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. 

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

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.

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.

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.

145 x 100 mm, in good condition.

370 x 460 mm., with some professional repair to the double folds as usual, with good margins on three sides, the top cut close just affecting upper right where some facsimile of the neat line exists, otherwise in good condition.

760 x 1050 mm., two sheets joined as one, in fine early outline colour, printed on strong paper, light toning to joint of two sheets as often the case, otherwise in good condition.

180 x 220 mm., in fine condition.

170 x 230 mm., modern wash colour, in fine condition.

350 x 480 mm., in recent wash colour and good condition.

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

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