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

Paris, 1803. Very Good. Notes: Engraved Latin title page.Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 – 1778) was a prominent Italian Classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome. Although he was the son of a stonemason and studied structural and hydraulic engineering, Piranesi is best remembered for his monumental etchings, which demonstrate this lifelong interest in architecture and design. As passionate about architecture was he also about Rome and Roman culture; in Lapides Captolini, Piranesi lists all the Consuls, triumph, and major games of Rome up to the reign of Tiberius (Wilton-Ely, 606). Of import is the extra-large fold-out plate Senatus Populusque…, on which Piranesi inscribed this history. “Piranesi reproduces these pieces as they were set into Michelangelo’s frame in the Palazzo dei Conservatori…skilfully filling the gaps with sculpture and objects derived from the Capitoline collections” (Wilton-Ely, 606). John Wilton-Ely, Piranesi: The Complete… Read More

Marseille, 1764. Very Good. Notes: Joseph Roux, royal hydrographer, had a publishing house specializing in nautical charts in Marseilles. , Size : 800x547 (mm), 31.50x21.54 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Reference: Leonard Navari (Maps of Cyprus) #132., Category: Maps Asia Middle East Holy Land & Palestine; Maps Asia Near East Turkey; Maps Mediterranean Islands;

Hungary, c.1868. Very Good. Notes: Formal portrait of Franz Joseph I of Austria., Image Size : 470x300 (mm), 18.50x11.81 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 558x372 (mm), 21.97x14.65 (Inches), Coloring: Black & White, Medium: engraving, Categories: Portraits Royalty;

Nuremberg: Basil Besler, 1613. Excellent. Notes: Basil Besler's great botanical work, "Hortus Eystettensis .." is one the most impportant botanical books ever published.The author, Basilius Besler (1562-1629), was a Nuremberg apothecary and botanist.The work commemorated the celebrated gardens of its patron, Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, Prince Bishop of Eichstatt. 'The Book is horticultural rather than botanical, and is the earliest pictoral record of flowers in a single garden. It is divided into Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter sections and is concerned almost entirely with ornamental plants.The plates depict over 1000 flowers representing 667 species, many of them exotics appearing for the first time. The original drawings (most of them now in the University Library, Erlangen) took sixteen years to complete. With Bishops patronage Besler worked as an artist, autor and publisher directing a team of ten artists and engravers. The most important being Wolfgang Kilian of Ausburg. The work was… Read More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. , 1940.. Spine lightly sunned, lower hinge split, interior else largely clean and crisp. . Binding: Full zebra-patterned cloth boards. Illustrated pasted and free endpapers. Top edges red, front uncut. No dust jacket. , Notes: Ex-Libris; bookplate.Second impression. Martin Elmer Johnson (1884 –1937) and Osa Helen Johnson (1894 – 1953) were married American adventurers and documentary filmmakers. In the first half of the 20th century the couple captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in “exotic” lands. The Johnsons studied the wildlife and peoples of East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo. They brought back film footage and photographs, offering many Americans their first views and ideas about these lands and cultures., Size: Quarto.(145 x 170 mm), Illustration: Very good example. Profusely illustrated with photographs, featuring George Eastman (founder of Kodak), Duke and Duchess… Read More

Germany, c.1713. Very Good. Notes: Basil Besler's great botanical work, "Hortus Eystettensis .." is one the most impportant botanical books ever published.The author, Basilius Besler (1562-1629), was a Nuremberg apothecary and botanist.The work commemorated the celebrated gardens of its patron, Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, Prince Bishop of Eichstatt. 'The Book is horticultural rather than botanical, and is the earliest pictoral record of flowers in a single garden. It is divided into Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter sections and is concerned almost entirely with ornamental plants. The plates depict over 1000 flowers representing 667 species, many of them exotics appearing for the first time. The original drawings (most of them now in the University Library, Erlangen) took sixteen years to complete. With Bishops patronage Besler worked as an artist, autor and publisher directing a team of ten artists and engravers. The most important being Wolfgang Kilian of Ausburg. The work was completed in Autumn… Read More

London: Trew, c. 1750. Very Good. Notes: The print was engraved and published by Doctor Trew after Ehret in the work "Plantae Selectae". He "chose his illustrations from plants recently introduced and unknown to the [English] general public." (Calmann 95)., Image Size : , Platemark Size : 450x295 (mm), 17.72x11.61 (Inches), Paper Size : 521x345 (mm), 20.51x13.58 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Medium: Copper Engraving, Categories: Natural History Botany;

Paris, 1835. Excellent. Notes: With surrounding letterpress text within 330mm x 485mm, Size : 270x215 (mm), 10.625x8.5 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Category: Maps South America Countries;

Toronto: The Brownstone Press, c. 1982. Very good. . Edition: First Edition. , Binding: Paperback. , Size: 4to (294x244mm). , Illustration: Numerous photographs., Category: Book Canada; Book History

Amsterdam: Hondius, c. 1608. Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation. Notes: Map showing Island of St. Margaret (north of Puerto Rico) and part of Puerto Rico., Size : 124x130 (mm), 4.88x5.12 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps West Indies Dominican Republic / Haiti & Puerto Rico;

Amsterdam, 1611. Very Good. Notes: This is the I.S. Margareta section of the famous composite map of five West Indian islands from the Mercator/ Hondius Atlas, first published in 1606., Size : 105x110 (mm), 4.125x4.375 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Category: ; Maps West Indies Whole

Amsterdam, 1671. Very Good. Notes: Depicts the Brazilian island of TamarcaThis print is from Arnoldus Montanus’ Die Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld, published in Amerstdam., Image Size : 275x340 (mm), 10.875x13.375 (Inches), Platemark Size : 290x355 (mm), 11.375x14 (Inches), Paper Size : 305x385 (mm), 12x15.125 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Copper Engraving, Categories: Views South America

Rome: Lorenzo della Vaccheria, c.1610. Very Good. Notes: A very important and scarce early work detailing various monuments and antiquities in Rome during the late 16th century. I Vestigi Dell’ Antichita di Roma Raccolti et Ritratti in Perspettiva con Ogni Diligentia da Stefano du Perac Parisino…, Image Size : 198x372 (mm), 7.80x14.65 (Inches), Platemark Size : 215x374 (mm), 8.46x14.72 (Inches), Paper Size : 250x384 (mm), 9.84x15.12 (Inches), Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Copper Engraving, Categories: Views Europe Italy;

Rome: Lorenzo della Vaccheria. , 1575.. Superb and handsome example, plates are clean and crisp.. Binding: contemporary full gilt calf, rebacked expertly, spine with 5 raised bands, title in gilt on two, spine with decorative gilt ruling and central devices, upper board with decorative large gilt central motif with a crown on top, Royal coat of arm., Notes: Text is in Italian. A very important and scarce early work detailing various monuments and antiquities in Rome during the late 16th century. This first edition was published during the Jubilee year of 1575 and immediately became one of the most important works on the subject and was published in many editions over the next two centuries making first editions, like the one presented here, scarce and sought after. Etienne Duperac (Stefano Duperac or Du Perac, c. 1535 - 1604) was a French architect, designer, painter, engraver, and cartographer. A versatile artist of the second half of the sixteenth century, he was a scholar of antiquity and an… Read More

London: Cadell & Davies, 1803. Very Good. Size : 182x111 (mm), 7.17x4.37 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Europe Greece, Macedonia;

1840. Very Good to excellent. Notes: A rare panoramic view of the city of Aden the present day capital of Yemen, which at the time was part of the Ottoman Empire., Image Size : 235x345 (mm), 9.25x13.625 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 433x550 (mm), 17x21.625 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Aquatint, Categories: Views Asia Middle East;

Paris, 1805. Excellent. Image Size : , Platemark Size : 567x432 (mm), 22.25x17 (Inches), Paper Size : 713x535 (mm), 28x21 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Copper Engraving, Categories: Natural History Marine Life;

Bologna: Per gli Eredi d'Antonio Pisarri,, c. 1694;. Repairs to slightly worn extremities; notations on upper endpaper; plates 7 and 8 with spill staining; generally text and plates are clean and crisp. . Binding: Contemporary vellum with dentelled and filleted gilt panels with gilt floral designed corners. Spine with six (6) horizontal bands, manuscript black ink title on one and central gilt ornament in remaining compartments; edges marbled. , Notes: Text in Italian.The Italian Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (1555 – 1619) from Bologna was an early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker whose works create spiritual emotion and are credited with reinvigorating Italian art, especially fresco art, which was subsumed with formalistic Mannerism. His studio ... propelled a number of Emilian artists to pre-eminence in Rome and elsewhere, and singularly helped encourage the so-called Bolognese School of the late 16th century, which included Reni, one of the authors of this work. Carracci had his… Read More

Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1665.. The second last plate has a marginal tear, two plates with upper margin repaired otherwise, an attractive and very good example with plates clean and crisp. . Binding: Contemporary burgundy, gilt panelled morocco; spine rebacked with raised five (5) gilt bands; gilt lettered title on two; dated; compartments with central gilt ornament; all edges speckled red. , Notes: Oblong Folio (243 x 345mm).First edition published in three (3) parts.Three parts in one volume. Captions in Italian.This fine work of Italian copper engravings on the architecture of modern Rome is cited by Cicognara as: "Questo è uno de migliori libri delle vedute die Roma che rende un idea adeguata de' luoghi, e de' monumenti", holding it in great esteem as one of the best books of views of Rome. Fowler states: “In Italy, up to this time, there had been no extensive and systematic attempt to record contemporary Renaissance architecture ...; he also states: [Falda's] “work, aside from… Read More

Romae/Rome: Veneunt apud Auctorem in ædibus Comitis Thomati via Felice prope templum SS. Trinitatis in Monte Pincio; [ watermarks indicate:] , c.1770’s-1790’s. Plates and text crisp and clean, near fine. Thick, wide margined paper.. Binding: Contemporary half calf with marbled boards; spine with five (5) blind raised bands, flanked by gilt tooling; gilt lettered title on Morocco label on two; contemporary pasted and free endpapers; all edges speckled red., Notes: Text in Italian; captions in Latin.This work was dedicated by Piranesi to one of his highly esteemed co-workers (during the 1750’s), Robert Adam. Concerning the Rome 1762 edition, Luigi Ficacci states: “Edition Rome 1762. Engraved title on the title page: The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome, the Work of G. B. Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, London. The Latin title page bears the title, the date of the edition, and the dedication to Robert Adam. The address is: “Veneunt apud Auctorem in aedibus Comitis Thomati… Read More