maverick peter (4 Ergebnisse)

100 pp.; 197, [1] pp. Illus. with b/w engravings. 24mo (13 cm.). Hayley's poem was first published in England in 1771 and many engravers undertook to illustrate it including William Blake and Peter Maverick (1780-1831) -one of three printmaker sons of a printmaker- an engraver of bookplates, maps, bank notes and book and magazine illustrations, who took as an apprentice Asher B. Durand with whom he established a partnership between 1817 and 1820. He designed the plates for the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York using the then new process of lithography. OCLC lists only 11 copies. Bound with Sotheby's Constance de Castile (Boston: Published by West and Blake; Greenough and Stebbins, printers, 1812). Shaw & Shoemaker 26781. William Sotheby (1757-1833) was a patron of literature as well as translator and author whose friends included Byron, Coleridge, Scott, Wordsworth, and many others. OCLC lists only 13 copies. Shaw & Shoemaker 17727. Shaw & Shoemaker 26781. Spine heavily rubbed with loss at head; boards rubbed, occasional browning to endpapers, scattered light foxing throughout, front flyleaf torn with one half excised, minor creasing to two leaves, tiny tear to one leaf, but overall still tight and clean. A scarce copy of both works in these early bindings. Half calf with marbled paper-covered boards.

GARCIA CONDE, Diego (1760-1822) - CALVO, Rafael María - MAVERICK, Peter (1780-1831). Plano general de la Ciudad de Mexico. Levantado por el Teniente Coronel Don Diego Garcia Conde en el ano de 1793. Aumentado y corregido en lo mas notable por el Teniente Coronel retirado, Don Rafael Maria Calvo en el de 1830 Fine folding engraved map (20 x 22 inches) of Mexico City in 1793, with original hand-colour in full, the title upper left, and a table with key arranged by 'quarter' of the city showing the location of plazas, important buildings and landmarks, engraved by Peter Maverick, tipped into original scarlet morocco, gilt wallet Provenance: with the ink library stamp of the photographic studio of Manuel Gonsalez on the verso of the map; with the engraved bookplate of Frederick Starr (1858-1933), American academic and anthropologist, on the inside of the wallet First United States edition of this rare map of Mexico City, first surveyed for the map in 1793, and first published in much larger format in 1807, and then in London in 1811 in smaller format as here. Engraved by the New York engraver Peter Maverick, the son of the Colonial-era engraver of the same name. Rafael María Calvo, who corrected and augmented the map, was a retired officer of the Regiment of Infantry of the Spanish Royal Engineers. Built in the middle of lake Tenochtitlan, Mexico City had been prone to regular flooding until the late 18th-century that engineering works were truly successful in keeping the water at bay, after which the city grew rapidly. By the time of the survey for this map in the early 1790s, during the viceregal administration of Conde de Revillagigedo, the city had advanced towards the east and south and west, as the north was still bounded by water. To the west, it expanded to what is now Balderas Street. The populated area reached eastward to the lakeshore, which then was just beyond the now Circuito Interior and the La Merced Market. To the south began to appear houses in an area now called Colonia Doctores. To the west, following what is now Avenida Chapultepec towards the Ciudadela, now the National Library, near Metro Balderas. To the north past Tlatelolco and to the south to Topacioa and the now Calzada de la Viga. At the time of the survey Mexico City was still under Spanish rule and independence would not come until 1821, followed by the creation of the Mexican republic in 1824. When this edition of the map was published in 1830 Mexico was relatively stable, with the war with America still 15 years in the future. Carrera Stampa 256. Lombardo, Atlas historico de la ciudad de Mexico, plate 152. Orozco y Berra, Materiales para una cartografia Mexicana, p. 262. Orozco y Berra, Memoria para el Plano de Mexico, p. 11 (XXXI). Palau 98697. Not in Phillips, Maps of America. Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, Vol. III, p. 225.

Print. Engraving. Image measures 8 1/2" x 7" Finely engraved portrait of Reverend Edward Mitchell (1769-1834), a printer and minister born in Ireland and based in New York. He published several religious texts -- including hymn books, sermons, and pamphlets -- for the Society of United Christian Friends. This print was engraved by Peter Maverick after a painting by Waldo & Jewett, a portrait studio led by American painters Samuel Lovett Waldo and William Jewett. In very good condition, with overall toning and wear to margins. Peter Maverick (1780-1831) was a prominent 19th century engraver based in New York and Newark. He was the son of Peter Rushton Maverick (1755-1811), also an engraver and print-maker, and began working with his father at the age of 9. He is best known for engraving several important maps of New York City, including the Commissioner's Plan of 1811.

Engraved certificate dated May 27th 1811, admitting James Jones as a fireman in New York City. This certificate was made during the period when the fire department was made up of volunteers who formed rival gangs, each with its own runners who competed to get to the fire first. With an engraving at the bottom of firemen in action, with the caption, "Engraved by Peter Maverick from a drawing by Archibald Robertson. The text reads, "These are to certify that James Jones is pursuant to law, nominated and appointed one of the Firemen of the City of New York, May 27th, 1811 By the Com. Council, J Morton, clerk." No. 34 at the upper right. Toned & laid down with light damp mark at two places at right edge; toned vertical line at middle caused by crack in wood backing behind the certificate. 10 x 13 3/4". Eno 67.