Black Atlas Of The World

World Publishing Company: The New Matthews-Northrup Global Atlas of the World at War - No. 674, Cleveland, OH World Publishing Company 1944
Very Good Maps by J. W. Clement Co.

48 pp, grey-orange-black-yellow-blu-wht covers w/yel-blu-black lettering and an illustration of a portion of the world on the front cover. The atlas contains invasion study maps of Northern and Southern Europe and the military and naval approaches to Japan. The reader can follow the different phases of World War II with global maps, geo-political maps and military action maps. dj split on the spine, several chips and tears on the edges and slight soiling to the covers. No Jacket Soft Cover w/staples Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

[SW: World Maps War WW2 Invasion Europe History Foreign Countries Geography]

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Johnson, Hugh: The World Atlas of Wine; A Complete Guide to the Wines & Spirits of the World, London Mitchell Beazley 1972 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0855330023
0855330023 Good Photographic

1.620 kg.; 272 pages, forward by Jean Perrachon, the director of the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, introduction by author, aknowledgements, index and gazetteer and picture credits. Green coloured endpapers. The text is copiously illustrated with either maps, coloured and black-and-white photographs, reproduction of wine labels, black and white and coloured illustrations, and geographic details. Green coloured boards with gilt titles to the front panel and backstrip. Softening of the head and the heel of the backstrip. Sunning to the top edge of the book and to the top 1/2" of the front cover. Browning and foxing to the top text block edge and lighter browning to the other text block edges. Plain text dustwrapper with maroon coloured background and gilt and red titles to the front panel and white titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and chipping, with loss, to the dustwrapper corners. Heavy chipping and creasing to the top backstrip edge and lighter creasing to the lower backstrip edge. Multiple small tears to the top rear dustwrapper edge with associated creasing and there has been rubbing increasing to the other edges. Rubbing to either side of the backstrip and to the fold over creases as well. Light fading of the dustwrapper panels. In this book all regions of winemaking of the world are explained. " The World Atlas of Wine includes, among other features, a full introductory guide to the growing and making of wine, together with advice on when and how different wines from all over the world. It is the ultimate cellerman's bible." -- from the front fold over panel. Digital image available upon request. *** PLEASE NOTE: This book weighs more than 1 kg [ 2.2 lbs ] and postage WILL be more than quoted, outside Australia. Please contact with the bookseller for correct postage rate. Reprint Average Green Cloth Folio - up to 15" tall Wine; Reprint

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The Pittsburg Dispatch Universal Atlas of the World ; Containing Colored Maps of Every Country and Civil Division upon the Face of the Globe with Marginal Index, Rand McNally 1899 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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006205 The Pittsburg Dispatch Universal Atlas of the World ; Containing Colored Maps of Every Country and Civil Division upon the Face of the Globe with Marginal Index. Published by Rand McNally in 1899. HARD COVER Folio @ Rare 344pp. Book Condition READING-COPY NO JACKET Jacket Condition Details apparently not issued. Book Condition Details Binding: Green with black lettering., a started front-hinge, frayed ends, a started rear-hinge, Cover: Green cloth with black and gold lettering., scuffing, frayed corners, heavy edge wear, soiling, chipping on Spine, scuffing, Text: light tanning, soiled page edge(s), edge wear on page edge(s), occasional creasing, loose pages, occasional stained pages, occasional torn pages. Notes Hundreds of Engravings and photographs. Blurb Together with Historical, Descriptive, and Statistical Matter Pertaiing to each, Ready Reference Lists to the United States, Colored Statistical Diagrams and City Maps, also a Concise Review, Richly Illustrated by Engravings, of the World's Peoples. Prepared and Published Especially for The Dispatch Publishing Company, Pittsburg, PA, by Rand, McNally & Co, Chicago and New York, 1899. Contents American Statesmen, Soldiers, Leaders Of The Confederacy, Writers, Inventors, Patriots; Constitution Of The United States Of America; Flags Of All Nations; Political Parties In The United States - First Through Twenty-Sixth Administration; Presidents And Their Cabinets; Religious Denominations Of The United States 1890; Signers Of The Declaration Of Independence; The Creeds Of The World; The Declaration Of Independence; The United States A Brief Historical, Descriptive, Statistical And Political Review, By States And Territories; The World's Peoples; Township Map, Vicinity Of Pittsburg. No Jacket Hard Cover Folio @

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PTOLEMY, Claudius (90-168 A.D.): Geographiae opus novissima traductione e Graecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum,

Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 12 March 1513. 2 parts in one volume, folio. (17 3/16 x 12 inches). [Title leaf], [dedication leaf], 5-60 numbered leaves, [14 unnumbered leaves forming an index], 27 woodcut "ancient" maps (26 double-page), [supplement title-leaf], 20 woodcut "modern" maps by Martin Waldseemüller, (19 double-page, the final single-page map of Lorraine printed in three colours), [15 unnumbered text leaves]. (Margins of 4 of the "ancient" maps shaved with slight loss to the printed marginal notes [3] or the image area [1], 6 of the "modern" maps shaved with loss [1 with loss to the marginal notes, 5 with loss to the image area], unobtrusive worming to lower blank margins of text leaves to H1, single wormtrack from B5 to the end through text and image areas, a second track from title through to G2 through text only). Expertly bound to style in 18th-century red morocco, panelled in gilt on covers, spine simply gilt in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered gilt in the second compartment, modern black morocco-backed box, titled in gilt on 'spine'. A unique copy of the first modern atlas with maps by Martin Waldseemüller and with the translation of Mathias Ringmann, "The most important of all the Ptolemy editions" (Streeter). A monumental work containing critical New World information, derived from the latest voyages of exploration, including two maps in early proof states and the earliest map devoted entirely to the New World. This copy has been carefully compared with the copy in the Library of the State University of Utrecht, Holland, that was used to produce the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum facsimile in 1966. The present copy shows significant variation from the Utrecht copy and from the descriptions given in the standard bibliographies. At least 13 pages of text are in a different setting: M2 recto and verso; M3 recto and verso; [N1] recto and verso; Nii recto and verso; Niii recto; Niiii verso; Nv recto and verso; Nvi recto and verso. Perhaps more significantly, two of the maps are in an earlier state: both maps normally include both woodcut and letterpress elements. The "ancient" map of Great Britain and Ireland 'Tabula Prima Europae' is without all the letterpress marginal notes and some words from within the image area ('Oceanus Germanicus' and 'et Britannicus'), in addition the letterpress words that are present are all in a different setting. The final colour-printed map of Lorraine is without the letterpress colophon to the second part, which is normally printed in the margin beneath the map (the Phillips copy, number 359, also shows this variation). In addition it includes one place name ('Walde Mone') printed in red that is not present in the copy at Utrecht. A third intermediate issue, with the letterpress colophon and the additional place name in red, is illustrated by Bagrow, History of Cartography, plate LXXV. The present copy was in the collection of noted collector Alfred T. White, and contains his pencil ownership inscription on the front fly leaf. This masterful atlas is one of the most important cartographical works ever published. Known as the first "modern" edition of Ptolemy, it is usually accepted as the most important edition of the Geographia. The first part of this atlas consists of twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps, taken from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy, or perhaps the manuscript atlas of Nicolaus Germanus upon which the Ulm Ptolemy was based. Work on the twenty maps in the Supplement began around the year 1505 by Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann, geographers based in Saint-Die, and was partially funded by Duke Rene II of Lorraine. The accompanying text was completed a bit later, and in 1508 all of the materials for the atlas passed into the hands of two Strassburg citizens, Jacobus Eszler and Georgius Ubelin, at whose cost the work was completed in 1513. Among the twenty "modern maps" (the maps in the Supplement are labeled as 'Nova' and 'Moderna et Nova') which appear in this edition for the first time, "Orbis Typis Universalis" and "Tabula Terre Nova," stand as important examples of early New World cartographica. Indeed, the latter is considered the earliest map devoted entirely to the New World, and depicts the coast of America in a continuous line from the northern latitude of 55 degrees to Rio de Cananor at the southern latitude of 35 degrees, with about sixty places named. The other map, "Orbis Typis," depicts the outline of northeastern South America, with five names along that coast, and the islands Isabella and Spagnolla, and another fragmentary coast, as well as an outline of Greenland. The text states that the New World maps are based upon geographical information obtained from "the Admiral," possibly a reference to Vespucci, Cabral, or Columbus. The latter is actually referred to by name on the "Tabula Terre Nova" map, and is described as a Genoese sailing under command of the king of Castile. With the twenty modern maps of the Supplement, compiled from the latest available voyages, this atlas can rightfully claim to be the first modern atlas of the world. It also includes the first map of Lorraine, which is one of the earliest maps to be printed in colour, each colour produced with a separate block (black, red and green). Bagrow History of Cartography p. 126; European Americana 513/6; Harrisse 74; John Carter Brown Library Catalogue vol.I, part I, p.57; Panzer VI.283; Phillips Atlases 359; Proctor 10271; Sabin 66478; Shirley British Isles 10; Shirley World maps 34; Stevens Ptolemy's Geography (1908) p.44; Streeter Sale 6; World Encompassed 56.

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