(Delaware). Beers, D.G.

PENCADER. NEW CASTLE CO. DEL.

Philadelphia: Pomeroy & Beers, 1868. 15 5/8" x 14 1/2," board 16 1/4" x 15" Single sheet. Map of Pencader, New Castle County, Delaware with inset maps of Glasgow, St. Georges, and Christiana. Scale 1 1/4 inches to the mile, 40 rods to the inch, and 30 rods to the inch respectively. The Christiana inset map has no scale. Contains a directory of St. Georges and Christiana businesses. This map has been removed from a...... READ MORE about PENCADER. NEW CASTLE CO. DEL

Price: $95.00  other currencies  Order nr. 93356

(Delaware). Beers, D.G.

WILMINGTON. NEW CASTLE CO. DEL.

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..... READ MORE about WILMINGTON. NEW CASTLE CO. DEL

Price: $190.00  other currencies  Order nr. 93513

DELAWARE, A GUIDE TO THE FIRST STATE.

New York: The Viking Press, 1938. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper wrap-around band. (ix), xxv, 549 pages. B1-282. Actually a 2006 reprint of the first edition by the Delaware Heritage Commission in Dover. Edited by Jeannette Eckman, Anthony Higgins and William H. Conner. Written as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Well illustrated including a folded map inserted in a folded wrap-around band. This printing contains a four page history of the project by William..... READ MORE about DELAWARE, A GUIDE TO THE FIRST STATE

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 92800

Doukellis, Panagiotis N. (editor).

MEDITERRANEAN CARTOGRAPHIC STORIES: SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MASTERPIECES FROM THE SYLVIA IOANNOU FOUNDATION COLLECTION.

Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2019. 17.5 x 24.5 cm. Hardcover, cloth. 175 pages. "There is an abundance of information here that is simply not available elsewhere. This book belongs in any good library dealing with either the history of cartography or that of the Hellenic world." - Bert Johnson, The Portolan, journal of the Washington Map Society This elegant publication features select papers presented at the 3rd International Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, entitled..... READ MORE about MEDITERRANEAN CARTOGRAPHIC STORIES: SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MASTERPIECES FROM THE...

Price: $55.00  other currencies  Order nr. 133709

(Exploration). Short, John Rennie.

CARTOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE EXPLORATION OF THE NEW WORLD.

London, United Kingdom: Reaktion Books, 2009. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. Near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about CARTOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE EXPLORATION OF THE NEW WORLD

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(Forlani, Paolo). Woodward, David.

THE MAPS AND PRINTS OF PAOLO FORLANI.

The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography Occasional Publication No. 4.
Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1990. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (xiii), 21 plates, 60 pages. The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography Occasional Publication No. 4. This volume is a descriptive bibliography of the map maker Paolo Forlani, who was active in sixteenth-century Italy. It includes 144 items with 21 black-and-white illustrations, a list of references, an index of persons named and a geographical index. Minor soiling on covers with some dents on..... READ MORE about THE MAPS AND PRINTS OF PAOLO FORLANI

Price: $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 103988

(Globes). Stevenson, Edward Luther.

TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL GLOBES.

Mansfield: Martino Fine Publishing, n.d. but circa 1998. 8vo. cloth. 546 pages. A reprint of the 1921 edition. Limited to 150 copies. This is a comprehensive history of terrestrial and celestial globes including a consideration of their value in the study of geography and astronomy. Over 850 globes described covering from antiquity all the way up to the end of the 18th century. A fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with..... READ MORE about TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL GLOBES

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Grivaud, Giles and George Tolias [eds.].

CYPRUS AT THE CROSSROADS: GEOGRAPHICAL PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2014. 7 x 9.6 inches. hardcover, cloth. 260 pages. This volume (Athens 2014, in English) features 13 select papers from the 1st International Scientific Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation (Athens, October 2012), with an Introduction by the editors, Gilles Grivaud and George Tolias. Being a key geographic, strategic, commercial and cultural crossroad, Cyprus attracted the interest of travellers, pilgrims, scholars, scientists and men of action, who contributed to the production..... READ MORE about CYPRUS AT THE CROSSROADS: GEOGRAPHICAL PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

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Harrisse, Henry.

NOTES POUR SERVIR A L'HISTOIRE, A LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE ET A LA CARTOGRAPHI E DE LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE ET DES PAYS ADJACENTS, 1545-1700.

Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown Reprint Library, n.d. (circa 1960s). 8vo. cloth. xxxvi, 367, (5) pages. Reprint of the 1872 first edition. Bibliographical descriptions of early books on America and maps concerning new France. READ MORE about NOTES POUR SERVIR A L'HISTOIRE, A LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE ET A LA CARTOGRAPHI E DE LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE ET...

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Harter, George A.

THE GEOGRAPHY OF DELAWARE.

Revised by Albert Earley.
N.P. Rand McNally & Co., 1930. small 4to. cloth. 16 pages. Revised by Albert Earley. B1-917. Ex-library copy. With illustrations including a map in color. Boards and edges rubbed. READ MORE about THE GEOGRAPHY OF DELAWARE

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(Hungary). Horvath, J. Eugene.

A CANADIAN COLLECTION OF HUNGARICA.

2 volumes
Vancouver: 2001. 4to. wrappers. vi,356; viii,159 pages. 2 volumes. A Canadian collection of Hungarian items. Volume one covers books from 1494-1819 and lists 266 items, with black-and-white illustrations, a bibliography and indices. Volume two covers maps and city views from 1493-1817, and lists 145 items with black-and-white illustrations, a bibliography and an index. READ MORE about A CANADIAN COLLECTION OF HUNGARICA

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104532

Ioannou, Sylvia.

SWEET LAND OF CYPRUS: THE EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHY OF CYPRUS (15TH-19TH CENTURY).

From the Sylvia Ioannou Collection
Athens: Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, 2003. 9.75 x 12.5 inches. paperback. 240 pages. From the Sylvia Ioannou Collection. This book contains five units comprising the whole of the Sylvia Ioannou's collection of maps about her homeland, Cyprus. Each unit displays the development of cartography and the history of the island. The first three units encompass Frankish and Venetian rule. Maps and rare loose sheets illustrate the Frankish walls of Nicosia, the philosophical concept of the world..... READ MORE about SWEET LAND OF CYPRUS: THE EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHY OF CYPRUS (15TH-19TH CENTURY

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104503

Jantz, Harold.

THE NEW WORLD IN THE TREASURES OF AN OLD EUROPEAN LIBRARY.

N.P. Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 1976. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 164 pages. Catalog of an exhibition at the Duke August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, from June 30 through August 22, 1976, and subsequently at Princeton and Chicago. Bilingual text in English and German. Lists 251 items, usually with annotations, many with black and white illustrations. Covers with color illustrations. READ MORE about THE NEW WORLD IN THE TREASURES OF AN OLD EUROPEAN LIBRARY

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 49614