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"Our system has at all times had to contend with internal encroachments upon liberty": First edition of Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty; Inscribed by Him
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Challenge to Liberty.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
First edition of Herbert Hoover's challenge to Roosevelt's New Deal arguing it abandoned "the heritage of liberty." Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To my good friend and consultant- from Herbert Hoover Samuel Blythe." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice association.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 125711
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's 1876: A Novel; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
1876: A Novel.
New York : Random House, 1976.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the "Valerie love Gore." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. The two remained close throughout the years. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 126331
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First Edition of Philip Fisher's highly regarded Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks
FISHER, Philip A.
Paths To Wealth Through Common Stocks.
Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1960.
First edition of Fisher's classic second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 131215
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"Who shared in a lot of these changing fortunes and some of his own! Where have you been? I think they still need us!": First Edition of Changing Fortunes; Lengthily Inscribed by Paul A. Volcker
VOLCKER, Paul A. and Toyoo Gyohten.
Changing Fortunes: The World’s Money and the Threat to American Leadership.
New York: Times Books, 1992.
First edition of this work by the former Federal Reserve chairman. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily and warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "6/18/92 To John Petty, Who shared in a lot of these changing fortunes and some of his own! Where have you been? I think they still need us! With great respect and friendship Paul." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marjorie Anderson. Jacket illustration by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144897
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First Edition of Changing the Rules: Adventures of a Wall Street Mavericks; Inscribed by Muriel Siebert
SIEBERT, Muriel.
Changing the Rules: Adventures of a Wall Street Maverick.
New York: The Free Press, 2002.
First edition of this autobiography by Siebert, who was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and the first woman to head one of the NYSE's member firms. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Marie I hope you enjoy my book Mickie Siebert." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Wu. Written with Aimee Lee Ball. Rare signed and inscribed.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145714
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"The Founding treatise on pomology": Rare Societe des Bibliophiles Normands Limited Edition reissue of Le Paulmier's Traite Du Vin Et Du Sidre
LE PAULMIER, Julien.
Traite Du Vin Et Du Sidre.
Rouen: H. Lestringant, 1896.
Rare Societe des Bibliophiles Normands Limited Edition reissue of Le Paulmier's foundational work on pomology. Octavo, original wrappers, one of only 200 copies printed, this is number 65. Translated into the French by Jacques Cahaignes. Introduction by Emile Travers. In very good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 110190
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First Edition of The Boys of Summer; Signed by Roger Kahn
KAHN, Roger.
The Boys of Summer.
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1972.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Roger Kahn on title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 147029
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First Edition of Life Upon These Shores; Inscribed by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Signed Three Times by Legendary Jacket designer Chip Kidd
GATES JR., Henry Louis.
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History 1513-2008.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
First edition of this voluminous work of African American history. Square quarto, original boards, illustrated with over 700 full-color images. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For James with best wishes Henry Louis Gates Jr." Additionally signed three times by legendary dust jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 147096
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“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded": CHARLES DICKENS’ OLIVER TWIST
DICKENS, Charles.
The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846.
First single volume edition of Dickens’ classic work. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, with twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. In very good condition. Original front wrapper bound in. Armorial bookplate.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 141345
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"The most dangerous woman in America": First edition of the Autobiography of Mother Jones
JONES, Mary G. Harris. [Mother Jones].
Autobiography of Mother Jones.
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1925.
First edition of the autobiography of the most famous female labor activist of the nineteenth century, Mother Jones. Octavo, original cloth. Edited by Mary Field Parton. Introduction by Clarence Darrow. In very good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 123791
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First Edition of Ko Un's Little Pilgrim: A Novel; Signed by Him
UN, Ko.
Little Pilgrim: A Novel.
Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2005.
First edition of this story of Sudhana's passage to enlightenment. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by Ko Un in English and in Korean. In fine condition. Translated by Brother Anthony of Taize and Young-Moo Kim.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 62021
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First Edition of Fred D. Gray's Bus Ride To Justice; Inscribed by Him
GRAY, Fred D.
Bus Ride To Justice.
Montgomery, Al: Black Belt Press, 1995.
First edition of this Civil Rights icon's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Walker Gorman 'Do the right thing' Fred D. Gray 9/26/99." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Breuna Baine.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 133615
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“No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops”: Rare Final Report of General John J. Pershing; Signed by Him
PERSHING, General John J.
Final Report of Gen. John J. Pershing Commander-In-Chief American Expeditionary Forces.
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1920.
First edition of this final military report from the heroic Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with sixteen folding plates of maps, diagrams, and charts. Boldly signed by General John J. Pershing on the title page. In very good condition with light wear to the extremities and a chip to the spine. Rare signed.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145457
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"On a gorgeous sunny winter's day in Cornwall": A Page From The Constant Gardener; Annotated by John LE CARRÉ
LE CARRÉ, John.
John le Carré Annotated Page From The Constant Gardener.
November 12, 2020.
Rare annotated page from the author's classic spy thriller. Octavo, one page on the first page of Chapter 19 of 'The Constant Gardener,' annotated by the author around the chapter heading, "John le Carré - on a gorgeous sunny winter's day in Cornwall, 12 Nov 2020." In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 146559
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"Feed Me Sara": First Edition of the Screenplay Requiem For A Dream; Signed by Darren Aronofsky and Jared Leto
ARONOFSKY, Darren and Selby.
Requiem For A Dream.
London: Faber and Faber, 2000.
First edition of the screenplay of this 2000 classic film directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans and Ellen Burstyn. Octavo, illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, "Feed Me Sara Darren Aronofsky" and additionally signed by Jared Leto. In near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 147710
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"Everything sounds big in the woods": First Edition of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods; Signed by Him
BRYSON, Bill.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.
New York : Broadway Books, 1998.
First edition of this classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny hike of the Appalachian Trail” (The Washington Post). Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Scott, very best wishes- Bill Bryson." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Art Wolfe/ Tony Stone. Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 125611
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First edition of Ken Follett's A Dangerous Fortune; inscribed by him to Erica Jong
FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].
A Dangerous Fortune.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1993.
First edition of the internationally bestselling author's classic thriller. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Erica + Ken - with love, Ken Follett." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142786
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First Edition of Robert Lowell's History
LOWELL, Robert.
History.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Charles Skaggs. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 143031
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Rare original photograph of internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock with the ARPANET; inscribed by him
KLEINROCK, Leonard.
Leonard Kleinrock Signed Photograph.
Large format color photograph of American computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock with the ARPANET, the forerunner to the Internet. Inscribed by him, "To Kent, Leonard Kleinrock." In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 117384
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First edition of Chin Yang Lee's The Flower Drum Song; inscribed by him and in the rare original dust jacket
LEE, Chin Yang.
The Flower Drum Song.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
First edition of Chin Yang Lee's best known work which inspired both the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and 1961 Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Foster.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 96009
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“Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft": First Edition of Authentic Christianity; Warmly Inscribed by John Stott
STOTT, John .
Authentic Christianity: From the Writings of John Stott.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1995.
First edition of this collection of writings from the legendary John Stott. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Janet with gratitude for your support of the Langham Foundation John Stott Feb 96." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Timothy Dudley Smith.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 146124
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First Edition of The Grey King; Warmly Inscribed by Susan Cooper
COOPER, Susan.
The Grey King.
New York: Atheneum, 1975.
First edition of the the fourth volume in the author's acclaimed "Dark Is Rising" series and Newberry award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Mary with best regards and many thanks -Susan 1978." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Michael Heslop.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 146165
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"The swallow has set her six young on the rail, and looks sea-ward: The waters stripes like a snake, olive-pale to the leeward": First edition of Robert Browning's Dramatis Personae
BROWNING, Robert.
Dramatis Personae.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1864.
First edition of Browning's popular poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Small chip to the front free endpaper. With a note from H. Sotheran & Co. laid in.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 124109
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First Edition of Bocuse's Regional French Cooking; Inscribed by Legendary Chef Paul Bocuse in the year of publication
BOCUSE, Paul.
Bocuse’s Regional French Cooking.
Paris: Flammarion, 1991.
First edition of this work by the legendary chef. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "Pour Peter et Nancy avec mes compliments Paul Bocuse Las Vegas - 19-10-91." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 143359
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Finely Bound Edition of Guy de Maupassant's Bel-Ami
MAUPASSANT, Guy De.
Bel-Ami.
New York: The Heritage Press, 1968.
First edition of the Heritage Press edition of this classic work. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands. illustrations by Bernard Lamotte. Introduction by Alec Waugh. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142808
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Finely Bound example of The Poetical Works of John Milton
MILTON, John. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges.
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1857.
Finely bound example of this compilation of Milton's poetical works. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, illustrated with engraved plates. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 131221
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"The eighteenth century proclaimed the rights of man, the nineteenth shall proclaim the rights of woman": First edition of Ray Strachey's "The Cause"
STRACHEY, Ray.
“The Cause” A Short History of The Women’s Movement in Great Britain.
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1928.
First edition of Strachey's history of women's suffrage in Great Britain. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Millicent Fawcett. In good condition. Ownership name.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 135463
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First Edition of A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House; Inscribed by Arthur Schlesinger
SCHLESINGER, Arthur M.
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy In the White House.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First edition of the historian's classic work on the Kennedy administration's first thousand days. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ben with regards Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144340
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Scarce First Edition of The Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the General Assembly of Florida in the first year of the American civil war
OFFICE OF THE FLORIDIAN & JOURNAL,.
The Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the General Assembly of Florida, at Its Eleventh Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 18, 1861.
Tallahassee: Printed by Dyke & Carlisle, 1862.
Rare first edition documenting the acts and resolutions passed by the General Assembly of Florida in the first year of the American Civil War. Octavo, disbound. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 95814
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First Edition of Alvin Plantinga's Warrant: The Current Debate; Signed by Him
PLANTINGA, Alvin.
Warrant: The Current Debate.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Alvin Plantinga on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Ann Lowe.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 139243
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“How ridiculous were the attentions the weak paid one another in the shadow of the strong!”: First Edition of A House For Mr. Biswas
NAIPAUL, V.S.
A House For Mr. Biswas.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1961.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with chips and wear. Jacket design by Stephen Russ.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 146208
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"They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity": First Edition of The Things They Carried; Signed by Tim O’Brien
O'BRIEN, Tim.
The Things They Carried.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/ Seymour Lawrence, 1990.
First edition of the author's classic fifth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Peace. Tim O'Brien." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 147312
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First edition of Ken Follett's Lie Down with Lions; inscribed by him to Kenneth Burrows
FOLLETT, Ken.
Lie Down With Lions.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1986.
First edition of Follett's riveting New York Times Best Seller. Octavo, original half-cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ken, with fond regards from Ken." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142243
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First edition of Vol. XXVII of Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association; containing C.S. Lewis' Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism
SMITH, Nowell Charles. [C.S. Lewis]..
Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. XXVII. [Containing: Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism].
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1942.
First edition of Vol. XXVII of Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association; containing C.S. Lewis' essay Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 137065
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First edition of James E. Doyle's Chronicle of England
DOYLE, James E.
A Chronicle of England. B.C. 55 – A.D. 1485.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.
First edition of Doyle's elaborately illustrated history of ancient and medieval England. Quarto, bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with engravings by the author printed in colors by Edmund Evans. In very good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 139284
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"This is my family, my history": First edition of Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
GOLDIN, Nan.
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
New York: Aperture, 1986.
First edition of Goldin's masterpiece. Oblong octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 125 color photographs. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 139413
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First Edition of Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George S. Schuyler; Inscribed by Him
SCHUYLER, George S.
Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George S. Schuyler.
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1966.
First edition of this work by the Harlem renaissance writer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Richard Beam from George S. Schuyler 2/17/69." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 124598
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First Edition of N.T. Wright's The Original Jesus; Signed by Him
WRIGHT, N.T. [Tom].
The Original Jesus: The Life and Vision of a Revolutionary.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman's Publishing, 1996.
First edition of this work on Jesus by the renowned theologian. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by N.T. Wright on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 2366
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First Edition of F.A. Hayek’s Classic Treatise The Constitution of Liberty
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
The Constitution of Liberty.
Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1960.
First edition of Hayek’s classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, pencil marginalia.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 143609
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Rare 18th Century Map of Canada by French cartographer Robert de Vaugondy
DE VAUGONDY, Robert.
A New Map of Canada, Also the North Parts of new England and New York: with Nova Scotia and Newfound Land. [18th Century Map of Canada].
London: c. 1766.
Rare 18th century printing of Robert de Vaugondy's map of 1755 updated to indicate changes resulting from the Treaty of Utrecht. The hand-colored map includes a large inset map of the Great Lakes and is embellished with a large title cartouche. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15.5 inches by 12.5 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 138933