141. America / Central America / Latin America / Guatemala – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Central America with Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, [Mosquito Territory] and Vignettes and illustrations of Belise [Belize, formerly British Honduras], the Volcano of Isalco and The Great Square of the Antigua in Guatemala.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 32.4 cm x 27.3 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

142. America / Central America / Latin America / Panama – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Isthmus of Panama with vignettes and illustrations of The Fort of Chagres and Gold Seekers on their way over the Cordilleras [with an engraved Note: ‘The Proposed Railway and Canal communications are coloured’ [in pink]].

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 33.2 cm x 24.6 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.3 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

143. America / Central America / Latin America / Mexico – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Mexico, California and Texas with Vignettes and illustrations of the Ruins at Uxmal on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexican Peasantry, Gold Washing. Showing also the gold districts of California which subsequently led to the Gold Rush.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 33 cm x 25 cm. Sheet Size: 37.6 cm x 27.3 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

144. America / Latin America / North America / USA / Canada – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

North America – with Vignettes and illustrations of Cossacks, Esquimaux [sic] Inuit Dog-Sledge, Mount Hekla, Beavers, Falls of Niagara, Convoy of Diamonds, Ancient Monument in Mexico, North American Indians, Wapiti Dear.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 24.2 cm x 35.4 cm. Sheet Size: 27.4 cm x 37.5 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

145. America / North America / Canada – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

East Canada and New Brunswick with Vignettes and illustrations of Quebec City and a group of Native Americans. The map shows in detail the area between the Bay of Fundy and the St.Lawrence River, to the West it shows reaches as far as Montreal with Trois-Rivières to the North.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 33.3 cm x 25.5 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

146. America / North America / Canada – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Nova Scotia and Newfoundland with Vignettes and illustrations of Halifax, Cod Fishery of Newfoundland. The Vignettes showing Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island, Anticosti Island and the mouth of the St.Lawrence River. The outher margins of the map beautifully illustrate the importance of the Cod Fishery to these regions by showing Cod on hooks. Also on the map a beautiful, large illustration of a Steamship with the fleet of Cod-Fishers behind it.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 25 cm x 32.5 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

147. America / North America / Canada – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

West Canada (South East Ontario with London, Guelph and other cities) with Vignettes and illustrations of Kingston, Falls of Niagara, Lake Erin, Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, Lake Ontario.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 32.2 cm x 25 cm. Sheet Size: 37.7 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

148. America / South America – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

British Guayana with Vignettes of Georgetown, The Christmas Cataract at the River Berbice, Ataraipu or The Devil’s Rock / New Amsterdam.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 24.7 cm x 34.7 cm. Sheet Size: 27.4 cm x 37.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

149. America / South America / Latin America / Brazil – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Brazil – with Vignettes and Illustrations of Boats on the Rio Negro / St.Catharina / Monte Video / Cape St. Antonio in Bahia / Rio de Janeiro.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 23.9 cm x 34.3 cm. Sheet Size: 27.5 cm x 37.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

150. America / South America / Latin America / Bolivia / Peru – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Peru & Bolivia – with Vignettes and illustrations of Lima, Potosi, Tarija, swimming couriers of Peru.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 24.7 cm x 33.8 cm. Sheet Size: 27.4 cm x 37.5 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

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. 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.

154. 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.

155. 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.

156. Amis, Kingsley.

You Can’t Do Both.

London, Hutchinson, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. 306 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

157. [Ammonas] Chitty, Derwas J. [Trans].

The Letters of Ammonas, Successor of Saint Antony. Revised and with an introduction by Sebastian Brock.

Oxford, SLG Press Ltd., 1979. 14 x 20.5cm (4), 21 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. [Fairacres Publications, No. 72].

158. Ammons, A.R.

Sphere. The Form of a Motion.

First edition. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1974. 13 cm x 20 cm. 79 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front free endpaper. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

159. Ammons, A.R.

Uplands. New Poems.

Third Printing. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1970. 13 cm x 20,5 cm. X, 68 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front free endpaper. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

160. Ammoun, Blanche D.

Histoire du Liban. [Avec Ephemera] Avec 70 Dessins de l’Auteur.

2eme Édition. Beyrouth, Editions “Le Jour”, 1940. 19,5 cm x 15,5 cm. 196 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Edges a little rubbed and faded. Comes with unique original bookmark.