Glasgow: W.R.McPhun, c.1860. Notes: A mid-19th-century map of the Middle East region. , Size : 199x245 (mm), 7.83x9.65 (Inches), Coloring: Printed in Color with Some Hand Coloring, Category: Maps Asia Middle East; Maps Asia Middle East Iran, Iraq;.
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1839. Binding: Full brown cloth boards with embossed decoration, rebacked preserving original cloth. The upper with a central gilt device. , Size: 8vo.(200 x 125 mm), Illustration: Very good example. Illustrated with plates and in-text vignettes in addition 2 folding maps, being “Map to illustrate.....
Information Department of the S.A. Zionist Federation. 1944. Binding: Printed paper wraps, staple-bound. , Notes: Theodor Herzl (1860 – 1904) was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine, which, in the late.....
Basil: Johan Jacobum Deckerum. 1661. Binding: Full vellum boards. Manuscript title to spine. All edges speckled red. , Notes: Johannes Buxtorf (1564 – 1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was sometimes informally styled magister rabbinorum, or.....
London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1888. Binding: Full brown cloth boards. Upper and spine lettered in gilt. , Notes: Sir Richard Temple (1826 – 1902) was a British colonial administrator in the 19th-century India, who served as Governor of Bombay from 1877 to 1880. After being educated at Rugby and.....
New York: M.W. Dodd. 1848. Binding: Full brown embossed cloth boards. Spine gilt. , Size: 12mo. (160 x 95 mm), Illustration: Very good example. With frontispiece of Jerusalem. , Pages: 234 pp. , Category: Book Religious Judaism;.
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada. November 1937. Binding: Full green cloth boards. Upper and spine stamped in gilt., Notes: John James Audubon (1785 –1851) was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial.....
(Geneva): Oliva Pauli Stephani. 1618. Binding: Full vellum boards with yapp edges. Spine with manuscript title in ink, faint manuscript on upper. All edges red. , Notes: Text in Latin and Greek. , Size: Folio (355 x 230 mm), Illustration: Near fine example of this book of histories, with an.....
New York: B.W. Huebsch. 1906. Binding: Green paper boards, upper lettered in gilt. , Notes: Maurycy "Ephraim Moses" Lilien (1874 – 1925) was a Polish-Jewish Art Nouveau illustrator and printmaker particularly noted for his art on Jewish themes and his influence on the Bezalel school art movement. He is sometimes.....
London: F. G. Moon, 1849. Notes: First issue, First printing published on board as issued for binding in the book. Famous 19th-century view of the Simoom in Gizeh desert., Image Size : 329x483 (mm), 12.95x19.02 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 364x483 (mm), 14.33x19.02 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand.....
London: c.1910. Notes: Two decorative displays of Oxford Rowing teams from the early 20th century. The first display, "Oxford Royal Regatta Grand Challenge Eights", shows the eight man team that won the event in the year 1903. It has two black and white photographs (one showing the team with their.....
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London: Art-Union of London, 1861. Notes: 19th-century steel engraving depicting an Italian landscape after the famous 1832 oil painting by J. M. W. Turner. , Image Size : 398x662 (mm), 15.67x26.06 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 500x743 (mm), 19.69x29.25 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Steel Engraving, Categories.....
Nuremberg, Germany: 1613. Notes: A copper engraving of a plant known as a Canary Islands arborescent houseleek. Latin text on verso. Basil Besler's great botanical work, "Hortus Eystettensis .." is one the most important botanical books ever published. The author, Basilius Besler (1561-1629), was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist.....
Nuremberg, Germany: 1613. Notes: A copperplate engraving of potato plant with thyme variations. Latin text on verso. Basil Besler's great botanical work, "Hortus Eystettensis .." is one the most important botanical books ever published. The author, Basilius Besler (1561-1629), was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist. The work commemorated the.....
Nuremberg, Germany: 1613. Notes: A copper engraving of Canterbury Bells, and Corn Cockles. Latin text on verso. Basil Besler's great botanical work, "Hortus Eystettensis .." is one the most important botanical books ever published. The author, Basilius Besler (1561-1629), was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist. The work commemorated the.....
Canada: Canadian Pacific, c.1930. Notes: Framed in an original Canadian Pacific wooden frame. The Fairmont Banff Springs, formerly and commonly known as the Banff Springs Hotel, is a historic hotel in western Canada, located in Banff, Alberta. Opened in 1888 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, it is one of the.....
Paris: 1757. Notes: French map of Eastern Canada. Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes., Size : 215x340 (mm), 8.46x13.39 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Canada East Nova Scotia; Maps Canada East New Brunswick; Maps.....
Paris: Laguillermie, c.1852. Notes: Mid-19th century French map focused on French colonies: Senegambia (Senegal and Gambia) and Madagascar. A highly decorative map showing the landscape, inhabitants, and wildlife of the region. , Size : 288x425 (mm), 11.34x16.73 (Inches), Coloring: Original Outline Coloring, Category: Maps Africa West;.
Nuremberg, Germany: 1613. Notes: Latin text on verso. Basil Besler's great botanical work, "Hortus Eystettensis .." is one the most important botanical books ever published. The author, Basilius Besler (1561-1629), was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist. The work commemorated the celebrated gardens of its patron, Johann Konrad von Gemmingen.....
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Nuremberg, Germany: 1613. Notes: Latin text on verso. Basil Besler's great botanical work, "Hortus Eystettensis .." is one the most important botanical books ever published. The author, Basilius Besler (1561-1629), was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist. The work commemorated the celebrated gardens of its patron, Johann Konrad von Gemmingen.....
Nuremberg, Germany: 1613. Notes: Latin text on verso. Basil Besler's great botanical work, "Hortus Eystettensis .." is one the most important botanical books ever published. The author, Basilius Besler (1561-1629), was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist. The work commemorated the celebrated gardens of its patron, Johann Konrad von Gemmingen.....
Nuremberg, Germany: 1613. Notes: (Indian jasmine or Peruvian marvel flower), which is commonly known today as the four o'clock flower (Mirabilis jalapa). Latin text on verso. Basil Besler's great botanical work, "Hortus Eystettensis .." is one the most important botanical books ever published. The author, Basilius Besler (1561-1629), was a......
Canada: Canadian Northern Railway, c.1910. Notes: Framed in an original wooden frame. RMS Royal Edward was a fast luxury ocean liner and mail steamer operated by the Canadian Northern Steamship Company under its Royal Line brand before being sunk as a troopship in World War I. It was built in.....
Canada: Canadian Pacific, c.1915. Notes: Framed in an original Canadian Pacific wooden frame. SS Metagama was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched in 1914 and scrapped in 1934. The Canadian Pacific Railway Co owned her and the Canadian Pacific Steamship Co operated her. She was a pioneering example of.....
Canada: Canadian Pacific, c.1915. Notes: Framed in an original Canadian Pacific wooden frame. SS Metagama was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched in 1914 and scrapped in 1934. The Canadian Pacific Railway Co owned her and the Canadian Pacific Steamship Co operated her. She was a pioneering example of.....