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Sale 306: Maps & Atlases: With the Cartography Reference Library of the Late Robert Ross (#306) 04/07/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #75 The Imperial School Atlas...

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$687.50

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Heading:

(School Atlas)

Title:

The Imperial School Atlas...

Author:

Millar, James

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

G.B. Whitaker and Oliver & Boyd

Date Published:

1825

Description:

Illustrated with 36 hand-colored copper-engraved maps, including a double-page hemisphere world map; plus some engraved plates (these plates apparently incomplete). 12¾x9¾, remnants of quarter calf binding.

1825 quarto school atlas. Most of the maps are of Europe, but includes 5 of the Americas (including West Indies). The map of the United States extends west only to the Mississippi.

Condition:

Practically disbound; general soiling and edge tears; world map clumsily repaired at stub, about 7 maps with small chips or tears into image, a little scattered pencilling, mild offsetting; still, majority of maps very good, sold as is.

Item#:

159523
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