Search Results: Authors starting with E from Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd

Phaidon,, 2015.. 290 by 250mm. (11.5 by 9.75 inches).. Hardback, 352 pages, 400 colour illustrations. 300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics, map dealers and collectors, the maps represent over 5,000 years of cartographic innovation drawing on a range of cultures and traditions. Comprehensive in scope, this book features all types of map from navigation and surveys to astronomical maps, satellite and digital maps, as well as works of art inspired by cartography. Unique curated sequence presents maps in thought-provoking juxtapositions for lively, stimulating reading. Features some of the most influential mapmakers and institutions in history, including Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Phyllis Pearson, Heinrich Berann, Bill Rankin, Ordnance Survey and Google Earth. Easy-to-use format, with large reproductions, authoritative texts… Read More

London,: John Harris Sweetings, N. 24 Cornhill & N. 8 Broad Street,, February 17, 1791.. Image: 485 by 763mm (19 by 30 inches). Sheet: 555 by 785mm (21.75 by 31 inches).. Etching with aquatint. John William Edy (1760-1820) was a painter and engraver. He trained at the Royal Academy Schools from 1779, and made a successful career in landscapes, often working with the publisher John Boydell, who sent him to make drawings for his best known work, 'Picturesque Scenery of Norway'. Edy's view of the river shows the river bank at Lambeth in the foreground, with Westminster Bridge and Westminster Abbey in the distance. The river bank is teeming with life: there are porters unloading cargo, a ferry arriving with passengers, and a flower seller with a boat full of plants. On a flight of steps off the shore a fashionably dressed couple converse. There is a lavishly decorated barge moored in the centre, surrounded by more humble craft. An interesting inclusion is the 'Artificial Stone Manufactory' visible at… Read More

London,: Royal Exchange,, [c1728-c1771].. 320 by 220mm (12.5 by 8.75 inches).. Prints,""A Table of the Equation of Days W is for Watchmaker Engraved and etched advertisement. Son of an eminent horologist, John Ellicott set up an independent watchmaking. business at Austin Friars Street in East London, before moving to more central premises at the Royal Exchange. His work on temperature compensated pendulums and use of the cylinder escapement won his election to the Royal Society in. 1738, and also led to his appointment as Clockmaker to George III from 1762. He also had business with King Ferdinand VI and the Spanish Royal Court. The present advertisement was made for Ellicott by English engraver James Mynde, and is centred on a large table giving the """"equation of days shewing how much a good Pendulum Clock ought to be. faster or slower than a true sun-dial every Day in the Year"""". The earliest diagrams of pendulum clocks were those made by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1490s; the following… Read More

New York,: Endicott & Co, Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.B. Bachelder in the Clerks Office of the District Court of New Hampshire,, 1855.. Tinted lithograph, sheet 760 by 1000 mm, image 585 by 793 mm. A fine example of Bachelder's large-scale bird's eye view of Manchester, New Hampshire. Manchester, as seen here in 1855, was a model company town designed by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, whose first mills opened there in 1838. Amoskeag wanted to create a utopian factory-city, built in a unified architectural style, where the company owned and controlled almost all of the city's industry and housing while providing churches, schools and other amenities to its workers. The city was intended to become the Manchester of America, though the focus here was on textiles rather than steel. At its peak in the late nineteenth century, Amoskeag was the largest cotton textile producer in the world and had built the largest mill in existence. Bachelder's view shows Manchester… Read More

Madrid,, 1769.. 1850 by 2465mm. (72.75 by 97 inches).. Large engraved plan on nine sheets, letterpress text pasted onto the lower sheets, remnants of original colour, losses to margins. A full condition report is available upon request. The first plan of Madrid to show the eight quarters in which the city had been divided a year prior; the first to include the numbering of building blocks; and the first to show the orientation and plans of churches. It was published during the reign of Charles III under the direction of one of his most prominent government reformers, the Count of Aranda, following an extensive urban transformation aimed at aligning Madrid with the other European capitals. In the mid-eighteenth century Madrid counted a population of 150,000 and over 7,500 houses. The city was characterised by the pronounced unevenness of the ground and large areas of crop land, and its core was formed by a network of narrow and poorly illuminated streets, which hindered the implementation of hygiene… Read More

Lwynygoes,, 1795.. (1560 by 1770mm. (61.5 by 69.75 inches).. Folio (by) large-scale engraved map, on nine sheets, fine contemporary hand-colour, original full-calf, title lettered in gilt to spine. The small population of the area combined with the mountainous terrain predetermined the type of map that would result from Evans' survey, a task that must have proved enormous over such difficult ground. The thoroghness of this survey is indicated by the way he continues the detail on the east of the map, into Cheshire and Shropshire. It is interesting that the engraver of the map , Robert Baugh, adopted a similar approach for the only other large-scale survey he was involved in - that of Shropshire. The whole of the lower left hand sheet of the map is taken up with the large view of Vale Crucis Abbey and the dedication to Sir Watkin William Wynn, Lord Lieutenant of Denbigh and Merioneth, who purchased 100 copies himself. With hills and mountains dominating the map, Evans gives little attention to the… Read More

Philadelphia,: Printed for the Author; and Sold by him in Arch-Street: And at New-York by G. Noel, Bookseller near Count's Market., 1756.. 270 by 190mm. (10.75 by 7.5 inches).. Books,""Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical essays. The Laird U. Park example of Lewis Evans's treasonous defense of his controversial 1755 map Quarto, 42 pages and 1 page advertisement leaf, last leaves a bit frayed with some spotting, old folds; modern plain wrappers, preserved in brown morocco backed cloth chemise. Collation: [A]2, B-L2 The publication of Lewis Evans's (c1700-1756) 'Map of the Middle British Colonies' in 1755, and accompanying 'Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays'. The former caused quite a political ruckus, in spite of its significant cartographical achievements, and usefulness to the British forces waging the French and Indian war: """"… to publish a Map, and assert in print, in the most positive Terms, that the King of France has an… Read More