Search Results: Titles starting with A from Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd

Spain,, [?c1780].. Folding paper fan with a fine large hand-coloured engraved view of the Siege of Gibraltar with Spanish ships and troops in the foreground, the verso with engraved key in Spanish decorated with weapons of war on either side, mounted on ivory sticks , the ivory sticks decorated in silver and gilt with a fort, ship and flag, the gaurdsticks carved and pierced and with silver and gilt depicting a ship and drums. The unsuccessful siege of Gibraltar began in 1779 and lasted until February 1783, when the siege was lifted. This fan, which it has been suggested belonged to the Earl of Minto, is not in the Schreiber Collection.

[London,: J. Moore,, c.1824].. Image: 380 by 530mm. (15 by 20.75 inches). Sheet: 423 by 553mm (16.5 by 21.75 inches).. Hand-coloured etching with aquatint. Proof before letters. The scene depicts horse trading at Smithfield Market from the south side of west Smithfield - looking north to Smithfield Bar and St John Street. C. Lewis aquatinted the view but for forms sake the name of his father F.C. also appeared on the plate. Charles George Lewis (1808–80) was an English engraver. The second son of Frederick Christian Lewis (1779–1856), the painter and engraver, and brother of John Frederick Lewis (1786–1836), the bookbinder, he was born at Enfield, Middlesex, on 13 June 1808. He was instructed in drawing and engraving by his father. Lewis retired in about 1877, and died suddenly from apoplexy at his residence at Felpham, near Bognor, on 16 June 1880. He was buried in Felpham churchyard. Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767-1849) was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland. Born in Geneva, Agasse… Read More

Augsburg,: Georg Balthasar Probst,, [c.1760].. Image: each approximately 315 by 415mm (12.5 by 16.25 inches). Sheet: each approximately 370 by 510mm (14.5 by 20 inches).. Four copper engraved prints. Four views of London by Georg Balthasar Probst, a German engraver who was best known for the optical prints he produced of European cities and landmarks. The prints could be viewed in a special device to give an impression of deepened perspective. The prints show Westminster Bridge, with St. Pauls in the left background, after a 1753 print by Thomas Boydell; the Royal Exchange from Cornhill; the Monument erected to the victims of the Fire of London, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke; and the Strand, including Somerset House, which would shortly be demolished and rebuilt by Sir William Chambers in 1775.

Amsterdam,, [1644-55].. 510 by 610mm. (20 by 24 inches).. Five engraved maps with fine original hand colour, heightened with gold, French and Latin text to verso. A fine set of Blaeu's maps of the world and the four known continents. The Blaeu family popularised the carte-a-figure style of cartography, surrounding their maps with borders showing the native inhabitants of the country and city views. The four continents are shown in this style, with a border of views of major cities at the top and couples wearing the costume of their region at the sides. The border of the world map contains personifications of the four elements and four seasons at the sides, views of the seven wonders of the ancient world at the bottom, and the planets personified as classical deities at the top. In the world map, one of the earliest to use the Mercator projection, Blaeu has chosen not to show California as an island, as it often is on contemporary publications. He does, however, show North America separated from… Read More

Paris,: Chez le Sr. Fortin, Ingenieur, Mecanicien du Roy pour les Globes et Spheres, rue de la Harpe, 1768 [celestial globe dated 1770, armillary dated 1773].. 220mm (8.75 inches). . A pair of terrestrial and celestial globes, each with 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores over papier mâché and plaster sphere, varnished, paste-board meridian ring, wooden horizon ring, raised by four quadrant supports, mounted on an ebonized turned wood table stand. Together with an armillary sphere, containing globe with 12 hand-coloured engraved gores, over a papier mâché and plaster sphere, varnished wood, raised on four quadrant supports, with ebonised turned wood table stand. Biography Jean Fortin (1750-1831) was a scientific instrument-maker born in Picardy, France. Chiefly remembered for designing a barometer that ensured more accurate readings, he also produced celestial atlases, scales and was commissioned by the French royal family to make globes. He made terrestrial and celestial globes of 320 and… Read More

London,: Pubd. as the Act directs by W. Byrne No. 79 Titchfield Street,, 1790-1791.. Image: each 415 by 623mm (16.25 by 24.5 inches). Sheet: [1] 532 by 759mm (21 by 30 inches); [2 & 3] 562 by 751mm (22 by 29.5 inches); [4] 490 by 660mm (19.25 by 26 inches).. Four etchings with aquatint, coloured, view of Westminster Bridge trimmed to upper and side neatline. A set of four prints of the River Thames, produced for Joseph Farington's series 'History of the River Thames'. Farington made 76 drawings of the course of the Thames, which required some negotiation: his wife's cousin, Horace Walpole, wrote to the Earl Harcourt asking for permission for Farington to sketch on his land. There was some delay between the drawings and publication while a suitable author was found to provide the accompanying text; Farington records in his diary on 15th July 1793 that publication "will now go on uninterruptedly as Mr. Coombe (sic) has promised to supply... manuscript as wanted" (Farington). William Combe was a… Read More

London,: Bought of W. Faden & Published at the Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty,, May 1823.. 570 by 3150mm. (22.5 by 124 inches).. Large engraved map on 4 sheets, joined horizontally. Gauld's extensive and detailed survey of the Gulf coast, from the Sabine Lake in the west to past the 'Mouths of the Amasura' in the east, and inland along the Mississippi to 'Brown's Cliffs' and the mouth of the La Fausse Riviere. An inset of the 'Continuation of the Coast from Bluff Island' appears upper right. George Gauld (1732-1782) was a Scottish military surveyor working for the British Admiralty. From 1764 to 1781 he charted the difficult waters off the Gulf Coast of West Florida. Some of his surveys were published by J.F.W. Des Barres in the Atlantic Neptune, but the continuation of his work was hampered during the Revolutionary War due to the depredations of American privateers, and was taken prisoner at the siege of Pensacola in 1781. He was then taken to Havana, and released to New York, before being… Read More

London,: Printed and sold by Philip Overton near St Dunstan's Church Fleetstreet, and Thomas Bowles next ye Chapter house in St. Paul's Church yard,, [c1726].. 590 by 990mm (23.25 by 39 inches).. Engraved map with outline hand colouring, on two sheets joined, loss to upper left corner skilfully supplied in facsimile. Rare separately issued map of Sussex. This large two sheet map is a reduction of Budgen's large-scale map of the county first published in 1724 - the first large-scale map of the county. A detailed key to the upper right provides information on market towns, disused habitations, Gentleman's Seats, manor of farm houses, castles, ruins abbeys, priorys etc., furnaces, forges, watermills, smiths forges, camps, heaths, mineral waters, stone quarries, woodland, commons, rocks, sands, boundaries of county, rapes, deanries, hundreds, navigable rivers, and 'parts abounding most with Oak Timber. To the sea around the Selsey peninsula are depicted shoals, rocks, and numerous soundings. Above the… Read More

London,: Printed for T. Bowles in St Paul's Church Yard, John Bowles in Cornhill, and Robert Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street,, [c1765].. 510 by 695mm. (20 by 27.25 inches).. Engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen. James Corbridge was a surveyor in Norwich in the first half of the eighteenth century. He produced numerous estate plans but is best known for his large scale maps of Norfolk, Norwich and Great Yarmouth. His career began in Newcastle and amongst his early work is the first plan of the town. In the early 1720s he moved to Norwich and in 1730 he published his great large scale map of the county of Norfolk, the first to be printed. In 1735 he published this large single sheet reduction complete with extensive lists of the towns and villages in the county in surrounding panels. Each is keyed to the map and has their Hundred identified along with the distance in miles from Norwich. Circles of distance from Kings Lynn and Norwich radiate the map. The coastline is decorated with… Read More

Amsterdam,: Nicolaas Vischer,, [c1700].. 558 by 920mm. (22 by 36.25 inches).. Engraving with etching on two sheets joined. The Dam Square or Dam, is the principal square in Amsterdam. The view is taken from the west, with the Town Hall (now the Koninklijk Paleis or Royal Palace) to the left and the now demolished Waag (or Weighing House) at the centre. The sqaure originally faced onto the landing wharfs along Damrak, which at that time would have been busy with ships. The town hall was opened on 29 July 1655 by Cornelis de Graeff, the mayor of Amsterdam.The main architect was Jacob van Campen, who took control of the construction project in 1648. It was built on 13,659 wooden piles and cost 8.5 million gulden. As the Dam was principally a market square, with goods being unloaded from the Damrak, the Waag (weigh house) was essential to maintain the correct weights and measures of goods. The Waag was demolished in demolished in 1808 by order of Louis Bonaparte who, upon taking up residence in the… Read More

Amsterdam: Andries de Leth, Hendrik de Leth, [c1720].. 575 by 912mm (22.75 by 36 inches).. Engraving with etching, on two sheets joined. The Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, the wide street to the back of the Koninklijk Paleis was until the late nineteenth century a canal. A key below the view lists six prominent landmarks, these include the flower market, the pipe market, Nieuwe Kerk tower, and the Koninklijk Paleis. Andries de Leth (1662-1731) and Hendrik de Leth (1692-1759) were engravers, publishers, and mapmakers working in Amsterdam during the first half of the eighteenth century. R.W.P. de Vries, auction, 1925: 291.

Amsterdam,: Willem Blaeu,, 1608 [but 1612].. 1320 by 1800mm. (52 by 70.75 inches).. Large engraved wall map, on four sheets joined, with traces of original colour, decorative boarder of the local populace, and major ports, together with descriptive text, title in manuscript, and engraved foliate border, some significant loss to map and text. Blaeu's landmark map of Africa, which was "of such importance that for the next 100 years numerous mapmakers throughout Europe... copied [it] in both design and content" (Betz). The map of Africa depicts the European conception of the continent at the dawn of the seventeenth century, an especially interesting juncture when the coastlines were well-explored, but its heart remained an enigma. Blaeu was influenced by Giacomo Gastaldi's large map of 1564, which was copied in Antwerp by Cornelis De Jode, as well as Abraham Ortelius's maps of 1595. He also considered the maps present in Filippo Pigafetta's book on the Congo, based on the explorations of Duarte Lopes… Read More

London,: at his Music Warehouse, the Corner of Argyll Street, Oxford Street,, [c1770-1793].. 80 by 125mm. (3.25 by 5 inches).. Prints,""Geo. Smart, Musical Instrument Maker, ... X is for Xylophone-maker Engraved trade card. Born in 1745 to a long line of drapers, George Smart transitioned away from the family profession to a career in the music industry. He first worked an assistant in a music-shop at Bath as a young man, before moving to London, where he worked as an assistant in the New Bond Street music-shop of Robert Bremner, a well-known music-publisher in London and Edinburgh. He soon moved on again, this time to work under violinist and music-publisher, William Napier. Around this time he began to advertise independent services, including manufacturing xylophones! From the early 1770s until 1802, Smart had his own music-selling shop on Oxford Street, which was first advertised as at """"the corner of Argyll Street"""", as on the present trade card, but which received the number 331 from at… Read More

[Bologna,: David Jerome,, c1632].. 305 by 205mm. (12 by 8 inches).. Prints,""Io. Antonius Maginus Pat. Mathemat. In Bonon. Gymn. Profess. Giovanni Antonio Magini Engraved portrait, short tears to margins, slight foxing, text faded at bottom. Paduan astronomer, astrologer and cartographer Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617) was so well respected within the field of mathematics that in 1588 he was chosen for the chair at the University of Bologna over Galileo Galilei. While also serving as official astrologer to the court of the Duke of Mantua, Vincenzo I, he devised his own planetary theory and developed extremely accurate trigonometric tables which were applied to the geometry of spheres. Vincenzo was also the patron of Magini's greatest cartographical project, 'Atlante geografico d'Italia', an atlas that he intended to include a map of every Italian region accompanied by historical notes. The work proved costly and was not completed until after his death, whereupon his son published it in 1620.… Read More

London,: 15 Gray's Inn Lane, Holborn,, ?[c1823].. 80 by 60mm (3.25 by 2.25 inches).. Prints,""H. Ridley Silk, Linen & Woollen, Dyer & Scowerer, ... S is for Scowerer Engraved trade card. The present trade card shows an angelic robed woman bearing a pipe in one hand and in the other a unfurled scroll advertising the fabric dyeing, cleaning and scouring services of H. Ridley. 'Kent's Original London Directory' of 1823 lists a Henry Ridley of Holborn as a """"currier & leather cutter"""", as does the London Post Office Directory of 1843. Apart from these, however, there seems to be no record of any other Ridley active in the textile industry in the same area, nor is there are evidence of either Ridley or a fabric service operating from 15 Gray's Inn Lane. According to Henry Benjamin Wheatley's 'London, Past and Present' (1891), """"Gray's Inn Lane was cleared away in 1879-1880 by the Metropolitan Board of Works, under the provision of the Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act, and the roadway… Read More

Amsterdam,: Joannes Covens, Cornelis Mortier,, [1730].. 565 by 925mm (22.25 by 36.5 inches).. Engraving with etching, on two sheets joined. Panorama of Amsterdam from the sea. The view is dominated by the numerous vessels on the IJ. These range from a large East Indiaman, to small packets, and rowing boats, and amply demonstrates Amsterdam's source of wealth and power. The view of the city in the background is almost an after thought, however, the engraver has managed to depict the city in fine detail, and a numbered key below lists 27 landmarks. These include the naval arsenal, the Oosterkerk, the Oude Kerk, the Montelbaanstoren, the Zuiderkerk, and the Noorderkerk, among others. Hendrik de Leth (1692-1759) was an engraver, publisher, and mapmaker working in Amsterdam during the first half of the eighteenth century. R.W.P. de Vries, auction, 1925: 272.

[Siena,: Matteo Florimi,, c1600].. 397 by 525mm (15.75 by 20.75 inches).. Double-page engraved map, minor expert repairs to verso. Only edition of this rare, separately-published map of North and South America. Arnoldo di Arnoldi (d.1602) was a Flemish born cartographer who lived and worked for most of his life in Italy in the workshop of the famous geographer Giovanni Antonio Magini. Burden reports that in early 1600 he moved to Sienna, where he produced two world maps (a large-scale ten-sheet map and a smaller two-sheet map) as well as a set of the four continents, of which this is one. He died soon after. Arnoldi and his publisher, Matteo Florimi, are identified on his map of Europe, accompanied by a statement that his maps were taken from Ortelius' 'Theatrum'. This statement is, upon closer examination, at odds with the evidence. Instead, Arnoldi's work has far more in common with Giovanni Battista Mazza's c1589 map of America. New Guinea is shown here as an island rather than as an extension… Read More

[Rome,: Henricus van Schoel,, 1609].. 425 by 561mm (16.75 by 22 inches).. Double page engraved map, minor expert paper repairs to margins and central fold. A separately-published Lafreri school map of the Americas, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, extending to Asia in the west, and Europe in the east with a large land mass labelled 'Terra Australis Incognita' in the south. It is decorated with sea-monsters, a large galleon, and a fine mannerist strapwork cartouche. The map is derivative of Arnoldo di Arnoldi's c1600 map of the same title. Van Schoel's map is detailed and mostly accurate. For example, California is correctly shown as a peninsula, and New Guinea as a separate island; however, Terra Australis, the great unknown south land, awaits discovery. To cover up his lack of knowledge of southern geography, Terra Australis is partially and cleverly covered by the title cartouche. Burden notes that there are a few minor differences between this map and Arnoldi's. For example, in van Schoel's… Read More

New York City,: Council Against Intolerance in America,, 1940.. 895 by 1378mm. (35.25 by 54.25 inches).. 895 by 1378mm, chromolithographed map, mounted on linen. Emma Bourne's 1940 pictorial map was published in the year prior to the United States' entry into World War II, when nationalist and isolationist sentiment was on the rise. Bourne takes a politically progressive stance against these feelings of xenophobia and nativism, instead promoting the Council Against Intolerance in America's mission to encourage "tolerance through education," and "to counteract the propaganda of racial and religious prejudice, which seeks to divide America." Bourne achieves the Council Against Intolerance's goal in a number of ways. Red banners snake their way across the country showing where the different groups of immigrants have settled, and illustrating America's unique level of diversity, both ethnic and religious. Bourne removes all state borders in order to portray America as a unified land, in spite of its… Read More

Amsterdam,: Andries de Leth,, [c1730].. 550 by 945mm (21.75 by 37.25 inches).. Engraving with etching, on two sheets joined. The view is taken from outside the Hogesluis, the city limits at the time. Numerous vessels are depicted on the Amstel with open land to the left, where horses graze. Amsterdam is laid out in the background, and all the major public buildings are shown and named including: the Westerkerk, Noorderkerk, Stadthuis , Oude Kerk, and the Zuider kerk, the Portuguese Synagogue, the Oosterkerk, and East India House. Andries de Leth (1662-1731) was an engraver, publisher, and mapmaker working in Amsterdam during the first half of the eighteenth century. Adolf van der Laan (1684-1755) was a Dutch draftsman and engraver. R.W.P. de Vries, auction, 1925: 274