Search Results: Titles starting with A from Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books

USA: Surveyor General's Office, 1864. Very Good; bottom left margin extended. Size : 354x346 (mm), 13.94x13.62 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps United States Midwest (States);

Paris: Lith. de A. Godard, 1843. Very Good. Notes: Portrait of French collector and archaeologist Alexandre du Sommerard (1779-1842).Published in Les Arts au Moyen., Image Size : 429x306 (mm), 16.89x12.05 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 484x340 (mm), 19.06x13.39 (Inches), Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Lithograph, Categories: Portraits Others;

Paris, c.1730. Very Good, margins trimmed. Image Size : 461x349 (mm), 18.15x13.74 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : , Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Copper Engraving, Categories: Music;

Paris, 1806. Excellent. Notes: This print was published between 1806-1833. From the series "Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma"Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the leading figures in the development of the neoclassical style in the late 18th Century. As architect, archaeologist, artist, designer, collector, and antiquities dealer, he produced a series of etchings and engravings depicting the glories of ancient Rome. These fine prints served as source material for other architects and designers. He was born in Venice on the 4th October 1720. The son of a stone-mason, he was educated as an architect under his maternal uncle Matto Lucchesi and under Carlo Zucchi. In 1740 Piranesi left Venice for Rome, there he studied etching under Giuseppe Vasi. He appears to have had little success in these early years in Rome and as his father was unable to continue his allowance returned to Venice in 1744. He was soon, however, encouraged to return to Rome by Giuseppe Wagner, a successful engraver and publisher… Read More

Rome: Clementis, c.1774. Very Good. Notes: A panel from the Raphael Loggia at the Vatican, engraved by Ioann Ottaviani. , Image Size : 1045x380 (mm), 41.14x14.96 (Inches), Platemark Size : 1080x415 (mm), 42.52x16.34 (Inches), Paper Size : , Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Copper Engraving, Categories: Architectural General;

Rome. Excellent. Notes: John Wilton-Ely 605There is no watermark presentThis print is from the series "Il Campo Marzio dell' Antica Roma""The Campo Marzio occupies a special place in Piranesi's artistic development, in terms of both his ideas and his imaginative use of visual techniques in support of them. Like the other treaties of the 1760s, this work is a sophisticated blend of archaeology and polemic in which historical evidence is employed to defend the creative genius of Rome. There are also sugns of the artist's growing concern with the problem of modern design, and the publication is, significantly dedicated to the British architect Robert Adam, who shared Piranesi's belief in the imaginative use of antiquity." (John Wilton Ely II pg 613)Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the leading figures in the development of the neoclassical style in the late 18th Century. As architect, archaeologist, artist, designer, collector, and antiquities dealer, he produced a series of etchings and… Read More

Toronto/Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin, & Company Lmt., 1968. In very good condition. Dust jacket is torn slightly around the edges. Binding: Original cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket. , Illustration: Illustrated profusely., Pages: P. 2-230, Category: Book Art, Architecture & Design; Book Bibliography & Reference Prints;

Germany, c.1580. Very Good. Binding: Loose maps without binding., Notes: A group of 45 double-page loose maps of European cities (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France...etc.) in black & white.Sebastian Münster (1488 – 1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar. His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world., Size: Folio (306mm x 360mm), Category: Book Atlas & Cartography;

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.,, 1958.. Ex-Library example and in very good condition. . Edition: First Revised Edition. Edited by Felix Pirani., Binding: contemporary grey cloth over board, title in silver on flat spine., Notes: Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, essayist, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life, Russell considered himself a liberal, a socialist and a pacifist, although he also confessed that his sceptical nature had led him to feel that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense." Russell was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom., Size: 8vo., , Category: Book Philosophy;

London: Printed by James Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street. , 1791.. Marginal short tear repaired on folding plate; wide margin copy with leaves uncut; text and plates are clean and crisp, overall, a fine example of this critical first edition work on slavery. . Edition: First Edition. , Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked expertly with five (5) raised bands; gilt ornamented compartments with gilt lettered title on Morocco label on two; edges uncut., Notes: This historical work includes "An alphabetical list of the names of the witnesses examined by the select committee of the House of Commons ... for the abolition of the slave trade" over pages [xvii-xxvi]. "Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade", also known as "the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade". William Wilberforce introduced the first Bill to abolish the slave trade in 1791; this was defeated. While he continued to bring the issue of the slave trade before Parliament, Clarkson and others on… Read More

the authors: Fratelli D'Alessandri-, c. 1880. . A fine example of this important album. The photographs are all views of historical sites and different areas of Rome and not of statutes. . Binding: Contemporary decorative vellum; central gilt lettered title on vellum surrounded by gilt fillets and red fillets, encasing a rectangular decorative gilt and blue ornamented frame; spine flat with five gilt filleted horizontal bands; creating four compartments with elaborate central gilt design; with matching red-blue-white marbled pasted and free endpapers., Notes: The two Italian brothers Antonio D'Alessandri (L'Aquila, 1818 - Rome, 1893) and Paolo Francesco D'Alessandri (L'Aquila, 1824 - Rome, 1889), who held a photographic studio in Rome, named "Fratelli D'Alessandri", and first located in the 'Via del Babuino', then the 'Via del Corso' and finally the 'Via Condotti', were established photographers in Italy in the nineteenth century and in many respects marked the history of Italian photography. Photos… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: : Published by the Author, [November 8, 1929]. All photographs are in very good condition. Binding: Original full black leather portfolio, gilt titled stamp "CELEBRITIES I HAVE SHOT // R. E. Morningstar // Lecturer Journalist Traveler" on upper cover. , Size: quarto (280x204mm). , Illustration: Illustrated title and nineteen (19) 5 x 8 inch mounted black and white photographs; they feature politicians, celebrities, statesmen, etc. , i.e. Mary Pickford with Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; Jackie Coogan; Clarence Darrow; William Howard Taft (in Decatur, IL); Charlie Chaplin; Theodore Roosevelt; Edward - Prince of Wales; Fanny Brice; James Harding; Woodrow Wilson; Gilbert and Sullivan; Al Capone; Marshal Ferdinand Foch; Calvin Coolidge; the author and others. , Provenance: Letter mounted on upper pasted endpaper, written to Morningstar by G. N. Northrup, on letterhead of the Office of the Head Master, the Chicago Latin School. , Category: Book Photographic Album;

New York: John Taylor’s Sons, Russell’s American Steam Printing House. , 1866.. A fine and unique example. Covers lightly rubbed, some signatures weak in binding, interior lightly toned with slight edgewear, else crisp.. Edition: First Edition. , Binding: Brown cloth wraps. Upper lettered in gilt. Housed in red cloth chemise with matching slipcase, title lettered in gilt on red morocco label on spine., Size: Quarto.(265 x 170mm), Illustration: A very good example of this rare volume, not published for sale, with biographical and historical sketch of John Taylor’s brewery in Albany, NY. Privately printed and presented to a Mr. August Tolle; presentation note (in manuscript and printed text) fixed inside front cover and ownership ticket on front cover verso. Illustrated with 16 lithographed plates by McNevin and Arthur Brown (litho.). Title in red and black. Penciled notation on inside of chemise: “1866 – Harry Peters’ copy. See Hamilton. Privately printed for distribution to friends of… Read More

Leyden: Printed for JOH. ARN. LANGERAK; to be had from INNYS and MANBY at the West End of St. Paul's. , c. 1737. . A very good example, text and prints are mostly clean and crisp; large folding map with old restoration. . Edition: Second Utrecht Edition., Binding: Expertly rebacked preserving contemporary brown full calf boards; triple paneled with outer double gilt fillets and inner blind roll; spine raised with seven blind bands; centre of compartments gilt ornamented; gilt lettered title on red morocco label on two; dated; edges brown., Size: Folio (517x356mm)., Illustration: Illustrated engraved title, printed title with vignette, over one hundred (100) ornamental woodcut initials, mainly at openings, some of these very large; fifty-one (51) ornamental endpieces, some of these very large; few small, in-text figures in the introduction and at 'F'; otherwise, work complete with one hundred fourteen (114), mostly full-page size copper-engraved plates; of these, T10 double-page size folding, T23 and… Read More

Leyden: Johannes du Vivie, Johannes and Herman Verbeek, , c.1725. . A very good example, text and plates are generally clean & crisp.. Binding: Contemporary full dark-brown morocco / calf; spine raised with six (6) bands, gilt lettered title on burgundy morocco labels on two and three with remainder of compartments richly gilt with outer and central floral designs; upper and lower pasted and free endpapers marbled; all edges brown. , Notes: The 16th century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, Vesalius, is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in Brussels, then part of the Habsburg Netherlands. He served as professor at the University of Padua (1537–1542) and later became imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V. This only edition with Vesalius’s complete works is a joint effort of the physician and scientist Hermann Boerhaave, editor, and the anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, who… Read More

Rome / Romae: Francesco Priscianese, , c.1542. Slight browning to some pages; in very good condition . Binding: Contemporary vellum. Spine with five (5) raised bands and ink title on two; trace of old label on spine. All edges speckled red. , Notes: The seven books of Advensus gentes, Edited by Franciscus Priscianensis and Hieronymus Ferrarius. Dedication (to Franois I of France) dated (a2v) “Calen. Septembris 1543.” Colophon ([R7r]) dated 1542. The first edition of a defense of the Christian faith and an attack on paganism, with ample descriptions of idolatrous rites and beliefs. Printed from an imperfect manuscript found in Paris, it required extensive text editing. This is an unusally tall copy, clean and beautifully printed. According to Jerome's chronicle, Arnobius of Sicca (+ c. 330), early Christian apologist of Berber origin during the reign of Diocletian (284–305), was a distinguished Numidian rhetorician prior to his conversion in Sicca Veneria (El Kef, Tunisia), a major Christian… Read More

London: Tho. Johnson, printer for the author. , 1671. A fine and handsome example, plates are clean and crisp. . Edition: Third Edition., Binding: contemporary full brown calf, rebacked expertly, spine with 5 raised bands, title in gilt on two, spine compartments with decorative gilt motifs and ruling, marbled endpapers. , Notes: This work on China, the Emperor of China, Formosa (Island) and East-Tartary, highlights an extensive journey through provinces of Fokien, Chekiang, Xantung, and Nanking, to Peking with its imperial court, orders for the travellors, feasts, i.e. marriages and funerals. The administration of government, architecture and engineering of structures, incl. pagodas or temples, arches, palaces is described; followed by land- and waterways, shipping, rivers, channels, mountains, hills, springs and valleys; flora and fauna, conditions for farming/ planting and husbandry; weapons, clothing, culture, the character and languages of the Chinese., Size: Folio (395 x 240 mm), ,… Read More

Paris: De Charbonier. , C. 1740.. A scarce atlas in very good condition, maps are clean and crisp, minor browning on the verso of some maps.. Binding: Contemporary marbled paper boards with matching free end papers, expertly rebacked in gilt fillet bordered brown half calf; spine with five raised bands; gilt lettered title on black morocco label on two; remaining compartments in gilt borders, corners and central ornaments. , Notes: Jean Delagrive (1689 - 1757), professor of philosophy at the university in Krakow; is remembered for his work as engraver / topographer. He was a priest but abandoned the church to follow geography, drawing, engraving and triangulation. His plans of Paris and environs, i.e. Versailles and St. Cloud, earned him the position of geographer of Paris. It has been noted that the Champs - Élysées was first mentioned on one of his maps. Delagrive was passionate about geometry and published a manual, ‘de trigonometrie spherique’ on ‘spherical trigonometry’ in 1754. He… Read More

Germany, c.1735. Very Good. Image Size : 195x290 (mm), 7.68x11.42 (Inches), Platemark Size : 205x302 (mm), 8.07x11.89 (Inches), Paper Size : 363x440 (mm), 14.29x17.32 (Inches), Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Copper Engraving, Categories: Views Europe Germany; Architectural General;

Basle, c.1588. Very Good. Notes: A detailed map of the city of Lyon, France, from the late 16th century in a decorative border. German text on verso. Sebastian Münster (1488 – 1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar. His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world., Size : 164x255 (mm), 6.46x10.04 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Europe France;