Aerial Photographic Mosaic: Washington D.C. de School of Aerial Photographic Reconnaissance Staff - 1918

Augsburg: Seutter, 1740. VG+, copperplate engraving with original hand coloring (color similar to Homann, with whom Seutter apprenticed before going out on his own in about 1707). There is minimal right marginal soling, but the image and color are exceptionally bright. Decorative cartouche, as usual, probably an allegorical representation of imperial Russia. The map measures 19.25x22.5 inches. .

Paris, Librairie Larousse, (1915-19).. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. 41 issues bound in one volume. Thick royal quarto. Unpaginated. With hundreds of letterpress maps, many of which are in colour, printed on recto only on 246 leaves of plates. Some photo-plates. Explanatory text to each map. Introductions. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary quarter cloth, bit rubbed and scuffed in places, paper-covered boards, cloth inner hinges, spine gilt. All 41 original yellow card wrappers, printed in red, are preserved and bound-in, few with old institutional stamp; expert paper repair to one leaf with minor loss. In about fine condition. Excellent copy, very well preserved. ~ FIRST EDITION. Very rare. F-3

Zurich: Orell, F�ssli et Comp., 1825 approx). Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplate engravings (100) of Swiss views and domestic scenes by Hess, Hegui, K�nig, Lory, Meyer, Wetzel and others.. Oblong octavo green morocco elaborately gilt on 4 raised bands (lacks lowest spine compartment, tips & hinges worn but sound) All Edges Gilt. Titlepage +[3]pp publisher's list +[4]pp contents + 100 plate leaves printed one side only. Clean and crisp - lovely views with a few genre scenes - wedding, peasants defending land against invaders in 1798, making cheese etc. Minor foxing almost entirely to the margins or blank back of plates, small wormhole at foot of 3 leaves. *A charming work containing views by various artists here collected together for the first time (Lonchamp 3199).

London: Christopher Brown, 1723. Fourth edition. Original Papered board covers.Front cover detached (present). Back attached.. Light discolour all prelims,initials front pastedown, ffep. Few maps minor defects,Condition Good.. Title, Preface, Advert.,Table of Maps, Twenty-nine uncoloured, copper engraved maps laid down hand made paper. (Complete as called for title page) Overalll clean, minor faults (edges, marks, folds, couple with edge tide marks, etc) Above average. Maps: World (folding - includes part of northern Australia)), Trojan War, Ulysses, Voyage of Aeneas (2), 3 world maps single page, Roman Empire (infancy, Youthful, maturity, Julius Caesar) Hannibal, Gallia Vetus (incl part of GB), Baetica, Africa, Europe/Asia/Africa, Ancient Greece, Mediterranean (Lybia), Egypt, Pyrrhus, Demetrius, Sparta, Defeat 10,000 Greeks, Syria/Assyria, Scriptual Geography, Ecclesiastical History, Cyrus the Great, Persia, Alexander. Rare cartographic publication. National Library Australia lists similar item by… Leer más

[Boca Raton, Florida]:: Jaffe Center for the Book Arts,, 2015.. Edition of 10 variants. 7.25 x 3.5"; 12 pages. Flutter book. Letterpress printed. Colophon with a map of Florida laser-printed. Cover and pages incorporate letterpress printing on a Vandercook 4 proof press using wood type, metal and collagraph plates. Blind printing of an area map. Printed on Arches 88 paper. Plant inclusion endpapers. Laid in handmade paper wrapper with slit-and-slot closure. Signed and numbered by the artists. Statement: "During Stephanie Wolff's residency at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, she and Dorothy Krause, the first resident artist, collaborated on this brief ode to Florida. A variety of Pigment prints of vintage documents, maps, photographs and botanicals were transferred onto the pages of this edition of 10 variable copies.

Augsburg: Seutter, 1740. VG+, copperplate engraving with original hand coloring (color similar to Homann, with whom Seutter apprenticed before going out on his own in about 1707). There is minimal right marginal soling, but the image and color are exceptionally bright. Decorative cartouche, as usual, probably an allegorical representation of imperial Russia. The map measures 19.25x22.5 inches. .

Paris, Librairie Larousse, (1915-19).. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. 41 issues bound in one volume. Thick royal quarto. Unpaginated. With hundreds of letterpress maps, many of which are in colour, printed on recto only on 246 leaves of plates. Some photo-plates. Explanatory text to each map. Introductions. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary quarter cloth, bit rubbed and scuffed in places, paper-covered boards, cloth inner hinges, spine gilt. All 41 original yellow card wrappers, printed in red, are preserved and bound-in, few with old institutional stamp; expert paper repair to one leaf with minor loss. In about fine condition. Excellent copy, very well preserved. ~ FIRST EDITION. Very rare. F-3

Zurich: Orell, F�ssli et Comp., 1825 approx). Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplate engravings (100) of Swiss views and domestic scenes by Hess, Hegui, K�nig, Lory, Meyer, Wetzel and others.. Oblong octavo green morocco elaborately gilt on 4 raised bands (lacks lowest spine compartment, tips & hinges worn but sound) All Edges Gilt. Titlepage +[3]pp publisher's list +[4]pp contents + 100 plate leaves printed one side only. Clean and crisp - lovely views with a few genre scenes - wedding, peasants defending land against invaders in 1798, making cheese etc. Minor foxing almost entirely to the margins or blank back of plates, small wormhole at foot of 3 leaves. *A charming work containing views by various artists here collected together for the first time (Lonchamp 3199).

London: Christopher Brown, 1723. Fourth edition. Original Papered board covers.Front cover detached (present). Back attached.. Light discolour all prelims,initials front pastedown, ffep. Few maps minor defects,Condition Good.. Title, Preface, Advert.,Table of Maps, Twenty-nine uncoloured, copper engraved maps laid down hand made paper. (Complete as called for title page) Overalll clean, minor faults (edges, marks, folds, couple with edge tide marks, etc) Above average. Maps: World (folding - includes part of northern Australia)), Trojan War, Ulysses, Voyage of Aeneas (2), 3 world maps single page, Roman Empire (infancy, Youthful, maturity, Julius Caesar) Hannibal, Gallia Vetus (incl part of GB), Baetica, Africa, Europe/Asia/Africa, Ancient Greece, Mediterranean (Lybia), Egypt, Pyrrhus, Demetrius, Sparta, Defeat 10,000 Greeks, Syria/Assyria, Scriptual Geography, Ecclesiastical History, Cyrus the Great, Persia, Alexander. Rare cartographic publication. National Library Australia lists similar item by… Leer más

[Boca Raton, Florida]:: Jaffe Center for the Book Arts,, 2015.. Edition of 10 variants. 7.25 x 3.5"; 12 pages. Flutter book. Letterpress printed. Colophon with a map of Florida laser-printed. Cover and pages incorporate letterpress printing on a Vandercook 4 proof press using wood type, metal and collagraph plates. Blind printing of an area map. Printed on Arches 88 paper. Plant inclusion endpapers. Laid in handmade paper wrapper with slit-and-slot closure. Signed and numbered by the artists. Statement: "During Stephanie Wolff's residency at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, she and Dorothy Krause, the first resident artist, collaborated on this brief ode to Florida. A variety of Pigment prints of vintage documents, maps, photographs and botanicals were transferred onto the pages of this edition of 10 variable copies.