History Topography United States by Hinton John, First Edition (5 results)

Half Leather. Condition: Good. 3 Colored Maps, 22 Colored Plates, 30 Uncolored Plates (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Two Volumes, Three Quarter Leather. Volume 1: 944 Pp With 30 Uncolored Plates And One Colored Map "Mexico, California, And Texas: The Newly Discovered Gold Districts". Volume Ii: 784 Pp With Two Colored Maps Of Canada, And 22 Colored Plates, All With Yellow Borders And Nice Original Color Throughout. The Map Of Mexico And California, Tipped In But Neatly Loosened And Detached (Without Intention) And Usually Not Present, Has Nicely Detailed Illustrations Of The Ruins At Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexican Peasantry, And Gold Washing, And Outlines The Gold Districts Of The U S And Mexico In Yellow. No Date Of Publication Indicated But Presumably 1850. Bindings Poor, Three Of Four Boards Detached, Spines Perished, Boards Very Worn And Frayed, Deserving Of An Expensive Rebind. Contents Near Fine, Clean, Maps Perfectly Preserved. Volume I With Additional Illustrated Title Page, Showing Penn's Treaty, Painted By Benjamin West And Here Engraved By J. Rogers. This Greatly Enlarged Fourth Edition With The Colored California Gold Map Is Uncommon, About 7 Holdings Shown In Worldcat; It Is Not Listed In Carl Wheat's "The Maps Of The California Gold Region 1848 - 1857", Nor In The Addendum To The 1997 Martino Reprint Of That Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. First US Edition, New & Improved with Additions & Corrections, 2 volumes in one. 4to (11 x 9¼), pp. 10, 427; viii, 508, map of N. America, 38 engraved plates, 2 extra-engraved titles. Original full calf, gilt roll-tooled borders, marbled endpapers. Very good clean copy re-backed in period style. Boards extremities worn, corners bumped. Sheets and plates clean, unmarked, complete, slight age toning. Howes H-512. Provenance: Gilt stamped "S.O. Howe" on upper board. "Adelaide B. Howe/ from her mother/ 1907" on second blank. H5198.

Hardcover. First Am edition. 2 vols. Howes H-512 Very good condition, some foxing throughout, in full worn calf, hinges tender.

First edition. 2 volumes, 4to (28.5cm), xviii, 476; x, 580pp., 2 additional engraved titles, 2 frontispieces, 16 maps (most folding), 80 engraved plates, foxing to titles and a little elsewhere, contemporary tree calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering pieces, a fine fresh set. Scarce in such handsome condition.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. 1ª Edición. 1830/1832. Jennings & Chaplin [etc.] London, 2 Volumes. In-4º, 29,5cm. xvi+476+viii+580 páginas. Enc. 1ª edição. Completo com todos os mapas e vistas. Vol. I ilustrado com o retrato do General Washington e uma vinheta de Nova Iorque no frontispício, 15 mapas, sendo o mapa da América de grandes dimensões, e 12 outros de página dupla, o fac-simile da Declaração de Independência e 9 vistas. Vol.II ilustrado 1 vista das Cataratas do Niagara e 1 vinheta da Bolsa de Valores de Boston no frontispício, 2 mapas e 69 vistas. Encadernações modernas em inteira de pele, mantendo as pastas da encadernações da época. Algumas folhas restauradas. Manchas de água a partir da página 342 do volume I e nos 8 primeiras folhas do volume II. manchas de acidez ocasionais. Muito bom estado.