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Our Young Folks - An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls. With wood engraving "Harvesting."
Fenn, H. (illus).
Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 10- 1868. Frontispiece wood engraving in complete issue of Our Young Folks An Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys,October1868, 578-639pp, approximately 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Wood engraving in good clean condition. Faint horizontal fold across the print, a consequence of the... Item #53095
Price: $18.00
Record of Recent Construction.
Philadelphia. Baldwin Locomotive Works. 1899. No. 12 April, 1899. Fully illustrated catalog in stiff card covers, 6 x 9 inches, 32 pp., picturing and describing the variety of locomotives produced by Baldwin for customers of varying needs located around the globe. The format of the catalog offers a full-page illustration... Item #54342
Price: $135.00
AFRICA)
Route Map of Africa.
London. Union-Castle Line. No date. Ca. 1953. Photo-illustrated brochure opening to full-color map of Africa approximately 20 x 14 inches. The map is copyright John Bartholmew & Son, Ltd.; also credited is the Edinburgh Geographical Institute. Numerous regions are identified, through color coding, as proprietary holdings of European powers. Tape... Item #54331
Price: $50.00
ALGERIA)
Atlas P.L.M. Algeria.
Paris. Paris Lyons and Mediterranean Railway. 1918. Illustrated Algeria Guide (in ENGLISH) published by the P.L.M. Railway. Guide features numerous black and white photographs of the country, plus two full-page color plates and a centerfold (two page) map of Northern Algeria depicting the railroad’s routes. Embossed cover with gold highlights... Item #54303
Price: $125.00
ARKANSAS / MISSISSIPPI / LOUISIANA)
County Map of the States of Arkansas Mississippi and Louisiana.
Gamble, W.H. (drawn and engraved by).
Pennsylvania. S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. Copyright 1867. [ 1869]. Map, full handcolor, 21 x 13 3/4 inches including decorative border, centrefold. Very good condition: faint offset at bottom of image, light scatting of dots embossed from verso. An attractive map with decorative grape vine... Item #37247
Price: $30.00
ARKANSAS)
Arkansas. The Wonder State.
Aitchison, R.T. (illus).
Wilmington, DE. The Mentholatum Co. Copyright 1941. Color pictographic / pictorial map, sheet size 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches. Tape residue at three corners, two tiny edge tears, good condition. Colorful historical map by R. T. Aitchison. "Inhabited by the Quapaw (Arkansa) Tribe of the Sioux... Item #54374
Price: $75.00
AVIATION - PARKS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, AVIATION AND TECHNOLOGY - LUGGAGE LABEL)
Parks Air College. The Training Division of Commercial Aviation. East St. Louis, Illinois.
No Place of Publication. No publisher. No date. Ca. 1930. Two color pictorial round luggage label 3 3/4 inches in diameter. Fine condition. "Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology is a college within Saint Louis University. Parks Air College was founded by Oliver Parks in 1927. Parks was America's... Item #54365
Price: $45.00
CALIFORNIA - HOLLYWOOD)
Hollywood California City of Stars. [LUGGAGE LABEL]
Los Angeles. Marks-Fram Co. No date. Ca. 1930s. Blue and white luggage label, circular shape, 4 inch diameter. Very good unused condition. Item #54371
Price: $28.00
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CALIFORNIA - HOLLYWOOD)
Hollywood. [LUGGAGE LABEL]
Los Angeles. Marks-Fram Co. No date. Ca. 1930s. Green and white luggage label, pennant shape, 3 1/2 x 8 inches. Very good unused condition. Item #54372
Price: $25.00
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CALIFORNIA - PALO ALTO)
Palo Alto Seat of Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA. Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce. 1922. Palo Alto "booster" four-panel brochure dated 1922; each panel 9 x 4 inches with text and photos on both sides. Rear cover features a map of the city placed in the context of a second map depicting Northern California. Good used... Item #54330
Price: $60.00
CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO)
Motor the Aerial Highway Over the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge. The World's Greatest Bridge. U.S. 40 - 50.
Sacramento, CA. The State of California. No date. Ca. 1939. Brochure 4 x 9 inches opening to sheet 18 x 16 inches depicting four maps: a 9 x 16 inch map showing "Transcontinental Routes to...Bay Bridge" and, below, three smaller maps showing various "Western Routes to Bay Bridge." On verso... Item #54332
Price: $60.00
CALIFORNIA)
California. LUGGAGE LABEL.
Los Angeles. Marks-Fram Co. No date. Ca. 1930s. Color pictorial luggage label, die-cut in the shape of an orange, approximately 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Very good unused condition. Like a miniature vintage poster! Item #49505
Price: $25.00
CANADA - MINAKI)
Minaki 1921.
Toronto. Canadian National Railways. 1921. Brochure 9 ½ x 4 inches featuring the Minaki Inn on the Winnipeg River in Ontario, Canada. Text extols the beauty of the region, the air, the water, the rising sun... "where perfect temperature is secured throughout the season...." Additional attention is given, in a.... Item #54337
Price: $215.00
CANADA - ROCKY MOUNTAINS)
Canadian Rockies. Brewster Transport. [LUGGAGE LABEL]
No date. Ca. 1930s. Color pictorial diamond shaped luggage label 6 x 4 inches. Fine condition. Beautiful image of a Rocky Mountain sheep against a mountain backdrop. Item #54368
Price: $24.00
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CHILDREN)
Little Flower Girl.
New York. Currier & Ives. No date. Ca. 1860-1870. Hand-colored lithograph, 11 x 14 inches with original frame with outer dimensions of 19 x 16 inches. Faint scattered foxing in outer margins, main image clean and bright. Frame has been painted with gold paint, has some light wear. A particularly... Item #41496
Price: $65.00
CHINA - CORMORANT)
Pelicanus Sinensis, or Fishing Corvorant [Cormorant] of China.
Edwards, S. (illus). S. Skelton (engraver).
London. George Nicol. 1796. Copperplate engraving, plate mark 12 x 14 inches on sheet 17 x 22 1/2 inches. Light toning and foxing in margins, overall very good condition. Finely engraved image of a cormorant, a magnificent webfoot bird, with Chinese landscape in background... Item #41642
Price: $265.00
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CHINA - HISTORICAL MAPS) Uchiyama Tsunetomo (editor).
Juhachi Shiryaku Ryaku Jirui taizen.
Kyoto. Meiji 23. 1890. 11 black and white woodblock maps, Japanese binding, 7 x 4 3/4 inches. Covers lightly soiled, very good condition. Volume 4 of a series. Attractive and detailed maps showing China at different historical periods. Item #41996
Price: $295.00
CHINA - NORTHEAST - SHANHAIGUAN)
Shanhaikuan.
War Office. 1927. Map, printed color, dissected into 15 panels and mounted on linen, 24 3/4 x 29 1/2 inches folded as issued. Faint scattered foxing on linen at fold lines, some light soiling to upper right map, otherwise very good condition. A detailed map published by the British War... Item #42294
Price: $185.00
CHINA / BURMA)
China and Birmah.
Wray, A.H. (illustrations by). J. Rapkin (map drawn by).
London. John Tallis & Company. No date. Ca. [ 1850]. Map, outline hand-color, 10 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches including decorative border on sheet 11 x 14 1/2 inches. Overall light toning, faint outline on front of sheet and three pieces... Item #40838
Price: $365.00
CHINA / RUSSIA / JAPAN)
Japan and Russia Will Divide China. Signs Increase That Northern Area and Lower Yangtze Basin Will be Carved Into Puppet States by Stalin and Mikado, Leaving South Largely at Mercy of Both. PICTORIAL REVIEW: Milwaukee News-Sentiel Sunday, April 28, 1940.
Burke, Howard (illus).
News Sentinel. 04-28- 1940. Color pictorial map from the Milwaukee News-Sentinel March of Events section, professionally mounted to linen backing, newspaper sheet 21 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches. Minor wear and edge tears now scarcely noticeable. Very good condition. A dynamic map / illustration by Los Angeles... Item #53055
Price: $485.00
CHINA)
China Proper.
Glasgow. William Mackenzie. nd. [ca. 1860]. Map with original handcolor, 11 x 9 inches (28 x 23cm) on sheet 14 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches, centrefold as issued. Repaired separation at right edge of centrefold, map is clean and bright. Small globe on compass rose at bottom right locating China;... Item #26245
Price: $45.00
CONNECTICUT)
Historical Map of the State of Connecticut.
des Rosiers, Leon L. (illus).
West Willington, CT. Historical Map Bureau. 1937. Color pictographic / pictorial map, 16 1/2 x 22 inches on sheet 18 x 24 inches. Short edge tears and chips, soft creases to upper right corner, all well outside the image, map in very good condition. Brightly... Item #39035
Price: $285.00
ENGLAND - CAMBRIDGE)
Cambridge Pictorial Map.
Griffiths, Tom (illus).
Norwich, England. Jarrold & Sons. No date. Ca. 1970? Color folded map in envelope 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Map unfolds to 11 1/2 x 12 inches. Text states map is based on Ordnance Survey Map (by permission). Envelope creased; map in very good clean condition... Item #52546
Price: $40.00
ENGLAND - LONDON)
The Great Eastern on the Stocks as Seen From the River.
Carmichael, J. W. (illus).
London. The Illustrated London News. 1857. Color wood-engraving on sheet 11 x 15 ¾ inches on verso of p. 471 of the November 7, 1857 number of the Illustrated London News. Three short tears at bottom border of image and one in left margin well outside... Item #54349
Price: $85.00
