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Click here to subscribeWeld, Isaac Jr.: Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, During the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. L, John Stockdale, 1799, First edition. Complete with 16 Maps & Plates, including a large folding Hand-Coloured Map of the Northern States of America. 4to. PP: xxiv, 464. Cont. full calf; rubbed; lacking a few of the tissue guards; two small pin holes to the folding map; otherwise very good.
(4 works in one volume): Iobi Ludolfi (Ludolf, Hiob (1624-1704)): HISTORIA AETHIOPICA, SIVE BREVIS ET SUCCINTA DESCRIPTIO REGNI HABESSINORUM, QUOD VULGO MALE PRESBYTERI IOHANNIS VOCATUR. Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1681. PP: (336). complete. Folio; Title-Page printed in red and black. ILLUSTRATIONS: On large engraved folding Map, 8 Engraved Plates (7 folding), plus 2 double-page Tables;Ibid. Ad Suam Historiam Aethiopicam Antehac editam Commentarius in quo multa Breviter dicta fusius narrantur. Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1691. pp: (vi), 30, (ii), 632. complete. Title-page and calendar printed in red and black. ILLUSTRATIONS: 3 Portraits, 9 engraved plates and plans (4 double-page, 3 single page, and 2 half plates); plus a text illustration;Ibid. Appendix ad Historiam Aethiopicam. Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1693. pp: 32. ILLUSTRATIONS: Vignette to title-page, plus One text illustration;Ibid. Appendix secunda ad Historiam Aethiopicam continens dissertationem de locustis. Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1694. pp: (viii), 88. ILLUSTRATIONS: Vignette to title-page, plus 3 engraved text illustrations (one full-page).The four works are bound in one later full vellum volume. Very good copy.
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Baron von: SELECTARUM STIRPIUM AMERICANARUM HISTORIA, IN QUA AD LINNAEANUM SYSTEMA DETERMINATAE DESCRIPTAEQUE SISTUNUTUR PLANTAE ILLAE, QUAS IN INSULIS MARTINICA, JAMAICA, DOMINGO, ALIISQUE, ET IN VICINAE CONTINENTIS PARTE, OBSERVAVIT RARIORES. Vindobonae [Vienna], ex officina Krausiana, 1763, First edition. Folio, PP: (x), vii, (v), 284, (xiv)Index, etc., Plus emblematic frontispiece to plate-section and the Plates. ILLUSTRATIONS: engraved vignette of two ships approaching a New World island on title-page, 2 engraved scenic headpieces, numerous woodcut tailpieces, engraved emblematic frontispiece to plate-section depicting Native Americans holding up a banner-map of the West Indies surrounded by Caribbean flora and fauna, Plus 184 engraved full-page plates (numbered I-XXXVII, XXXVII*, XXXVIII-CLXXXIII [also numbered lower right 1-37, 37*, 38-183]; 6 folding) after Jacquin by Jacob Wangner. Leather backed boards; covers worn and front detached; Otherwise a very good and clean copy.
*Coal Box - Irish Home Rule. An Irish coal or peat box, circa 1912, with carved satirical panels referring to Winston Churchill and the Home Rule controversy, 36 x 46 x 48cm The carved panels are probably after Punch cartoons. The top panel depicts a man (Prime Minster Herbert Asquith?) with a bird's body looking at a dead bird labelled 'Liberal Party' that has been struck by an arrow labelled 'Insurance Act'; the hinged sloping lid panel titled 'Into Smithereens, Sep 1st / [19]12', showing a smashed cheval mirror labelled 'Home Rule', above 'Master Winston "I cannot tell a lie, my little cannon did it", the cannon labelled 'Dundee speech' [15 October 1908]; the left side panel depicting a mask-backed chair labelled 'Home Rule', the mask watching a lady at a spinning wheel inscribed 'Irish Lords Reform'; the right side panel with a figure in a press labelled 'British Navy' with a map of the North Sea behind, above 'The Eternal Pressure'. (1)
*Buckler (Edward H.). South West View of Rugby School, Published by A.T. Read, Bookseller, Rugby, circa 1850, uncoloured lithograph of a cricket match on the lawns at Rugby School, few light spots, 26 x 33cm (10.25 x 13ins), framed and glazed, together with Pretty (E.), To the Noblemen & Gentlemen Educated at Rugby, this View of the School is respectfully dedicated by their humble servant E. Pretty, Published by E. Pretty, Drawing Master, Rugby, April 1st, 1816, hand-colour aquatint view engraved by J. Hill, toning to lower left corner of border, image 26 x 38.8cm (10.25 x 15.25ins), overall dimensions 33 x 44cm (13 x 17.5ins), framed and glazed, with three other lithographs of Rugby, all framed & glazed, plus six other miscellaneous prints including a county map of Shropshire by Robert Morden, mostly framed and glazed Robert Hardy attended Rugby School. (11)
*Embroidered map. A Map of the World, according to the Latest Discoveries, 1800, double-hemisphere world map, finely worked on cream silk, toned, perished in places (mostly towards edges), each hemisphere in blackwork, with land masses outlined in coloured silks, general title embroidered in black within decorative circular frame, and hemispheres with titles 'Western Hemisphere or The New World' and 'Eastern Hemisphere or The Old World', compass rose embroidered in coloured threads, painted and blackwork vignette at each corner representing the four continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, 38 x 71cm (15 x 28ins), verre eglomise mount, gilt frame (1)
KING JAMES BIBLE 1683, Amsterdam, fol. orig. tooled cf. over wooden bds. with brass corners & clasps, lacks all before dedication leaf (Old Testament, New Testament t/p dated 1683, Apocrypha & Whole Book of Psalms are complete, fldng. World map by J. Moxon plus 5 other fldng maps by N. Visscher, 1 map with 1 fold lost & 1 map with slight loss to edges
Bradshaw's Railway Companion; a rare early Bradshaw's Railway Companion book containing the times of departure, fares etc. of the railways in England. Pub. Bradshaw & Blacklock, Manchester 1840. In cloth covered boards, size 12cm x 7.5cm with gold label with the title to the front. Approx 40 pages of timetables and train information, 16 pages of maps - some hand-coloured. With four double page city plans (Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester). Lacking most of the London map. Scarce publication. Measures 11.5 cm high.
Troye [G.A.] Troye's Map of the Transvaal or S.A. Republic, 1896, Edward Stanford for Fehr and Du Bois, colour map printed direct by Wurster, Randegger & Cy. on six folding linen sheets, original folio case with map key to upper board (slipcase well worn and soiled), with three additional folding maps of the area after Maj. H.M. Jackson, 1900-1, two printed on linen, one on paper (the latter worn)
Cary (J.) Cary's New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland on Which are Carefully laid down All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals ..., June 11th, 1794, J Cary, large quarto, 81 engraved plates, land hand-coloured in outline, half calf (rubbed)
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