Search Results: Authors starting with A from Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd

London,: at Tycho Brahe's Head, No 60. in Fleet-Street,, [c1775 or earlier].. 216 by 273mm. (8.5 by 10.75 inches).. Prints,""George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to his Majesty, Trade card for the Adams family Printed letterpress broadside with engraved vignette of Tycho Brahe, manuscript bill in ink on verso, modern perspex cover. The Adams family were the pre-eminent British instrument makers of their day. The broadside lists instruments for use in astronomy, surveying, drawing, and navigation. In the centre is a vignette of the Adams shop sign, a portrait of Tycho Brahe. Brahe (1546-1601) was a Danish astronomer, pioneer in the field of scientific instruments and observation, and eccentric. After losing his nose in a duel while a student at the University of Rostock, he returned determined to be a scientist,and made important observations of Cassiopeia. Frederick II of Denmark granted him an estate in Hven to set up an observatory, where he compiled a star catalogue, observed the comet of… Read More

Weimar,: im Verlage des Geog. Institute,, 1811.. 200 by 242mm. (7.75 by 9.5 inches).. Engraved map. A map of Japan; a German reprint after Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, with the coast of Korea greatly simplified and an altered title cartouche. De Vaugondy's original was produced for the 'Atlas Universel'. See Hubbard 101 for original.

Paris,: Le Roi, Place de Louvre No. 8,, [c.1840].. Image: 270 by 996mm (10.75 by 39.25 inches).. Engraved print with fine contemporary colour, trimmed within platemark, with black wash borders. A close copy of Havell's 'Aeronautical View...' and a trimmed, coloured, example of its French copy.

Paris,: Le Roi, Place de Louvre No. 8,, [c.1840].. Image: 255 by 990mm (10 by 39 inches). Sheet: 315 by 1040mm (12.5 by 41 inches).. Engraving with aquatint. References in French, without key numbers, in lower margin. A close copy of Havell's 'Aeronautical View...'. Rare. We have only been able to trace four other examples of this print; item 25, a coloured example in a private collection, and the institutional examples held by the Guildhall Library and Westminster Art Collection.

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.

Edinburgh & London,: Printed & Sold by Thomas Brown; William Faden, Geographer to the King, Charing Cross, , Jan[uar]y 1st 1800.. 1770 by 1590mm. (69.75 by 62.5 inches).. Large engraved map on nine sheets, fine original full-wash hand-colour, dissected and mounted on linen, in four sections, insets of the Shetland and Orkney Isles, table of distances between towns, and heights of the 'Most Remarkable Hills', lower left. Ainslie's large and detailed map of Scotland. First published in 1789, this large and rare map would become the benchmark map of Scotland, until Aaron Arrowsmith's map of Scotland some 20 years later. The map is on the same scale (approx. 4 inches to 1 mile) as Dorret's map of 1750, however, it surpasses it in terms of clarity and accuracy; and for the first time the Great Glen from Inverness to Fort William is accurately depicted, as are many of the islands that make up the Western Isles. John Ainslie (1745-1828) was, without doubt, the outstanding Scottish cartographer of his… Read More

Edinburgh & London,: Printed & Sold by John & James Ainslie Booksellers & Stationers, St. Andrew's Street Newtown; William Faden, Geographer to the King, Charing Cross,, Jan 1st 1789.. 1770 by 1590mm. (69.75 by 62.5 inches).. Large engraved map on nine sheets, fine original full-wash hand-colour, dissected and mounted on linen, insets of the Shetland and Orkney Isles, table of distances between towns, and heights of the 'Most Remarkable Hills', lower left. Ainslie's large and detailed map of Scotland. First published in 1789, this large and rare map would become the benchmark map of Scotland, until Aaron Arrowsmith's map of Scotland some 20 years later. The map is on the same scale (approx. 4 inches to 1 mile) as Dorret's map of 1750, however, it surpasses it in terms of clarity and accuracy; and for the first time the Great Glen from Inverness to Fort William is accurately depicted, as are many of the islands that make up the Western Isles. John Ainslie (1745-1828) was, without doubt, the… Read More

[Paris],: Pierre-Michel Alix,, 1799.. Image: 410 by 615mm (16.25 by 24.25 inches). Sheet: 440 by 630mm (17.25 by 24.75 inches).. Aquatint with original hand colour. A view of Westminster Bridge, after a painting owned by Marie-Francois Drouhin, a Parisian printer. Pierre Michel Alix (1762-1817) was a French engraver and caricaturist, active in Paris, who made a successful career during the French Revolution producing prints of revolutionary leaders and allegories. He quietly destroyed these when the Revolution foundered and was later well known for a print of Napoleon as Emperor. BM 1880,1113.1328.

London,: 34 Rathbone Place, , [c1821-1822]. 140 by 165mm (5.5 by 6.5 inches).. Prints,""S & J. Fuller, Carvers, Gilders, & Picture Frame Makers... C is for Carver Lithographed trade card The image is a hopeless hunting scene after Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), from the 'The Right Sort' series, published by the Fullers in 1821-1822. Alken's first sporting prints were published in 1813, but he hit his stride in about 1816 when he published his best-selling 'The Beauties and Defects in the Figure of the Horse Comparatively Delineated', after which he was positively prolific, issuing many series of hunting sketches by publishers including the Fullers, Thomas McLean, and Rudolph Ackermann. Self-advertised elsewhere as: """"Printsellers and publishers, stationers, artists' colourmen, playing-card makers"""", the partnership of Samuel Williams Fuller (c1777-1857) and Joseph Carr Fuller (c1782-1863) was established by 1809 when it operated from the """"Temple of Fancy"""" at 34 Rathbone Place, as here.… Read More

London,: Published by Dobbs & Co., 134 Fleet St. & 13 Soho Sqre. Sold also by D. Bogue Fleet St. and All Print and Mapsellers,, [1843].. 545 by 450mm (21.5 by 17.75 inches).. Embossed geological map, fine original hand-colour, table of geological strata upper left, table of English counties upper right, dissected and mounted on card and linen, varnished, some minor abrasions, Kensington and Camberwell library stamps to map, folding into original embossed red cloth covers, title in gilt to upper cover, spine spilt. Rare embossed geological map of England and Wales. The map's geological information is based upon Roderick Impey Murchison's map of the 1843. However, the present maps innovation is in representing elevation above sea level with the use of embossing. In order to ascertain the approximate heights above sea level, a "Vertical Scale" key, has been added below the list of English and Welsh counties. The key depicts cross sections of mountain ranges from under 700 feet to between 2800-3500 feet… Read More

London,: Printed for Alex. Hogg … and sold by all other Booksellers and News-carriers in the World,, [c1785].. Folio (416 by 268 mm), pp 361–368, with text in double columns and two accompanying copperplate etchings ('A Human Sacrifice, in a Morai, in Otaheithe; in the presence of CaptN. Cook etc.' by Lodge; 'Mr. Doughty beheaded by order of Sir Francis Drake, at port St. Indian, on the Coast of Patagonia' by Goldar after Dodd); uncut in the original blue printed wrappers, creased where previously folded, edges a little ragged, spine chipped, but stitching intact. This folio contains the 44th installment of the account of Captain Cook's voyages produced by G.W.Anderson in 1785. During his three great voyages on HMS Endeavour, Resolution, Adventure and Discovery, Captain James Cook made a revolutionary contribution to the geographical understanding of the Southern Hemisphere. Unsurprisingly, upon his return the public appetite for the stories of his adventures was huge. In response to this… Read More

[Bielefeld and Leipzig,: Velhagen & Klasing,, 1898].. 440 by 280mm (17.25 by 11 inches).. Chromolithograph map. Published in the fourth edition of 'Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas'. Velhagen & Klasing was a major German publishing company in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the mid-to-late 1800s, Hirt & Sohn and Velhagen & Klasing together had an oligopoly in the German textbook market

London,: William Faden Charing Cross,, 1st January, 1782.. 1550 by 2120mm (61 by 83.5 inches).. Folio (550 by 400mm), index map, large-scale engraved map, on nine sheets, fine original full-wash colour, plan of Hertford, and plan of St Albans, half-calf over blue marbled paper boards. Andrews's and Dury's large scale map of Hertfordshire. John Andrews and Andrew Dury were responsible for three large scale eighteenth century county surveys: the present map - Hertfordshire 1766 , Kent 1769, and Wiltshire in 1773. All three surveys are on a scale of two inches to one mile. The majority of the large scale maps were on a scale of one inch to one mile. This larger scale allowed for much greater detail; and the map depicts hills, woods and barrows, commons heaths and parks, rivers, ponds and wells, bridges and windmills, churches and chapels, towns, villages and parishes, gentlemen's seats, farms and houses, turnpikes, secondary roads and lanes, county and hundred boundaries. A note on the map reads "NB… Read More

[Paris,, nineteenth century].. (diamter) 160mm (6.25 inches).. Prints,""Magasin de Bonbons, Chocolats, Confitures, Sirops C is for Chocolatier Engraved trade card. The present print appears to be not a trade card but a product label, similar in design and shape to many of those found on food products in nineteenth century France. There is a blank rectangle where the contents of the package could be written by hand, and beneath this is a sentence clarifying that the goods come from a """"sweet, chocolate, jam, syrup and liqueur shop"""" (trans.). It also advertises that they can provide such delights for celebrations including baptisms and marriage. Indeed the image at the centre of the print appears to show a newly married couple leaving the church, both elaborately dressed and attended by a small boy and bridesmaid. The whole label is surrounded by a decorative floral frame.

Unknown,, 1908.. 490 by 540mm. (19.25 by 21.25 inches).. Lithograph chart, pasted to the verso of a British Admiralty chart of Delaware, two manuscript pencil lines and three markings in pink ink. A chart focusing on the Tiutuho Bay, now the area known by its Russian name of Bukhta Rudnaya, which played a key role in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 to 1905. The early twentieth century saw the Russian powers seeking to expand their power over the Pacific Ocean, making their eastern ports and harbours especially important for maritime trade and naval defences. Tiutuho Bay lies to the north of Russia's most important Pacific seaport of Vladivostok, and much of the war unfurled in the surrounding waters until the conflict was concluded with the Treaty of Portsmouth. In the following years a number of hydrographical expeditions were led by Russian oceanographers across the Northern Hemisphere, and the use of Russian fathoms here suggest that this chart was also conducted by such an expedition. However,… Read More

[?London,, c1855].. 510 by 590mm (20 by 23.25 inches).. Engraved plan, printed in red and black, on cloth, key to plan below. Rare map of London printed on cloth. The plan is printed in red and black. All bridges, railways, public buildings, squares, parks, and borough names are printed in red. To the left and right of the title is a note: "Below is a List of the chief Sights & Amusements of London and it's Environs, worthy of notice. The Star denotes free admittance. The Figures on the left refer to the map, on the right, the distance in miles from London." Although the plan is not dated, we can assign a date of around 1855: it depicts both Holloway Prison ('Model Prison'), opened in 1852, and the Metropolitan Cattle Market ('New Cattle Market') opened in 1855. Strangely the plan fails to show King's Cross Station which was opened in 1852. Not in Hyde.

[20th century].. 555 by 555mm. (21.75 by 21.75 inches).. Map printed on cloth, some spotting. Unusual map of the Isle of Man, printed on cloth, presumably as a souvenir ("A Present From"). The map shows the roads, railways and topographical detail. It is surrounded by views of Kirk Braddan, the Tower of Refuge, the Laxey Wheel and the seafront. The two symbols of the Isle of Man, the Manx cat and the triskelion of three legs joined together, are shown at either end of the island.

1720.. 480 by 485mm. (19 by 19 inches).. Manuscript map in pen and ink with wash colouring. Highly finished, and skilled engineering plan of the siege of the fortress town of Landau, in the German Palatinate. Landau passed into French control under the terms of the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), which ended the Thirty Years' War. In 1688, Louis XIV ordered Sébastien Le Prestre, marquis de Vauban, one of the most brilliant military engineers in history, to construct new defences for the town, constructed between 1688 and 1691. During the War of the Spanish Succession, Landau was besieged (and captured) four times; changing hands in 1702, 1703 and 1704, as the fortunes of war ebbed and flowed. Finally, in 1713, the pace was besieged by the French and recaptured, remaining in their hands until the end of the war, their possession subsequently confirmed in the Treaty of Utrecht. This decorative manuscript plan, which highlights the defences of the places, as well as the siege works constructed by the… Read More

Paris,: chez Jean Savué demeurant à la rue St. Jaques proche St. Yves à la libert,. 385 by 540mm. (15.25 by 21.25 inches).. Copper engraving. A French variant on De Jonghe's view of London, with the verses underneath in a different type and the name of the Thames translated into French from Latin. Jean Sauvé (1635-1692) was an engraver and publisher active in Paris, and known for re-engraving the works of others, including de Jonghe (as here), Merian, Tavernier, and Jollain.

[Weimar,: Friedrich Justin Bertuch,, 1807].. 140 by 90mm. (5.5 by 3.5 inches).. Prints,""Joh. Elert Bode. Johann Elert Bode Stipple-engraved portrait. Volume 23 of the 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' published in 1807 contained a portrait of German astronomer Johann Elert Bode (1747 - 1826). As director of the Berlin Observatory, Bode named Uranus after it was determined to be a planet in 1783. His star atlas of 1801, which he named the 'Uranographia', was the largest to date and contained the positions of more than 17,000 stars. In fact, it was one of the last scientific astronomic atlases to depict the traditional figures for constellations. His portrait in the """"AGE"""" shows Bode wearing a formal coat and cravat. His profile positioning was probably intended to hide the obvious damage done in his youth to his right eye by a disease. Beneath the portrait, set in an oval, his name and date of death are given. Wellcome 338.