Search Results: Titles starting with G from Robert Frew Ltd

[Paris: 1683]. 9.9 x 14.3 cm. Original copper engraving with later hand colouring. Miniature copper engraving of the then Tzar. A very good example.

Vanity Fair, Sept. 18, 1875. Drawn by Ape. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With the original leaf of biographical text from the magazine.

Vanity Fair, Sept. 18, 1875. Drawn by Ape. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Vanity Fair, November 20, 1902. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

[Paris: 1683]. 14.6 x 9.6 cm. Original copper engraving with later hand colouring. Miniature view of the main square in Madrid. Three small wormholes to upper left margin, encroaching slightly onto plate. Generally very good.

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1850.. Original engraved map of Northern Africa. Map dimensions 28 x 44 cm, overall sheet size 31 x 52 cm. Original hand-colour. Numerous small nicks to outer margins, offsetting to map.

London: T. McLean. 1841. Original lithograph 23 x 36 cm (sheet size 37 x 54 cm.). (Abbey Travel, 183).

Paris: Briasson, David, Le Breton. 1771.. The set of 6 engraved plates from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnire Raisonn� des Sciences, des Arts et des M�tiers, published 1751-80 (each 38.5 x 25.5 cm.), with the original leaf of descriptive text.

London: Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author, No.5 Knightsbridge, 1805.. Original hand-coloured engraved plate (26 x 20.5 cm) with accompanying leaf of descriptive text. Issued in Henry Andrews' Botanists Repository For New and Rare Plants, Volume III, plate 164.

[1624].. Portrait of Galileo engraved by Pietro Bettelini after the painting by Passignani. Nineteenth century frame. Pietro Bettelini (6 September 1763 � 27 September 1829) was a Swiss engraver. Domenico Passignano (1559 � 17 May 1638), born Cresti or Crespi, was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei (15 February 1564 � 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science".

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, [1850].. Original engraved map of the world according to Greek geographer Strabo (64 or 63 BC - c. AD 24) with original hand colouring. Map dimensions 25.5 x 41 cm, overall sheet size 31 x 52 cm. Some toning and fraying to margins not affecting map, especially in bottom left corner which has been affected by damp-staining.

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1850.. Original double-page engraved map with original hand colouring. Map dimensions 44 x 55 cm, overall sheet size 52 x 63 cm. Faint offsetting, 13 cm split leading veering off into a small tear to bottom of map, several small nicks to outer margins not affecting map/

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, [1850].. Original double-page engraved map of North America with original hand-colouring. Map dimensions 44 x 54 cm, overall sheet size 52.5 x 62.5 cm. A bit of offsetting and toning, 6 cm split down bottom of centre-fold, a few minor nicks to margins not affecting map.

�dition R�lis�e par les soins et au profit exclusif des "Vrais Amateurs Romantiques" (Groupement de bibliophiles). [Henri Pasquinelli] [1940]. LIMITED EDITION 444/697. 4to. (25 x 19 cm.) pp.102. Original wrappers 20 full page colour and 20 full page black and white illustrations plus a further 14 large vignettes by Louis Berthomm� Saint-Andr�. A very good copy.

Printed by Survey of Egypt. Sept. 1917.. Single sheet map (64 x 46 cm.) backed on linen, from the Palestine map series covering the area around the village oif Gamley, west of Beersheba, showing some enemy trenches and gun emplacements. Shows also populted places, roads, tracks, railways and station, ruins, wadis, pools, cisterns and cultivated areas. relief shown by contours, hachures and spot heights. Includes legends and index to adjoining sheets. Titled in lilac mms. to verso with initialled ownership.

Vanity Fair, Nov. 22, 1879. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Paris: Briasson, David, Le Breton. 1771.. The set of 5 engraved plates from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnire Raisonn� des Sciences, des Arts et des M�tiers, published 1751-80 (each 38.5 x 25.5 cm.), with the original leaf of descriptive text.

London: Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author, No.5 Knightsbridge, 1805.. Original hand-coloured engraved plate (26 x 20.5 cm) with accompanying leaf of descriptive text. Issued in Henry Andrews' Botanists Repository For New and Rare Plants, Volume III, plate 183.

London: F.G. Moon. [1842-1849]. c.28 x 34 cm. Original tinted lithograph with later hand colouring. Half page. Roberts was the first independent, professional British artist to travel so extensively in the Near East. His tour in 1838-9 produced 272 sketches, a panorama of Cairo and three full sketchbooks, enough material to "serve me for the rest of my life" (Roberts, eastern journal, 28 Jan 1839). Over the next decade he made "a series of intire new drawings" for the large coloured lithographs executed by Louis Haghe for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, which was originally published by subscription, 1842-9. No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. "Robert's Holy Land was one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey, Travel). These lithographs were originally published in twenty parts, most… Read More

[London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, by I. Gold, Shoe Lane, 1804].. Original hand-coloured engraving (23.5 x 14.5 cm) from the first British edition of Elements of Botany: Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables. The first edition, printed for the author in Philadelphia in the previous year, is the first botanical textbook to have been published in America. Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was an American botanist, naturalist, and physician. He was one of the first professors of natural history in the United States and built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. He wrote the first American textbook on botany.