Stanford edward john arrowsmith (4 risultati)

Original engraved map of the world (69.5 x 103.5 cm) with outline colour, dissected into 40 panels and laid onto linen, two panels with marbled endpapers, folding into original brown cloth slipcase with publisher's yellow title label to upper portion. The map recording steam routes including travel times and underwater telegraph cables; map inserts of the Arctic and Antarctica (polar projection) in lower right and lower left quadrants. Generally an excellent, well preserved copy. Edward Stanford, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, acquired the plates and stock of John Arrowsmith in 1874.…

Original engraved map of the world (69.5 x 103.5 cm) with outline colour, dissected into 40 panels and laid onto linen, two panels with marbled endpapers, folding into original brown cloth slipcase with publisher's yellow title label to upper portion. The map recording steam routes including travel times and underwater telegraph cables; map inserts of the Arctic and Antarctica (polar projection) in lower right and lower left quadrants. Some occasional light soiling, generally an excellent example. Edward Stanford, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, acquired the plates and stock of John Arrowsmith in 1874.…

No binding. Condizione: Very good. London: Edward Stanford, 1881. Engraved case map of the world in 40 segments (26 ½ x 44 ¾ inches) mounted to original linen backing with promotional self-wrappers ("Stanford's Two-Shilling Series of Tourists Guides / New Maps and New Editions"), recording steam routes including travel times and underwater telegraph cables; map inserts of the Arctic and Antarctica (polar projection) in lower right and lower left quadrants. Condition: very good with original color in outline; small creasing in lower right corner and some isolated foxing. Edward Stanford, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, acquired the plates and stock of John Arrowsmith in 1874. Note some scattered annotations regarding the achievements of 19th century naval officers and explorers that Stanford added to the present map, including the mention of William Parry's (1790-1855) attempt on the North Pole from the northern shores of Spitsbergen in 1827 (recorded beyond the neatline of the present map).…

Third edition, revised and enlarged. Elephant folio (555 x 381 mm); (vi)pp., 110 coloured maps, ninety-four double page, 29pp. index. Original quarter morocco with cloth boards. Slight wear to corners. Joints tender, though sound. Interior fine. Edward Stanford, London. The Stanford company reprinted their 'London Atlas of Universal Geography' in 1904, the title-page so dated, and continued to issue editions with the preliminaries unchanged, but individual maps revised and updated, noting these changes in a "secret" date code outside the lower border of the map. In this copy, the the latest printed date is 13408 (i.e. 13th April 1908) but the map of the Antarctic has been silently updated to 1909, inserting the route of Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition of 1909, which came within a hundred miles of the South Pole, before being forced to turn back, in early January 1909.…