A detailed map of Central London, based on the Ordnance Survey, overprinted with the routes of the Underground lines.<ul><li>George Washington Bacon (English).</li><li>London Transport Underground. Map of London.</li><li>London: Roadway Publications, 1934. </li><li>Color-printed map.</li></ul>

Quad-Royal poster map with Central London's Underground

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first American edition</a> of The Life of George Washington, by <a href="sothebys.com/en/search?query=John%20Marshall&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Marshall</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6 volumes.</li><li>John Marshall (American).</li><li>The Life Of George Washington, Commander In Chief Of The American Forces [...] [with] Maps And Subscribers' Names.</li><li>Philadelphia:&nbsp;C.P. Wayne,&nbsp;1804-1807.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavos, plus a quarto atlas.</li><li>Volumes 1-5 are bound in full tree calf, spines of volumes 1-2 have maroon and black labels with gilt lettering and ornamentation, spines of volumes 3-5 have faded maroon labels with gilt lettering and ornamentation.</li><li>Atlas volume is quarter bound in brown leather with corners tipped and marbled paper boards.</li></ul> Contents: Volume I:<ul><li>xxii, 488, 45 pages.</li><li>Published in 1804.</li><li>Contains a frontis portrait of George Washington.</li></ul> Volume II:<ul><li>viii, 560, 72 pages.</li><li>Published in 1804.</li></ul> Volume III:<ul><li>viii, 580, 28 pages.</li><li>Published in 1804.</li></ul> Volume IV:<ul><li>viii, 626, [2], 16 pages.</li><li>Published in 1805.</li></ul> Volume V:<ul><li>vii, [1] 779, [1], 36 pages.</li><li>Published in 1807.</li></ul> Volume VI:<ul><li>"The Life of George Washington: Maps and Subscribers' Names"</li><li>[2], 10 engraved folding maps (8 double-page), 22 pages).</li><li>Published in 1807.</li></ul>

The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces First American Edition

First Sparks edition and the first collected edition large paper copies of correspondence, addresses, messages and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts, The Writings of George Washington, with A Life of the Author, notes and illustrations by Jared Sparks.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12.</li><li>George Washington (American).</li><li>Jared Sparks (American).</li><li>Boston: American Stationers’ Company; Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co.; Boston: Russell, Shattuck, and Williams, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co. 1834-1837.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>All first issues except volume III which is a second issue.</li><li>Illustrated with frontispieces to four volumes and thirty further plates as called for.</li><li>Bound in recent tan half calf over marbled boards, gilt titles on red and green morocco squares to spines, gilt tooling to spines, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Writings of George Washington

A large map of the world showing the British Empire at its height marked in pink.<ul><li>G.W. Bacon (American).</li><li>Bacon's New Chart of the World Mercator's Projection.</li><li>Manchester: G.W. Bacon &amp; Co., 1908.</li><li>Color lithograph map, dissected into 24 sections and laid onto linen as issued.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul> Insets in this map record a wealth of additional detail, including the principal British steamship lines, a gazetteer of cities from across the world, with plans of towns including Adelaide, Auckland, Bombay, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Wellington, and insets for the Panama and Suez Canals, the two Poles, a Universal Time chart and a large inset map of the British Isles. The top section is illustrated with 46 national flags and ensigns.

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