Catalogue of Americana, voyages and travel, atlases and maps, autograph letters and historical documents. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 11-12 November 1968 ].

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Green printed wrappers, 8vo, 123 pp, 1 plate, ills. 574 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: atlases and maps, including Blaeu's Atlas major, 11 vol., 1665, Sanson's Neptune Francois, 1700-1708, Ortelius's, Theatrum orbis terrarrum, 1595, Verbiest's Map of the world, 1674, Coronelli's Isolario, 1696-97, Speed's Theatre of Great Britain and the world, 1676, Saxton's Traveller's guide, (c.1712), Bowen & Kitchen, Large English atlas (c.1765), and a large collection of maps of the American continent, English counties, and other parts of the world; a collection of books relating to British Guiana, Charlevoix's Nouvelle France, 1744, Sloane's Voyage to Madeira, 1707- 25, Bougainville's Voyage round the world, 1772, Demersay's Histoire du Paraguay, 1860-65, Reisch's Margarita philosophica, 1508, Ouseley's Views in South America (1852), Cartwright, English Constitution, 1823, President Jefferson's copy, Beverley's History of Virginia, 1705, Pictorial poster of S.F. Cody (1903), Ca de Mosto's De itineribus, 1515, Panckoucke's Description of Egypt, 1820-29, works on South America, Australia, Africa; letters and manuscripts, including General Townshend's Draft of his report on the battle of the plains of Abraham (Quebec, September 1759), Manuscript journals covering voyages to Africa, the Far East, the Antarctic, etc.; A whaling log 1848-49, letters concerning the American Civil War, Cape Colony, the Pacific etc., an important collection of material concerning Captain Edward Riou including his personal log kept during the celebrated voyage of H.M.S. Guardian, 1789-90. Laid in is a copy of a typescript letter dated January 11, 1972, sent by W. Harper Lawson to C. J. Saville Glanvill, solicitor, concerning items in the estate of Dr Charles Fox. List of prices realized and buyers' names laid in. Near Very Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-49279

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