Utrecht: Hes Publishers, 1987. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 568 pages. Text in French with some English. Studies relating to the history of cartography and scientific instruments. Thirty-four articles and congress reports by Marcel Destombes are brought together in this volume. With a biography of the author, bibliography and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Dust wrapper shows minor wear to the extremities and some rubbing to the boards. Several handwritten notations in the margins.
Philadelphia: Pomeroy & Beers, 1868. 15 5/8" x 14 1/2" Single sheet. B1-100. Two-page map of Wilmington, New Castle Co., Delaware. Map scale 45 rods to the inch. This map has been removed from a incomplete copy of Beers' 1868 Atlas of the State of Delaware (page 14-15), which contains "actual surveys by and under the direction of D.G. Beers." Daniel G. Beers came from a family of atlas publishers. He and his brother, Silas.....