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Maps of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Large 4° (413 x 330mm.), 196 engraved maps, town-plans and star-charts only, hand-coloured in outline (of 218, a few maps and leaves torn with loss, old repairs, occasional spotting and browning, a few maps and plans misbound), old cloth (spine and corners restored in leather), g. e. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.
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Maps of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Large 4° (413 x 330mm.), 196 engraved maps, town-plans and star-charts only, hand-coloured in outline (of 218, a few maps and leaves torn with loss, old repairs, occasional spotting and browning, a few maps and plans misbound), old cloth (spine and corners restored in leather), g. e. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

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Maps of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Large 4° (413 x 330mm.), 196 engraved maps, town-plans and star-charts only, hand-coloured in outline (of 218, a few maps and leaves torn with loss, old repairs, occasional spotting and browning, a few maps and plans misbound), old cloth (spine and corners restored in leather), g. e. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

Includes the map of "Central America II," 1842, depicting Texas as an independent republic; also the town plans of Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Mounted on a guard near the back of the atlas is a 4-page broadsheet, "Lands for Sale in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada by the British American Land Company," January 1836. At the head of the first page is a map of the area, south of the St. Lawrence between Quebec and Montreal.
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This lot will not be subject to VAT either on the hammer price or the buyer's premium.