Set of four large linen-backed maps. No stated date of issue. Each measuring 9.2 x 5.5 inches, and folding out to 36.5 x 43 inches. Scale is 3.25 inches to one mile; the plans are divided into half mile squares. Pasted-on paper price strip of 6/- Net. Faint stamp to rear cover of one: Sold by George Philip & Son, Ltd. / 32 Fleet ST. London, and same stamp more boldly in the other three on linen at first fold. Minor soiling to front cover of South-West; minor tideline with bleeding to rear cover left edge of North West [please consult photos for both these issues]; and a few faint drops to rear... View More...
Large folding map in 25 linen-backed sections. 42 x 41 inches, folding to 9 x 8.75 in cloth. Cloth quite scuffed; some splitting to linen along creases not affecting map; some spotting to verso of linen. Map colours vibrant. View More...
Complete, including the double-page plate of Parliament Square at front, the double-page maps in colour at rear : the Dominion of Canada [eastern and western sheets], Province of Manitoba and part of the District of Keewatin and North West Territory shewing the townships and settlements, and Railroad Map of the United States. As well: 13 double-page maps, 4 single-page maps and the two Eastern and Western hemisphere maps at rear, 7 single page plates, and 4 single-page groupings of portraits. General Index, and Patron's Directory present. Cloth considerably rubbed, spine panel chipped; the rea... View More...
28 2-page maps in colour, as issued bound in green cloth with paper onlay to front cover. Published April 1924. Title page has been pasted face-down to front board and is only faintly visible; maps in excellent condition. Moderate rubbing to cloth; binding sound. Closed, the book measures 11 x 5.25 inches; scale is 1/250,000; 1 in. = 3.95 miles. View More...
Complete with all eight large folding maps on thin paper, including the significant 60 x 68 inch Map of the North West Part of Canada, Indian Territories & Hudson's Bay. Compiled & Drawn by Tho. Devine, Provincial Land Surveyor & Draughtsman by order of The Hon. Joseph Cauchon Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Department; Toronto: March, 1857. Maclear & Co. 1. Lower Canada. 2. Upper Canada. 3. Gaspe and Bonaventure. 4. The Saguenay. 5. The St. Maurice. 6. The Ottawa Country. 7. The North Shore of Lake Huron. 8. Canada, Indian Territories, and Hudson's Bay. Corner (when folded) tidelin... 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...
One sheet, printed recto and verso. 8 x 3.8 inches folded; 24 x 38 open. "one inch equals approximately 11.5 miles". Undated, but 1933 inferred by: "This map published annually, Next edition Spring 1934". Light toning, and a few unobtrusive stains. Includes pictorial ad encouraging travel to Nova Scotia "Land of Evangeline / Canada's Ocean Playground" [Maritime provinces are not pictured on the map]. View More...
Title continues: the 1884 & 1890 Atlases of Toronto in Comparative Rendition. Charles Edward Goad, with a preface by Lucy Booth Martyn. From the limitation leaf: "Printed for the Paget Press in October 1984 in both Santa Barbara, California and Toronto, Ontario. This book has been designed by Peter Sibbald Brown with typography by Eildon Graphica of Sutton West. The cover presents a period motif and has been printed via letterpress and lithography by Graham Mackintosh. This edition is issued in a deluxe handbound printing of 500 copies." This is copy 18. Cloth sunned; edges rubbed; no inscript... View More...
103 pages, and large folding map at rear (30 x 20 inches; with some spotting, chips and splitting along a few folds). Cover detached from textblock in one piece; map remains attached along inside rear panel of cover. Uncommon. View More...
8.5 x 5 inches, folding out to 42 x 24 inches, with street index on verso. Has been subjected to minor mis-folding, but not crumpled, and no splitting. A few small spots of browning; overall very good. View More...
128 pages, and four pages of adverts on yellow paper at centre (other ads throughout). With 5.75 x 10.25 inch folding map of Winnipeg at front (adverts verso) and 11.4 x 23 inch Map of Western Canada... Published with Waghorn's Guide (banks & legal info. verso) laid in at rear. Booklet measures 6 x 3.4 inches. Binder trimmed the top edge a bit tight, resulting in occasional partial loss to header. Excellent condition all 'round; no inscriptions. View More...
All eight maps and title page present, in original side stapled format with plastic sheet front cover. This collection is from the original 1970 run, not a recent copy. Uncommon. Bates (known for the dry-dock theory - see map 7) first surveyed Oak Island in 1937; he later would be a long-time Secretary for the Nova Scotia Historical Society. The printed image of the first five maps measures 13 x 12 inches; the other three are 19 x 12. Plastic curled; peripheral toning and a few short closed tears not affecting images. Contents: 1. Nova Scotia treasures. 2. Some Micmac names of places and thing... View More...
viii, [21]-380 pages, with folding map in colour at rear; frontispiece with tissue guard. Brown cloth stamped in blind, with gilt to front and spine. 1870 [sic] ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Endpapers rubbed; foxing to verso of frontispiece and to map. Worming to rear gutter; binding is sound. View More...
19 double-page maps with hand-coloured borders, and plate XX with four maps on two pages: complete. 20th century half leather over marbled boards, with two blanks at front and at rear (this rebind sufficiently old to have attracted offsettinng to pastedowns and first free endpaper front and rear). Original paper label retained on front board, and front pastedown retains the advert for other works by Butler. Binding is sound; ink spill to outer edge, not affecting maps. Inscription of Owen Lloyd, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1823, to title page. View More...
A defective copy of Volume II (of two). Lacking title page and leaves up to page 521. Thereafter textually complete: 521-1084, [16], including the list of subscribers and directions to the binder. Printer's error to page 944 rendering top half of page blank. Only six maps present: Spain and Portugal; Italy &c.; France divided into provinces; France divided into metropolitan circles and departments; Germany and Switzerland; Turkey in Europe and Hungary. All maps have been poorly folded, the first four having long closed tears, the final two short marginal closed tears, all mis-creased and light... View More...
iv, 48 pages, with 16 page 5-column Index at rear. Cover rubbed and stained; title page a bit grubby, with ownership inscription. Binding is sound. 11 x 9 inches. View More...