Search Results: Authors starting with V from Peter Harrington

Amsterdam., c.1686. A splendid, highly decorative mappemonde, a twin hemisphere map with smaller hemispheres of the poles; an early state of the map. California is shown as an island, fragments of the coastlines of Australia and New Zealand are shown, as is the "Terre de Iesso" between Asia and North America and South America continues to bulge alarmingly. Ornate baroque style scenes in each of the four corners depict the four seasons of each year; title along top edge. Gerard Valk was an active map engraver and publisher, who occasionally worked with Peter Schenk to prepare maps for atlases, for which a privilege was obtained in 1686. This map was heavily influenced by Jaillot's world map of 1674. Size: 585 x 500 mm. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. R.W. Shirley, Mapping of The World, entry 531, page 529.

London: Printed at the Ballantyne Press, sold by Hacon and Ricketts, & by John Lane, New York,, 1901. Bound by one of America's finest bookbinders First Vale Press edition, one of 310 copies printed on Arnold handmade paper, in a fine contemporary art nouveau binding by James MacDonald of New York. The text was taken from Edward FitzGerald's edition of 1859 and embellished with attractive designs by Ricketts. The Vale Press was founded by the lifelong partners Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) and Charles Shannon (1863-1937), both successful artists whose early printing ventures included The Dial (1889-97). In 1894, the partnership and patronage of the wealthy barrister Llewellyn Hacon allowed them to realize their ambition of establishing the press, producing primarily English poetic works, "blending medieval, Renaissance, and contemporary imagery" (Grove Art Online) in a style influenced by the aesthetic movement and arts and crafts. The Scottish-born James Macdonald (1850-1920) moved to America in… Read More

London: Printed at the Ballantyne Press, sold by Hacon and Ricketts,, 1897 & 1899. A particularly nice pair The Vale Press editions of William Blake's works, each one of 210 copies printed on paper. This is a beautiful set of these attractive publications. Two volumes, octavo. Original blue paper-covered boards, paper title labels to spines and front covers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Engraved title pages, historiated initials, and decorations to the text, all by Ricketts. Spines toned, hint of rubbing to board edges, browning to endpapers, offsetting to gutter of Book of Thel title page, else contents notably clean, a lovely pair in very good condition indeed. Ransom, Vale Press 9 & 22.

London: Printed at the Ballantyne Press, sold by Messrs. Hacon & Ricketts,, 1899. Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung First Vale Press edition, one of 210 copies on Arnold handmade paper from a total edition of 220, of which 10 were on vellum. This is one of the most beautiful editions of Coleridge's enduring poem, using the revised text of 1817, with the marginal prose gloss printed in a striking red. The Vale Press was founded by the lifelong partners Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) and Charles Shannon (1863-1937), both successful artists whose early printing ventures included The Dial (1889-97). The partnership and patronage of the wealthy barrister Llewellyn Hacon in 1894 allowed them to realize their ambition of establishing the press, producing primarily English poetic works, "blending medieval, Renaissance, and contemporary imagery" (Cooper) in a style influenced by the aesthetic and arts and crafts movements. Ricketts exercised almost complete control over the design and… Read More

Florence: G. Barbèra,, 1906. First edition, published as volume eight of the theoretical series of Manuali Barbèra di Scienze Giuridiche Sociali e politiche, dedicated to Angelo Messedaglia. Professor of economics at the universities of Modena, Padua, and Siena, and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, Valenti (1852-1920) is described by Cossa as "a meritous agricultural economist", praised for his monograph on the economic ideas of Gian Domenico Romagnosi. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in black. Errat slip tipped in at page xiii. Joints and extremities rubbed, short split to lower joint of rear board. Ownership inscription in pencil to half-title dated 1921. Occasional light spotting; a very good copy. Sraffa 6062. See Cossa, An Introduction to the study of political economy, page 508.

London: Martin Secker & Warburg,, 1946. First edition, number 128 of 500 copies signed by Cecil Day-Lewis, printed at the Officina Bodoni in Verona. The poem was first published in French as "Le Cimetière marin" in 1922. Octavo. Original marbled wrappers, paper label to front wrapper printed in black. Text printed in English and French. A couple of tiny nicks to extremities, a near-fine copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1981. First edition, first printing. This copy carries the appropriate publisher's strike-line for a first printing. The jacket, without the Caldecott Medal sticker and a price of $9.95, is the first issue. A film starring Robin Williams was released in 1995. Oblong quarto. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in copper gilt, beige endpapers. With dust jacket. Greyscale illustrations throughout by the author. Extremities slightly sunned, some light foxing, occasional cockling; extremities of jacket slightly worn, some minor damp staining and light foxing to reverse, unclipped; a very good copy in a very good jacket.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651. Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches) Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651, 2nd German edition.. Beautiful map of Erpach, showing the region in Germany between the Rhine, Neckar, and Main rivers, including Heidelberg and Erpach, from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches) Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651. Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches). Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651. Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches). Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches) Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651. Beautiful map of the Hesse region in central Germany from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches). Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651. Beautiful map of Alsace from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches) Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651. Beautiful map of Swabia, south-west Germany, from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches). Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651. Beautiful map of Thuringia, central Germany, from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches). Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651. Beautiful map of Swabia, Germany, from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches). Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651. Beautiful map of Holstein from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches). Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

Atlas Minor. Jan Jansson., 1651. Beautiful map of the Namur region of Belgium, from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius and other cartographers added maps to this and other later editions of the Atlas Minor. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Size: 19 x 14 cm. (7½ x 5½ inches). Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p.98.

[Antwerp: Philips Galle,, late 16th century]. Hunting and fishing in the Netherlands A superb pair of sixteenth-century engravings showing hunting and fishing scenes. The Flemish artist Jan van der Straet (1523-1605; otherwise known as Stradanus, or Giovanni Stradano) was born at Bruges and trained there and at Antwerp. He established himself in Florence about 1550. There he was employed as a designer of tapestries for the "Fabbrica degli Arazzi" which Cosimo de Medici had founded. Between 1550 and 1553 he executed works for the Vatican with the help of Francesco Salviati, who became a great influence on his style. He worked in Florence with Giorgio Vasari designing tapestries and frescoes depicting hunting scenes for Cosimo's villa at Poggio a Caiana near Florence. Pair of engravings by Hans Collaert after Van der Straet. Uncoloured. Fine condition. In gold leaf frames. Each size: 29.5 x 21.5 cm (11½ x 8½ ins). Framed sizes: 43 x 35cm.

The Hague: H. P. Leopold,, 1935. Rare account of a European's Hajj in the 1930s First and only edition, first printing, never translated out of Dutch, of this uncommon account by a European doctor of his Hajj, undertaken with the consent of Ibn Sa'ud in 1935. Van der Hoog describes his meetings with Ibn Sa'ud shortly after the assassination attempt on the king, his performance of the holy rituals, and encounters with numerous pilgrims. Many of his excellent photographs appear as plates. In response to a request from Ibn Sa'ud to improve Hajj facilities in the Hejaz, Pieter Henricus Van Der Hoog (1888-1957) was dispatched by the Dutch government to Jeddah in the late 1920s to help Egyptian and Syrian doctors improve the city's hygiene. There, he converted to Islam and secured permission from Ibn Sa'ud to return to conduct the Hajj in 1935. In Mecca, Van Der Hoog helped the wife of a friend give birth, for which he received a piece of Kiswah cloth (the design reproduced on the front board). He recounts… Read More