C.Walter Hodges
The Globe Playhouse 1599-1613 A Conjectural Reconstruction by C.Walter Hodges
Ernest Benn Limited, London: 1958
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The current Globe Theatre in London is the third Globe. The first opened in 1599 and was built by the Lord Chamberlain?s Men, the company that William Shakespeare wrote for and part-owned.It is believed that the first play Shakespeare wrote for the original Globe was Julius Caesar in spring 1599. Later that year he also wrote As You Like It and made a start on Hamlet. Over the next fourteen years Shakespeare wrote some of his greatest plays, including Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. Other playwrights wrote for the Globe during this time, including Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton and John Fletcher.In 1613, during a performance of Shakespeare?s Henry VIII (co-written with Fletcher), a mis-fired prop canon caused the thatch roof to catch fire. The entire theatre burnt down within two hours., Image Size : , Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 566x768 (mm), 22.28x30.24 (Inches), Printed in Color, Offset Lithograph
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Portrait of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar (25 March 1853 ? 3 January 1907). He was the fifth Qajar shah (King) of Iran, reigning from 1896 until his death in 1907. He is often credited with the creation of the Persian Constitution of 1906, which he approved of as one of his final actions as Shah.Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (21 November 1851 ? 15 May 1922) was a British portrait artist and caricaturist who over four decades painted 1,325 portraits which were regularly published by Vanity Fair, under the pseudonyms "Spy" and "Drawl". The portraits were produced as watercolours and turned into chromolithographs for publication in the magazine., Image Size : 336x198 (mm), 13.23x7.80 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : , Printed in Color, Lithograph L’Asie Divisee en ses Empires. Royaumes, et Estats./ Asia Divisa in Imperia, Regna & Status in que distribuitur, ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae.
Map showing the continent of Asia by Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712) who was an important French cartographer of the seventeenth century. , Size : 500x590 (mm), 19.69x23.23 (Inches), Hand Colored Wilderland.There And Back Again: The Map of the Hobbit.
Text below the map: Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold. To Dungeons Deep and Caverns Old. We Must Away, Ere Break of Day, To Find Our Long-Forgotten Gold.Rhovanion, also known as Wilderland, the Land Beyond, or the Wild, was a large region of northern Middle-earth. The Great River Anduin flowed through it, and the immense forest of Greenwood the Great also lay within its borders. Politically, Rhovanion referred to a smaller area east of Mirkwood. John Ronald Philip Reuel Tolkien, CBE, (3 January, 1892 ? 2 September, 1973) was a philologist and writer, best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. He worked as reader and professor in English language at the University of Leeds from 1920 to 1925; as professor of Anglo-Saxon language at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1945; and of English language and literature from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C.S. Lewis, and a member of the Inklings, a literary discussion group to which both Lewis and Owen Barfield belonged.The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known as The Hobbit, is a children's fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim. The book remains popular and is recognized as a classic in children's literature.The Hobbit is set within Tolkien's Middle-earth and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit, to win a share of the treasure guarded by a dragon named Smaug. Bilbo's journey takes him from his light-hearted, rural surroundings into more sinister territory., Size : 685x682 (mm), 26.97x26.85 (Inches), Printed in Color Very Good, backed on linen for long term preservation The Woman Who Tempted
Publisher?s green cloth boards. Upper and spine stamped in blind design with gilt lettering., Size : 8vo.(195 x 135 mm), Good example. Publisher?s ads at back. Ownerships inked on front free endpaper and half-title verso. Light shelfwear, some spotting to early leaves, one leaf loose. First 30 pages are foxed. Tour of the World in Eighty Days
Publisher?s full red pictorial cloth boards. Upper and spine stamped in gilt, red, and green. , Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a renown French novelist, poet, and playwright. His work influenced the development of avant-garde and surrealist literature. Today, he is the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking below Agatha Christie and above Shakespeare., Size : 12mo. (165 x 110 mm), Very good example. Illustrated with plates. , 291 pp. Extremities and spine lightly rubbed, gift inscription on front free endpaper, interior else clean and crisp. [Periodical] Almanaque del Madrid Comico. 1897.
Red cloth boards backed in red morocco. Upper lettered in gilt. Spine decorated in gilt. Blue patterned pasted and free endpapers. All edges speckled brown. , Text in Spanish. Very good example. Periodical, comprising weekly issues dating from 1897: January-December, (numbers 724-775). Profusely illustrated, each title featuring a different caricature, many ads. , Size : Quarto. Boards rubbed, interior toned, else clean and crisp. [2 in 1] (Head) Stokers and Pokers; or, the London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-House. Fourth Edition. [Bound with] (Haygarth) Recollections of Bush Life in Australia, during a Residence of Eight Years in the Interior.
Half calf over marbled paper boards. Flat spine with gilt bands, gilt lettering. , Very good example. 2 volumes bound in 1 book., Size : 8vo.(175 x 120mm) Extremities lightly rubbed, ownerships inked on endpapers and titles. Interior generally clean and crisp. Title upper right ownership cut. The Beasts of Tarzan
Full green cloth boards. Upper and spine with white lettering, rubbed. , Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 ? 1950) was an American writer, best known for his adventures, science fiction, and fantasy books. He created the renown characters Tarzan and John Carter. , Size : 8vo.(190 x 130 mm) A good-fair example. Extremities rubbed, text block broken in places with signature loose, some leaves with marginalia or other marks. A Plan of New York Island, Part of Long Island &c. Shewing the Position of the American and British Armies, before, at, and after the Engagement on the Heights, August 27th, 1776.
Rare and important Revolutionary War map of New York City and surrounding areas. The map was drawn by S.Lewis and engraved by J.H. Seymour. It was published in The Life of George Washington. Publication was written by Chief Justice John Marshall, the atlas volume was published by C.P. Wayne of Philadelphia whose name appears on each map. , Size : 407x257 (mm), 16.02x10.12 (Inches), Hand Colored Pretres Armeniens En Habits Sacerdotaux.; Erzeron Capitale D’Armenie.; Moines Armeniens; Diacre Et Soudiacre Armeniens.; De la ville D’Erzeron.; Trebisonde.
Map of the capital of Armenia, Erzurum together with Trabzon (Trebizond).The map is surrounded by costumes of Armenians., Size : 172x385 (mm), 6.77x15.16 (Inches), Black & White Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation Amerique Septentrionale avec les Routes, Distances en miles, Villages et Etablissements Francois et Anglois Par le Docteur Mitchel Traduit de l’Anglois . . .1777
French edition of Mitchell's map of the Central and Southern part of North America. It lacks the Eastern part., Size : 1300x950 (mm), 51.18x37.40 (Inches), Original Outline Coloring Very Good, backed on linen for long term preservation Plan of the City of New York. The greater part from actual survey made expressly for the purpose (the rest from authentic document) By Thomas H. Poppleton 1817. Published by Prior & Dunning.
Thomas H. Poppleton; D.T. Valentines Plan of New York City by Thomas H. Poppleton, republished in 1855. , Size : 451x351 (mm), 17.76x13.82 (Inches), Hand Colored Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation A New & Accurate Plan of the City of New York in the State of New York in North America. Published in 1797.
Valentine, D. T. (David Thomas), 1801-1869 Detailed map of New York City. Copied from a Map belonging to G.R. Jackson for D.T.Valentines Manual 1853., Size : 346x514 (mm), 13.62x20.24 (Inches), Hand Colored Very Good, backed on acid free paper for long term preservation. Carte des Lacs du Canada
J. N. Bellin (1703-1772) Important First edition of this map of the Great Lakes. It was published in " Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France". "This map, by the famous French map and chartmaker Jacques Nicolas Bellin, was published in 1744 in Fr Oierre Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix's "Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France", which is one of the best eighteenth-century descriptions and accounts of North America. Charlevoix traveled Canada in 1720 to inspect the Jesuit missions there. Her journeyed throughout New France and Louisiana and down to the Gulf of Mexico via the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers in 1721-1722. He described in his work the possibilities and great beauty of the land he saw, especially near Natchez, mentioning such products as cotton, indigo and tobacco. Bellin had access to official journals, sketches, maps and charts of the earlier explorers, using such sources with great care and discrimination to produce some of the finest mapping of French America available in the eighteenth century." Goss, Size : 292x455 (mm), 11.50x17.91 (Inches), Black & White, 0 Haemisphaerium Scenographicum Australe Coelistellati Et Terrae
Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665) Highly decorative celestial chart of the Southern sky first issued by Cellarius in 1661 (published in "Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica"). This example was reissued in 1708 by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk. , Size : 430x497 (mm), 16.93x19.57 (Inches), Original Hand Coloring, 0 Carte Generale du Canada, de la Louisiane, de la Floride, de la Caroline, de la Virginie, de la Nouvelle Angleterre.
D'Anville; P. Santini Map showing the Great Lakes and the entire eastern North America. An inset map showing Arctic region of Canada (the Hudson Bay and Baffin Bay) and Greenland., Size : 487x664 (mm), 19.17x26.14 (Inches), Original Outline Coloring- $675
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Map Showing the Principal Watersheds Originating within the Algonquin Provincial Park in the District of Nipissing and the County of Haliburton in the Province of Ontario.
A.Kelso Roberts; F.A.MacDougall; R.G.Code Map showing the Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario., Size : 515x586 (mm), 20.28x23.07 (Inches), Printed in Color with Some Hand Coloring- $575
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Le Fleuve Saint-Laurent Represente plus en detail que dans L’etendue de la Carte.
D'Anville, Jean-Baptiste (1697-1782) Detailed map of the St. Lawrence River was designed as an inset map for D'Anville's Canada Louisiane et Terres Angloises., Size : 477x575 (mm), 18.78x22.64 (Inches), Black & White, 0- $475
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