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

215 c   WELLS, EDWARD. A New Map of North America. Double-page engraved map showing California as an island. 18x21 3 / 4 inches sheet size, wide margins; hand-colored in outline; a nice example. Burden 758, state 3. Oxford, 1704 [600/900] 216 c   WELLS, EDWARD. A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe. Double-page engraved double-hemispheric world map. 18 1 / 2 x26 1 / 2 inches sheet size, wide margins; nicely hand-colored; irregular deckle edges with several minor closed tears. Shirley 608. Oxford, 1700 [400/600] 217 c   (WEST POINT.) Brown, T.B. Two lithographed topographical plans. 11 1 / 2 x9 inches each sheet size; folded and used as letterhead. [New York, 1831] [250/350] The two plans showing riverside topography were drawn by Lieutenant T. B. Brown and printed at Imbert’s Lithography. The maps were inscribed, folded and sent in the form of a stampless letter by West Point historian Roswell Park to a young Charlemagne Tower in Oneida County, NY, an eventual prominent businessman. The addressed side notes “Models of Topography Oct. 29, 1831” and bears a West Point post-mark. 217