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

London,: Published by W. Darton & Son, Holborn Hill, of whom may be had by the same Author various other Instructive Games,, 1834.. each: 500 by 940mm. (19.75 by 37 inches).. Two engraved maps (each measuring 500 by 940 mm), both with fine original full-wash colour, each dissected and mounted on to a single piece of linen with the rules on each side, folding into original brown cloth slipcase, with publisher's label. Two companion geographical games of the eastern and western hemispheres. The player begins his journey of the eastern hemisphere in Ireland, travelling through Europe, then on through Asia to China, the East Indies, and Australia. The player then crosses the Indian Ocean and visits the east coast of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Middle East, where the traveller visits Mecca, whose temple is said to "resemble the Royal Exchange in shape, but is nearly ten times as large". After visiting the over sized royal exchange, the player heads for Africa, ending his travels and winning… Read More

London,: John Wallis, 16 Ludgate Street,, 1794.. 695 by 490mm. (27.25 by 19.25 inches).. Engraved map with original hand colour, dissected and mounted on linen. This geographical game map from 1794 recreates the contemporary tradition of the 'Grand Tour', where wealthy young men were sent around Europe to acquire culture and experience of different countries. It is suitable for two to three players but up to six can play "if a double set of counters and pyramids are purchased". Each player takes a pyramid and four counters, which are meant to represent the tourist and their servants. They start at Harwich (No. 1), then spins a totem to see how many cities they can advance. Each subsequent roll is added to the total, so the last city (London) must be landed on with an exact roll to win the game. If for various reasons they miss a turn, they leave a counter (or servant) at the city, and have to retrieve them before they can advance. The game rules and a numbered list of places are in the margins,… Read More

London,: Published by E. Wallis, 42 Skinner Street and 12 High Street, Islington,, [c1823].. 490 by 630mm (19.25 by 24.75 inches).. Engraved game map with hand colour, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into original cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt. Wallis first published a game of this nature in 1796 (see Whitehouse facing p.7 for an illustration), by the 1820's a number of new discoveries had been incorporated together with other refinements made to the game itself. The sheet contains the world in two conjoined hemispheres with 5 additional hemispheres around the outside consisting of 'Geographical Circles,' 'Zones, ' 'Parallels of Latitude,' 'Meridians,' and an 'Explanation of Geographical Characters.' The players circumnavigate the world traveling east around Africa, through India, 'New Holland' then north to China and Japan, then south through North and South America, west to New Zealand the Pacific Islands before crossing back to the South Atlantic and returning to port in London.

[London],: Published by E. Wallis, 42, Skinner Street,, [c.1840].. 540 by 750mm (21.25 by 29.5 inches).. Engraved plan, fine original hand-colour, alphabetical list of streets below, old folds reinforced, some with minor loss. Wallis's Guide for Strangers was a popular map, printed in numerous editions between 1813 and 1843. This edition shows the London and Greenwich Railway, opened between 1836 and 1838, which terminated at London Bridge, and was the first steam railway to have a terminus in the capital. Also shown is the London and Blackwall line, opened on July 6, 1840. This terminates at Minories on the current map, but was extended to Fenchurch Street in 1841. The London and Birmingham Railway was the first intercity line to be built into London. It terminates at Euston Station, which on this map is named as the Birmingham Railway Depot, and ran from 1833 to 1846, when it became part of the London and North Western Railway Line. Lastly is the Eastern Counties Railway, opened June 20, 1839. In… Read More

London,: Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street,, 21st Jan. 1818.. Image: 285 by 430mm (11.25 by 17 inches). Sheet: 295 by 445mm (11.5 by 17.5 inches).. Hand-coloured copper engraving. A view of Waterloo Place from Pall Mall. The square is now occupied by the Guards Crimean War Memorial. The King's Theatre was one of the most fashionable places in London, situated as it was just opposite Carlton House, the home of the Prince Regent.

London,: 3 New Bond Street,, [c.1850].. (height) 930mm (36.5 inches).. Signed to dial Dixey & Sons, London, with engraved brass dial divided for furlongs, miles, poles and yards, six-spoke wheel with steel rim tread, square brass fork body with hinged side for wheel removal, straight handle, on modern mahogany stand. The origins of mechanically measuring and recording distance can be traced speculatively to 336-323 BC when Alexander the Great employed bematists for his campaign into Asia. As Donald W. Engels theorises, the accuracy of the measurements implies that the bematists used a sophisticated mechanical device for measuring distances, undoubtedly an odometer such as the one described by Heron of Alexandria. The reintroduction of this process in the seventeenth century, with the development of the waywiser, accounted for an influx of cartographic accuracy, and paved the way for the large-scale surveys of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Each revolution of the wheel measured a set… Read More

Amsterdam,: by Jacobus Robyn, inde Nieuwe Brugh steeg inde Stuurman,, [c1630-1674].. 810 by 978mm. (32 by 38.5 inches).. A separately published large engraved chart printed in four sheets, joined, with fine contemporary hand-colour lavishly heightened in gold. The very rare second state (of four) of one of the most important charts published in the seventeenth century, one of the earliest on Mercator's projection, and the first on the projection for North America. Waters: the "earliest printed chart of the Atlantic … became immediately the standard chart for navigation to America and the Cape of Good Hope". Campbell says that only "a few examples at most" of each state have survived. The title indicates that the Paskaert was designed to show the area chartered to the West India Company in 1621. Destombes and Gernez suggest that the lack of a privilege on the first state indicates that it was used exclusively by the company and not available to the general public. Schilder locates just two… Read More

London,: J.D. Potter,, 1861. Small corrections to 1892.. 970 by 830mm (38.25 by 32.75 inches).. Engraved chart, dissected and mounted on linen, numerous soundings and two compass roses, inset charts of St George Harbour, Grenada and the adjacent islands, part of Grenada's south coast, four large coastal profiles upper left, Stanford's publisher's label pasted to lower margin, folding into original red buckram slipcase with publisher's label. Rare Admiralty chart of Grenada. The British Hydrographic Office was founded in 1795 by George III, who appointed Alexander Dalrymple as the first Hydrographer to the Admiralty. The first charts were produced in 1800. Unlike the U. S. Coast Survey the Hydrographic Office was given permission to sell charts to the public and they produced a great number of sea charts covering every corner of the globe. Most of the Admiralty charts produced by the Hydrographic Office delineated coastline as well as high and low water marks and record depth of water as established… Read More

London,: Published as the Act directs by B. Cooper, No.4 Earl Street, Chatham Square,, 1797.. Image: 320 by 248mm (12.5 by 9.75 inches). Sheet: 457 by 378mm (18 by 15 inches).. Engraving with aquatint. A view of the entrance to the City of London, Temple Bar. The print is dedicated to Alderman William Pickett, a supporter of the freed slave Olaudah Equiano and later the Lord Mayor of London, who had put forward a plan for the removal of Temple Bar in 1789, in order to make the western entrance into the city easier. Philip Audinet (1766-1837) was an English line engraver. Yale Center for British Art B1977.14.18442.

Amsterdam,: door Pieter Goos en zyn te bekoomen by Gerard van Keulen, Boek-Zee-Kaart-verkoper, en Graad -boogmaaker aan de Oost-zyde van de Niewen Brug, in de gekroonde Lootsman,, [1704-1726].. 805 by 985mm (31.75 by 38.75 inches).. Engraved chart, printed on vellum, traces of original hand-colour. An unrecorded state of one of the most important charts published in the seventeenth century; and one of the earliest on Mercator's projection to show North America. This large chart, first published by Hendrik Doncker in 1659, is based on Blaeu's seminal map of the Atlantic of 1630, the "earliest printed chart of the Atlantic … [which] became immediately the standard chart for navigation to America and the Cape of Good Hope". So influential was Blaeu's chart during the seventeenth century, that several derivatives are known, those recorded are by: J. A. Colom, circa 1639 and circa 1665; T. Jacobsz, circa 1646 and circa 1650; S. de Ruesta, 1654; H. Doncker, the present chart, 1659; Hugo Allard, circa… Read More

Amsterdam,: Iohannes van Loon, Plaetsnyder en Zee-caert-maker,, 1661.. 510 by 595mm. (20 by 23.5 inches).. Engraved chart. A chart of the East Indies from van Loon's 'Zee-Atlas'. Johannes van Loon (1611-1686) "was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer.  His earliest cartographic works were with Theunisz Jacobs in the 1640s.  From 1650 he worked with Joannes Janssonius, engraving amongst other works the plates for his celestial atlas by Cellarius, 1660. In 1661, he published his first work with this brother, Gilles; the 'Zee Atlas' containing thirty-five maps. In 1666 the plates were sold to Jan Jansson van Waesberge, with whom he then co-published the atlas. This edition was expanded to forty-seven maps, and by 1676 there were fifty" (Burden).

Brussels,: Imprimé par P. Simonau, Lithographe Éditeur, ruz auc Choux, No. 68, à Bruxelles,, [1843].. Image: 626 by 479mm (24.75 by 18.75 inches). Sheet: 695 by 545mm (27.25 by 21.5 inches).. Lithograph, tear to upper left corner. A view of Westminster Abbey, from the series 'Monuments Gothiques', published in 1843. The Gothic Revival saw a new interest in Gothic architecture, of which the Abbey was a fine example. Gustave Simonau (1811-1870) was a French artist who specialised in architectural prints. BL 1899.g.15. (series); RCIN 1070575 (series).

1884.. Image: 290 by 400mm (11.5 by 15.75 inches). Sheet: 395 by 550mm (15.5 by 21.75 inches).. Etching, drypoint, salt lift ground, stippling and roulette, printed in brown and black. The seventh state of Buhot's print of Westminster Palace, capturing the fog of an afternoon on the River Thames. Félix Buhot (1847-1898) was a French painter and printmaker. Buhot worked in both France and England, and was particularly interested in city views and conveying the effects of different types of weather, using a variety of printmaking techniques. The print has his trademark 'symphonic margins', inspired by the marginal decorations of medieval manuscripts, that draw out and enlarge upon elements of the same print. The print carries Buhot's stamp, the monogrammed owl, and his signature. BM 1904,0219.109 (sixth state).

1884.. Image: 285 by 398mm (11.25 by 15.75 inches). Sheet: 345 by 470mm (13.5 by 18.5 inches).. Etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint and spit bite, printed in brown and black. The fifth state of Buhot's print of Westminster Palace and the Clock Tower (now the Elizabeth Clock Tower). The print carries Buhot's stamp, the monogrammed owl. BM 1904,0219.111.

[London],: At the Golden Globe, under y.e Piazzas, on London Bridge,, [1749-1758].. 45 by 85mm (1.75 by 3.25 inches).. Prints,""William Herbert Map & Printseller, ... Herbert's trade card from his London Bridge address Engraved trade card. After seven years with the East India Company in the subcontinent, and a few false starts on his return (as hosier, dyer, and glass painter), William Herbert (1718-1795) finally settled on being a seller and publisher of prints, maps, and charts in one of the new houses on London Bridge in 1749. He launched his business with the publication of some drawings that he had acquired during his time abroad. As London Bridge was notorious for burning (and falling) down, Herbert had the bright idea of a floating fire-engine, which suggestion was taken up by the Royal Exchange Assurance company. Nonetheless, the bridge burnt in 1758, and Herbert was forced to move to Leadenall Street, where he published the opportunistic, 'A chronological and historical account from the… Read More

London,: the North Side of St. Paul's Church Yard, , [c1760]. 165 by 115mm (6.5 by 4.5 inches).. Prints,""Kirk Engraver Of Seals in Stone, Steel, and Silver, Dies, and Stamps, Silver, & Copper-Plates &c... S is for Stampmaker Engraved traded card. James Kirk (c1725-1791) has engraved this elegant trade card in a fashionable rococco style, which advertises a joint business he operated with this father, John. Best known for engraving a series of plates to Robert Sayer's edition of 'Aesop's Fables' in 1749, James Kirk engraved at least two other trade cards: one for his father John Kirk (1724-1776), medal and seal maker (BM Heal 103.8); and one for Thomas Surffen's """"Very Commodius Bathing Machine"""" (BM Heal 8.12). John Kirk had been operating from """"the North Side of St. Paul's Church Yard"""" since about 1750. James had started his own business, at """"the Golden Fan a Toy shop, in St. Paul's Church Yard within 4 Doors of Cheapside"""". By 1755, it seems that James had joined forces with John,… Read More

London,: No. 33 Cheapside, Two Doors from Friday Str.t, [and] No. 120 Leadenhall Street opposite the India House,, [from c1812]. (each) 75 by 115mm. (3 by 4.5 inches).. Prints,""Romanis, Stocking Manufacturer S is for Stocking Manufacturer Two engraved trade cards. Trade card of Robert and John Romanis, who manufactured and sold hosier at two locations in London. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Robert Romanis established a shop at 33 Cheapside and a workshop at 120 Leadenhall Street; he was later joined in business by his son John, who managed the premises at 75 Gracechurch Street, as listed in the 1812 Post-Office Annual Directory. These addresses are also found in Pigot & Co.'s New Commercial Directory of Scotland for 1825 to 1826, as well as in John Tallis's London Street Views of 1838 to 1840, despite the fact that in 1834 John had listed for insolvency. Indeed, upon the marriage of John's daughter Anne in 1841, the family was still located at Gracechurch Street, indicating that… Read More

[London],: 15 Lime Street, Fenchurch Street,, [1861-c1880].. 75 by 110mm. (3 by 4.25 inches).. Prints,""John Short, Late Davenport, W is for Warehouseman Engraved trade card. Trade card for John Short, a jeweller and silversmith who dealt in a wide range of metal goods. Announced on his card are """"Silver Pencil Cases, Toothpicks, Fruit Knives, Cigar Tubes, Gold & Silver Guards, Chains & Brequets...Neck chains, Earrings, Broaches, Pins &c., Spectacles of every description, Wedding & other Rings"""". A few of these items appears as decorative illustrations around the outer-edge of the card, as well as several others objects such as candle-holder, scissors and a range of ornate bottles. Short also proudly advertises himself as a """"warehouseman"""" with facilities in Birmingham and Sheffield, as well as his shop in London. In a commission of 1884 inquiring into London's livery companies it was noted that the shop and warehouse at 15a Lime Street were rented to Short for £120 by the Pewterers'… Read More

Birmingham,: No. 110 Lancaster St.,, [1846-1886].. 65 by 95mm (2.5 by 3.75 inches).. Prints,""William Smith, Gun & Pistol Maker. G is for Gunsmith Engraved trade card. In 'Gunmakers of London 1350-1850', Howard Blackmore, lists nineteen London gunmakers with the name William Smith, the first operating from 1589-1598. Blackmore's authoritative work was later supplemented by Brian Godwin whose 'List of English and Welsh Provincial Gunsmiths and Gunmakers from 1550 to 1850' excludes those London gunmakers recorded in the former. Godwin lists one William Smith who worked in Birmingham from 110 Lancaster Street between 1846 and 1886. Unfortunately, the Birmingham Smith's legacy as a gunmaker has been heavily overshadowed by his earlier namesake who provided guns to George IV, the Emperor of Russia and the King of Bavaria. Nonetheless, Smith's trade card announces a host of gun- and shooting-related wares and services, including """"Flints & Percussion Caps"""", """"Powder Flasks, Shot Belts &c"""",… Read More

Amsterdam,: Petrus Schenk,, [1730].. 625 by 925mm. (24.5 by 36.5 inches).. Etching and engraving on two sheets joined. A large winter scene from the Amstel dike towards Weesp. The scene is replete with a wealth of activity on the frozen water, with among other things skaters, carriages, sledges, a cafe on the ice, andmost notably a horse-drawn icebreaker. The icebreakers kept the Amstel open by order of the beer brewers to provide for fresh drinking water from the Vecht river. At bottom left and right descriptions in Dutch and French about the icebreakers. On the far left is the entrance to the 'Oliphantspad'; to the right the 'Lokhorst' and the tavern the 'Ysbreker''. The engraver of the work is unknown, however, the piece was sometimes bound into the 'Theatrum Machinarum …' by Tieleman van der Horst, which was published by Pieter Schenk in 1739. Tieleman van der Horst was an eighteenth century Dutch civil engineer. Bierens de Haan 4840.