robert villard (5 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Edition 2004. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Edition 2004. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

couverture souple. Aux Portes du Large | Nantes 1946 | 32 x 43.50 cm | en feuilles sous deux chemises | Edition originale tirée à seulement 180 exemplaires, le nôtre, l'un des 38 exemplaires avec suite sur pur fil de Renage. Les douze lithographies de Robert Villard retracent et rendent hommage au bombardement de Nantes les 16 et 23 septembre 1943. La justification du tirage ainsi que chaque planche - y compris celles de la suite, sont signées par l'artiste. Quelques rousseurs sur les premiers feuillets et mors un peu fendu, sinon bel exemplaire. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition limited to only 180 copies, ours being one of the 38 copies with duplicate suite on pure Renage thread. The twelve lithographs by Robert Villard retrace and pay homage to the bombing of Nantes on September 16 and 23, 1943. The justification page as well as each plate - including those of the suite, are signed by the artist. Some foxing on the first leaves and joints slightly cracked, otherwise a handsome copy. *.

Hardcover. Orig dec cloth; worn, rebacked preserving backstrip. Occasional spotting; text margins sl browned; ink name on title of the architect John R Clayton. The lithograph plates, drawn for Lassus in 1851 by Gustave Jules Leroy, had been published in 1858 (the year after Lassus' early death) in a French edition by his pupil Alfred Darcel, incorporating Quicherat's 1849 commentary. They are seductively vivid, with some tone & colour, but as Carl F Barnes points out cannot be relied upon for details of Villard's drawing style. Willis' contribution is still invaluable: 'the discussions of the architectural plates, and those which relate to geometry and mechanics, have either received large additions, or are entirely new'. The title is found in two slightly differently worded states. VILLARD.

First edition, presented by the author to Bruno Navarra, the editor of the Shanghai newspaper Ostasiatische Lloyd. Issued in the wake of the opening of Chongqing to foreign trade, de Villard's impressive atlas was the first detailed plan of the river's 1,500-mile course from Sichuan to the sea. WorldCat records only nine institutional copies. A rather enigmatic figure, de Villard (1860-1904) spent his China career in the employ of the Imperial Maritime Customs Service. He is credited with several other maps, including A Map of the Shooting Districts lying between Shanghai and Wuhu (1893), and is also known for the controversial "coiling dragon" postage stamps. The atlas begins in Shanghai, the first sheet covering the stretch from the mouth to Fushan and marking lights, beacons, buoys, pagodas, and temple. Inset plans show the region's broader river system and the course from Zhenjiang to Yangzhou. Subsequent sheets follow the Yangtse past Mud Fort and onwards to Nanjing and Wuhu, and some, such as Sheet V (Jiujiang to Hirado Island), give more topographic detail to help navigators. Sheet VII has an inset of the famous Dongting Lake, a flood basin of the river, and Sheet XII charts, in three sections, the whole 4,000 miles from mouth to source. The final sheet comprises plans of eight major cities (Shanghai, Nanjing, Hankow, Zhenjiang, Jiujiang, Yichang, Wuhu, and Chongqing). Resident in China for over 20 years, Navarra (1850-1911) ran the Ostasiatische Lloyd (founded 1899) from the early 1890s to 1900, helping grow it into the premier German-language newssheet in Asia. The title page is inscribed to Navarra in German, perhaps in the author's hand. Rather than sign his name, de Villard has added his blue Shanghai ink stamp. Cordier 126. Folio. With 13 double-page photolithographed bilingual charts mounted on guards, letterpress title page in red and black. Housed in original brown pebble-grain half cloth portfolio, brown pebbled sides, front cover lettered in gilt and red. Light finger-soiling, maps well preserved, title page scuffed and rubbed, portfolio worn, chip at fore edge of front cover: a very good copy.