Search Results: Titles starting with U from Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd

Loma Linda, CA,: Creative Visual Communications,, 1983.. 595 by 885mm. (23.5 by 34.75 inches).. Colour printed poster mounted on linen. This map depicts an aerial view of UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) with bold graphics and decorative detail. The view highlights the university with stylised depictions of the campus, including academic halls, student residences and sports arena. Throughout the map there are small caricature depictions of figures and accompanying humorous phrases, including a marching band leader saying "we toot our own horns". The fraternities and sororities on campus are represented by figures holding up their Greek letters, with a sorority member warning two passing men, "wait fellas, girls only". The poster is up to date with the latest information, including one group of people noting "this is the 1984 Olympics Committee Headquarters". UCLA was a major venue for the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, with the residence halls housing more than 4,000 people and Pauley… Read More

London,: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. For her Majesty's Stationery Office,, 1857 """"/8"""".. 330 by 220mm. (13 by 8.75 inches).. Maps,""Map of part of Australia, Shewing the Route of the North Australian Expedition in 1855 & 1856. """"decisive of the general character of the Australian interior"""" (Sturt) Large folding lithographed map (270 by 630mm to the neatline), with an inset of the 'Continuation from R[iver] Burdekin to Port Curtis', bound into 'Papers relating to an Expedition recently undertaken for the purpose of Exploring the Northern Portion of Australia. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of her Majesty'; folio, stabbed and sewn as issued, preserved in archival buckram-backed portfolio. The first complete account of Gregory's important expedition across 5000 miles of northern Australia: from Gladstone, near Brisbane in Queensland, across the Northern Territory and into Western Australia; then known as Van… Read More

Dunstable & Watford,: Waterlow & Sons,, [April, 1926].. 143 by 163mm (5.75 by 6.5 inches).. Chromolithograph map, backed on cloth, coloured light blue to verso. These plans were designed and drawn by Frederick H. Stingemore, a draughtsman working for the London Underground. The plan went through 11 editions between 1925 and 1932. The first editions was designed in an effort to consolidate the network and make it easier to understand by compressing the outlying lines in comparison to the intricate and congested central area. Although distorted the plan still follows the general geographical layout; however, all ground detail has been omitted, including the River Thames. This evidently led to some confusion as from the third edition (the present plan), the river was reinstated. The plan bears Stingemore's initials to the lower left, together with a key. To the verso are a list of places of interest and theatres together with the title. The present example is the third edition, and dates to April 1926.

[Venice,: stamperia dei Giunta,, 1565].. 302 by 378mm (12 by 15 inches).. Double-page woodcut map. Second state of Gastaldi's map of the Western Hemisphere, originally published in the third volume of Ramusio's compendium of voyages, 'Delle Navigationi et Viaggi', 1556. With the page numbers '455' and '456' appearing in the top left and top right of the map, respectively. Printed from the second of three woodblocks, the first was destroyed in a fire at the Giunta premises in November of 1557. This hemispherical map depicts both American continents, extends to show the Molucca islands in the west, and Africa, Spain, and Ireland in the east, large and incomplete landmasses in the north and south, extending beyong the 'Circolo Artico' and 'Circolo Antartico'. The northernmost reaches of North America are left blank, thereby avoiding making a statement about contemporary speculation of a land bridge to Asia and depicts Japan with two islands. Notably, this is the first printed map bearing place names… Read More

London,: Henry Jones,, [c1702].. 143 by 257mm. (5.75 by 10 inches).. Engraved map. Little is known of the surveyor, Frederick de Hauttecourt; his will, dated 16th March, 1704 describes him as "Frederick de Hauttecourt, Gentleman of Saint Margaret Westminster"; he is referred in the text as surveying Cornwall with Thomas Tuttell, the King's Hydrographer, a globe-maker and instrument-maker. The surveys in Cornwall form all his recorded survey work. The sheet contains a chart of Whitesand Bay set above an extensive letterpress text; the chart shows the Bay, on the tip of Cornwall, from 'H' ('Cape Cornwall'), and the coast just to the north, south to 'G' (S.t Levant'), with the 'K' ('the Long ships') to the coast, surveyed at an approximate scale of one inch to one statute mile. The land was owned by Henry Jones, the presumed publisher, but was later acquired by Edward Boscawen, a vice-admiral in the Navy. The text notes: "... The Charges of building the said Mould, will be very small and easie to the… Read More

[Vienna and Lyon,: Gaspar Trechsel for Hugues de La Porte,, 1541].. 360 by 500mm (14.25 by 19.75 inches).. Double-page woodcut map. Titled 'Tabula terrae nouvae' above the accompanying text on the verso, this map is from the second edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia' to be published with Pirkheimer's translation edited by Michael Villanovanus, better known as Servetus (1511-1553), born at Villanueva, in Aragon, Spain. A reduced version of Martin Waldseemuller's 'Tabula Terre Nove', this map of the New World shows the Atlantic coast of the Americas from latitudes 35 degrees south to 55 degrees north. While similarly including an apparent Gulf of Mexico, the Florida peninsula, Cuba as Isabella and Hispaniola, and across the Atlantic portions of the British Isles, Spain and Portugal and Africa, there are some notable differences: the Columbus name PARIAS found in North America, misplaced from South America, the addition of a Spanish flag over Cuba, and a scene in South America depicting cannibals and an… Read More

[Batavia,, c1744-1746].. 525 by 715mm. (20.75 by 28.25 inches).. Manuscript chart, pen and black ink, and colour wash in outline, on paper watermarked with Strasburg Lily within a shield, initials "VDL" beneath and countermark "IV" (closest to Churchill 405, dated to 1733, from the mill of Pieter van der Ley, son of Gerrit Pieters van der Ley who worked De Wever - the Weaver - and De Bonsem - the Polecat - mills at Koog aan de Zaan, Holland, from 1674 onwards), signed beneath the scale, lower left; contemporary cataloging notation on verso in ink: "No. 21." and "Straat d Bouton"; some oxidation of black ink with minor loss. Buton was a strategic island on the route from Java and Makassar, in southern Sulawesi, to the Spice Islands. In 1613 the sultanate of Buton entered into a contract with the VOC, in which the sultan La Elangi sought support for independence from the sultanates of Makassar and Ternate. By 1669 the VOC had subjugated those sultanates and Buton remained a relatively independent… Read More

Rome,: Antonio Lafreri, , 1564.. 340 by 520mm (13.5 by 20.5 inches).. Double-page engraved map on a cordiform projection. First published by Salamanca in about 1550, and based on the double-cordiform world map by Gerard Mercator of 1538. This issue, with Lafreri's imprint, dates from after Lafreri had taken control of their joint publishing business in 1563. Like its predecessors, Salamanca's striking map "bisects the world on the Equator, with the southern hemisphere featuring a mysterious continent centred on the South Pole, centuries before the discovery of Antarctica. Following Mercator, Salamanca showed the Americas as being two continents, labelled north and south, and being entirely separate from Asia. A large ice-mass is shown covering the world's Arctic regions. Salamanca's rendering is distinguished from Mercator's by his use of stipple engraving for the seas. Beyond being a most elegant artistic concept, cordiform maps were considered to be imbued with great emblematic significance by… Read More

[Batavia,, after 1747].. 990 by 685mm. (39 by 27 inches).. Manuscript chart, pen and black ink, and colour wash in outline, on two joined sheets of paper watermarked with Strasburg Lily within a shield, initials "VDL" beneath and countermark "IV" (closest to Churchill 405, dated to 1733, from the mill of Pieter van der Ley, son of Gerrit Pieters van der Ley who worked De Wever - the Weaver - and De Bonsem - the Polecat - mills at Koog aan de Zaan, Holland, from 1674 onwards), contemporary cataloging notation on verso in ink: "No. 17" and "N de Mindanou". An elegant example of a Dutch East India Company [Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie] – VOC – manuscript chart from their Batavia workshop, under the direction of baas-kaartenmaker Gerrit de Haan, and a rare survival in superb condition. Showing the route from present-day northern Sulawesi to the south coast of Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, and of considerable interest to the Dutch. Since 1581 the Spanish had dominated… Read More

Amsterdam,, [1594-1635].. Oblong quarto (260 by 170mm), 176 engraved plates, numbered in an early hand 1-46, 48-54, 57-69, 80-189, including 8 title-pages, all with fine contemporary hand-colour in full, occasionally heightened in silver, two plates torn with slight loss to image and with early repairs, six plates with slight worming to margins, and three plates trimmed to neatline and laid down on old paper, front free endpaper with later ownership inscription; mid-seventeenth century English red morocco, elaborately gilt, silver clasps and catches. A magnificent album of natural history engravings, collected and bound for an English patron, containing two complete suites of plates: Hoefnagel's 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium'; and Woutneel's 'Cognoscite lilia agri quomodo crescent', often bound as the fifth part, 'Altera Pars', to the Crispin de Passes' 'Hortus Floridus' - the "most ambitions, if not the first, early effort to employ Continental resources to produce a set of [botanical] engravings… Read More

[Augsburg,: Gunther Zainer, , 19 November, 1472].. 270 by 190mm. (10.75 by 7.5 inches).. Woodcut map of the world (65mm in diameter) on a T-O projection, set within text, early marginal annotations. "Arguably the most iconic map ever made", from 'Etymologiae sive originum libri XX I', by Isidore of Seville (Suárez). The work circulated in manuscript for centuries before this edition was printed in 1472 by Gunther Zainer in Augsburg, with the groundbreaking addition of four woodcut diagrams. Zainer's decision to add woodcuts to his publication - a decision that was originally opposed by the guild of woodworkers in Augsburg until Zainer contracted only to use guild members for the work - made it the "first expression of geographic knowledge disseminated by the new medium of printing" (Suárez). Manuscript copies of Isidore's text contained diagrams, but Zainer's edition was "the first printed map of European origin of certain date, and the first in a printed book" (Suárez). The map is drawn on a… Read More

[c1690].. 172 by 122mm (6.75 by 4.75 inches).. Prints,""Gemma Frisius, Doccomiensis, Medicus et Mathematicus. Gemma Frisius Engraved portrait. Gemma Frisius (1508-1555) was a Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher and instrument maker, creating important globes and improving the mathematical instruments of his day. In Louvain, he tutored none other than Gerard Mercator, who executed the engraving for some of his globes. Alongside this star student and Abraham Ortelius, Frisius came to be considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography. Frisius's portrait was painted by Maarten van Heemskerck in the mid-sixteenth century, and later published as an engraving by Philips Galle. It shows the cartographer wearing a broad flat-cap and embroidered jacket. The present example is from the end of the following century, around 1690, and has a different set of Latin verses beneath the portrait: """"Ut simulat solem radiantis gemma pyropi, Sic Gemmam artifici picta… Read More

London,: Christopher Saxton,, 1579.. 420 by 550mm. (16.5 by 21.75 inches).. Maps,""[Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire] Oxonii buckinghamiae et berceriae Comitatum The first printed map of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Double-page engraved map, fine original full-wash colour, some minor offsetting, contemporary annotation on verso in brown ink, some light marginal soiling. Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, each boldly distinguished in its own colour, are presented here on the first ever map to show these respective counties. Commissioned by the Queen's Privy Council in 1575, Christopher Saxton surveyed the landscape, settlements and estates of England and Wales. The results were represented on 35 maps compiled into the first national atlas, his 'Atlas of England and Wales'. The densely packed features of this map are all labelled with their English names in sixteenth century form, while the surrounding counties are recorded in Latin. Major cities, such as Oxford,… Read More

London,: No.15 Leadenhall Street, ... or at his Manufactory No.133 Tooley Street, Southwark. 165 by 185mm. (6.5 by 7.25 inches).. Prints,""Anchors, Grapnalls, Shipwork, Millwork, Enginework, Pressword, Carriages, Rollers, Ploughs, Harrows, I is for Ironmonger Engraved trade card, with colour wash James Sharp's (1731-1783) trade card is illustrated with twenty detailed vignettes of essential farm machinery for the modern agriculturist. As each is lettered (A-T) it is likely that the card was accompanied by some explanatory text. Sharp was the author of at least two full trade catalogues: 'A Description of Rolling Carts and Waggons' (1772); and 'Descriptions of some of the Utensils in Husbandry, Rolling Carriages, Cart Rollers, and divided rollers for land or gardens, mills, weighing engines, &c. &c.' (1773). Brother of Granville Sharp (1735-1813), abolitionist, James Sharp was a successful ironmonger, listed in London Directories from 1763-1784 at 15 Leadenhall St. He was succeeded at that address… Read More