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TWO ANTIQUE MAPS OF CHINA.: Two antique maps of China, including Chinae by Abraham Ortelius, 1595, image 14.25” x 18.25”, with map of Eastern Asia, Le table de la region orientale, image 10” x 13.5”.

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JOHN SPEED 17TH C. MAP, AMERICA.: John Speed map of the Americas, engraved with hand coloring, bordered on three sides with depictions of native peoples from Florida, Virginia, New England, and with city views including Havana, Cuzco,

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JOHN SPEED 17TH C. MAP, GREAT BRITAIN.: John Speed map, ”The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland,” engraved by J. Hondius, printed by Sudbury and Humble, London, 1610, with insets of London, Edinburgh, and the Orkney Islands,

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18TH C. CONTINENTAL WOOD CARVING OF ATLAS.: A well carved likely 18th C. walnut sculpture of Atlas supporting sphere, and draped in robes. Figure 16.5”H, on custom black wood plinth 20.5”H overall.

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Mitchel, Samuel Augustus "A New Universal Atlas": Mitchel, Samuel Augustus "A New Universal Atlas", (Baltimore, Cushings & Bailey 1859); folio; quarter-gilt pebbled sheep over gilt embossed cloth (front panel detached); Final edition of Michell's ren

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JOHN SPEED 17TH C. MAP, SPAIN.: John Speed map, “Spaine Newly Described with Many Additions, both in the Attires of the People & the Setuations of their Cheifest Cityes” engraved map, hand-colored (likely later), bordere

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A Vaugondy map of Virginia and Maryland, 1755: A large map of Virginia and Maryland, titled Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland by Robert de Vaugondy (1755) after the map by Peter Jefferson and Joshua Fry. On laid paper, with a fold crease down th

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ATLAS OF THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY FROM NEW YORK CITY TO: ATLAS OF THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY FROM NEW YORK CITY TO TROY, F.W. BEERS, WATSON & CO., 1891 (COMPLETE) "PRESENTED TO THE HUDSON RIVER LODGE NO.607, COMPLIMENTS OF BROS. G.H. & G.E. JACOBS, NEWBURGH NY

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A framed 17th century map of Tartary by Hondius: A framed 17th century map of Tartary by Jodocus Hondius the Elder (1563-1612). This was first issued in 1606 and continued to be printed by Hondius wife and sons in the decades after the elder Hondius

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TWO ANTIQUE AFRICAN MAPS.: Early hand colored engraved map of North Africa by Edward Wells, ca. 1700, “A New Map of the North Part of Antient Africa..” image 14.25” x 19”, overall 22” x 27”.

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1819 LIZARS MAP UNITED STATES.: W & D Lizars Edinburgh map of the United Sates of America 1819, image 15” x 17,5” framed under glass overall 23” x 25”

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William Kentridge (South African, b. 1955) Atlas: William Kentridge (South African, b. 1955) Atlas Procession I, 2000 etching, aquatint, drypoint, letterpress with hand-painting signed and numbered 31/40 in pencil 62 x 42 inches. Provenance:David Kru

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PAIR OF CAST BRONZE ATLAS FIGURES SUPPORTING THE EARTH: PAIR OF CAST BRONZE ATLAS FIGURES SUPPORTING THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS Late 20th Century After the examples in the library of Louis XVI at Versailles. Figures with applied black patina. Brass globes.

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Ireland.- Petty (William) Hiberniae Delineatio...,: Ireland.- Petty (William) Hiberniae Delineatio..., first edition of the first atlas of Ireland, engraved portrait frontispiece of Petty by Edwin Sandys, double-page engraved frontispiece and contents

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Pair Large Carved Walnut Figural Atlas Pedestals: Mirror image pair of carved walnut pedestals modeled after Atlas, overall 50.25" h. x 17" x 15.75". Condition Repair next to one arm, age splits, other wear consistent with age and use. .

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DARBY, WILLIAM Memoir on the Geography, and Natural and Civil History of Florida, Attended by a Map: DARBY, WILLIAM Memoir on the Geography, and Natural and Civil History of Florida, Attended by a Map of That Country, Connected With the Adjacent Places and an Appendix, Containing the Treaty of Cessio

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TAFT, William Howard (1857–1930). Pair of typed letters signed (“Wm. H. Taft”). The first letter (1pp. on bifolium), dated 21 September 1912, is on official White House stationery and addressed to Charles A. Ricks of the G.C. Kuhlman Car Company. Taft explains that he does not know who will be appointed to the vacancies occurring in the brigadier–generalships in the fall and winter of 1912 and 1913. Includes original envelope with canceled stamps. The second letter (1pp. on bifolium), dated 20 March 1917, is on Taft’s official stationery and addressed to John Phelps with a single hand–correction. Taft writes that he has transmitted the letters to his brother, Charles P. Taft, that his father refers as he “may be interested in the genealogy”.