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

70 c   (GIBRALTAR.) Visscher, Nicolas Janszoon. Plan de la Ville de Gibaltar Situee au Detroit de ce Nom. Double-page engraved map of the Gibraltar peninsula with a plan of Ceuta and an elevation view of the Rock of Gibraltar. 19 1 / 4 x23 inches sheet size, ample margins; mat toning at edges, lower centerfold strengthened with archival film. Amsterdam, 1706 [300/500] 71 c   GILBERT, JAMES. Gilbert’s Map of the World on Mercator’s Projection. Large hand-colored engraved case map. 33 3 / 4 x50 1 / 2 inches dissected into 36 segments and mounted on original linen with marbled paper self-wrappers; housed in original full calf wallet-style case, cracks starting at closing flap; map with only minor foxing, else exceptionally nice with bright original colors. London: James Gilbert; and Liverpool: George Philip, 1841 [1,200/1,800] A beautiful map and case presentation, one which the maker in his own advertisement called “a general favorite with the public, and an indispensable requisite to all who wish to be thoroughly acquainted with geography.” Hear, hear. 72 72 c   (GLOBE.) Lane, Nicholas. Lane’s Pocket Globe. 2 3 / 4 inch terrestrial pocket globe comprised of 12 hand-colored engraved gores on a plaster sphere with metal axis pegs housed within a hinged and clasped shagreen case lined with an inverted celestial projection; small abrasions to original varnish, outer case a tad distressed but generally good. London, 1807 [2,500/3,500]