Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

180 c   POPPLE, HENRY. A Map of the British Empire in America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch Settlements Adjacent Thereto. Double-page engraved map of North America with figural title cartouche and many inset views and harbor plans. 22x25 3 / 4 inches sheet size, wide margins with deckle edges at top and bottom; original outline hand- color with later additions; soft crease at right margin, minor staining along top edge. Amsterdam: Covens and Mortier, circa 1742 [2,000/3,000] A nice example of Babinski’s second state of the Covens & Mortier issue of the key to Popple’s large map of the colonial British Empire in America. 181 c   (RAILROADS.) Dinsmore, Curran, & Co. American Railway Guide for the United States. 156 pages of tables, schedules and advertisements, lithographed folding map of the eastern United States with a smaller map of New York City printed on verso imprinted Holbrook and Bartlett, 1848. 12mo, publisher’s pictorial printed paper wrappers, a bit worn; map 15 1 / 2 x16 1 / 4 , small closed tears at mount. New York: Curran Dinsmore, April, 1852 [250/350] Scarcely seen on the market, this example survives quite well for a little book which would have typically experienced hard use. 180