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![[Total Solar Eclipse.]](jpegs/56913.jpg)
[Total Solar Eclipse.] Astronomy. Plate 5.
Engraved & Printed in Colours by W. & A. K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 350mm (10 ½ x 13¾"). Central fold crease as normal.
Plate 5 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56913] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved & Printed in Colours by W. & A. K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 350mm (10 ½ x 13¾"). Central fold crease as normal.
Plate 5 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56913] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Humboldt's System of Isothermal Lines of the Globe. By Dr H Berghuas, Professor of Geography Berlin.
Drawn in the Engravers School for Geography, Potsdam, Dec.r 1842. Engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston.
Edinburgh; John Johnston and W. and W. & A.K. Johnson; Glasgow; Robert Weir Lumsden & Son [n.d., c.1844].
Engraved map with some original hand colour. Sheet 540 x 670mm (21 x 26½"). Some ink offset.
A map of the world on Mercator's Projection, with isothermal lines linking areas of equal temperature. Of interest are the markings for the furthest points north and south reached by explorers, including Parry and Scoresby in the Arctic and Cook, Weddell, D'Urville and Ross in the Antarctic.
[Ref: 57124] £130.00
Drawn in the Engravers School for Geography, Potsdam, Dec.r 1842. Engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston.
Edinburgh; John Johnston and W. and W. & A.K. Johnson; Glasgow; Robert Weir Lumsden & Son [n.d., c.1844].
Engraved map with some original hand colour. Sheet 540 x 670mm (21 x 26½"). Some ink offset.
A map of the world on Mercator's Projection, with isothermal lines linking areas of equal temperature. Of interest are the markings for the furthest points north and south reached by explorers, including Parry and Scoresby in the Arctic and Cook, Weddell, D'Urville and Ross in the Antarctic.
[Ref: 57124] £130.00
![[Phases of the Moon.]](jpegs/56914.jpg)
[Phases of the Moon.] Astronomy. Plate 4.
Engraved & Printed in Colour by W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"). Central crease as normal and faint toning around the edges.
Eleven figures detailing the visible surface of the moon and its lunar phases. Plate 4 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56914] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved & Printed in Colour by W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"). Central crease as normal and faint toning around the edges.
Eleven figures detailing the visible surface of the moon and its lunar phases. Plate 4 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56914] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Persia. The route taken by M.r E.G. Browne is indicated in Red.
W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh & London.
[Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1893.]
Lithographic map, printed in colours. Printed area 395 x 300mm (15½ x 11¾"). Repaired tear from original binding folds.
The general map from Edward Granville Browne's 'A Year Among the Persians', showing his route from Kurdinstan to Terhran, Shiraz and Kerman, and across the sea to Baku. Browne (1862-1926) was a British Iranologist who spent a year there in 1887-8. This account was very favourable towards the Persians, who reciprocated their feelings: a Tehran street named after him and a statue survived the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
[Ref: 57631] £130.00
W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh & London.
[Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1893.]
Lithographic map, printed in colours. Printed area 395 x 300mm (15½ x 11¾"). Repaired tear from original binding folds.
The general map from Edward Granville Browne's 'A Year Among the Persians', showing his route from Kurdinstan to Terhran, Shiraz and Kerman, and across the sea to Baku. Browne (1862-1926) was a British Iranologist who spent a year there in 1887-8. This account was very favourable towards the Persians, who reciprocated their feelings: a Tehran street named after him and a statue survived the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
[Ref: 57631] £130.00
![[The surface and appearance of the Sun.]](jpegs/56915.jpg)
[The surface and appearance of the Sun.] Astronomy. Plate 3.
Engraved & Printed in Colour by W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"). Central crease as normal.
Four diagrams illuminating the 'Paths of the spots across the disc of the sun at different peiods of the year', 'the zodiacal light', 'solar spots, viewed with high magnifying power' and the 'apparent magnitude of the sun as viewed from the various planets'. Plate 3 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56915] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved & Printed in Colour by W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"). Central crease as normal.
Four diagrams illuminating the 'Paths of the spots across the disc of the sun at different peiods of the year', 'the zodiacal light', 'solar spots, viewed with high magnifying power' and the 'apparent magnitude of the sun as viewed from the various planets'. Plate 3 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56915] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)