Año de publicación: 1840
Librería: theoldmapman, Weston super Mare, Reino Unido
Arte / Grabado / Póster
Single sheet. A charming antique print - an oval vignette giving a view of the town from the sea, with boats and wagons on the beach in the foreground. Steel line engraving on paper. Later coloured by hand. In very good and clean state. Image 13 x 16 cm.
Publicado por Charles Tilt, London, 1830
Librería: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australia
Original o primera edición
Half calf. Drawings of Westall engraved by Edward Finden, Descriptions by Thomas Moule Ilustrador. 1st edition. 1st edition quarto, pp. viii, 118, b/w plates and views after William Westall, bookplate, offsetting text pages, foxing to plates particularly margins, half calf boards, calf worn and scuffed, cloth marked and worn in places, edges rubbed. Collection topographical illustrations of Great Britain, many representative of the arts. The artist, William Westall, was the Landscape Artist aboard H.M.S. Investigator during Matthew Flinder's circumnavigation of Australia.
Publicado por John Murray, 1835
Librería: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Hardcover Edition. Two Volumes. Simple Half-Title Followed By Table Of Contents In Each Volume, 53 In First Volume And 67 In The Second Volume; Originally Issued In 24 Parts 1833-1834 With 120 Plates In Total, Then This Issue With All Plates Bound In Two Volumes, Then Later The Complete Set Of 123 Plates With 3 Vignettes Was Published In 3 Volumes And Still Later Enlarged To 126 And Then 130 Illustrations And Incorporated Into Sets With Explanatory Text Included. Full Black Calf, With "Illustrations Of Byron" And Volume Numbers On Spine In Gilt, Covers And Spine Elaborately Stamped In Blind, Yellow Silk Endpapers. No Text. Slight Wear At Lower Edges And Corners, And Fresh, But Volume I Has A1/2" X 1/2" Chip At Upper Right Corner Of Spine, And Volume Ii Has A 1" X 3/4" Chip Which Is Detached And Laid In Loosely. No Marks, But Gift Card Of Mrs. Hosmer A. Johnson, Dated In 1899, To Her Granddaughter. Hosmer Allen Johnson, M.D., L.L.D. (1822 ? 1891) Was An American Physician, Academic, And Mason From New York. After Graduating From The University Of Michigan, He Moved To Chicago, Illinois To Attend Rush Medical College. There, He Became An Understudy Of William B. Herrick And Joined His Medical Practice. Receiving A Doctor Of Medicine In 1852, Johnson Was Named Lecturer On Physiology At Rush, Eventually Chairing A Department There. In 1859, He Co-Founded The Chicago Medical College At Lind University, Which Later Became The Feinberg School Of Medicine Of Northwestern University. During The Civil War, Johnson Was The Top Medical Aide In The State, Presiding Over The Board Of Medical Examiners For The State Of Illinois.Hosmer Johnson Was Initiated Into The Masonic Order In 1853 And Rose To Become Grand Orator Of The Grand Lodge Of Illinois. He Organized A Knights Templar Chapter For Illinois And Was First Officer Of That Branch For Two Terms. He Became A Member Of The Supreme Council Of The Scottish Rite Northern Jurisdiction In 1861, Later Becoming And Officer. He Could Speak Seven Foreign Languages Fluently And Also Had A Strong Knowledge Of The Ojibwe Language. He Served On The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Chicago And Northwestern University.
Publicado por Charles Tilt., London., 1838
Librería: N. G. Lawrie Books, Sheffield, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good+. First Edition. 162pp, 50 engraved plates with tissue guards. Full brown leather binding. Lacks the backstrip, front & rear boards are loose, with some scuffs & marks. Text block is firm, pages & plates are generally clean with only occasional light spotting. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Publicado por John Murray 1833 1834, 1834
Librería: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First Edition Thus. Three Volumes. Frontispiece, Illustrated Title, Full Title, 42 Plates With Tissue Guards Plus Extensive Text Pages In Each Volume, But Unpaginated. Full Morocco, Elaborately Gilt, All Edges Gilt, Marbled Endpapers. Originally Issued In 24 Parts 1833-1834 With 120 Plates In Total, Then With All Plates Bound In Two Volumes, Then Later The Complete Set Of 123 Plates With 3 Vignettes Was Published In 3 Volumes Incorporated Into Sets With Explanatory Text Included, As In These Examples. Heraldic Bookplates Of Edward Candler Of Morton Pinkney, "Ad Mortem Fidelis", And Large Engraved Bookplates Of Reese And Kathryn Taylor (Reese Hale Taylor Was Chairman Of Union Oil); Small Bookseller Labels Of "George M. Millard / Rare And Imported Books / 645 Prospect Crescent / Pasadena", The Business Name Of George And Alice Parsons Millard (1873 ? 1938). Alice Was The Premier Pasadena Rare Book Dealer, Operating From "La Miniatura", The House Frank Lloyd Wright Designed And Built For Her On The Banks Of The Arroyo Seco (He Had Previously Designed A House For Them In Highland Park, Il, Near Chicago); After Her Husband Died, She Continued The Business Under His Name, First In Santa Barbara, Then In Pasadena. Bindings Worn, Front Boards Detached But Present; Front Boards Could Be Re-Attached (With New Cords).