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1799EDIZIONE ORIGINALE, COLORITURA COEVA -Bella e decorativa carta geografica dell'antica Britannia, tratta dal "Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni", edito a Roma dal 1792 fino al 1801, opera che la Calcografia Camerale commissionò al Cassini al fine di sostituire l’ormai obsoleto "Mercurio Geografico".Giovanni Maria Cassini, Chierico Regolare Somasco fu geografo e cartografo, ma anche intagliatore di architetture e prospettive - uno dei migliori discepoli di Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Cassini fu uno degli ultimi sferografi italiani del Settecento ed i suoi globi ebbero una notevole diffusione, come pure questo "Nuovo Atlante Geografico".Incisione in rame, coloritura coeva dei contorni, leggere bruniture, per il resto in ottimo stato di conservazione.L'Atlante del Cassini fu ristampato dalla Calcografia Camerale nel primo quarto del XIX secolo, prima del 1839. Solo gli esemplari di prima edizione come questo sono stampati su carta vergata coeva e sono colorati a mano in epoca. Le tirature del XIX secolo sono già su carta meccanica, priva di vergelle, e generalmente in bianco e nero. FIRST EDITION, CONTEMPORARY OUTLINE COLOUR -Decorative map of the British Isles during the time of the Roman Empire, published by Cassini in 1799,Britain is shown divided according to their ancient boundaries with the names of the tribes marked in each region, also shown are cities and towns called according to their old names.Includes a decorative title cartouche depicting Neptune in a shell chariot urging on his team of hippocamps.The Italian painter and engraver, Giovanni Maria Cassini, produced this decorative map of the British Isles during the time of the Roman Empire. Britain is shown divided according to their ancient boundaries with the names of the tribes marked in each region, also shown are cities and towns called according to their old names.Published in: Nuovo atlante geografico universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni. Roma, Calcografia camerale, 1792-1801.Cassini was geographer and cartographer but he was also good at engraving architectural items and perspectives – he was one of the best disciples Giovanni Battista Piranesi had. Moreover, Cassini was one of the last artists to engrave spheres in the XVIII century and his globes were quite famous and widespread, and realized the most important Italian Atlas of the XVIII century; his maps always bear a cartouche, extremely rich in colours and details. Copperplate with fine original hand colour, some foxing, otherwise in very good condition.
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1998rif. __0851992765Cab Intl 1998. Hardcover. New. 462 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.25 inches. Cab Intl hardcover
2014rif. BN543209Editions art&fiction 2014. 2014. Inframemoire Inframemoire Ireland Robert Editions art&fiction unknown
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1891Very Good English In modern dark green cloth bdg. made as saved original illustrated covers on cloth's faces. Demy 8vo. (23 x 14 cm). In English. [xxiv], [4], 158, [4] p., one is huge; 3 folding maps. Unnumbered b/w plts. Little foxing on pages. Guy's South of Ireland pictorial guide. Describing and illustrating its picturesque and beautiful scenery, antiquities etc. with specially written notes on South of Ireland natural history, mineralogy, etc. First Edition.
2022rif. x-103234525XRoutledge 2022. Hardcover. New. 246 pages. 9.19x6.13x0.76 inches. Routledge hardcover
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2002rif. CBS-9780721680293Sp Elsevier 2002. New. Sp Elsevier unknown
2002rif. CBS-9780721680293Sp Elsevier 2002. New. Sp Elsevier unknown
rif. SKU0628725Fairchild Books 2018-02-22. paperback. New. 8x1x11. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Fairchild Books paperback
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1805rif. 003833C. Chapple. IRELAND William Henry. Effusions of Love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. A literary forgery presented as a translation from a Gallic manuscript. London: printed for C. Chapple Pall-Mall and Southampton Row Bloomsbury 1805. Small 12mo 100 x 160 mm. 2 vi 151 pp 1 advert. Engraved frontispiece and seven engraved vignette tailpieces. Full calf later spine with five raised bands compartments tooled in gilt with repeated floral tools red morocco label lettered in gilt; endpapers renewed. Some foxing and browning to the first and last leaves; a couple of preliminary blanks with water-staining not affecting text or images; otherwise clean internally and well preserved. Very good. A poetic work presented as deriving from a French manuscript connected with Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard the French courtier executed in 1563 following his attachment to Mary Queen of Scots. This literary forgery belongs to the later career of William Henry Ireland 1775-1835 notorious for his Shakespeare forgeries of the 1790s. As noted in institutional cataloguing the work may be regarded as a quasi-forgery. Ireland's claim this time being that he was simply translator of a Gallic manuscript found in a College in Paris. Essentially though he was bang at it again. A sound and attractive copy of Chatelar by one of the most notorious literary forgers of the period. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1805. C. Chapple hardcover
2009rif. 013597London: Faber & Faber 2009 Book condition: VG/Fine. Jacket: VG/Fine. First Edition. A presentation copy to Eric Dickson curator of Modern Literature at the National Library of Scotland. Loosely inserted is a card bearing Seamus Heaney's address in Dublin and in Heaney's hand the date followed by: "Dear Eric Dickson -/ Here we go -/Seamus Heaney". First Edition First Impression. A bright copy. Faber & Faber hardcover
1822rif. 971Q11London: G. and W. B. Whittaker 1822 . First edition. Leather. Good. 9" by 5.5". None. The first edition of William Henry Ireland's scarce and detailed account of the social and political climate in France during the final seven years of the Bourbon rule just prior to the French Revolution. The first edition.Scarce work. Bound by Riviere & Son in half crushed morocco with paper-covered boards. Retaining the original half title. A historical account documenting the political and social climate in France in the seven years leading up to the French Revolution focusing on the end of the Bourbon dynasty. Written by William Henry Ireland an English author and poet who lived in France between 1814 and 1823. Bound by Riviere & Son in half crushed morocco with paper-covered boards. Retaining the original half title. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally sound with rubbing to joints and extremities causing a little loss to paper and leather. Front joint is cracking slightly with the head starting to the front and rear joint. Front hinge is a touch strained but holding generally firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with just the odd mark. Good G. and W. B. Whittaker hardcover
1807rif. 867F47London: William Miller 1807 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4.5". John Augustus Atkinson. The first edition of William Henry Ireland's reinterpretation of the medieval German allegorical poem. The first edition of Shakespearian forger William Henry Ireland's version of Sebastian Brant's satirical allegory.Illustrated with a folding hand coloured frontispiece by English artist John Augustus Atkinson and a further vignette illustration to the title page.A smart first edition from the forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays known also for his gothic novels.Ireland reinterprets Brant's late fifteenth century work. Rebacked in quarter morocco with half calf original boards laid down. Significant rubbing to boards. Hinges strained but firmly held. Lacking the front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned with spotting to title page and the odd light handling mark. Very Good William Miller hardcover
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