Venetian coat of arms. (Fold in the center). 36 x 47 cm. (52 x 62 cm). Pass. R.

Canaries - WEBB (Philip Barker) & BERTHELOT (Sabin). Natural history of the Canary Islands. Paris, Béthune, 1838. In-folio, purple half-basin, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Atlas only, complete with 36 engravings on 33 plates (including 5 in color), representing views, maps and botany. Sabin Berthelot was a French naturalist and ethnologist. He lived in the Canary Islands for part of his life, and co-authored the Histoire naturelle des îles Canaries with Philip Barker Webb. The latter was responsible for the natural history and Berthelot for the ethnography, history and geography of these islands. A good copy. Minor wear to binding.

Geographical map of Asia by Petrus Bertius (1565 Beveren in Belgium -1629 in Paris), published in Paris by Melchior Tavernier in the first half of the 17th century. Fading and yellowing 39 x 51 cm at sight Attached engraving "North front toward the palace", foxing, 28 x 72 cm on view

ROBERT de VAUGONDY. Atlas d'étude pour l'instruction de la jeunesse. Paris, Delamarche, 1797. In-folio in contemporary boards, spine missing. Complete with 35 double-page engraved plates and maps, but missing the left half of map 25 (first map of ancient monarchies for Rollin's Histoire ancienne). Widespread light dampstaining (with gray spots in places).

PÉRON (François) & FREYCINET (Louis-Claude Desaulses de). Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes. Historique. Paris, 1811. In-4, marbled calf, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Atlas only of the second part, complete with 14 maps and plans, including the two large fold-outs of New Holland and Terre Napoléon. A good copy. Some spotting.

ROBERT DE VAUGONDY (Didier). [New portable atlas]. [Paris], [c.1770]. In-4, unbound. Atlas complete with 53 engraved maps, finely colored at the time. Lacks engraved title. Good condition inside, a few brown spots.

GRENET (Abbé). Atlas portatif à l'usage des collèges, pour servir à l'intelligence des auteurs classiques. [Paris], [1782]. In-4, green paper boards (period binding). Atlas comprising an engraved title and 44 maps by Bonne, engraved on double pages and with watercolored contours at the time: a world map, a planisphere, a wind map, the ancient world, Europe (18), Asia (11), Africa (5), America (North America, United States, Cuba and Jamaica, Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico, West Indies, South America). A good copy.

LAGUILLE (Louis) - Histoire de la Province d'Alsace depuis Jules César jusqu'au mariage de Louis XV, roy de France et de Navarre. Avec des figures en taille douce, des plans, des cartes géographiques et un recueil de pièces, qui peuvent servir de preuves aux faits importants. Strasbourg, Doulssecker, 1727; 3 parts in an in-folio volume, full contemporary calf, spine ribbed, red edges, traces of restoration to covers and boards. First edition. Complete with all engravings: an engraved frontispiece, a large folding map of Upper and Lower Alsace by Doulseker (approx. 99 cm x 40 cm, with restorations), 1 plate (Krutzmanna, p. 44), 1 folding map of Mont Sainte-Odile (p. 80), 1 plate (Sainte Odile, p. 84), a folding map of Strasbourg in 1680 and a map of Strasbourg in 1726 (p. 264). Wormholes on the first 20 leaves, only slightly affecting the text; holes 1 x 2 cm in the first dedication leaf.

Auvergne - BOOS (Emmanuel de) & REVEL (Guillaume). L'Armorial d'Auvergne, Bourbonnois et Forestz. Nonette, Créer, 1998. 1 text volume in-4 publisher's boards and 1 atlas in publisher's slipcase. Numerous black illustrations in the text volume. The atlas contains a double-page genealogical table, 9 double-page black maps, 14 double-page plates of vignette reproductions of Guillaume Revel's armorial (BnF manuscript Fr. 22297), followed by 289 plates of full-page color reproductions of the same armorial.

MEARES (John). Collection de cartes géographiques, vues, marines, plans et portraits, relatifs aux voyages du capitaine J. Meares. Paris, F. Buisson, an III [1795]. In-4, contemporary blue-gray paper-covered boards, untrimmed. Atlas only, complete with 28 engraved plates (portraits, maps, views). A good copy.

MALTE-BRUN (Conrad). Précis de la géographie universelle ou description de toutes les parties du monde. Paris, Au Bureau des Publications Illustrées, 1843. Small folio, green calf, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Atlas comprising 72 maps with watercolor outlines. A good copy. Interior very fresh, spine rubbed.

Egypt - SAVARY (Claude Étienne). Lettres sur l'Égypte, où l'on offre le parallèle des mœurs anciennes & modernes de ses habitants, où l'on décrit l'état, le commerce, l'agriculture, le gouvernement du pays, & la descente de Saint Louis à Damiette, tirée de Joinville et des auteurs arabes, avec des cartes géographiques. Paris, Onfroi, 1785-1786. 3 volumes in 2 volumes in-8, marbled basane, ornate ribbed spines, red marbled title pages, red edges (period binding). Some rubbing, corners worn. First edition, illustrated with 4 folding plates (maps, plan of the Great Pyramid). (Blackmer, 1492.)

DELAMARCHE (Charles-François). Atlas élémentaire composed of 31 maps. Paris, an VIII [1800]. In-8, half tan basane, smooth spine decorated (period binding). 31 double-page engraved maps, with colored outlines, mounted on tabs. Worn binding. Remains of title page rebacked.

16 in-8 maps of Normandy, some taken from Tassin's atlas.

LAGUILLE (Louis) - Histoire de la Province d'Alsace depuis Jules César jusqu'au mariage de Louis XV, roy de France et de Navarre. Avec des figures en taille douce, des plans, des cartes géographiques et un recueil de pièces, qui peuvent servir de preuves aux faits importants. Strasbourg, Doulssecker, 1727; 3 parts in one folio volume, full contemporary calf, spine ribbed, red edges (defects to headpieces, traces of rubbing and restorations to boards and corners). First edition. Complete with all engravings: an engraved frontispiece, a large folding map of Upper and Lower Alsace by Doulseker (99 cm x 40 cm approx.), 1 plate (Krutzmanna, p. 44), 1 folding map of Mont Sainte-Odile (p. 80), 1 plate (Sainte Odile, p. 84), a folding map of Strasbourg in 1680 and a map of Strasbourg in 1726 (p. 264). Good condition inside, solid binding despite reported defects.

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed, Sending Thanks for an "Astronomic Atlas" - TLS in German, signed "A. Einstein," one page, 8.5 x 11, blindstamped personal Princeton letterhead, March 24, 1949. Letter to Mr. And Mrs. Paul Falkenberg. In full (translated): "I was very pleased to receive the pretty astronomic atlas and indeed touched by the money you sent for charitable purposes. On receipt, the funds were immediately directed towards the intended use. Thanking you from the bottom of my heart for your birthday wishes, I remain with best regards." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. One can imagine that Einstein was inundated with gifts relating to the cosmos throughout his years, given his monumental work in observing and defining the universe.

Middle East - OPPERT (Jules). Scientific expedition to Mesopotamia carried out by order of the government from 1851 to 1854. [Paris], [Imprimerie Impériale], [1759]. In-folio, black half-chagrin, gold-stamped spine (period binding). Single atlas with 9 maps, plans and sections engraved by Delsol (5 of them double-page) and 12 fine views engraved by Thomas on Chine appliqué. A native of Hamburg, Julius Oppert made a name for himself thanks to his important discoveries in the deciphering of cuneiform writing, becoming one of the leading specialists in Assyriology. Between 1851 and 1854, he took part in the orientalist Fulgence Fresnel's expedition to Mesopotamia, alongside Félix Thomas. Many of the archaeological antiquities discovered during the excavation of the site of the ancient city of Babylon were unfortunately lost when the overloaded boat sank on the Tigris in 1855. A good copy. Minor wear to binding, some marginal foxing.

Colmar - Frankfurt around 1650. copper engraving. 'Des Heiligen Römischen Freyen Reichs Statt Colmar im oberen Elsaß 1643'. With banderole and coat of arms held by two putti, below legend. (Fold in the center). 32 x 38.5 cm. (36 x 44 cm. R.

[Italy - LA MARRE (Marie Jeanne de). Description historique de l'Italie, en forme de dictionnaire [...] par M. de L.M. de l'Académie de S. Luc à Rome. Enriched with a geographical map of Italy and forty intaglio plates. Avignon, Chambeau, 1790. 2 vol. in-12, mottled tan calf, threaded spines, title and appendix (period binding). Some wear to bindings. Illustrated with a frontispiece, 40 engraved plates and a map by Bourgoin. (Unknown to Barbier and Quérard).

Aquitaine - CANETO (François). Sainte-Marie d'Auch, atlas monographique de cette cathédrale. Paris, Librairie archéologique de Victor Didron, 1857. In-folio, worn contemporary half-binding. First edition on the cathedral of Auch, decorated with a color map of Aquitaine, and 39 lithographed plates including a two-tone view of the cathedral. Some freckling, view detached from binding.

LEVASSEUR (V.). Atlas national illustré des 86 départements et des Possessions de la France, divisé par Arrondissements, Cantons et Communes, avec le tracé de toutes les routes, chemins de fer et canaux. Paris, Combette, 1852. Large folio, including an illustrated title, a statistical table of France and its colonies and 93 numbered maps, including a planisphere. Copy also includes, unnumbered, the new map of France by Charle, Paris Combette, 1852 and 6 maps of the continents, for a total of 100 maps. Bound in red half-leather with corners, spine with false-nerves, the first cover decorated with a green leather lozenge stamped with a gilt title and the words "appartenant à M. Salvaire" ("belonging to Mr. Salvaire"). (binding rubbed, slight foxing on the map of France). Expert : Mr. Nicolas Asvisio

ARROWSMITH (Aaron). A new general atlas, constructed from the latest authorities. Edinburgh, London, A. Constable & Co and Longman & Company, 1817. In-4, red half-basin with corners, smooth spine, printed label on front board (period binding). Fully engraved atlas with illustrated title, table leaf and 53 maps. Minor wear to binding, foxing.

Georg Balthasar Probst ( Augsburg 1732 - 1801 Augsburg), 'Peep-box picture: "Der Mercurius, Vierte Planet und dessen Einfluss" (Allegorie auf den Planeten Merkur), c. 1770, colored copperplate engraving on laid paper from the series "Die Sieben Planeten", besides the then known planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the sun and the moon were also considered planets, these seven planets were symbolized as gods of classical antiquity, inscribed lower right in the plate, with the legend in Latin, French, Italian and German, in the upper margin the mirror-inverted title, 32.3 × 43.2 cm, under glass and passepartout in plain wooden frame, overall size: 51 x 61 cm. >> German portrait and veduta engraver in Augsburg, grandson of the Augsburg art publisher Jeremias Wolff and son of the engraver Johann Balthasar Probst, married in his first marriage to the daughter of the map publisher Matthäus Seutter, in 1766 he began publishing so-called "Guckkastenblätter" in addition to the motifs he had published up to that point.

PICQUET (Charles). Atlas des différentes Divisions Civiles, Militaires & Ecclésiatiques de la France avec des Tableaux Géographiques relatifs à chacune d'elles. Paris, chez l'auteur, An 10-1802. Small folio, half green basane with corners, smooth spine gilt-stamped, red basane title page (period binding). Unusual fully engraved atlas, comprising a title, a dedication leaflet to Bonaparte, First Consul, a table leaflet, 14 tables (including 2 fold-outs), and 15 maps (14 in color) (Départements & Arrondissemens, Tribunaux d'Appel, Archevêchés et Evêchés, Divisions Militaires, Arrondissemens des Préfectures et d'Inscriptions Maritimes, Arrondissemens Forestières de la Marine, and Directions des Douanes). Exemplary without any freckling. Boards rubbed.

Middle East - HAMMER-PURGSTALL (Joseph von). History of the Ottoman Empire from its origin to the present day. Translated from the German on the author's notes and under his direction by J.-J. Hellert. Paris, Bellizard, Barthès, Dufour and Lowell, 1835-1843. 18 volumes of text in-8 and an atlas in-folio, contemporary brown half-chagrin. First French edition, translated by Hellert, and containing 7 fold-out genealogical tables. It is accompanied by an atlas not included in the German edition. According to the table, the atlas is complete with a title, a list of plates, a general map of the Ottoman Empire with watercolor contours, and 37 maps and plans (including one in two sheets). The large folding map of Constantinople and environs was not included with this edition. Hammer-Purgstall made his first trip to Istanbul in 1799, and took part in the Egyptian expedition as interpreter to the English admiral William Sidney Smith. He subsequently served as legation secretary in Istanbul and Moldavia, before taking up a post as interpreter at the Viennese court chancellery. He translated numerous oriental works into German, and was instrumental in setting up an academy of sciences in Austria. Some foxing, marginal spotting to plates, central lack to first map, spines faded.

PIERRE LAPIE (1779-1850) "Atlas Universel de Geographie". With maps. Lehuby, Paris, 1838. Shows wear and faults. Rust stains. Measurements: 51 x 35 x 5 cm.

Egypt - BRUCE (James). Journey to the sources of the Nile. Translated from the English by P. F. Henry. Paris, Au Magasin des romans nouveaux, chez Lepetit, [1799 - An VII]. 8 vols. and an atlas in-16, marbled fawn basane, frieze framing the boards, decorated smooth spines, gilt edges (period binding). Edition of the Bibliothèque portative des voyages. With an atlas comprising a map and 22 plates engraved by Tardieu l'ainé. The Scotsman James Bruce (1730-1794), after a four-year stay in Abyssinia where he commanded the royal cavalry, set out to discover the sources of the Nile. In fact, he explored the sources of the Blue Nile, a tributary of the White Nile, which the Portuguese missionary Paez had already explored. But his vivid account of Abyssinia added to our knowledge of the country, particularly its flora. Minor wear to binding (title-pieces faded, two jaws cracked and two head-pieces snagged). Nice set.

BENEDEN (Pierre-Joseph van). Osteographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles containing the description and iconography of the skeleton and dental system of these animals. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1868-1879. In-folio, leaves, publisher's printed yellow cover. Single atlas comprising (2) ff. and 67 lithographed plates, including 15 on double pages, dealing with paleontology and the identification of intermediate forms in cetaceans. A good copy. Some foxing, cover badly damaged.

CLAUDIUS Ptolemy (C. 100 A.D.-Canopus, c. 170 A.D.). "Cosmography of Claudius Ptolemy". Three volumes: "The Earth Great Atlas" + "Ptolemy's Cosmography" + "Translation". Johanes Reger 1486 Facsimile edition. Copy 1477/3000. Publishers: Ebrisa, Planeta Agostini, Espasa. Measurements: 42 x 30 x 5 cm (only the book). Facsimile edition, numbered, of the 15th century manuscript preserved in the University Library of Valencia, on parchment paper. Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer of the 2nd century AD who lived in Alexandria where he carried out numerous works of scientific research. The Latin translation of his Geographia, completed in 1406 in Rome by Jacobus Angelus, was one of the most important events for the beginning of modern geography and cartography in Europe, making available to European studies the first treatise on cartography with a mathematical and astronomical basis.

DUE CARTE - TWO MAPS: 1) GEOGRAPHIC MAP OF THE ITALIAN TRANSATLANTIC NAVIGATION COMPANY published by the Istituto Geografico De Agostini of Novara. Size 104 x 80 cm. depicts the map of Europe with the company's shipping routes. 2) R. Magnani GENEALOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE DYNASTES OF EUROPE FROM THE TREATY OF VIENNA TO 1911. COMPILATION DRAWN FROM 100 VOLUMES OF THE GOTHA ALMANACCO AND FROM DIFFERENT HISTORICAL AND LITERARY WORKS AND REVIEWS, ed. May 1911. Beautiful synoptic table of European dynasties measuring 108 x 76 cm.

Africa - RAFFENEL (Anne-Jean-Baptiste). Voyage dans l'Afrique Occidentale. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1846. In-8, red half-chagrin, gold-stamped spine, speckled edges (period binding). First edition of the author's first voyage to Africa. Text only, to which is attached part of the atlas comprising 10 finely colored lithographed plates of costumes (lacking the 2 maps and plate 11). A good copy.

Herzogtum Geldern - 17th century copper engraving map, old col. The Duchy of Geldern in the diocese of Roermond in the area of Emmerich, Eindhoven, Rheinberg with the fortification (..). Title cartouche and scale. Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville. Inscribed and inscribed in the pl., 1667 dat. (Broken, stained, fold in the center). 42 x 42 cm. (60 x 62 cm). R.

Atlas Civitatis Orbis Terarrum by Braun and Hogenberg (1575-1617) 3 large volumes of antique maps. Reprinted 1965. Publisher's bindings - Schedelsche Weltchronik. 1493. Reprinted 1965. Leather-bound

GERARDO MERCATO (Flanders; 1512-Duisburg, 1594). "Atlas ou representation du Monde Vniversel et des parties d'ice lui". Facsimile edition. Copy 562/1995. Printer: Coron, 1995. In good condition. Measurements: 45 x 33,5 x 45,5 cm. In the words of the Spanish National Library, the notoriety of this Atlas "is due to its famous "Mercator projection", a system of cartographic projection devised in 1569 that respects the shapes of the continents but not their sizes. In this work the word "atlas" is used for the first time to designate a set of maps". In good condition.