Search Results: Titles starting with C from Original Antique Maps

Details:Japanese scroll, ink brush calligraphy on paper, two red ink stamps in lower left corner, mounted on fabric panels, attached to bamboo rods, with a hanging ribbon, writing in manuscript ink on verso in Japanese identifying the content as a Hodokadimensions: 22" x 48"condition: fair, as found, fragile, some toning to paper, fading and small holes in woven dyed fabric panels backing the calligraphy, paper on verso tonedDescription:This small, traditionally mounted calligraphy scroll is likely a moral teaching pertaining to Buddhism. There is no date present on the scroll.
Research remains to be done to determine the identity of the artist and the date of the art work itself. The text on the back of the scroll at the top is in Japanese. One translation of this text provided to me is that this line of text includes the term "Hodoka", suggesting that the calligraphy is in the format of a traditional poem called a "Tanka" and contains a moral teaching about the spirit of Buddha.… Read More

Details:color print, possible proof edition dimensions: 31 ¼"" x 24 ½"("Log Sheet"); and 36" x 26 1/2 ("Range Estimation")condition: professionally conserved, repaired tears, backed on Japanese tissue Description:This cartoon was drawn and signed by Canadian artist John Duchak (1921-2012), who served as the official artist in the No. 6 Group, Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII overseas in England. The purpose of this cartoon which was published for distribution to members of the Canadian Royal Air Force No.6 Group personnel was education for airmen and official military news. The Duchak cartoons use humor and comical graphics to reinforce Canadian Royal Air Force safety messages and instructions to its pilots and crew. Duchak's humor is irreverent and touches officers as well as enlisted men.The characters in the cartoons are both Allied troops and Nazi Air Force pilots. As the official No. 6 Group artist, Duchak had liberty to draw cartoons with comedy and humor, and some irony that were… Read More

Details:black and white printed map dimensions: 22 3/4 x 35 inchescondition: professionally conserved, evidence of prior foldChart seller's purple ink stamp on front, "Chas.C. Hutchinson, 154 State Street, Boston, Mass."Description: This highly utilitarian map of the Cape Cod Canal provides general information about the structures built across the canal as of 1922 for different modes of transit:
for trains from New York, Boston and Fall River a railroad bridge, and for the cultivated and growing number of drivers, multiple highway bridges. Cape Cod Canal was constructed beginning in 1909, it opened for smaller vessels in 1914 and was officially complete in 1916. The canal was privately owned and charged a toll. In 1922, the publication date of this map, the Cape Cod Canal and its bridges had only been in use for six years and this map was an educational document for those not accustomed to the new road, rail and sailing patterns to and from Cape Cod.The General Information chart in the top right… Read More

Map Details:hand colored engraving on folded sheetdimensions: 14 1/8" x 28"condition: professionally conserved, very good condition, some toning to paper, good color throughout
Description:This 1835 hand colored engraving, is Pl. VIII. from Elija H. Burritt's Atlas, Designed To Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens. Elijah H. Burritt, A.M. was a Connecticut school teacher who decided that the then available school astronomy books were not adequate. He trained himself further in astronomy by traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts to use the Harvard Telescope. This research was preparation for writing his book and celestial atlas. His illustrated celestial Atlas, Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens of 1835 that was accompanied in the classroom by a published text book, the Class Book of Astronomy is in fact the second edition of his seminal 1833 work of the same title, and became the standard astronomy atlas and text book for students in the United States. The contemporary praise and… Read More

Physical Description of Book and contents:73 Hawaiian fish chromolithographs numbered as Roman numerals I through LXXIII and identified on each print as Bull.U.S.F.C. 1903, of which 51 are attributed to the artist A.H.Baldwin ad nat.del. Julius Bien & Co. lith N.Y. ; 12 are attributed to C.B.Hudson and 10 are attributed to Kako Morita; and 1 Bahamian fish chromolithograph by A.H. Baldwin, Pork Fish, Plate LIV, The Bahama Islands, A.Hoen & Co., Lith. for the Geographical Society of Baltimore now loose, formerly hand glued onto a paper stub of the book. The 73 Hawaiian fish chromolithographs are on print sheets bound on their short side into a book with blue fabric over boards. There is no title page or other printed matter. There is one front free endpaper. One front paper stub with old glue that matches the old glue strip on "Pork Fish", a smaller print removed and trimmed by the book's owner and identified as Pork Fish, A.H.Baldwin, ad nat. del., A. Hoen & Co. Lith, Geographical Society of Baltimore.… Read More

Details:
Hand colored lithograph with linear frame and decorated cornersJ. Disturnell, PublisherNew York, 1847On stone by J.ProbstDesigned by J.G.Bruff, Washington, D.C.Lithography by E.Jones & G.W. Newman, New Yorkdimensions: 25 3/16" x 19 11/16"condition: good condition, professionally conserved, toned complexion of paper includes some spotting and reflects age, original color all as found except pink outline in part restored, backed on very thin mulberry tissue, earlier period remnants of silk edges removedDescription:

This example of A Correct Map of the Seat of War in Mexico 1847 is one of a pair of maps on offer. The other map in this pair is
Map of the Country Adjacent to the Left Bank of the Rio Grande below Matamoros, 1847. The maps were purchased together and likely have the same provenance due to period treatment with remnants of silk edging now removed. There were three editions of the map with the title A Correct Map of the Seat of War in Mexico published in 1847 each with certain… Read More