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

Tokyo: Dainippon Printing, c. 1986. The book is in fine condition. The binding and spine and photographs are immaculate. No imperfections of any sort. The text is crisp and clear. . Binding: Contemporary black cloth binding. Debossed lettering on top cover. Flat spine with gilt lettering. , Notes: A photographic exhibit using the 20x24 Polaroid Camera System. This was put together, essentially, to show the public what they could do with such a camera. The photographs are beautiful representations of the different facets of humanity. A wonderful collection! Also contains some interesting information about the photographers and director. Text is in English and Japanese. , Size: Folio (340x250mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with a copious amount of full-page 20x24 photographs both in colour and in black and white. All taken on a camera that uses Polaroid film. , Category: Book Photographic Album;

Thomas Yardley. Pages are clean, some wearing to the spine but otherwise a good copy. . Binding: Original full cloth simulated morocco boards, tooled gilt lettering, decorated pasted and free end papers, , Notes: Ex Libris Abel E. Berland, Size: 8vo (120mm x 180mm), Pages: P. Half Title, blank, Title, blank, contents (v-xvi), 1-464, blank. , Category: Book Literature

Albany, 1860. Very Good;. Size : 210x301 (mm), 8.27x11.85 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps City Maps; Maps United States East New York;

London: W. Faden, 1798. Very Good, Folded map on original linen. Notes: Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England., Size : 729x500 (mm), 28.70x19.69 (Inches), Coloring: Original Outline Coloring, Category: Maps Folding Maps; Maps Europe United Kingdom England Counties;

Lviv , c. 1967. Very good condition, in beautiful original dust jacket. . Size: 8vo. , Category: Book Modern

Toronto, c.1892. Very Good, folding map. Size : 600x675 (mm), 23.62x26.57 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada Ontario North;

Toronto: S. B. Gundy, published for Humphrey Milford. , 1913.. Binding: contemporary light violet cloth over board, title in gilt on flat spine, upper board and spine decorated with illustrations and white ruling, front and lower edges uncut., Size: 8vo., , Illustration: Illustrated with 38 plates., Provenance: Stamp of ex-library on title, and stamp of legislative Library on the upper free end paper. , Category: Book Canada

Hugh Scobie. , c. 1853. Binding: Original half calf with marbled boards. Spine in 5 compartments with gilt rules, gilt title on two. , Notes: Henry Youle Hind (1823 –1908) was a Canadian geologist and explorer. He was born in Nottingham, England, and immigrated to Toronto, Ontario in 1846. He taught chemistry and geology at Trinity College in Toronto. , Size: Quarto (220mm x 285mm) , Illustration: With a profusion of in-text illustrations. Lacks 2 plates, otherwise good., Category: Book Art, Architecture & Design; Book Science & Technology;

London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. boards detached. Binding: contemporary ½ morocco with marbled boards, spine with 6 compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two and four, all edges tinted red., Notes: Henry Youle Hind was a Canadian geologist, born in Nottingham, England, in June, 1823. He was educated at Leipsie and at Cambridge. In 1857 he received the appointment of geologist to the Red River exploring expedition, and in 1858 the charge of the exploration of the country between the Red river and the Saskatchewan was entrusted to him by the Canadian government. The publication of his reports on these expeditions was ordered by the Canadian legislature and also by the British parliament., Size: 8vo, Illustration: 8 coloured maps depiciting various parts of the expedition, 20 chromoxylography plates of various vistas and people. Numerous wood-engravings throughout both volumes., Volume: 2 volumes, References: Abbey 630; Sabin 31934, Pages: Volume 1 is missing 3 plates… Read More

Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, Spottiswoode and Co., 1860.. A fine example in gilt full period calf. Interior is clean and crisp.. Edition: London, Binding: Full original green calf boards. Double gilt framing on upper and lower. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt scores on bands, compartments densely gilt with title and vol. number in gilt lettering on red and brown labels in compartments 2 and 3 respectively. Decorative gilt rolls on board edges. Blind dentelles. Marbled paste-in and free endpapers. All edges marbled. , Notes: Henry Youle Hind (1823 – 1908) was a Canadian geologist and explorer. Hind led expeditions to explore the Canadian prairies in 1857 and 1858. Hind’s accounts of his expeditions to the Red and Assiniboine River valleys in 1857 and to the Souris, Qu-Appelle, and South Saskatchewan River valleys in 1858 were integral in supporting movements for European settlement in these regions. Hind’s research was prompted from a need to find new agricultural land in Canada; in… Read More

Toronto: John Lovell, 1859. In very good to excellent condition. Binding: contemporary ½ calf with clothe boards with paste down label of title on the upper cover. Flat spine and needs some restoration., Size: Folio, Illustration: Contains 8 maps, 2 plates of shells and various in text illustrations, title page contains a Canadian coat of arms., Pages: P. half-title, blank, title, blank, introduction v-vi, content vii-xii, 1-201, printer’s imprint, plates and maps., Category: Book Canada

Jones & Co. , 1822.. A very good example of this series of philosophical writings. Some signs of shelf wear to edges and boards. Interior is crisp and clean. Inner leaves have some period marginalia and notes of inscription, one dated 1830, indicating that the book was given to one Mary H. for “attention to different [studies]” and “good behaviour.” . Binding: Full brown morocco boards. Matching upper and lower boards with elaborate gilt panelling of shell and floral motifs over diamond pattern in blind. Spine densely gilted with floral design, author name in gilt. Gilt pattern on board and spine edges. Gilt dentelles. Marbled paste-in and free endpapers. All edges cut and marbled. , Notes: Edward Young (1683 – 1765) was an English poet., Size: 32mo. (88x 48 mm), Provenance: With frontispiece of Young and attached bookmark., Category: Book Literature;

New York: The United States Prtg.& Lith. Co., , 1918. Very Good, laid on original linen . Image Size : 707x458 (mm), 27.83x18.03 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 733x493 (mm), 28.86x19.41 (Inches), Coloring: Printed in Color, Medium: Lithograph, Categories: Posters; Military World War I & II;

Toronto, New York, London: Longmans, Green and Company, c. 1960. Very good condition. . Edition: First Edition. , Binding: Full contemporary red publisher’s cloth. Flat spine with title in black. Original dust jacket included. , Notes: Written by famous Canadian writer Phyllis Brett, this is a novel capturing a social inflection point, when the post-war economic boom had brought unprecedented prosperity, but also unforeseen stresses to society. Through fiction, the author critiques and gives voice to the effect of mass consumerism on the psychological health of women of the day. Reflecting on a society that is post-industrial but that is still clinging onto older notions of women’s role in the household, this novel provides a well written window into a bygone era. , Size: 8vo. (216x135mm). , Category: Book Modern; Book Literature