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

120 c   MAGINI, GIOVANNI. Universi Orbis Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium. Engraved mariner’s map of the world follow- ing Mercator’s large map of 1569. On folio leaf, 11 3 / 4 x8 inches sheet size, Italian text recto/ verso; clean and unblemished. Shirley 196. Venice, circa 1597 [300/500] 121 c   (MAINE.) Dashiell, S.L. Map of the Northern Part of the State of Maine and of the Adjacent British Provinces. Engraved folding map. 18 1 / 2 x17 inches sheet size; outline hand-color; offsetting and light toning. Washington, D.C., circa 1830 [250/350] with : S.L. Dashiell, Extract from a Map of the British and French Dominions in North America. Engraved folding map, 14 1 / 2 x14 1 / 2 inches sheet size, New York, 1838. Together, two maps detailing the nineteenth-century boundary dispute between Maine and Canada which was eventually settled by the Webster- Ashburton Treaty in 1842. 120 121