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

Elaborately engraved frontispiece by Antonio Luciani a Venetian print maker who worked between 1700-1738. [xvi], 205, [158] pp. 4to, half calf and speckled boards, extremities rubbed, hinges starting, Ms. Ex Libris note to front free end page by Anthony Alfredo Giarraputo, a poet, Harvard graduate and language teacher in the Boston, MA with an older German ms. Previous owner's name and stamp to title page, occasional spotting but on the whole very clean.
Roman historian's classic work on the history of the Roman people. The work covers the period from from the foundation of the city of Rome (c. 753 BCE) to the death of Augustus in 14 CE

Paris:: Published in "Nouvel Atlas Portatif, 1778. 9-1/4" x 7-1/2"- 23.4 x 19cm. copper engraved map hand-coloured in outline, Nice wide margins. A very good map of Sweden and Finland engraved by Dussy.

From "Atlas Modern, Seconde Partie". . 11-3/4" x 17"-29.8 x 43.1 cm. . Outline coloured map. Light browning to upper left corner and outer margins, basically very good.

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.

Fascinating copper plate engraving of military munitions, arms and fortifications.

London: : From "The English Pilot: Part V" Sixth edition. Mount and Page, , 1761. 17-1/2" x 40"-44.4 x 101.6 cm. Copper engraved map. Light browning to bottom 2" of map, loss of ½" to lower right corner extending 4" in width, tears to lower margins and to lower portion of cartouche, some extra creases, still generally quite good as most of the image is on the upper portion of the map which does not have faults. An interesting large coastal chart engraved by Francis Lamb with rhumb lines, of the Gold Coast.

1761. A little light impression, light dampstaining, ink line through cartouche, in fair condition. 11" x 10"-27.9 x 25.4 cm.. Sellers & Van Ee 1996 An early nautical chart of the Island of Antigua with textual description below.

18-1/2" x 20"-46.9 x 50.8 cm. . Wash colour. Fine. A detailed map of England.

Oblong 8vo. Third Edition (c. 1840's) . 42 hand-coloured in outline copper engraved map panels mounted on two linen sheets (Each panel 20" x 30"-50.8 x 76.2); "Northern Part" with inset of Scotland and "Southern Part." Both parts with red title pages. Northern Part with an engraved tipped-in image of Edinburgh Castle and Southern Part with an engraved tipped-in image of the Cathedral of St. Paul on the verso. Some wear and loss to leather with the spine split, otherwise a very good bright copy. A detailed and bright copy of England, Scotland and Wales showing mail routes, railroads, turnpikes and canals.

From "Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre". . 12" x 17"- 30.4 x 43.1 cm. . Outline coloured map. Short tears to blank margins, o/w very good. Shows the Indian continent, Mongolia, Tibet, South East Asian islands to the tip of Formosa.

A very good map of Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia and the Arabian Sea. Towns, ports, seas and the Nile River are shown.

[c.1843 or later]. 8" x 5-1/2"- 20 x 13.9 cm. . Hand coloured. Right margin ragged otherwise very good. Shows counties, towns, bays etc.

London: : From Thornton's "The English Pilot Part III....The Whole Mediterranean Sea" Mount and Page,, 1776. Image size 5" x 7-1/4"- 12.7 x 18.4 cm. on sheet measuring 18-1/4" x 11-1/2"- 46.3 x 29.2 cm. Copper engraved map hand coloured in outline. Very good. A very good chart showing the harbour of and city of Livorno including soundings, a lighthouse and compass rose. On a larger letterpress sheet including textual descriptions of the bay.

15-34" x 19"-40 x 48.2 cm. Hand-coloured map. Slight creasing and fold splits to blank margin o/w near fine.

Copper engraved map with hand colouring. Upper and lower margins reinforced, a nice bright example. An interesting map of the Netherlands showing the province of Utrecht. Land holdings are shown.

Toronto:: A.T. Wilgress,, 1917. First edition. Lrg. 8vo,. Illustrated. blue cloth. Spine sunned, endpapers a little loose, else very good. Edited by William Renwick Riddell Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario. "With Compliments of Alexander Fraser" note tipped-in

New York: : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, , [1976]. . Second edition. . Folio,. Illustrated throughout. Cloth and dustjacket. Jacket slightly creased and rubbed else fine. A valuable reference on cartography and cartographers of the 15th-19th Century. Well illustrated.

A bound group of legal tracts including: [Buxton, Thomas Fowell]. The Substance of Speech of Thos. Fowell Buxton, Esq. M.P. in the House of Commons, March 2d, 1819, on the motion of Sir James Mackintosh, Bart. "That, a select committee be appointed, to consider of so much of the criminal laws as relates to capital punishments or felonies, and to report their observations and opinions of the same, from time to time, to the House". London: John and Arthur Arch, J. Butterworth and Son, W. Phillips and Darton and Harvery, 1819. 24 pp. [bound with] [Buxton, Thomas Fowell]. Severity of Punishment. Speech of Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq., in the House of Commons, Wednesday, May 23rd, 1821, on the bill "for mitigating the severity of punishment in certain cases of forgery, and the crimes connected therewith." London: J. and A. Arch, 1822. 49 pp. [bound with] [Burdett, Sir Francis]. Sir Francis Burdett to His Constituents; Denying the Power of the House of Commons to Imprison the People of England. London: R.… Read More

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: : Hodder & Stoughton, , 1895. . Third edition revised. 8vo, . Illustrated with frontis, plates and a map. green cloth with gilt vignette of a palm tree on front cover. Upper portion of front cover mottled, dampstaining to lower margin of frontis portrait and to blank margins of last 50 pages and endpapers. A fair to good copy. Maggie Paton was the second wife of missionary John G. Paton who settled with him in Aniwa in the New Hebrides. "Her account of life on Aniwa is by turns high spirited and despairing-the latter particularly when one by one her children are sent for their own safety to live with relatives in Australia; it is less saccharine than many a missionary's tale and one of the most often reprinted of them all". (Robinson).