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Auction archive: Lot number 2

Geography: or, A Description of the World, in Three Parts... [with] Atlas to Adams Geography...

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$192
Auction archive: Lot number 2

Geography: or, A Description of the World, in Three Parts... [with] Atlas to Adams Geography...

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$192
Beschreibung:

Title: Geography: or, A Description of the World, in Three Parts... [with] Atlas to Adams Geography... Author: Adams, Daniel Place: Boston Publisher: Lincoln & Edmands Date: 1828 & 1832 Description: Text volume: 328, [1] pp. Woodcut illustrations. (12mo) 18x10.5 cm (7x4¼"), leather backed boards. 1828. Atlas: 11 engraved maps hand-colored in outline, 2 of them double-page. (sm. 4to) 20.5x16.5 cm (8x6½"), printed wrappers. The atlas has a double-hemisphere map of the world (double-page); North America; United States (double-page); New England States; Middle States; Western States; South America; Europe; British Isles; Asia; and Africa. The maps engraved by H. Morse. Ownership signature of William Jamison, 1830, on front flyleaf of text volume; atlas with ownership signatures of John M. Mayers and Miss E.C. Blakey. Provenance: Text, Mt. Eden Books and Bindery, 2/93; Atlas, Estates Book Sales, 9/71 Lot Amendments Condition: Text with rubbing o spine, chip to front cover fore-edge, corners worn; atlas with soiling and extremity wear, spine crudely restitched, in slipcase; together, both about very good. Item number: 271070

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
19 May 2016
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:

Title: Geography: or, A Description of the World, in Three Parts... [with] Atlas to Adams Geography... Author: Adams, Daniel Place: Boston Publisher: Lincoln & Edmands Date: 1828 & 1832 Description: Text volume: 328, [1] pp. Woodcut illustrations. (12mo) 18x10.5 cm (7x4¼"), leather backed boards. 1828. Atlas: 11 engraved maps hand-colored in outline, 2 of them double-page. (sm. 4to) 20.5x16.5 cm (8x6½"), printed wrappers. The atlas has a double-hemisphere map of the world (double-page); North America; United States (double-page); New England States; Middle States; Western States; South America; Europe; British Isles; Asia; and Africa. The maps engraved by H. Morse. Ownership signature of William Jamison, 1830, on front flyleaf of text volume; atlas with ownership signatures of John M. Mayers and Miss E.C. Blakey. Provenance: Text, Mt. Eden Books and Bindery, 2/93; Atlas, Estates Book Sales, 9/71 Lot Amendments Condition: Text with rubbing o spine, chip to front cover fore-edge, corners worn; atlas with soiling and extremity wear, spine crudely restitched, in slipcase; together, both about very good. Item number: 271070

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
19 May 2016
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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