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Auction archive: Lot number 385

Maps to accompany Herndon's report on the Valley of the Amazon

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$120
Auction archive: Lot number 385

Maps to accompany Herndon's report on the Valley of the Amazon

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$120
Beschreibung:

Title: Maps to accompany Herndon's report on the Valley of the Amazon Author: Herndon, William Lewis Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: Date: 1854 Description: 3 folding lithographed maps in original brown cloth binding, 1 of them hand-colored. 8½x5½" folded. The three maps, which accompanied the first volume of Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by William Herndon and Lardner Gibbon, are: Map of the Valley of the Amazon to Accompany Lt. Herndon's Report, by H.C. Elliot, hand-colored in outline (44.5x59.5 cm.); Plan del curso de los Rios Huallaga y Ucayali.... (39x26.6 cm.); and Map of the Rivers Huallaga, Ucayali and Amazon, from the Observations of Lt. Wm. H. Herndon... (64.5x147 cm.). Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear and fading to cloth; maps with several short tears, longer on largest map; very good. Item number: 251588

Auction archive: Lot number 385
Auction:
Datum:
3 Sep 2015
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: Maps to accompany Herndon's report on the Valley of the Amazon Author: Herndon, William Lewis Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: Date: 1854 Description: 3 folding lithographed maps in original brown cloth binding, 1 of them hand-colored. 8½x5½" folded. The three maps, which accompanied the first volume of Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by William Herndon and Lardner Gibbon, are: Map of the Valley of the Amazon to Accompany Lt. Herndon's Report, by H.C. Elliot, hand-colored in outline (44.5x59.5 cm.); Plan del curso de los Rios Huallaga y Ucayali.... (39x26.6 cm.); and Map of the Rivers Huallaga, Ucayali and Amazon, from the Observations of Lt. Wm. H. Herndon... (64.5x147 cm.). Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear and fading to cloth; maps with several short tears, longer on largest map; very good. Item number: 251588

Auction archive: Lot number 385
Auction:
Datum:
3 Sep 2015
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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