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John James Audubon (1785-1851), Plate XCIX Cow-pen Bird
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$ 6,000.00
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John James Audubon (1785-1851), Plate X Brown Lark
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$ 7,000.00
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John James Audubon (1785-1851), Plate XCIV Grass Finch or Bay-winged Bunting
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$ 6,000.00
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John James Audubon (1785-1851), Plate CCXIX Black Guillemot
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$ 4,500.00
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Matthew Carey was an Irish immigrant who settled in Philadelphia and became the United States' most famous and successful publisher.
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Carey's American Pocket Atlas
CAREY, Mathew (1760-1839).
Published by Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1814., 1814
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$ 6,500.00
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The best atlas of America published just a few years before the election of Andrew Jackson who proceeded to take lands from the Creeks, Seminoles, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Choctaws. The maps in this important American atlas show the homelands of their 5 civilized tribes.
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A New American Atlas.]
FINLEY, Anthony (1790-1840).
Published by [Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1826]., 1826
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$ 9,000.00
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THE FIRST BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CARTOGRAPHY, EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF Paulli's "Orbis terraqueus"
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Orbis terraqueus in tabulis geographicis et hydrographicus descriptus.
PAULLI, Simon
Published by Argentorati [Strassburg]: Officina Libraria Editoris, 1670., 1670
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$ 4,500.00
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Strong focus on the French and Indian War
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A New, General and Universal Atlas
DURY, Andrew (fl 1742-1778).
Published by London: Laurie & Whittle, [1763]., 1763
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$ 2,800.00
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"The exoticism, anecdotal style, and strident advocacy of social and economic reforms that characterized this survey of colonialism and commerce...made it one of the bulwarks of the French Enlightenment. But its open anticlericalism and advocacy of the right of insurrection alarmed the French monarchy and led to a decree of Parliament of 1781 ordering Raynal's arrest and the confiscation of his property" (Aldridge).
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Histoire philosophique et politique des etablissemens & du commerce des Europeens dans les deux Indes
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas Francois (1713-1796).
Published by Geneva: Jean-Leonard Pellet, 1780., 1780
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$ 7,500.00
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Used by Germans looking to leave their native land in pursuit of religious freedom.
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Atlas curieux, oder neuer und compendieuser Atlas, in welchem auser den General Land Charten von America, Africa, Asia und Europa. enhalten sind.
BODENEHR, Gabriel (1664-1758).
Published by Augsburg: G. Bodenehr, [ca 1704]., 1704
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$ 4,800.00
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A fine French atlas published one year before the French Revolution commences in 1789.
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Etrennes Geographiques, contenant vingt-huit cartes pour toutes les parties du Globe terrestre.
ATLAS-FRENCH
Published by Paris: Laporte, 1788., 1788
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$ 3,500.00
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Fine outline original color on this atlas.
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Atlas Geographique et Militaire Ou Theatre De La Guerre Presente En Allemagne
RIZZI-ZANNONI, Giovanni Antonio (1736-1814).
Published by Paris: Chez Ballard, [ca 1762]., 1762
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$ 2,250.00
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As Hanoverian Kings ruled England starting in 1714, a focus on world domination ensued. By the time this pocket atlas was published during the Age of Enlightenment, most of the maps illustrated an English foothold. The sun truly did not set on the British Empire!
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Atlas Minimus: or, a New Set of Pocket Maps, Of various Empires, Kingdoms and States, with Geographical Extracts relative to each.
GIBSON, John (fl. 1750-1792).
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$ 6,500.00
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Ptolemaic map of Morocco & Western Algeria with very rare full original color.
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MARTIN WALDSEEMULLER, Tabula Prima Africae, 1513.
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$ 3,500.00
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Detailed sea chart of the Southern half of the Atlantic Ocean.
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JOHANNES VAN KEULEN, Pas. Kaart van een Gedeelte van de Aethiopische Zee, behelsende de Kusten Zanguebar, Ajan en Abex etc., c. 1680.
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$ 1,800.00
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One of the most accurate and finely engraved cartographic depictions of Africa of its era by the Globe Maker to 'Sun King' Louis XIV.
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VINCENZO MARIA CORONELLI, Set of 5 Gores of Africa, Venice 1685.
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$ 3,500.00
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Decorative view of Melinde harbor on the island of Mozambique. The island of Mozambique was an important trade center in Portugese Mombasa in the second half of the 16th Century,
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JAN DEUTECUM, Insulae et arcis Mocambique descriptio ad fines etc., Amsterdam, c. 1596.
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$ 800.00
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Beautiful map of Morocco on the Barbary Coast of northern Africa.
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JOHANNES JANSSONIUS, after ABRAHAM ORTELIUS, Fezzae et Marocchi Regna Africae Celeberrima, Amsterdam, c.1636.
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$ 550.00
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Decorative example of Hondius' map of Morocco,.
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GERHARD MERCATOR and JODOCUS HONDIUS, Fessae et Marocchi Regna, c. 1606.
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$ 875.00
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Fine 18th C map of Africa with a beautiful cartouche showing Europeans, Africans, and various African animals with views of Cape Town, South Africa.
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JOHANN BAPTIST HOMANN, Africa Secundum Legitimas Projectionis Stereographicae regulas, 1737.
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$ 800.00
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Detailed map of Guinea, showing the length of the coast important to African-European trade, including the slave trade.
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JOHANNES JANSSONIUS, Guinea, c. 1640.
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$ 950.00
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Chart of the environs of Oran in Algeria, celebrating its recapture by the Spanish in 1732.
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JOHANN BAPTIST HOMANN, Topographica Repraesentatio Barbarici Portus et Urbis Munitae etc., 1732.
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$ 900.00
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Gorgeous 2-sheet map of Africa, from the leading English mapmaker of the period.
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HERMAN MOLL, To the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Peterborow and Monmouth, &c. This Map of Africa, c. 1715.
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$ 1,800.00
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