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

Istanbul: Gulmez Freres Phot. de Sa Majeste Imperiale le Sultan, c. 1870. A handsome example in fine condition. . Binding: Full red contemporary cloth boards, gilt title on front cover; highly decorative gilt ornamentation on upper and lower boards; spine flat with four horizontal gilt bands. Pasted and free endpapers in decorative turquoise gold boards, Size: Small oblong folio (340x2, Illustration: Illustrated with 30 albumen photographs (200x260mm) of Constantinople depicting the City’s panoramic views of the Bosporus, important landmarks, personages, and events, including famous mosques, palaces, university, towers, bridges, bazaars. , Category: Book Asia Middle East General; Book Photographic Album;

London & New York : J. & F. Tallis, c. 1832. Very Good. Image Size : 192x156 (mm), 7.56x6.14 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 276x187 (mm), 10.87x7.36 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Steel Engraving, Categories: Views United States East;

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927. A fine copy.. Edition: Second print of second edition., Binding: Full cloth boards, flat spine with gilt title, with plastic dust-jacket. , Notes: These are Browne’s memoirs of the year he spent in Persia (modern Iran), and includes many noteworthy episodes with members of the nascent Baha’i Faith (called Bábís by Browne).Second edition, with a memoir by Sir E. Denison Ross, one of Browne’s colleagues and close friends. This is Browne’s own account of his long journey through Persia, from 1887 to 1888, which, despite his eminence as a Persian scholar, was to be his only visit to the country. Fortunately, it proved to be a lengthy one, in which he immersed himself in Persian culture, shunning the company of his fellow Europeans and seeking out the various religious characteristics in the country. His obsession, of course, was of the Babi religion (that had already morphed into the Baha’i faith by the time he arrived) that had sprung up with a… Read More

Montreal : John Lowe & Co., c.1868. Good condition. . Binding: Full recent decorative marbled boards. Flat spine with gilt title. , Notes: Almanac of Canada for the year of 1868, describing its statistics, a record of its legislation, and major public figures. , Size: 8vo (203x130mm)., Illustration: Illustrated with a lithographed plate of the St Lawrence Glass works, Pages: P. V1: Title, Note, Preface, Note, 1-167, Category: Book Canada

London: James Campbell, 1873. Very Good. Notes: Map of British Columbia from Yellow Head Pass to Kamloops, showing rivers and mountains. Sandford Fleming was a civil engineer and scientist. He immigrated to Canada in 1845 from Scotland. By 1857, Fleming was the top engineer for Huron, Simcoe, and Ontario Railways. He became chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1871 until he retired in 1880. He was chancellor of Queen\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s University between 1880 -1915. During this time, Fleming was devoted to scientific writing and research, contributing to the institution of standard time zones and telegraph technology. He designed Canada\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s first postage stamp in 1851, the three-penny beaver. He was knighted in 1897., Size : 163x100 (mm), 6.42x3.94 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia;

Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1967. In very good condition. Dust jacket in very good condition. Pages are white, clean, and crisp.. Binding: Original cloth boards with dust jacket, Pages: P. 1-303, Category: Book Canada

Paris: J. Rigo, 1850. Excellent. Notes: This plate is from" Voyage en Perse de MM. Eugene Flandin"The lithographed plates of Perse moderne are the finest depictions of Persia in the nineteenth century, Image Size : 295x475 (mm), 11.625x18.75 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 345x506 (mm), 13.625x19.875 (Inches), Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Lithograph, Categories: Views Asia Middle East Iran;

Berlin: R. Wagner, c. 1871. Very Good. Notes: A charming view of Yokohama, 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 : 254x380 (mm), 10.00x14.96 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 453x555 (mm), 17.83x21.85 (Inches), Coloring: Printed in Color, Medium: Chromolithograph, Categories: Views… Read More

London: G. Virtue, c. 1840. Very Good. Notes: A highly decorative and detailed map of the East Riding of Yorkshire during the early 19th century. The map has a decorative border, several coats of arms and an inset view of Beverley Minster. It shows roadways, railways, railway stations, towns, cities, borders, parks, and geographical features. Thomas Moule (1784 – 1851) was an English antiquarian, writer on heraldry, and map-maker. He is best known for his popular and highly decorated county maps of England., Size : 211x275 (mm), 8.31x10.83 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Europe United Kingdom England Counties;

London: James Knapton in St. Paul’s Church-Yard,, c.1712. Two plates of vol. 3 are misplaced into vol. 1 show figures 10/11 and 12-16 respectively. Text and plates of the volume are complete and clean, the work in very good condition. . Edition: First 1712 edition., Binding: Contemporary full brown calf, expertly rebacked with five raised bands, green morocco label on two with copper gilt lettering and ornaments; edges sprinkled with red., Notes: In his preface to the present 1712 first edition work, Wells states on the subject of the education of young gentlemen that “the most proper Method to make the young Gentlemen Learned is this; to teach them at first only such Elements of the liberal Arts or Sciences, as are most useful in the common Affairs of Life, and withal most easy to be known.” The mathematician, geographer, and divine Wells began his own studies at Westminster school in 1680, furthermore received a scholarship in 1686 graduating from Oxford in 1690. He was inducted to the… Read More

Amsterdan, 1706. Very good. Size : 415x525 (mm), 16.375x20.625 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Central America Mexico; Maps Central America Countries;

Ottawa: Department of the Interior , 1911. Very Good. Size : 565x944 (mm), 22.24x37.17 (Inches), Coloring: Printed in Color with Some Hand Coloring, Category: Maps Canada North;

c. 1926.. A very good example.. Binding: Lacquered Boards featuring bold floral composition of red and orange flowers surrounded with vines and leaves on black background and elaborate gilt paneling. rebacked in black calf, spine with blind rules. , Notes: The Masnavi of Yusuf and Zuleikha is a poem that was written after Ferdowsi 's death in around 477 AH. It was composed and later a group attributed its composition to Ferdowsi. [1] According to the Britannica encyclopedia , this poem was composed at least one hundred years after Ferdowsi's death. [2] The first sources that attributed Masnavi Yusuf and Zulikha to Ferdowsi; That is, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi 's Zafarnameh (828 AH) and then the preface to Baysanqari's Shahnameh (829 AH), were written more than 400 years after Ferdowsi, and before that date, there is no reference or source (such as Nizami Nizami Prozodi 's Chaharmakala and Tazkira Al- Shaarai ) Dolatshah Samarkandi who spoke about Ferdowsi in detail) did not mention such a story. It is… Read More