Dury's pocket atlas 'designed as a second volume' to his Universal Pocket Atlas. Complete: engraved title, engraved dedication, catalogue of maps & plans, 40 illustrated leaves (3 folding). Also bound in: Dury's (folding at foot) A Chart Shewing the Seacoast of England & Wales, with the Fortifications Royal Docks Harbours Sands &c at front, and a double of the Plan of Bath. Contemporary mottled calf; sound unrestored binding; customary offsetting; foxing/offsetting to the two blank leaves at front and at rear. Short closed tear to front free endpaper. View More...
108 pages, and 20 maps in colour [15 one-page, 4 two-page, and 1 folding]. Profusely illustrated. Offsetting/foxing to endpapers and title page; 1911 ownership inscription. Clean interior in sound binding. View More...
x, 250 pages, plus huge folding map at rear. Card covers, with original clear plastic wraps (not shown in scan). Tape residue from plastic wraps to first and final leaf; stamp of Florence Geographica to title page and to front cover is stamped: "Forwarded by Dr. Arthur L. Burt, Coordinator of Maps and Publications, Department of State, USA"; otherwise unmarked. Tape repair to blank inner fold of large map; map is whole and correctly folded. View More...
20 pages of statistics; map tipped in at rear as issued. Map measures 12 x 20 inches. Pencil to front pastedown (which has partially lifted from front cover. Binding is sound. View More...
Linen-backed. M.A.P., A.I.D. Romney House H.Q. stamp to rear cover recto with erasure such that stamp is illegible. Interior with unobtrusive signs of use, including two drips in lower left margin. Marked as Second War Revision on front and War Revision 1940 top right interior. "Military Edition" and "Not To Be Published" are likewise printed at top. View More...
61, [1] pages. Lacking rear card cover but spine secure. Final leaf chipped with some loss of text. The Promiscuous Exercises (page 52-61) have been dutifully filled in. Ownership inscription of one John Janvier to front cover and title page. For the Princeton copy of this issue, recording the author to be Samuel Hilles, OCLC notes: "Unrecorded, known previously by the first edition Wilmington 1815 "Geographical Exercises compiled for the use of the boarding school and select school in Wilmington". Updates first edition with sixteen additional pages, reference to Arkansaw [sic] Territory which... View More...
"Revised Edition" on front cover. Leather spine worn, moderate soiling to covers; binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 1863. 6 leaves of preliminary tables, and 32 maps on 16 leaves: complete. Foxing to endpapers and title page; the occasional unobtrusive spot to a few maps but overall very good. View More...
xix, [1], 358 pages and all 67 maps and diagrams. Spine panel lacking; corners rubbed. Textblock remains well bound and boards attached (with play to rear board. Endpapers foxed and dusty; old Mechanics' Library Association [Lancaster, PA] bookplate to front pastedown and their small oval stamp to a few leaves throughout. Due to weight, please inquire regarding actual shipping cost. View More...
Linen-backed. M.A.P., A.I.D. Romney House H.Q. stamp to rear cover, and small name stamp on front cover recto and verso and rear cover verso, also signature to front cover. Interior clean, without tanning, marks or tears. View More...
xvi, [17]-570 pages, with two plates [solar system, and signs of the zodiac] and four folding maps [Africa; North America; South America; Asia]. The frontispiece map of the world is lacking all but its right panel. Boards detached; lacking front free endpaper. Modern bookplate to verso of frontispiece, with that leaf and title page grubby. Occasional staining and tideline throughout. Maps of Africa and North America are very good; Asia is good with a tideline along the right; South America is fair only with stains and splitting. Textblock binding is sound. View More...
Original black cloth over boards, with the two large folding maps bound in following the six leaves of Guide printed verso only. Cunard line advert on front pastedown. The Travelers Life and Accident Insurance Co. of Hartford Conn. pasted to rear cover. Covers considerably warped. Tideline to verso of maps (the blank side) with no seepage to recto (front) of London. Paris with light tideline to lower and left margins with only slight intrusion to map. Leftmost panel of Paris bubbled as it, being affixed to rear board, took the brunt of the rear cover warping. The creases are pronounced. The ma... View More...