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Lot 382

Sale 5792 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 30, 2020 8:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$2,750
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[Maps & Atlases] (Bradford, Thomas G.), and S.G. Goodrich (editor) A General Atlas of the World, with a Separate Map of Each of the United States of America

Boston: S.D. Strong, (1841). Folio. Illustrated with 51 sheets of maps, including tinted emblematic title-page, and the United States Map constituting the sheets numbered 7 and 8 on the List of Maps. Original quarter green leather over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered brown morocco cover label, scuffed and rubbed, corners and spine heavily rubbed; the 'Plan of Boston' sheet bound out of order at front, dampstaining to edges of sheets at front, including the emblematic title-page, List of Maps, the Plan of Boston, and hemisphere maps, some toning and offsetting to same, toning, offsetting, and marginal soiling and dampstaining at rear, including maps 44-51 (the maps of South America, the Atlantic Ocean, the various European maps, the maps of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Ocean), numerous closed and open tears, including to bottom gutter of North America map, Delaware map, Louisiana map, Missouri map, at bottom center fold to double sheet U.S. map, and a small puncture at center of the West Indies map, and with some staining to the Michigan map.

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