Trimming n (3 risultati)

Laminated illustrated wrappers with flaps, 4to, 127, [1] pp, ills (most in colour), price list bound in. 25 items. From the introduction: "We have made a selection that traces the birth and flowering of European cartography and exploration; from the Christian view of the world seen in the very first printed maps (item 1), to the state-sponsored scientific precision of the Ordnance Survey (item 25). The items within these pages include objects of fine art, such as a deluxe edition of Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographia' (item 8), Dürer's iconic print of a rhinoceros (item 5), and a sumptuous set of sea charts from the Dutch Golden Age (item 15); as well as practical instruments like Seller's sundial (item 13) and Donn's analemma (item 22). The collection encompasses examples of the mapmaker's art from the global scale to the local; from Dürer's world map (item 6), and Drake's circumnavigation (item 11) to Georg Matthaus Vischer's sumptuous wall maps of upper and lower Austria (item 14); a pair of maps of such detail that, some 170 years after their publication, they were consulted by a young lieutenant colonel working on the new borders of Europe for the Treaty of Versailles." Fine.…

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 228 pp, colour plates. 200 items. A well-illustrated and carefully annotated catalogue. From the introduction: "Between these covers you will find maps that can be carried in a case, slipped into a pocket, folded as a handkerchief, or used as a board game or playing cards. All of these maps are separately published, nearly all are uncommon, even rare, and many are extremely decorative, but what fascinates most is the sheer number of different purposes for which they were devised. Often these maps are the documents that travellers would have taken with them, or are mementos or reports of great journeys." Verso of title-page slightly marked, otherwise Near Fine.…

[TRADE CATALOGUE]. First edition. 8vo. Decorated wrappers, 119 pp., illustrated in black & white. This company manufacturers rubber and celluloid harness trimmings, celluloid martingal rings and slide loops, rein spreaders, face pieces, rubber compound harness, trimmings, hames, light metal harness trimmings in gold, silver and nickel, humane bits, and other specialties for the horse. All goods bear the Albright Trade Mark. Laid-in is a sheet providing discounted prices from the catalog. An old water stain on the title page that diminishes and is hardly noticeable after page 8, tiny nick to the fore-edge of first ten pages, tiny closed tear to the fore-edge of title page, else a very good copy of a trade catalog of accessories for the horse.…