151. America / South America / Latin America / Venezuela – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Venezuela, New Granada, Equador [Ecuador] and the Guayanas with vignettes and illustrations of the Chimborazo, The Fall of the Bagota, Paramaribo (Suriname).

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 32.7 cm x 24.9 cm. Sheet Size: 37.4 cm x 27.3 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

152. America / USA – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

United States [of America] with Vignettes and illustrations of the Buffalo Hunt, Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, Washington’s Monument, Portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin and a very early depiction of the american flag.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 32.8 cm x 24.6 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. Beautifully Framed !

153. American Fisheries.

Directory and Reference Book.

Camden, National Fisherman, 1978. 27.8cm x 21.4cm. 559 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Library stamp from Bank of Ireland, 1980.

154. Americas – Homann, Johann Baptist. (1664 – 1724).

Americae Mappa generalis.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Nürnberg, Homann, 1746. Plate Size: 53 cm x 46 cm. Sheet Size: 56.3 cm x 50 cm. Original map. Very good+ condition. Expertly restored map with reinforced edges. Faintest traces of the professional repairs barely evident such is the quality of the restoration.

155. Americas – Kircher, Athanasius. (1602-1680).

Mappa fluxus et refluxus rationes in isthmo Americano, in Freto Magellanico, cæterisque Americæ litoribus exhibens.

Original copper engraving. Amsterdam, Kircher, [c.1665]. Plate Size: 40.2 cm x 34.1 cm. Sheet Size: 37 cm x 39.1 cm. Original Map. Very good condition of an increasingly rare map. Very minor traces of browning to outer margins.

156. Amery, Colin (ed.).

Three Centuries of Architectural Craftsmanship.

First Paperback Edition. London, Architectural Press, 1978. 30 cm. XIV, 221 leaves of plates. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some slight rubbing to outer spine.

157. Ames, Kenneth L. / Ward, Gerald W.R. (Editors).

Decorative Arts and Household Furnishings in America 1650-1920. An Annotated Bibliography.

Winterthur (Delaware), The Herny Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., 1989. 28,5 cm x 22 cm. 392 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only slightly foxed. Gilt lettering on spine and frontcover.

158. Amichai, Yehuda.

Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers. Translated from the Hebrew by Glenda Abramson and Tudor Parfitt.

First edition, New York / Cambridge and others, Harper & Row, 1983. 14.5 cm x 20.9 cm 90 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by Yehuda Amichai to american poet William Jay Smith and his wife Sonja: “To Bill and Sonja – with much affection – Yehuda – NY – 2-10-84”.

159. Amichai, Yehuda.

Poems. Translated from the Hebrew by Assia Gutmann With an Introduction by Michael Hamburger.

First U.S. Edition New York / Evanston, Harper & Row, 1969 14.6 cm x 21.2 cm. 57 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Myler. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear in cloth boards. Inscribed by the author “To William Jay Smith, with appreciation and friendship, Yehuda Amichai.” Occasional marks on some titles in ball pen.

160. Amis, Kingsley.

Lucky Jim.

New York, Viking Press, 1958. 12.5 x 19.5cm. 256 pages. Original softcover. Good condition with some signs of external wear, including foxing and discolouration to jacket and some paper loss to spine. Text itself in very good condition. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. [Compass Books, No. C35].