Search Results: Authors starting with E from Original Antique Maps

Contents and Condition:Union-Castle Atlas pp. 2-64 with color maps, single and double page, George Philips & Son, Geographical Institute, London
"Advertisements South Africa, Capetown with East Africa Route", pp. 1-129.
dimensions: 7 3/8" x 5 1/2" x 1 5/8"
condition: decorated fabric covers show mild wear, binding tight, front cover attached with weakening at bottom of binding
owner's name in manuscript ink on title page: "A.Jessop Coronado, California, U.S.A"Description:
This densely informative travel guide was owned by A. Jessop of Coronado, California. The A. Jessop who owned this book is most likely a son of Joseph Edward Jessop, an English watchmaker and jewelry store owner who with his wife emigrated from London, England to California, seeking to settle in the San Diego area with their children. The Jessop family established a jewelry store that became multi-generational in the San Diego, California area. In 1901 the Jessop family moved to Coronado, California. In 1907, Mr. Jessop… Read More

Details:sketches on thin trace paper, two in pencil, one possibly another mediumdimensions: various, see belowcondition: professionally conserved, very thin original architectural trace paper sheets backed on new, ultra thin archival Japanese mulberry paper, one drawing sheet shows wrinkles created by reversible backing processDescription:Ernest M.A. Machado, Estate, Essex County, Mass. c. 1890-1907dimensions: 18 7/8" x 9 3/4"
Ernest Machado, Estate, Front View, Essex County, Mass. c. 1890-1907 dimensions: 17 3/8" x 9 3/4"

Ernest Machado, Lyceum Bldg. Salem, Mass. c. 1890-1907dimensions: 13 1/2" x 9"

These three architectural drawings are scarce, signed sketches by American architect Ernest M.A. Machado (1868-1907), an M.I.T. department of architecture graduate who practiced architecture primarily in Boston and Salem, Massachusetts. He also formed an architecture firm partnership in Ottawa, Canada in 1907, the year in which he died while on a New Hampshire vacation at age 39. Machado's first years… Read More