Search Results: Authors starting with T from Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books

Philadelphia:: The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,, 1848.. First edition. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Folio (9.25 x 13 inches, 235 x 330 mm). The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia was established by the learned naturalists of high Philadelphian society in early 19th century America to document the recent natural discoveries of a new nation. The founding members, and contributors, were the luminaries of early American natural history and sciences; Titian Peale, Thomas Say and George Ord, to name a few. The Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences was their clarion, and was illustrated with wonderful folio-sized hand-colored lithographs by J.T. Bowen and Co. in Philadelphia, America's premier lithographers of the mid-19th century, and the very same company to produce John James Audubon's landmark lithographs for the first seven Royal Octavo editions of the Birds of America (c. 1840-65) and both the Imperial Folio and Royal… Read More

Philadelphia:: The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,, 1850.. First edition. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Folio (9.25 x 13 inches, 235 x 330 mm). The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia was established by the learned naturalists of high Philadelphian society in early 19th century America to document the recent natural discoveries of a new nation. The founding members, and contributors, were the luminaries of early American natural history and sciences; Titian Peale, Thomas Say and George Ord, to name a few. The Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences was their clarion, and was illustrated with wonderful folio-sized hand-colored lithographs by J.T. Bowen and Co. in Philadelphia, America's premier lithographers of the mid-19th century, and the very same company to produce John James Audubon's landmark lithographs for the first seven Royal Octavo editions of the Birds of America (c. 1840-65) and both the Imperial Folio and Royal… Read More

Philadelphia:: The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,, 1850.. first edition. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Folio (9.25 x 13 inches, 235 x 330 mm). The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia was established by the learned naturalists of high Philadelphian society in early 19th century America to document the recent natural discoveries of a new nation. The founding members, and contributors, were the luminaries of early American natural history and sciences; Titian Peale, Thomas Say and George Ord, to name a few. The Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences was their clarion, and was illustrated with wonderful folio-sized hand-colored lithographs by J.T. Bowen and Co. in Philadelphia, America's premier lithographers of the mid-19th century, and the very same company to produce John James Audubon's landmark lithographs for the first seven Royal Octavo editions of the Birds of America (c. 1840-65) and both the Imperial Folio and Royal… Read More

Philadelphia:: The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,, 1850.. First edition. Near Fine with condition with original hand-coloring. . A Near Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Folio (9.25 x 13 inches, 235 x 330 mm). The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia was established by the learned naturalists of high Philadelphian society in early 19th century America to document the recent natural discoveries of a new nation, and farther afield. The founding members, and contributors, were the luminaries of early American natural history and sciences; Titian Peale, Thomas Say and George Ord, to name a few. The Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences was their clarion, and was illustrated with wonderful folio-sized hand-colored lithographs by RP Smith, Lithographer. We classify these fabulous plates as some of the best unsung values in the art of 19th century American ornithology.

Kenley, Surrey, England:: The Technical Section of the British Paper and Board Makers' Associotion,, 1950.. Reprinted Edition. Near Fine. Fine in a VG+ soiled DJ. Octavo (5.75 x 8.75 in). Red cloth boards with black lettering on front board and spine. x, 208pp with 75 illustrations. Membership promotional flyer attached to ff.First published in 1948, an elementary, general account of paper making; covering its history, processes and applications, and addressed to the younger members of the paper industry, to those thinking of entering the Industry and as a guide to those employed on the commercial side and in associated industries. Includes Reading List and Glossary of Paper-making Terms. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs and line drawings. Cloth

Edinburgh:: John Grant,, 1905, 1907.. Early Thornton Edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine set of the Thornton Edition. Octavo (5.5 x 8 inches). Green publisher's cloth with gilt Art Nouveau floral devices and lettering to spine. TEG, untrimmed. The 11 volume set of the novels in uniform condition with minor toning to prelims, boards lightly tipped, slight edge wear but firm. Small white mark to front board of Vol I of Wildfelll Hall, otherwise a nice 11 volume set of the 1907 edition with the Volume 12: Life of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs. Gaskell published in 1905 in uniform binding. Spine slightly darker than the other 11 volumes. All titles and half titles printed in red and black. Fully illustrated with engraved authors' portraits, prominent landscapes, town and village scenes and architecture from the text, MS facsimile pages. 1. Agnes Grey: With a Memoir of Her Sisters by Charlotte Brontë. (2), 301pp, frontispiece.2. Wuthering Heights: With a Preface by Charlotte… Read More

New York:: The Woolly Whale Press,, 1939.. First printing. Fine. Broadside in Fine condition. 10 x 20 inches. Hand-pulled paper, untrimmed. Letterpress printed in black lettering with red ornament surrounded by ruled border with decorative corners, headed with a hand-painted Merton College crest. A fine decorative Broadside- these Rules of the Library were translated from the Latin register of the Merton College, Oxford University. Every member of the college was required to take an oath on admission, that he would obey these rules- here reprinted by the Woolly Whale Press, New York, 1939. The four rules as follows: I. When admitted to the use of the books contained in the Library, you shall, so far as the frailty of man permits, do no damage to any book... Single sheet

London:: Hutchinson & Co., LTD,, 1964.. First edition. Fine in Fine DJ. Fine in a Fine DJ. Large Octavo (6.5 x 9.5 inches). Olive buckram with gilt lettered spine. [1-8] 176 pp. Fully illustrated with b/w drawings by John Dd. Evans. Celebrated Welsh author, playwrite and broadcaster Gwyn Thomas illuminates contemporary Welsh social history with his intimate, often searing knowledge of the Welsh people, places, prejudices and passions; from mouldering castles to Dylan Thomas and W.H. Davies to rugby and revivalists. Boards

New York:: Huntia,, 1969.. Fine. Fine condition. Octavo (7.25 x 9.75 Inches) Moss green wraps. Thomas' original paper on botanical explorations in the West. Reprint from Huntia 3: 5-62. 1969 Wraps

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1918.. Third edition. Fine. A Fine Original Chromolithograph from Thorburn's British Birds, one of 500 sets produced. Quarto (10 x 12.25 inches, 254 x 311 mm.) Elegantly French-matted in custom made Ecru archival rag board with gold line decoration, sized to 16 x 19 inches, 406 x 482 mm, suitable for framing. Sizable in format, a finely detailed and richly colored chromolithograph, printed on a heavy coated stock, from one of Britain's finest and most influential ornithological painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archibald Thorburn, (1860-1935). His unique style of portraying related species, actively engaged in their native habitat, became the desired format for generations of ornithological field guide artists to follow. Scottish-born, Thorburn was an astute naturalist with a keen sense of observation and a refined watercolor technique which he learned from his father, Robert Thorburn, ARA, miniaturist to Queen Victoria. As a young… Read More