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Rare Books
Rare Books
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Removed from acidic matting. "Comprising all the late Improvements, Compiled and Corrected from Authentic Documents. Designed to Accompany the Description of New York." Vignettes: City Hall; Merchants Exchange. Relief: no. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Vignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 150234.
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Two maps on one sheet of the same area in downtown Bakersfield. MS note: 262150. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Terms of Sale and photographs of the area.
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Two copies of the same map, one copy mounted in board. Very detailed map of the City at the start of the American Revolution. See 12036 for an additional copy. Sub map: Chart of the Entrance to New York from Sand Hook showing the properest Channel, for Sailing with the Banks and depths of Water. "Showing the Several Streets, Publick Buildings, Docks, Fort & Battery, with the true Form & Course of the Commanding Grounds, with and without the Town. Surveyed in the Winter 1775." "To the Hon'ble Thos. Gage, Esqr. Major General and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in North America and Colonel of the 22d Regiment of Foot. This plan is most humbly Inscribed by his Obedient Servant. John Montresor. Engineer. R. Andrews Sculp." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet, Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS note: 150238.
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Two copies of the same map, one copy mounted in board. Very detailed map of the City at the start of the American Revolution. See 12036 for an additional copy. Sub map: Chart of the Entrance to New York from Sand Hook showing the properest Channel, for Sailing with the Banks and depths of Water. "Showing the Several Streets, Publick Buildings, Docks, Fort & Battery, with the true Form & Course of the Commanding Grounds, with and without the Town. Surveyed in the Winter 1775." "To the Hon'ble Thos. Gage, Esqr. Major General and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in North America and Colonel of the 22d Regiment of Foot. This plan is most humbly Inscribed by his Obedient Servant. John Montresor. Engineer. R. Andrews Sculp." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet, Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS note: 150238.
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A record of the various proposals for routes through Central America. One note states, "The District of Socomusco formed part of Central America until 1843 when it was taken possession of by Mexico without treaty, and under protest by Guatemala against the occupation." Guatemala is still protesting. "London, Edward Stanford, Charing Cross. 1856." Elevations of 5 different routes shown. BM Maps, 2:224. Phillips, P.L. Maps of America, p. 216 (1879 reproduction in: Great Britain. Parliament. Accounts and papers, 1881, v. 99) Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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