Authors starting with V from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Chester VT.:: The National Survey Co.,. 1916.. First printing. 33 x 48 inch color printed folding map. Folded into original green stiff cardboard covers. 5.75 x 8.75 inches.a folding map that includes an index and population. very bright clean copy ... more information

Washington DC:: Government Printing Office,. 1847.. Paperback. Very good. Doc. No. 96, 29th Congress, 2d Session. Dated February 15, 1847. With a section titled 'Cochin-China', with description of the Emperor 'Yuen Fusinen'; the relationship of Cochin-China & Singapore; trade, & the people of Annam. 39 page document, without covers, as issued. . HKD1350 ... more information

Paris:: Akermann & Co,. 1840.. View of Karakakoa Bay in Hawaii, scene of Captain Cook's death. The view is from the voluminous 'Voyage Autour du Monde Execute Pendant les Annees 1836,1837 sur la Corvette La Bonite'. Black and white lithograph, plate 47. 12.5 x 9" plus wide margins, very good condition. Borba de Moraes, 874; Nissen, ZBI, 4208; Sabin, 98298; Stafleu, 1969; Wood, 609, referring to the book. ... more information

New York:: Thomas Y. Crowell Co.,. 1933.. First edition. Hardcover. Signed presentation copy; signed on the back of the half-title page by the author, and dated September 25, 1933. Small 8vo, color frontis, 74 pp, 3 Art Deco full page color illustrations. Medium blue cloth covers, slightly faded at edges, with dark blue griffon at front cover. Dark blue title at spine. Rear lower edge of spine worn, and spine ends rubbed. Internally, end papers lightly toned, o/w very good, clean. ... more information

Very good+. The Valuku or Tubuan of the Lakalai of New Britain. University of Kansas Publications, Lawrence 1961. 76pp. Color frontispiece and color and b&w photos and ills at end of text. Green paper wrapper w/ black printing on cover and hand written title on spine. ... more information

London:: L. Reeve & Co.,. 1921.. Hardcover. Small 4to, xii, unpaginated text to plates, 64 hand-colored lithographed plates. Orig. brown gilt and blind stamped cloth, a fine copy. ... more information

Vallentin, Antonina. Leonardo Da Vinci - The Tragic Pursuit of Perfection. Viking, NY 1938, 1st edition. Thick 8vo, 562pp, b&w ills throughout. Very good copy in very lightly edgeworn dj. [a] ... more information

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,. 1992.. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, unpaginated, ills. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine, not price clipped. ... more information

Brussels:: G.Van Oest,. 1908.. Paperback. Large 4to, 71pp text, followed by 278 b&w plates. Original illustrated wrappers with title in black and red, covered with brown paper with hand written label (Peter Breugel) at front cover. Covers detached and chipped at edges. Internally, all plates present, very good. Text in French. ... more information

Blair and Rives, Washington 1837. 8vo, 22pp, pp wrps, old folds, red underlining. ... more information

Leyden:. 1713.. First edition. Rare and important original color map of southeast North America, from Maryland and Illinois in the north (including Philadelphia) to Mexico in the south and the Bahamas in the east. Noted for its great detail, with Native American villages, mountains and rivers, and English, French and Spanish settlements. With the Mississippi River very clearly defined, but depicted too far to the west; Florida with a slightly blunted peninsula, with St. Augustine named. Title cartouche e... more information

Van Dyck, Anton. Artist (1599-1641). Portrait of Willem Hondius. "Guilielmus Hondius, Calcographus Hagae Comitis. Ant. van Dyck pinxit, Guil. Hondius sculp. Hondius was a member of the famous cartographic Hondius family. He engraved this handsome copper engraving of himself, after a portrait by Van Dyck. Amsterdam c. 1640. 17 x 24.5 cms to impression mark. A rich, deep impression. ... more information

New York:: Scribners,. 1898.. Hardcover. 8vo, 418 pp. Original orange cloth, decorated with silver gilt clasp-work design, spine darkened, spine tips rubbed, a couple of worm tracks in the text. good +copy overall. Early Manhattan, Henry Hudson, prominent Dutch pioneer women, much on early Dutch customs in the colony. ... more information

Van Vechten, Carl. Firecrackers. A Realistic Novel. Alfred Knopf, NY 1925. Signed limited edition, #114 of 195 copies. 8vo, x, 246pp, 1 pp. Orig. black cloth spine & decorative hardboard covers in original slipcase, with a chip in the unseen bottom edge. Otherwise pristine condition. ... more information

Milan:: L. Rossi,. 1820.. Unusual Italian version of Vancouver's route up the Northwest coast of the US & Canada. Copper engraved map, b&w as issued, 27 x 21 cm (hxw). In excellent condition. Tav. 39 & Atlan. Geogr. above the top neatline. ... more information

New York:: Privately Printed,. 1933.. First edition. Hardcover. A Chronicle of the First Circumnavigation of the Globe under the United States Naval Reserve Yacht Pennant July 7, 1931 to March 4, 1932...William K. Vanderbilt In Command Motor Ship Alva. Sml. thick folio, 379 pages; appendices. A limited edition of 200, this one of the more limited copies printed on Rives paper & bound in half levant. Well-printed by Edmund Garrett, New York. Bound in half navy levant & decorated papered boards. Illus... more information

Brussels:. 1827.. Scarce original hand colored lithographed map of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina & Northern Florida. From the six volume atlas by Vandermaelen, 'Atlas Universel de Geographie...'. This atlas was the first lithographed world atlas and the first of the entire world with all the maps on the same scale. Image size: 21 5/8 x 18 3/4". Paper size: 29 1/2 x 22". Very good condition. ... more information

Brussels:. 1827.. Original color lithographed map of present day Wisconsin and Minnesota and the upper Mississippi River, with Lake Superior (the 'Territoire de Nord- Ouest'), from Vandermaelen's remarkable world atlas. The Atlas Universel contained approximately 400 large scale maps, with lithography by Henri Ode, who used a new technique developed specifically for it. With Native American tribes' territories indicated, including: 'Chippaway', 'Menomonies', 'Sioux'... more information

Brussels:. 1827.. Scarce hand colored early lithographed map of Florida and the Bahamas, with a notable degree of detail for the time period, including under the inset titled 'Florides', information on the variety of trees and plants, fruit and iron mining. From the six volume atlas by Vandermaelen, 'Atlas Universel de Geographie...'. This atlas was the first lithographed world atlas and the first of the entire world with all the maps on the same scale. Early roads are indicated here, as ... more information

Leningrad:: Morskoi Transport,. 1963.. Paperback. 280 pp, paper wrappers, slt. ruffled. Published by Israel Program for Scientific Translations in 1967. ... more information