Search Results: Authors starting with F from Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB

Published in Faden's New General Atlas, 1811, 1794. 28" x 21"- 71.1 x 53.3 cm. Copper engraved map with old hand colouring. Offsetting to the North Sea, two short tears to right margin extending just past neatline, dampstain to lower margin, on the whole very good.
A very detailed double page map showing the Netherlands, Flanders, parts of France, Luxembourg and Germany. Cf Phillips 6010, 6013, 6047.

William Faden was a prominent Scottish mapmaker (he dropped the "Mac" from his name when he moved to London), Royal Geographer to King George III and publisher during the late 19th and early 19th Centuries. He produced one of the finest set of maps during the American Revolution, as well as producing detailed charts from around the world.

An interesting steel engraved map of the entire Mediterranean area extending from Spain to Cyprus. Towns, cities and ports are indicated.

Cloth and dustjacket. Fine. Inscribed on the title page.

Cloth, lacking dust jacket, else very good. Inscribed and dated 1969 on the ffep.

4to. Remnants of sticker on ffep, otherwise very good. Cloth and dustjacket. Inscribed on the title page.

First edition. Wraps. Slight edge wear and darkening to wraps, but on the whole very good. Inscribed and dated July 1978 on the ffep, signed on the title page.

Moonbeam:: Penumbra Press,, 1982. Lrg. square 8vo,. Illustrated. wraps. Fine. Articles on Canadian/German artist Alfons Wakum, and literary excerpts from various Canadian authors.

Moonbeam:: Penumbra Press,, 1983. Lrg. square 8vo,. Illustrated. wraps. Fine. Articles on Jo Manning, Anne Meredith Barry, and literary excerpts from various Canadian authors.

Moonbeam:: Penumbra Press,, 1980. Lrg. square 8vo,. Illustrated. wraps. Fine. Articles on Grey Owl, artist Ernest Lindner, Art in Northern Saskatchewan as well as poetic and literary excerpts from various Canadian authors.

Elaborately engraved frontispiece by Antonio Luciani a Venetian print maker who worked between 1700-1738. [xvi], 205, [158] pp. 4to, half calf and speckled boards, extremities rubbed, hinges starting, Ms. Ex Libris note to front free end page by Anthony Alfredo Giarraputo, a poet, Harvard graduate and language teacher in the Boston, MA with an older German ms. Previous owner's name and stamp to title page, occasional spotting but on the whole very clean.
Roman historian's classic work on the history of the Roman people. The work covers the period from from the foundation of the city of Rome (c. 753 BCE) to the death of Augustus in 14 CE

Leipzig:: Walburg Pers,, 1984. Lrg. Square 8vo,. Illustrated. laminated boards. Covers a bit sunned otherwise very good Examples of juvenilia bookplates from Europe and America. Text in German.

Bruxelles: J. E. Buschmann d'Anvers, 1926.  Illustrated. Oblong 4to,  printed boards housed in a publisher's slipcase. Boards lightly soiled, front hinge cracked, but a very good copy. Deluxe edition limited to 40 numbered examples. Deluxe facsimile edition after the 1825 original. Views of Flanders.

[Paris]: L'Academie des Science, 1823.[393]-433. 4to, rebound in green boards, boards scuffed & sunned, minor spotting in margins, otherwise generally in very good condition. Extract from a Scientific journal. Fresnel at a young showed great aptitude in the sciences and qualified as an engineer at an early age. He began researching theories on light and polarisation and further developed the wave-theory of light. He became a member of the Academie des Sciences in 1823, and in the same year had his work on light polarisation published. In 1827 he received the Royal Society's Rumford Medal and being of weak constitution, died a few days later at the age of 39. His work extended also to the distribution of light from lighthouses by way of a special lens rather than by reflectors. Fresnel's calculations on lenses and reflecting systems are still the foundations of lighthouse design. [Biographical Dictionary of Scientists].