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Sale 411 Thursday, September 3, 2009 1:00 PM Fine Americana - Travel & Exploration Book Club of California The Library of Henry W. Coil, Jr. Auction Preview Tuesday, September 1 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Wednesday, September 2- 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Thursday, September 3 - 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Or by appointment 133 Kearny Street 4th Floor:San Francisco, CA 94108 phone: 415.989.2665 toll free: 1.866.999.7224 fax: 415.989.1664 [email protected]:www.pbagalleries.com REAL-TIME BIDDINGAVAILABLE PBA Galleries features Real-Time Bidding for its live auctions. This feature allows Internet Users to bid on items instantaneously, as though they were in the room with the auctioneer. If it is an auction day, you may view the Real-Time Bidder at http://www.pbagalleries.com/realtimebidder/ . Instructions for its use can be found by following the link at the top of the Real-Time Bidder page. 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Front Cover: Lot 225 Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left, Lots 441, 3, 447, 272 Bond # 14425383 Section I: Maps, Lots 1-8 Section II: Fine Americana, Lots 9-314 Section III: The Book Club of California, Lots 315-405 Section IV: Travel & Exploration, Lots 406-456 Section I: Maps POCKET MAP OF CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA 1. BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE. Bancroft’s Map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Hand-colored lithograph map. 28x32, within gilt- stamped brown cloth. The Third Revised Edition. San Francisco: Bancroft & Co., 1873 Bancroft’s detailed pocket map of California and Nevada, with portions of Arizona and Utah. Each state is divided into counties, reflected in the coloring, and the various railroads, completed, under construction and planned, are shown, as are the many towns, cities, lakes, rivers, and other features. Wheat 1219. Light shelf wear; a few tiny holes at crease fold, one very faint and small dampstain on Lot 1 verso; very good plus. (1500/2000) 2. FRÉMONT, JOHN CHARLES. Map of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the years 1843-44... Lithographed map, with slight hand-coloring as issued. 76x131 cm. (30x50½”). Washington: 1846 Frémont’s important and highly influential map of the west, executed with the assistance of Charles Preuss, issued in his Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44. Wheat describes the map at great length, and attaches great significance to it: “The year 1845, however, though otherwise somewhat cartographically barren, because of a single event is in fact one of the towering years in the story of Western Cartography. In that year John C. Frémont’s report of his journey to Oregon and California in 1843-44 was published. This report and the Frémont (Preuss) map which accompanied it, changed the entire picture of the West, and made a lasting contribution to cartography....” Graff 1436; Howes F370; Wagner-Camp 115; Wheat Transmississippi 497. Mild darkening, as usual, more so along the folds, verso repairs/reinforcements with cloth tape along the folds, a few older paper repairs on verso, marginal chip, very good. (800/1200) Page 1 HONDIUS’ MAP OF VIRGINIA, 1644 3. HONDIUS, HENRICUS. Nova Virginiæ Tabula. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored (later?)). 38x49 cm. (15x19½”), hinged to mat. Amsterdam: 1630-1644 The region surrounding the Chesapeake Bay, very hilly, with depiction at upper left of the interior of a Indian dwelling labeled “Status Regins Powhaten,” and at left a native holding a bow, called “Habitus fœminarum in Provincia Sasque fahanougs.” Burden notes that “This is Henricus Hondius’ derivative of John Smith’s highly important map of Virginia, 1612. It is, however, draw from his deceased brother Jodocus’ version of 1618. The two had led separate careers for at least ten years and in 1629, upon the death of Jodocus, Willem Blaeu acquired a number of plates from the estate. About thirty of these formed the nucleus of Blaeu’s Atlantis Appendix of 1630. This challenge to the atlas of Henricus, which was by now quite dated, stimulated fierce competition between the two houses. The sale of plates must have Lot 3 occurred by 2 March 1630 as a contract of that date survives where Henricus Hondius and his partner Joannes Janssonius, angry at the sale of plates to their competitor, engaged engravers to cut a number of new plates after those of Jodocus within eighteen months so that they could advance their own atlas. The Virginia was one of the first engraved as it appears in Janssonius’ Atlantis Appendix of 1630. Attractively engraved it is the only Smith derivative to bear an Indian facing the Chesapeake Bay...” The present copy of the map was issued in the 1644 edition of Hondius’ Nouvel Atlas, with French text on verso (with the signature mark e). Burden 228, State 1; Tooley, Mapping of America, p.165. Slight toning and a few stray fox marks; marginal tear repaired on verso; near fine. (2000/3000) 4. Mapa de los Ferrocarriles en Explotación y en Construcción de la Républica de Chile. Large folding color map. 34x78 (85x193 cm.), linen-backed and mounted in the original black cloth folder. [Santiago]: [Dirección de Obras Publicas], [1914] Large detailed map showing the routes of the operating rail lines in the country, with a list of company names, and a variety of small insets and charts. Cloth scuffed and rubbed; very good plus. (300/500) You can bid absentee directly from the item description in the online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com. Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder. Page 2 5. MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN. Die Erst General Tafel / Die Beschreibung und den Circkel des Gantzen Erdtrichs und Meers Innhaltende. Woodcut map of the world, hand-colored (later). 30.5x26 cm. (12x14”). Basle: Sebastian Petri, 1588-[?] The “modern” world map that appeared in issues of Münster’s Cosmographia from 1588 onwards, an oval woodcut after Ortelius. Shirley notes that “The title is in gothic German and the corners are decorated by a florid vine leaf pattern. Sharp and clean impressions of this map are rare, as it was normally printed on poor quality paper which allowed the ink to offset and the text on the reverse to show through.” The impression on the present example is fairly good, though the coloring, which seems old, is a little overbearing; the verso text is slightly visible through the map.