Authors starting with S from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Germany:. 1870.. Print of the Last Supper, by the artist F.M.S. Intensely rich color printing with gold highlights, chromolithograph printed in Germany with the 12-color printing they were justly famous for. 6 5/8 x 11 3/4" plus margins. ... more information

Paris:. 1833.. First edition. Black & white lithograph view of Maoris on beach with canoes, village behind , a hill in the distance. (Bay Of Islands).32.8 x 21.2cms. Printed on laid paper with wide margins Dusting around edges well away from image o/w very good condition. Plate 61 from the official report of the voyage. "Voyage de la Corvette L'Astrolabe..." Under the command of Jules Dumont D'Urville. New Zealand was a particular focus of the French expedition with 2 of the 5 vo... more information

London:: Frederick Warne and Company,. 1866.. Very good. 8vo, 710 pp, teg, b&w frontis and b&w illus throughout, marbled end papers. Translated from the Spanish by Charles Jarvis. Illustrated with engravings by A. B. Houghton. One half black leather with green cloth covers. Title in gilt on spine with raised bands. Front and back covers are sunned, with outline of smaller book visible. Internally, pages toned, with front hinge starting; owner bookplate inside front cover. ... more information

London:: Tom Stacey Ltd,. 1971.. First edition. Hardcover. Comic book heroine "a kind of Russian Barbarella" supposedly the work of Russian artists calling themselves the 'Progressive Political Pornography (PPP)'. but perhaps by Sadecky. 4to, 176pp, color & b&w ills throughout. Blue gilt cloth with gilt title to spine; slt rubbed base of spine. In pictorial dj, title in white outline lettering on black ground. Slt dusty, price clipped; internally, very sml name at ffep, o/w very ... more information

Thomas Richards, Sydney 1883. 4to, 69pp, 5 full-page plts. of ethnographic interest, 2 col. ills of cave paintings; 7 total ills. Red pictorial cloth covers stamped in gilt & black. Some marking to front cover o/w g+ cond. Absolon copy, with his signature, dated 1932, on title page; Absolon was a noted Australian collector of the late 1920's. Charlotte Fabris copy with her signature on front endpaper - in the same hand is written, "revised & edited by F.W. Fabris." This seems to imply ... more information

Sadleir, Richard. The Aborigines of Australia. Thomas Richards, Sydney 1883. 4to, 69pp, 5 full-page plts. of ethnographic interest, 2 col. ills of cave paintings. Red pictorial cloth covers stamped in gilt & black. Spine lightly faded, front pictorial cover very bright. Shaken. Sadleir was appointed to a commission of inquiry into the state of the aborigines in 1826. Ferguson cites 4 copies & a note stating only 500 copies were produced & sold. Ferguson 15343. Greenway 8227. ... more information

New York:: Croom Helm,. 1982.. First American edition. Hardcover. Facts on File. 4to, 160pp. Over 100 colored and several b&w photographs by Eric Hosking, plus a colored map. With dj, vgc. Result of two expeditions to the Antarctic, with text by Bryan Sage,and foreword by Keith Shackleton. ... more information

Paris:: Pierre F. Didot & Mequignon,. 1784.. Hardcover. 1784 -1788. 4 volumes, 12mo, with a difficult publication history. The 1st 3 volumes are the 1st edition; although the 4th volume states it is the 3rd edition, this is the first dition published containing the containing the story of "PAUL ET VIRGINIE", which became wildly popular. The fourth volume also contains a 70Ppp "Avis" in which the author attempts to prove his geographical beliefs by drawingon all three of Cook's v... more information

Salaman, Malcolm C. The New Woodcut. The Studio Special Spring Number 1930. 4to, 176pp, 8 col. plates, many b&w. Orig. black cloth, gilt title, scattered light marks on cloth, corners slt. rubbed, good+. ... more information

Amsterdam and Venice:: Francesco Viedeni,. 1686.. Ephemera. Very good. Fantastical & detailed engravings of an enormous transportable mortar designed by "le fameux Ingenieur Mustaphato Salicio" to be fired over enemy walls with 25 men hidden inside. The four illustrations are numbered N I - N IV, and depict soldiers loading themselves inside the huge orange shaped mortar, and being padded with straw; the mortar being hoisted by a huge pulley into the barrel of an enormous cannon; an enormou... more information

Kilmarnock:. 1767.. Eleventh edition. Hardcover. Good +. With 31 folding maps, including a map of North America showing "Canada or New France" to the north, Louisiana and (Florida directly beneath) as the entire central portion, and in the west, "New Albion", and "Unknown" above it. Also a map of New England, showing New York, New Jersey and "Pensilvania", and with coastal towns indicated, with two locations in the area of modern day Manhattan: "Utrich" and... more information

New York:: Bobbs-Merrill Company,. 1942.. First edition. Very good in very good dj. 8vo, 274pp,b&w illus throughout. Illustrations by Bob Kuhn. Bright green cloth covers with title in gilt on front cover and on stamped spine. Blue and brown pictorial dj with title in yellow on brown ground above illustration of deer in woods on front cover, and in yellow on brown blue spine. Dj is very good, with only the slightest rubbing at head and tail of dj spine. Internally very good. A story for children and adul... more information

London:: Williams and Norgate,. 1886.. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. A look at religion, with content on Kapila, Buddha, Laou-tze, Theomachy, Scepticism, Epicurism, Atheism, Spinoza, Pessimism, Materialism, etc. Sml 8vo, 226pp. Dark brown gilt stamped cloth. ... more information

Saltus, Edgar. The Lords of the Ghostland. Mitchell Kennerley, NY 1907, 1st edition. Orig. blue-green cloth, gilt title & blind stamped rules, in fine condition. Subtitled "A History of the Ideal", with chapter headings on Brahma, Ormuzd, Amon-Ra, Bel-Marduk, Jehovah, Zeus, Jupiter, and the Nec Plus Ultra. ... more information

London:: Macmillan.. Hardcover. Not dated. Includes Magellan to Scott and Shackleton. Spine sunned, vg. ... more information

Samuels, Capt. Samuel. From the Forecastle to the Cabin, being the Memoirs of Capt. Samuel Samuels of the famous packet ship Dreadnought. Lauriat & Co., Boston 1924 (new edition with added introduction by Ralph Paine). 8vo, xxxix, 308pp, frontis. and ills throughout. Orig. dark blue cloth over boards, extremely bright gilt title & decoration on spine, excellent copy. Recollections by the skipper of a record-breaking Atlantic packet ship, the Dreadnought, in the mid-19th century, including service in... more information

New York:: Sanborn Map Co.,. 1912.. Third edition with additions. Hardcover. Very good condition. Folio, published in August 1912 with 22 hand colored maps, including a title page on the key map. This is the third edition of the atlas according to the Library of Congress Census, the first edition being published in 1896 (18 map/sheets). The second edition was published in 1904 with 21 map/sheets. Small private library stamp on the verso of the key map. An envelope containing an insurance quote is made ou... more information

Sanborn, Kate. A Truthful Woman in Southern California. New York: Appleton,1893, 1st edition. 12mo,192pp,[8]pp ads. Original pic. yellow cloth. Spine a bit darkened, slight marginal waterstain else nice copy. Interesting early account by a woman, ex-Smith professor, including visits to Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, Coronado, San Diego, Riverside, etc. ... more information

Sanctis, Fabio de. La Traversata Delle Alpi. Editions Maintenant, Paris 1972. 8vo, 90 pp, including 88 b&w plates. Die-cut cardboard cover. Limited edition, numbered. ... more information

Paris:: Guy Le Prat,. 1930.. Limited edition. Hardcover. Lithographies de Edy-Legrand. nd, ca. 1930. Limited to 1500 copies, this copy no. 88. 8vo, unnumbered. The border of every page is decorated by an elaborate decorated scene of a countryside, in tan, gold & green. 4 full page full color lithographs, and decorated title. Original buff impressed wrps bound in. Edy-Legrand is well- collected for the exquisite pouchoir color illustrations of his work "Voyages & Glorieuses Decouvertes des Gran... more information