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Imprint: London, by T. Bensley and the author,, c. 1800
Engraved plate with original hand-colour, approx 27 x 21 cms, from ‘The Botanist’s Repository for New and Rare Plants’, 1797-c.1815. The plates were printed in one or two colours and were then finished by hand. As such, Andrews’ monumental work is a very early example of colour printing as well as containing the first printed representation of many exotic species.
Stock number:3640.
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Imprint: London, by T. Bensley and the author,, c. 1800
Engraved plate with original hand-colour, approx 27 x 21 cms, from ‘The Botanist’s Repository for New and Rare Plants’, 1797-c.1815. The plates were printed in one or two colours and were then finished by hand. As such, Andrews’ monumental work is a very early example of colour printing as well as containing the first printed representation of many exotic species.
Stock number:3648.
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Imprint: London: John Stockdale, 1800
Copper engraving, 18 x 25.5 cms, later hand-colour, blank verso.
Stock number:5067.
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Imprint: London, c. 1780
Copper engraving, 24.5 x 27.5 cms, later hand-colour, blank verso.
Stock number:5066.
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Imprint: London, by T. Bensley and the author,, c. 1800
Engraved plate with original hand-colour, approx 27 x 21 cms, from ‘The Botanist’s Repository for New and Rare Plants’, 1797-c.1815. The plates were printed in one or two colours and were then finished by hand. As such, Andrews’ monumental work is a very early example of colour printing as well as containing the first printed representation of many exotic species.
Stock number:3653.
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Imprint: London, by T. Bensley and the author,, c. 1800
Engraved plate with original hand-colour, approx 27 x 21 cms, from ‘The Botanist’s Repository for New and Rare Plants’, 1797-c.1815. The plates were printed in one or two colours and were then finished by hand. As such, Andrews’ monumental work is a very early example of colour printing as well as containing the first printed representation of many exotic species.
Stock number:3663.
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Imprint: Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris], sumptibus Montalant [...], 1721
Binding: Hardback Folio. pp. [lii], 707, [lxxxi], [iv], 215, [i]. Occasional browning (paper quality) and a couple of old ink library stamps on the title and half title. Title printed in red and black. Ninteenth-century vellum, shelf mark at foot of spine.
Containing the works of St Anslem, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his friend and biographer Eadmer, whose chronicle is regarded as a primary source for English history between the Norman Conquest and shortly his own death (1066-1122): “there are few better pieces of contemporary history” (DNB).
Stock number:5472.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1750
Copper engraving, 54 x 42.5 cms, hand-coloured. Minor spotting. Removed from a frame. Blank verso. From one of the French-language editions of Anson’s voyages.
Stock number:4008.
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Selections from the Choric Poetry of the Greek Dramatic Writers. Translated into English Verse [...]
Imprint: London: B. Fellowes, 1832
Edition: First Edition Binding: Hardback 8vo. pp. [ii], 246. First edition. Contemporary tan polished calf, gilt ruled with lyre ornaments on the spine, contrasting morocco lettering pieces, minor wear to the joints. A clean copy.
Stock number:4396.
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Imprint: Paris, 1765
Copper engraving, two sheets joined, 67 x 49 cms, four insets including Jeddah, light waterstaining to lower corners, blank verso.
D’Anville was arguably the most significant cartographer of his age. His clear, elegant and above all scientific approach to map-making provided the source material for many of his contemporaries.
Stock number:6021.
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Imprint: [Heidelberg]: E Typographeo Hieronymi Commelini, 1596
Binding: Hardback Two works in one volume, 8vo. pp. [viii], 423, [i]; [xiv] blank leaves inserted for notes; [viii], 263, [xl] index. Greek text. Light marginal waterstaining towards the end of the volume. Old ink stamp to verso of title. Contemporary vellum, spine slightly rubbed.
Apollinaris’s paraphrase of the Psalms was a response to one of the more subtle edicts of Julian the Apostate. In 362 the Emperor barred Christians from receiving a traditional classical education - pagan works for pagans only - severing most of the ruling elite (by this time largely Christian) from the literature they prized unless they chose to follow Julian’s example. Apollinaris attempted to plug the gap by recasting Christian texts in the style of the great works of antiquity. However, after Julian’s brief reign the situation reverted to normal; Apollonaris’s works were proscribed in their turn, and this is the only significant survivor of his experiment. Nonnus’s work (which takes up the second part of the present volume) is in a similar vein - a rendering of John’s Gospel in Homeric verse - though possibly slightly later., Adams A1304 & B1904.
Stock number:6319.
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Imprint: London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies [...], 1813
Binding: Hardback 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xvi, 547, [i]; viii, 510. Occasional spotting. Grey publisher’s boards, extremities worn, rebacked in cloth, probably in the mid twenthieth century, pencilled presentation inscription on title dated 1939.
Stock number:5499.
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Imprint: Oxonii [Oxford]: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1802
Binding: Hardback 8vo. pp. 186, 109. Greek text. First part interleaved with blanks for notes; partially unopened. Original grey publisher’s boards, paper-covered spine, some wear.
Stock number:4471.
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Imprint: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] Ex Officina Ioannis Maire, 1661
Binding: Hardback 4to. pp. [xii], 255, [i] blank, 156, 191, [v], 283, [cv] indices. Title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette. Old ink stamp to title. Late eighteenth-century continental green morocco, fully gilt spine and red morocco label, minor wear but a handsome copy.
Arnobius was a distinguished rhetorician at Sicca Veneria in North Africa in the late third century, according to St Jerome, before he converted to Christianity after a dream. He wrote the seven books of the Adversus Gentes to convince the local bishop of the sincerity of his new beliefs. The wealth of detail about Graeco-Roman paganism has proved of great interest to historians, but theologically some of Arnobius’ ideas remain highly suspect. For example, he considered that the old gods were real enough but subordinate to the supreme Christian God.
Stock number:5171.
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Imprint: Washington, 1887
Lithograph, 54 x 85 cms, colour printed, closed tear, blank verso; prepared by Paul Brodie for the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Stock number:6422.
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Imprint: London & Glasgow, c. 1850
Tinted lithograph by Picken after Leitch, 14 x 21 cms, blank verso.
Stock number:5599.
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Imprint: London & Glasgow, c. 1850
Tinted lithograph by Walker after Leitch, 14 x 21 cms, blank verso.
Stock number:5597.
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Imprint: London,, c. 1885
Binding: Hardback Lithographed folding map, 71 x 46 cms, with original hand-colour and laid on linen as issued, trivial adhesion damage at one fold, folding into original green cloth covers with index on pastedown, printed publisher’s label: “Bacon’s New Pocket Map of Liverpool from the Ordnance Survey. With the Name of Every Railway Station [...]”
Stock number:5553.
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Imprint: London,, 1897
Binding: Hardback Folio, (36 x 27 cms), pp. [vi], 16, 24 + 2 single page diagrams (flags & astronomical) & 34 colour-printed lithographed map-sheets. Red embossed publisher’s cloth, some wear to headcaps, hinge cracked but firm, repair to front endpaper, inscription dated 1939.
Stock number:5533.
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Imprint: Leeds,, 1817
Copper engraving, 25.5 x 35.5 cms, black and white, blank verso, from “A History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the breaking out of the war in 1792, to the restoration of a general peace in 1815”.
Stock number:5515.
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Imprint: London: Longmans, Green, and Co. [...], 1899
Binding: Hardback 8vo. pp. x, 552, 32 (adverts) + photogravure portrait frontispiece and folding colour-printed map lithographed by W. & A.K. Johnston at the rear. Publisher’s cloth, rubbed. Stamps and paper label (on cover) of the University Women’s Club. Ownership inscription of Shirley Tremearne, dated 1902 (pencilled note: ‘of Bangalore, male’).
Robert Bulwer-Lytton had a brief but controversial term as Disraeli’s Viceroy, 1876-1880, which encompassed the Delhi Durbar (at which Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India), an assassination attempt, the great famine of 1876-78 in which up to 10 million perished and the second Afghan War of 1878-80. Edited by Lytton’s daughter, Lady Balfour, whose stated goal was to give “to the public, for the first time, the true inner history of an administration which has been greatly criticised, yet little understood”.
Stock number:6502.
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Imprint: London: George Newnes [...], [1907]
Binding: Hardback Folio. pp. [viii], lvi, 176, 42. Including pp. 176 of colour-printed maps and graphs. Adhersion damage to centrefold of “Commercial Highways of the World” pp. 22-23; first page of gazeteer torn without loss of text. Red publisher’s cloth, some staining to lower cover, slightly rubbed.
In his preface Bartholomew describes this a ‘pioneer work’ which had taken several years to prepare and which should properly have been undertaken by the government. It is certainly an extremely detailed and comprehensive atlas: there are maps showing the world trade in every conceivable commodity - from pearls to tobacco, via beer, ashphalt and wax - and of course recording the open trade in commodities such as ivory, feathers and opium which may seem exotic or barbarous (not to mention downright illegal) to the modern reader but were entirely respectable at the time. (Ornamental feathers were chiefly imported from Cape Colony, with France coming a close second.) The maps are supported by graphs and tables so that on one page are tables showing Britain’s imports of drugs - including licorice and opium (‘a pleasant narcotic’) - while on another one can learn that Greece was Britain’s largest supplier of currants and Britain was the fourth largest consumer of butter per head per annum. There are also gerneral maps showing population density, merchant shipping etc.
Stock number:6328.
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Imprint: London, c. 1899
Binding: Hardback Lithographed map, 62 x 87 cms, colour printed, dissected into 32 sheets and laid on linen as issued, folding into original brown cloth covers with publisher’s paper label, spine sunned. Dated to 1899 in the British Library catalogue and certainly roughly contemporary with the second Anglo-Boer War (post 1894, pre 1902).
Stock number:6286.
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Imprint: London: George Newnes, Ltd, [1898]
Binding: Hardback Folio, (36.5 x 25 cms), pp. [ii] (frontis., flags), xxiv, 120 (colour-printed lithographed maps), [ii], 134 (gazeteer). Blue publisher’s cloth stamped in gilt and blind, minor wear to extremities.
Stock number:5535.
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Imprint: London, c. 1780
Copper engraving, 18.5 x 31 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
Servius Tullius was the sixth legendary king of ancient Rome, the second of the Etruscan dynasty, who traditionally reigned 578-535 BC, and who was supposedly responsible for the Servian Wall prominent on this map. The Gauls sacked Rome in 390 BC.
Stock number:5783.
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Imprint: London: John Murray, 1864
Binding: Hardback 8vo. pp.xii, 466 + folding map. Numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Original green publisher’s cloth, gilt, neatly rebacked preserving original spine. Ex libris Research Association of British Rubber Manufacturers with ink stamp to title and verso of map, and shelf mark at the foot of the spine.
Stock number:5299.
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Imprint: Paris, 1676
Magnificent copper-engraved battle plan, in two sheets which can be joined (each comprising two sheets which have already been joined), platemarks 58 x 89 and 60 x 88.5 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. The upper sheet is engraved by N. Cochin (two brothers, Nicolas and Noel, engraved pieces for this work) and the lower by J. Frosne, both after de Beaulieu. The upper sheet is a bird’s-eye view looking from the French positions towards the Spanish, within a wreath and flanked by a cockerel and an eagle. The lower sheet is in plan, presented on a lion-skin with inset views of Furnes (Veurne) and Ypres.
Sebastien de Pontault de Beaulieu, royal cartographer, military engineer and draughtsman known chiefly for “Le Grand Beaulieu”, an album of maps and plans published between 1676-1694 devoted to “the glorious victories of Louis the Great” between 1643-1692. Lens was one of the decisive battles of the Thirty Years’ War, fought in its closing stages, while Louis XIV himself was still a minor.
Stock number:4383.
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Imprint: Paris, c. 1764
Copper engraving, 25.5 x 20.5 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the, Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la Marine
Stock number:6516.
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Imprint: Paris, c. 1772
Copper engraving, 24 x 32 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso.
Stock number:5552.
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Imprint: Leipzig, 1754
Copper engraving, 21 x 31.5 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. From the German edition of “Histoire Generale des Voyages” by Prevost d'Exiles.
Stock number:6530.
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Imprint: Paris, c. 1764
Copper engraving, 22 x 27 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the, Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la Marine
Stock number:6182.
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Imprint: Paris, c. 1764
Copper engraving, 23 x 18.5 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the, Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la Marine
Stock number:6185.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1616
Edition: First Edition Copper engraving, 9.6 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
From the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them, undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever printed
Stock number:6538.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1616
Edition: First Edition Copper engraving, 9.4 x 13.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso. Following the characteristic outline established by Speed in 1611; probably engraved by Salomon Rogiers.
From the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them, undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever printed
Stock number:6534.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5792.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5941.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5799.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 10 x 13.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:6192.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5932.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1616
Edition: First Edition Copper engraving, 9.4 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso. The Province of Connacht or Connaught.
From the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them, undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever printed
Stock number:6541.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5940.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.6 x 13.6 cms, later hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:4676.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5931.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5933.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5938.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5791.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1616
Edition: First Edition Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
From the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them, undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever printed
Stock number:6537.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5796.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1616
Edition: First Edition Copper engraving, 9.4 x 13.5 cms, recent hand-colour, printer’s crease, Latin text on verso. The Province of Leinster.
From the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them, undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever printed
Stock number:6542.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616
Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5936.
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