Varia, Three Maps: Russia, 1720; Maryland & Delaware, 1799; and Tibet, 1849.

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Varia, Three Maps: Russia, 1720; Maryland & Delaware, 1799; and Tibet, 1849. Including: Henry Abraham Chatelain's (1684-1743),Carte Nouvelle de la Grande Tartarie ou de L'Empire du Grand Cham, Dressee sur les Memoires Originaux & sur d'autres Observations tres Exactes de Divers Voyageurs, uncolored engraved map depicting Russia from the Caspian Sea to Korea, from Chatelain's Atlas Historique, published between 1705 and 1720, unframed, 20 3/4 x 17 in.; The States of Maryland and Delaware from the Latest Surveys, New York: I. Lew, 1799, for New Encyclopedia, small octavo map, engraved, uncolored, matted and framed, 9 x 7 1/2 in. (sight); [and] Sketch Map of Sikhim and the Nipalese Frontier, to illustrate Dr. Hooker's paper, London: Murray, for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, lithographed by A. Petermann, folding octavo format map with blue highlights, bound in boards with Hooker's paper, pages 49 through 52 from the Journal, the map, 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (3)
Estimate $20-200


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