Maps And Atlases from The Owl at the Bridge

"Entries in this edition... are arranged alphabetically by city within a state or province. Each page has a running title indicating the name of the state or province and entry numbers found on that page... All data included have been taken directly from the questionnaires... numbers in the index refer to individual entries... 178 pages; 28 cm.… Ler mais sobre este item

"Knowledge of continuous sea passages from ocean to ocean round the world... was the outcome of the century or so of European maritime questing... What were the motives which drove seamen out from fifteenth-century Europe upon a career of worldwide discovery?" xv, 302 pages, illustrations, index; oblong quarto, 26 cm. Bound by Tapley-Rutter in tan binder's cloth, color… Ler mais sobre este item

Contemporary manuscript copy of map from book published in London by Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley in 1831. This map measures 37 x 42.5 cm. and shows 160 x 175 degrees West Longitude (so indicated along bottom). The only words are "Beering Strait" and "Cape Prince of Wales" and "1817. July. Ice." Shows the track of the small… Ler mais sobre este item

[London, Bowen, 1747]. Engraved map; sheet size 41 x 46.8 cm; plate size 35.5 x 43 cm., from Bowen's A Complete System of Geography, London, 1747, Volume 2 no. [33] following page 684. 13 plans on one plate: Boston; Placentia; Anapolis Royal; Louisbourg; New York and Perth Amboy; St. Augustine; Providence [W. I.]; Havana; St Jago; Charlestown, S. C.;… Ler mais sobre este item

A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier [1667] / facsimile Ithaca, NY, Historic Urban Plans, 1966. Printed facsimile map; 58 x 80 cm. Orientation: east at top. The Eternal City of the late Renaissance is fully portrayed on this large, highly decorative and beautifully detailed plan showing the city at the death of Pope Alexander VII.  The reproduction… Ler mais sobre este item

[Paris] 1729. Title continues: pour servir à l'intelligence de l'expédition de Marius, contre les Teutons. Par Henri Liébaux. Liébaux is described as "géographe de S.A.S.M.gr le Comte de Clermont". This is one of a series of maps of southern France when it was a Roman colony. Map, 23.5 x 29.5 cm (framed, 34 x 39.5 cm.). … Ler mais sobre este item

Yale UP [Third printing, December 1965]. Hard Cover. xii, [1] p., V facsimile plates, 291 p., indexes, maps & charts (some folding); 30 cm. Contents include The Manuscript: History and Description, by Thomas E. Marston; Facsimiles of the Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation; The Tartar Relation Edited, with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, by George D. Painter; The… Ler mais sobre este item

N.Y., C.S. Hammond & Co., [1950]. Hard Cover. 376 p. 24 cm. Color mostly political maps. Short gazeteer and index. The world as she was arranged at mid-20th century. Stock# 32,091. Poor, cover worn, frayed at corners, paper toned.

Typescript; 15 leaves. Describes 58 maps. Exhibition opened by Alexander O. Vietor at the annual meeting of the Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, May 17, 1963. Very Good, sheets slightly darkened / stapled. Stock#L-311x/h.

Firenze, 1755; facsimile reprint Ithaca, N.Y., Historic Urban Plans, 1969. Printed facsimile map; 51 x 68 cm. "This is number 247 [and 248] of an edition limited to 500 copies" showing Florence in 1755. Black & white cover-stock paper; new from publisher. Stock#Flat0022x/h.

Washington, DC, G.P.O., 1909-1920; reprint Martino 1995. "...important catalog of an outstanding collection which includes many rare and early atlases" (Sheehy CL 286). Most individual maps contained in the atlases are enumerated and named; well over one hundred thousand individual maps are listed. Complete collations accompany valuable notes and annotations. Volumes 5-9 of this work have been completed by Clara… Ler mais sobre este item

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press for Newberry Library, 1971. Hard Cover. xvii, 185, [4] p., illus., facsimiles, maps; 28 cm. Series: Studies in the History of Discoveries. The conference was held in 1966, the year after the controversial publication of the book on the map. It took 5 years to get money to publish these papers. The… Ler mais sobre este item

Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1997, c1996. Hard Cover. 216 pages, 23 plates (some folding), many illus. (chiefly color); 32 cm. Translated into English by Hann Heck and Luciano F. Farina. Volume XII of Nuova Raccolta Colombiana (English). Translation of: La tradizione cartografica genovese e Cristoforo Colombo. At head of title: Ministry of Cultural… Ler mais sobre este item

[New York, N.Y.] : Boating Industry Magazine ; Annapolis, Md. : Waterway Guide, Inc., c1980.. Soft Cover. Atlas ([11] p., 30 p. on folded leaves) : ill., col. maps ; 35 cm. Second edition. Charts are derived from materials published by National Ocean Survey. Scale of … Ler mais sobre este item

Washington, D. C., 1958-1992; reprint Martino 1997. Hard Cover. 8vo, five volumes, 2805 p., 21.5 cm. LeGear's supplementary volumes to Phillips' monumental catalog describe another 6600 atlases of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, the polar regions, the western hemisphere, and the world. Vol. 8 is the index to vol. 7, which had an author list but no index; vol.… Ler mais sobre este item

Providence, Brown University Press, 1975. Hard Cover. xx, 235 p.; 26.5 cm. All forty-eight Blathwayt maps, which form what has been called the first atlas of the British Empire, are discussed in the Commentary. Assembled by English colonial administrators, for whom they were working tools, these maps show the area of English overseas colonial and commercial interest, especially in… Ler mais sobre este item

N.Y. Crowell [1976]. Originally published Brussels, 1968. An illustrated survey of maps and mapmaking. "Maps chosen and displayed by R. V. Tooley. Text written by Charles Bricker. Preface by Gerald Roe Crone." Contents include The Mapmaker's Skills; Europe: the Rise of Map Publishing; Asia: Seaway to the Indies; Africa: the Mysterious Continent; The Americas: A New World;… Ler mais sobre este item

London, Dent / NY, Dutton; Everyman's Library. Hard Cover. xiv, 231 p., index, Gazetteer, color maps. Includes G. C. Brooke, A Brief Survey of the Coinage of North and South America, pp. 99-114 with 8 plates; Maps and Plans of Notable Battles and Districts connected with Famous Authors and their Books, pp. 117-135. Red cloth; good+. Stock#24783.