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644		Atlas de Filipinas / No. 138 Atlas of Philippine Islands		Philippines P. Jose Algue		1899 A		$250.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 13 x 15 inches) This is an increasingly difficult to find atlas that is superbly detailed. The atlas contains two title pages, the first in Spanish; "Atlas de Filipinas Coleccion de 30 Mapas" with attribution to Jose Algue (Director del Observatorio de Manila), and the second, with an introduction by Henry S. Pritchett, is titled "Atlas of the Philippine Islands", and is GPO Special Publication No. 3. With four...

645		Insulae Indiae orientalis		East Indies - Indonesia Mercator/Hondius		1635 A		$200.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 7.7 x 5.5 inches) This little map focuses on the Spice Islands and the important trade capitals of the region. It covers the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. Sincapura is depicted as an overly large island at the tip of Malaysia. English text on the verso.

646		Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio		East Indies - Indonesia Jan Jansson		1640 B+		$300.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 19.8 x 15.3 inches) The famous Spice Islands, the cornerstone of the Dutch trading empire in the East Indies throughout the 17th Century, is the focus of this exquisite map. Similar to Blaeu's map, except that it extends further south to include the island of Bachian. The very decorative title cartouche is supported by two sea monsters, and another cartouche contains the scale of miles. It is further embell...

647		The Island of Celebes, or Macassar with the Islands of Banda, Amboyna, and the Molucca's, Agreeable to Modern History		East Indies - Indonesia Herman Moll		1739 A		$150.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10 x 7.8 inches) A finely engraved chart of the East Indies that includes the eastern part of Indonesia from eastern Borneo to New Guinea. The map provides a detailed view of numerous islands, including the famous Spice Islands that were once the heart of the Dutch spice trade and economic domination of the region. The title is in simple block style cartouche. A fine example of Moll's characteristic bold...

648		A New Chart of the Straits to the Westward of New Guinea; comprehending the Straits of New Guinea, Revenge's or Galewo Straits, Pitt's or Sagewin Straits, Dampier's or Gamen Straits, with Bougainville's Passage & ca.		East Indies - Indonesia Laurie & Whittle		1798 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 34.5 x 22.8 inches) A very large-scale sailing chart that describes in minute detail Dampiers Strait and the region to the northwest of Papua New Guinea. It shows the tracks of numerous explorations. Inset at upper left is a map showing the track of the Marquis Cornwallis between the isles of Pigeon and Augusta in Dampiers Strait. This region was of great importance to the East India Company and the important spic...

649		Sumatra		Sumatra, Indonesia Giovanni Battista Ramusio		1606 A+		$650.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 14.5 x 10.6 inches) This fine woodcut map of Sumatra (Taprobana) is the first separate map of an Indonesian island to be based on actual empirical data. Based on the observations of the Parmentier brothers, Frenchmen who ran the Portuguese blockade of the East Indies and landed on the west Sumatran coast. Both brothers died of fever and their crew did not acquire a great deal of wealth, which dissuaded the F...

650		Carte de l'Isle de Sumatra, Dressee sur les Journaux des Navigateurs		Sumatra, Indonesia Jacques Nicolas Bellin		1750 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 11.4 x 9.7 inches) This finely engraved copper-plate chart shows all of Sumatra and the southern portion of the Malaysian peninsula. Singapore is not identified, but several other lesser islands are named including Tioman Island, Banca, and Penang, plus many off the west coast of Sumatra. Good detail of the Straits of Malacca and the Detroit de Sincapour. The cities of Palembang, Jambi, Manimcabo, Ac...

651		Partic. Plan der Edlen Compagnie Ampachts oder Handwercks Quartier von Batavia		Jakarta, Indonesia Johann Wolfgang Heydt		1740 A		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10.2 x 9 inches) Boldly engraved, close-up plan of the central portion of the city of Batavia (Jakarta), the Dutch colonial capital and home to the Dutch East Indies Company. The city is built in the Dutch tradition with a large network of canals. The city plan is oriented with north to the left by a large compass rose. Important buildings and places are located by two extensive keys. Batavia was the capital ...

652		Africae Tabula Nova		Africa Abraham Ortelius		1570 B+		$1,500.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 19.8 x 14.7 inches) This striking map is one of the cornerstone maps of Africa and remained the standard map of Africa well into the seventeenth century. It was designed by Ortelius from elements of contemporary maps by Gastaldi, Mercator, and Forlani and used several recent sources: Ramusio in Navigationi et Viaggi (1550), Joao de Barros in Decadas da Asia (1552), and Leo Africanus in Histor...

653		Africae Litora Priscis Navigata		Africa Claude Bartholemy Morisot		1643 B+		$700.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 6.5 x 5.2 inches) This rare map of Africa appeared in the first comprehensive book on naval and maritime history. The map is printed on a sheet (8.3" x 14") with Latin text on the above and below the map and full page of text on the verso. The map extends only to central Africa to the Mountains of the Moon. The source of the River Nile is located adjacent to the Montes Lunae, just south of the equator. Embellis...

654		Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula		Africa Frederick de Wit		1680 A		$850.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 22.8 x 19.3 inches) The information contained in this beautiful map of the African continent is typical of the late 17th Century. The Nile appears according to the ancient pattern of Ptolemy, arising from the two lakes of Zaire and Zafflan. De Wit's depiction of the southeastern coast includes numerous deep inlets and several rivers and lakes at the southern tip not seen on other maps of the period. ...

655		Totius Africae Nova Repraesentatio qua praeter diversos in ea Status et Regiones, etiam Origo Nili ex veris RRPP Missionariorum Relationibus ostenditur		Africa Johann Baptist Homann		1715 A		$650.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 22.5 x 19.3 inches) Handsome, large map of the continent with the typical inaccuracies of eighteenth century cartography. The map conforms to the twin lake configuration for the source of the Nile and a lengthy paragraph on the map purports to provide evidence of the accuracy of this theory based on the work of Heinrich Scherer. The geographical features are identical to the map that Johann engraved for Jacob von S...

656		[Lot of 9 - Africa]		Africa Jacques Nicolas Bellin		1739-60 A		$300.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 0 x 0 inches) This is a nice lot of region maps, each providing a great deal of information, particularly the minute coastal detail for which Bellin is renowned. His long career as hydrographer to the Depot des la Marine resulted in the completion of hundreds of high quality nautical charts. Many were reduced for publication in Prevost's popular history of voyages. 1) Le Pays des Hottentots ...

657		[Lot of 2] De l'Afrique [and] Isles, Caps et Ports de Mer de l'Afrique		Africa Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet		1767 A+		$80.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 21.5 x 12.4 inches) An interesting pair of continental maps. They are both presented in the style that gained great popularity in France at the end of the 18th century, where the map is flanked by lengthy text panels. de l'Afrique includes interior features, although they are sparse. The Nile originates well north of the equator in two small lakes in the Montagnes de la Lune. The map measures 13.4 x...

658		Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiaria / Tzaffin / Septa / Arzilla / Sala		Northern Africa Braun & Hogenberg		1572 A		$220.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 18.4 x 12.7 inches) A handsome sheet with views of five Moroccan seaports under Portuguese rule during the 16th century. Included are Tingis (Tangiers), Tzaffin (Safi), Septa (Ceuta), Arzilla (Asilah), and Sala (Sale).

659		Barbariae et Biledulgerid, Nova Descriptio		Northern Africa Abraham Ortelius		1584 A		$275.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 19.8 x 13 inches) Handsome map of the famed Barbary coast based on Gastaldi's Africa. The map extends from Morocco to Libya and the western Mediterranean showing the proximity of the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, southern Italy and Sicily. Richly engraved with place names, mountains, and numerous spurious lakes in the Sahara Desert. The title is contained in a strapwork panel across the top. Two fantasti...

660		Partie de la Barbarie, ou est le Royaume d'Alger divise en ses Provinces. Partie du Biledulgerid, ou sont Tegorarin, Zeb, &c.		Northern Africa - Algeria N. Sanson/Mariette		1655 A		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 21.2 x 15.2 inches) Nice map covering the region of present-day northern Algeria. The topography is shown to be quite mountainous with numerous oases located and shown in the European manner of forests. The title is engraved on a drape-style cartouche. Engraved by Joannes Some and published in Paris by Pierre Mariette.

661		Africae Propriae Tabula. In qua, Punica Regna Vides, Tyrios, et Agenoris Urbem		Northern Africa Jan Jansson		1655 A		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 20 x 14.5 inches) Decorative map of the coastline covering present-day Tunisia and Libya. It is based on Ortelius' map of the same title, which in turn was based on Gastaldi's great map of Africa and the ancient texts of Diodorus, Siculus, Plinius, Virgilius, Appianus, Halicarnasseus, Athenaeus and Herodotus. The map extends to include Sicily and Malta. Richly embellished with a fine title cartouche, a compass r...

662		Royaume et Desert de Barca, et l'Aegypte divisee en ses Principales Parties		Northern Africa Nicolas Sanson		1683 A		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10.8 x 6.5 inches) This attractive map, covering northern Africa from Tripoli to the Red Sea, is from a Dutch edition of Sanson's pocket atlas. The topography is mostly spurious with numerous mountain ranges and oases prominently located. The map is embellished with a bold title cartouche festooned with fruit symbolizing the fertility of the Nile valley. Engraved by A. d'Winter.

663		[Lot of 2] Partie de Barbarie ou Sont les Royaumes de Tunis, et Tripoli' [and]] Partie de Barbarie ou est le Royaume d' Alger divise en ses Provinces'		Northern Africa Nicolas Sanson		1683 A		$80.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 11 x 7.3 inches) This matched pair of maps from a Dutch edition of Sanson's pocket atlas covers the northern coast of Africa including Tunisia, Libya and Algeria. The maps are fully engraved with mountains and oasis, and decorated with strapwork title cartouches.

664		[Lot of 2] Royaume de Fez divise en sept Provinces' [and] Royaume de Maroc divise en sept Provinces &c.		Morocco Nicolas Sanson		1683 A		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10.3 x 8 inches) This matched pair of maps from a Dutch edition of Sanson's pocket atlas covers present-day Morocco, then the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco. The maps are filled with mountain ranges, oases, cities and villages and are ornamented with decorative cartouches.

665		Cairus, quae olim Babylon; Aegypti Maxima urbs		Egypt Braun & Hogenberg		1572 A		$1,200.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 19 x 13 inches) This striking bird's-eye view of Cairo and the surrounding countryside includes depictions of the pyramids and the Sphinx. Several people are illustrated in the foreground including a cavalry engaged in exercises, travelers on the roads, veiled women and a man picking dates. Boats and crocodiles fill the Nile River. A legend describing the view is enclosed in a strapwork cartouche at bottom rig...

666		Vue de la Ville du Grand Caire, et de ses Environs		Egypt Henry Abraham Chatelain		1710 A		$110.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 16.8 x 14.4 inches) This attractive sheet features four great views of Cairo with its architecture and the busy Nile River. The views are flanked with extensive French text describing the vicinity, commerce and history of the region.

667		[Lot of 16 - Egypt]		Egypt Various		1820-1880		$150.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 0 x 0 inches) This is a diverse lot of maps and prints having to do with Egypt. It includes some very detailed maps of the Nile, including Sidney Hall's Egypt, as well one of the continent that includes a large inset of Egypt. There are 2 prints. Size varies from 5.5 x 7.2" to 16.5 x 20". Sold with out reserve and not subject to return.

668		Typus Orarum Maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo, & Angolae ultra Promontorium Bonae Spei'		Western Africa John Wolfe		1598 A		$2,500.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 20.4 x 15 inches) This splendid map, from the English edition of Jan Huygen van Linschoten's Itinerario, is one of the most richly ornamented maps in early cartography. It was originally designed by Arnold Floris van Langren and was re-engraved for this edition by Robert Beckit. The map covers the southwestern coast of Africa from the Gulf of Guinea to just beyond the Cape of Good Hope with excellent detai...

669		Guinea		Western Africa Hondius/Purchas		1625 A		$130.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 7.3 x 5.8 inches) A beautiful small map of the west coast of Africa covering the coast from Sierra Leone to Gabon with a large decorative inset of I. S. Thomae. Further embellished with a sea monster and strapwork title cartouche. This edition is on a full page (8" x 12.2") with English text below the map and on the verso. This map is from Samuel Purchas' publication which is one of the largest and most i...

670		Guinea		Western Africa Jan Jansson		1640 B+		$260.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 20.5 x 15 inches) This is one of the most graphic and beautiful maps covering the coast from Sierra Leone to Gabon. The land is filed with animals and the sea is decorated with ships, sea monsters and compass roses. The large title cartouche features a native couple and three apes, one of which strongly resembles a human. To the left of the title, two child-like sea creatures are carrying a large elephant tusk, re...

671		Guineae Nova Descriptio		Western Africa Direk Cornelissen Swardt		1690 A		$130.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 9.8 x 7.3 inches) Miniature map based on Hondius' folio map of the same title. The map shows the West African coast from Senegal to Cape Lopez on the Gulf of Guinea just below the equator. The island of Sao Tome is shown in detail in the small inset bottom left. The map was engraved by Direk Cornelissen Swardt and is nearly identical to the one he engraved for Cloppenburgh's edition of the Mercator Atlas Mino...

672		Carte Particuliere de la Coste d'Or pour Servir aux Vaisseaux Francais'		Western Africa Depot de la Marine		1750 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 23.5 x 16.5 inches) This is one of the earliest precise charts of the Gold Coast, present-day Ghana, from the River Ancobar in the west to the Volta in the east. The chart was produced for the French vessels competing with other European powers for the trade in gold. The coast is divided among several small African kingdoms. Numerous depth soundings along the coast are shown, as are coastal towns and forts includi...

673		Carte de la Cote d'Afrique, depuis Cap Blanc jusqu'a la Riviere de Gambie		Western Africa Jean B.N.D. d' Apres de Mannevillette		1769 A		$100.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 26 x 19 inches) A handsome sea chart draws the coastline of Senegal and Gambia. The coastline is carefully delineated to illustrate the sandbars, rocks, and soundings. The mouths of the Senegal and Gambia rivers are shown in great detail. Several villages are located along the coastline and rivers.

674		Carte de la Barbarie le la Nigritie et de la Guinee		Western Africa Delisle/Elwe		1792 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 22.5 x 19.3 inches) Deftly engraved 18th century map of western Africa from Barbary, Nigeria and Guinea to below the equator. There is a mass of geographic detail and notations in the interior with information on the rivers and lakes. Numerous tent encampments are depicted throughout the Sahara Desert. This map first appeared in Delisle's Atlas de Geographie (1700-1712) and was here re-issued by Jan Elwe wi...

675		Presbiteri Iohannis, sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio		Central Africa Abraham Ortelius		1584 B+		$1,300.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 17.2 x 14.6 inches) This famous map depicts the central African kingdom of the mythical Christian king, Prester John, who, according to legend, provided a stronghold against Barbarians and was an ally to the Crusaders. Ortelius designed this map himself using geographical information including Gastaldi's 1564 map of Africa. The mythical twin lakes of Zaire and Zaflan are shown as the origin of the Ni...

676		Partie de la Haute Aethiopie ou sont l'Empire des Abissins et la Nubie &c.		Central Africa Nicolas Sanson		1683 A		$150.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 8.3 x 11.6 inches) This uncommon map focuses on the fictitious Ptolemaic twin lakes of Zaire and Zaflan. The large lakes, purported to be the source of the Nile were thought to be located at the foot of the mythical Lunae Montes, or Mountains of the Moon, often identified as the Ruwenzori Mountains in Uganda. The map is filled with fictitious place names and topography, all meticulously detail...

677		Africa Nuova Tavola		Southern Africa Ruscelli		1562 B+		$500.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 9.8 x 7 inches) This "new" map of the southern part of Africa includes some unusual cartography. It is based on Gastaldi's map of 1548. The continent is very broad and the source of the Nile is shown in three lakes, instead of the normal two. Madagascar, Isola de S. Lorenzo, is oddly shaped and surround by smaller islands. It is engraved in the typical Italian style with stippled sea, wide rivers and a...

678		South Africa		Southern Africa John Bartholomew		1876 B+		$100.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 22.3 x 16.5 inches) An interesting and detailed map of the southern tip of Africa with an inset titled "Continuation of Map on a reduced Scale showing Dr. Livingstone's Travel between the Years 1849 & 1856." The regions still dominated by indigenous nations are noted with the various Bantu tribes and Great Bushman Land. The coastal territories of the Portuguese and British colonies are packed with informatio...

679		Oceana or Pacific Ocean		Pacific Ocean H.S. Tanner		1835 A+		$75.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 14.8 x 11.6 inches) Published by Carey & Hart, this chart details the entire ocean to include Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, Japan and Kamtschatka to Alaska and down the coastlines of North and South America. Australia is divided into only three states: West Australia, South Australia and New South Wales. No information on Antarctica noted, but the small inset "Wilke's Discoveries on the Reduced Scale" show...

680		[Lot of 2 - Captain Cook Explorations]		North Pacific Ocean Rigobert Bonne		1785-88 A		$150.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 13.5 x 9.2 inches) 1)Carte de l'Entree de Norton et du Detroit de Bhering, ou l'on voit le Cap le Plus Oriental de l'Asie et la pointe la Plus Occidentale de l'Amerique. Great map of the Bering Strait showing the Chukotskiy and Seward peninsulas and parts of St. Lawrence Island (here Isles de Clerke). It plots the course of the voyages of 1778 and 1779, with soundings along the track. Cook had already died...

681		Carte des Iles Salomon		Pacific - Salomon Islands Clement Adrian Vincendon-Dumoulin		1838 B		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 21.3 x 16.5 inches) Detailed chart showing the track of the Astrolabe through the Solomon Islands with an inset "Carte de la Partie Meridionale du Groupe Rouk (Iles Hogoleu)." Vincendon-Dumoulin was the cartographer for Dumont d'Urville's important expedition to the Pacific and the Antarctic, which resulted in significant contributions to the mapping of the region.

682		Botany Bay, in New South Wales. Lat: 34° 00' Sth. / Entrance of Endeavour River in New South Wales. Lat: 15° 26' Sth.		Sydney, Australia Capt. James Cook		1773 A		$1,100.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 13.2 x 5.3 inches) This rare plate contains two charts on one sheet. The first is the depiction of Sydney Harbor when Cook first landed in Australia on April 29, 1769. Six locations for fresh water are noted as are several soundings in the harbor with shoals are delineated. Locates C. Banks and Pt. Solander which were named by Cook for his botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. The chart on the l...

683		New Holland, and New Zealand.		Australia & New Zealand Jeremiah Greenleaf		1848 A		$150.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 13 x 10.8 inches) This early map shows the interior of Australia nearly completely blank with detail confined to the coastlines and New South Wales. The country is composed of two states: New South Wales and New Holland in the west with a dotted line splitting the country down the middle. The map extends to include the islands of Timor, Flores and Sumba (Indonesia) as well as the New Hebrides and Solomon Island...

684		[Lot of 12 - Animals and Birds]		Natural History, Animals & Birds Buffon		1766 A+		$200.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 6 x 7.5 inches) An eclectic selection of copper engraved plates from Buffon's work. The lot includes the following birds: 1) l'Oie d'Egypte; 2) la Torcol; 3) le Grebe Cornu; 4) le Pluvier Dore; 5) le Lagopede; 6) le Pluvier a Collier; 7) le Merle d'Eau; and 8) l'Oie de Guinee. The large animals include: 9) de Belier des Indes; 10) la Brebis des Indes; 11) Autre Belier des Indes; and 12) le Zebu. Each plate we...

685		[Lot of 2] The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. Vol. III Ruminantia. Part I [and] Vol. IV Ruminantia Part II		Natural History, Animals W.H., Lizars		1836-39 A		$200.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 0 x 0 inches) Matched and complete set includes 64 copper engraved and hand colored full-page plates. Filled with well drawn images including antelope, reindeer, gazelles, caribou, camel, wild sheep, rams, buffalo, Kudu, and wild and domestic cattle. With frontispiece for Peter Camper in former and John Hunter in latter with corresponding memoir in each. Text and plates by Sir William Jardine, Bart. Hardbo...

686		A Jonquille		Fox Hunting Rudolph Ackerman		1851 A		$110.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 15 x 10.5 inches) This is a classic fox hunting engraving from the renowned Rudolph Akermann. The image is in the highly desirable aquatint process. The foreground has a reluctant horse being urged by his rider to enter water. Nearby are several companion riders accompanied by several foxhounds with the English countryside in the background. The image of the horse is well rendered with great detail of th...

687		[Lot of 5 - Birds]		Natural History, Birds		1825 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 8.5 x 10 inches) Coenraad Jacob Temminck was an important Dutch ornithologist and zoologist and the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden. Together with Meiffren Laugier, he published the Nouveau Recueil de Planches coloriées d'Oiseaux (New Collection of Color-Plates of Birds) between 1820 and 1839 as a supplement to Buffon's monumental Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (Natur...

688		[Lot of 11 - Flowers]		Natural History, Botanicals Benjamin Maund		1845-50 A		$250.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 6.5 x 8 inches) This group of botanical engravings are the more desirable of Maund's work as they have one flower per engraved page. Maund was a pharmacist, botanist and bookseller who was most noted as the publisher of several botanical periodicals with beautifully colored plates. As beautiful and visually pleasing as these engravings are, they were also an important botanic resource as a small portion was lef...

689		Dress of the Inhabitants of California with their manner of Rafts for Fishing, &c.		Native Americans, California George H. Millar		1782 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 6.5 x 10.4 inches) This interesting engraving by Thornton is enclosed in a decorative frame. It was published by Alexander Hogg.

690		[Lot of 9 Native American prints]		Native Americans Various		1894 A		$100.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 7 x 9.3 inches) This great set of plates include the portraits of the important Native Americans Quanah Parker. Chief of the Quah-hah-das Comanches - Oklahoma, 1890; Sitting Bull. Sioux - South Dakota, September 1890; Tonto Apache. White Mountain Reservation, Arizona, 1891; Chief Captain Dave (Nu-Man-Nar). Piute - Nevada Agency, Nevada, 1891; and Pasqual (Paschal). Chief of the Yumas - California, 1890. ...

691		Twenty-First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology...1899-1900		Native Americans J.W. Powell		1903 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 8.5 x 11.5 inches) This complete 1903 edition contains the famous chromolithographic plates of Hopi Katchinas that were painted by three Hopi artists for Fewkes in preparation of the Twenty-First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology... 1899-1900. The report includes The Report of the Director, which provides a description of the office research, field research and explorations, et...

692		[Lot of 16 - Indian Pottery]		Native Americans, Pottery Jesse Walter Fewkes		1904 A+		$100.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 7.3 x 11.3 inches) Jesse Walter Fewkes conducted several expeditions to Arizona to study the Native cultures. He published his discoveries from 1896 and 1897 in "Two Summers Work in Pueblo Ruins," the BAE report from which these beautiful heliotype plates originate. These plates illustrate some of the more outstanding examples of vases, food bowls, dippers and other pottery objects found during his excavations at ...

693		[Lot of 3 - Biblical Engravings]		Religion Johann Jakob Scheuchzer		1735 A		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 0 x 0 inches) Three copper engravings from Scheuchzer's Kupfer Bibel, which described the physical world in the context of the Bible. Each is surrounded in an elaborate architectural or naturalistic border. Kupfer is German for copper and the name is derived from the numerous copper engravings of cosmography, paleontology, zoology, botany, anatomy and other subjects related to natural history th...

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