After Stevenson (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Peter Stevenson (illustrator). Some wear, binding sound; good overall. DOES NOT CONTAIN THE CARDS ETC. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sul Steinberg Before & After Cover Art: Charmes Saxon James Stevenson, William Hamilton, Robert Weber, William Steig, Etc (illustrator). 1st. stapled wraps; 104 clean, unmarked page; iitems by/about: S.J. Perelman ("Around the Bend in Eighty Days, Pt IV"); W.S. Merwin ("A Fable of the Buyers"); Helen Yglesias ("Semi-private"); Paul Petrie (poem); Calvin Trillin (Onward and upward with the Arts: Earth Art); Ccalvin Trillin (US Journal: Maine); Douglas Dunn (Poem); Richard H. Roere (Letter from Washington); John Lloyd Owen (Poem); Nat Hentoff (Books) ; Talk of the Town; Cinema, Theater, Arts, Music, Book reviews, Etc.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1965, 33 ⅓ rpm record with a version of 'Kidnapped' on one side, and an excerpt from 'Sabre Dance' on the other, and with a 'showslide' set of illustrations; enclosed in a card folder; for use with the General Electric Show'n Tell phono viewer; disc shows some surface wear; folder is intact but somewhat tired *** carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.

Hardcover. Folio (16 4/8 x 12 inches). Vignette title-page, reproducing 27 maps of the Codex Ebnerianus, a manuscript of Ptolemy's 'Geography' at the New York Public Library, prepared by Donnus Nicolaus Germanus, the Ruysch map of the world from the 1508 printed edition, and Laurent Fries' "new" world map from 1522, other illustrations in the text. Original publisher's half calf, cloth, gilt. Limited issue, number 157 of 250 numbered copies. Ptolemy's 'Geographia' was a compilation of what was known about the world's geography in the Roman Empire during his time (ca 90-168 ad). He relied on the work of others, in particular an early geographer, Marinos of Tyre, and on gazetteers of the Roman and ancient Persian Empire. He was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet (of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology). He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid. He died in Alexandria. The earliest known manuscripts of Ptolomy's "Geographia" date to about 1300. The first printed version was published in 1477, then 1488, and in Ulm in 1482.