![Item #291595 [CASE MAP] MAP OF LONG ISLAND](/pictures/thumb/291595.jpg?v=1591374709)
[CASE MAP] MAP OF LONG ISLAND
New York: G. W. & C. B. Colton, 1886. A smaller version of Colton’s “New Map of Long Island” issued in 1882. This edition 9” x 22”, folding into brown embossed cloth covers with titling in gold. The map is.....
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We expect that we will be down through March and hope to resume sending our weekly e-catalogues in April. At that time we will be open “by appointment only”. Until then our books will not be for sale. In the meantime, you can contact us by email at nick@blackswanbooks.com.
DER RHEIN. [RHEINPANORAMA]
Koln: H. Siebenhar, c, 1900. Perhaps from the turn of the century, a Rheinpanorama, printed in blue with black and white, postcard-like photographic images of sites along the course of the Rhine. The Rhine Valley was a tourist mecca, and.....
JAPANESE EMPIRE: Map
London: G. Philip & Son, Ltd. Hard Cover. Folding map covered by green cloth folder. Undated, but circa 1910. Some spotting on boards.
Lumsden & Son's Guide to The Romantic Scenery of Loch-Lomond, Loch-Ketturin, The Trosachs, &c. Comprising a Description of Loch-Lomond and Its Islands, the Ascent to the Summit of Ben-Lomond, Voyage to Rob Roy's Cave with ..
Glascow and London: James Lumsden and Son, 1849. Original Wrappers. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged. Very scarce in the original green wrappers which are quite fragile; the front panel is detached; folding frontispiece map present; Original Wrappers.
MAP OF MARSEILLE, FROM MAPS MODERN & ANCIENT.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, c. 1830. A colored map of Marseille. Measuring about 14 x 16.5 in.
MAP OF NORTH AMERICA, SHEET XIII. PARTS OF LOUISIANA, ARKANSAS, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA & FLORIDA. FROM MAPS MODERN & ANCIENT.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, c. 1830. A map of a few of the southern states, mainly Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with hand colored borders. Measuring about 14 x 16.5 in.
MAP OF PARMA FROM MAPS MODERN & ANCIENT.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, c. 1830. A map of the fortified city of Parma. Measuring about 14 x 16.5 in.
MAP OF TOULON FROM MAPS MODERN AND ANCIENT.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, c. 1830. A map of the city of Toulon, with an engraved panoramic view of the city at the bottom edge. Measuring about 14 x 16.5 in.
MAP OF TURIN FROM MAPS MODERN AND ANCIENT.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, c. 1830. A map of the city of Turin, with three engraved views of the city at the bottom edge. Measuring about 14 x 16.5 in.
![Item #292987 [MAP] PHYSICAL - POLITICAL MAP OF INDIA](/pictures/thumb/292987.jpg?v=1611339310)
[MAP] PHYSICAL - POLITICAL MAP OF INDIA
Edinburgh & London: W. & A. K. Johnston. Soft Cover. Large folding map dissected in 9 parts backed in linen, with the topography of the country shown by various colors. The colors are bright, in aquamarine, greens, peaches and reds.....
![Item #295131 [MAP] RAND, McNALLY & CO.’s INDEXED ATLAS OF THE WORLD. MAP OF MEXICO](/pictures/thumb/295131.jpg?v=1646604173)
[MAP] RAND, McNALLY & CO.’s INDEXED ATLAS OF THE WORLD. MAP OF MEXICO
New York: Rand-McNally, 1903. 19.25 x 26”; folding map; with a couple of small chips -- one to the top and the other to the bottom edge, neither affecting text or map; with an inset detailed “Map of the Valley.....
THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC GROUP COMPRISING VIRGINIA | WEST VIRGINIA | MARYLAND | DELAWARE | AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Baltimore: The Bullard Company, c. 1912. Folding map of the Middle Atlantic states, about 34 x 44”, printed in blue and white. Very detailed, with index of cities, towns and villages with population from the census of 1910. on the.....
The Route Book Of Devon: A Guide For the Stranger & Tourist To The Towns, Watering Places, and Other Interesting Localities of this County. With Maps of the Roads, County of Devon, and Plans of Exeter, Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse.
Exeter: Henry Besley, circa 1850. Hard Cover. A New Edition. Original cloth with gilt decoration. Four folding maps or plans as called for, plus an additional folding plan of Torquay; illustrated with 26 steel engraved plates in vignette. Some moderate.....
SIGHTS AND SCENES OF THE WORLD
[Chicago]: [W. B. Conkey Company], [1894]. Oblong Quarto. Half Leather. Bound without title page, presumably because this photographic travelogue was issued without parts. A bespoke binding, in half-morocco over brown pebbled cloth. With the owner’s name stamped on the spine.....
TOKYO. SECTION IV. (ONE VOLUME)
J. B. Millet Company, [1897]. Folio. Hard Cover. Limited “Tokyo” Edition. Volume IV only of a ten volume set. Japan, published by the J. B. Millet Company, with descriptions of Japanese history, society, everyday street scenes, and other commentaries. The.....
W. H. SMITH & SON’S REDUCED ORDNANCE MAP OF LAKE DISTRICT & WINDERMERE
W. H. Smith & Son, c, 1880. Folded map in cloth case, with pastedown. Pastedowns inside with advertisements of Smith’s tourist maps & plans of England and of London as well. Colored dissected map, mounted on linen. Minor foxing. 14.....
THE NORTH PACIFIC SURVEYING AND EXPLORING EXPEDITION; OR, MY LAST CRUISE. WHERE WE WENT AND WHAT WE SAY: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF VISITS TO THE MALAY AND LOO-CHOO ISLANDS, THE COASTS OF CHINA, FORMOSA, JAPAN, KAMTSCHATKA, SIBERIA, AND MOUTH OF AMOOR RIVER.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. Half Leather. First published in 1857, quite a good travel chronicle by Alexander Habersham detailing his observations while on duty as a lietenant with a US surveying and exploring expedition to the North.....
THE CYCLOPAEDIA; OR, UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, AND LITERATURE (PLATES: VOLUME VI--ANCIENT AND MODERN ATLAS)
Philadelphia: Samuel F. Bradford, ca. 1820. Quarto. Half Leather. First American Edition. The maps have been collated against the index: there are 60 folding, or double-page maps (lacking only 1--the map of The United States), 1 single cartographic “plate” and.....
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[MAP] EARLY 19th CENTURY ARSENAL. A SURVEY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT MOUNT DEARBORN ON THE CATAWBA RIVER IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Philadelphia: Bowen & Co’s Lith. 1809. A trimmed early map of Mount Dearborn in South Carolina, with hand coloring in outline. Showing the Quarters and Barracks; the Arsenal; Powder Magazine; Artillery Shed; Huts for Labourers; Brick Kiln & Yard; Blacksmith.....
![Item #287105 MAP OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN [BATTLE MAP OF THE FAR EAST AND THE PACIFIC]. Alexander Gross](/pictures/thumb/287105.jpg?v=1591218151)
MAP OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN [BATTLE MAP OF THE FAR EAST AND THE PACIFIC]
New York: Geographia Map Company, 1940’s. A World War II era map of the Pacific Theater, with an ancillary map on the the verso, “Map of the World, on Mercator’s Projection”. 64 x 99 cm., folded to 23 x 21.....
OUR TRAVELS, OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS: WITH COMPLIMENTS OF THE AUTHORS
New York: Appeal Printing Co., [1914]. Hard Cover. Green cloth binding, with stamping in white to the upper board. Mrs. Cochran’s name signed on a laid in card. 182 pp. Octavo. We find two copies on OCLC.~~Privately printed travel narrative.....
HISTORY OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS MISSION. (A Heathen Nation Evangelized.)
Boston: Congregational Publishing Society, 1870. Hard Cover. Frontispiece; Previous owner's bookplate attached to front paste-down. Frontispiece and map present. No pencil or ink markings in text. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine.
![Item #295699 [TRAVEL] [DECORATIVE BINDING] THE SPELL OF ALSACE. Andre Hallays | Frank Roy Fraprie](/pictures/thumb/295699.jpg?v=1657394852)
[TRAVEL] [DECORATIVE BINDING] THE SPELL OF ALSACE
Boston: The Page Company, 1919. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo. (8 1/8” x 6 3/4”); in the published decorative cloth binding, with dustjacket; there is some minor toning to the pictorial endpapers but no ownership marks of any kind; dark.....
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[CITY PLAN] [FINDING RIBBON] [TRAVEL] SOUVENIR OF THE BON MARCHE: FOUNDED BY ARISTIDE BOUCICAUT
Paris: [Au Bon Marche], [1910]. Hard Cover. 8vo.; in publisher’s flexible boards; 36 pages, with large folding plan (52 cm x 68 cm) of Paris des Magasins du Bon Marche, at the rear; with an insert image “Vue Generale des.....
A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO BOTANY BAT WITH AN ACCOUNT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, ITS PRODUCTIONS, INHABITANTS, &C. TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, A LIST OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS AT PORT JACKSON.
Melbourne: Editions Renard, 2004. Hard Cover. Facsimile Reprint. Facsimile type reprint of the first edition, first published in 1789 for J. Debrett. Reproducing one color portrait, one map,two views, and the original title page. With no marks. Blue cloth with.....