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2009Q-1404856943Picture Window Books 2009-10-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Picture Window Books paperback
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2008Q-1404847855Picture Window Books 2008-09-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Picture Window Books paperback
2008Q-1404847758Picture Window Books 2008-09-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Picture Window Books paperback
100-25045Picture Window Books. Library Binding. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Picture Window Books unknown
2009SONG1404851968Picture Window Books 2009-08-01. Illustrated. paperback. Used: Good. 10.70x0.10x8.80. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Picture Window Books paperback
2090202118203951Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
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180949236London William Nicholson 1809. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf but spine lacks boards loose. In: "A Journal of Natural Philosophy Chemistry and the Arts. By William Nicholson." Vol. XXII. - VIII3848 pp. a. 10 engraved plates. Youngs paper: pp. 104-124. Small stamps to verso of titlepage. Internally fine and clean. <br/><br/><em>First appearance together with the paper in the "Transactions of the Royal Society at the same time of this famous paper containing Young's implicit discovery of the Joukowski equation for solids 100 years before it appeared under the name of Joukowski 1847-1921 the well-known pioneer in the theory of aerodynamics. </em> hardcover
35389London: George Humble. 1627. 8.2 x 12.2 cm. Uncoloured. Miniature county map of Huntingdonshire. Text on verso. Impression weak to edges some show through text. One small spot to centre of map otherwise in good condition. [London: George Humble. 1627] unknown
16239847London George Humble 1623. Copper engraving image 38 x 50.5 cm sheet size 41.5 x 53 cm fine original hand colour blank verso. An unusual example: the map was coloured trimmed to the edge of the printed image and mounted on thick paper in the 17th century perhaps as part of a special commission from a wealthy patron. Typically surviving Speed maps have been extracted from atlases and have descriptive text on the verso. However some examples were sold as loose sheets without any text on the back sometimes the text was supplied as side panels on either side of the map and occasionally these were bound into atlases when supplies of a particular map had run out and these broadsheets were the only copies to hand. It is also possible that an entire atlas was created in this fashion. John Speed 1552-1629 is unquestionably the most significant English map-maker of the seventeenth-century. A brief note from Granger's Bibliographical History of England 1779 contains most of the information we have about Speed's life: "John Speed who was bred a Tailor was by the generosity of Sir Fulk Grevil his patron set free from a manual employment and enabled to pursue his studies to which he was strongly inclined by the bent of his genius. The fruits of them were his Theatre of Great Britain containing an entire set of maps of the counties drawn by himself his History of Great Britain richly adorned with seals coins & medals from the Cotton collection; and his Genealogies of Scripture first bound up with the Bible in 1611 which was the first edition of the present English translation. His maps were very justly esteemed & his History of Great Britain was in its kind incomparably more complete than all the histories of his predecessors put together ." The first edition of Speed's "Theatre" was published in 1612. It was the first atlas of the British Isles and the first attempt made by an Englishman to match the achievements of the great continental publishing houses - although much of the engraving of the copper plates was performed in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius. Speed was an antiquary and intended that his atlas should be read in conjunction with his history of Britain. He managed to include a great deal of historical detail on his 'modern' county maps and the inset town plans some surveyed by himself together comprise the first collection of town plans of the British Isles all in all making the Theatre a highly decorative as well as a useful volume. It was a great success and there were editions printed throughout the seventeenth-century. Map unknown
164623420London: William Humble 1646. Other. In excellent condition. 386 by 510mm 15¼ by 20 inches. 386 by 510mm 15¼ by 20 inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. William Humble unknown
2008Q-0822343134Duke University Press Books 2008-12-05. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Duke University Press Books paperback
2008x-0822343134Duke Univ Pr 2008. Paperback. New. 377 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. Duke Univ Pr paperback
2082402113505950Hotta Koseikan Main Store N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Hotta Koseikan Main Store paperback
2011Q-1404870466Picture Window Books 2011-08-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Picture Window Books paperback
1515846512.Glibrary. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
164623415London: William Humble 1646. Other. In excellent condition. 386 by 510mm 15¼ by 20 inches. 386 by 510mm 15¼ by 20 inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. William Humble unknown
161011341London: John Sudbury and George Humble 1610. No binding. Good. THE FIRST REASONABLY ACCURATE MAP OF JERSEY. 385 x 510 mm. with recent outline and wash colour in good condition. The first published state of a quartered map by John Speed displaying the tidal Holy Island Lindisfarne reachable on foot at low tide and the Farne Islands both off the coast of Northumberland. On the right side are the two main Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey. This is the first reasonably accurate map of Jersey to be printed. The parish boundaries are marked along with the various waterways each indicating housing along their courses. In addition three windmills are displayed. Guernsey displays no real improvement over that of Gerard Mercator published in 1595 but it does now display its proximity to Jersey. Sark now displays buildings and one windmill which had only recently been built by Hellier de Carteret in 1571. He was the first Seigneur of the island. It was famously decapitated by the Nazis in the Second World War. John Speed 1552-1629 is the best known and among collectors the most popular British cartographer. He was like his father a tailor by trade with a passion for history. On joining the Society of Antiquaries he took his first steps towards the compilation of the atlas that has placed him among the cartographic immortals.In 1611 he produced the 'History of Great Britain' and his atlas the 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain' was published to accompany it. The 'Theatre .' was the first atlas of the British Isles ever produced containing sixty-seven maps which in addition to the counties of England and Wales also included general maps of the Heptarchy England in Anglo-Saxon times Great Britain and Ireland England Wales Scotland and the Provinces of Ireland together with maps of the Isles of Wight and Man and the Channel Islands. Preparation for the atlas took several years and the maps are all engraved by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam. This example was printed in 1627 the last edition to be published before the death of Speed. Provenance: private Jersey collection. Shirley T.SPE-1e; Skelton 1966; Skelton 1970 7 & 16. John Sudbury and George Humble unknown
162623758London: G. Humble 1626. Other. In excellent condition. 382 by 508mm 15 by 20 inches. 382 by 508mm 15 by 20 inches. Copper engraving hand colored in outline and wash. Original antique copper engraving hand colored in outline and wash. John Speed 1551 or 1552 28 July 1629 was an English cartographer and historian. He is alongside Christopher Saxton one of the best known English mapmakers of the early modern period.Speed was born in the Cheshire village of Farndon and went into his father Samuel Speed's tailoring later in life.While working in London Speed was a tailor and member of a corresponding guild and came to the attention of "learned" individuals. These individuals included Sir Fulke Greville who subsequently made him an allowance to enable him to devote his whole attention to research. By 1598 he had enough patronage to leave his manual labour job and "engage in full-time scholarship". As a reward for his earlier efforts Queen Elizabeth granted Speed the use of a room in the Custom House. Speed was by this point as "tailor turned scholar" who had a highly developed "pictorial sense".In 1575 Speed married a woman named Susanna Draper in London later having children with her. These children definitely included a son named John Speed later a "learned" man with a doctorate and an unknown number of others since chroniclers and historians cannot agree on how many children they raised. Regardless there is no doubt that the Speed family was relatively well-off.By 1595 Speed published a map of biblical Canaan in 1598 he presented his maps to Queen Elizabeth and in 16111612 he published maps of Great Britain with his son perhaps assisting Speed in surveys of English towns.At age 77 or 78 in August 1629 Speed died. He was buried alongside his wife in London's St Giles-without-Cripplegate church on Fore Street. Later on a memorial to John Speed was also erected behind the altar of the church. According to the church's website "His was one of the few memorials in the church that survived the bombing" of London during The Blitz of 19401941 . The website also notes that "the cast for the niche in which the bust is placed was provided by the Merchant Taylors' Company of which John Speed was a member". His memorial brass has ended up on display in the Burrell Collection near Glasgow. Wikipedia G. Humble unknown
62151London: William Humble 1646. Original copper-engraved miniature map of Spain and Portugal 8.6 x 12.4 cm. Uncoloured. English text on verso. Small brown spot to centre of image. Some slight show through text otherwise in good condition. [London: William Humble, 1646]. unknown
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