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1791réf. 48770Thessaloniki: Mordekhai Nahman ve-David Yisraelig'ah 1791. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg-. Two volumes large quarto. Vol.1: 2 157. Vol.2: 3 158- 274 1 35. Double-sided leaves. Rebound in modern burgundy mottled faux-leather boards with gilt lettering on the front covers gilt lettering and ruling on the spines. Edges of the book block in red. Title pages bordered with small woodcut motifs. The first printed edition of this commentary on the Talmudic tractate Bava Batra by famed mediaeval Spanish Rabbi Meir Abulafia aka 'The Ramah' c. 1170 - 1244. The work is one of only three surviving parts Tractates Bava Batra Sanhedrin and Kidushin plus the fourth chapter of Tractate Gittin from his larger series of his Talmudic commentaries known as Yad Ramah meaning "Hand of the Ramah" or "The Upraised Hand". The final section of the second volume contains Shiyur Shitah Mekubetset with its own title page a subsequent commentary on the work by Rabbi Bezalel Ashkenazi c. 1520 - c. 1592 and an approbation at the start of the first volume by editor Yosef Elia Halevi. The first volume includes a few illustrated figures and diagrams on leaf 123. Text throughout in Hebrew printed in Rashi script in a two column format. Bindings with minor rubbing bumping and damp staining to the corners. Minor scratches and smudges to the covers. Title page in volume one torn along the left margin. Title page of volume torn along the left margin with no loss of text. Title page of volume 2 with tears worming and staining with some loss of text. Volumes quite clean overall with only minor sporadic staining in the margins. Worming throughout both volumes with some loss of text mostly in the second volume. A few pages throughout the volumes have been repaired with tape. Bindings in very good- interiors in good- to good condition overall. Scarce. Hebrew title: יד רמה Authors: רבי מ×יר הלוי ×בו××œ×¢×¤×™×™× הרמ"ה יוסף ×ליה הלוי בצל×ל בן ××‘×¨×”× ××©×›× ×–×™ Publication: ש××œ×•× ×™×§×™ בדפוס ×”×©×•×ª×¤×™× מרדכי נחמן ודוד ישר×ליג'ה Bibliographic references: Vinograd- Salonica 407. Mordekhai Nahman ve-David Yisraelig'ah hardcover books
2008réf. 140945289New York: Harmony Books 2008. First edition. First edition. Signed by Abraham Bolden on the half title with a warm lengthy inscription to the former owner dated April 26 2010. x 306 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth and boards spine lettered in silver. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The autobiography of the first Black Secret Service agent on the White House detail who faced a lot of racism and vitriol from other agents during his time in JFK's White House. After helping to foil a plot against President Kennedy's life in Chicago in October 1963 mere weeks before the Dallas assassination Bolden was forced into silence about the events in Chicago which remain completely unknown and obscure even to most historians of the era and eventually railroaded into jail on trumped-up charges. In 2022 he was officially pardoned by President Biden. A rare signature from one of the unsung heroes of the Kennedy assassination milieu. Harmony Books unknown books
réf. 37867Warsaw: NP n.d. Softcover. g. Octavo. 4 page folded pamphlet. Orange label with black text tipped on the cover titled "Objasnienie" Explanation. The publication offers an explanation of Genesis 49:1 in which Jacob offers his sons a prediction of the end. Basing himself on the 15th century biblical commentator Isaac Abarbanel R. Abraham Kupfersztoch's father took each letter from the verse and produced a prophecy about a world war in which the Russians English Serbians French Italians and Romanians fight against Germany and Turkey. Germany would invade and defeat Russia Poland would gain its independence and the Jews would return to Israel. This process was done in a similar fashion to modern day biblical interpretations known as the "Bible Code". This brand of apocalyptic prophecy was influenced by Abarbanel who read Daniel as predicting an apocalyptic war between Christians and Muslims. Kupfersztoch's prediction was made in 1905 and it appeared to be on its way to fulfillment with the beginning of World War I. His empathy for Polish nationalists is quite striking as it goes against the common view of Polish-Jewish relations as being uniformly negative. Text in Hebrew and Polish. Some marking in pen and underlying in crayon. Overall in good condition. Abraham Isaac Kupfersztoch aka Kupperstock Poland - 1940 Berlin the author was an eccentric Hassidic Rabbi originally from Warsaw. He aided Germany during World War I by providing secret plans of the layout of Russian defenses. His reasons for doing this were based both an personal animus he harbored towards the Russians for executing some of his students years earlier and also likely in connection with this prophecy. As a consequence of his actions during the war he was granted German citizenship. He lived in Berlin and operated a Yeshiva there up through the Nazi period. He was even given financial support from the government and amazingly was one of an extremely rare class of Jewish citizens to have actually been given protection from anti-Semitic actions and persecution during the period. An extraordinary story reports that his yeshiva was in fact guarded from violence during the infamous Kristallnacht by a squad of SS members. Upon his death of natural causes in 1940 his students were subsequently no longer shielded from the Holocaust and were sent to concentration camps. NP unknown books
1972réf. 33064Jerusalem: Makor Publishing Ltd 1972. Limited edition. Hardcover. g. 1/290. Complete 4 volume set. 4to. Half-leather over blue cloth gold-stamped image on the cover and raised bands. Brown edges and yellow book mark ribbons. Hebrew and English title-pages. Facsimile of the 1509 Constantinople printing of Maimonides' famous code of Jewish Law the “Mishnah Torah.” This was the first edition to include the criticisms of R. Abraham b. David of Posquieres as well as the 14th century commentary Magid-Mishnah by the Spanish scholar Vidal Yom Tov of Tolosa and Migdal Oz by Shem Tov b. Abraham Gaon. Text in Hebrew. Covers slightly scratched and edges rubbed. Overall in good condition. Makor Publishing Ltd hardcover books
1590réf. 37978np 1590. Image area 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches in 28 x 23 inch mat. Single crease down center with one 1/2 inch spot worn through otherwise a nice handsome map. Image area 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches in 28 x 23 inch mat. Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598 was a Flemish geographer of German origin. His major work Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570 with later revisions and addenda was the first modern atlas. It was based on contemporary charts and maps and contained a collection of plates engraved by Franz Hagenberg in a uniform size and format. The Theatrum preceded the first Atlas of Ortelius' good friend Gerardus Mercator. In fact popular and sentimental legend has it that Mercator delayed publication of his own work so that his younger friend's would appear first. although this simply is not true Mercator wasn't ready the legendary cartographer did compliment Ortelius for the "care and elegance" he put into his "Theatrum. unknown books
1807réf. 539560London: Printed for J. Johnson … by T. Bensley 1807. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Abridged and edited by William Hazlitt. Octavo. xlvii 4 529pp. Bound in tree calf re-backed with the original gilt decorated spine and red leather titling label laid down marbled endpapers gilt and gauffered edges. Armorial bookplate of Belgian politician Sylvain van de Weyer on front pastedown. Intermittent toning and moderate scattered foxing very good. An attractive copy with a notable provenance. Van de Weyer 1802-74 served as Belgian ambassador to the United Kingdom and briefly as prime minister of Belgium under King Leopold I. Printed for J. Johnson … by T. Bensley hardcover books
1994réf. 036603NY: Simon & Schuster. 1994. His first book a nonfiction account of being a physician caring for an unexpectedly large AIDS outbreak in eastern Tennessee. Inscribed by Verghese in 2002 to the medical historian Howard Markel who taught at the University of Michigan. Laid in is a typed note signed 2010 and a typed letter signed 2002 from Verghese to Markel--the former offering congratulations; the latter a thank you for hospitality during a visit to Ann Arbor. Additionally laid in is a 3-page copy of the remarks Markel made introducing Verghese for a speaking engagement. The letters and remarks are folded else fine; the book is fine but for lower corner bumps in a very near fine dust jacket with slight shelf wear. Verghese is the author of the highly praised novels Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1817réf. NF3108THE YOUNG MAN OF HONOUR'S VADE-MECUM BEING A SALUTARY TREATISE ON DUELLING TOGETHER WITH THE ANNALS OF CHIVALRY THE ORDEAL TRIAL AND JUDICIAL COMBAT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES C. Chapple N.d. but 1817 first edition previous owners name on verso of f.e.p. and title page some wear to the fore edge corner tips and a bit of wear also to the cover edges some wear to the spine else a good to very good copy in what appears to be the publishers original binding of plain brown boards and blotched red cloth spine. Rare with only one copy showing up at the major auction venues after 1974. C. Chapple hardcover books
1863réf. 13393N.p.: Printed Not Published 1863. 48pp. Modern crimson wrappers. Large dampstain throughout first half of text text toned thereafter. Marginal pencil markings throughout including one notice of transposed lines on page 9. Overall good plus condition. A rare collection of letters by an anonymous author mostly sent to President Abraham Lincoln but also to Secretary of State William Seward Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase and other officials between October 25 1860 and February 19 1863. The author is a Unionist and a self-described "citizen" not a soldier though he has plenty to recommend to President Lincoln and others about how to prosecute the present war. He also refers to himself as "a cool observer outside the stifling atmosphere of Washington" though again he wastes no time in recommending actions and strategies for political and military improvements. The author was most certainly a political actor of some kind as he writes intimately and on friendly terms with Lincoln and others "You know my personal regard for you" to John J. Crittenden in early 1861. He writes long letters to his correspondents about a decidedly wide variety of issues including the future of slavery political intrigue the dissatisfaction of the public early in the war and more but mostly about troop levels troop movements officer appointments and other aspects and critiques of war strategy. A notable angle of the work is that the author's side of the correspondence and likely some of the return correspondence he mentions within the letters are possibly lost to history other than their presence here. The imprint reads simply "Printed Not Published" and does not include a place or date of publication. We have assumed the date of 1863 given the introductory note is dated March 8 1863. OCLC reports just six copies at Columbia the Huntington Library Harvard Brown the University of Chicago and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Printed, Not Published unknown books
2015réf. 274N.P.: by the artist 2015. Original. Framed and matted. Fine. Lucas Richardson. Framed in black wood and matted in charcoal gray: overall size 18 1/2" x 15 1/2" / image displayed: 7 7/8" x 4 7/8". Lucas Richardson graduated valedictorian from DuCret School of Art in 2002. He has a double major in graphic design and fine art illustration. He continued to study with Peter Caras who had been instructed by Frank Reilley James Bama and Norman Rockwell. As a portrait artist Richardson has undertaken commissions in oil & charcoal mediums. He is also actively engaged in digital design. A STRIKING Portrait! by the artist unknown books
1860réf. 158491860. Lincoln Abraham. The Lincoln and Douglas Debates 1860 printed record of the seven public debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 Illinois Senate campaign a pivotal series of political confrontations over slavery and the future of the United States. The debates addressed the expansion of slavery into western territories and the constitutional implications of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision. Lincoln used the campaign to articulate a moral and political critique of slavery's expansion including the position he expressed in his earlier convention speech that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." Although Lincoln lost the Senate race to Douglas the debates established him as a leading national figure within the Republican Party and played a major role in shaping the political arguments that led to his presidential election in 1860. Lincoln Abraham. The Lincoln And Douglas Debates. A Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois. Columbus: Follett Foster and Company 1860. First edition third issue identified by the numeral "2" on page 13 and the presence of the publisher's advertisement. Octavo volume containing 268 pages. Bound in publisher's original olive green textured cloth with blind stamped borders and spine lettered in gilt. The Lincoln Douglas debates represented one of the most influential series of political exchanges in nineteenth century American history addressing the central constitutional and moral questions surrounding slavery in the years immediately preceding the Civil War. Douglas defended the doctrine of popular sovereignty arguing that territories should decide the legality of slavery for themselves while Lincoln challenged the compatibility of that doctrine with the Dred Scott decision and emphasized the moral consequences of the institution. Although Douglas retained his Senate seat Lincoln's articulate presentation of the issues drew national attention and positioned him as a major political figure within the emerging Republican Party. Slight chipping to the head of the spine fading to boards and gilt minor damp staining with light foxing and toning consistent with age. Overall good condition. unknown books
1863réf. 175681863. Lincoln Abraham. African Troops Scarce U.S. Senate executive document transmitting a message from Abraham Lincoln and accompanying State Department correspondence concerning the French deployment of Black troops to Mexico during the American Civil War. Issued by the 37th Congress 3rd Session in February 1863 the report reflects the convergence of emancipation-era policy racialized military labor and international imperial strategy. U.S. Senate Executive Document No. 40 37th Congress 3rd Session; February 1863. Original printed pamphlet in standard folio format.Prepared under the direction of William H. Seward the document compiles diplomatic intelligence indicating that France transported African troops from Egypt-specifically from regions identified as "Dalfour" and Nubia-to reinforce forces stationed at Veracruz during the French Intervention in Mexico. The stated rationale as recorded in the report was that "the black race is not subject to the yellow fever" revealing the period's racialized medical assumptions and their direct application in imperial military logistics. Produced in the immediate aftermath of the Emancipation Proclamation this document is especially significant for situating Black military labor within a global context. While the Union was actively recruiting African American soldiers U.S. officials were simultaneously monitoring European powers deploying African troops across colonial networks. The report thus provides rare contemporary evidence of how race disease theory and military necessity intersected in both American and European wartime policy. This document holds strong research value across multiple fields: African American military history Civil War diplomacy transnational slavery and emancipation colonial medicine and 19th-century imperial warfare. It is particularly notable for documenting the perceived biological resilience of Black soldiers as a strategic asset-an idea central to both colonial and military history. AS per OCLC Scarce in institutional holdings with only a small number of recorded copies including Wyoming North Texas Michigan and Faulkner University. OCLC data should be understood as approximate and subject to revision. Condition: Light dampstaining to the lower right blank corner; otherwise in very good condition and clean legible text. unknown books
1603réf. 213571Antwerp: Ortelius Abraham 1603. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13" x 18.25". Fine antique map of Perugia and Lake Trasimeno in central Italy in the Umbria region. Today the region is known it's foraged truffles and red wine. From 1603 edition "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum". Minor chipping to edges. Light stain near top centerfold. Full original margins. Abraham Ortelius 1527--1598 a Flemish cartographer and geographer is widely regarded as one of the important and influential cartographers in history. He is known for his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" which was the first modern atlas. Ortelius, Abraham unknown books
1635réf. 1413892c.1635. Image measures 13 in. x 10.25 in. Matted in frame measuring 23.2 in. x 19.25 in. Shelved at Rockville second floor. From a series of seven engravings titled "Les Metiers" 1413892. Special Collections - Upstairs. unknown books
1864réf. 438380Rangoon: American Mission Press C. Bennett 1864. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 91 1pp. Tables. Stitched printed yellow wrappers. Faint contemporary penciled name on front wrap "Rev. C. H. Carpenter" modest vertical crease small nicks tears and dogears; spine partially perished but tight overall very good. A comprehensive accounting of cargo exported from and imported to Rangoon with summaries of tonnage specific lists of cargo for each ship etc. "Published by the permission of the Collector of Customs." OCLC locates two copies only both at the British Library. American Mission Press, C. Bennett unknown books
1909réf. 256570New York: Privately Printed by the De Vinne Press 1909. First edition one of 300 copies. Frontispiece portrait and 7 other photographs and a colored Jock Scott fly at the end. xii 266 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth t.e.g. Light shelfwear title page foxed else near fine. First edition one of 300 copies. Frontispiece portrait and 7 other photographs and a colored Jock Scott fly at the end. xii 266 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarce privately printed work with considerable sporting content. Pp. 123 to 266 comprise the Logbook of Camp Albany on the Ristigouche River with entries from 1883 to 1898 on angling hunting and social topics. A prefatory note quotes from Dean Sage's classic book and an afterword by Charles H. Raymond offers an appreciation of Abraham Lansing 1835-1899 of Albany New York: "To watch his tall graceful form while casting on the river was to see the exemplar of the accomplished fisherman; the man the rod the line were together but the extension and the completion of artistic and practical perfection". Wetzel p. 174; Bruns L39; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 107 Privately Printed [by the De Vinne Press] unknown books
réf. 1329347A color example of the map of the Azores by Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598. This map was first published as part of a 1583 addendum to his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum the first modern world atlas. Condition: Very Good. Some age toning particularly in the upper right corner. Text from the verso of the page is visible in the margins particularly on the left side. Matted not framed. w 29 5/8 in. x h 23 5/8 in. Shelved at DuPont. 1329347. Arts & Antiques. unknown books
1900réf. 27986Denver CO: Issued by Halsey M. Rhoads 1900. Very Good. Denver CO: Issued by Halsey M. Rhoads ca. 1900. Later printing. Broadside with calligraphic portrait of Abraham Lincoln in which the script of the Emancipation Proclamation forms the image within a decorative frame surrounded by the names of the members of Congress who voted for the amendment of the U.S. Constitution. 48 x 37 3/4 cm. A few tears to edges with tape mend to verso top edge; folds; minor edge wear; paper residue to verso from previous mount; overall Very Good. The original design was by W.H. Pratt in 1865 with just portrait and border and the names to the outside added to later printings. Halsey Rhoads was publisher of the Rocky Mountain Herald and a well known and prominent Denver citizen--even his bout with appendicitis in 1901 treated with leeches and ice garnered several writeups in contemporary newspaper accounts. This broadside scarce in any printing. See Eberstadt 42. Issued by Halsey M. Rhoads unknown books
1861réf. 39392Springfield: Charles H. Lanphier 1861. 4 pp. Folio. 16-1/4" x 23-1/2.". Lightly chipped blank inner edge. Each page printed in six columns each separated by a rule. Very Good. The Register no friend of Abraham Lincoln was a Democratic Paper supporting the Crittenden Compromise. Reporting on State and National issues the Register notes "The Crittenden Resolutions have strong friends but the ultra republicans will not take them." Lincoln had insisted that his allies hold firm against Crittenden's Compromise. The Register rebukes Lincoln for his famous declaration that "the Union could not endure permanently part slave and part free." Developments in the fracturing Union are reported. Lincoln had been elected President nearly three months before the appearance of this issue. His inauguration would occur five weeks later. Paid advertisers include John McClernand and John Stuart who advertise their legal services in the first column of page 1. The large number and variety of advertisements for an array of medical complaints about four columns are surprising- - and a little disturbing. This issue also reports an incident involving the John Brownites at Boston who were snubbed by British Lord Brougham after inviting him to attend a convention discussing the abolition of slavery. Charles H. Lanphier unknown books
1862réf. 100336Newspaper folio unbound 8pp. Dampstained browned at edges with some foxing early owner's ink stamp on top margin some small tears and chips along edges and a little creasing. Still in decent shape overall. This is one of the earliest printings of the Emancipation Proclamation which was issued on September 22 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation declared freedom for all slaves in any Confederate state that didn't return to the Union by January 1 1863. Although this executive order did not actually free a large number of slaves it set the stage for the freedom of all slaves. Coverage of the Emancipation in this newspaper begins in the middle of the first page. This newspaper article represents important coverage of a very significant event in American History. archives government exhibits emancipation website books
1933réf. 49709Warsaw: Instytut Badań Spraw Narodowościowych 1933. First edition. Softcover. vg- to vg. Quarto. 45pp. 1. Grey printed wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Publisher's device on the title page and front wrapper. Published by the Polish National Affairs Research Institute this study is a comprehensive and detailed survey of the state of Jewish economic cooperatives in Poland from the late 19th centuries until the early 1930s. It was part of a larger effort to study Polish-Jewish socio-economics during the period and includes extensive numerical data tables throughout. The work was issued as the first of two in a series of publicartions on behalf of the Committee for the Examination of the Economic Needs of the Jewish Population in Poland Komitet dla Zbadania Potrzeb Gospodarczych Ludnośći Żydowskiej w Polsce. The preface was written by the committees's chair the Polish economist merchant and financier Adolf Peretz 1855-1933. The final section contains annexes appendices and includes an errata sheet tipped in on the final page. Publisher's advertisements printed on the back cover. Text throughout in Polish. Wrappers light sunned along the edges with minor rubbing and/or creasing to extremities. Light smudge to the front cover. Small closed tear on the title page. Pages throughout sunned with occasional minor creasing to the edges. Wrappers in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Wrappers protected in modern mylar. Instytut Badań Spraw Narodowościowych unknown books
1710réf. 37844Frankfurt a. M. 1710. First edition. Hardcover. fair to g. Folio. 1 leaf 4 leaves 99 leaves 114 leaves 9 leaves 13 leaves 1 leaf. Contemporary brown leather with blind tooling along the border and spine as well as raised bands. Blue edges. Illustrated title page with image of a swan. Head and tail pieces. Commentary on the Talmud that elucidates contradictions within the text. Author makes use of gematriot based on his name. Text printed in double columns with talmudic text in regular script and author's comments in Rashi script. Source notes on side margins. Text in Hebrew. Significant peeling and scratching to leather boards. Bottom edge torn. Tail of spine mostly missing. Some misnumbering to leaves. Leaf 5 was bound after the fact. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Heavy foxing to leaves. Overall in fair to good condition. hardcover books
1743réf. 318179Amsterdam: Gerrit Tielenburg 1743. Hardcover. Very Good. Later edition but first by this publisher. Small octavo. Contemporary half-calf with red and green morocco spine labels gilt. 546 14pp. Engraved title Illustrated with engravings in text. Modest rubbing and wear to the extremities a handsome very good or better copy in contemporary binding. A compendium of jesters and fools. Part Two Only but apparently complete unto itself. OCLC locates a single copy of this edition in Tilburg. Gerrit Tielenburg hardcover books
1817réf. 619331817. Appeals of murder were abolished after this case. Appeals of murder were abolished after this case. "Diabolically Ravished Murdered And Thrown Into a Pit" Trial. Thornton Abraham c.1793-1860 Defendant. Horrible Rape and Murder!! The Affecting Case of Mary Ashford A Beautiful Young Virgin Who was Diabolically Ravished Murdered And Thrown Into a Pit As She Was Returning From a Dance; Including the Trial of Abraham Thornton For the Wilful Murder of the Said Mary Ashford; With the Whole of the Evidence Charge to the Jury &c. Tried at Warwick Assizes Before Mr. Justice Holroyd On the 8th of August 1817. Taken in Short Hand. To Which is Added Copious Elucidations of this Extraordinary Case; And a Correct Plan of the Spot Where the Rape and Murder were Committed &c. &c. London: Published by John Fairburn 1817. ii 60 columns 34 pp 64 1 pp. Several newspaper clippings concerning this case pasted to final leaf rear wrapper and verso of title page. Woodcut folding map of crime scene. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers untrimmed edges. Some soiling and edgewear spine and fold-lines of table reinforced fore-edge mended some toning to text. Early owner inscriptions to front wrapper "Bright" and "St John Crookes" and verso of map "St John Crookes/ Sunderland/ 1856". $950. "Third Edition." Abraham Thornton a bricklayer was accused of the rape and murder of Mary Ashford when she was found dead the morning after a dance where the two had been seen together. Thornton admitted that the two had been consensually intimate but denied the charges of rape and murder. Eyewitness accounts backed up his story and in the absence of other evidence he was acquitted of both charges. Public outcry around his acquittal led to Mary's brother William invoking an "appeal of murder." This uncommon legal practice allowed a retrial of a defendant acquitted for murder but crucially gave the defendant the right to trial by battle. Thornton invoked that right and was released after William Ashford declined the challenge. The case resulted in the abolition of appeals by murder and thus the end of trial by battle. Despite his protestations of innocence the public was thoroughly convinced of his guilt. Unable to lead a normal life Thornton moved to the United States and settled in Baltimore Maryland. One of the former owners of our copy may have been John Bright 1811-1889 a r. unknown books
1592réf. 273298Antwerp: Abraham Ortelius 1592. unbound. Map. Uncolored engraving. Sheet measures 16" x 21". This beautiful 1588 map by Abraham Ortelius depicts Holland or the Netherlands in exceptional detail. The map covers the regions near the Wadden Sea roughly covering modern day provinces of North Holland South Holland and Utrecht. The map centered on Amsterdam is oriented with north to the left. Topographical and geographical features such as mountains and cities are beautifully rendered in profile. The waters surrounding the region are shown with waves and include several illustrations of ships throughout. This is the first state of the map with later states showing a stippled sea rather than waves. Includes a large strapwork title cartouche scale of miles with a divider in the lower left. The Royal coat of arms is presented in the top left. The map also includes a 16-point compass rose. Ortelius based this map on the work of Jacob van Daventer. Published in the 1588 edition of Ortelius' famous "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" which is historically considered the first modern atlas. Based on the text on verso only 300 copies of this particular edition were ever printed van der Broecke 79. The map is in good condition with minor wear along the original centerfold. Minor foxing at places. Original plate mark is visible. Latin text on verso. Abraham Ortelius 1527--1598 a Flemish cartographer and geographer is widely regarded as one of the important and influential cartographers in history. He is known for his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" which was the first modern atlas. Hard to find in black and white. Abraham Ortelius unknown books
