2001, ISBN: 9781589760707

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th - 15th October 1974. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 106 pp, 1 fac. 570 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following… Plus…

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th - 15th October 1974. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 106 pp, 1 fac. 570 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Porcacchi's L'Isole, 1576, Magini's Italia, 1620, Mercator's Atlas minor, 1651, Weigel's Atlas portatilis, 1724, Delisle's Atlante novissimo, 1740-50, and atlases by Speed, Blaeu, Blome, de Wit, d'Anville, Cary and Greenwood; British county maps and maps of the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia; a good collection of maps of Malta; Hakluyt's The principal navigations, 1599-1600, Wood's New England prospect, 1635, Pagan's The great country and river of the Amazones, 1661, Knox's The island Ceylon, 1681, Washington's The journal of Major George Washington, 1754, and Marra's Journal of the Resolution's voyage, 1775; an extensive collection of books on Russia and books on Africa, Australia and New Zealand; letters of George Washington, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln; Gordon, Livingstone, Stanley and Shackleton; an autograph manuscript of Captain Scott; an important collection of papers of James Glen, Governor of South Carolina, covering the period 1739- 75; the papers of General Forbes concerning his operations at Fort Duquesne in 1758; letters and documents relating to Australia and the Boer War; fine autograph survey maps by John Rocque. Initials on front wrapper, edges of wrappers sunned, otherwise Good. Lots 526 to end neatly annotated with prices and buyers. List of prices realized and buyers laid in., Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th - 15th October 1974, 2.5, The Narrative Press, 2001-07-01. Paperback. Good., The Narrative Press, 2001-07-01, 2.5<