Sale 2464 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 5, 2017

427  ​c  ​ (TOBACCO—VITOLPHILIA.) Four small albums containing over 1000 Cuban and American cigar bands. Many heads including William Penn, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Jules Verne, European royalty and American presidents. Chromolithography and gilt embossing, loosely tipped into worn wallet notebooks; generally good condition, not glued down, leaves of one album wormed not affecting bands. Vp, late 19th to early 20th centuries [300/500] 428  ​c  ​ (TYPOGRAPHY.) The Composing Room. The CR Typebook. xviii, 444 pages. 4to format, 12x7 1 / 2 inches, in a four-ring Composing Room lettered binder, light wear; few leaves with entries excised. with: Two copies of the Latent Lettering Company’s Typebook, 1971 and 1974. Spiral bound, some wear. New York: The Composing Room, 1965 [150/250] Complete catalog of one of the printing and typesetting industry’s oldest and most accomplished firms with hundreds of available fonts and typefaces presented in a very graphic, design-oriented fashion. 427 428