Antique maps of Rare Books

La aguja de las tormentas ó sea Manual sobre huracanes para uso del navegante, con la teoria de los huracanes puesta al alcance de todos.

Alexander Bridport Becher

Place/Date:

Barcelona / 1856

Size:

4.5 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112088

72-Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Rare Books Map By Joseph Hutchins Colton / Nathan Par

The Minnesota Handbook, for 1856-7 [with] Minnesota Published by J.H. Colton & Co... 1857.

Joseph Hutchins Colton / Nathan Parker

Place/Date:

Boston, Cleveland, and New York / 1857

Size:

15 x 13 inches Map Size

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

88811

[Map Seller's Canvassing Book] Subscribers to the Map of Greene County by Simon J. Martenet, Surveyor & Civ. Eng., Baltimore, Md, 1858 [Manuscript subscription book for Martenet map of Greene Co., Pennsylvania]

Simon J. Martenet

Place/Date:

v.p. (Maryland and Pennsylvania) / 1858 - 1864

Size:

4.75 x 7 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

77428

[Hungarian Traveler in California and the West with a Comanche and Wichita to Hungarian vocabulary] Levelei Éjszakamerikából -- Tizenkét eredeti rajzok után készült kő- és egynéhány fametszettel. Közli Prépost István (Letters from North America)

János Xántus

Place/Date:

Budapest / 1858

Size:

5.5 x 8.1 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

98502

The Story of The Telegraph, and A History of the Great Atlantic Cable . . .

Augustus Maverick / Charles F. Briggs

Place/Date:

New York / 1858

Size:

5.5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

106929

Astronomical Observations in the Arctic Seas . . . / Magnetical Observations in the Arctic Seas . . . / Meteorological Observations in the Arctic Seas . . . / Tidal Observations in the Arctic Seas . . . Made during the Second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin in 1853, 1854, and 1855, at Van Rensselaer Harbor . . .

Elisha Kent Kane / Charles A. Schott

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1858 - 1860

Size:

9.75 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112063

[Southern California] Utazás Kalifornia Déli Részeiben [Travel in Southern California] [with map:] Kalifornia déli részei Legújabb kútfök után szerkesztette es rajzolta. [Southern parts of California Edited and drawn after the latest sources.]

János Xántus

Place/Date:

Pesten [Budapest] / 1860

Size:

6 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

92022

The San Francisco Directory for the year commencing September, 1861; Embracing a General Directory of Residents, a Business Directory, a Directory of Streets, Public Offices, Etc.

Henry G. Langley

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1861

Size:

6 x 9 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

94034

Notes on the Physical Geography and Meteorology of the South Atlantic

W. H. Rosser

Place/Date:

London / 1862

Size:

5.75 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112072

Second Directory of Nevada Territory; Embracing a General Directory of Residents of All the Principal towns; Business Directory of Advertisers; Quartz Mills, Reduction Works, Toll Roads, Etc... And Principal Mining Laws of Different Districts; with the Residents and Principal Mines, Mills, Etc. of the Reese River Region

J. Wells Kelly

Place/Date:

Virginia City [i.e. San Francisco] / 1863

Size:

5.75 x 9 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

94033

The Weather Book: a Manual of Practical Meteorology.

Robert Fitzroy

Place/Date:

London / 1863

Size:

6 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112087

[Fijian Volcanoes] Ten Years in South-Central Polynesia: Being Reminiscences of a Personal Mission to the Friendly Islands and Their Dependencies. By the Rev. Thomas West. Illustrated with a Portrait and Maps.

Rev. Thomas West

Place/Date:

London / 1865

Size:

17 x 13 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86683

[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

[Viele Water Map - Early Facsimile] Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York. Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens Association of New York Upon the Sanitary Condition of the City [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 (circa 1900)

Size:

64.25 x 19.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103581

[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

Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax | Map of the Territories & Pacific States to Accompany "Across the Continent"

Samuel Bowles

Place/Date:

Springfield, MA & New York / 1866

Size:

18 x 13.5 inches Size of book

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

87416

[Hand Drawn Student Atlas] Geographie de L'Asie, L'Afrique, L'Amerique et de L'Oceanie . . . 1867

Georges Materne

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1867

Size:

6 x 7.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

99589

The Mines of Colorado [with:] Map of Colorado Territory to accompany Hollisters "Mines of Colorado" corrected from the Public Surveys of 1866

Ovando J. Hollister

Place/Date:

Springfield, MA / 1867

Size:

21 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

100860

21-Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Midwest, Illinois, Missouri and Rare Boo

[Mississippi River Atlas] Theorie der Bewegung des Wassers in Flüssen und Canälen. . . . (Atlas Volume)

Heinrich Grebenau / Andrew Atkinson Humphreys

Place/Date:

Munich / 1867

Size:

10 x 15 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101700

Report on Interoceanic Canals and Railroads Between The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Charles Henry Davis

Place/Date:

Washington / 1867

Size:

6 x 9 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

106931

Physical Survey of Virginia. Geographical Position of; Its Commercial Advantages, and National Importance. (Preliminary Report)

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Place/Date:

Richmond, VA / 1868

Size:

5.5 x 8.5 inches (pamphlet)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

81719

[Canvassing Book] Where to Emigrate and Why. Homes and Fortunes in the Boundless West and the Sunny South... With a Complete History and Description of the Pacific Railroad.

Frederick B. Goddard

Place/Date:

Philadelphia. / 1869

Size:

6 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

84130

88-Colorado, Utah, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Rare Books Map By Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden / A. J

[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

Select Letters Of Christopher Columbus, With Other Original Documents, Relating To His Four Voyages To The New World.

R. H. Major / Hakluyt Society

Place/Date:

London / 1870

Size:

5.75 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

107679

Mission Scientifique au Mexique et Dans L'Amerique Centrale . . . Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans L'Amerique Centrale... Geologie. Description des Anciennes Possessions Mexicaines du Nord.. . . M DCCC LXXI

Edmond Guillemin-Tarayre

Place/Date:

Paris / 1871

Size:

11 x 14 inches Various sheet sizes

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

71366

[Oakland and Brooklyn] Information Concerning the Terminus of the Railroad System of the Pacific Coast [with maps:] Map of California, Showing the Railroad System [and:] E.C. Sessions' Map of Oakland and Brooklyn

Grafton Tyler Brown & Co.

Place/Date:

Oakland / 1871

Size:

12.25 x 14.5 inches (19.5 x 9.5 map)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

83969

Explorations and Surveys South of Central Pacific R.R. [in:] Preliminary Report Concerning Explorations and Surveys Principally in Nevada and Arizona.

George M. Wheeler

Place/Date:

Washington, D.C. / 1872

Size:

9.25 x 11.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

94866

Modern Painters. A New Edition

John Ruskin

Place/Date:

London / 1873

Size:

7.5 x 10.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85850

[Antarctica] Contributions to our Knowledge of the Meteorology of the Antarctic Regions.

Meteorological Committee

Place/Date:

London / 1873

Size:

9.75 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112064

[Dallas, Texas] Directory of the City of Dallas... Carefully Arranged and Prepared... For the Year 1875... This Work Contains a Brief Sketch of the City of Dallas, Together with Biographical Notes of its Founders and its Leading Business Men...

F. E. Butterfield / C. M. Rundlett / St. Louis Democrat Litho

Place/Date:

[St. Louis, Mo.] / 1874

Size:

6 x 9 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

100912

[Run of 6 Volumes] Report Upon Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian

George M. Wheeler

Place/Date:

Washington D. C. / 1875

Size:

6 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

74064

[Yosemite Photographs] [Contemporary Album of 12 Albumen Photographs of Yosemite Valley] Views in California [binding title]

Charles L. Weed

Place/Date:

California / 1875 - 1876 circa

Size:

12.25 x 14 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

94232

A Description of Western Texas, Published by the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company, the Sunset Route [with map:] Correct Map of Texas Published by Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway

M. Whilldin

Place/Date:

Galveston / 1876

Size:

4.75 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

86207

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

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

[Houston, Texas] Mooney & Morrison's Directory of the City of Houston for 1877-78. Containing a History of the City; a Complete Index of all Societies, Corporations, etc. Also, the Full Address of all Residents, Their Occupations, Pursuits, etc. Also, a Complete Business Directory; an Exhibition of the Various Classified Kinds of Business Pursued in the City

Mooney & Morrison

Place/Date:

Houston / 1877

Size:

6 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

92913

The Voyages Of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., To The East Indies, With Abstracts Of Journals Of Voyages To The East Indies, During The Seventeenth Century, Preserved In The India Office. And The Voyage Of Captain John Knight (1606), To Seek The North-West Passage.

Clements R. Markham

Place/Date:

London / 1877

Size:

5.75 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

107680

Thalassa: An Essay on the Depth, Temperature and Currents of the Ocean.

John James Wild

Place/Date:

London / 1877

Size:

7 x 9.5 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112070

49-Asia, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and Rare Books Map By Alexander George Findlay / Richard Hol

A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the Straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the Passages East of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with Descriptions of the Winds, Monsoons, and Currents, and General Instructions from the Various Channels, Harbours, Etc. Second Edition.

Alexander George Findlay / Richard Holmes Laurie

Place/Date:

London / 1878

Size:

6.5 x 10 inches (book size)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

78274

[Texas - Remolino Raid] Correspondencia Diplomática Relativa a las Invasiones del Territorio Mexicano Por Fuerzas de los Estados-Unidos de 1873 a 1877.

I. L. Vallarta

Place/Date:

Mexico / 1878

Size:

6.25 x 9 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

95741

California Water and Mining Co. [with:] Map of El Dorado County, Cal. Showing the Georgetown Divide and Portions of the Placerville and Forrest Hill Divide with the Ditches, Mines and Other Properties of the California Water Co. Situated Between The South Fork of Middle Fork and the South Fork of the American River 1880

California Water and Mining Co.

Place/Date:

New York / 1880

Size:

16.5 x 12.2 inches (map)

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

91927

[California Republic] A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: with a minute and interesting account of one of the largest emigrating companies, (3000 miles over land), from the East to the Pacific Coast. And What is Claimed as the Most Authentic and Reliable Account of "The Virtual Conquest of California, in June, 1846, by the Bear Flag Party," as Given by its Leader, the Late Hon. William Brown Ide.

Simeon Ide

Place/Date:

[Claremont, N.H.] / 1880

Size:

4.5 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

100509

Coleman's Reprint of William Penn's Original Proposal and Plan for the Founding & Building of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, America, in 1683 / A Letter From William Penn Proprietary and Governour of Pennsylvania In America, To the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that Province, residing in London . . . .1683

William Penn / James Coleman

Place/Date:

London / 1881

Size:

7.5 x 11 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

79502

ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ ПТОЛЕΜΑΙΟΥ ΓΕΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΗ ΥΦΗΓΗΣΙΣ. Claudii Ptolemaei Geographia. E Codicibus Recognovit, Prolegomenis, Annotatione, Indicibus, Tabulis Intruxit

Karl Muller / Claudius Ptolemy

Place/Date:

Paris / 1883 -1901

Size:

7 x 10.5 inches (each volume)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103668

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Place/Date:

London / 1883

Size:

5.25 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

103862

86-California, Other California Cities and Rare Books Map By Santa Ana Valley Immigration Associat

The Santa Ana Valley of Southern California. Its Resources, Climate, Growth and Future.

Santa Ana Valley Immigration Association

Place/Date:

Los Angeles / 1885

Size:

6 x 9.5 inches (book size)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93339

[Data Visualization Atlas] Ministere Des Travaux Publics. Album De Statistique Graphique De 1885.

Imprimerie Nationale

Place/Date:

Paris / 1885

Size:

10.5 x 13.25 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

109514

[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

Vestiges of the Molten Globe. Part II. The Earth's Surface Features and Volcanic Phenomena

William Lowthian Green / Frank S. Dodge

Place/Date:

Honolulu / 1887

Size:

5.75 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

86149

[India] The Church Missionary Atlas. New and enlarged Edition (The Seventh). Part II. India

Church Missionary Society Press

Place/Date:

London / 1887

Size:

6 x 9.9 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

88897

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