Maps / Cartography from About Books

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1929. Good condition. Tears and creases to the title page. Vertical and corner creases up to page 6. SEE PHOTOS. Includes double page full color maps and other maps printed in yellow, red and black. SEE PHOTOS. The double page maps open to an impressive 27.75" across. Contents: Part… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A. H. Muller, Publisher, 1910. Condition of the binding is Good but for rubbing at the corners and outer hinges cracked. SEE PHOTOS. Inner hinges are PERFECT, having been reinforced by the publisher/bookbinder with sturdy maroon cloth. Housed in a Fine custom-made, maroon cloth-covered clamshell case. SEE 2 PHOTOS, its outside and both inner halves when opened.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Julius Bien & Co, 1889. Condition of the binding is only Fair with pest damage. Leather over the spine has perished. Front and rear outer hinges cracks have been neatly reinforced with high quality clear flexible glue. Inner hinges are OK, having been reinforced by the publisher/bookbinder with sturdy maroon cloth. SEE PHOTOS. Condition… Saber más sobre este artículo

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. Flat, uncreased spine. A solid reading / reference copy but rated only Good because something, perhaps coffee, was spilled leaving a light brown discoloration in part of the book's outer margin (along the fore-edge). NO maps are affected. Almost no text is affected either, except in the index where the discoloration… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edinburgh / London / Dublin: Adam and Charles Black / Longman / Simpkin / Whittaker / Hamilton / Cumming, 1844. Good - Very Good condition. Bound in green cloth with black leather spine and corners, elaborately gilt decorated. The leather is surprisingly well preserved. The cloth is faded and soiled, with frayed edges. SEE PHOTOS. NO… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: Hubbard Scientific Company, 1973. Fine condition (cover only very lightly rubbed). Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with maps throughout, many in color. Spiral-bound so when opened the book lies perfectly flat for ease of use.… Saber más sobre este artículo

University of Colorado, Boulder Center Of The American West / W. W. Norton, 1997. Inscribed to Dean [Nicole?] Speer of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder and SIGNED by 4 of the book's contributors. The inscription reads: "For Dean Speer - with our thanks for your support" (signed by) William E. Riebsame (General Editor);… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hartford [Connecticut]: Elisha Babcock, 1794. Good - Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. Hinges are sound, with only a single half inch hairline crack. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Foxing, mostly light to moderate, to several pages. Slight age toning. Bound in full leather (sprinkled calf?) with 5 raised spine… Saber más sobre este artículo

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901. SEE PHOTOS. A handsome example of the 1901 first edition in quite scarce original leather binding (with 3 titles bound together, as sometimes seen) -- NOT print on demand edition or modern reprint. Very Good condition. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Hinges are perfect. Minor offset, as usual,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936. Near Fine condition. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with b/w maps throughout. 1936. First Edition. As geographical background to English literature, these maps locate the places where literature was created, where authors lived, where they set their scenes,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston Public Library, 1975. A beautiful, unusually bright copy. Very Fine condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Fresh, crisp, clean - apparently never read. 1975. First Edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. Illustrated with title page and map reproductions. Goff discusses Incunabula in the Library of Congress, maps of Washington DC, Jefferson's books,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toms River, New Jersey: Ocean County Historical Society, 1985. Near Fine condition. NO cover wear or fraying. Hinges (inner and outer) are PERFECT. Brief gift note on endpaper. 1985. Reprint of the 1878 Woolman & Rose (Philadelphia) original. Limited to 700 numbered copies, this being #121. The hand inked number "121" has bled through… Saber más sobre este artículo

Sofia [Bulgaria] / Stockholm [Sweden]: State Publishing House / State Historical Museum, 1980. Preface and introduction in English. Annotations in English, German, Swedish, etc. Fine condition in a Very Good++ dust jacket. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. 1980. First Edition. This exhibition catalogue is… Saber más sobre este artículo

Westport, Connecticut & London: Greenwood Press, 1993. New and unread. Only very mild shelfwear to the cover (like you sometimes find in any new book store). Crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read or even opened. First Printing of the First Edition with "First published in 1993" and complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. Perfect condition. Still sealed in the publisher's clear plastic shrink wrap. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright and shiny. Fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. 1991. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1962. A beautiful copy. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped ($4.00). NO rubbing. NO fading. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. First… Saber más sobre este artículo

La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sumac Press, 1978. NEW in a NEW dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Sharp corners. First Edition, Limited to 300 copies. Includes a hand-mounted genuine 13 cent Ben Franklin, The Theatre of War, USA bicenntenial stamp from 1976. Illustrated with numerous facsimiles of stamps showing maps.… Saber más sobre este artículo

La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sumac Press, 1969. Very Fine condition in a Very Near Fine printed paper dust jacket. The original jacket would be FINE but for the slightest touch of sunning to its spine. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are… Saber más sobre este artículo

La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sumac Press, 1973. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO rubbing. NO fading. NO creases. First Edition, Limited to 300 copies. Frontispiece features a hand-mounted genuine 6 cent stamp that reproduces the first map of Canada's Coppermine River Country, as… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1951. Very Good condition. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO foxing. THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Volume Forty-Five (Vol. 45, XLV), Third (3rd) Quarter, 1951. 1300… Saber más sobre este artículo