Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

[ATLASES]

A group of seven atlases and geographies, including; WIEGEL, CHRISTOPH; and JOHANN DAVIDE KÖHLER. Descriptio Orbis Antiqui in XLIV Tabulis Exhibita a Io. Davide Koelero. Nuremberg: Christoph Weigel, circa 1720. Vellum spine and corners, manuscript spine title, marbled paper boards. 15 1/2 x 10 inches; Engraved title, index, and 55 hand-colored maps, mostly double-page, some folding. Binding worn and soiled, with losses to the marbled paper and the vellum corners, a few of the maps with occasional pale staining, the color bleeding through the paper, a few short edge tears, map 31 with losses and restorations, large loss to the rear endpape; together with: JEDIDIAH MORSE. The American Universal Geography... Boston: J. T. Buckingham, August 1805. Two volumes. Tree calf, spine labels. Engraved maps. Rubbing and wear, front board of volume II detached, contents with occasional spotting and toning, a few of the maps with creases and short edge tears; R. BROOKES. Brookes' General Gazetteer Improved... Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, First American edition. Tree calf, red leather spine label. Folded maps. Worn, front joint cracked, spotting and toning, creasing to maps; RICHARD PALMER. The Bible Atlas... Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1830. Publisher's cloth boards gilt, modern cloth over spine. Hand-colored engraved maps, some folded. Fading and wear to boards, contents lightly toned, some offsetting, over-opened in a few places; FRIEDERICH DITTENBERGER; and FRIEDERICH SOMMERBLATT. Hand-und Schulatlas. Karlsruhe: Verlag Von Gottlieb Braun, 1831. Two volumes bound in one. Oblong with cloth spine and corners, marbled paper boards, printed label to upper board. Hand colored lithographed maps, some folding. Rubbing and wear to boards, hinges starting, titles toned, spotting, some creasing; and with, Two more titles. General wear, the books in this lot have not been collated unless otherwise described, sold as is.