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18091405230013Milano Batelli 1809-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 8 Volumes. Italian. Later black cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Library bookplate on front paste downs. Numerical stamp on title pages. Clean unmarked page with minimal tanning. Brunet IV 851; Graesse V 429. <br><br> Pagination: Vol. I: 523p. 15 pl. of which 14 are hand-colored; Vol. II: 558p. 13 pl. of which 12 are hand-colored with one folding; Vol. III: 759p. 27 pl. of which 24 are hand-colored with one folding; Vol. IV: 747p. 22 pl. 1 folding of which 15 are hand-colored; Vol. V: 714p. 15 pl. of which 11 are hand-colored; Vol. VI: 856p. 24pl. of which 19 are hand-colored; Supp. I: 607p 9 pl. of which 8 are hand-colored with one folding; Supp. II: 660p. 46 pl. of which 45 are hand-colored with one folding. <br><br> Felice Romani was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito. At the University of Genoa he translated French literature and with a colleague prepared a six-volume dictionary of mythology and antiquities including the history of the Celts in Italy. Romani's expertise in French and antiquity is reflected in the libretti he wrote; the majority are based on French literature and many such as Norma use mythological sources. <br> This volumetric work not only details the mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome but all know cultures in the world at the time between 1809-1825 spanning all continents from Okee from North American Powhatan lore to the lore of the First Emperor of China to Mitra. <br><br> This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. Milano, Batelli hardcover
1833130405London: John Murray 1833-1834; 1836. First edition in book form of Finden's celebrated illustrated edition of Byron's works; uniformly bound with a first edition of Finden's Byron Beauties. Octavo four volumes bound in full pebbled calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels all edges gilt. Finden's Landscape & Portrait Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron is illustrated with 129 engraved plates including illustrated title pages. Finden's Byron Beauties is illustrated with 39 engraved plates. In very good condition. A unique example of this important set in the Byron canon. It was William and Edward Finden's illustrations to Byron that substantially enhanced the status of their work. Following his death in Greece in 1824 their engravings sensitively conveyed to a wide contemporary audience images of Byron's life and work. Finden's Landscape Illustrations to the Life and Works of Byron finally appeared in fourteen monthly parts with both Murray's and Tilt's names on the paper wrappers from January 1832. The Illustrations created a great sensation and led to further projects to engrave the life and works of other poets" ODNB. John Murray unknown
1807937Newark: S. and J. Ridge 1807. First Edition Later Printing. =-. First Edition Later Printing. Finely bound in full dark brown crushed morocco with gilt ruled borders three-dot motif in corners five wrap-around embossed strapwork devices connecting five raised bands which have gilt ruled borders. A fine copy of the rare first edition with later issue points. <br/><br/> S. and J. Ridge hardcover books
182017071London: Thomas Davison / John Hunt 1820-24. Six volumes bound in three. Demy-octavos 16.5cm; contemporary full diced calf; bound including original title pages; half-titles and terminal leaves where called for. An attractive set in contemporary binding sympathetically re-backed preserving the original endpapers as well as most of the original spines and spine labels. Early printed bookplate of John Colston to each front pastedown with later inked ex-libris "J. Hames" added beneath each printed portion. The full foolscap octavo edition of Don Juan preceded in each case by quarto editions in the same year. Cantos I-II are from an early but not first printing with 1820 date at base of title page but no statement of "New Edition" as seems somewhat common though this issue appears unmentioned by Wise. The remaining volumes are first printings. WISE II p.3-8. Thomas Davison / John Hunt unknown books
18534676London: John Murray 1853. Two volumes. Bound in full red morocco by Riviere signed in ink on paper pastedowns with all-over gilt interlacing floral and leaf design on both covers and spine literally every square centimeter covered with this attractive repeating design. Some light foxing All edges gilt with attractive and intricate interweaved goffering to all edges on both volumes. Near fine. Exquisite. <br/><br/> John Murray unknown books
18534676London: John Murray 1853. Two volumes. Bound in full red morocco by Riviere signed in ink on paper pastedowns with all-over gilt interlacing floral and leaf design on both covers and spine literally every square centimeter covered with this attractive repeating design. Some light foxing All edges gilt with attractive and intricate interweaved goffering to all edges on both volumes. Near fine. Exquisite. John Murray unknown
1848103118<p> Large 4to 9" x12" original red cloth gilt title top cover and gilt decorated spine illustrated with 42 hand colored plates xii. 137 1 pp. and 206 pp. Spine is split and torn lower portion may have been reattached frayed at head and foot hinges weak some minor foxing and toning a little some staining to half title probably from and old flower; otherwise about very good. Plates bright and clean. Henry Noel Humphreys 1807-1879 was a graphic artist and author born in Birmingham. His illustration work ranged from natural history and book illumination to works of fiction. He would do the incredibly attractive illustrations in Jane Loudon's Ladies' Flower Garden Series 1839-1848. The present title was first published in 1841 but several editions followed. Humphreys would also publish a similar work on Moths in 1845 and a second work on moths and butterflies in 1859. The 42 plates in this volume illustrate most of the known British butterflies at that time. ODB.</p> William Smith, books
186470620Boston:: T. O. H. P. Burnham 1864. First US edition. publisher's green gilt cloth. A very attractive tight and sound copy with only the very slightest of wear at extremities. 8vo. With Illustrations by J. Noel Paton. T. O. H. P. Burnham, hardcover
184652545Paris: Lerebours et Secretan 1846. Fifth edition. 8vo. 4 vii 288 pp. folding plate loosely inserted adverts. Scattered foxing to the first and last few leaves. Quarter morocco and paper over boards gilt decorations on spine. The binding is lightly rubbed and worn at the tips. A very good copy. N.P. Lerebours is most noted for his publications EXCURSIONS DAGUERRIENNES 1841-1844 the first large-scaled publication illustrated from photographs as well as for his manufacture of apparatuses of which he was among the first. In his TREATISE he discusses the underlying theory of the photographic process and the numerous practical methodologies of the day. Even though it is largely concerned with the daguerreotype there are sections on the paper processes of Talbot Ponton and Bayard and a description of the galvanographic process to make prints from daguerreotypes with a compilation of writings by the inventors or practitioners themselves the list of which reads as a European directory of the most famous of the period and the gravure process of Fizeau. Although stated as the fifth edition it should be referred to as the fifth enlarged and revised edition; his earlier publications had various other titles and were less than half the length of this work. The appended catalogue p. 269 -288 lists all manner of photographic apparatus and is priced. There are several pages concerned with his publication EXCURSIONS DAGUERRIENNES and the various contents that could be ordered. <br /> <br /> "French daguerreotypists achieved wide reputation especially daguerreotypists Lerebours and Secretan opticians to the observatory and to the navy in Paris. Before the end of 1839 N.P. Lerebours had constructed large daguerreotype cameras which produced pictures of 12 x 15 French inches. He worked at first with Gaudin then established himself in Paris as a manufacturer of optical physical and mathematical instruments . and later associated himself with Secretan. Their studio was opened about 1845 and it flourished for several years. In 1850 Lerebours and Secretan made one of the most excellent panoramic daguerreotypes of a view of Paris ever made." Eder p. 314 HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. <br /> <br /> Roosens and Salu No. 2842. Bellier de la Chavignerie Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais 1863 No. 18. Lerebours et Secretan unknown
183669700Paris: Furne 1836. Fine. Furne Paris 1836 13.50 x 21.80 cm 6 volumes reliés New edition illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and 10 steel-engraved plates by Johannot Geoffroy. Translation by Amédé Pichot. Contemporary glazed navy half-calf binding signed at foot signature illegible. Smooth spine decorated with a long mirrored tool with central ornament. Title and volume number gilt. Decorative fillets on covers. Beautiful marbled paper in blue white and gold. Top edge gilt. Spine slightly darkened. Some corners slightly bumped. Light traces of rubbing. Paper of superb freshness uncut completely free of foxing except in the margins of some engravings due to tissue guards which have not been removed; rare condition. ""New edition augmented with a historical notice on Lord Byron all unpublished pieces and notes by Moore Walter-Scott Campbell Guiford Jeffrey E. Brydges Coleridge Southey Wilson Hobhouse Hunt Dallas Milman Lockhart Bowles Heber Medwin Gamba Croly Ugo Foscolo Ellis Kennedy Parry Bulwer Galt Nathan Lady Blessington Mrs. Shelley. Contained in the definitive edition recently published in London"". Besides the poetical works Miscellanies Speeches correspondence and the famous novella: The Vampire. Furne unknown
183673784Charpentier 1836. Fine. Charpentier 1836 17 x 26.50 cm 4 volumes reliés First edition of Benjamin Delaroche's translation. Notes and commentary by Walter Scott Thomas Moore etc. Printed on fine laid paper. The copy has been extra-illustrated with 39 steel engravings from the album ""Women of Byron"" a type of collection very fashionable at the time as there were also ""Women of Balzac"" ""Women of Walter Scott"" and ""Women of Shakespeare"" in which the heroines of the novels were depicted in engravings by English artists considered masters of the genre during this period. Life of Byron by John Galt. Contemporary half polished navy calf binding. Spine with 4 flat raised bands decorated with fillets and compartments roulettes at head and tail. Gilt title and volume number. Navy marbled paper with wave pattern. Marbled edges. Traces of rubbing. Overall the paper is in very fine condition with occasional light foxing at the tissue guards in the margins of the engravings at the beginning or end of volumes. Traces of an old label in the last compartments. Corner fold to second board of volume 4. Handsome copy. Charpentier hardcover
184711055PARIS: Firmin Didot Frères Éditeurs 1847. 4º.- Media piel con puntas y nervios lomo decorado con dorados y grecas en cabecera y pie.- 2 hojas.- 522 páginas.- 1 hojas.- 44 láminas fuera de texto en grabado acerado más 1 mapa plegado. Procedencia: Al pie de la portada manuscrito lleva el número de referencia de la Biblioteca Villalonga de Palma. Ligeros puntos de óxido. Impreso a dos columnas. Ejemplar con todos los márgenes sin cortar. Buen ejemplar. Firmin Didot Frères, Éditeurs unknown
1832177879Paris: Baudry's Foreign Library & 5 others in Paris 1832-33. An early continental edition of Byron's collected poetry bound uniformly with two biographical volumes edited by his friend Thomas Moore. Both works were published by the notable Parisian publisher of pirated English-language works Louis-Claude Baudry 1793-1853. Baudry's Foreign Library preceded by decades the Tauchnitz editions of English books sold on the continent from 1841. As multiple agents held the British copyright for different Byron poems contemporary authorized editions of his collected works were often found less complete than their continental counterparts. European publishers "who were not bound by British intellectual property laws were soon producing attractive multi-volume editions which were not only cheaper but textually more complete than anything available at home" St Clair p. 294. As such they were often purchased by British individuals book clubs and circulating libraries. Two works in 6 vols octavo 210 x 127 mm. Engraved portrait frontispieces in the first vol. of both works other vols bound without frontispieces as usual. Contemporary brown morocco spines with raised bands lettered in gilt compartments elaborately decorated in gilt triple gilt fillet to boards gilt inner dentelles cream coated endpapers gilt edges red bookmarkers. Bindings well-preserved with minor corner wear and faint marks to boards contents foxed and occasionally toned. A very good set. William St Clair The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period 2004. hardcover
1810654051 vol. in-4 cartonnage de l'époque, contient : [ Recueil de Discours aux Prix du Concours Général, Discours latins, pour les années 1810, 1811, 1812, 1814, 1814, 1816, 1818, 1819 ] De Recepta Gallorum Libertate Oratio [... ] Ad solemnem Praemiorum Distributionem in Majoribus Sorbonae Scholis die lunae 12 mensis Julii ano Libertatis 2e 1790 A Francisco-Josepho-Michaele Noel, E Typographia Seguy-Thiboust, Parisiis [Paris ], 1790, 2 ff., 20 pp.Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Lycées de Paris. Année 1810, Fain, Imprimeur de l'Université Impériale, s.d. [ 1810 ], 59 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Oratio habita Parisiss, in Lycaeo Imperiali, Septima die Junii, Anno 1810, in auspicatissimas Napoleonis et Mariae Nuptias, A. J.-C.J. Luce de Lancival, Typus Fain, Univesitatis Imperialis Typographi, q.s. [ 1810 ], 19 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Lycées de Paris. Année 1811, Fain, Imprimeur de l'Université Impériale, s.d. [ 1811 ], 39 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Lycées de Paris. Année 1812, Fain, Imprimeur de l'Université Impériale, s.d. [ 1812 ], 36 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Lycées de Paris. Année 1813, Fain, Imprimeur de l'Université Impériale, s.d. [ 1813 ], 42 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Lycées de Paris. Année 1814, Fain, Imprimeur de l'Université Impériale, s.d. [ 1814 ], 55 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Collèges Royaux de Paris. Année 1816, Commission de l'Instruction Publique, De l'Imprimerie Royale, Paris, Août 1816, 38 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Collèges Royaux de Paris, et des Médailles décernées aux Instituteurs primaires de l'Académie de Paris, Année 1818, Commission de l'Instruction Publique, De l'Imprimerie Royale, Paris, Août 1818, 47 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Collèges Royaux de Paris et de Versailles. Année 1819, Commission de l'Instruction Publique, De l'Imprimerie Royale, Paris, Août 1819, 44 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Mes Adieux au Collège, Vers lus à la distribution des prix du collège royal de Bourbon le 19 août 1819 par Auguste Filon, 4 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Collège Royal de Bourbon. Vers à l'occasion de la Saint-Charlemagne, 3 pp.
1890j2p3c18xbvkParis, 'B. K. Edit.', not dated (early 1890ies). White stereo-photograph frames with blue text 'LE MOULIN ROUGE' in ornaments at both sides and a small red windmill at the top, the coloured rear (unveiling its effects only against a light) is originally protected (within the frames) by thin halftransparent paper; 9 x 18 cm overall.
1890j2p3c16xbvkParis, 'B. K. Edit.', not dated (around 1890). White stereo-photograph frames with blue text 'LE MOULIN ROUGE' in ornaments at both sides and a small red windmill at the top, the coloured rear (unveiling its effects only against a light) is originally protected (within the frames) by thin halftransparent paper; 9 x 18 cm overall.
183669700Furne | Paris 1836 | 13.50 x 21.80 cm | 6 volumes reliés
183673784Charpentier | 1836 | 17 x 26.50 cm | 4 volumes reliés
1853002331London: Ingram Cooke and Co 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. The Origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art in its primeval phases in Egypt China and Mexico ; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis ; its introduction to Europe through the medium of Hebrew Phoenician and Greek systems ; and its subsequent progress to the present day. Illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. vii 176 p.p. Rebound. Quarter bound in brown cloth marbled boards. A.E.G. Some wear to edges. Gilt titling to spine. Bumping to spine ends. Pencil notations to front pastedown. Closed tear to flyleaf. Edges tanned. Full colour frontis of Egyptian Hieroglyphic writing circa 16th century B.C. plus twenty-seven unpaginated plates and chromolithographs including reproductions of illuminations and examples of writing from the earliest days. Foxing throughout. Laid in cataloguing description. Last page starting to detach but is still intact. Overall a very good copy of a fascinating book. Ingram, Cooke, and Co hardcover
184954257London, Longman, brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849. 8vo. (19,8 x 13,8 cm.). In original state with black pierced covers moulded from a mixture of papier-mâché and plaster to imitate a Gothic carved wood-binding. A few small bursts in binding, but no loss of material. Spine in black leather with some demolition of the gilt lettering. Gilt edges. Gilt inner dentelles. Title-page in red/black. II,(4),XCV pp. + 1 pp. listing ""Illuminated Works by H. Noel Humphreys"". Black letters with headings printed in read. With 4 full-page and 2 in the text of fine chromolithograped illustration. Some textleaves framed with wood-engravings. Clean and fine.
184954257London Longman brown Green and Longmans 1849. 8vo. 198 x 138 cm. In original state with black pierced covers moulded from a mixture of papier-mâché and plaster to imitate a Gothic carved wood-binding. A few small bursts in binding but no loss of material. Spine in black leather with some demolition of the gilt lettering. Gilt edges. Gilt inner dentelles. Title-page in red/black. II4XCV pp. 1 pp. listing "Illuminated Works by H. Noel Humphreys". Black letters with headings printed in read. With 4 full-page and 2 in the text of fine chromolithograped illustration. Some textleaves framed with wood-engravings. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Humphrey's finest production only printed in 1000 copies but not all bound as this with its imitation of a carved Gothic wood-binding. </em> hardcover
1843168902London: William Smith 1843-45. First edition splendidly illustrating the moths of the British isles in 124 hand-coloured plates. A collaboration with the leading entomologist John Westwood who contributed the insect descriptions this is one of Humphrey's most accomplished works as a naturalist illustrator. A skilled artist trained in Brussels Humphreys became interested in natural history after a tour of Italy. Upon his return he settled in London as a neighbour of a relative the landscape architect and prolific author J. C. Loudon. Humphreys wrote for a series of garden periodicals including Loudon's Gardener's Magazine. In the 1840s he published two entomological works with Westwood: British Butterflies and their Transformations 1841 and subsequently the present work on moths; both proved extremely popular. Westwood 1805-1893 was one of the first entomologists to obtain an academic position at Oxford University and he founded with Frederick William Hope the Entomological Society of London. In 1846 the name Westwoodia was given in his honour to a genus of Hymenoptera. He was himself a skilled insect illustrator contributing drawings to several publications between the 1820s and the 1840s. 2 vols large quarto 273 x 210 mm. With 124 hand-coloured plates. Contemporary purple mottled half morocco spines with gilt-ruled raised bands gilt lettering in compartments marbled sides and endpapers edges gilt. Patch of skinning on front pastedown of vol. I from removed bookplate. Spines slightly faded light wear to board edges and corners a few spots of foxing to edges extending a little into margins otherwise internally bright and clean. A very good copy. hardcover
1809016918Signed in black ink by Garret Bleecker and James Morris. 8"x11" hand laid paper. Slight overall toning consistent with age. One can see the roller print shadow from the hand crank printer. Tiny chips ate edges of creases where document had been folded centuries ago. Presently in protective sleeve held securely between two cardboard sheets for stability and to reduce light exposure. Garrat Noel GN Bleecker 1768-1833 was a New York City stockbroker and merchant and a founder of the New York Stock Exchange - one of 24 signers of the Buttonwood Agreement that established the Exchange. The present document is signed and dated in ink G. N. Bleecker November 1 1809 as witness to an agreement regarding sale of Lower Manhattan land formerly part of the Bleecker Farm bounded in part by Broad-Way now Broadway Leonard Street and Anthony Street now Worth Street and adjacent to the White Conduit House land to James Morris who also signs his name in ink James Morris' father was a prominent landowner who was a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence as a delegate to the Continental Congress from New York. He graduated Princeton University and became Aaron Burr's law partner. He held the office of High Sheriff of New York County and City by appointment from NY Governor John Jay. In protective sleeve. . Near Fine. No Binding. 1809. unknown
1861e0064Part I "General Report": 131 pages with the 2 large folding maps profile of area 12 engraved plates including frontispiece one "Interior of Moquise House" being colored 7 colored chromolithic plates titled "Indian Portraits" 8 folding panoramas and 41 wood cut illustrations in the text; Part II "Hydrographic Report: 14 pages; Part III " Geological Report": 154 pages with 3 plates 3 lithographic plates 27 wood cut illustrations in text tables 2 maps; Part IV "Botany": 30 pages; Part V "Zoology": 6 pages; and Appendices 32 pages. Quarto ll 3/4" x 9" 36th Congress 1st Session Senate EX Document. Original gilt pictorial blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Howes 194 First edition.<br /><br />Ives was born in New York City in 1828 and was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1852. As a Lieutenant from 1853 to 1854 he was appointed by the U.S. Army to the Topographical Engineers as assistant to Lt. A.W. Whipple in the Pacific Railroad survey along the 35th parallel. From 1857 to 1858 Ives commanded an expedition to explore up the Colorado River from its mouth. At Robinson's Landing he built then used the 54 foot paddlewheel steamboat Explorer to map and survey the river. His party included Smithsonian associate John Strong Newberry as geologist. He led his party up the Colorado to the lower end of the Grand Canyon then struck out across the desert to Fort Defiance in Colorado. Ives Reported his findings in his 1861 Report upon the Colorado river of the West. The Ives expedition produced one of the important early maps of the Grand Canyon drawn by F. W. v. Egloffstein topographer to the expedition. Ives next served as engineer and architect for the Washington National Monument from 1859 to 1860. During the American Civil War he joined the Confederate Army and served in several engineering capacities and was finally appointed aide-de-camp to President Jefferson Davis from 1863 to 1865. After the war he settled in New York City where he died November 12 1868<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />New spine and paste downs some maps repaired else a very good copy. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1888269358London : William Mackenzie 69 Ludgate Hill. Edinburgh and Dublin 1888. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Near fine set in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Minor Library marks remain. Physical description; 3 vols. 20 plates ; fol. Notes; The first volume Comedies has an initial advertisement note stating that the work will appear in two issues: an edition de luxe bound in cloth with gilt tops and rough edges price three pounds ten shillings per volume; a special edition with India proof impressions of the engravings bound in morocco price five guineas per volume. Title pages in red and black. Subjects; Shakespeare William 1564-1616 — Bibliography — Folios. 1623 — Facsimiles. Early printed books — 17th century — Facsimiles. London : William Mackenzie, 69 Ludgate Hill. Edinburgh and Dublin hardcover
