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

A highly detailed and decorative map of Europe by Johann Matthias Haas and published by Homann Heirs. A large and elaborate cartouche upper left. The "stereographic projection" shows Europe depicted on a plane, rather than spherical, thus disorting distances.

Highly detailed map of the southwest. Shows, cites, town native settlements and topographical features. Inset map of the Environs of Mexico. Published just before the Treaty of Limits between the United Mexican States and the United States of America which established firm borders between the two countries. cf Wheat 172

Oblong 8vo. Third Edition (c. 1840's) . 42 hand-coloured in outline copper engraved map panels mounted on two linen sheets (Each panel 20" x 30"-50.8 x 76.2); "Northern Part" with inset of Scotland and "Southern Part." Both parts with red title pages. Northern Part with an engraved tipped-in image of Edinburgh Castle and Southern Part with an engraved tipped-in image of the Cathedral of St. Paul on the verso. Some wear and loss to leather with the spine split, otherwise a very good bright copy. A detailed and bright copy of England, Scotland and Wales showing mail routes, railroads, turnpikes and canals.

c. 1815.. light offsetting, marginal chips and tears one larger one upper left extending into neatline else good.. 19-1/2" x 23- "49.5 x 58.4 cm.. Published in Thomson's New General Atlas. Outline colour. A large map of the world showing explorer’s routes such as Cook, Vancouver, Perouse etc. World, exploration, Cook, Vancouver, Perouse

5-1/2" x 10"-13.9 x 25.4 cm. Engraved map. Two small closed tears to lower margin, lightly toned especially along fold, o/w good. A small double hemisphere map showing principle cities. Australia is named both New Holland and Australia.

c.1721. Light offsetting and a misfold to centre, else very good.. 8” x 8”- 20.3 x 20.3 cm.. From “Philosophical Transactions From the Year 1700 to the Year 1720”. Copper engraved map. Two maps on one sheet. The upper view showing the southern coast of Spain from Cattaia to Bejor de la Miel and the lower sheet showing from the Bejor de la Miel to Ximena and the Straights of Gibraltar. Curious hieroglyphics are shown on the right. Spain, Gibraltar

c.1731. Fine.. 4-3/4” x 5”- 12 x 12.7 cm.. From” The Philosophical Transactions From the year 1700 to the year 1720. Abridg'd, and Dispos'd Under general heads. In two volumes. By Henry Jones, ... The second edition. London, 1731. Vol. 2 of 2. “ Copper engraved map. A very uncommon map of the “New Philippine islands” or Caroline islands in Micronesia significant as purported to be the first map of the area based on native rather than European renditions. An interesting map on a larger sheet with local fauna. Asia,South East Asia, Philippines, Micronesia

Toronto: : Maclear & Co., , 1859. Lrg. 8vo, . contemporary calf. spine strip starting, calf rubbed and chipped, dampstaining (mostly confined to blank margins). A handbook of municipal acts.

New York et al:: McGraw-Hill Book Company,, 1977. First edition. 4to,. cloth and dust jacket. Documents which have influenced political thought, freedom of speech, religious ideas etc. from 1700 B.C. to the 20th century.

12" x 14.5"-30.48 x 36.8. Steel engraved map with hand colouring. Margins creased with short tears else very good

A detailed map of Oporto and the Douro River, streets, parks and an engraved panorama of the harbour to lower margin. Inset map of the Environs of Oporto upper left.

Montreal and London: B. Dawson and Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1855. Illustrated with 2 folding maps entitled "Map of the Province of Canada, and the Lower Colonies Shewing the Connection by Steam Navigation with New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin & Minnesota and with Europe by the Route River St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes, Shewing the Connection by Railways & Canals with New England, Mississippi & Missouri Rivers, Iowa & Nebraska" by Thomas Keefer and "Mercator's Projection ith the Great Circle/Shortest Sailing/or Air Lines Illustrating the Directness & Capacity of the River St. Lawrence from Lake Erie to the Atlantic....." by Thomas Keefer.  8vo, original embossed cloth with gilt lettering. spine faded, maps spotted with first map having a short binder's tear. . .. [v]-86 pp. [bound with]. Prize Essay. Canada and Her Resources: An Essay....by Alexander Morris. Second edition. Montreal and London: B. Dawson and Sampson Low, Son &… Read More

A very good map of Western Africa from Senegal to Cape Lopez .Inset map of the Island of S. Tomas an important slave trading outpost for those waiting to be transported to the new world. Van der Krogt 1, 8700:1A.

Published in Gerard Mercator's "Atlas sive Cosmographicae, c. 1613. Copper plate engraving with full hand colouring.. Darkening along c/f with repaired split to lower c/f margin, some chips to margins but on the whole very good. 13-1/2" x 19-1/2"-32.2 x 49.5 cm.. Highly decorative map of Northern and Central Asia with parts of China. The Great Wall of China is indicated. Korea is shown as an island. The mythical lands of Gog and Magog are referred to and a newly discovered coastline of Nova Zembla is charted by Dutch Arctic explorer Willem Barentsz. French text verso. Van der Krogt 1, 104

[2]. 300 pp. 12mo, rebound in modern buckram, lacking half-title, name on titlepage, some light spotting, but on the whole very good.
Printed by Sarah Baskerville, partner of John Baskerville who started a printer's firm in Birmingham in 1757. He founded an elegant but simple font which was named after him.

Two original chromoxylographs by Benjamin Fawcett after drawings by Alexander Francis Lyndon published in the Rev. William Houghton's "British Fresh -Water Fishes". London: William MacKenzie, [c.1879]."Pollan/Powan" 10-1/5" x 15"

and"Gudgeon/Barbel" 10-1/5" x 15"
Lyndon was a British illustrator and watercolour artist who collaborated with Fawcett on several projects. To ensure that the depictions of fish were as realistic as possible Houghton studied examples of fish housed in the British Museum and the background played an important naturalistic backdrop for each of the illustrations. Nissen, ZBI 2009.