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Mitchell, S. A. Map. Canada East in Counties.
[Philadelphia], 1860. Sheet (32cm x 39cm), image (27cm x 33cm). Delicately hand-coloured engraved map with decorative borders. The St. Lawrence is the spine of this map of pre-Confederation Quebec which features as an inset the environs of Montreal, also bordering regions of New Brunswick, western and northern Maine. A colourful, bright image from the time when Canada was about to be assembled and the United States was nearly taken apart. Simply mounted on white, acid-free mat.
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150.00 USD
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Mitchell, S. A. Map. Canada West in Counties.
[Philadelphia], 1860. Sheet (34cm x 39cm), image (27cm x 33cm). Delicately hand-coloured engraved map with decorative borders. Pre-Confederation Ontario, showing Manitoulin Island to the Quebec boundary, lakes Huron, Eire, and Ontario, western and north central New York. A colourful, bright image from the time when Canada was about to be assembled and the United States was nearly taken apart. Simply mounted on white, acid-free mat.
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150.00 USD
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Mitchell, S. A. Map. Ontario in Counties
Washington, 1874. Sheet (31cm x 48cm), image (27cm x 35cm). Delicately hand-coloured engraved map with decorative borders. A colourful map of Ontario showing the three Great Lakes and the New York border regions to the south. Small tape repairs on back. Still, a bright, colourful image. Simply mounted on white, acid-free mat.
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Mowat, Farley and David Blackwood (Illus.) Wake of the Great Sealers
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. First edition, signed by David Blackwood (157 pp.). Quarto (30 cm.) pictorial dust jacket (chips and mended tears to the edges), in grey buckram, gilt titles to spine. Brilliantly illustrated and evocatively narrated account of the Newfoundland seal hunt. The G.-G. would have approved. A clean, bright copy.
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75.00 USD
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Nolte- Burner, Ludwig. Turen und Tore aus Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweitz
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffman, 1921. First edition (vii, 98). Quarto (30 cm) in original paper-covered boards, gilt titles to front cover and spine; sympathetically rebacked with new corners and endpapers. Three hundred-fifty b&w photo illustrations, two to four on a page, showing details of gateways, doors and doorways from the sixteenth century onward as found in various German, Austrian, and Swiss locales. Mild damp stain to from cover, a few scratches and discoloured patch on rear. Internally clean and bright-- an especially well-photographed portfolio of architectural details.
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180.00 USD
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Nutting, Wallace Furniture Treasury
New York: MacMillan, 1971. Ninth printing. Unabridged, two-volumes in one, 5000 illustrations, in this authoritative and comprehensive work covering all periods of American furniture, hardware, and household utensils. Some minor shelf-wear to this otherwise bright, tight copy.
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75.00 USD
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Ostrow, Walter W. Historical Self-Guide of Washington ‘The Heart of the Nation’. Arlington and Mt. Vernon. A Liberal Education for the Sight-seer.’
Washington, DC: Washington Guide Book Co., 1922. Probably an annual (pp. 164). Octavo (20cm), pictorial soft covers, many photo illustrations, maps, and a few adverts (including, especially ‘Mintz the Trunk Man, agent for Indestructo Custom Made Trunks’, who mixed low commerce with patriotic reverence and promised ‘IMMEDIATE repairs to your trunk or leather bag’ located ‘just around the corner from Ford’s Theatre where President Lincoln was shot’). A small closed tear top left front cover, a few dog ears, spots, front cover lightly creased. A very good, clean copy of the scarce guidebook.
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50.00 USD
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Paterson, William Map. “Carte de l’Extremitee Meridionale de l”Afrique, pour les Voyages du Lieutenant Paterson. Entrepris en 1777, 1778, 1779” (Benard, Direxit).
From William Paterson, Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772. Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. Sheet (47cm x 64cm), plate (36cm x 55cm). A large, detailed map of the region, the Cape of Good Hope from the Orange River in the northwest to Terre Des Caffres in the northeast, just north of the Great Fish River; 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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Paterson, William “Aloe Dichomata, Feuilles de l’Arbre a Cuivre, Aloes Dichotome”. Double-page plate, No. 4, from Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of analoe, sheet (40cm x 29cm), plate (32cm x 22cm) on fine rag paper. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Paterson, William “Aloe Dichomata, Fleurs de l’Arbre a Cuivre, Aloes Dichotome”. Double-page plate, No. 3, from Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of an aloe, sheet (40cm x 29cm), plate (32cm x 22cm) on fine rag paper. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Paterson, William “Aloe Dichomata, Tronc de l’Arbre a Cuivre. Aloes Dichotome”. Double-page plate, No. 5, from Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of an aloe plant, sheet (81 cm. x 61 cm.) on fine rag paper. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Paterson, William “Amarylis Disticha, Hoemanthus Denudatus. Hemante a Ombelle ”. Double-page plate, No. 1, from Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of an amarylis, sheet (40cm x 29cm), plate (32cm x 22cm) on fine rag paper. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Paterson, William “Euphorbia, Euphorbe. Partie de la Tige et des Fleurs”. Double-page plate, No. 9, from Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of a variety of cactus, sheet (40cm x 29cm), plate (32cm x 22cm) on fine rag paper. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Paterson, William “Habitations des Boschmens”. Double-page plate, No. 11, from Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of a late eighteeenth century native African settlement, sheet (40cm x 29cm), plate 32cm x 22cm) on fine rag paper. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Paterson, William “Loxia, Espece nouvelle”. Double-page plate, No. 19, from Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X 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 bird, sheet (40cm x 29cm), plate (32cm x 22cm) on fine rag paper. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Paterson, William “Pentandria Monogynia. Qui croit dans la grande Plaine de Nemiqua. Nouveau Genre”. Double-page plate, No. 16, from Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of a South African plant, sheet (40cm x 29cm), plate (32cm x 22cm) on fine rag paper. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Paterson, William “Serpent Cornu”. Double-page plate, No. 15, from Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of a thoroughly nasty looking desert horned viper, sheet (40cm x 29cm), plate (32cm x 22cm) on fine rag paper. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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Paterson, William “Stapelia, Stapele”. Double-page plate, No. 7, from Quatre Voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778, & 1779. Volume X from Voyage Aux Sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant Les Annees 1768... 1772.
Paris: Chez Plassan, 1792. Copperplate engraving of a stapelia, sheet (40 cm x 29cm), plate (32cm x 22cm) on fine rag paper. William Paterson (1755-1810), who later had a career as a colonial adminstrator in Australia, explored the inland plateau of South Africa in search of botanical and other specimens to send back to England. A clean bright image with ample margins; simply mounted on white acid-free mat.
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