Thomson engraver (21 Ergebnisse)

Size: 8vo. 275 x 187mm. Single sheet, with stab holes for stitching. Some foxing. Steel engraving by J. Thomson after an unidentified artist. Handel is depicted half-length facing to the right but with head towards the viewer, in braided coat with wig. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, founded in 1826, was a Whiggish London organisation that published inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public.…

Zustand: Good. Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850), portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy. Line engraving measuring 6 x 5 inches. Mold and stains. Good.

Zustand: Good. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Line engraving measuring 9 x 6 inches. Mold and stains, corner piece missing top right, rubbed spot with loss of text. Fair.

Zustand: Good. Line engraving measuring 10 x 7 inches. Mold and stains, corner piece missing lower right. Gilbert (1767 -1839) was an English Economist & Politician known for his writings and studies in the Antiquarian world.

Zustand: Good. Stipple and line engraving. 33 x 23 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light foxing along sheet edges.

Zustand: Good. Stipple and line engraving on chine colle. 34 x 25.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light specks of foxing in the margins.

Zustand: Good. Steel engraving. 26.5 x 17.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. With printed signature. Some toning along sheet edges.

Zustand: Good. Original engraving on wove paper. Very Good. 9.25 x 5.75 inches sheet size. Some signs of handling. Smudge on middle right, and minor foxing on top edge. Trimmed at left edge of image.

Zustand: Good. Original engraving on wove paper. Very Good. 9.75 x 6 inches sheet size. Some creasing on top and bottom edges. Water staining on bottom edge, not affecting image. Toning throughout. Portrait of Lady Katherine Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas, Lady Grey of Groby (1801-1844), from the miniature by Sir William Charles Ross, RA (London 1794 - London 1860).…

Zustand: Good. Original engraving on wove paper. Very Good. 9.25 x 5.75 inches sheet size. Some creasing on top and bottom edges. Light foxing throughout.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon. Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter. A Hymn. Poèmes de James Thomson. Langue : anglais. 209 pages. 4 gravures par Fourdinier + 1 en page de titre. Couverture rigide, plein cuir brun d'origine, plats bordés de 2 fines lignes dorées, dos à 7 nerfs soulignés par lignes dorées. Etat général : Bon. Inscription manuscrite en page de titre (voir photo). Quelques bords de pages brunis au début et à la fin (dont page de titre) Couverture : Etat d'ancienneté très correct. Cuir 4ème plat un peu craquelé. Coins légèrement usés. Prévoir probable réduction des frais de port, catégorie petit colis env. 450 g; nous vous renseignons volontiers. 10.5 x 17 x 2.5 cm 200g. Paul Fourdrinier (graveur/engraver) (illustrator).…

A very good full leather binding. 8vo. pp.xx/[2pp.]/pp.286/[6pp. - Index] + 10 engravings. Old tree calf boards with later tan leather spine. Spine with gilt banding, gilt date, decorated compartments and red leather title label. Marbled endpapers. Inner higes carefully strengthened. Clean text and illustrations on lightly toned and edge soiled paper. VG. ** Referenced by: Hugo 204; NSTC B1964; Pease 115; Schiller 204.…

First Edition. Poor copy bound in contemporary boards. Triptych frontis complete. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; 104 p., [1] folded leaf of plate ; 23 cm. Subjects; Meade, John Colonel. Castlereagh, Robert Stewart Viscount (1769-1822). Great Britain. Parliament Elections. Down (Northern Ireland : County) Politics and government. Genres; Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: Good. Stipple engraving. 28.5 x 18 cm (sheet). Facsimile signature. Very Good, toning along sheet edges.

Zustand: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good. Minor spot on top left edge, not affecting image. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 14 pages of letterpress description. From the collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, at the Grove.

Zustand: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good. Minor spot of foxing, not affecting image. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 6 pages of letterpress description. From the collection of The Right Honourable the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth.

Zustand: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good. Minor spots of foxing, not affecting image. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 5 pages of letterpress description. From the collection of The Right Honourable the Earl of Morton, at Dalmahoy.

Zustand: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good. Minor spot of foxing, not affecting image. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 9 pages of letterpress description. From the original of Lely, in the collection of the Right Honourable Lord Clifford.

Zustand: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good+. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 5 pages of letterpress description. From the collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Guildford, at Wroxton Abbey.

Zustand: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good+. Very minor signs of foxing in left margin, not affecting image. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 8 pages of letterpress description. From the collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Egemont, at Petworth.

A pair of hand coloured engraved maps: 50 x 59 cms; 54.3 x 68.5 cms (sheet); central fold, some browning to the inset maps and faint age-toning to the sheets, small sealed hole to the key of one map, a few neat repairs to margins but an attractive pair of maps in very good condition. Highly detailed sheet maps that form a complete view of the Indian subcontinent during a period of significant British East India Company expansion. Published in Edinburgh by John Thomson as part of his New General Atlas (c. 1814?1821), the first of the maps covers Northern India from Persia and the Indus Valley in the west to Assam and Bhutan in the east, extending north into Tibet, with two inset maps which feature a remarkably detailed map of the Kingdom of Nepal, (which was rarely visited by Westerners at that time), and a second inset of Cabul (Kabul) in the upper left. The Southern map covers the peninsula from Bombay in the north down to the northern part of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A beautiful pair of maps with attractive hand-colouring defining eight spheres of influence identified in the key in the lower left of the Southern map, for example red for British-controlled areas, orange for the Nabob of Oude, green for the Berar Rajah.…