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

Nantwich,: Joseph Naylor, , [c.1752].. 629 by 385mm (24.75 by 15.25 inches). Map border: 125 by 126mm; clock: 351 by 355mm; frame: 375 by 382mm; Widest: 629 by 385mm.. Separately published broadside engraved map. John Naylor was one of an important school of clock-makers based in Nantwich, Cheshire, active from about 1725. By about 1740 he had relocated to London, and seems to have died there in 1752. It seems likely that, in about 1726, he designed a series of engraved metal plates that could be used to make a clock face, such as the example in the British Museum. In parallel, he must have published a second, near identical clock face, to be used as a promotional broadsheet for the clock, or as an instructional guide to the uses of the clock. While virtually identical, the promotional version has engraved hands over the face of the clock, so it could not be used to make up a working clock face, as the owner would have the mechanical, rotating hands and the engraved hands of the print. As he was… Read More

London,, 1783.. Diameter: 70mm (2.75 inches).. Globe, 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores, clipped at 65 degrees latitude, with two polar calottes, over a papier mâché and plaster sphere, varnished, housed within original shagreen over paste-board clamshell case, with hooks and eyes, lined with 12 hand-coloured engraved celestial gores, with two polar calottes, varnished. The case split in both halves where hinge would have been, loss to exterior and minor loss to celestial gores. Biography During the first half of the nineteenth century the firm of Newton, together with Bardin and Cary, occupied a leading position in the manufacture of globes in London. The firm was established by John Newton in 1783 and operated originally from the Globe & Sun 128 Chancery Lane, moving to 97 Chancery Lane in 1803, before settling at 66 Chancery Lane in 1817. John Newton (1759-1844) was trained by Thomas Bateman (fl1754-81), who had previously been apprenticed to Nathaniel Hill (fl1746-1768). Newton's first… Read More

London,: Sold by John Bowles, Print & Map-Seller over against Stocks Market,, [1720-30].. Image: 346 by 470mm (13.5 by 18.5 inches). Sheet: 390 by 557mm. (15.25 by 22 inches).. Engraved print. A view of Covent Garden, showing the market. From 'London Described', a collection of 46 topographic prints of the city published by John and Thomas Bowles in 1731. BM 1880,1113.3043.

London,: Sold by John Bowles, Print & Map-Seller over against Stocks Market,, [c.1720].. Image: 345 by 465mm (13.5 by 18.25 inches). Sheet: 420 by 550mm (16.5 by 21.75 inches).. Engraved print. A view of the equestrian statue of Charles II, donated by Sir Robert Vyner. Sir Robert Vyner (1631-88) was a goldsmith and banker. He made the crown and orb for Charles II's coronation in 1661, after the original Crown Jewels had been lost while his father Charles I was fleeing the country. Vyner was made goldsmith to the King and knighted as a reward, and became Lord Mayor of London in 1674. In 1668 St Mary Woolchurch was demolished to make way for the construction of a new market, rebuilt as a fruit and vegetable market. The years after Vyner became Mayor, he erected the statue in the centre. The statue had in fact been bought from Europe as an unfinished statue of John Sobieski, King of Poland, trampling on a Turk. Vyner had the statue altered so that Sobieski's head was replaced by Charles's, and the… Read More

[Paris],: De Larmessin graveur du Roy, [c1760].. 215 by 158mm. (8.5 by 6.25 inches).. Prints,""Nicolas Bion Ingenieur du Roy pour les Instrumens de Mathematique. Nicholas Bion Nicholas Bion (1652-1733) was a French instrument maker, map publisher and author, who was active at the quai de l'Horloge a l'enseigne du Soleil, Paris. His most notable work was the 'Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique' (1709), perhaps the most important book on the use of scientistic instruments of the eighteenth century; it was published in English in 1723 as 'The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments'. His expertise won him the position of engineer to the King, for whom he produced a range of instruments. Bion's success was made evident in his will, which left an estate worth an estimated 66,000 livres. Some time after his death, Bion's portrait was engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin, a French printmaker who specialised in portraits. The engraving… Read More

[Amsterdam],: H.J. Van Wouw,, 1631.. 1274 by 1405mm. (50.25 by 55.25 inches).. Engraved wall map on six sheets joined, eighteen inset views of the battle and siege works to left and right of the map. Large separately published six sheet map of the Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch during the Eighty Years War. Hostilities between the Habsburg Empire and the Dutch Republic resumed in 1621, following the ending of the Twelve Years' Truce. The Habsburgs tried to punish the rebellious Dutch Republic by cutting it off from its hinterland by a land blockade. The blockade caused an economic crisis for the Republic and it reacted by trying to harm Spain in its colonies. In 1628, one of the many schemes undertaken met with spectacular success when Admiral Piet Hein of the Dutch West India Company captured the Spanish treasure fleet. With this windfall from the Stadtholder Frederick Henry decided to break the Habsburg blockade by launching a campaign against 's-Hertogenbosch. 's-Hertogenbosch, also known as moerasdraak… Read More

London,: J.W. Norie & Co., at the Navigation Warehouse & Naval Academy, , Jan.y 1st, 1821, additions to 1832. . Maps. 1620 by 660mm. (63.75 by 26 inches).. "...being the best for LEAKY VESSELS, during the strength of the S.W. Monsoon"" Folding engraved chart on two joined sheets. The Western sheet of Norie's very large and very detailed three-sheet map of Southeast Asia. Including the southeastern coast of China to Canton and Hong Kong (as Lantoa), the Malay Peninsula, the Malacca Strait, western Java and Borneo. The chart includes much of the same information as Horsburgh's of the same area, declaring the ""best"" sea-routes to and from China, including to New South Wales, depending on the season, and the condition of the vessel. The ""Inner Passage being the best for LEAKY VESSELS, during the strength of the S.W. Monsoon"" plots a course that hugs the shores of the Malay Peninsula and Cambodia. The islands of the ""Sincapour Strait"", including ""Sincapour"", in shown in great detail, with… Read More

London,: at the Navigation Warehouse and Naval Academy, 157 Leadenhall Street,, [1824-1840].. 150 by 680mm. (6 by 26.75 inches).. Prints,""I.W. Nories & Co (Sucessors to the late Wm. Heather) Chart and Map Sellers to the Admiralty & the Honble. East India Compy A trade card to inspire Dickens Engraved trade card, mounted on card. John Norie (1772-1843) was a London-based hydrographer, chartmaker, writer, publisher and merchant. He took over the Navigation Warehouse and Naval Academy in Leadenhall Street in 1813, having previously compiled and published 'A New and Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation'. This volume was dedicated to the Court of Directors at the East India Company, an act of flattery that paid off when he became an official chartseller to the Company in 1824. Alongside a great number of maps and charts, Norie sold a wide range of nautical instruments, including """"sextants, quadrants [and] telescopes"""", as stated on his trade card. Worms notes that globes were also available at… Read More

London,: John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Galleryy Pall Mall,, May 1, 1790.. Mezzotint. James Northcote (1746-1831), born in Plymouth he was apprenticed at an early age to his father who was a watchmaker. In is spare time the young James painted and sketched. In 1769, he left his father and set up a portrait painter; four years later he travelled to London and was admitted as a pupil into the studio and house of Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1775 he left Reynolds, and about two years later, having made some money by portrait painting back in Devon, he went to study in Italy. On his return to England, three years later, he revisited his native county, then settled in London, where John Opie and Henry Fuseli were his rivals. He was elected associate of the Academy in 1786, and full academician in the following spring. The range of his output was considerable from history paintings such as the "Young Princes Murdered in the Tower" (1786), and the "Death of Wat Tyler" (1787); to genre… Read More