Catalogues
57 items on New York State including a 20-year collection of Adirondack Hotel & railroad ephemera of over 1100 items, most pre- WWI, with extensive research & fully described; Sanborn Fire atlases of Ossining (1897) & Fishkill (1912), which map all buildings & their construction; rare David Burr map of Putnam & Dutchess County, from the 2nd county atlas published in America, 1830; large print of the Hudson River steamer "Mary Powell", a precursor of travel posters; 3 Manhattan Land Books, atlases of New York City from 1955 through the early 60s, with changes to city blocks, new buildings, urban renewal, World Trade Center site, etc; William Wall's large aquatint views from the handsome "Hudson River Portfolio", 1826. Elist 9.
Cook's Last Voyage - The Artistic Vision in John Webber's Prints Unpublished Aquatints; Lifetime Issues; Boydell Issues A series of Webber views of Cook's third voyage to the South Pacific including New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, Krakatoa, French Polynesia, Vietnam, Russian Kamchatka and Macao in China, published from 1787 to 1820.
A shortlist of 27 items including a pair of William Bligh's works in original papered boards; Shackleton, the deluxe edition of The Heart of the Antarctic, signed by the Shore Party; ; a collection of 95 vintage Chinese & Japanese silk packaging labels; Diego Rivera Acuarela with original drawing by Rivera; Sir Francis Drake revived' 1st collected edition 1653, etc.
108 items on Captain JAMES COOK & Associates.
Including a 30-year collection of portraits & "Death of Cook" images, notably the FIRST PRINTED IMAGE OF COOK printed in 1759; autograph letters of his associates; maps; an early American collection of Cook's family crest, a portrait & letter assembled by an American relation of Cook's; a set of Cook's Voyages with Kippis' Life of Cook & the "Death of Cook" plate in the atlas; a 1790 playbill; 1810 George III Jubilee puzzle with Cook influences; Webber views. Books, maps, prints, early newspapers, ephemera, etc.
AUSTRALIA IN MAPS 1540 - 1898.
An impressive collection of 262 antiquarian Australian maps & double hemispheres with Australian interest, a collection over 50 years in the making. For sale as a collection.
Including Fremont, Map of Oregon and Upper California, 1848, "the most accurate general map of the Far West for its time"; Fries Tabula Nova Partis Africae 1541, the 2nd map to show just Southern Africa; Lay, Map of the Northern Part of the State of New York 1801, one of the 1st detailed regional American maps; Gerritsz, Tabula Russiae, 1614, with inset view of Moscow; Munster, Die Neuwen Inseln, a double hemisphere of the Americas 1550; Lotter's 4-sheet map A New and Correct Map of North America, with the West India Islands, 1783 & others.
