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Antique Maps,
Historical Books & Prints and Antique Globes: Over
40,000 items catalogued, covering nearly every area and era.
From 1500's Ptolemaic maps, where mountains resemble snakes, to
the first U.S. Atlas, 1795, to maps and prints of 19th Century
railroads, to black ocean globes with copper airplane stands
from the 1940's. The price range is as
broad as our inventory. We have unique cartographic
(map-related) items for any budget... for every one who cares
about antique maps, books, prints and globes. We are in our 30th
year assisting collectors & institutions. We specialize in
collection building for individual antique map, book and print
collectors, corporations, museums and research libraries. See
'How to Best Use This Website'
Fall 2009 Edition of
TNConnections Magazine With Video
http://www.tnconnections.com
WONDERFUL SERIES OF WALL SIZED SCOTTISH BOTANICALS
SCARCE, DECORATIVE JOHNSTON CELESTIAL FLOOR GLOBE 1879
W. & A.K. Johnston.
18 inch Celestial globe. W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh |
London. 1879 (actual date). Orb with the heavens in dark blue with
gold stars. Constellation figures. Cast iron art nouveau floor
stand with three incurvate legs, acanthus leaf style and claw feet
enclosing striped glass casters. Quite dramatic and unusual
constellation depictions include several enlightenment period
scientific instruments; numerous lion, bear, serpent and horse
figures; many classical figures: Hercules, Orion, Aquarius and
others concentrated mainly in the northern hemisphere. Stars are
shown in order of magnitude with golden circles and names. The
horizon ring paper has the only touch of restoration in the
ensemble. A rare, dated, large celestial globe in unusually fine
condition. The art nouveau stand forms a potential pair with
an A.H. Andrews 18 inch terrestrial globe with Johnston gores
(I.D.# 09955).
I.D.#10402.
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ROCOCO STYLE
INKWELL SET WITH OUR COMPANY LOGO ITEMS: GLOBE, BOOKS, MAPS,
SEXTANT AND TELESCOPE
 Globe artifact.
French. Cast art metal double inkwell stand in rococo taste.
Curved reticulated letter holder set behind a raised center
sculpture of a world globe poised on a pile of books, rolled
charts, a sextant and a telescope, centering on an incurvate
rococo footed stand. Centerpiece terrestrial globe circled at
equator by zodiacal signs, plus names of Asie, Chine, Siberie,
Afrique, France and Amerique du Nord. Flanked by two glass
inkwells with cast rococo covers and glass bottoms molded with
"C B". Front right edge of stand engraved with "BROSSY". C.B. =
(Chez?) Brossy. (Paris?). c1870. French bronze. Beautiful
original art casting in fine condition.
I.D.#10360.
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photos if needed) **New Addition** October 2008
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IN ARCHIVAL FRAMING
BY ARADER GALLERIES
 ROSS.
LT. 34TH REGT. COURSE OF THE RIVER MISSISSIPI, FROM THE
BALISE TO FORT CHARTRES;... taken on an expedition to the
Illinois in the latter end of the year 1765. By Lieut. Ross of
the 34th Regiment: improved from the surveys of that river made
by the French. ROBT. SAYER & BENNETT. LONDON . 1775, JUNE
1. PART COLOR. COPPER ENGRAVING. The famous Ross map of the
river, the first map to result from the English occupation of
the Illinois country following the Treaty of Paris (1765). The
first official survey of the lower Mississippi. It extends north
to just below St. Louis in what is now Missouri. The first issue
appeared in 1772; this 1775 issue has many changes in the area
around New Orleans including the addition of forts St. Leon and
St. Mary. Shows Baton Rouge and Lake Pontchartrain. Op cit.
Ross, whose first name is unrecorded, was a lieutenant and
military surveyor with the 34th Regiment. Beautiful clean copy
with original outline color. On two sheets joined together.
Henry Stevens and Roland Tree's "Comparative cartography"
#31(b). Also Sellers and Van Ee 781 and Sellers & Tree 3116
Archivally framed under plexiglas in black and gilt frame stock.
From Arader Galleries, New York. 44"H. x 13.5"W. FINE.
$10,000.00. I.D.#28645.
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photos if needed)
**New Addition**
July 2008
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EXCEPTIONAL
CARY TABLE GLOBE AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF VICTORIA'S REIGN
  English.
G. & J. Cary. Cary's new Terrestrial Globe, delineated
from the best authorities extant: exhibiting the late
discoveries towards the North Pole, and every improvement in
Geography to the present time. Made and sold by G. & J. Cary,
86, St. James Street, Jan. 1, 1837. G. & J. Cary. London. 1837.
12" table globe with coated gores over plaster, brass time dial
at North Pole. Oceans finished in pale greenish blue with
ecliptic, equinoctial colure, circumnavigations and analemma
scale with table of equation in Pacific. Solidly built full
mount Chippendale stand consisting of brass full ring meridian
fitting into unusual brass horizon ring supporters, four
conforming brass ferules. The central cradle with thumbscrew
adjustment. Above light walnut short turned column and S-curve
tripod legs with elongated foot, stretcher supported compass
below. Zodiac horizon ring scale without blemish and globe
surface likewise intact. Queen Victoria came to the throne in
1837 after the death of her uncle King George IV. The geography
shown on this surface marks that known at the start of a
momentous period for British exploration and naval power.
Beautifully preserved, this globe was from the stock of Trevor
Philip & Sons Ltd, a leading London dealer in early scientific
instruments, ship models and globes.
Approximate 26" high.
I.D.#10357.
**New
Addition** August 2008 (Have more photos if needed)
Wall Maps - Pre 1900 -
Excluding Sea Charts
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Tellurians and
Planetaria
Wall Maps
over 36 inches wide
**New Listing** August 2008
**Please notice on
each listing the possibility of
**New
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