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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. ix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. ; ISBN 9783540199137, 3540199136 ; OCLC 34548561 ; LCCN 96013224 ; LOC No QB82.G7 S63 1996 ; stiff paper wrappers ; In Small Astronomical Observatories, Patrick Moore has collected descriptions of amateur and small professional observatories currently in use in Europe and America, showing how many astronomers have built their own observatory, often with effective and sometimes extraordinary improvisations to reduce the cost. There is a photograph of each, along with details of its construction and a foreword written by Patrick Moore. In addition to providing a fascinating study for its own sake, Small Astronomical Observatories offers a unique fund of ideas and practical details for anyone who wants to build an amateur or small professional observatory. ; Contents: A Practical Roll-off Roof Observatory in Michigan, USA / Dennis Allen -- Mount Tuffley Observatory in Gloucester, England / John Fletcher -- A Solar Observatory with a Slide Roof in Jordanstown, Northern Ireland / Bruce Hardie -- The Edenvale Observatory in Edenvale, South Africa / M. D. Overbeek -- A Roll-off Roof Observatory in New Boston, New Hampshire, USA / D. Lawrence, Linda Lopez -- A Suburban Observatory in Worcester Park, England / Maurice Gavin -- A Simple Rotating Observatory in Nottingham, England / Alan W. Heath -- The Taunton School Radio Astronomy Observatory in Taunton, England / Trevor Hill -- The Starlight CCD Observatory in Binfield, England / Terry Platt -- The University of Hertfordshire Observatory in Bayfordbury, England / C. R. Kitchin -- An Amateur Observatory with a Glass Fibre Dome / Ron Johnson -- A Glass Fibre Dome for a 260mm, 1.9m Focal Length Reflecting Telescope / B. G. W. Manning -- Chigwell School Observatory in Chigwell, England / A. J. Sizer -- The Torquay Boys' Grammar School Observatory / David Reid, C. Lintott -- Patrick Moore's Observatory in Selsey, England / Patrick Moore -- A Deep-Sky Observatory / Jack Newton -- Worth Hill Observatory / D. Strange -- Red Hill Observatory / Chris Plicht -- Powys Country Observatory / Cheryl Power -- Mount Tuffley Observatory in Gloucester, England / John Fletcher -- A Solar Observatory with a Slide Roof in Jordanstown, Northern Ireland / Bruce Hardie -- The Edenvale Observatory in Edenvale, South Africa / M. D. Overbeek -- A Roll-off Roof Observatory in New Boston, New Hampshire, USA / D. Lawrence, Linda Lopez -- A Suburban Observatory in Worcester Park, England / Maurice Gavin -- A Simple Rotating Observatory in Nottingham, England / Alan W. Heath -- The Taunton School Radio Astronomy Observatory in Taunton, England / Trevor Hill -- The Starlight CCD Observatory in Binfield, England / Terry Platt -- The University of Hertfordshire Observatory in Bayfordbury, England / C. R. Kitchin -- An Amateur Observatory with a Glass Fibre Dome / Ron Johnson -- A Glass Fibre Dome for a 260mm, 1.9m Focal Length Reflecting Telescope / B. G. W. Manning -- Chigwell School Observatory in Chigwell, England / A. J. Sizer -- The Torquay Boys' Grammar School Observatory / David Reid, C. Lintott -- Patrick Moore's Observatory in Selsey, England / Patrick Moore -- A Deep-Sky Observatory / Jack Newton -- Worth Hill Observatory / D. Strange -- Red Hill Observatory / Chris Plicht -- Powys Country Observatory / Cheryl Power ; FINE. Book.…

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An attractive map of Spain and Portugal coloured by region, includes the Balearic Islands and parts of the North African coast. Place-names in Latin. Title at lower right. Copper engraving. In fine condition. Original outline colour. Size: 57 x 41.7 cm. (22½ x 16½ inches).

First Edition. An Important Contribution to the Development of Modern Legal Theory Kitchin, John [c.1520-c.1590]. Le Court Leete et Court Baron Collect per Iohn Kitchin de Graies Inne un Apprentice in Ley. Et les Cases & Matters Necessaries pur Seneschals de Ceux Courts a Scier, & Pur les Students de les Measons del Chauncerie. Ore Novelment Imprimee, & Per le Author Mesme Corrigee, Ouesque Divers Novel Additions, Come Court de Marshalsey, Auncient Demesne, Court de Pipowders, Essoines, Imparlance, View, Actions, Contracts, Pleadings, Maintenance, & Divers Auter Matters. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1607. [xii], 289, [3] ff. Octavo (6-1/4" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style, blind rules to boards, small gilt initials (I S) to centers of boards, raised bands to spine. Light rubbing and a few minor stains to boards, illegible faint markings to front board in small early hand, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and moderately worn, pastedowns loose and lightly edgewear, clean tear to rear pastedown, recent armorial bookplate of Gerald Chippindale Rivington to verso of front board. Light toning to interior, light soiling to title page. $600. * Later edition. By outlining the differences between the previously undivided court, Kitchin, along with Coke, helped lay the foundations of modern legal theory. "In fact Kitchin was doing on a small scale what Coke was doing on a grand scale. Both were representatives of that school of literate Elizabethan lawyers.whose great and enduring work was the adaptation of medieval law and institutions to modern needs. Imagination necessarily played some part in this process of adaptation; and thus they are responsible not only for the enunciation of the rules of modern law, but also for legal and historical theories, the soundness of which was considered by many generations of lawyers and historians to be as incontestable as their statements of law" (Holdsworth). The first edition was published in 1579. Our edition includes the anonymous Retorna Brevium, a treatise on writs originally published in 1538. Rivington [1893-1977], the former owner of this copy, was an important publisher and bookseller. Holdsworth, A History of English Law IV:130. English Short-Title Catalogue S108073.…

8vo, [12], 289, [3] leaves, without front free-endpaper, contemporary full vellum, a very good copy. Provenance: Contemporary ink signature of William Witaker to title page; bookplate of the Law Library, Los Angeles inside front cover (no other library marks).

First Edition. London, 1651. 1st ed. The First English Edition of Kitchin's Manorial Law - A Commonwealth-Era Printing Kitchin, John (c.1520-c.1590). Jurisdictions: Or, The Lawful Authority of Courts Leet, Courts Baron, Court of Marshallseyes, Court of Pypowder, And Antient Demesne: Together with the Most Necessary Learning of Tenures, And All Their Incidents. heretofore writ in French. and now most exactly rendred to more ample advantage in the English tongue. London: Printed by T. Roycroft for M. Walbancke. and H. Twyford, 1651. [iv], 602, [26] table. Octavo (6-1/2 x 4"). Period style quarter calf over cloth boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettered morocco spine label. Endpapers renewed. Title page laid down and printed within ruled border. Light toning to text. A very good copy. $850. * First English translation of John Kitchin's classic Tudor manual on manorial law and jurisdiction, originally written and published in Law French as Le Court Leete et Court Baron (first published 1580). This 1651 edition marks a significant historical shift: following the execution of Charles I, the Rump Parliament enacted legislation requiring all legal proceedings and textbooks to be printed in English rather than Law French or Latin to make the law accessible to the commonwealth. Kitchin's treatise served as the essential directory for stewards of local courts, detailing the complexities of medieval and early modern property law, legal pleadings, land tenures, and actionable contracts. It offers an invaluable contemporary window into the daily operational mechanics of local governance and manorial jurisprudence in England, ranging from the Court of Piepowder (the marketplace courts handled expeditiously for merchants and travelers) to the Court of Marshalsea. Occupying pages 508 through 578 is the newly corrected Retourna Brevium (The Returne of Writs Newly Corrected), an indispensable procedural guide for the execution and formal return of legal writs by local sheriffs and bailiffs. Holdsworth, A History of English Law IV:130. ESTC R211060; Wing K656. London, 1651. 1st ed. (illustrator).…

Loose., A very good example of this collection of maps, which are most often sold individually and are becoming increasingly rare and scarce. Emanuel Bowen (1694?1767) was a Welsh map engraver who served as Royal Mapmaker to both King George II of Great Britain and Louis XV of France. Bowen was highly regarded by his contemporaries for producing some of the largest, most detailed, and most accurate maps of his era. Despite this, Bowen would die in poverty, a similar fate that would be met by his son, Thomas Bowen, who took up his father?s cartographic business following his death.List of maps (number indicated if stated):1. #16. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of HARTFORD SHIRE Divided into Hundreds? 2. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of DORSET SHIRE Divided into Hundreds? 3. #7. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of CORNWALL Divided into Hundreds?4. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of the County of HUNTINGDON, Divided into its Hundreds?5. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of CAMBRIDGE SHIRE, Divided into Hundreds?6. #6. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of the COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER. Divided into Hundreds?7. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of the County of MONMOUTH, Divided into Hundreds?8. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of the County of GLOUCESTER, Divided into Hundreds?9. #9. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of DERBY SHIRE, Divided into its Hundreds?10. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of HAMP SHIRE Divided into its Hundreds?11. E. Bowen, 1777. A Corrected Map of the County of STAFFORD Divided into Hundreds?12. #26. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of the County of NORTHAMPTON, Divided into its Hundreds?13. #12. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of the COUNTY PALATINE OF DURHAM, divided into its Wards?14. #29. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of OXFORD SHIRE, Drawn from the Best Authorities, Divided into Hundreds?15. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of the County of NORTHUMBERLAND, laid down from the Best Authorities and Divided into its Wards?16. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of LINCOLN SHIRE DIVDED INTO WAPONTAKES? 17. #33. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate map of the County of SUFFOLK Divided into its Hundreds? 18. E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of BERK SHIRE Divided into Hundreds?19. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of the COUNTY OF KENT DIVIDED INTO ITS LATHES, and Subdivided into Hundreds? 20. #34. T. Bowen; revised, corrected and improved by E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of the County of SURREY Divided into Hundreds?21. #20. J. Gibson; revised, corrected and improved by E. Bowen, 1777. An Accurate Map of the County of LANCASTER, Divided into Hundreds?22. #13. J. Gibson; revised, corrected, and improved by E. Bowen, 1778. An Accurate Map of the COUNTY OF ESSEX Divided into Hundreds? (John Bowles and Carington Bowles, ? ?)23. #38. E. Bowen, 1778. An Accurate Map of WORCESTER SHIRE Divided into Hundreds?24. E. Bowen, 1778. An Accurate Map of the COUNTY OF HEREFORD Drawn from Surveys?25. E. Bowen, 1778. An Accurate Map of the COUNTIES OF LEICESTER & RUTLAND, Divided into their Respective Hundreds?26. T. Kitchin, 1777. An Accurate Map of SUSSEX Drawn from the Best Surveys & Intelligences Divided into its Hundreds?27. T. Kitchin, 1777. A NEW MAP OF SOUTH WALES, containing the counties of Radnor, Brecknock, Glamorgan, Carmarthen, Pembroke & Cardigan?28. T. Kitchin, 1777. An Accurate Map of the COUNTY OF SALOP Divided into its Hundreds?, A collection of 28 copper-engraved maps from Bowen?s Royal English Atlas, which was a smaller-scale version of the Large English Atlas issued circa 1767. 3 maps drawn by Kitchin, remainder drawn by or corrected by E. Bowen. Maps illustrating various British counties (list below), with later handcolouring, often with pictorial cartouches, often featuring inset engravings of cathedrals and churches, plus extracts commenting on counties? trade and economy, geographical details, history and formation, and more. Some maps numbered.Maps of Hartfordshire, Dorsetshire, Cornwall, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, Chester, Monmouth, Gloucester, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Stafford, Northampton, Durham, Oxfordshire, Northumberland, Lincoln Shire, Suffolk, Berkshire, Kent, Surrey, Lancaster, Essex, Worcestershire, Hereford, Leicester & Rutland, Sussex, South Wales, Salop (details in list below). Some toning, edgewear, occasional spotting, some small holes, minor worming, or wear at folds, small dampstains most often affecting map verso or margins and print edges, occasional tape repair, occasional marks, some maps rebacked.…

No binding. Zustand: Near fine. Third. THE MOST IMPORTANT MAP IN AMERICAN HISTORY. London: Jeffreys and Faden, 1755 (?1774). Third edition, second impression. Eight engraved sheets dissected into 32 sections and mounted on linen (1378mm x 1946mm) with hand-color in outline. Presented in a contemporary tree-marbled calf wooden slip-case. Lightly but evenly tanned. Some offsetting and pigment oxidation. The slip-case in disrepair. How often does a tool so fully meet its intended goal that it continues to be used for two centuries? The map of the eastern part of North America made by John Mitchell (1711-1768) is such a tool. Mitchell was a close friend of the second Earl of Halifax (to whom the map is dedicated), who as president of the Board of Trade 1748-1761 was able to furnish Mitchell with the most accurate and up-to-date surveys that had been made of the terrain. He consulted every map he could; he wrote to Cadwallader Colden that "there are none I believe but what I have consulted." This tremendous effort made all the difference, placing this map head-and-shoulders above others, even as cartographic knowledge advanced over the centuries. The enduring success of the map is all the more notable in view of its combativeness. Mitchell's map was not neutral or nonpartisan; it was full-throatedly pro-English and anti-French. Borders were freely extended and transposed to maximize British territory. It would go to some 21 states (impressions and editions) by 1781, and was translated into Dutch, French and Italian. It was the third edition that lay before John Jay during the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Paris (1783; now in the New-York Historical Society). The latest known use of the map is in the resolution of the 1980's disagreement between the U.S. and Canada over fisheries in Maine. Purchased at the Sotheby's London sale of Sir Brooke Charles Boothby, 15th Baronet (13 December 2023, lot 79) removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan in South Wales. Born in 1949, Sir Brooke has done a great deal to revivify his family home on the Welsh coast. Perhaps the map was acquired by his forebear the 6th Baronet (1744-1824), who was in the circle of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; the unusually sensuous portrait of Sir Brooke by Joseph Wright of Derby at Tate Britain shows him reclining with a volume of Rousseau's. Stephenson, Richard W. "Table for identifying variant editions and impressions of John Mitchell's Map." pp. 109-113 in A la Carte, ed. Walter W. Ristow (Washington: Library of Congress, 1972). Howes M 678; Pritchard-Taliaferro 33; Stevens-Tree 54(e).…

First Edition. An Important Contribution to the Development of Modern Legal Theory Kitchin, John [c.1520-c.1590]. Le Court Leete et Court Baron Collect per Iohn Kitchin de Graies Inne un Apprentice in Ley. Et les Cases & Matters Necessaries pur Seneschals de Ceux Courts Ascier, & Pur les Students de les Measons del Chauncerie. London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1623. [xii], 289, [3] ff. Octavo (6-1/8" x 3-3/4"). Recent period-style calf, raised bands, gilt fillets, and gilt title and publication date to spine, pastedowns and free endpapers renewed. "Kitchin" in early hand to fore-edge of text block, "Kitchin's Courts" to foot. Moderate toning to interior, inkstains to edges of a few leaves, faint offsetting and light edgewear to preliminaries and final two leaves, brief eighteenth-century annotations, dated 1717, and an owner name date 1710 (M. Foster) to front endleaf. An attractive copy. $750. * Later edition. By outlining the differences between the previously undivided court, Kitchin, along with Coke, helped lay the foundations of modern legal theory. "In fact Kitchin was doing on a small scale what Coke was doing on a grand scale. Both were representatives of that school of literate Elizabethan lawyers.whose great and enduring work was the adaptation of medieval law and institutions to modern needs. Imagination necessarily played some part in this process of adaptation; and thus they are responsible not only for the enunciation of the rules of modern law, but also for legal and historical theories, the soundness of which was considered by many generations of lawyers and historians to be as incontestable as their statements of law" (Holdsworth). The first edition of this work was published in 1579. Our edition also includes the anonymous Retorna Brevium, a treatise on writs originally published in 1538. Holdsworth, A History of English Law IV:130. English Short-Title Catalogue S108081.…

An Important Contribution to the Development of Modern Legal Theory Kitchin, John [c.1520-c.1590]. Le Court Leete & Court Baron Collect per Iohn Kitchin de Graies Inne un Apprentice en Ley. Et les Cases & Matters Necessarie pur Seneschals de Ceux Courts a Scier, & Pur les Students de les Measons de Chauncerie. Ore Novelment Imprimee, & Per le Author Mesme Corrige, Ovesq[ue] Divers Novel Additions, Come Court de Marshalsey, Auncient Demesne, Court de Pipowders, Essoines, Imparlance, View, Actions, Contracts, Pleadings, Maintenance, & Divers Auter Matters. [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Totelli, 1592. Later edition. Octavo (6-1/4" x 3-3/4"; 16 cm x 9.5 cm) [xii], 1-254; [255]-289, [3] ff. Two parts, each with title page, that of the second has title beginning Retorna Brevium Novelment Corrigee. Contemporary sheep, blind rules and large arabesques to boards, skillfully rebacked and recornered with raised bands, blind fillets and blind frames to spine, hinges mended. Light rubbing and a few small scuffs, nicks and stains to boards. Moderate rubbing to board edges, corners bumped. Front hinge cracked (before title page), recent pencil annotations and early ownership signatures (of Richard Norwood and [illegible] Prinne) to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior, appearing slightly heavier in places, faint dampstaining to margins in several places, small wormhole to ff. 23-41 with very minor loss to text without impacting legibility. Light foxing to a few leaves, brief early annotation to f. 29. An appealing copy. $950. * This influential Elizabethan practice manual functions as a milestone in the conceptual separation of English manorial courts and the development of early modern legal theory. Kitchin, a prominent member of Gray's Inn, systematically analyzes the distinct jurisdictions of the Court Leet and the Court Baron. Alongside the work of Edward Coke, Kitchin's text represents a movement among literate sixteenth-century lawyers to adapt medieval legal institutions to the rapidly changing commercial needs of the Tudor state. The volume includes the anonymous Retorna Brevium, a specialized treatise on the return of writs originally published in 1538, which bibliographer Joseph Beale classifies as a distinct bibliographical work. This copy features notable trade provenance, bearing the signat.…

No binding. Zustand: Near fine. First. [London]: "Publish'd by the Author Febry 13th 1755 according to Act of Parliament, and Sold by And: Miller opposite Katherine Street in the Strand" (i.e., Andrew Millar). First edition, first impression. Eight engraved sheets, separately framed floating (26" x 18 1/2" each, framed at 31" x 23") with original hand-coloring in outline. With some very small edge-tears. A few sheets a little soiled and tanned at the edges. Two or three spots of foxing. Altogether a lovely set with original color. How often does a tool so fully meet its intended goal that it continues to be used for two centuries? The map of the eastern part of North America made by John Mitchell (1711-1768) is such a tool. Mitchell was a close friend of the second Earl of Halifax (to whom the map is dedicated), who as president of the Board of Trade 1748-1761 was able to furnish Mitchell with the most accurate and up-to-date surveys that had been made of the terrain. He consulted every map he could; he wrote to Cadwallader Colden that "there are none I believe but what I have consulted." This tremendous effort made all the difference, placing this map head-and-shoulders above others, even as cartographic knowledge advanced over the centuries. The enduring success of the map is all the more notable in view of its combativeness. Mitchell's map was not neutral or nonpartisan; it was full-throatedly pro-English and anti-French. Borders were freely extended and transposed to maximize British territory. It would go to some 21 states (impressions and editions) by 1781, and was translated into Dutch, French and Italian. It was the third edition that lay before John Jay during the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Paris (1783; now in the New-York Historical Society). The latest known use of the map is in the resolution of the 1980's disagreement between the U.S. and Canada over fisheries in Maine. The first impression (per Stephenson) is distinguished by the following points: "Miller" and "Katherine" for "Millar" and "Katharine" in the imprint, and "Leicester" twice: above and below the third S of "Massachussets" (the lower corrected to "Worcester" in the third impression). Of this first impression, only two further examples are known: in the Library of Congress (G3300 1755 .M5, sectioned and mounted) and the British Library (K.Top.118.49.c.2; George III's copy, donated to the nation by George IV; joined and laid down on linen). Stephenson, Richard W. "Table for identifying variant editions and impressions of John Mitchell's Map." pp. 109-113 in A la Carte, ed. Walter W. Ristow (Washington: Library of Congress, 1972). Howes M 678; Pritchard-Taliaferro 33; Stevens-Tree 54 (1755(a) "first issue").…

London, 1598. Enlarged ed. Beale T374. Copy of Kitchin's Court Leete, Et Court Baron from the Library of Thomas Parker, First Earl of Macclesfield Kitchin, John [c.1520-c.1590]. Le Court Leete et Court Baron Collect per Iohn Kitchin de Greies Inne un Apprentice in Ley. Et les Cases & Matters Necessaries pur Seneschals de Ceux Courts a Scier, & Pur les Students de les Measons del Chauncerie. Ore Novelment Imprimee, & Per le Author Mesme Corrigee, Ouesque Divers Novel Additions, Come Court de Marshalsey; Auncient Demesne, Court de Pipowders, Essoines, Imparlance, View, Actions, Contracts, Pleadings, Maintenance, & Divers Auter Matters. [London]: In Aedibius Thomae Wight, & Bonhami Norton, 1598. [xii], 289, [3] pp. Octavo (6" x 4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules and small blind-stamped initials "GW" to boards, raised bands and later lettering piece and small hand-lettered shelf labels to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, a few minor scuffs to boards, corners bumped small tears to head of spine, pastedowns loose, later armorial bookplate of the Earl of Macclesfield to verso of front board, small embossed Macclesfield stamp to head of title page. Moderate toning to text, faint dampstaining and soiling to preliminaries, light foxing in a few places. Early owner signature of Thomas Parker to head of title page, markings and brief annotations (mostly manicules) in his hand to the margins of several leaves. A nice copy with an interesting association. $1,000. * First published in 1579, Kitchin's work is an important source of information on local courts and government. By outlining the differences between the previously undivided court, Kitchin, along with Coke, helped lay the foundations of modern legal theory. "In fact Kitchin was doing on a small scale what Coke was doing on a grand scale. Both were representatives of that school of literate Elizabethan lawyers.whose great and enduring work was the adaptation of medieval law and institutions to modern needs. Imagination necessarily played some part in this process of adaptation; and thus they are responsible not only for the enunciation of the rules of modern law, but also for legal and historical theories, the soundness of which was considered by many generations of lawyers and historians to be as incontestable as their statements of law." This copy belonged to Thomas Parker [1. London, 1598. Enlarged ed. Beale T374 (illustrator).…

Folio (18 x 11 4/8 inches). Letterpress preliminaries and Index at end. Engraved title-page with vignette, dedication leaf, 56 mostly double-page leaves of chronology, and 14 double-page and folding maps of the ancient and modern world engraved by Thomas Kitchin (some offsetting). Contemporary tree calf (rebacked, scuffed). Provenance: early marginal annotations; engraved armorial bookplate of T. Bigelow Lawrence on the front paste-down. First published without maps in 1756. The maps related to America are "A Map of the West Indies and Middle Continent of America" showing the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, with many forts and towns named. The British colony of Georgia extends to the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast and its boundary with Florida is noted as Limits Stipulated 1738, leaving the Spanish colony of Florida occupying only the peninsula. A line further south is noted as the Southern Bounds [Georgia] by Charter 1665. The southern portion of Florida is shown as a collection of large islands, named Bay del Spiritu Santo. Texas is named as the New Kingdom of Leon. "A Map of North America from the Latest Surveys and Maps" shows the continent during the transitional period leading up to the American Revolution. The map shows much of the region controlled by the British after the French and Indian War. Several of the colonial charters show their boundaries extending to an indeterminate western boundary. The charter and dates are noted along the colonial boundaries, which extend through Louisiana, a Spanish possession at the time this map was made. Another important boundary is New Mexico's eastern line, which travels north along the R. Mexicano (Sabine River) before turning northwest where it intersects with North Carolina's southern border. Another important map is that of the East-Indies showing southeast Asia depicting India at a time when Britain and the East India Company were solidifying control of the subcontinent. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.…