Search Results: Authors starting with K from Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books

New York: Ackerman Lith., 1855. Very Good;. Size : 251x155 (mm), 9.88x6.10 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada North;

Toronto: Barclay, Clark & Co. Liths., 1891. Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation. Notes: Scarce and most important large scale Map of the Town of Orillia in the County of Simcoe., Size : 680x970 (mm), 26.77x38.19 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps City Maps;Maps Canada Ontario Central;

Amsterdam: Ottens, 1740. Very good to excellent, left margin extended, few minute wormwholes.. Size : 315x370 (mm), 12.375x14.5 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Reference: OAG Japan, Plate 104e, Category: Maps Asia Far East Japan & Korea;

The Hague: P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, c. 1729. A fine example of this important work. Text and plates are clean and crisp. In full period calf. . Edition: First French Edition. , Binding: Contemporary full calf. Spine in seven compartments of raised bands. Text on Morocco label on 2. Tooled ornamentation on 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Tooled dentelles on all edges. All edges speckled. , Notes: Text is in French. A history of Japan created by a German physician during the early 18th century. Engelbert Kaempfer (1651 –1716) was a German naturalist, physician, and writer known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, South-East Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693. His History of Japan, published posthumously in 1727, was the chief source of Western knowledge about the country throughout the 18th and mid-19th centuries when it was closed to foreigners. Kaempfer stayed two years in Japan, during which time he twice visited Edo and the Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. He conducted extensive studies on local plants.… Read More

Riga: Izdevnieciba Liesma, 1976. In very good condition. . Binding: Full cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket., Size: 12vo., Illustration: With some black and white illustrations., Pages: P. 5- 165, Category: Book Europe Estonia & Latvia;

Utrecht, 1771. Very Good; small tear on the upper left due to attachment to the book, professionally repaired. Upper fold strengthened. Size : 587x772 (mm), 23.125x30.375 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored in Outline, Category: ; Maps United States East; Maps North America Great Lakes; Maps United States New England

Riga: Izdevnieciba Liesma , 1975. Very good condition.. Binding: Illustrated hard cover boards, Size: Oblong 8vo, Illustration: Illustrated with a profusion of color and black & white plates , Pages: P.4-83, Category: Book Europe Estonia & Latvia;

Iran (?), c. 1264-1267 A.H. (1847-1850 A.D.).. Small brownspots on foreedge not affecting text, otherwise a very good copy of this detailed Arabic manuscript on traditional and contemporary medicine in 19th century Middle East.. Binding: Original hand-painted green and speckled gilt on papered boards, with gilt-lined borders enclosing floral motifs (all hand-painted), rebacked expertly in matching green morocco, spine in five gilt-lined compartments of raised bands, gilt black morocco label on two. , Notes: Text in Arabic.Karim ibn Ibrahim also penned the Mir’at al-Hikmat., Size: 8vo., Illustration: The manuscript was copied in Arabic on thin, polished, cream-coloured paper, in black and red ink, 22 lines of text per page in a written area of 166 x 94 mm (although some of the heavily-annotated pages have a far wider area: 220 x 127 mm). With wide margins, several pages are richly annotated., Pages: Foliation. 1 ff., 371 ff., 1 ff., Category: Book Manuscript; Book Medical; Book Asia Middle East Iran;

Lugduni-Batavorum /Leiden: C.G. Sulpke, c.1847-48. . Upper margins of 5 final plates are trimmed. This desirable work is exceedingly rare and its text and magnificent illustrations in very clean and crisp condition. . Binding: Superb contemporary gilt ornamented morocco; spine raised with five bands, compartments in ornamental gilt, with gilt title on two and four; all edges gilt. , Notes: The German-Dutch botanist Karl Ludwig Blume (1796-1862) was director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden, and spent most of his working life in the Dutch East Indies studying the indigenous flora, especially orchids. The German botanist Karl Ludwig or Karel Lodewijk Blume (1796–1862) studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, serving as director of the Leiden Rijksherbariumn.... He carried out extensive studies of the flora of southern Asia, particularly in Java, then a colony of the Netherlands, specializing on orchids. From 1823 to 1826… Read More

Switzerland, 1976. Very Good. Notes: Photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh., Image Size : 300x233 (mm), 11.81x9.17 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : , Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Sheet Fed Gravure, Categories: Photographs;

Boston: Bullfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company. , 1992.. A very good example. Slight toning. Interior otherwise clean and crisp.. Edition: First Edition., Binding: Publisher’s full blue cloth boards. Silver lettering on upper and spine. No dust jacket., Notes: Yousuf Karsh (1908 – 2002) was a Canadian-Armenian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. , Size: Small oblong folio, Illustration: Small oblong folio (305x245 mm), Provenance: Ex-Libris Denis J. Chretien; embossed stamp on title. , Category: Book Photographic Album;

Switzerland, 1976. Very Good. Notes: Photograph of John F. Kennedy by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh., Image Size : 302x233 (mm), 11.89x9.17 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : , Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Sheet Fed Gravure, Categories: Photographs;

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. , 1983. Edition: Signed Edition. , Binding: contemporary full red cloth over board, title in gilt on flat spine and upper board., Notes: Yousuf Karsh (1908 – 2002), was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century., Size: Small oblong folio, , Illustration: Illustrated with over 200 photographs by Karsh; including “a glowering Churchill” (his trademark cigar having been just snatched out of his mouth), a beaming Khruschev peeking out from a massive fur coat, a serene Helen Keller reading a book of Braille with quiet delight, a pensive Tennessee Williams at his typewriter, an impish Margaret O'Brien yanking at her pigtails. Karsh's portraits of fellow artists--especially sculptors and architects--are among his most sensitive and intuitive., Category: Book Canada; Book Photographic Album;

Switzerland, 1976. Very Good. Notes: Photograph of HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh., Image Size : 300x215 (mm), 11.81x8.46 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : , Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Sheet Fed Gravure, Categories: Photographs;

India. , C.1830.. A few leaves in the beginning and at the end of the book expertly reinforced, otherwise in near fine condition. . Binding: contemporary full dark brown morocco overboards, rebacked expertly saving the original spine, flat spine, upper and lower boards with blind ruling, pages with rounded corners. , Notes: Anwar Soheili is a rewritten of Kaliyeh and Demna by Hussein Vaez Kashefi . A few centuries after the Persian translation of Kalileh and Demnae by Abu al-Ma'ali Nasrallah al-Manashi (6th century AH), This book has been rewritten in fourteen chapters by the order of Amir Nazar al-Din Sheikh Ahmed Soheili and has been dedicated to him. The purpose of the rewriting was to update the difficult language of Kalileh and Demena into simpler Persian. Anwar Soheili was the most famous translation of Kelley and Demena into Persian among the Persian speakers of India and one of the most famous Persian prose books in that land. Prose and style of Edward Brown had strongly criticized it, On… Read More

Persia (Iran). , C.1845.. A fine example, text is clean and crisp, with beautiful contemporary decorative full calf. . Binding: contemporary light brown calf over board, flat spine, upper and lower board with decorative ruling and devices. , Notes: Jafar Kashfi, an Iranian Muslim philosopher, was born at Darabgard in Fars in 1775 or 1776, lived all his life at Borujerd and died in 1850-1851. His work comprises about twelve titles, and is written in both Persian and Arabic. His great work in Persian entitled Tuhfat al-muluk (The Gift offered to the Sovereigns), which was written at the request of a Qajar prince, son of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, the Shahzadeh Muhammad-Taqi Mirza., Size: Quarto (4to.), , Illustration: Persian and Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 260 leaves, 21 lines to the page written in neat naskhi script in red and black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and black, margins ruled in red ink. , Provenance: Ex-Libris of H. Kevorkian on the verso of the upper board., Category:… Read More

Luigi Kasimir, c.1925. Very Good. Notes: Kasimir was born in 1881 at Ptuj (Pettau, in German), today Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes. He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch—usually in pastel. He then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate—all done by hand., Image Size : 340x270 (mm), 13.39x10.63… Read More

Dundas (Ontario, Canada): Persian Institute for Baha’i Studies. , 149 B.E. (1992). Very good example. Light wear to wraps, occasional marks, interior clean and crisp. . Edition: First Edition. , Binding: Printed paper wraps. , Notes: Text in Persian. References to Baha’I Faith from the old and new testaments., Size: 8vo. (215 x 140 mm). , Category: Book Religious Baha'i Faith;

London: Cadell & Davies, 1815. Very Good. Size : 265x505 (mm), 10.375x19.875 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored in Outline, Category: ; Maps Asia Near East Turkey; Maps City Maps

Augsburg, 1730. Very Good. Size : 330x392 (mm), 13x15.375 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored in Outline, Category: ; Maps Europe Scandinavia