Rare maps of North America

Text in two large quarto volumes (330 x 280 mm. ea.), recent matching half calf, brown moiré cloth boards, spines with gilt ruled raised bands with gilt titles, with central blind embossed compartments. With titles, half-titles, table of contents, list of subscribers, pp. [16], 654, [2]; [24], 688, [2], containing over 40 woodblock engravings set within the text, with the large folding map (415 x 810 mm.) in early outline colour often missing. Tableau atlas in oblong portfolio (430 x 610 mm.), in contemporary half calf binding, brown moiré cloth boards, gilt panelled with central gilt title within ornate frame, spine with gilt ruled raised bands, compartments with ornate blind central feature, interior of both boards with publisher's green moiré paper, extremities lightly rubbed. Containing 48 plates consisting of 48 Tableau engravings on steel and copper in excellent old colour heightened with gum Arabic and a table illustrating the temperatures at Fort Union and Fort Clark (often lacking), 41 plates in their first state, the remainder early states, minor repairs, none affecting plate area, with protective tissue, all with publisher's blind stamp. Vignette atlas in oblong portfolio (330 x 485 mm.), in contemporary half calf binding, brown moiré cloth boards, gilt panelled with central gilt title within ornate frame, rebacked to style, interior of both boards with publisher's green moiré paper. Containing 33 Vignette engravings on steel and copper in excellent old colour heightened with gum Arabic, 30 plates in their first state, the remainder early states, minor repairs, none affecting plate area, with protective tissue, all with publisher's blind stamp. 

215 x 165 mm., uncut manuscript four page ledger, in good condition.

290 x 380 mm., in very nice full early wash colour, good condition.

200 x 290 mm., in very nice full early wash colour, good condition.

225 x 300 mm., in very nice full early wash colour, good condition.

190 x 290 mm., in very nice early outline colour, good condition.

210 x 295 mm., in very nice full early wash colour, good condition.

Octavo (150 x 95 mm.), full contemporary calf, blind panelled, rebacked with blind ruled compartments, red calf gilt title label, original endpapers. With typographic title page, dedication to Charles II, Preface, pp. (8), 192, with three folding maps, in excellent condition.

440 x 600 mm., with lovely full early wash colour.

Octavo (220 x 140 mm.), uncut, with the extremely rare original wrappers chipped and professionally repaired, wood-engraved title page vignettes, pp. (4), 301-344, printed in two columns to a page, toned as usual otherwise in good condition.

465 x 640 mm., in full early wash colour, faint water stain lower centrefold, otherwise in excellent condition.

Folio, three volumes (490 x 355 mm. each), bound to style in half red morocco over red moire cloth covered boards, gilt ruled, spines with gilt ruled raised bands in six compartments, each gilt panelled, gilt lettered in the second and fourth, gilt volume dates to base of each spine, marbled endpapers. With typographic title page to each volume, pp. [2], 4, 206; [2], 237; [4], 196, [2], with 120 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, P. Rhindesbacher and R. M. Sully, drawn on stone by A. Newsam, A. Hoffy, Ralph Trembley, Henry Dacre and others, printed and coloured by J. T. Bowen and others, comprising 117 portraits and 3 scenic frontispieces after Rindisbacher, 1 leaf containing 2 lithographic maps and a table and 17 pages of facsimile signatures of subscribers. Light foxing to volume 1 as usual, offsetting to plates as usual, with some waterstaining to beginning of volume 2 affecting the first plate and volume 3 affecting first 5 plates, otherwise in good condition.

320 x 375 mm., in good condition.

305 x 415 mm., with good margins in good condition.

220 x 265 mm., uncut, in very good condition.

410 x 555 mm., with light offsetting, good margins, uncut, with manuscript title to the verso, in good condition.

270 x 155 mm., professionally lined with tissue, with loss of the last five lines and imprint, otherwise in good condition.

Duodecimo (150 x 85 mm.), full contemporary calf, blind panelled, with ribbed spine, very ornate gilt decoration to compartments, gilt title, gilt slightly worn. With typographic title page, pp. [4], 331, [1], p. 236 erroneously numbered 136, with 7 folding maps, otherwise in excellent condition.

250 x 340 mm., with wide margins, with some repair to double folds as might be expected, light fold along the centre, otherwise in good condition.

510 x 620 mm., early wash colour, a rare unfolded example in good condition.