8331. World – Ortelius, Abraham. (1527-1598).

Aevi veteris, Typus Geographicus.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Antwerp, Ortelius, 1590. Plate Size: 44 cm x 31 cm. Sheet Size: 53.7 cm x 38.5 cm. Original map. Very good, actually stunning, condition. Really clean and crisp. Generous margins. Reverse recto carries Latin text.

8332. World – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

The World on Mercator’s Projection – With Vignettes of London, Gibraltar, Constantinople, The Pyramids of Ghizeh, Niagara, Pont Neuf Paris and Vesuvius.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Warren and Engraved by J.B. Allen. London & New York, John Tallis & Company, 1851. Plate Size: 34.7 cm x 26.5 cm. Sheet Size: 37.3 cm x 27.2 cm. In fair condition with tears evident. Slight browning and paper imperfections to outer margins.

8333. Worsøe-Schmidt, Lisbeth.

Forfatter i Danmark 1894-1994.

[No place], Dansk Forfatterforening, 1994. 17.2 cm x 23.9 cm. 293 pages. Black and white text illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Corners only slightly rubbed. Minor dampstain to lower corners (front endpaper- p.78). From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

8334. [Worth, Adam] MacIntyre, Ben.

The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief.

First US Edition. New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1997. Octavo. XI, 336 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Now out of print.

8335. Wosien, Maria-Gabriele.

Sacred Dance: Encounter with the Gods.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1974. 20.5 x 28cm. 128 pages, with 142 illustrations, 30 in colour. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Art and Imagination Series].

8336. Wrampelmeyer, Hermann.

Librorum manuscriptorum, qui Ciceronis orationes pro Sestio et pro Caelio continent, ratio, qualis sit, demonstratur. Dissertationem inauguralem ad summos in philosophia in Georgia Augusta rite assequendos honores.

Detmoldiae, Typis Meyetianis, 1868. 20 cm x 24.5 cm. 31 pages. Original cotton stitched bound hard board cover. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear and tear mostly to the spine. Tanning to pages throughout. Foxing to endpapers and title page. Half size free end papers cleanly trimmed. Title written in hand in blue pen on cover. Two small pencil markings on cover also.

8337. Wren, M.K.

A Gift Upon the Shore.

Reprinted Edition. Lincoln, iUniverse, 2000. Octavo. 375 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8338. Wright, Charles / McLellan, Leigh.

Dead Color. Poems.

San Francisco, The Meadow Press, 1980. Oblong Quarto. 16 pages. Original green wrappers (Softcover). First edition. One of an edition of only 285. Signed by Charles Wright and Leigh McLellan in pencil. French-folded pages, With four woodcut illustrations by Leigh McLellan. Fine.

8339. [Wright, Frank Lloyd] Kaufmann jr., Edgar.

9 Commentaries on Frank Lloyd Wright.

New York, The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press, 1989. Small Quarto (22 cm wide x 23.5 cm high). 158 pages / Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover (no dustjacket). Excellent condition.

8340. Wright, Howard.

Yahoo.

First Edition. Belfast, Lapwing Publications, 1991. 15 x 21 cm. 28 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Lapwing Poetry Pamphlets]