Catalogue of atlases and maps, travel and Americana, topographical books and autograph letters, manuscripts and historical documents comprising maps by Speed, Blaeu, Jansson, Bowen, Faden, Mercator, Morden, Mortier, Arrowsmith, Cary, Jeffreys, Moll and others, and a large collection of maps of Wales; atlases ... travel and topography ... Hudson, descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectionis freti, 1612; ... Massachusetts - the general laws and liberties of Massachusetts colony, 1672; ... a good volume of photographs of Brisbane taken between 1867 and 1869; a watch book of H.M.S. Resolution; a narrative of a steam voyage on the River Euphrates in 1838; a letter about Churchill's escape from Pretoria; photographs of Colorado taken in 1871; a good description of the Charge of the Light Brigade; photographs taken on James's Sudan expedition 1880-1882; letters and manuscripts relating to North and South America, Canada, Algeria, Egypt, the Sudan, Africa, the Middle East, India, Siam, China, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Arctic and Antarctic; to the American War of Independence and Civil War, the British expedition to Flanders, 1793-1794, the Quiberon expedition of 1800, the Crimean War, the Carnatic campaign, the Indian mutiny, the first Afghan war, the Boer war, the first and second World wars; letters and documents by Nelson, Wellington, Gordon, Lord Elgin, Hastings, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Rhodes, Edward II, Selous and Montgomery; military diaries and commissions; naval and air force log books; a sketch of a boy scout by Baden Powell : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. ... days of sale: Monday, 20th June, 1977, lots 1-289; Tuesday, 21st June, 1977, lots 290-580 ...

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co

London Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co 1977

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