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Ireland [Map]
Map. Edinburg: Lizars, 1831. Sheet (92cm x 57.5cm), image (81cm x 52cm), composite of two original sheets. From the Edinburg Geographical and Historical Atlas, Sheet XIV et seq. Delicately hand-coloured as issued; shows settlements, roads, geographical features, counties. A few spots, backed with rice paper. A large, handsome map of Ireland from the early 19th century.
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300.00 USD
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Map of Roman Britain
Ordnance Survey, 1956. Third edition, with new information, symbols and colour greatly expanding the survey of 1928, its immediate predecessor. Forty-four pages of text (chronological table, Roman place and tribal names, map notes, index of Roman names and topography), four single page maps showing Ptolemaic Britain, the Antonine Itinerary, Dorset/ Wiltshire. Features one large folding map of Britain with details of Roman settlements-- farms, villas, temples, forts and the like. Stiff wraps, a fine copy.
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10.00 USD
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Map. Germany (Deutschland) II Eastern Part of the Prussian States.
London: Baldwin & Cradock for SDUK, 15 December 1832. J. & C. Walker, Sculp. Sheet (42cm x 36cm), image (39cm x 31.5cm). Eastern regions including the Polish border as far as ‘Warszawa’. B&w engraving with decorative borders. Lower right corner abraded, several short tears (repaired) in margin, a light wrinkle here and there. Still a good copy. Ex Ruddell collection (November 2008). Simply mounted on white, acid-free mat.
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30.00 USD
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Map. India V.
London: Baldwin & Cradock for SDUK, 1 December 1833. J. & C. Walker, Sculp. Sheet (42cm x 36cm), image (38cm x 32.5cm). Lower Indus River and delta, Gulf of Cutch. B&w engraving with decorative borders. Extreme right edge of sheet lightly wrinkled. Quite a good, presentable copy. Ex Ruddell collection (November 2008). Simply mounted on white, acid-free mat.
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Map. India VII.
London: Baldwin & Cradock for SDUK, 1 August 1832. J. & C. Walker, Sculp. Sheet (36cm x 42cm), image (29cm x 38cm). Showing ‘British Territory’, territories of the Rajahs of Berar and Rewah, and the Bundlecum Chiefs. B&w engravings with decorative borders. Small stains at edge of sheet, a few small spots on plate. Ex Ruddell collection (November 2008). Presentable. Simply mounted on white, acid-free mat.
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Map. The Northern Provinces of Sweden and Norway with Part 1 of Russia.
London: Baldwin & Cradock for SDUK, 1 February 1834. J. & C. Walker, Sculp. Sheet (36cm x 42 cm), image (33cm x 40cm), right and left margins reduced. Bergen north and east to the North Cape, Gulf of Bothnia, Kola peninsula, Arkangel, Finland. Short tears (repaired) top edge of sheet, two corners bumped. Generally a clean copy. Ex- Ruddell collection (November 2008). Simply mounted on white, acid-free mat.
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The Amphora.
Vancouver, BC: Alcuin Society, 1967- 2001. The first 123 issues of the Alcuin Society’s journal devoted to “the past, present and future of fine books. Founded in 1965 by Geoff Spencer and six other Vancouver bibliophiles..., it is the only non-profit organization in Canada dedicated to the entire range of interests related to books and reading. These interests include authorship, publishing, book design and production, bookselling, book buying and collecting, printing, binding, papermaking, calligraphy and illustration.” Many issues with examples of fine bookbinding or book illustration. This collection of clean, well-kept back issues, (Some of the early issues have become quite scarce) extends to the Spring 2001 number and includes many fine articles on virtually every aspect of the art of the book. As a lot only.
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1200.00 USD
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Angier, Belle Sumner The Garden Book of California.
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1906. First edition (pp. vii, 141). Illustrated with twenty hand-tinted colour photographs depicting garden designs from earlier times. Octavo (22cm) in tan broad cloth, green decorations and titles in the art nouveau manner. Previous owner’s attractive bookplate. Some of the residences are so thick with ivy as to resemble newly discovered Mayan temples; nevertheless, a handsome book with especially attractive photographs.
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75.00 USD
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Bartlett, W. H. The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt
London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, 1850. Second edition (vii, 218, adverts), illustrated with 35 engraved b&w plates by Bartlett and 17 woodcuts in the text, including a map of the region and a panorama of Alexandria. Small folio (18cm x 26cm) in fancy publisher’s cloth with fine gilt decoration and titles on an Egyptian theme. Light foxing restricted for the most part to margins. Ever since Napoleon’s Egyptian adventure (He abandoned an army there), European imaginations were drawn to Egyptian mysteries and were fed by publications such as this by Bartlett which, he says, ‘were drawn upon the spot, many with the camera lucida [a device which reflected a mirrored image onto paper]... displaying the principal monuments’, the ruins at Alexandria and Thebes, and especially scenes along the river Nile. An attractive copy all around.
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350.00 USD
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Bellin [Jacques Nicholas] Map. Carte de la Baye de Hudson. Pour servir a la Histoire Generale des Voyages.
Paris, 1757. Sheet (24cm x 32cm), images (22cm x 30cm). Detailed engraving depicts Hudson Bay and Detroit de Hudson as well as ‘Labrador nomme anciennement par les Francois Nouve. Bretagne’, and all of James Bay of whose east coast, depicted notionally, it is said, ‘Toute cette Coste n’est presque pas connu.’ Various Hudson Bay forts and posts located along the western shores of James and Hudson Bay are identified some with both their English and French names (to accommodate variable residents) as are several major tributaries. However, the most common descriptor is ‘inconnue’-- as in the case of the region southwest of Hudson Bay of which it is said, ‘Etendue de Pays entierement Inconnue’. Likely from Prevost’s multi-volume Histoire Generale des Voyages (1746- 1757) for which Bellin prepared maps as ‘Ingr. de la Marine’. Mildly age- toned, a short closed tear in right margin (repaired), reduced right margin. Quite a good impression on good 18th century paper with chains and wire representative of Bellin’s accurate, detailed work.
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175.00 USD
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Bellin, [Jacques Nicholas] Map. Cartes de Cours de Fleuve de St. Laurent. Depuis son Embouchure jusqu’an dessus de Quebec. Pour servir a la Histoire Generale des Voyages.
Paris, 1757. Sheet (33cm x 24cm, irreg.), image (19cm x 30). Engraving depicts the region of the lower St. Lawrence from just west of Quebec City, past Tadoussac, on out to the Gulf as far as the western end of Anticosti Island. Cartouche with legend in rococco frame, a good dark impression locating the settlements and showing details of the tributaries of the lower valley. Likely from Prevost’s multi-volume Histoire Generale des Voyages (1746- 1757) for which Bellin prepared maps as Ingr. de la Marine’. Mildly age-toned, a single pin hole on a crease, reduced right margin. Quite a good impression on good 18th century paper with chains and wire, representative of Bellin’s accurate, detailed work.
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125.00 USD
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Bowen, Elizabeth [and eight others]. Consequences. A Complete Story in the Manner of the Old Parlour Game in Nine Chapters, Each by a Different Author.
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. First edition, one of a thousand unsigned copies. Frontispiece, title page engraved by Eric Ravilious. Small folio (25cm) in yellow and black dust jacket, red cloth over boards. The eight authors include A. E. Coppard, John van Druten, Sean O’Faolain, Ronald Fraser, Norah Hoult, Hamish Maclaren, G. B. Stern, and Malachi Whitaker. Chips at top and bottom of dj spine, minor discolouring of prelims. A very good copy.
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400.00 USD
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Breton, Nicholas [Eric Ravilious]. The Twelve Moneths Serving for a Perpetual Prognostication.
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Edited by Brian Rhys, with a dozen fine wood engravings by Eric Ravilious, red initials. Limited edition (26 pp.), of which this copy is No. 7 of 500, printed at the Golden Cockerel Press by Robert Gibbings. From the library and with the signature of seventeenth century literary scholar R[oberta] Florence Brinkley on the fep. In salmon dust wrapper (chips, soiling and wear to the extremities), matching salmon buckram with gilt titles to spine, t.e.g. (opens at p. 6). A handsome copy of an early Golden Cockerel title (Chanticleer 51).
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Bruce, James Map. “Carte du Golfe d’Arabic, Depuis Suez a Bab-el-Mandeb, ou l’on a trace la Route de Masuah a Gondor, Capitale de l’Abyssinie; et la Route de Gondor aux Sources du Nile, Ainsi que la course de la Fleuve jusques a la Mediterranee, et la Route de la M. Bruce par le Sennaar, Le Grand Desert de Nubie, et le Beja” (Benard, Direxit).
From James Bruce, Cartes et Figures du Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie par James Bruce. Atlas volume from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772. Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Bruce, African explorer and Scottish wine merchant (1730-1794), visited Ethiopia searching for the source of the Blue Nile. Nissen ZB1: 618. Sheet (67cm x 57cm), plate (62cm x 50cm). A large, detailed mapof the region; clean, bright copperplate image with ample margins on fine, heavy rag paper; simply mounted on white acid-free mat. Skilfully repaired small breaks, newly backed. [At conservator]
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500.00 USD
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Bruce, James “Abba Gumba”. Single plate, No. 34, (Benard, Direxit) from Cartes et Figures du Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie par James Bruce. Atlas volume from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of a stout desert stork (or possibly a variety of hornbill), sheet (29cm x 22cm), plate (22cm x 18cm) on fine rag paper. James Bruce, African explorer and Scottish wine merchant (1730- 1794), visited Ethiopia searching for the source of the Blue Nile. Plates from this edition are based on Bruce’s own drawings. Nissen ZB1: 618. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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150.00 USD
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Bruce, James “Ashkoko”. Single plate, No. 29, (Benard, Direxit) from Cartes et Figures du Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie par James Bruce. Atlas volume from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of an rock-dwelling cony-like creature, sheet (29cm x 22cm), plate (22cm x 18cm) on fine rag paper. James Bruce, African explorer and Scottish wine merchant (1730-1794), visited Ethiopia searching for the source of the Blue Nile. Plates from this edition are based on Bruce’s own drawings. Nissen ZB1: 618. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Bruce, James “Binny”. Single plate, No. 41, (Benard, Direxit) from Cartes et Figures du Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie par James Bruce. Atlas volume from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of a dainty fish, sheet (29cm x 22cm), plate (22cm x 18cm) on fine rag paper. James Bruce, African explorer and Scottish wine merchant (1730-1794), visited Ethiopia searching for the source of the Blue Nile. Plates from this edition are based on Bruce’s own drawings. Nissen ZB1: 618. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Bruce, James “Ceraste”. Single plate, No. 40, (Benard, Direxit) from Cartes et Figures du Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie par James Bruce. Atlas volume from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of an impressive desert viper, sheet (29cm x 22cm), plate (22cm x 18cm) on fine rag paper. James Bruce, African explorer and Scottish wine merchant (1730-1794), visited Ethiopia searching for the source of the Blue Nile. Plates from this edition are based on Bruce’s own drawings. Nissen ZB1: 618. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Bruce, James “Fennec”. Single plate, No. 28, (Benard, Direxit) from Cartes et Figures du Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie par James Bruce. Atlas volume from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of this dainty desert fox, sheet (29cm x 22cm), plate (22cm x 18cm) on fine rag paper. James Bruce, African explorer and Scottish wine merchant (1730-1794), visited Ethiopia searching for the source of the Blue Nile. Plates from this edition are based on Bruce’s own drawings. Nissen ZB1: 618. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Bruce, James “Gerboise”. Single plate, No. 27, (Benard, Direxit) from Cartes et Figures du Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie par James Bruce. Atlas volume from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of a desert-dwelling jerboa, sheet (29cm x 22cm), plate (22cm x 18cm) on fine rag paper. James Bruce, African explorer and Scottish wine merchant (1730-1794), visited Ethiopia searching for the source of the Blue Nile. Plates from this edition are based on Bruce’s own drawings. Nissen ZB1: 618. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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