Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books

Cologne, 1600. Excellent. Size : 210x295 (mm), 8.25x11.625 (Inches), Coloring: Black & White, Category: ; Maps Africa Continent

Germany, c. 1600. Very Good; margins trimmed. Notes: "In 1600 Matthias Quad brought out his general atlas of the world. This was largely an expansion of his earlier Europae totius orbis terrarum of 1592. Quad employed Johannes Bussemacher to engrave this attractive map of North America which is largely a reduced version of Cornelis de Jode's Americae Pars Borealis. De Jode was the first to make use of both John White and Jacques le Moyne's east coast cartography, though he inaccurately placed it. Quad here continues the mistake of placing the nomenclature of Virginia too far north. A long narrow waterway to the north encourages the belief in a North West Passage; Lago de Conibas makes its by now usual appearance. Some names have been surprisingly left out, notably Bermuda, St. Augustine, Roanoke and Chesapeake. A curious "second" peninsula is shown to the west of Florida which could be an early representation of the Mississippi delta. Below the map is a panel with descriptive text." -Burden, Size :… Read More

Milano: : Presso Paolo Antonio Tosi, , c.1821; . Overall a near-fine copy with plates and text crisp and clean. . Edition: First Edition [published posthumously] , Binding: Contemporary half vellum with brown marbled boards; gilt lettered title on gilt bordered burgundy morocco label on flat spine; endpapers renewed; edges blue., Notes: Text in Italian. Giacomo Quarenghi (1744–1817) was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of neoclassical architecture in Imperial Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg. He brought into vogue an original monumental style, of Palladian inspiration, which was a reference for many architects who worked in Russia. He has been described as "the last of the great architects of Italy".Quarenghi's first important commission in Russia was the English Palace in Peterhof, a magnificent rectangular edifice with a Corinthian portico. ...Appointed to the post of Catherine II's court architect, Quarenghi went on to produce a prodigious number of designs for the Empress,… Read More

London, England: Studio Vista Limited, 1971. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket, Illustration: Colour and black-and-white illustration, Pages: 136 pp, Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Books;

Venise: Jean Tacuini de Tridino, July 1536. Colophon: Venetiis in ædibus Ioannis Tacuini de Tridino. Anno dñi // M.D.XXXVI. mense Iulii. Regnante Inclyto // Andrea Griti Principe. // REGISTRVM. //…., 1536. Attractive, example; some leaves restored & reinforced; minor tear repairs, i. e. upper corner tear-offs at XXII and the final leaf. This rare and desirable work is in very good condition. . Binding: Expertly rebacked 17th century vellum; spine raised with five (5) bands and gilt lettered title on morocco label on two. Edges uncut. , Notes: Venice edition of Aldo Manutio’s annotations.This work includes the Epistola Ascensii, Vita Horatii by Petrum Grifitum Florentinum; Epistle Mancinelli; Vita Horatii by Antonio Mancinello; Index vocabulorum; Carminum [four books]; Epodon; Ars Poetica; Sermons [two books]; Epistles [two books]; Annotations of ALDO MANUZIO; Genera Metrorum; De Metris Odarum; Annotations of Matthei Bonfinis of Asculani. Nicolai Peroti's Book of the Meters of the Odes. ,… Read More

Ottoman Turkish, c. 1830. A fine example of this early printing in the Ottoman Empire. Text is crisp and clean and illumination is vibrant. . Binding: Contemporary full brown calf. Covers with gilt rules and tooled decorations. Spine with tooled decorations. Pasted and free green endpapers. , Notes: Text is printed in Arabic and the last two leaves after the end of the Qur’an are in Persian (two pages of commentary and some poetry). 306 leaves of text with beautifully hand designed and coloured holograph vocalizations in red, illuminated with gold borders and verse divisions of gold dots, sura headings in white in gilt panels (including some with blue borders), geometric devices in margins with gold and polychrome highlights in numerous instances. Two double-page hand illuminations at front, and at the end, featuring wide and intricate floral border in lavender, blue, red, and white on gilt ground, with pink, green and yellow rules. All illumination is hand designed and coloured. , Size: 8vo… Read More

India. , C.1820.. In a very good condition, clean and crisp. A very fine example, text is clean. . Binding: Contemporary calf rebacked expertly, saving the original spine, flat spine with blind tooling, upper and lower boards with decorative blind tooling and devices., Notes: The Quran, meaning "the recitation", is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Allah). It is widely regarded as the finest work in classical Arabic literature. The Quran is divided into chapters (Arabic: سورة sūrah, plural سور suwar), which are subdivided into verses (Arabic: آية āyah, plural آيات āyāt). Muslims believe that the Quran was orally revealed by God to the final Prophet, Muhammad, through the archangel Gabriel (Jibril), incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 CE, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death. Muslims regard the Quran as Muhammad's most important miracle, a proof of his… Read More

c.1830. A very nice example. . Binding: Contemporary decorative jewelled silver plated and calf boards, end papers renewed., Notes: Manuscript selection of Quran in Arabic., Size: 8vo (185mm x 138mm), Illustration: Manuscript selection of Quran in Arabic, on cream paper written in Thalth with 5 lines per page I black ink, 47 leaves, each leave of text within two red rules. Sura heading in red and black ink., Category: Book Religious Islam; Book Near East Turkey; Book Manuscript

Ottoman, c.1820.. Binding: contemporary calf rebacked expertly saving the original spine, flat spine, upper and lower boards with decorative blind ruling and illuminated devices, spine with decorative gilt motif. , Notes: The Quran, meaning "the recitation", is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Allah). It is widely regarded as the finest work in classical Arabic literature. The Quran is divided into chapters (Arabic: سورة sūrah, plural سور suwar), which are subdivided into verses (Arabic: آية āyah, plural آيات āyāt). Muslims believe that the Quran was orally revealed by God to Prophet, Muhammad, through the archangel Gabriel (Jibril), incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 CE, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death. Muslims regard the Quran as Muhammad's most important miracle, a proof of his prophethood, and the culmination of a series of divine messages starting… Read More

Persia, c. 1760. An attractive large size Qur’an with a very good quality of the nasta’liq manuscript. Mild occasional smudging, water staining in the margins and minor old repairs, otherwise a very good example of this scarce manuscript Qur’an. . Binding: 19th century full calf with tooled corner pieces and center piece on covers. Gilt ornamentation saved from original spine. , Notes: A fine Qur’an from the mid 18th century. Text is written in Arabic on 502 leaves. Written in nasta’liq script in black and red ink with 11 lines to a page. Occasional notes in red and black ink in margins. , Size: 4to (275x185mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with a superb double-page illuminated watercolour title page in various colours and gold. The work throughout is illustrated with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, red roundels marking verses, margins ruled in red and blue, and surah headings are distinguished by red rules. , Category: Book Manuscript; Book Religious Islam;