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Lot 196
Air Navigation Map No. 32 (Experimental) Phoenix, Arizona to San Diego, Calif. In 1921, the United States Army Air Corps initiated a compressive evaluation of aeronautical charts in an effort to develop a standardized map for aerial navigation. Based upon this study, the Air Corps issued 63 air navigation maps covering most of the military routes in the United States. Prior to 1926, these maps were jointly compiled by the Geological Survey and U. S. Army Engineer Reproduction Plant. By 1926, the preparation of air maps shifted to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (under the Commerce Department) with the passage of the Air Commerce Act. Maps from this point on were intended to merge the growing commercial airways system with the military network. This map covers the area from Phoenix west to San Diego and shows elevation and contours, cities and towns, rivers, roads and railroads. Airfield classifications are shown with different symbols including seaplane landings. True north and magnetic north are depicted. On a scale of 8 miles per inch. Dissected into two panels and backed in linen. A colorful example backed in linen with light toning at bottom and an ex-library stamp on verso. 42.5"" W x 10.3"" H U.S. Corps of Engineers, 1924
![[Lot of 4] Map of the City of Washington Showing the Varieties of Street Pavements... [and] ... Location of Deaths for the Y](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/36385/2916721/217-201411614377_468x382.jpg)
Lot 217
[Lot of 4] Map of the City of Washington Showing the Varieties of Street Pavements... [and] ... Location of Deaths for the Year... [and] ... Showing the Location of Fatal Cases of Zymotic Diseases... [and] ... Location of Fatal Cases of Lung Diseases... These four thematic maps were published in the Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Beginning in the early 1870`s, population growth exploded and the city lacked the basic infrastructure to support it. In 1874, Congress created a three-person Board of Commissioners to become the permanent government for the District. Over the next several decades, much was done by the Commission to improve living conditions and infrastructure including new sewer lines, paved roads and street cars. These maps reflect the progress of those efforts.Each map carries the title ""Map of the City of Washington..."" and is drawn on an identical scale, showing the street pattern of Washington in great detail. Each has a specialized focus and legend, with the titles continuing: A. ...Showing the Varieties of Street Pavements on January 1st 1887 B. ... Location of Deaths for the Year Ending June 30, 1886... C. ...Showing the Location of Fatal Cases of Zymotic Diseases for the Year Ending June 30, 1886 D. ...Showing the Location of Fatal Cases of Lung Diseases for the Year Ending June 30, 1886 An important set of four maps that provide a remarkable look into the capital city in the late 1880`s. Issued folding with pleasant, even-age toning. There is an occasional short split at a fold intersection and a few tiny edge tears, else fine. There is a library stamp on the verso of the ""Lung Disease"" map. 17"" W x 22.6"" H 1887
![The Geology of Nantucket [with] Map of the Island of Nantucket Showing the Distribution of Glacial and Post-Glacial Deposits](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/36385/2916721/251-201411614384_468x382.jpg)
Lot 251
The Geology of Nantucket [with] Map of the Island of Nantucket Showing the Distribution of Glacial and Post-Glacial DepositsÂ… This is one of the earliest comprehensive geologic reports of Nantucket, with detail on geologic history, surficial deposits, coastline and beaches. Included in the report are nine plates and a colored folding map entitled Map of the Island of Nantucket Showing the Distribution of Glacial and Post-Glacial Deposits (10 x 5.5""). The attractive map shows four different geologic units depicting kame and maraine, frontal terrace, post-glacial deposits and swamps. The map was completed by N.S. Shaler. 54 pp. of text enclosed in blue paper wrappers. Map is very good with some light color offsetting. Text and plates are very good to near fine with a few occasional spots. The covers are lightly stained with an old library stamp on front cover and a small portion of the back cover replaced with matched paper. 9.2"" W x 6"" H U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 1889
Lot 255
Air Navigation Map No. 23 (Experimental) Saint Louis to Kansas City, MO. In 1921, the United States Army Air Corps initiated a compressive evaluation of aeronautical charts in an effort to develop a standardized map for aerial navigation. Based upon this study, the Air Corps issued 63 air navigation maps covering most of the military routes in the United States. Prior to 1926, these maps were jointly compiled by the Geological Survey and U. S. Army Engineer Reproduction Plant. By 1926, the preparation of air maps shifted to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (under the Commerce Department) with the passage of the Air Commerce Act. Maps from this point on were intended to merge the growing commercial airways system with the military network. This map covers the area from St. Louis west to Kansas City and shows elevation and contours, cities and towns, rivers, roads and railroads. Airfield classifications are shown with different symbols. True north and magnetic north are depicted. On a scale of 8 miles per inch. A colorful example with light toning mostly in the blank margins. Backed in linen. Ex-library stamp on verso. 38.4"" W x 10.3"" H U.S. Corps of Engineers, 1923
![Map of the Great Salt Lake and Adjacent Country in the Territory of Utah [on sheet with] The Great Salt Lake (Mormon) City a](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/36385/2916721/303-2014116143932_468x382.jpg)
Lot 303
Map of the Great Salt Lake and Adjacent Country in the Territory of Utah [on sheet with] The Great Salt Lake (Mormon) City and Surrounding Country (on an Enlarged Scale) This sheet contains two maps. The upper map covers the region from the Great Salt Lake and Lake Utah east to Vernal and the Ashley Creek area (unnamed) and Fort Bridger in the north. It shows Salt Lake City in a block plan. Also locates Ogden, but no sign of Logan. Fort Utah is on the eastern shore of Lake Utah. The lower map is centered on Salt Lake City and features much more detail. The city plan clearly shows its rectangular grid layout and wide streets. The Welsh Settlement is shown to the southwest on the other side of the Jordan River. Both maps delineate the mountains in hachure and good detail of watershed. Lithographed by Day & Son. Drawn and engraved by Edward Weller of Bloomsbury. A scarce issue, more so due to the yellow, embossed stamp on the upper left noting this map was published as a supplement to the Sunday Weekly Dispatch of July 11th, 1858. Light toning and soiling. 12.3"" W x 12"" H Weller, Edward 1858
Lot 365
Americae Septentrionalis Pars IV This scarce German map of the Caribbean and Central America is part of a four-sheet map of North America. Each sheet stands alone with a decorative cartouche and full borders. The map is nicely detailed with place names in both German and English and shows many of the smaller islands, shoals and reefs. The map extends north to Cumberland Island, Georgia and west to Pensacola, Florida. Florida is quite narrow with southern Florida depicted as a series of large islands. A number of rivers and small lakes fill the peninsula. In contrast, there is little inland detail in South America, where Lake Maracaibo is given an elongated, narrow shape. The map is adorned with a decorative title cartouche, small compass rose, and Euler`s engraved ""cum privilegio"" stamp at bottom right. Watermarked paper with light soiling and a few minor creases. 13.6"" W x 14.2"" H Euler, Leonhard 1750
Lot 369
Carte Particuliere de l`Isle de la Jamaique Dressee au Depost des Cartes Plans et Journaux de la Marine... Superb, large-scale sea chart of Jamaica that is politically divided into parishes. The map includes remarkable detail with scores of place names and safe anchorages along the coast, in addition to mountains, roads, sugar, coffee and indigo plantations, taverns, watershed and a host of other information. The chart is embellished with two rococo-style cartouches. The engraved Depot de la Marine stamp is at bottom right, with a price of ""Prix. Trente Sols"" just below the neatline. Excellent impression and color on watermarked paper with original margins and one small abrasion in a blank area of map near bottom center. Overall a very clean and bright example. There is a bluish shadow along the centerfold in the image that is caused by our scanner and does not appear on the map. 22.3"" W x 35.2"" H Bellin, Jacques Nicolas 1758
![[Vellum Manuscript Indenture] This vellum indenture serves as testament to a one-year lease of a ""messauage, burg](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/36385/2916721/736-2014116145236_468x382.jpg)
Lot 736
[Vellum Manuscript Indenture] This vellum indenture serves as testament to a one-year lease of a ""messauage, burgage or tenement,"" signed March 23, 1787. The lease is between Robert Hoar, yeoman, from the Parish of Saint Clements Deanes in the county of Middlesex and Edward Wells, the younger, from Wallingford in the county of Berks Brower. Edward paid 5 shillings for the tenement in Cholsey, county of Berks Taylor, known as ""Shop Orchard Garden,"" which was used as a public house with an outhouse. The tenement which Edward has leased was previously owned by John Saunders and subsequently the late Robert Hoar, the father of Robert Hoar named in the indenture.The top of the indenture is cut in a jagged (""toothed"") line, as was the common practice with indentures. The legal contract was duplicated on a single sheet, and then the copies were separated by a jagged edge, so that the two pieces could be fit together again to verify authenticity. The indenture includes a tax stamp and a red wax seal. Clean and bright with a small hole at top right in a blank area of the sheet. 15.1"" W x 21.6"" H 1787
Lot 737
La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nuovamente Tradotta di Greco in Italiano... This is the first edition of Girolamo Ruscelli`s translation of Claudius Ptolemy`s Geographia, published in Italian. It was printed by Vincenzo Valgrisi in Venice, with the text translated from Greek by Ruscelli. It is complete with 62 maps; 25 classic and 37 modern, which are enlarged copies of the maps created by Giacomo Gastaldi for his 1548 edition of Ptolemy. These maps demonstrate the amazing advances in geographic knowledge taking place in this great era of exploration. They are from finely engraved copper plates, which were a great improvement over the rather crude woodcut maps in many of the earlier editions. The maps were engraved two to a plate, then printed and separated for binding, which is why the plate mark for each map runs off the top edge of the page. The classic maps include a conical projection of the world, 10 maps of Europe, 4 of Africa, and 12 of Asia. The modern maps include two world maps, 17 maps of Europe, 5 of Africa, 6 of Asia, and 7 maps of the Americas.Orbis Descriptio is the first double-hemisphere world map to appear in atlas form. It is elegantly engraved in the characteristic Italian style, adapted from the oval projection used by Gastaldi, and presented on what is known as Roger Bacon`s circular projection. This projection was popularized by Ruscelli and later by Rumold Mercator. Another important feature of the map is the apocryphal bulge in South America; one of the most copied cartographic errors of the 16th century. Terra Incognita is distinctly shown as a land bridge linking Asia and North America with its coastline labeled Littus incognitum. This is the first state with no southern continent.Ruscelli`s important early map devoted to the East Coast of North America, Tierra Nueva, is based on Giacomo Gastaldi`s map of 1548, which combined data from the Verrazano and Cartier voyages. The cartography is unchanged, with the exception of the depiction of the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers (unnamed), which are shown connected upriver, a notion he borrowed from Ramusio. Engraved on copper by Giulio and Livio Sanuto in the unmistakable Italian style.Also included is Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova, a foundation map in the cartography of the American Southwest, and a must for collectors of that region. It is an enlarged version of Gastaldi`s map of 1548 with the only notable change being the peninsular Yucatan. The legendary seven cities of Ciuola are prominently depicted and Mexico City is shown floating in a large lake. The place names along the upper Gulf Coast reveal the explorations of Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca and Moscosso. The Mississippi makes its appearance as the Rio de Spiritu Santo and the R. Tontonteanc flows in the vicinity of the Colorado River.Complete, 358 pages, 62 maps, and index. Bound with the 47-page Discorso Universale de M. Gioseppe Moleto Matematico.... Original vellum binding with brown ink manuscript title on spine. The text and maps are bright with light foxing and a faint damp stain at top right, entering up to 1"" into some maps. Most of the maps are in very good to near fine condition, with a few only in good condition. The first 40 pages of text also have a damp stain along the spine. There are some manuscript notations and a previous owner`s stamp on the title page. The hinges are starting and the covers show some wear with a few small worm tracks. 9.3"" W x 6.4"" H Ptolemy/Ruscelli & Valgrisi, 1561
Lot 745
Morse`s General Atlas of the World. Containing Seventy Maps, Drawn and Engraved from the Latest and Best Authorities This complete atlas contains 70 cerographic maps on 66 sheets with approximately half of the maps focused on the United States. The maps of North America and the United States feature large Utah, New Mexico and Nebraska territories, with Oregon and Washington Territory extending to the Continental Divide. The map of Texas shows county development confined to the eastern half of the state, with Presido, El Paso, and a large, unnamed Staked Plain occupying the west. The map of Florida shows the extent of surveying confined north of Tampa. Several of the state maps employ red overprinting to identify counties, roads, and railroads (presumably to be the most up-to-date at the time of printing). Outside of the United States, there is a fascinating Chart Showing the Recent Search for a North-West Passage which depicts the extensive effort in locating John Franklin, who searched for a Northwest Passage in 1845 and disappeared in 1847. Decorated by an elegant frontispiece featuring an explorer and vignettes from around the world. Elephant folio, rebound with new maroon cloth over original tan cloth boards with gilt title on front cover and marbled endpapers. Maps are very good to near fine with light toning and occasional offsetting from opposing text. There is light scattered foxing on frontispiece, title page, and text. Previous owners` stamp and bookplate appear on title page. Spine still appears new and original cloth boards are moderately soiled and stained. 17.2"" W x 14.1"" H Morse, Charles W. 1856
Lot 185
Airway Map No. 110 St. Louis, Mo. to Chicago Ill. In 1921, the United States Army Air Corps initiated a compressive evaluation of aeronautical charts in an effort to develop a standardized map for aerial navigation. Based upon this study, the Air Corps issued 63 air navigation maps covering most of the military routes in the United States. Prior to 1926, these maps were jointly compiled by the Geodetic Survey and U. S. Army Engineer Reproduction Plant. By 1926, the preparation of air maps were fully compiled by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (under the Commerce Department) with the passage of the Air Commerce Act. Maps from this point on were intended to merge the growing commercial airways system with the military network. This map covers the area from St. Louis to Chicago and shows elevation and contours, cities and towns, rivers, roads and railroads. Airfield classifications are shown with different symbols. True north and magnetic north are depicted. On a scale of 8 miles per inch. A colorful example backed in linen with minor toning along edges of sheet and an ex-library stamp on verso. 37.5"" W x 10.3"" H U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, 1929
Lot 157
20th century Chinese porcelain plaque painted with a cottage with a figure inside in a winter landscape, calligraphy and red stamp marks, label verso reading `Winter landscape Peking. Unknown artist. Purchased in Nanking May 1986.` in pierced hardwood frame, 15 x 9½in. (38 x 23cm)Surface pitted and scratched but no obvious signs of any other damage.
Lot 157
20th century Chinese porcelain plaque painted with a cottage with a figure inside in a winter landscape, calligraphy and red stamp marks, label verso reading `Winter landscape Peking. Unknown artist. Purchased in Nanking May 1986.` in pierced hardwood frame, 15 x 9½in. (38 x 23cm)Surface pitted and scratched but no obvious signs of any other damage.
Lot 246
A John Brogden Archaeological revival gold Pharaoh brooch within original box, the naturalistically modelled Pharaoh's head bearing a textured nemes with raised hieroglyph decoration, the reverse stamped 'JB' with later attached safety chain, presented within original fitted box 'John Brogden Goldsmith Manufactory 16 Henrietta St Covent Garden London', brooch measures 25mm x 21mm, total weight 10.4gms Note: John Brogden began his career as an apprentice to a London firm of watch and clockmakers in the 1830's. From 1842 to 1864 he was a partner in the firm 'Watherston and Brogden', a goldsmiths based at 16 Henrietta Street Covent Garden. In 1864 Borgden took over the business and operated under his own name until 1880. Between 1881 and 1885 he worked as an 'Art Goldsmith' at the Grand Hotel Buildings in Charing Cross. Brogden exhibited jewellery at the 1851 Great Exhibition and won various awards at exhibitions in Paris and London from the 1850's to the 1870's. His pieces bear the stamp 'Brogden' or 'JB' within a cartouche Many of his designs were inspired by Archaeological excavations in Syria and Egypt as well as being influenced by the work of the Italian jeweller Fortunato Pio Castellani Examples of his work and designs can be found in collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Lot 35
A silver mounted presentation ink well, William Comyns & Sons Ltd, London 1937, of rectangular plain polished form, the hinged cover engraved; 'To J.I.W. in grateful recognition of his services to Wireless Publicity Ltd during the years 1936-1938', opening to reveal two ink wells with clear glass liners and a central stamp holder with hinged cover, 20.5cm wide, 6.5cm high and 12cm deep
Lot 246
A John Brogden Archaeological revival gold Pharaoh brooch within original box, the naturalistically modelled Pharaoh's head bearing a textured nemes with raised hieroglyph decoration, the reverse stamped 'JB' with later attached safety chain, presented within original fitted box 'John Brogden Goldsmith Manufactory 16 Henrietta St Covent Garden London', brooch measures 25mm x 21mm, total weight 10.4gms Note: John Brogden began his career as an apprentice to a London firm of watch and clockmakers in the 1830's. From 1842 to 1864 he was a partner in the firm 'Watherston and Brogden', a goldsmiths based at 16 Henrietta Street Covent Garden. In 1864 Borgden took over the business and operated under his own name until 1880. Between 1881 and 1885 he worked as an 'Art Goldsmith' at the Grand Hotel Buildings in Charing Cross. Brogden exhibited jewellery at the 1851 Great Exhibition and won various awards at exhibitions in Paris and London from the 1850's to the 1870's. His pieces bear the stamp 'Brogden' or 'JB' within a cartouche Many of his designs were inspired by Archaeological excavations in Syria and Egypt as well as being influenced by the work of the Italian jeweller Fortunato Pio Castellani Examples of his work and designs can be found in collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Lot 35
A silver mounted presentation ink well, William Comyns & Sons Ltd, London 1937, of rectangular plain polished form, the hinged cover engraved; 'To J.I.W. in grateful recognition of his services to Wireless Publicity Ltd during the years 1936-1938', opening to reveal two ink wells with clear glass liners and a central stamp holder with hinged cover, 20.5cm wide, 6.5cm high and 12cm deep
Lot 427
GOLF, early postage stamps, 1953 Japanese 5-yen pictorial from series of National Parks, showing Mount Unxen from Sasebo golf course (believed to be the first golf stamp); 1948 block of six South African postage stamps (in original booklet with golfer illustrating clothing advert to inside cover); set of four 1971 Bermuda laid down to FDC (first set of stamps specific to golf), loose mounted to A4 pages with collectors typed annotation, from the Schulenburg collection, VG, 3
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