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Auction archive: Lot number 108

Tackabury's Atlas of the Dominion of Canada... Drawn, Compiled and Edited by H.F. Walling, C.E. Late Professor of Civil Engineering in Lafayette College, Penn...

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 108

Tackabury's Atlas of the Dominion of Canada... Drawn, Compiled and Edited by H.F. Walling, C.E. Late Professor of Civil Engineering in Lafayette College, Penn...

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: Tackabury's Atlas of the Dominion of Canada... Drawn, Compiled and Edited by H.F. Walling, C.E. Late Professor of Civil Engineering in Lafayette College, Penn... Author: Walling, Henry F. Place: Montreal, Toronto & London Publisher: Published by George N. Tackabury Date: 1875 Description: 264 pp. With 51 hand-colored lithographed maps, some double-page, included in the pagination. (folio) 44.2x34 cm (17½x13¼"), original gilt-lettered cloth backed with leather. One of the earliest commercially produced atlases of Canada, with a number of notable maps, including a climatology map by Blodgett, geological map by Logan, a map of British Columbia reduced from Trutch's map, several city maps, and a railroad map. There are 50 pages of advertisements of "patrons" of the atlas. being a useful business directory. Provenance: Chapel Hill Books, 7/86 References: P-LG 10357 which cites 3 "noteworthy" maps: geological, climatology, railroad. Lot Amendments Condition: Some scuffing to spine, wear to extremities; else very good. Item number: 271854

Auction archive: Lot number 108
Auction:
Datum:
10 Mar 2016
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Tackabury's Atlas of the Dominion of Canada... Drawn, Compiled and Edited by H.F. Walling, C.E. Late Professor of Civil Engineering in Lafayette College, Penn... Author: Walling, Henry F. Place: Montreal, Toronto & London Publisher: Published by George N. Tackabury Date: 1875 Description: 264 pp. With 51 hand-colored lithographed maps, some double-page, included in the pagination. (folio) 44.2x34 cm (17½x13¼"), original gilt-lettered cloth backed with leather. One of the earliest commercially produced atlases of Canada, with a number of notable maps, including a climatology map by Blodgett, geological map by Logan, a map of British Columbia reduced from Trutch's map, several city maps, and a railroad map. There are 50 pages of advertisements of "patrons" of the atlas. being a useful business directory. Provenance: Chapel Hill Books, 7/86 References: P-LG 10357 which cites 3 "noteworthy" maps: geological, climatology, railroad. Lot Amendments Condition: Some scuffing to spine, wear to extremities; else very good. Item number: 271854

Auction archive: Lot number 108
Auction:
Datum:
10 Mar 2016
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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