Godalming - Bloomsbury Auctions

outer pages soiled, a few short tears, [Chubb CXL], oblong 4to, [1757].
£150 – £200
44. Canada.- Goad (Charles E.) INSURANCE PLAN OF CITY OF MONTREAL, fire
insurance plans, on a scale of 50ft to 1 inch, detailing street names, building
numbers, storeys and usages, 5 plans, only, with 2 sheets of title and index,
lithographed maps in original hand-colouring, each sheet c.635 x 530mm., right
sheet edges affected by wormholes and dampstaining, with some loss, particularly
to title and index sheets, loose as issued, London, Montreal & Toronto, 1914; with
a duplicate group of the same 7 sheets, and a bound copy of the General
Index ti Insurance Plan of the City of Montreal, fingersoiling to sheet edges,
original blue cloth, rubbed, 1894 (15). £400 – £600
* * * Very rare. The circulation of these plans amongst insurance companies,
fire brigades and other interested parties was strictly controlled by Goad on
a rental basis, and apparently never sold. This had the benefit to both
supplier and recipient, though possibly for different reasons, of retaining
interest in updates and revisions.
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45. -. Lloyd (James) LLOYD’S NEW MAP OF THE UNITED STATES THE CANADAS
AND NEW BRUNSWICK FROM THE LATEST SURVEYS, double-sided folded map,
of the United States to the Dakotas, Indian Territory, Kansas and Texas, also
including on verso Lloyd’s Topographical and Railway Map of the Seat of
War in Europe, 1870, depicting Europe and part of Asia and Northern
Africa just after Italian unification and the Franco-Prussian War, engraved
maps, on double-sided japan tissue, with original hand-colouring on verso, Europe,
1000 x 1300mm., small stain on far left side and small pencil annotation on recto,
multiple folds and creasing, New York, E.Lloyd, 1870. £150 – £250
46. Celestial.- Chatelain (Henri Abraham) PREMIERE CARTE POUR
L’INTRODUCTION À L’HISTOIRE DU MONDE, plate of astronomical spheres,
celestial and terrestrial hemishperes, and solar systems, with text panels to
the sides, engraving with hand-colouring, 345 x 445m., central vertical fold, a few
spots in the full margins, Amsterdam, c.1720; with a plate of constellations for
a 19th century atlas (2). £75 – £100
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47. Denmark.- Hondius (Henricus) DUCATUS HOLSATIÆ NOVA TABULA,
southern Denmark, with 2 inset maps, engraved map, 380 x 510mm., French
text verso, central vertical fold, minor browning and faint offsetting in full
margins, otherwise in good condition, Amsterdam, 1638 § Mercator (Gerard)
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