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[U.S. Navy, probably Terrain Model Workshop, Amphibious Training Base, Camp Bradford, Virginia], [Three-dimensional foam-rubber terrain map of Iwo Jima.] [Late 1944–early 1945.]

A mammoth 1:5,000 terrain model of Iwo Jima, prepared for the 1945 invasion

$25,000.00
André Basset [after François Chereau], LE MISSISSIPI ou la Louisiane dans l’Amerique Septentrionale. [Paris:] [André] Basset, [ca. 1770.]

Rare, early map of the Gulf Coast, printed in reverse!

$7,500.00
William Hooker (engraver), Map of the State of COAHUILA and TEXAS. [Lexington, KY: J. Clarke & Co., 1836.]

An important early map of Texas, updated and issued in the year of independence

$6,000.00
VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, PENNSILVANIA, East & West NEW JARSEY. London: Sold by Jn:o Mount & Thos. Page Tower Hill, [1689/1743 or a bit later].

Chesapeake Bay from the English Pilot. The Fourth Book

$4,000.00
Hendrick Doncker, De Custen van Noorwegen, Finmarken, Laplandt, Spitsbergen, Ian Mayen Eylandt, Yslandt als mede Hitlandt, en een gedeelte van Schotlandt. Amsterdam: Hendrick Doncker, [1660.]

An interesting Doncker chart of the northern seas, with the little-known “Kimmen Line”

$1,500.00
J[ohn] H[arvey] Kellogg, M.D., ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. [Five charts from the ten-chart series advertised as A Pictorial Encyclopedia of Hygiene and Temperance.] Battle Creek, Michigan: [Health Publishing Company], 1886.

Five large chromolithographic teaching charts by John Harvey Kellogg, with graphic lessons on alcohol, narcotics and stimulants

$8,500.00
[Andrew Ellicott] / [James] Thackara & [John] Vallance Sc[ulpsit], PLAN of the City of WASHINGTON. [Philadelphia, March 1792.]

“The first known publication of the Andrew Ellicott survey of Washington” (Wheat & Brun)

$17,500.00
LE JEU UNIVERSEL DE L’INDUSTRIE HUMAINE. Paris: Chex Basset rue St Jacques No. 64, [1814]. [With:] JEU INSTRUCTIF DES MERVEILLES DE LA NATURE ET DE L’ART. Paris: Chez Basset rue St Jacques No. 64, [1825].

A brace of Games of the Goose

$3,500.00
Various authors, [Sammelband of 13 mid 19th-century pamphlets relating to official efforts to improve the water supply of Boston.] Boston: John H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1834-1855.

Sammelband of 13 pamphlets (with maps) from Boston’s long campaign for clean water

$2,750.00
[After Isaac de La Peyrère.] the Map of GROENLAND. [London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1744-1746.]

A fascinating interpretation of Arctic geography, including a short-lived Danish claim to Hudson Bay

$495.00
Universitas Cantabrigiae Harvardiana IN MASSACHUSETTENSI REPUBLICA, ATQUE IN REGNIS ANTIQUI NICHOLAE GENERALITER… [Cambridge, Massachusetts: Medical Faculty Society, July 17, 1861].

A diabolical diploma on vellum from Harvard’s secret Med. Fac. Society

$4,500.00

“Confidential” U.S. Army map of Okinawa, annotated by a participant in the campaign

$2,500.00

Wonderfully detailed Civil War-era map of the Hudson River Valley

$4,500.00

An impressive Antebellum map of the Kansas “Terretory”

$3,500.00

A beautifully hand-drawn Watch, Quarter, Fire, and Station Bill for an American warship

$4,500.00

Bellin’s great hydrographic chart of Iceland, prepared for the whaling trade

$1,500.00

A cornerstone map of Danish St. Croix and its plantation sugar economy

$17,500.00

Bicentennial-era outsider art, highlighting the best and worst of America

$9,500.00

Ortelius map of the Americas, in the very rare English edition of 1606

$9,500.00

Seminal map of the upper Mississippi River, based on Pike’s expedition

$3,500.00