Search Results: Authors starting with W from Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB

A detailed map of Turkey showing ports, towns, ancient ruins and mountain ranges.

1875.. Very good.. 12” x 15”- 30.4 x 38.1 cm.. A colourful map of Nova Scotia divided into counties and showing towns, harbours, railway lines and mining areas.

1875.. Very good.. 15” x 25”- 38.1 x 63.5 cm.. A very good double sheet map of the United States showing towns, cities railway lines and topographical features.

London: , c. 1725. Copper engraved map with later hand colouring. Margins ragged otherwise very good. 13-1/2 x 17- 34.2 x 43.1. Laor 825 An Interesting map of the Holy Land divided into tribes with extensive engraved scene of the Crucifiction below.

New York and London: : Harper & Brothers, , 1903. . First edition. 8vo, . Illustrated with 4 colour plates and decorations by Kiyokichi Sano. lavender pictorial cloth with gilt lettering, t.e.g. Extremities and spine ends lightly rubbed, one plate detached but present. A charming folk story set in Sendai, Japan.

Toronto: Hunter, Rose and Company, , 1876. First edition. 8vo,. original embossed cloth, cloth mottled and a little dampstained, spine sunned, endpapers spotted else very good. Born in Northern Ireland, Watson emigrated to Montreal in 1857 where he worked as a journalist. He later moved to Toronto where he was employed at the Globe. In 1872 he took up a position of librarianat the Legislative Library of Ontario.

London: : George Bell & Sons, , 1904. Second edition. Lrg. 8vo,. Illustrated. tan and gilt cloth, some darkening to cloth, else very good. The works of Whistler examined.

[5], 104 pp. Tall 8vo, printed wraps, front wrap chipped, soiled and detached, lacking rear wrap, ffep detached, very sporadic light spotting or chipping, else very good. Celebrates the landing of the colonists at Plymouth Rock on the 200th anniversary of the event. Webster exaults the pilgrims for their efforts and their sufferings in order to build a democratic nation. A highly patriotic and moving speech.

c. 1700-38.. Margins a little ragged, stain to upper left in neatline extending just into the Atlantic Ocean, otherwise very good.. 14-1/2" x 19-1/2"- 36.8 x 49.5 cm.. Published in Edward Well's Atlas "A New Sett of Maps both Ancient and Present Geography Copper engraved map hand coloured in outline. Tooley Africa p. 122. A very good map of Africa showing two sources of the Nile. Wells dedicated his atlas to the Duke of Gloucester and this map had large dedication cartouche lower left. Africa, Nile

c. 1700-38.. Left margin a little ragged and browned otherwise very good.. 14-1/2" x 19-1/2"- 36.8 x 49.5 cm.. Published in Edward Well's Atlas "A New Sett of Maps both Ancient and Present Geography Copper engraved map hand coloured in outline. Shirley. BL Atlases T.WELL-1a, #26. A very good map of Scandinavia including parts of Poland, Livonia and Russia. Towns, universities and bishoprics are shown. Scandinavia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Lapland

8vo, original purple cloth with gilt vignette, spine faded, spine ends and corners rubbed, names and inscriptions on ffep, sporadic light spotting else very good. Currier p. 126-127. Whittier was a New England Quaker poet who drew early inspiration from Scottish poet Robert Burns. He worked as an editor for the American Manufacturer in Boston and then the New England Weekly Review. A dedicated abolitionist, he spent much of his working life as an activist and champion to the anti-slavery cause. He contributed many works to the Atlantic Monthly (a publication he helped to found). This group of poems include works by his sister Elizabeth H. Whittier.

18" x 14"-45.7 x 35.6 cm. Hand-coloured. Fine. A detailed map of North America From Alaska (named the Russian Possessions) to the tip of South America. Texas is shown as a Republic and Greenlands as being attached to the Arctic mainland. Captain Franklin's discoveries in the Arcitc are noted .

Copperplate engraved map with hand colouring. Chips to margins with minor losses, small closed tear upper left corner, a few light creases, small perforation to either side of centrefold (more visible on verso), verso c/f reinforced with tape but on the whole very good


20-1/2" x 22-3/4"- 57.1 x 57.7 cm.



A detailed map of North America, the Caribbean, South America and the Pacific Islands. Alaska is still part of Russian possessions, and Texas stands as a Republic. James Wyld Jr. took over the family business in the mid 19th Century and continued to produce highly detailed maps of all regions of the world.

A detailed map of Egypt showing deserts, oases, The Red and Mediterranean seas and the Nile River. Also shows parts of Arabia, Palestine and Syria.