Sale 2481 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, June 7, 2018

4 c   (AMERICAS.) Together two unusual anonymous maps of America. Vp, vd [250/350]] The first a decorativeTurkish manuscript map of North and South America showing California as an island. A map made to look old but created for the tourist trade, likely in Istanbul in the latter part of the twentieth century. 16 1 / 2 x12 1 / 2 inches sheet size, wide margins; light soiling. and : An engraved map of North America without toponyms, bordered by elaborate margins of American fauna. Boundaries of the United States, Canada and Mexico hand-colored in outline; circular printed label “Severnaya America” in Cyrillic alphabet pasted on. 14 1 / 4 x12 inches sheet size; n.p., circa 1845. 4 5 5 c   (AMERICAS.) Van der Aa, Pieter. L’Amerique Septentrionale Suivant les Nouvelles Observations. Engraved folding map of North America with a decorative title cartouche. 9x12 inches sheet size, narrow margins; single small spot in the ocean, right margin trimmed, ie for binding. Leiden, circa 1730 [400/600] with : Isaak Tirion, two engraved miniature decorative title pages, one with a map of North America, the other with a map of South America. 7 3 / 4 x5 inches each, 1768. 6 c   APIAN, PETER; after FRISIUS, GEMMA. Carte Cosmographicque, ou Universelle Description du Monde, Avecq les Ventz. Double-page woodblock world map with a panel of descriptive text in French below. 13x15 inches sheet size, ample margins, French text on verso; light spotting; from Antoine de Pinet’s Plantz, Pourtraitz et Descriptions de Plusieurs Villes... Shirley 82 (block 1). Lyon, 1564 [1,500/2,500] Lot 5