Elist 23 – Rubaiyats, Maps, Theater, China, Australia

Elist 23 – Rubaiyats, Maps, Theater, China, Australia

91 items including a collection of Rubaiyat’s including St. Dunstan’s edition, one of 22 copies; original issues of Transactions of The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1925-1931; long run of The Theatre magazine, possibly Noel Coward’s copy, inscribed; set of five Mercator maps published by Hondius including the World and Four Continents: Europe, Africa, America and Asia with original color; Bell’s Common-Place Book, an early indexing system developed by John Locke, folio in magnificent original green vellum, 1770; Banastre Tarleton’s Revolutionary War map Plan of the Siege of Charlestown in South Carolina; two documents relating to early Acadian & French slave holders in Louisiana, 1790; first edition of Atlas Shrugged from a commercial lending library; 1st four numbers of Steichen’s U.S. Camera Magazine; Eichenberg illustrated limited edition of A Child’s Christmas in Wales; two early sea charts of the coast of China, Taiwan and Burma, one by Daniel Ross, the “Father of the Indian Surveys”, 1828-9. Books, maps, prints, ephemera.