The rare incunable (pre-1500) edition of the most widely accepted classical cosmography in Europe, published ten years before the discovery of the New World. It was the only Latin geographical treatise to survive from antiquity and contains the first (and only) map published in the incunable era to reflect voyages... More

Sole edition. Discounting the La Freri atlas factices, this was the most important atlas published between Waldseemuller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy and Ortelius' Theatrum of 1570. The litany of “firsts” attached to the Gastaldi’s atlas is truly impressive. It was the first small-scale atlas, and related to this, it was... More

A legendary rarity--the true first edition of the first atlas of the Americas. The first complete copy on the market in well over twenty years. All told only seven complete copies of the first issue, first edition have been located: Alden cities two (NYPL and Huntington); three additional institutional copies... More

Scarce, attractive unusual atlas specifically intended (according to its title) for the entertainment of emperors, kings, and princes. At the beginning of the work are several astronomical plates and illustrations of globes. California is depicted as an island on the world and America maps. Although the title page is undated... More

One of the most important 18th century atlases and one of the great achievements of the French Enlightenment. The Atlas Universel is the prime exemplar of the authors' geographic ideal-- bel et utile--beautiful and useful. "The corpus of their maps displays the finest of eighteenth-century French engraving on copperplate with... More

This school atlas of the ancient world appears to have been an academic bestseller through much of Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Beginning with D’Anville’s orginal French edition in 1768, it would be re-published in England and Germany numerous times through the early 19th century. However... More

First edition of a very capably engraved and attractively colored, "mid-sized" atlas, containing a fine double-page map of the United States, which embodies Lewis & Clark and other, then relatively recent information. When compared to many other contemporaneous maps, this one is more sophisticated in both its cartography and engraving... More

An overall fine copy of the North American volume (the fourth of six) of a landmark atlas in the history of mapmaking and containing an important depiction of the American West. “The atlas was distinctive in being printed by lithography…the first world atlas to be so produced.” (Woodward) One of... More

The very rare, first edition of one G. W. Colton’s two American atlases; this edition does not appear in auction or map catalogue records. One of the primary attractions of this atlas is its urban cartography. In addition to full-page, quite well detailed plans of the major cities of the... More

Rare, richly hand-colored atlas, showcasing all parts of the world and the Ottoman vilayets, published in Istanbul by Mehmet Celal Bey (1863 – 1926), a Professor of Geography and the Director of Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane, an Ottoman college, later the School of Economic Science.   In 1915, Mehmet Celal, at the... More

A rare and graphically sophisticated atlas that provides a multi-dimensional picture of the regions of Poland--then called the Recovered Territories--that were ceded back to Poland at the end of the Second World War.  In years following World War II, Soviet authorities instituted a Polanization of these territories that had been... More