Mix, David E. E. Catalogue
Of Maps And Surveys, In The Offices Of The Secretary Of State,
State Engineer And Surveyor, And Comptroller, And The New York
State Library. Printed By Order Of The Assembly And Under The
Direction Of The Secretary Of State, By David E. E. Mix, C.E.
Charles Van Benthuysen. Albany. 1859. 8vo, 375 p. Legal calf,
broken. Bookplate of John Watts de Peyster with his long
curriculum vitae bookplate on reverse of title.
I.D.#03441. SOLD.
Andrew Williams. Plattsburgh,
N.Y. A Descriptive And Historical Guide To The Valley Of Lake
Champlain And The Adirondacks. R.S. Styles' Steam Printing
House. Burlington, Vt. 1871. 8vo, 144,xxiv p. 14 plates on pink
stock, 2 fold. pocket maps Orange cloth, soiled. The folding maps
are on india paper and are by Colton. W.R. Hunt's copy, from the
Hunt-Phelan House collection, Memphis, with library label on
spine. I.D.#09116. SOLD.
Illustrated London News.
Three Views Of Niagara Falls. [Cover illustration.] London.
1883, August 4. Folio. p.1-2. Views. Removed. I.D.#09750.
WITH LINK’S STRIP MAP
Wallace Bruce. The Hudson By
Daylight. By Thursty McQuill. (pseud.) New York to Albany and
Troy, Catskill Mountains, Saratoga Springs, Lake George, Lake
Champlain, Ausable Chasm, St. Albans, Plattsburg, Adirondacks,
Montreal, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Chautauqua, Buffalo, Niagara
Falls, Trenton Falls, Thousand Islands, Howe’s Cave, and Richfield
Springs. Bryant Literary Union. New York. ©1884. 12mo, 153+badv.
pp. Buff pict. wrappers. Scarce issue including the earlier state
of Wm. F. Link’s 99" long strip map of the Hudson River,
copyrighted 1878. Bruce obtained the rights to the strip map and
recopyrighted it under his name and offered it separately in
covers. Unusual both together. Signatures of C.L. and C.H. Ticknor.
Map early edition of BK.I.D.#04483. I.D.#08267.
SOLD.
Possons’ Guide To Lake
Champlain And Adirondacks. Embracing
That Part Of The Adirondack Mountains Reached From Lake Champlain.
Maps And Illustrations. Chas. H. Possons, publisher Glen Falls,
N.Y. 1888. Square 12mo, 226 p. Fold. maps, illus., adv. Red
printed wrappers. Hotel and steamer advertising, local history
illustrations. I.D.#01112. SOLD.
William Sanford Stanton.
[Report On Proposed Widening Of Locks Of The Erie And Oswego
Canals.] With two folding charts of the canal and its locks.
GPO. Washington, DC. 1896, Oct. 19. Major Stanton, pursuant to his
orders, reported to Gen. Craighill, chief of Engineers, that to
widen the canal locks to accomodate modern torpedo boats and other
vessels of war of similar dimensions, would cost nothing since
even larger canal boats negociated the canal routinely with
complete success. First few leaves of tables missing. Charts fine.
I.D.#09606. |
