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Auction archive: Lot number 314

Eight jigsaw maps circa 1889 with box

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$420
Auction archive: Lot number 314

Eight jigsaw maps circa 1889 with box

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$420
Beschreibung:

8 color engraved maps with very narrow margins, edged in gilt. Sheets measuring 32.5x46 cm (12¾x18¼"), each sheet mounted on wood and cut to form a jigsaw map; housed in original 2 part box with color pictorial lid. Maps separated in box by thin board dividers Phillips does not list an atlas of Delamarche for this late date nor an atlas for Grosselin - Delamarche. Given the plate numbers, it was a big atlas. Maps include: Atlas Delamarche Mappemonde en deux Hemispheres. Inset: Passage du Nord-Ouest; lower margin: Paris Impie Legay, Rue de la Boucherie 1. Plate nos. at upper right: 77,78. Carte Politique de L'Europe 1889. Upper right margin: Atlas Grosselin - Delamarche. Plate no. in upper right margin: 80. Lower left margin: Paris Impie Legay, Rue de la Boucherie 1. Carte Physique et Politique de L'Asie. inset: Japon. Upper left margin: Atlas Grosselin - Delamarche. Plate no. at upper right margin: 105. Lower left margin: Paris Impie Legay, Rue de la Boucherie 1. Carte Physique et Politique de L'Afrique. Inset: Basse Egypte et Canal de Suez. Upper left margin: Atlas Delamarche. Plate nos. at upper right margin: 107,108. Table of Explorers routes coded to map. Latest exploration that of Capitan Binger 1887-1889. Carte de L'Amerique Septentrional et des Antilles Par Delamarche. inset: Mer de Kamtschatla ou de Bering. Shows Alaska as Amerique Russe and boundaries of State of California. Amerique du Sud redigee et dessinee par M. Gabriel Papquet. Echelle de 1:25,000,000, note on projection used. inset: Environs de Rio de Janerio. inset: Baie de la Plata. Upper right margin: Atlas Grosselin - Delamarche. Plate no. in upper left margin: 113 Lower left margin: Grave par E. Guillot, 28 Rue d'Alesia Paris, lower middle margin: E Bertaux, Editeur, 25, rue Serpente a Paris. Atlas Delamarchje Geographie Moderne L'Oceanie. Inset: Archipel Taite. Insert: Arhcepel des Marqluised. Plate no. at upper right margin: 115. Atlas Delamarche Geographie Moderne France Divisee en 86 Departments. Inset: Carte de las Frane Divisee en ses 32 Provences. Plate nos. in upper right margin: 70, 71. Lower left margin: Impie Legay r. de la Boucherie, 1. Paris.

Auction archive: Lot number 314
Auction:
Datum:
19 Dec 2019
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

8 color engraved maps with very narrow margins, edged in gilt. Sheets measuring 32.5x46 cm (12¾x18¼"), each sheet mounted on wood and cut to form a jigsaw map; housed in original 2 part box with color pictorial lid. Maps separated in box by thin board dividers Phillips does not list an atlas of Delamarche for this late date nor an atlas for Grosselin - Delamarche. Given the plate numbers, it was a big atlas. Maps include: Atlas Delamarche Mappemonde en deux Hemispheres. Inset: Passage du Nord-Ouest; lower margin: Paris Impie Legay, Rue de la Boucherie 1. Plate nos. at upper right: 77,78. Carte Politique de L'Europe 1889. Upper right margin: Atlas Grosselin - Delamarche. Plate no. in upper right margin: 80. Lower left margin: Paris Impie Legay, Rue de la Boucherie 1. Carte Physique et Politique de L'Asie. inset: Japon. Upper left margin: Atlas Grosselin - Delamarche. Plate no. at upper right margin: 105. Lower left margin: Paris Impie Legay, Rue de la Boucherie 1. Carte Physique et Politique de L'Afrique. Inset: Basse Egypte et Canal de Suez. Upper left margin: Atlas Delamarche. Plate nos. at upper right margin: 107,108. Table of Explorers routes coded to map. Latest exploration that of Capitan Binger 1887-1889. Carte de L'Amerique Septentrional et des Antilles Par Delamarche. inset: Mer de Kamtschatla ou de Bering. Shows Alaska as Amerique Russe and boundaries of State of California. Amerique du Sud redigee et dessinee par M. Gabriel Papquet. Echelle de 1:25,000,000, note on projection used. inset: Environs de Rio de Janerio. inset: Baie de la Plata. Upper right margin: Atlas Grosselin - Delamarche. Plate no. in upper left margin: 113 Lower left margin: Grave par E. Guillot, 28 Rue d'Alesia Paris, lower middle margin: E Bertaux, Editeur, 25, rue Serpente a Paris. Atlas Delamarchje Geographie Moderne L'Oceanie. Inset: Archipel Taite. Insert: Arhcepel des Marqluised. Plate no. at upper right margin: 115. Atlas Delamarche Geographie Moderne France Divisee en 86 Departments. Inset: Carte de las Frane Divisee en ses 32 Provences. Plate nos. in upper right margin: 70, 71. Lower left margin: Impie Legay r. de la Boucherie, 1. Paris.

Auction archive: Lot number 314
Auction:
Datum:
19 Dec 2019
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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