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1807006977London: Richard Phillips 1807. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. Cloth box/slipcase. Fine. With 100 hand-colored copper engraved plates -- most copies of this edition do not have hand-coloring. Bound gorgeously in full straight-grained red morocco by Bayntun. With beautiful gilt border decoration turn-ins spine compartment decoration etc. 12mo. 19 by 11 cm. Modern cloth box made to fit the set. Box has surely helped preserve the pristineness of the binding. Richard Phillips unknown
1819001439London: Thomas McLean Juhn Bumpus; W. H. Reid; John Brumby; and Priestley and Weale 1819. First edition thus. Full Calf. Fine. 8vo. Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding. With 15 hand-colored aquatint plates. Triple fillet border on covers floral tooling and morocco lettering pieces on spines Volume 1 and 3 spines slightly worn at top. With varying offsetting from some plates onto facing pages scattered foxing on text leaves. Bookplates of Edward Laurence Doheny and Carrie Estelle Doheny. A beautiful set. Thomas McLean, Juhn Bumpus; W. H. Reid; John Brumby; and Priestley and Weale unknown
180855974Paris Didot L'Ainé 1808 1805-06. Folio. 54 x 39 cm. Contemp. hcalf. Wear to spine. Spine-ends repaired. Corners bumped.Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. 2 pp. recto: Atlas historique.- verso: Index listing 32 Engraved frontispiece: Les Fastes Napoléens de 1796 a 1808 with a small handcoloured map dated 1808. With 34 double-page uncut sheets ca. 53 x 72 cm. of which 16 are in letterpress text handcoloured 18 sheets are maps surrounded by text all handcoloured. Internally clean and fine in original colouring. Map-sheets dated 1805-06. The frontispiece having a dampstain. <br/><br/><em>Comprising maps from America Africa Asia Russia etc.etc. - See Phillips124-29 various editions. </em> unknown
181929597London: Mclean 1819. hardcover. near fine. 3 volumes. Translated by Tobias Smollett. Illustrated with 15 fine hand-colored plates from drawings designed expressly for this edition. 8vo handsomely bound in full contemporary straight-grained red roan floral gilt borders & spines a.e.g. London: McLean 1819. Some rubbing but still a near fine set.<br/> <br/> Mclean unknown
1885259048Lisboa: David Corazzi Editor 1885. Ediçao Monumental. Illustrated with 30 Chromolithographic full-page plates and 466 text drawings. 2 vols. Folio. Full calf all edges gauffered in gilt green suede doublures spines sunned else fine. Bookplate of Nelson A. Rockefeller. Repairs at p. 55 of text of Volume I. Ediçao Monumental. Illustrated with 30 Chromolithographic full-page plates and 466 text drawings. 2 vols. Folio. David Corazzi, Editor unknown
183221266Venice: G. Tasso 1832. Very good overall. An unusual map from an Italian edition of Le Sage's historical atlas. The map is credited to Buchon in the title cartouche who originated the map in 1825. This edition was published by Girolamo Tasso. The map illustrates the United States from the east coast up to the Rocky Mountains and shows the acquisition of various territories up to 1825 including the Louisiana Purchase. Major cities forts roads and Indian villages are located. There is a color key at lower left and the routes of Long and Talcott are noted. There are interesting early details in Oregon & the Missouri Territories especially in the northwest and plains. The uncolored area on the left is labeled "Messicana" and includes the "Provincia de Texas" which would become an independent republic in four years. There is also an outline of "Nuovo Messico" New Mexico. 18 1/4 x 13 1/2". Restoration to margins. Original color touched up. Ref: Phillips A #127-21b. G. Tasso unknown
183671143London: J. J. Dubochet & Co. 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. 26 x 16.5 cm. 486 Bound into 3/4 green leather with marble boards and endpapers by Pawson & Nicholson. 5 raised leather bands This set is a unique "extra illustrated" copy with around 100 plates from other editions of the work having been bound-in. The base work illustrated by Jean Gigoux. Extra plates include illustrations from the Thomas Mclean 1819 edition in color the London Richard Phillips1807 engravings by G. Vickers and many others not all noted on the plates. Spines are faded to brown and a bit scuffed. J. J. Dubochet & Co. hardcover
1826289060Venice: Tasso 1826. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. 15.75" x 11". In very good condition.<br/><br/> Extensive explanatory text in Italian at bottom. The map is from Le Sage's "Atlante Storico Geografico Genealogico Cronologico e Letterario." It is in excellent condition with beautiful hand coloring and crisp lettering. Wide margins as issued. Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné-Joseph comte de Las Cases 1766--1842 was a French atlas-maker aka Le-Sage and author.<br/><br/> Tasso unknown books
1832M2492Venice 1832. Very Good. Size : 378x630 mm 14.875x24.75 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps World unknown
1835M1534Venice: Tasso Girolamo 1835. Excellent. Size : 330x481 mm 13x18.875 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: Maps Central America Mexico;; Maps United States South Texas; Maps United States West California Tasso, Girolamo unknown
18199039gcsLondon: Printed for Thomas M’Lean; John Bumpusl W. H. Reid; John Brumby; and Priestley and Weale 1819. Three volumes. Octavo bound by Hammond in 3/4 green morocco & marbled boards gilt-decorated spines marbled endpapers top edges gilt uncut xii 384 pp viii 378 pp xi 392 pp. Illustrated with 15 hand colored aquatints. Near-Fine. Printed for Thomas M’Lean; John Bumpusl W. H. Reid; John Brumby; and Priestley and Weale, 1819. hardcover
1830M3725Venice: G. Tasso 1830. Excellent. Size : 370x475 mm 14.5x18.75 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: ; Maps Africa Continent G. Tasso unknown
181953948London: Printed for Thomas McLean; John Bumpus; W. H. Reid; John Brumby; And Priestley and Weale 1819. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. xii 384; viii 378; xi 392; 15 plates. Original calf with decorative boards and gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spines. Marbled edges and endpapers. Three frontispieces plus twelve hand colored aquatints. Gil Blas is a picaresque novel by French author Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. Considered to be the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre. Lesage uses witty valets in the service of thieving masters women of questionable morals cuckolded yet happy husbands gourmands ridiculous poets false savants and dangerously ignorant doctors to make his point. Each class and each occupation becomes an archetype. Some light wear along edges of bindings lightly scuffed at edges and leather at front joint o first volume cracked but held together. Small chips at head and tails of spines. Some offsetting of aquatints to facing pages. Printed for Thomas McLean; John Bumpus; W. H. Reid; John Brumby; And Priestley and Weale hardcover
1836006744London: J. J. Dubochet & Co. Charles Tilt and H. Hooper 1836. Leather. Near Fine. Quarto. Jean Gigoux. Fine Binding. Two volumes complete. Three-quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards raised bands elaborate decorative gilt compartments top edges gilt marbled endpapers 10.25 x 6.75 inches. 486 478 pages; woodcut illustrations by Gigoux throughout. SIGNED BINDING stamped "Tout" verso front flyleaf. A clean tight set in fine binding showing minimal wear <br/> <br/> J. J. Dubochet & Co., Charles Tilt, and H. Hooper hardcover
1807223537London: Printed for Richard Phillips No. 6 Bridge-street Blackfriars. Printed by T. Gillet. Wild-court. 1807. Embellished with One Hundred Copper-Plates by Warner and Tomlinson without plate oat Vol. III p. 322 as in all copies examined. 4 vols. 12m. Bound in full polished mottled calf red leather title labels edges yellow by Root & Co. Fine. Embellished with One Hundred Copper-Plates by Warner and Tomlinson without plate oat Vol. III p. 322 as in all copies examined. 4 vols. 12m. Printed for Richard Phillips No. 6, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. [Printed by T. Gillet. Wild-court.] unknown
1826289060Venice: Tasso 1826. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. 15.75" by 11". In very good condition. Published in Venice in 1826.<br/> <br/> Historical look at ancient Mexico with notes below in Italian. Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonne-Joseph comte de Las Cases 1766-1842 was a French atlas-maker aka Le-Sage and author.<br/> <br/> Tasso unknown
1804LTH8-B-23Burdeos: Pedro Beaume 1804. Leather. Good Only. 7" by 4". None. An uncommon Spanish translation of famous French picaresque novel Gil Blas. Bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Complete in Four Volumes. Four Volumes bound as Two. In Spanish. With the armorial nameplate of Samuel Edward Cook on the front pastedowns. With a Graham of Alnwick bookbinder's label to the front pastedown of Volume I. COPAC suggests that this work was translated by Jose Francisco de Isla. Gil Blas is considered to be the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre. Gil Blas is related to Lesage's play Turcaret. In both works Lesage uses witty valets in the service of thieving masters women of questionable morals cuckolded yet happy husbands gourmands ridiculous poets false savants and dangerously ignorant doctors to make his point. José Francisco de Isla 1703 1781 was a Spanish Jesuit celebrated as a preacher and a humorist and satirist of the stamp of Cervantes. Samuel Edward Widdrington formerly Cook 1787 - 1856 was an English writer on Spain. Having served in the Royal Navy he lived for some years in Spain. He served as High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1854. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Society. Bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration. There is some wear to the extremities including some rubbing. The front hinge of volume 1 is just starting but still firm. The front inner hinge of volume 1 is strained. The bindings are tight and firm. Internally the pages are generally clean and bright with slight foxing and marks to the first few pages. There are marginal discoloured tidemarks to the first 17 leaves of volume 2 including loss to the half title and title page that do not affect the text. Good Only Pedro Beaume hardcover
181923561London: J. Mawman 1819. Three volumes; octavo 22cm.; full contemporary mottled calf black gilt spine labels Vol. III recently rebacked in the same style all edges speckled brown later 19th-century endpapers; frontispieces to each volume that of Vol. II hand-colored; additionally 43 plates throughout including 15 hand-colored added plates from the McLean edition published six months later. Leather a bit dried and extremities rubbed some shallow loss of leather at spine ends of first two volumes Vol. II shows some soiling to four leaves else a Very Good and sound set housed in a recent cloth clam-shell box. J. Mawman unknown
181923561London: J. Mawman 1819. Three volumes; octavo 22cm.; full contemporary mottled calf black gilt spine labels Vol. III recently rebacked in the same style all edges speckled brown later 19th-century endpapers; frontispieces to each volume that of Vol. II hand-colored; additionally 43 plates throughout including 15 hand-colored added plates from the McLean edition published six months later. Leather a bit dried and extremities rubbed some shallow loss of leather at spine ends of first two volumes Vol. II shows some soiling to four leaves else a Very Good and sound set housed in a recent cloth clam-shell box. J. Mawman unknown books
1836011226London: J.J. Dubochet & Co.; Charles Tilt; Joseph Thomas 1836. Full-Leather. Very Good/Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Two Volumes. Tall thick 8vo. 486 478pp. Beautiful Early Edition. Bound in full dark green Morocco double gilt ruled with gilt decorations on each board. Raised bands with gilt ruled and decorated compartments. Spine titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Numerous head pieces and int-text b&w illustrations by Jean Gigoux. Square tight and clean throughout with perhaps an errant spot hear or there but barely. Gilt edges a bit dulled and blemished in areas. Mild rubbing to edges and tips. Small neat contemporary ownership signature on title page of both volumes. Better than a Very Good and not quite a Near Fine. A very pleasing collectable set at a great price. Please note: International and Priority shipping may require additional postage. J.J. Dubochet & Co.; Charles Tilt; Joseph Thomas unknown
183643718London: Willoughby & Co. 22 Warwick Lane & 26 Smithfield 1836. Embellished with 500 wood engravings after designs by Jean Gigoux. 770 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half black polished calf gilt spine marbled edges. Bookseller's ticket: Andrew C. Glover Bookseller Truro. Embellished with 500 wood engravings after designs by Jean Gigoux. 770 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Willoughby & Co., 22, Warwick Lane, & 26, Smithfield unknown
180736430London: phillips 1807. hardcover. very good-. Newly translated by Martin Smart. Embellished with 100 copperplates. 4 volumes. 16mo full mottled calf gilt backs leather labels two missing hinges strengthened. London: Printed for Richard Phillips by T. Gillet 1807. A very good- set internally clean.<br/> <br/> phillips unknown
1836Embry 159239J. J. Dubochet London: 1836. First printing thus. Occasional light to moderate foxing bookplate to each front pastedown joints and edges rubbed very good with hinges and joints solid. Illus. by Jean Gigoux and extra illustrated with 24 additional engraved plates by R. Smirke. One-half tan calf over marbled boards spine simple gilt. Translated by Tobias Smollett. J. J. Dubochet, London: 1836. First printing thus. hardcover books
182558650Metz Lithographie de l'Ecole Royale. 1825. Folio. 34 x 205 cm. Uncut in original blue blank wrappers. Original printed titlelabel on spine. Spine-ends strenghtened with tape. 283 pp. Throughout printed in lithographed handwriting. On good paper. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>Klaus Jordan 2172. </em> unknown
182558710Metz Lithographie de l'Ecole Royale. 1825. Folio. 34 x 205 cm. Uncut in original blue blank wrappers. Original printed titlelabel on spine. Spine-ends strenghtened with tape. 283 pp. Throughout printed in lithographed handwriting. On good paper. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>Klaus Jordan 2172. </em> unknown
