Boston: Oscar W. Walker, 1886. Hardcover. Good. 18" x 14" clothbound atlas with title stamped in gilt on front board. Spine perished and with old amateur repair (black tape), title page heavily chipped and laid down on newer paper. Some tears at margins, but overall plates and maps are very..... Item #23564
[Kansas City]: T.J. Green & Co. Undated, likely early 20th century. Four cards measuring approximately 2.5 x 4.5 inches, each advertising a differrent residential development in Kansas City: Eaton Place, Forest Park, Melba Park, and Chesterfield Each card has brief promotional text ("fine residence lots," "magnificent view, every lot 2..... Item #21482
No publication information given, but ca. 1900-1910. "From survey by Herbert Carmichael, Assistant Mineralogist, assisted by W.E. Meyerson." 8.25" x 17.5" map with four vertical folds. Presumably issued in a book or report, but we have not been able to identify the source. Contour lines show the geography around the..... Item #22550
Undated, likely mid-1970s. 34 x 25-inch map showing hundreds of small lots for sale in this subdivision in Weed, near Mount Shasta in Siskyou County. Folding creases, one split along a fold, a few minor notations; very good. Development at Lake Shastina began in 1968 and focused on enticing well-heeled..... Item #21486
[Los Angeles]: Bekins Van & Storage. Very good. 15" x 13" indexed city street map issued as a promotional piece by Bekins Van & Storage, "shippers of household goods to and from eastern points at half rates. Warehouse Cor. 4th & Alameda Sts.). Very good condition, with folding creases, one..... Item #23954
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, 1903. Soft cover. Very Good. 82 pp + ads and folding map, in original brown paper wrappers. Some tape repairs to spine, one small chip to rear cover, all else very good or better; map in fine condition. Title continues: "The Express Company doing..... Item #19040
Very good. Printed circular on the 8.5" x 11" letterhead of M.J. Mertens Real Estate Investments. Old folding creases, else very good. Addressed to "Mr. Live Real Estate Man," the circular offers a Mission Street lot measuring 50 x 80 feet for $25,000 (about $760,000 today). Mission is described as..... Item #23769
San Francisco: Spaulding & Barto, Printers, for the Board of Supervisors, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 916 pp, indexed, with 6 folding maps, double-page frontispiece with photographic portraits of the city commissioners. Bound in full black leather with all edges gilt, stamped Jas. F. Chapman on front board. Chapman..... Item #23663
R.Fargo & Co., 1912. Softcover. Very good. 3.5" x 5" booklet containing three folding maps and ca. 40 pages of advertising for hotels, restaurants, garages, and other services of interest to tourists and travelers. One map folded such that it sticks out at the fore edge, otherwise very good condition..... Item #24226
Berlin: Safari, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 579 pp, with maps, illustrations, list of cartographers, bibliography, index. A fine copy, in dust jacket with very light wear to edges, in original cardboard slipcase. Text is in German. A beautiful volume on cartography illustrated throughout with a...... Item #860
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. xii, 184 pp, with index, b/w illustrations. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else a fine copy, in fine dust jacket. "Historians Sarah Bendall, David Buisseret, P.D.A. Harvey, and B.W. Higman follow the..... Item #17635
Chicago: University of Chicago Committee on Geographical Studies, 2006. Colored map, 83 x 63 cm, published in conjunction with the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 7-11, 2006. Shows both new housing construction (high-rise, low-rise, townhouse, and detached homes) and building conversions (factories, warehouses, and office..... Item #21724
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933. Hardcover. Near Fine. 264 pp, indexed, with bibliography, illustrations and maps. Original blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on the spine; no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, very mild wear to corners, else fine. A survey of the development of geographical understanding..... Item #12755
Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson: London, [1918]. Hardcover. Near fine. Sixteenth edition. 9.75" x 6", 700 pp, with numerous maps and charts, bound in original blue cloth. Mild shelf wear to boards, internally clean and tight; near fine. Preface, dated January 1918, notes "It having become necessary to reproduce this..... Item #24156
San Francisco: California Map Society, Book Club of California, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8.5" x 11", 108 pp, indexed, with 7 tipped-in color plates, many additional b/w plates, folded sheet in rear pocket, titled "Seven Contemporary Map Sections of California," described on the verso as maps 43-49. A...... Item #23669
Toronto: Stewart Derbishire & George Desbarats [and] John Lovell, 1858. Hardcover. Very good. Two works bound together: 1) Hind, Henry Youle. Report of a Topographical and Geological Exploration of the Canoe Route between Fort William, Lake Superior and Fort Garry, Red Rver; and also of the Valley of Red River..... Item #23236
London: J. Debrett, 1797. Hardcover. Good. Third and most complete edition of this work, "in which form it was the most informative compilation on the West at the end of the 18th century" (Streeter). 8vo, xii, 598 pp + index in modern leather binding with new modern endpapers and flyleaves..... Item #24060
London: James Imray & Son, 1884. Hardcover. Good+. "Supplement to Jan. 1889." viii, xl (addenda), 1008 pp + 64-page publisher's catalogue, extensively illustrated with maps and charts, bound in original dark red cloth with titles in gilt on spine and front board. Cloth split along front joint, front hinge cracked..... Item #24112
Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son, Lith. 1854. Very good. Full title: Geological Map of the Route Explored by Capt. Jno. Pope Corps of Topl. Engrs. Near the 32nd Paraellel of North Latitude, 1854, from the Red River to the Rio Grande. Prepared in the Office of Pacific Rail Road Exploration..... Item #23989
James Imray and Son: London, 1870. Hardcover. Very good. New and Enlarged edition. 8vo, pp. viii, 343, 62 (publisher's catalogue of "Charts, Works on Navigation, and Nautical Instruments" dated 1881), complete with 11 maps and chart, in original brown pebbled cloth with gilt titles. Boards edgeworn, cloth on back board..... Item #24111
San Francisco: David Magee, 1965. Very good. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Copy in the Library of the University of California at Los Angeles. With an Introductory Essay by R.A. Skelton. One of 365 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Two large softcover volumes (text and charts) housed in original..... Item #23970
New York and London: William R. Jenkins Co. and Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 x 13 cm (3.5 x 5 in), in original red cloth stamped in gilt with the title and "Compliments of Blair & Co." on front and advertising for Blair & Co. (a..... Item #13673
