Antique maps of Rare Books

[ San Diego County / Julian Mining District ] Sixth Annual Report of the State Mineralogist. Part I for the year ending June 1st 1886.

Henry G. Hanks

Place/Date:

Sacramento / 1886

Size:

6 x 9 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

101709

64-Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Rare Books Map By Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania / Giuseppe Cacch

(Lafreri School Maps of the Continents) La Universal Fabrica del Mondo La Universal Fabrica del Mondo dell’eccell. m. Lorenzo Anania della citta di Tauerna cosmografo, et teologo ; doue s’ha piena notitia de i costumi, leggi, città, fiumi, monti, prouincie, & popoli del mondo.

Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania / Giuseppe Cacchij dell' Aquila

Place/Date:

Naples / 1573

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

95384

[ World Atlas -- Extra Illustrated ] The World Described; or, a New and Correct Sett of Maps: Shewing, the Kingdoms and States in all the known Parts of the Earth

Herman Moll / John Bowles

Place/Date:

London / 1733 circa

Size:

12 x 25.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

90102

Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI [with:] Indiarum Orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio. Pet. Maffei Historiae Harum Verissimae, Dedicata.

Peter Maffei

Place/Date:

Cologne / 1588

Size:

8 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102793

13-Midwest, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Rare Books Map By Daily Wisconsin Book an

Map of the La Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad Shewing It Connections . . . / Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the La Crosse and Milwaukee R. R. Co. to the Stockholders

Daily Wisconsin Book and Job Steam Press / Joseph Hutchins Colton

Place/Date:

Milwaukee / 1856

Size:

19.5 x 13.5 inches (map)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101516

[ Atlas of Italy ] Topographia Italiae, das ist: Warhaffte und curiöse Beschreibung von gantz Italien. Darinnen nach historischer Warheit, die berühmtesten Städte, Vestungen, Marckflecken und andere Oerter, sampt ihren Antiquitäten

Matthaus Merian

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1688

Size:

8.25 x 13.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

102001

[ British Colonies in North America & Caribbean ] L'Amerique Angloise, ou Description des Isles et Terres du Roi d'Angleterre dans l'Amerique, Avec de nouvelles Carte de chaque Isle & Terres

Richard Blome / Abraham Wolfgang

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1688

Size:

3.5 x 5.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102812

(Salt Lake City Bird's Eye View) The "Mormon" Metropolis. An Illustrated Guide to Salt Lake City and its Environs. Containing Illustrations and Descriptions of Principal Places of Interest to Tourists. Also Interesting Information and Historical Data with Regard to Utah and its People.

George Reynolds / Joseph Hyrum Parry / Bond & Chandler

Place/Date:

Salt Lake City / 1887

Size:

15.8 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

88573

[ Rare Group of American Maps Published in Prague ] Neueste Länder und Völkerkunde. Ein geographisches Lesebuch für alle Stände . . . Funfzenter Band America Mit Charten . . . 1818

Theophil Ehrmann

Place/Date:

Prague / 1818

Size:

4.75 x 8.5 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102973

[ World Atlas with nearly 700 maps, views and plates ] Description de l'Univers Contenant les Differents Systèmes du Monde

Alain Manesson Mallet

Place/Date:

Paris / 1683

Size:

5.5 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

91436

[ Texas-Mexico Border Treaty ] Que á efecto de facilitar el cumplimienio [i.e. cumplimiento] del art. 3. del Tratado de limites entre estos Estados y los Unidos del Norte América ... Habiéndose concluido y firmado en la Ciudad de México á los 12 dias del mes de Enero de 1828, un tratado entre los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos y los Estados-Unidos de América [A Treaty having been concluded and signed in the City of Mexico on the 12 day of January 1828 between the United States of America and the Mexican United States for the purpose of establishing the true dividing line and boundary between the two nations]

José Maria Ortiz Monasterio

Place/Date:

Mexico / 1836

Size:

8.5 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

100806

Norie's Set of Celestial Maps, For Finding Stars In The Heavens; Adapted For The Use of Nautical Men, Astronomers, and Others. . . .1841

John William Norie

Place/Date:

London / 1841

Size:

9.75 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103224

The Approach Towards a System of Imperial Air Communications -- Memorandum by the Secretary of State of Air, laid before the Imperial Conference, 1926, together with the Report of the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee.

Air Ministry

Place/Date:

London / 1926

Size:

8.25 x 13 inches (binding)

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

93886

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New=England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning. Ano: 1584 to this present 1624. With the Proceedings of Those Several Colonies and the Accidents that befell them in all their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, people, Government, Customes, and Religion yet knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes.

John Smith

Place/Date:

London / 1624

Size:

7.5 x 11.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

98872

(Viele Water Map) Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York [bound in:] Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens Association of New York Upon the Sanitary Condition of the City [and with map:] Sanitary and Social Chart of the Fourth Ward of the City of New York

Egbert L. Viele / Citizens' Association of New York

Place/Date:

New York / 1865

Size:

6.5 x 9.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

101301

Mansfield Park: A Novel

Jane Austen

Place/Date:

London / 1814

Size:

4.8 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85830

Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade

Kurt Vonnegut

Place/Date:

New York / 1969

Size:

5.8 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85823

Ulysses

James Joyce

Place/Date:

Paris / 1922

Size:

7.25 x 9.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102970

Emma

Jane Austen

Place/Date:

London / 1816

Size:

(ducodecimo)

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

85836

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Place/Date:

London / 1669

Size:

5.5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

86262

Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Government. Translated out of Greeke into French... by Loys LeRoy, called Regius. Translated out of French into English.

Aristotle

Place/Date:

London / 1598

Size:

7.5 x 11.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85847

Leviathan: Or the matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

Thomas Hobbes

Place/Date:

London / 1651

Size:

8 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86228

[ California Petroleum ] A Description of the Recently Discovered Petroleum Region in California. With a Report on the Same [with:] Map Representing Locality of The Ojai Ranch in Santa Barbara County, California, belonging to the California Petroleum Company 1865

Benjamin Silliman, Jr.

Place/Date:

New York / 1865

Size:

23 x 15 inches (map size)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103844

Hancock Automobile and Motorcycle Road Book

Hancock Bros.

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1910

Size:

12.75 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

81701

62-Argentina, Chile and Rare Books Map By Bartolomé García de Nodal / Gonzalo Garc&

Relacion del Viage, que por orden de Su Magestad, y acuerdo de el Real Consejo de Indias, hicieron los Capitanes Bartholome Garcia de Nodal, y Gonzalo de Nodal, Hermanos... Al Descubrimiento del Estrecho Nuevo de San Vicente, que Hoy es Nombrado de Maire, y Reconocimiento del de Magallanes [Bound with, as usual:] ECHEVELAR, Manuel de. J. M. Y J. Instruccion Exacta, y Util de las Derrotas, y Navegaciones, que se Executan en todos tiempos en la America Septentrional, de unos Puertos a otros: con las Advertencias de Sondas, y Notas, Para Ponerlas en Practica. Cadiz. 1753.

Bartolomé García de Nodal / Gonzalo García de Nodal / Manuel de Echevelar / Pedro Teixeira

Place/Date:

Cadiz / 1769 circa

Size:

6 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

89551

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau

Place/Date:

Boston / 1854

Size:

4.75 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104061

Researches in Telephony [in] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science, Vol. 12

Alexander Graham Bell

Place/Date:

Boston / 1877

Size:

6 x 9.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86222

[ Rebuilding the White House, Capitol Building etc., after the War of 1812 / Correspondence to Massachusetts Representative Jeremiah Nelson from Joseph Elgar ]

Joseph Elgar

Place/Date:

Washington / 1824

Size:

15.5 x 13 inches Full sheet

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

88025

In somnium Scipionis M. Tulii Ciceronis libri duo et Saturnaliorum Lib. VII. . . .

Ambrosius Macrobius

Place/Date:

[Paris] / 1524

Size:

8.75 x 13.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103995

[ 18th Century American Sheet Music Bound Volume ] [First American edition of the Marseillaise and 30 other mostly American music sheets from the late 18th century and early 19th century]

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle - Benjamin Carr

Place/Date:

New York, Philadelphia, and London / 1790 circa - 1825

Size:

10 x 13.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

73106

(Pacific Railroad Surveys) Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean [with:] Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean

Jefferson Davis

Place/Date:

Washington / 1855 - 1860

Size:

9 x 11.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

98651

(Rocky Mountains - Photographically Illustrated Book) Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden / A. J. Russell

Place/Date:

New York / 1870

Size:

10 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

91465

The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers; of the Jews...

Gamaliel Ben Pedahzur [Abraham Mears]

Place/Date:

London / 1738

Size:

5.25 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103671

A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which The Words are deduced from their Originals, And Illustrated in their Different Significations By Examples from the best Writers. To Which is Prefixed, a History of the Language, And An English Grammar.

Samuel Johnson

Place/Date:

London / 1755

Size:

11 x 17 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103958

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

Place/Date:

Washington / 1907

Size:

10.25 x 13 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103852

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books.

John Locke

Place/Date:

London / 1690 (but 1689)

Size:

8 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103859

The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to France, &c. &c. &c.

Benjamin Franklin

Place/Date:

London / 1793

Size:

5.6 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104161

Mathematical Discourses concerning Two New Sciences relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion, in Four Dialogues. I. Of the Resistance of Solids against Fraction. II. Of the Cause of their Coherence. III. Of Local Motion, viz. Equable, and naturall Accelerate. IV. Of Violent Motion, or of Projects. With an Appendix concerning the Center of Gravity of Solid Bodies. Done into English from the Italian, by Tho. Weston, late Master, and now publish'd by John Weston, present Master, of the Academy at Greenwich.

Galileo Galilei

Place/Date:

London / 1730

Size:

8 x 10 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

85857

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light.

Isaac Newton

Place/Date:

London / 1704

Size:

7.75 x 10 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86214

(Principia) The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton... To which are added, The Laws of the Moon's Motion, according to Gravity. By John Machin

Isaac Newton

Place/Date:

London / 1729

Size:

5 x 7.75 inches (each)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86424

New Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America.

Benjamin Franklin

Place/Date:

London / 1754

Size:

9.25 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104163

(Galileo) [Dialogue Between the Two Chief World Systems] Dialogo ... Sopra i Due Massimi, Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano.

Galileo Galilei

Place/Date:

Florence / 1632

Size:

6.5 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

86257

The Raven and Other Poems [bound by publisher with:] Tales

Edgar Allan Poe

Place/Date:

New York / 1845

Size:

5.625 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103673

A Collection of Poems, Viz. I. Venus and Adonis. II. The Rape of Lucrece. III. The Passionate Pilgrim. IV. Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musick [with:] A Collection of Poems... Being all the Miscellanies of Mr. William Shakespeare, which were Publish'd by himself in the Year 1609. and now correctly Printed from those Editions. The Second Volume, which contains I. One Hundred and Fifty Four Sonnets, all of them in Praise of his Mistress. II. A Lover's Complaint of his Angry Mistress.

William Shakespeare

Place/Date:

London / 1709 - 1710

Size:

5 x 7.5 inches or smaller

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

85833

(Illuminated Manuscript by Sangorski) Gems from the Poets

Alberto Sangorski

Place/Date:

London / 1922 - 1923

Size:

8.3 x 9.8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

103849

Leaves of Grass. Author's Edition, With Portraits from life. [with:] Two Rivulets; Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India.

Walt Whitman

Place/Date:

Camden, New Jersey / 1876

Size:

5 x 7.3 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86260

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia (Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe)

Omar Khayyam / Edward Fitzgerald / Sangorski & Sutcliffe

Place/Date:

London / 1868 (bound in 1921)

Size:

6.5 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

104077

The Winding Stair

William Butler Yeats

Place/Date:

New York / 1929

Size:

6 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

104014

(Vellucent Binding) Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Globe Edition (Binding signed Cedric Chivers, by Dorothy Carleton Smyth)

Alfred Lord Tennyson / Cedric Chivers

Place/Date:

London / 1899

Size:

5.25 x 7.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

104186

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Place/Date:

Paris / 1955

Size:

4.3 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86238

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