Baltimore: Lucas Fielding Jr. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 8 1/2" x 10 3/4" A map showing the empire of Alexander the Great, including the routes of his conquests, carefully engraved and hand colored in tawny brown. Regions are beautifully hand colored, with cities, towns, and topographical features labeled. Fielding Lucas Jr. was an artist, publisher and cartographer active in the early 19th century. He published his first atlas in 1815 and became known as the earliest successful..... More

Paris: Morance, 1922. 103 plates, some in color. 2 volumes. Vol. I: Sculpture, Bois Sculptes, Ivoires, Bronzes, Armes, Cuivres, Tapis et Tissus, Miniatures. Vol. II: Cristaux de Roche, Verres Emailles Ceramique. Slim square 4to, 1/2 morocco, marbled boards; (ex.-lib., spine rubbed, flyleaves brittle with some chipping). Paris: Albert Morance, 1922. Very good. More

Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1849. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 11 1/2" x 14". Beautifully detailed map of Arabia and surrounding regions comprising present-day Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan. The map delineates important towns and major routes, as explained in a small key at the bottom center. This particular map comes from the 1849 edition of Mitchell's seminal "New Universal Atlas" published by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. In good condition, with a minor stain to left margin..... More

London: Faber & Faber, 1974. Foreword by Dr. R. D. Barnett. Color frontis plus nearly 200 black-and-white illustrations. 207 pages, tall 8vo, green cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper price clipped, lightly rubbed. London: Faber & Faber, (1974) . A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. With a preface by Sir Walter Scott and illustrations by Honore Guilbeau. Text illustrations, decorative initials and rubrics. 2 vols. 8vo, leather-backed pictorial boards (spine slightly rubbed), pictorial board slipcase. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Very good(-) copies--rubbing and chipping along spines. One of 1500 numbered copies, designed by W. A. Dwiggins, printed by Aldus Printers, and signed by the illustrator. More

Qajar Persia: 1815. Written in Shikasteh Script, copied by Muhammad Husain. Persian manuscript on paper. 88 leaves, between eight and eleven lines to the page, written horizontally and diagonally in shikasteh script in black ink, significant words in red, interior rules in gold, inner margins ruled in gold, blue and red, one late 19th Century double-page illuminated frontispiece in colors and gold, several pages ruled but left blank at end, five later illustrations in Safavid and earlier styles, accession note..... More

Ashiya: Sopa, 1981. 255 plates, a few in color. 9 page list of plates. Tall 4to, blue cloth with decorative stamped seal front cover and gilt-lettered spine; very minor wear to extremities. Ashiya: SOPA and New York: Maxwell Aley, (1981). A fine copy. No text, only plates (556-811). More

New York: George Dearborn, 1836. Two volumes bound in one. Frontispieces, illustrations, and maps, some in color. Double column text. 584 and 701 pages, tall, very thick 8vo, red pebbled leather with gilt decorative stamping of vase and filigree, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt (leather a bit rubbed and worn, hinges beginning to crack though holding firm, still a handsome binding). New York: George Dearborn, 1836. A very good copy. A "New and Improved Edition" More

Offenburg: Burda Druck und Verlag. Text in German. Illustrated in color and black & white. 120pp. Slim 4to, pictorial boards. Offenburg: Burda Druck und Verlag. Sunned and edge worn, still a very good(-) copy. Scarce. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. Illustrated. 352 pages. 8vo, blue cloth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. A very good(+) copy. Presentation copy from Nora Sigerist Beeson. Volume II ONLY of the 2 volumes published in Sigerest's History of Medicine, a projected 8-volume work left unfinished by the author's death. G.M. 6448. More

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994. Color illustrations throughout. 148 pages. 4to, glossy pictorial paper wrappers. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1994). A fine copy. More

Amsterdam: Giovanni Battista Albrizzi, 1740. Map. Uncolored copper plate engraving. Image measures 13.75 x 17.875". Beautifully composed map of the Persian Empire from the Caspian Sea to the Gulf. Denotes towns, rivers, elevations. Minor toning centerfold as expected from the atlas tip in. Giovanni Battista Albrizzi (1698-1777) was a prominent Venetian publisher of books and maps. He inherited his business from his father and was part of a family active in publishing and bookselling in Venice for 150 years. In..... More