Jun 03, 2021 - Sale 2571

Sale 2571 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
BRADFORD, THOMAS GAMALIEL. [Comprehensive Atlas. Geographical, Historical & Commercial.] 78 full-page engraved charts, diagrams and maps with original hand-color in outline, lacking title and frontis. Small folio, 13x10 1/2 inches, well-worn publisher's gilt roan over marbled boards with printed paper title label to upper cover; foxing throughout, occasional edge tears, map of Mexico and subsequent text leaf torn and lacking upper half; "Wyoming Historical Geological Society, Wilkes-Barre" ink stamp to contents leaf. Boston, 1838 (date from binding label)

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Noteworthy for its inclusion of the first atlas map to show Texas as a separate republic.