Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1971, First Edition. quarto, green cloth in printed dust jacket. (xx), (104)pp. At the Clarendon Press, Frontispiece and two illustrations. With 11 facsimiles of title pages. With the bookplate of Dr. Eugene S. Flamm, neurosurgeon, bibliophile and former president of the Grolier Club. A very..... More
New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2012, First Edition. large octavo, pictorial wrappers. 216 pp. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, In 1975, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University acquired an exceptional mid-16th-century map of Mexico City, which, until 1521, had been the capital..... More
HES & DE GRAAF, 2009, First Edition. quarto, cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 272 pp. HES & DE GRAAF, This book aims to preserve and bring forward for wider appreciation the outstanding works of art that many engraved titlepages and frontispieces represent. Over the time period covered by the present..... More
[London]: Review, (2003), First Edition. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. (320)pp. Review, The Theatrum orbis terrarium, published in Antwerp on May 20, 1570, was the world's first atlas. The brainchild of Abraham Ortelius, the Theatrum reflected the zest for exploration and discovery and the linked activities of international..... More
Suffolk, Eng: Boydell & Brewer, 1989, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 205pp. Boydell & Brewer, Pepys's music collection ranges from psalm-books to operas, includes treatises on the subject of musical theory and items of historical interest. The map collection concentrates on material related to navigation and the `Calligraphical..... More