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

Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, c. 1856. A very good copy.. Edition: First edition. , Binding: Contemporary ¼ morocco with blue cloth boards, spine in five compartments of raised bands, gilt text on two, edges speckled blue. , Notes: This book describes the customs and history of the people in the region and the climate and topography of the land., Size: 8vo, Illustration: With 35 steel-engraved plates relating to the countries mentioned in the title, and 3 folding maps. , Volume: Two parts in one., Pages: P. title, blank, 1-494; 1-226., Category: Book Europe Balkans

Tokyo: Naito Denemon, c. 1874. Very Good. Notes: A scarce Japanese map of Turkey from the late 19th century. Text is in Japanese. A detailed, refined regional study of parts of Asia and the Middle East from the mid 19th century. This map is from the most well-used world geography textbook of the early Meiji period, compiled by former Edo Government officer, Masao Uchida (1838-1876). He graduated from the Nagasaki Naval School and is considered to be one of the earliest Japanese visitors to America. He was sent to Holland from 1863 to 1866, to gather information to complete this work. He started to compile the Yochi Shiryaku in 1870. Its success was largely due to the number of illustrations that Uchida called "shashin (photography).”, Size : 145x183 (mm), 5.71x7.20 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Asia Near East Turkey;

Tokyo: Naito Denemon, c. 1874. Very Good. Notes: A scarce Japanese map of Central Asia from the late 19th century.It shows the Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Northern Iran, and Northern Afghanistan.Text is in Japanese. A detailed, refined regional study of parts of Asia and the Middle East from the mid 19th century. This map is from the most well-used world geography textbook of the early Meiji period, compiled by former Edo Government officer, Masao Uchida (1838-1876). He graduated from the Nagasaki Naval School and is considered to be one of the earliest Japanese visitors to America. He was sent to Holland from 1863 to 1866, to gather information to complete this work. He started to compile the Yochi Shiryaku in 1870. Its success was largely due to the number of illustrations that Uchida called "shashin (photography).” , Size : 110x146 (mm), 4.33x5.75 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Asia Central Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan,… Read More

Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Manuscript , c. 1821. Binding: Contemporary calf boards with gilt rulings. Spine expertly rebacked with matching calf, in six compartments of raised bands with gilt rulings and decorative devices. Gilt title on red label on 2. , Notes: Attar (1145-1221) was a Persian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism. His works were the inspiration of Rumi and many other mystic poets. Attar, along with Sanai were two of the greatest influences on Rumi in his Sufi views. In his typically eloquent fashion, Rumi states: “Attar has roamed through the seven cities of love while we have barely turned down the first street.” Attar’s most famous work is The Conference of the Birds. , Size: 8vo. (200x122mm). , Illustration: Leaves with 13 lines of text per page of neat black naskh script. Text is housed in red rulings. A very good copy, occasional faint water stains. , Pages: P. With 35 leaves,… Read More

London: William Collins, 1947. Very good condition. Very slight wear to endcaps. Text and illustrations clean and crisp.. Binding: Illustrated publisher’s paper boards. , Size: 8vo. , Illustration: Illustrated with 8 colour plates and 24 illustrations. , Category: Book Crafts & Trades; Book Europe United Kingdom; Book Bibliography & Reference Books;

Toronto: Alexander, Clare & Cable, 1885. Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation. A few marginal tears expertly repaired. . Notes: An exceedingly scarce lot plan in Rosedale.Builder's original plan to sell various lots in Rosedale. , Size : 158x224 (mm), 6.22x8.82 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada Ontario South York Toronto;

Toronto, c.1856. Folded map straightened out, some restorations at the folds otherwise good. Backed with acid free tissue paper for long term preservation. Notes: Important and early surveillance map of building lots belonging to Mrs. Samuel Ridout (a distinguished Upper Canada family) in the area of Queen Street East and Seaton and highlights the "Roselands" estate. It bears the date of 1856 and is signed by noted Toronto surveyor Charles Unwin (1829-1918). There are additional pencil annotations indicating the lots belonging to F.W. Jarvis, and this is signed and dated 1853 by architect / surveyor William Thomas. There is an additional label [Wadsworth and Unwin, Land Surveyors 1870] pasted onto the map. Wadsworth and Unwin. received commissions from the Dominion and Ontario Governments, Railway Corporations and the City of Toronto. They were also employed as City Surveyors by the Corporation of Toronto and in 1872, they published the Wadsworth and Unwin's map of the City of Toronto which proved… Read More

Riga: Izdevnieciba Lieba , 1978. In good condition. Binding: Full illustrated hard cover boards, Illustration: With a profusion of color plates. , Category: Book Europe Estonia & Latvia;

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961. Very good condition. Dust jacket slightly worn. . Binding: Full publisher’s cloth, with illustrated dust jacket., Size: 8vo., Category: Book Literature; Book Europe Poland & Lithuania;

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967. Very good condition. . Binding: Full decorative publisher’s cloth, flat spine, with illustrated dust jacket, Size: 8vo, Category: Book Literature

U.S.A.: Department of State, 1892. Very Good, minor wear at the folds.. Notes: This is a travel document issued in the 1892 by the Department of State of the US. On the verso of travel document appears, consular stamp and Visa (two rare stamps) issued by the Turkish government at the time. The name appearing on the passport is John R. Lambert., Size: 460mm x 305mm, Category: ; Book Ephemera

Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, c. 1958. The book is in very good condition. Slip case is in good condition. . Edition: Second Edition, Binding: Contemporary decorative cloth wrapping tied together with violet string. Pasted and free wood-grained endpapers. Decorative slipcase. , Notes: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), also Andō Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. For scholars and collectors, Hiroshige's death marked the beginning of a rapid decline in the ukiyo-e genre, especially in the face of the westernization that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Hiroshige's work came to have a marked influence on Western painting towards the close of the 19th century as a part of the trend in Japonism. Western artists closely studied Hiroshige's compositions, and some, such as van Gogh, painted copies of Hiroshige's prints., Size: 12mo (98x150mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with small reprints of woodblock prints from Hiroshige’s fifty-three stopping… Read More