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

263 c   UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Geologic Atlas of the United States. New York City Folio. Paterson, Harlem, Staten Island, And Brooklyn Quadrangles, New York - New Jersey. 19 pages, 13 full-page offset color maps, 2 plates of photographs. Folio, 21 3 / 4 x18 1 / 2 inches, publisher’s printed wrappers detached and friable with chips and small repairs; internally clean. Washington, D. C., 1902 [300/500] 264 c   U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; Veatch, A.C., et al. Underground Water Resources of Long Island, New York. 193, 3 pages, profusion of plates, plans, maps and diagrams including 3 large folding maps chromolithographed by Bien. 4to, 11x9 inches, period half morocco over red cloth, front hinge cracked but cords holding; minimal foxing, small tears at folding map mounts. Washington, D.C., 1906 [300/500] Scarce USGS report on the groundwater, well infrastructure and waterworks systems of turn of the 20th century Long Island. The largest of the three folding maps bound at the rear measures 27x62 1 / 2 inches. 263 264