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

London:: John Murray, Albemarle-Street,, c. 1823. . A handsome copy in very good condition, with text and plates mostly clean and crisp; very slight occasional faint browning of only few pages.. Edition: First edition, first issue. , Binding: Contemporary red half-morocco with marbled boards. Spine with five raised blind bands, gilt ornamented compartments and gilt title on two; pasted and free endpapers in matching marble. Front and lower edges uncut., Notes: Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic. Franklin also served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) from 1837 to 1843. He disappeared on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy. The work includes the extensive Appendix on science and… Read More

London: John Murray. , c. 1823, 1828.. A handsome copy in very good condition, text and plates are clean and crisp, very slight occasional faint browning of only few pages.. Edition: First editions, first issues, Binding: Contemporary marbled boards rebacked expertly, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt ornamented compartments and gilt title on two. Front and lower edges uncut., Notes: In 1819, Franklin was chosen to lead an expedition overland from Hudson Bay to chart the north coast of Canada eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine River.[10] On his 1819 expedition, Franklin fell into the Hayes River at Robinson Falls and was rescued by a member of his expedition about 90 metres (98 yd) downstream. Between 1819 and 1822, he lost 11 of the 20 men in his party. Most died of starvation, but there were also at least one murder and suggestions of cannibalism. The survivors were forced to eat lichen and even attempted to eat their own leather boots. This gained Franklin the nickname of "the man who ate… Read More

London: : for Thomas Jefferys, c. 1760.. A near fine example with text and plates clean and crisp. Three maps with minor fold separations. Part I insert of additional pages marked 129*-138*, Part II mispaginations: 86 and 87 as 90 and 91. . Edition: First Edition, Binding: Contemporary full mottled calf , spine with 5 raised bands, with matching horizontal gilt fillets and gilt lettered title on two, dated; upper edge gilt. , Notes: Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719 – 1771), "Geographer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, King George III, was an English cartographer and perhaps one of the leading map suppliers of his day. Jefferys engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced a wide range of commercial maps and atlases, especially of North America. First edition, the corrected issue with the additional leaves 129*-138*, containing information on the capture of Quebec received after the publication of the first part. Jefferys' important description of Canada,… Read More

London: : G. Kearsley, , c. 1764. Condition: near fine . Edition: Second edition, Binding: Recent full calf, with elaborate blind fillets and tooled motifs, spine with five raised bands and gilt lettered title on two, all edges red. , Notes: The folding map in the present example “Westminster And Southwark With Ye New Buildings to Ye Year 1764” was re-published in Howel’s: LONDINOPOLIS; An Historical Discourse Or Perlustration Of the City of London, The Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain: Whereunto Is added another of the city of Westminster, With The Courts of Justice, Antiquities, and new buildings thereunto belonging., Size: 12mo (168x100mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with map “London, Westminster and Southwark with new buildings to the year 1704” and 8 copper engraved plates of important views and edifices of the city., Pages: Folding map, title, bl., introduction (2), Table of contents (4), 208, with 8 engraved plates , Category: Book Europe United Kingdom;

Rome: Magrm Leonardum, publisher, , c.1748. . Covers are slightly discoloured, engraved plates are clean and crisp. A Fine example of this important, rare, first edition of this work.. Edition: First Edition., Binding: Original vellum boards, rebacked in matching calf, with 7 raised bands and red morocco label on two., Notes: Text in Italian.Giambattista Nolli (or Giovanni Battista, April 9, 1701 – July 1, 1756) was an Italian architect and surveyor. He is best known for his ichnographic plan of Rome, the Pianta Grande di Roma which he began surveying in 1736 and engraved in 1748, now known as ‘the Nolli Map’. Twelve (12) copper- engraved plates combine to create this map measuring (1760x2080mm) or (69x82 inches). The work was commissioned by Pope Benedict XIV to survey Rome to help create demarcations for the fourteen (14) traditional rioni or districts of Rome. It was by far the most accurate description of Rome produced to date at a time when the architectural achievement of the Papacy was… Read More

Leiden: Pieter Van der Aa, c. 1706-07. A handsome example of this work. Text and plates are clean and crisp. Lacks one folding map.. Edition: First Edition. , Binding: Contemporary full brown calf. Spine in six compartments of raised bands. Gilt text on morocco label on 2 and 3. Gilt ornamentation on 1, 4, 5, and 6. All edges dyed red. Pasted and free marbled endpapers. All edges with gilt dentelles., Notes: Two works in one volume. This is volume five only. The complete collection, consisting of 28 volumes, was published during the years 1707-1708, covering land and sea voyages from 1246 till "this day" (1696). This work contains the accounts of the voyages of Afonso de Albuquerque, the 1st Duke of Goa, in the East and West Indies during the early 16th century. He was "dispatched from Lisbon on a second expedition, a voyage intended to consolidate Portuguese supremacy in the Indian Ocean. His instructions were to monopolize trade with East India for Portugal, and to exclude both Venetians and… Read More

London: Moon, F.G., 1844. Good Condition; upper and lower margins extended. Notes: The Prints of David Roberts:Part 1 - The PrinterLouis Haghe (1806-1885) was one of the msot skillful exponents of the tinted lithograph who became a leading reproductive lithographer in England and on the Continent. Haghe's reputation as a lithographer was primarily based upon topographical views, of which Twyman notes "his most important work of this kind, the translation of Roberts' sketches of the Holy Land, represents the culmination of his art".Part 2 - The Publication of Roberts' Holy Land and EgyptRoberts first sketched in his journals "on the spot" the vaious subjects which, on returning to London, he transcribed into finished paintings and watercolors. These then formed the basis of the lithographs drawn and printed by Louis Haghe. It is interesting to note that in some instances Roberts' original drawings were twice or three times the size of the published print, which indicated the skill of Haghe and his… Read More

Berlin: R. Wagner, c. 1871. Very Good. Notes: A charming view of Nagasaki, Japan, during the mid 19th century. Mounted on publisher's board. Eduard Hildebrandt (1817 – 1868) was a German painter. He served as apprentice to his father, a house-painter at Danzig. He was not twenty when he moved to Berlin, where he was taken in hand by Wilhelm Krause, a painter of sea pieces. He is most well known for his sketches, many of them represented by chromolithography. Fantasies in red, yellow and opal, sunset, sunrise and moonshine, distances of hundreds of miles like those of the Andes and the Himalaya, narrow streets in the bazaars of Cairo or Suez, panoramas as seen from mast-heads, wide cities like Bombay or Pekin, narrow strips of desert with measure-less expanses of skyfall alike display his quality of bravura. , Image Size : 262x377 (mm), 10.31x14.84 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 451x552 (mm), 17.76x21.73 (Inches), Coloring: Printed in Color, Medium: Chromolithograph, Categories: Views… Read More

Tabriz: Mr H. Naseri of Khorshid and Shehrkat Matbooat Azerbaijan , 1928. Very Good, laid down on acid free canvas for long term preservation. . Notes: A splendid and highly scarce wall map of Iran published in Tabriz in the early twentieth century. The map is based on earlier maps of Iran that were published in Russia and Iran. Shows in detail its various provinces, main roads, rail roads, rivers, boundaries, main cities, towns, ports, and other geographical features. Included is a sidebar with information on its regions' distance from the capital, as well as elevation information. Updated and improved from its first printing of c.1889.All inscriptions and description and the names of the cities and provinces are shown in fine Persian (mode Arabic 'naskh' and Persian 'nasta liq' ). The external boundaries are shown. Note that the Persian Gulf is named as the Khalij-i Bandar-Bushihr and the Caspian sea is Bahr-i Khazar or Darya-yi-Mazandaran. Title, scales, signs, etc. are placed in the lower left… Read More

New York: Counterpoint Press. , 2006.. A near fine example. Interior is clean and crisp.. Edition: First US Edition., Binding: Publisher’s full orange paper boards. Silver lettering on spine. With dust jacket, unclipped., Notes: Benita Eisler (1937 - present) is an American writer and educator. She is best known for her biographies of historic figures., Size: 8vo. (235x152 mm). , Category: Book Women; Book Biography;

Ottawa: Department of Mines, 1915. Very Good. Size : 465x310 (mm), 18.25x12.25 (Inches), Coloring: Printed in Color, Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia

Augsberg, 1726. Very Good. Notes: A scarce early 18th century town plan of Nangasaki, Japan., Size : 238x145 (mm), 9.37x5.71 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Asia Far East Japan & Korea;

USA : Survey of the Coast of the United States, 1866. Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation. Notes: Nautical charts of Nantucket Harbor in Massachusetts., Size : 362x446 (mm), 14.25x17.56 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps United States New England (States);

Amsterdam, 1657. Very Good; some minor browning on the white margin and along the folds. Notes: From: "Illustriorum Regni Galliae Civitatum Tabulae, Vt & Helvetiae Confoederatae Civitates Celebriores. (Theatrum Exhibens Celebriores Galliae Et Helvetiae Urbes.)", Janssonius, Johannes, Amsterdam c.1657, Size : 404x510 (mm), 15.875x20.125 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Category: ; Maps Europe France; Maps City Maps

Berlin: R. Wagner, c. 1871. Very Good. Notes: A charming view of Naples during the mid 19th century. Mounted on publisher's board. Eduard Hildebrandt (1817 – 1868) was a German painter. He served as apprentice to his father, a house-painter at Danzig. He was not twenty when he moved to Berlin, where he was taken in hand by Wilhelm Krause, a painter of sea pieces. He is most well known for his sketches, many of them represented by chromolithography. Fantasies in red, yellow and opal, sunset, sunrise and moonshine, distances of hundreds of miles like those of the Andes and the Himalaya, narrow streets in the bazaars of Cairo or Suez, panoramas as seen from mast-heads, wide cities like Bombay or Pekin, narrow strips of desert with measure-less expanses of Skyfall alike display his quality of bravura. , Image Size : 233x342 (mm), 9.17x13.46 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 452x555 (mm), 17.80x21.85 (Inches), Coloring: Printed in Color, Medium: Chromolithograph, Categories: Views Europe Italy;

London: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., 1850. Excellent. Image Size : 440x330 (mm), 17.25x13 (Inches), Platemark Size : 575x440 (mm), 22.625x17.25 (Inches), Paper Size : 660x580 (mm), 26x22.875 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Steel Engraving, Categories: Portraits Political;

London & New York: Arthur Tooth, c.1899. Very Good. Image Size : 415x480 (mm), 16.34x18.90 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : , Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Etching on vellum, Categories: Military Others;

London: Henry Graves, 1908. Excellent. Image Size : 440x335 (mm), 17.25x13.125 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 545x425 (mm), 21.5x16.75 (Inches), Coloring: Black & White, Categories: Military Others;

London / New York, c.1890. Very Good. Notes: Fine depiction of Napoleon retreat from Moscow, signed by pencil in the lower left by the artist. Rare proof before lettering. , Image Size : 620x875 (mm), 24.41x34.45 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 680x920 (mm), 26.77x36.22 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Photogravure, Categories: Military Others;

Paris, c.1834. Very Good. Notes: It is the first portrait of Napoleon in undress uniform as First Consul of France. The original drawing was completed in 1801. The Chateau of Malmaison, his sometime residence, is visible in the background. , Image Size : 378x256 (mm), 14.88x10.08 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 470x328 (mm), 18.50x12.91 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Medium: Soft background etching, Categories: Portraits Political