universal magazine (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Copper Line Engraving, 13.5 cm x 9 cm. The Universal Magazine was a monthly magazine founded by John Hinton and published between 1747 and 1799 mainly by subscription. Good with slight scuff & minor creasing.

, hand coloured map of Flanders, originally published as part of a magazine First Edition , edges are worn, lower margin on right side hs been trimmed with no loss to the map, several tears along the folds with only slight loss to the image, slight sunning to top corner, image is bright, map in poor condition , 31.5 cm x 38 cm map ISBN:

Sitter, artist and engraver all have entries in the Oxford DNB. No copy in the National Portrait Gallery. In good condition, lightly aged, on good paper with small embossment of castle. Dimensions of paper, 14.25 x 22.5cm. Dimensions of print, 12.5 x 17.75cm. Oval portrait, 10 cm wide and 13 cm high. Without date or place, but produced as the frontispiece to Stockdale's 1809 memoirs. A half-length portrait of Stockdale, his face turned to the left, with white cravat and powdered hair, loosely wrapped in a coat. From the papers of the agriculturist and colonial civil servant Sir Frank Stockdale (1883-1949), whose Oxford DNB entry does not mention any relation to Perceval Stockdale.

Zustand: Good. Engraving, 9.7 cm x 16 cm. Very Good with some staining & light creasing. Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-July 5, 1643), Royalist soldier in the English Civil War, was born near Withiel, west of Bodmin, Cornwall and was a grandson of Sir Richard Grenville, Elizabethan sailor, explorer, and soldier. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford.

Soft cover. 36x 31cm, (13"x 12"), image ( (31.5x 27.5cm), wash coloured, 2 scales (Irish and British), colour decorated title cartouche, outline & borders, near fine, rare Not in Pool. Antique Map Price Records. 1983-2009. (containing 126,547 records). - Bonar Law. Maps of Ireland 1612-1850. #SG 48. p292. Jolly #UNIV-181. "The maps in Universal Magazine are among the best executed and most attractive of the magazine maps. Many were engraved by the skilled Richard Seale." - Jolly. Maps in British Periodicals. - The cartouche includes a decorative scene with the title over a bridge, trees to the right and left and a river flowing through below. .".

A small section of the Universal Magazine (no title page) 1787 including 3 pages on early Australia with summary of plans for the convict settlement at Botany Bay, also several mentions of Captain Cook, pages 137-139. Slim 8vo, approximately 220 x 135 mm, 8½ x 5¼ inches, engraved portrait of Jonas Hanway and engraved folding chart of New Holland dated 1787, pages: 113-168, nicely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (their name in gilt at the foot of first pastedown), in half calf, gilt lettering and rules to spine, marbled boards with dividing gilt rules, new cream endpapers. Lacks original wrappers, printing on page 137 a little pale, but all text legible, pale age-browning, 2 small neat edge repairs, otherwise a very good copy. One 3 page article outlines early Dutch discoveries and the landfalls of William Dampier before Captain Cook's survey of the east coast. The very early folding chart is based on Fielding's map of 1786. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.

Zustand: Fine. Uncoloured copper engraving, 14 x 9 cm. Born in 1659, Henry Purcell was the finest and most original composer of his day. Though he was to live a very short life (he died at the age of 36) he was able to enjoy and make full use of the renewed flowering of music after the Restoration of the Monarchy. As the son of a musician at Court, a chorister at the Chapel Royal, and the holder of continuing royal appointments until his death, Purcell worked in Westminster for three different Kings over twenty-five years.

Zustand: Fine. Uncoloured copper engraving, 16 x 10 cm. Italian by birth, Lully made his career in France, where he rose from the position of a page to Mlle de Montpensier to that of Composer of the King's Music, Master of Music to the Royal Family and to a position of complete control of all musical performances that involved singing throughout.

unbound. Zustand: very good. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 10.5" x 12.75". Detailed map of Quebec with Newfoundland and part of New England. Published for "Universal Magazine" Universal Magazine was published monthly in London from 1747 to 1814. It featured handsome maps that have since become prized for their aesthetics and, as a result, increasingly scarce.