Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

[ATLASES]

A group of approximately ten classical or school atlases, including; LONG, GEORGE; and WILLIAM HUGHES An Atlas of Classical Geography. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1856. Publisher's cloth boards gilt, black leather spine. 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches; Hand-colored lithographed maps. Spine worn and leaning, light toning to contents, losses to front endpaper, old ownership inscription; together with, Ginn and Company’s Classical Atlas. Boston, New York, and Chicago: Ginn & Company, 1895. Publisher's embossed cloth, stamped in gilt, black and blind. Color-printed maps Moderate wear to binding, spine leaning, light toning, occasional spotting, bookplate of Fred Schreiber; WILLIAM F. COLLIER; and LEONHARD SCHMITZ. The Student’s Atlas of Historical and Classical Geography. New York: Putnam's no date. Publisher's cloth. Color-printed maps. Worn, losses to cloth at spine; HEINRICH KIEPERT and CARL WOLF. Historischer Schul-Atlas… Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, cirac 1890. Oblong, cloth spine, marbled paper boards, manuscript title label to upper board. Color-printed maps. Some wear to boards, contents lightly toned; JOHN BARTHOLEMEW. A Descriptive Hand Atlas of the World. Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Zell, 1873. Publisher's leather spine and corners, spine gilt titled and decorated, cloth boards with gilt stamp to upper board. Color-printed maps. Rubbing and wear to spine and corners. And with, Five more atlases, all oversized. Late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Generally worn, the lot is sold as is.