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

Kiev, Ukraine, 1959-1961. Very Good. Image Size : 385x355 (mm), 15.16x13.98 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 610x465 (mm), 24.02x18.31 (Inches), Coloring: Printed in Color, Medium: Print, Categories: Posters;Views Europe Russia;

Paris, [Circa 1800]. A near fine example, plates are crisp and mostly clean.. Binding: Contemporary binding: fawn half-calf with corners, rebacked expertly, saving the flat spine with title label in red morocco., Notes: Elephant Folio (800 x 560 mm). This series occupied him throughout his life, from the 1740s until he died in 1778. Thus, as Wilton-Ely points out, all the phases of evolution and maturation of the style of engraving take shape in the Vedute. of Piranesi, as well as his philosophical questions: "through these particular works, which were spread all over the Continent using the Grand Tour, Piranesi was not only to revolutionize the conventional form of the veduta but was to transform the European vision of classical antiquity"., Size: Elephant Folio., Illustration: 57 plates and the large "Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzo" leaflet.Volume from the Famous Views of Rome by Piranesi, in the first printing in Paris.Many of the plates show the watermark of the first Parisian printing (Hind… Read More

Thomas Bensley, Bolt-court, Fleet-street, For R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall-mall, c. 1805, watermarks 1801- 1811. . Extremities worn. Minor rubbing, light scrapes to boards; otherwise a very good, attractive example of Thomas Milton's engravings of Mayer's original drawings. Bound in decorative gilt morocco. . Binding: Contemporary brown morocco, expertly rebacked; boards with two bands of double fillet gilt rules and gilt dentelles, inner corners with gilt tooled leaf design; spine with six (6) raised dentelle gilt bands, six compartments with gilt ornaments, green morocco labelled, gilt lettered title on two; inner gilt double fillet ruling; all edges marbled, colour matched marbled pasted and free endpapers., Notes: The first edition was published in 1801, as part of Mayer's greater collection. A student of Piranesi, Mayer (1755-1803) made the illustrations when he was retained by Sir Robert Ainslie, British ambassador at Constantinople from 1776-92, as painter. Houfe says that Mayer "was… Read More

Rome/Romae: Formis Io. Iacobi de Rubei, apud templum S. Mariae de Pace. , Undated [c.1650-latest c.1690, most probably c.1660] [c.1675-1677]. . Lacks folding double-page plan of the Villa Pamphilia and the first of 5 folding plates “Primus”. Otherwise, a very good example, plates are crisp and clean. . Edition: First and only edition. Italic and Roman type. Tex, Binding: Contemporary panelled full burgundy morocco, double-gilt filleted; spine with six (6) raised bands, gilt lettered title on two with remaining compartments gilt ornamented; all edges gilt; contemporary endpapers with watermark of a fleur-de-lis within two concentric circles. Wide margin paper., Notes: An architectural plate book depicting statues, and fountains displayed in Villa Pamphili, an important 16th-17th century Roman villa, designed by the painter Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606 - 1680) and Alessandro Algardi (1598 - 1654), followed by the construction of the garden layout; …1652-1657. The publication of the present… Read More

London:: for G. Nicol, Bookseller to his Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand., c. 1785; . In near fine condition. Text and plates are clean and crisp. A handsome and attractive set. Several mispaginations with no loss: Vol I, p. 263 as “173”; Vol II, p. 247 as “347”; Vol III, p. 379 as “579”; Vol IV, p. 172 as “72”. Vol I: pp.293-297 marginal light browning.. Edition: Second and superior Edition., Binding: Text vols: expertly rebacked saving contemporary full calf; spine with five (5) raised gilt bands, forming six (6) gilt ornamented compartments; gilt-lettered title on red and black morocco labels on two and three; all edges red; endpapers renewed. Atlas volume: Half-calf with gilt dog-tooth roll bordering to marbled boards; spine with six (6) raised bands, forming compartments of gilt ornamental design, and gilt lettered titles on red and black morocco labels on two and three; edges slightly blue. , Notes: Cook’s third voyage continued the centuries-old search… Read More

Amsterdam:: Michel Charles le Ce’Ne, , c. 1727 . A fine example with superb period binding, crisp impressions. . Binding: Contemporary blind paneled calf, spine gilt with six (6) compartments of densely gilt floral and ornamental motifs with five (5) raised bands; gilt title on red morocco label on two; marbled pasted and free endpapers; all edges red. , Notes: Text in two columns. Revised and expanded edition of Abraham de Wicquefort’s translation of “Morgenlandische Reise-Beschreibung”. A shorter account of Mandelslo’s travels appeared in Adam Olearius’s “Offt begehrte beschreibung” (1647). The present work, edited by Olearius from papers left by the author, gives a full description of his voyage. Mandelslo, along with Olearius, was a member of the embassy sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein to Muscovy and Persia. His travels also took him to India, Ceylon and Africa. This is the P. van Der Aa edition with a new title page., Size: Small folio (314x200mm)., Illustration: Two… Read More

Paris: Delagrave, c.1850. Very Good. Notes: A French farm scene of a Cow inside a stable during the mid 19th century. , Image Size : 279x385 (mm), 10.98x15.16 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 375x474 (mm), 14.76x18.66 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Medium: Lithograph, Categories: Natural History Zoology;

New York: The Century Co, 1923. In very good condition. Lacks the dust jacket.. Binding: Original cloth boards, Illustration: illustrated with a profusion of black&white plates., Category: Book Americas South;

Amsterdam, c. 1635. Very Good;. Notes: Latin text on verso; north drawn to the right of map. Title cartouche decorated with a crest, a scale sits in the upper left corner, and three ships, a monster and a compass rose decorate the sea., Size : 385x503 (mm), 15.16x19.80 (Inches), Coloring: Original Outline Coloring, Category: Maps Europe Spain;

Canada, c.1950. Very Good. Notes: SS Valley Camp is a lake freighter that served on the Great Lakes for almost 50 years and is now a museum ship in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.Valley Camp was a typical oreboat, who served the National Steel Corporation, Republic Steel Corporation and Wilson Transit Co. during her 1917–1966 working life. In 1968, she became a museum ship on the waterfront of Sault Ste. Marie, downstream of the Soo Locks. She holds many relics from SS Edmund Fitzgerald (including two of Edmund Fitzgerald's mauled lifeboats)., Image Size : 400x630 (mm), 15.75x24.80 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : , Coloring: Printed in Color, Medium: Offset Lithograph, Categories: Transportation Ships;

Washington, D.C.: Selmar Siebert's Engraving & Printing, 1854. Very Good. Notes: View showing the projected line of railroad in Nevada., Image Size : 112x758 (mm), 4.41x29.84 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 288x770 (mm), 11.34x30.31 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Engraving, Categories: Views United States West;

Toronto: William Briggs. , 1913.. A very good example. . Binding: contemporary full burgundy cloth, title in gilt on flat spine and upper board, edges uncut. , Size: 8vo., , Category: Book Canada

Leyden, Amsterdam, The Hague: Honkoop, Allart, Van Cleef, 1795. Excellent. Size : 250x300 (mm), 9.875x11.75 (Inches), Coloring: Black & White, Category: ; Maps Ocean Indian

Vancouver: Vancouver Town Planning Commission, 1930. Very Good. Notes: Map of Vancouver showing its zoning plan. Parks and roadways are depicted. , Size : 229x243 (mm), 9.02x9.57 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia; Maps City Maps;

Vancouver: Vancouver Town Planning Commission, 1928. Very Good. Notes: Late 1920's map depicting proposed track plan for Vancouver. Major roads shown in fine detail. , Size : 151x195 (mm), 5.94x7.68 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia; Maps City Maps;

Vancouver: Vancouver Town Planning Commission, 1928. Very Good. Notes: Map of Vancouver, BC, depicting the ultimate routes of street car lines and interurbans lines. , Size : 152x197 (mm), 5.98x7.76 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia; Maps City Maps;

Vancouver: Vancouver Town Planning Commission, 1928. Very Good. Notes: Map of Vancouver depicting proposed car flow within the central business district and its vicinity. , Size : 151x197 (mm), 5.94x7.76 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia; Maps City Maps;

Vancouver: Vancouver Town Planning Commission, 1929. Very Good. Notes: Map of South Vancouver, showing in fine detail its street plan. , Size : 227x244 (mm), 8.94x9.61 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia; Maps City Maps;

Vancouver: Vancouver Town Planning Commission, c.1930. Very Good. Notes: Map of Vancouver, showing builtup areas as well as planned areas for urban development. , Size : 190x379 (mm), 7.48x14.92 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia; Maps City Maps;

Vancouver: Vancouver Town Planning Commission , 1928. Very Good. Notes: Map of Vancouver, British Columbia, showing in fine detail street improvement plans. , Size : 152x170 (mm), 5.98x6.69 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia; Maps City Maps;