BERG, Albin; MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus; ORFF, Carl; PUCCINI, Giacomo; STRAUSS, Johann; STRAUSS, Richard; TSCHAIKOWSKY, Pyotr Ilyich; VERDI, Giuseppe; WAGNER, Richard

[Opera Archive] [Staatsoper] [Playbill] Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg; Ein Maskenball; Oedipus Der Tyrann; Don Carlos; Wozzeck; Aida; Capriccio; Tristan Und Isolde; Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Don Giovanni; Die Hochzeit Des Figaro; Eugen Onegin; Die Fledermaus; Electra; Turandot; Der Rosenkavalier; Ariadne Auf Naxos; Arabella; Così Fan Tutte

Vienna, Wiener Staatsoper, 1962. A fascinating, remarkably complete collection of programs, playbills, and ticket stubs for performances during the 1961 and 1962 spring season at the Staatsoper in Vienna, then under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. For each of 25 performances, the archive retains the 4- or 6-page playbill (listing the evening's cast members and a précis of each act) and the pink, orange, or yellow ticket stub, in addition to four 54-page biweekly programs (dated May 16, June 1 and 16, 1961 and May 31, 1962), detailing each opera being performed during that two week period. A superb survival, each component of the archive in virtually pristine condition. Our indefatigable aficionado attended 19 performance during the close of May and through June of 1961: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (May 27), Ein Maskenball (May 28), Oedipus der Tyrann (May 29), Don Carlos (June 2), Wozzeck (June 3), Tristan und Isolde (June 4), Aida (June 5), Capriccio (June 6), Das Rheingold (June 7), Eugen Onegin (June 8), Die Walküre (June 9), Don Giovanni (June 10), Siegfried (June 11), Götterdämmerung (June 13), Die Fledermaus (June 14), Die Hochzeit des Figaro (June 15), Electra (June 20), Turandot (June 22), and Der Rosenkavalier (June 23). Perhaps exhausted (or short of funds) the following year, he or she made do with only six performances: Die Hochzeit des Figaro (June 2), Ariadne auf Naxos (June 4), Don Carlos (June 5), Götterdämmerung (June 6), Arabella (June 11), and Così fan tutte (June 14). The Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper), one of the leading opera houses in the world, is a 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival theater built from 1861 to 1869 as the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road, after plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll and designs by Josef Hlávka. Interestingly, on June 4, 1961, the day on which Tristan und Isolde was performed, with Wolfgang Windgassen and Martha Mödl in the leading roles, President John F. Kennedy of the United States and Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union held a summit meeting in Vienna, just blocks from the opera house. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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BETTS, John (fl. 1827-1855)

[Cartographic Game] Betts's Tour Through Europe

London / Liverpool, George Philip & Son / Philip, Son & Nephew, 1880. Rare colored lithographed map of Europe (620 x 691mm), with route to be followed when played as a game. Backed with linen and dissected into 24 sections for folding (as issued) into original case binding of machine-stamped blue cloth covers with elaborately decorated oval paper title label printed in black. At bottom is a comparative chart depicting the relative heights of mountains in various countries, with numbered "Reference to the Mountains" in upper right corner giving elevations of peaks. An excellent example, securely bound, with map coloring fresh and bright. Worldcat Discovery lists only three holdings, all in the United States. Hannas (English Jigsaw Puzzle), p. 85. There are 104 stops on the tour, each a city or town, leading players from London across the channel to Calais and eventually back to London by way of Spain, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Russia, and Iceland. John Betts was a publisher of cartographic games and educational puzzles, maps, atlases, and folding globes, whose premises were at 7 Compton Street, Brunswick Square, from 1839-1846, and then at 115 Strand. George Philip & Son, Ltd. published Betts's folding globes until the 1920s. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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BONNE, Rigobert (1727-1794)

[Poland] [Napoleonic Wars] Theatre de la Guerre Actuelle, Comprenant : La Prusse, la Pologne, Une Grande Partie de la Russie, & de la Turquie Européenne Et Asiatique Jusqu'à la Mer Caspienne

A Paris, Treuttel & Würtz, rue de Lille, No. 17, 1807. Uncommon early nineteenth-century map (700 x 975mm), with contemporary hand coloring, of Poland and adjoining territories during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Original copperplate engraving printed from 9 plates, then segment and laid down on blue linen with manuscript paper title label. Third State, with borders showing divisions after the Third Partition (private communication with Jakub Jakimiak of Antykwariat Kosmos, Warsaw). An excellent, richly colored example (some margins trimmed with loss of several letters), but a rare survival. The Third Partition of Poland, in 1795, was the final in a series (following those in 1773 and 1792), progressively reducing Poland's territories until, after the third partition, the state of Poland ceased to exist for the next 123 years. The occupying powers (Russia, Prussia, and Austria) forced many Polish politicians, intellectuals, and revolutionaries to emigrate across Europe, many of whom served France in Napoleon's armies. Poland briefly regained semiautonomy in 1807 (about the time this state of the map was published) when Napoleon created the Duchy of Warsaw out of the central provinces of Prussian Poland. Rigobert Bonne succeeded Jacques Nicolas Bellin in 1773 as Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer at the Depôt de la Marine, after which he compiled some of the most detailed and accurate maps of the period. His work represents an important step in the evolution of cartography, away from the decorative aesthetic of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries toward a more detail oriented, practical bent. Treuttel & Würtz was founded in Strasbourg in 1770s and moved to Paris, while keeping shop in Strasbourg, about 1798. It was established at rue de Lille by 1804, setting an approximate date for this map. (See Giles Barber, "Treuttel and Würtz: Some Aspects of the Importation of Books from France, c. 1825," The Library, Vol. s5-XXIII, Issue 2 (June 1968), pp. 118-144) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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[AMERICAN SNUFF CO.]

[Shape Book] [Tobacco] [Die Cut] Dental Scotch Snuff

Memphis, Tennessee, n.d. Card Covers. Mid-Century tobacco advertising booklet. Foolscap 8vo (138 x 76mm): note pad shaped as a can of snuff, 24 blank ruled pages, excepting advertising text at center and inside covers. Original illustrated card covers. Provenance: Fred Board, collector of odd and unusual books, with his neat pencil note on final leaf. About Fine. Promotional booklet advertising Dental Scotch Snuff, "a very mild snuff, carrying a slight smoky but good tobacco flavor," manufactured by the American Snuff Company, a subsidiary of Reynolds American. American Snuff was founded in 1900, but its records go back to the Revolutionary War era, when it operated as a snuff mill, beginning in 1782. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books and ephemera in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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DIGHTON, Robert (1751-1814)

[Shakespeare] [Stephen Kemble] Hamlet in Scotland. A Large Manager in a Great Character

London, Robert Dighton, 1794. Hand-Colored (300 x 234mm) print of Stephen Kemble in the role of Hamlet, drawn and etched by Robert Dighton and signed by Kemble in red ink, lower right. "The enormously fat Stephen Kemble, as Hamlet, gesticulates, right arm extended, left arm thrown back, fingers (very large) pointing awkwardly; his head is turned in profile to the left. He wears quasi-contemporary dress, much dishevelled, with a star and ribbon from which hangs the elephant of the Danish order. Beneath the title: 'A Large manager in a Great Character . . that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably. 6 December 1794. Drawn & Etchd by R Dighton. 12 Charing Cross Pubd Decr 6t 1794.' (M. Dorothy George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, VII, 1942) An excellent example, with wide margins and superb color, bright and fresh. BM1935,0522.17.3. George Stephen Kemble (1758-1822) was a theater manager, actor, and writer, and a member of the famous Kemble family (his sister was the actress Sarah Siddons). On 24 September 1783 he made his London début, as Othello, at Covent Garden. For fifteen years. Kemble managed the Theatre Royal, in Newcastle. His final performance was as the Miller in The King and the Miller of Mansfield, by Robert Dodsley, on 26 April 1820. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books and prints in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Turkey Remains and How to Inter Them

[Toronto], Cooper & Beatty, 1956. First Edition thus. Hardcover. First Separate Edition of this humorous Christmas keepsake issued in the Fall of 1956 by Toronto typographer Cooper & Beatty, one of 2,000 copies. Slim crown octavo (210 x 137mm): v,[1],5,[1]pp, printed in black and silver-grey on wove paper. Publisher's rose-pink stiff paper wrappers, stapled, front panel with vignette of trussed turkey in black encircled by silver-grey holly wreath, fore-edge untrimmed, title page printed in red and black. Wanting the original greetings sleeve (not noted by Bruccoli). An excellent example, virtually pristine. Bruccoli D1. Originally published in The Crack-Up (pp. 193-195), Fitzgerald's collection of essays and previously unpublished letters and notes. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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[Grosvenor Gallery]

[Exhibition Catalog] Catalogue of Modern Loan Exhibition.  November, 1917 [with Notes on the Paintings by a Contemporary Visitor to the Show]

London, The Gallery, 1917. String-Bound Wrappers. Scarce catalogue of an exhibition, held November, 1917, at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51A New Bond Street, London, featuring works by Corot, Degas, Augustus John, Monet, Pissarro, Rodin, Rossetti, Sargent, Sickert, and Whistler, among others. Foolscap 8vo (151 x 125mm): 48pp. Original blue string-bound wrappers printed in black. Neatly annotated in light pencil with fascinating comments and several corrections to text. An excellent example, with light creases and small stamp of Bethnal Green Museum to verso of some pages. Worldcat lists just two institutional copies: The Frick Art Reference Library and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York. Not the somewhat infamous Victorian "Palace of Art" specializing in artists of the Aesthetic Movement, which Sir Coutts and Lady Blanche Lindsay established in 1877 as an alternative to the Royal Academy and which closed its doors in 1890, but one of several successor. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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GILLRAY, James, 1756-1815 [after]

[Caricature] Effusions of a Pot of Porter,—or—Ministerial Conjurations for Supporting the War

n.p. n.d. A reduced early nineteenth-century copy of BM Satires 9430, lampooning the abnormally bad weather of 1799 and the rising cost of the Napoleonic war. Etching and aquatint on laid paper with original hand coloring: Image: 205 x 165mm; Plate: 222 x 178mm; Sheet: 243 x 191mm. Vertical and horizontal folds as issued, but an excellent impression with rich coloring. BM Satires VII. Gillray Observed, pp. Originally published November 29, 1799, by Hannah Humphrey, 27, St. James's Street. This copy of from volume 5 of London und Paris (Weimar, 1800), the rare satirical journal reprinting reduced copies, mostly unsigned, of English and French caricatures. In the print, a large frothing tankard stands on a cask whose head forms the base of the design. From the froth Pitt emerges as Death on the White Horse, giving the effect of a fantastic equestrian statue on a high pedestal. Pitt is in back view; in his right hand is a flaming sword, his left arm is raised; he turns his head slightly to the right, his right leg is extended; he wears his ordinary dress with heavily spurred top-boots. His head is the center of rays on which his orders are inscribed: "Bella! Horrida Bella!" On the left are heavy clouds about to cover the sun; rays to the left are inscribed: "Sun get thee to Bed! Myself will Light ye World' and 'Ho Rains! - Deluges! - Drown the Harvest!" Slanting rain descends in torrents from the clouds, battering down heads of wheat and obscuring a cottage in the background. On the right are the winds: four cherubs' heads blowing violent blasts in every direction, two of which are filled with swarms of insects. Rays to the right are inscribed: "Pestiferous Winds! blast the fruits of the Earth!" and "Ho! Flies! Grubs, Caterpillars! destroy the Hops!" The blasts strike hops twined round poles on the right of the design. On the tankard is a large '4' within a circle inscribed 'Pro-Bono-Ministero', and a small 'WP' with the Pitt crest of stork and anchor. On the cask a long lighted pipe inscribed "Bellendenus" lies across a paper of tobacco inscribed : "Ruin upon Ruin, or an Essay on the Ways & Means for supporting the cursed War."The title continues: "as lately discover'd by Dr P-----r, in the Froth & Fumes of his favorite Beverage." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books and prints in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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[HAUCK, Cornelius J., 1893-1967]

[Auction Catalog] the History of the Book: The Cornelius J. Hauck Collection

New York, Christie's, 2006. Stiff Wrappers. Auction catalog of this significant collection documenting the history of the book in all its forms. Thick royal 8vo (267 x 209mm): 679pp, with spectacular color photographs throughout and prices neatly noted for each lot. A superlative example (tips barely bumped), tightly bound and virtually pristine. Formed between 1945 and 1965, the Hauck Collection included Babylonian cuneiform tablets, Greek papyri fragments, Persian, Hebrew, and Asian manuscripts, European medieval manuscripts, and fine bindings of all periods. The auction of more than 700 separate lots was held at Christie's in New York on June 27 and 28, 2006. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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[INTOURIST]

[Russia] Great Cities of the Ussr [Moscow and Leningrad]

[Moscow], [Intourist / Moscow / Hotel Metropol], 1932. Pictorial Wrappers. Early tourist booklet, in English, featuring Leningrad and Moscow. Crown 8vo (201 x 148mm): 30pp, with two large folding maps in color (273 x 389mm), profusely illustrated with partial page images from photographs of life in the USSR. Full-color pictorial wrappers stapled. An excellent example (wrappers very light dust-soiled) with virtually pristine maps. Intourist, headquartered in Moscow, long served as the primary travel agency for foreign tourists in the Soviet Union. It was founded on April 12, 1929, and privatized in 1992, and from 2011 was partly owned by the British Thomas Cook Group until its collapse in September, 2019. In November, 2019, Anex Tours acquired the stake from the British Official Receiver. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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KAUFFER, E. McKnight (Edward), 1890-1954; HUXLEY, Aldous [Introduces]

[Exhibition Catalog] Posters by E. Mcknight Kauffer

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1937. First Printing. Card Covers. One of 2,750 copies printed by the Spiral Press, with notes by Kauffer on technique and foreword by Aldous Huxley, of this catalog for an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art from February 10 to March 7, 1937. Royal 8vo (254 x 191mm): 24pp, including 12 highlights, on 9 black-and-white plates, from the exhibit of 85 posters designed by Kauffer for London Underground, Great Western Railways, Shell, and other English clients. Stapled illustrated card covers screen-printed in French blue, black, and grey. About Fine, with minute wear to lower front cover edge, else virtually pristine. Scarce. Kauffer moved to London at the start of the First World War, and is probably best remembered for the 140 posters he created for London Underground (later London Transport), in many styles showing influences of futurism, cubism, and vorticism as well as impressionism and Japanese woodcuts. Why Huxley was chosen to contribute the very brief, rather incoherent forward (Kauffer painted Huxley's garden in Aix-en-Provence the year before this exhibition) would be interesting to know. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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LAWRENCE, T. E. (1888-1935); George Bernard Shaw (introduces)

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Woodcuts Illustrating Col. T.E. Lawrence's Book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom. " with Prefaces by Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence

London, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square, 1927. First Edition. Card Covers. A superb copy of the rare First Printing of this catalog of art works (later printings are noted at top of front wrapper) accompanying Lawrence's account of his legendary part in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Foolscap 8vo (144 x 110mm): 28pp, with 2 full-page photographs on coated paper (Eric Kennington's bust of Lawrence and Augustus John's portrait of "H. M. King Feysal of Irak"). Wire-stitched in original dark beige card wrappers. Trivial nick to leading edge of upper wrapper, else pristine. O'Brien A099. Catalogue of an exhibition of 81 items. The preface Lawrence contributed to the 1921 exhibition catalogue of Arab Portraits by Kennington, with the first three paragraphs omitted, was repurposed for this 1927 catalogue. George Bernard Shaw also contributed a preface "saying more about Lawrence than he did about the exhibition." (O'Brien) Lawrence sat for the modeling of Kennington's bust in November and December of 1926. In a letter to Kennington dated 15 February 1927, the month of the Leicester Galleries exhibition, Lawrence expressed his admiration for the sculpture: "It's amazing: and very curious . It represents not me, but my top-moments, those few seconds in which I succeed in thinking myself right out of things ." (The Letters of T. E. Lawrence, London, 1938, pp. 507-508). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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LUCAS, Frederic A. (1852-1929)

General Guide to the Exhibition Halls of the American Museum of Natural History

New York, Published by the Museum, 1920. Illustrated Wrappers. Early Edition ("Edition of 1920") of this guide to the exhibits in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, published 43 years after the museum opened its doors on Central Park West. Royal 8vo (243 x 155mm): 136pp, illustrated throughout with halftones and line drawings of the museum's holdings. Original tan pictorial wrappers printed in brown. An excellent example, tightly bound and generally clean throughout (first and final pages spotted). A previous edition was prepared by George H. Sherwood and published in 1911 as No. 35 of the Guide leaflet series of the American Museum of Natural History. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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LYON, Danny; Billy McCune (introduces)

[Exhibition Catalog] Conversations with the Dead: An Exhibition of Photographs of Prison Life

Houston, Institute for the Arts: Rice University, 1970. Stapled Wrappers. Introduced by inmate Billy McCune, whose drawings were exhibited alongside Lyon's gritty black-and-white images of daily life within the Texas Prison system. Slim demy 8vo (225 x 154mm) [8]pp, including four full-page plates (two in color). Photographic stapled wrappers in fine condition. Parr Badger II, p. 19. Roth (Open Book), pp. 278-79. From Fair to Fine, p. 48. Roth (101 Books), pp. 210-11. Auer, p. 535. Before publication of Lyon's masterful work of photojournalism, Conversations with the Dead, there was this exhibition at the Institute for the Arts, Rice University, of his photographs of prison life. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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[REYNOLDS, James]

[Thames] [Angling] the Oarsman's and Angler's Map of the River Thames from Its Source to London Bridge. One Inch to a Mile

London, James Reynolds & Sons, 174 Strand, 1885. Decorative Cloth. A beautifully preserved later issue of this multi-folding strip map, showing settlements along the river, from above Cricklade down to London Bridge, with locks, bridges, and rail lines, and including details of toll charges, angling laws, weirs, bathing spots, towpaths, ferries, water mills, and species of fish to be caught. Foolscap 8vo (160 x 100mm): [4]pp of rules and bye-laws, with superbly hand-colored lithographed folding map (160mm x 2600mm) in 26 sections mounted on linen. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. Virtually pristine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 174 (noting editions of 1861 and 1876). New Edition of the map first produced in 1861 for James Reynolds by Ernest George Ravenstein (1834-1913), a German-born geographer and cartographer, who, in 1872, declined the position of chief cartographer at the Royal Geographical Society because he was refused permission to smoke on the premises. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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