Raphael LightoneLivre Rare Book
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18995001371971899 1899.
1888807R63London: W. H. Allen & Co. 1888. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". None. The first English translation of Prince Napoleon's work on Napoleon Bonaparte. With a biographical sketch of the author. Written by Prince Napoleon Jerome Bonaparte the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; edited by Raphael Ledos de Beaufort.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and a facsimile plate. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; spine is a little discoloured and bumped to the head and tail. The edge of the board is a little faded. Internally front hinge is strained and frontispiece is loosening; binding is otherwise generally firm. Pages are bright and clean. Good W. H. Allen & Co. hardcover
1887111111111423Generic 1887-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. Ward and Downey; London 1887. Hardcover. Complete 2 Volume Set. Set is heavy and additional shipping cost may apply. A Very Good full leather binding 5 raised bands and 6 compartments gilt ruled along board edges decorative gilt design on boards decorative endpapers/pastedowns gilt dentelles gilt ruled edges binding sturdy and intact some discoloration to leather boards some rubbing to joints spine leather a bit brittle fraying to spine edges with some loss TEG with some blemishes some age spotting/discoloration/foxing to front/back matters small chip missing to 2nd from top compartments Volume 1 leather split to front joint Volume 2 but board still attached some age toning to pages few small soiled spots to text block edges tissue protected frontis-piece Volume 1. A nice clean and unmarked set. 8vooctavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches. Vol.1 476pp. Vol.2 546pp. indexed. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. Generic hardcover
1886201016014Ward and Downey 1886. Hardcover. Good. please read name inside cover with light pencil - no marks on text - some foxing inside cover - spine is a little off center - pages are clean and bright - cover has light rubbing - my shelf location 30-a-58 Ward and Downey hardcover
1807SET23-B-1London : J. Johnson F. C. and J. Rivington et al 1807-9. Leather. Very Good. 12" by 9.5". None. Three scarce complete sets of early nineteenth-century publications of influential Medieval and Early-Modern Era chronicles uniformly and finely bound. Holinshed's Chronicles also known as Holinsheds Chronicles of England Scotland and Ireland is a collaborative work published in several volumes and two editions the first in 1577 and the second in 1587. In 1548 Reginald Wolfe a London printer conceived the idea of creating a "Universal Cosmography of the whole world and there with also certain particular histories of every known nation." He wanted the work to be printed in English and he wanted maps and illustrations in the book as well. Wolfe acquired many of John Leland's works and with these he constructed chronologies and drew maps that were up to date. When Wolfe realised he could not complete this project on his own he hired Raphael Holinshed and William Harrison to assist him. Wolfe died with the work still uncompleted in 1573 and the project changed to a work about just the British Isles was run by a consortium of three members of the London stationers. They kept Raphael Holinshed who employed William Harrison Richard Stanyhurst Edmund Campion and John Hooker. In 1577 the work was published in two volumes after some censorship by the Privy Council of some of Stanyhurst's contribution on Ireland. Shakespeare used the revised second edition of the Chronicles published in 1587 as the source for most of his history plays the plot of Macbeth and for portions of King Lear and Cymbeline. Richard Grafton c. 15111572 was King's Printer under Henry VIII and Edward VI. He was a member of the Grocers' Company and MP for Coventry elected 1562-63. On the accession of Edward VI Grafton was appointed King's Printer and this gave him the sole right to print all Acts and Statutes. He had held the appointment for six years when on the King's death he printed a proclamation of the accession of Lady Jane Grey in which he signed himself "Printer to the Queen." For this he was cast into prison by Mary I. John Cawood became Queen's Printer and Grafton's career as a printer ended. In prison Grafton compiled an Abridgement of the Chronicles of England which he published in 1563. To this he added in 1568 A Chronicle at Large. Enguerrand de Monstrelet c. 1400 20 July 1453 French chronicler belonged to a noble family of Picardy. In 1436 and later he held the office of lieutenant of the gavenier i.e. receiver of the gave a kind of church rate at Cambrai and he seems to have made this city his usual place of residence. He was for some time bailiff of the cathedral chapter and then provost of Cambrai. Little else is known about Monstrelet except that he was present not at the capture of Joan of Arc but at her subsequent interview with Philip the Good duke of Burgundy. Continuing the work of Froissart Monstrelet wrote a Chronique which extends to two books and covers the period between 1400 and 1444 when according to another chronicler Mathieu d'Escouchy he ceased to write. Monstrelet's own writings dealing with the latter part of the Hundred Years' War are valuable because they contain a large number of documents which are certainly and reported speeches which are probably authentic. This publication of Monstrelet's chronicles are the first English translation translated by Thomas Johnes. 'Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normany by the English their explusion thense and of other memorable events that happened in the Kindom of France as well as in other countries. A history of fair example and of great profit to the French beginning at the year MCCCC where that of Sir John Froissart finishes and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII and continued by others to the year MDXVI'. Holinshed contains facsimiles of the original 1586 titles and a handwritten 'list of Kings of Scotland from Holinshed's History' loosely inserted. Grafton contains facsimiles of the original 1569 titles and a table to the rear 'declaring the reignes of euerie King of this Realme'. Monstrelet has vignette titles and volume v is made up of 51 plates one folding collate complete. Armorial bookplates of Coulthart of Coulthart and Collyn 'Virtue non Verbis' to front pastedown of every volume. Three sets uniformly bound in decorative full diced calf. Externally very attractive with a lovely patina to the spines. There is some wear and rubbing to the extremities occasioning slight loss to some of the spine leather: very slight to the heads and tails of most volumes and in the cases of volume II of the Holinshed and volume I of the Grafton more loss affecting the gilt lettering.There are a few marks to the boards. Of the twenty-six joints three are starting fifteen are cracked and delicate and four boards are held by the cords only. So in need of osome reinforcement at modest cost for this important set. Internally they are all firmly bound. Generally bright and clean with some instances of age-toning ranging mild to bad occasional off-setting from the text and some intermittent scattered spotting and the odd severely spotted page. The Holinshed set has marks to page V of volume i small spill burns to the gutters of some pages a closed tear to page 3 of volume i dusting and tide marks to volume ii and an ink note to the verso of the front free-endpaper of volume i. Grafton has a few small dustmarks. Monstrelet has some instances of light foxing and ink marks to page 2 of volume III. Some spotting to the bookplates. Very Good J. Johnson, F. C. and J. Rivington et al hardcover
186357515Metz, Mayer, 1863, in-8, 48 pp, Broché, couverture verte imprimée en noir (large trace d'humidité sur la première de couverture), Seconde édition. L'édition originale avait paru à Marseille en 1861. Les deux auteurs, opticiens-oculistes, membres de l'Institut d'Afrique, relate l'histoire de l'utilisation des verres gradués, leurs vertus thérapeutiques et quelques observations personnelles de cas concrets. Deux cahiers volants, exemplaire faiblement sali. Couverture rigide
1900SKU1146726George Carre 1900. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1900; Paris; French text; green cloth covered flexible boards with gold titles; heavy rubbing and staining; edge wear; rear hinge is starting to split; residue on front cover; interior clean and unmarked; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 380 pages George Carre hardcover
189974816Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza | Paris (Février 1899) | 23.50 x 34.50 cm | une feuille et une serpente
189937773L'Estampe Moderne Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson & H. Piazza | Paris 1899 | 30 x 40 cm | une feuille
189974817Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1899. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Février 1899 23.50 x 34.50 cm une feuille Rare original lithograph executed by Raphaël Collin for L'Estampe Moderne series number 22 published in February 1899. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins artist's signature in the plate publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin mounted on a sheet of laid paper with the numbered stamp of the deluxe printing on the verso some foxing. Lithograph inspired by the poem Partenza by Francis Vièlé-Griffin. Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specifically by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was published in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential deluxe printing: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F. This print of handsome format is superbly printed on one of the most prestigious papers: China paper. ""Despite all its qualities China paper too inconsistent owes its reputation not to its own beauty but to its particular affinities with printing ink. Its texture smooth and soft at once is more apt than any other to receive a beautiful printing. This property makes China paper sought after for printing engravings."" Anatole France. The interest of French collectors in artistic posters grew in the early 1890s. Octave Uzanne to qualify this fever invented the term ""affichomanie"". The poster originally popular and plastered on the streets of the capital then became an art object and its ephemeral support became precious and destined for preservation. Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising vocation and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the illustrated luxury book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure Eugène Grasset Henri Detouche Emile Berchmans Louis Rhead Gaston de Latenay Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Gustave-Max Stevens Charles Doudelet Hans Christiansen Henri Fantin-Latour Steinlen Ibels Engels Willette Henri Meunier Evenepoël Bellery-Desfontaines Charles Léandre etc. Handsome copy. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
189974816Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1899. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Février 1899 23.50 x 34.50 cm une feuille et une serpente Rare original colour lithograph executed by Raphaël Collin for L'Estampe Moderne series number 22 published in February 1899. One of 50 deluxe copies printed on Japan paper with wide margins artist's signature in the plate publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin numbered stamp of the deluxe issue on verso; engraving preceded by a tissue guard captioned with the artist's name title and a poem. Lithograph inspired by the poem Partenza by Francis Vièlé-Griffin reproduced on the tissue guard of the print. Magnificent French monthly publication issued between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of unpublished chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specially by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was printed in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential deluxe printing: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F. This print of handsome format is superbly printed on the most prestigious of papers: Japan. Thick silky satiny and pearlescent it contributes to making each page a work in its own right. Its quality of ink absorption and its affinity with colours also make it the ideal support for these very beautiful lithographs. The interest of French collectors in artistic posters grew in the early 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie"". The poster originally popular and posted in the streets of the capital then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and destined for preservation. Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising vocation and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the luxury illustrated book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure Eugène Grasset Henri Detouche Emile Berchmans Louis Rhead Gaston de Latenay Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Gustave-Max Stevens Charles Doudelet Hans Christiansen Henri Fantin-Latour Steinlen Ibels Engels Willette Henri Meunier Evenepoël Bellery-Desfontaines Charles Léandre etc. Handsome copy. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
189847212Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1898. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris 1898 30 x 40 cm une feuille Original color lithograph executed specially by the artist for l'Estampe Moderne. Proof printed on heavy laid paper protected by a printed tissue guard publisher's dry stamp in lower margin. Artist's signature in the plate. Very handsome copy. Lithograph inspired by a poem by Francis Fièlé-Griffin an extract of which is reproduced on the print's tissue guard. Published by Ch. Masson and H. Piazza the two years of l'Estampe Moderne constitute one of the finest lithographic achievements of the period. Each print is an original work created specially for the review by the greatest French and foreign artists representing Symbolist Art Nouveau Orientalist and ""Belle Epoque"" movements. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
189937773Paris: L'Estampe ModerneImprimerie Champenoispour CH. Masson & H. Piazza 1899. Fine. L'Estampe Moderne Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson & H. Piazza Paris 1899 30 x 40 cm une feuille Original color lithograph executed specially by the artist for l'Estampe Moderne. Proof printed on strong laid paper protected by a printed tissue guard publisher's dry stamp in lower margin. Artist's signature in the plate. Very handsome copy. Lithograph inspired by a poem by Francis Vièle-Griffin an extract of which is reproduced on the print's tissue guard. Published by Ch. Masson and H. Piazza the two years of l'Estampe Moderne constitute one of the finest lithographic achievements of the period. Each print is an original work created specially for the review by the greatest French and foreign artists representing Symbolist Art Nouveau Orientalist and ""Belle Epoque"" movements. L'Estampe ModerneImprimerie Champenoispour CH. Masson & H. Piazza unknown
1890862B35Venice: Not Stated 1890. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 7". Not Stated. A French edition of this work on Italian architecture with illustrations. First Edition in French. This volume explores architecture in Italy from the 6th to the 11th century with historical and critical research. Originally written by Raphael Cattaneo this edition is translated into French by Le Monnier. With in-text illustrations.With adverts to the rear. In cloth binding. Externally smart with some light marks to the boards and spine with rubbing to the spine label and head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Not Stated hardcover
18901717420359ABSVenise 1890. Hardcover. Good. 1890. No edition remarks. 324 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Gilt top edge to textblock. In French. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some moderate marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Boards are slightly bowed. Venise hardcover
1848956P2London: George Bell 1848. First edition. Leather. Good. 10" by 6.5". Not Stated. An impressive study on ecclesiastical architecture by the Brandon brothers a lavishly illustrated volume. The first edition.Illustrated with two folding plates and one-hundred and fifty-seven plates. Collated complete.Written by the brother duo Joshua Arthur Rodrigues Brandon and John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon both of whom were keen advocates of the Neo Gothic style. This volume is one of their three seminal publications on Early English architecture.In this volume they explore a total of sixty-three churches in England each exampled through a perspective view a short text description and a plan of each church. Churches discussed in this volume include Wimmington Burton Lazars Crowcombe Long Stanton Higham Temple Balsal Rickenhall and more.Bookplate of Philip Hammond Esq to the front paste down. Ink inscription of C. A. Hartridge to the recto of the front endpaper. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally generally smart. Light rubbing to the boards. Spine is a little faded. Light marks to the boards and spine. A small amount of loss of paper to the extremities. Minor bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with scattered spots. Tidemark to the head of the plates from the front to the plate facing page 15. The occasional pencil note to the margins heavier to the contents leaf. Good George Bell hardcover
188990472Paris: J.-B Baillère 1889. Fine. J.-B Baillère Paris 1889-1890 12.5 x 20.2 cm 2 volumes reliés First edition illustrated with 883 figures in the text some heightened with colour.Contemporary half roan in a reddish-orange hue the spines with five raised bands ruled in gilt dots and decorated with gilt florets some rubbing to the spines and extremities marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns.Manuscript ownership inscriptions partly erased from the endpapers of the first volume; an orange pencil line to an endpaper in the second volume; occasional pencil marginalia in the margins of several paragraphs in both volumes; a marginal note in red ink in the right margin of p. 37 of the first volume. J.-B Baillère hardcover
1888RO60117227Samson & Wallin. 1888. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 147 pages. Texte en suédois. Envoi manuscrit de l'auteur sur le 1er plat (non signé).. . . . Classification Dewey : 97.2-Dédicace, envoi
18497267London: David Bogue 1849. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1849 1st edition of this very attractive study of the open timber roof of the Middle Ages. "Illustrated by Perspective and Working Drawings of Some of the Best Varieties of Church Roofs; with Descriptive Letter-Press". VG in its decorative blindstamped panels. Bright gilt-design and lettering to the front panel and spine as well. Light fraying along the spine crown otherwise very clean. Beautiful steel-engravings thruout and with their original tissue-guards. Tall quarto striking hand-colored frontispiece. Careful meticulous former owner margin notes in pencil to the text and tasteful bookplate Charles Grant Ellis at the front pastedown. <br/><br/> David Bogue hardcover books
1847303097Bradley T. Batsford 1847. Hardcover. Fair. Two volumes folio green cloth titles and devices in gilt on the front boards. Bindings shaken hinges cracked most of the backstrip of Vol. I is missing both volumes appear to have been rebacked long ago with the original spines laid down corners and edges well rubbed. The plates are toned but only in the margins. The dedication pages are dated 1847. The title pages are not dated and include the statement 'New Edition'. The imprint at the bottom of the title pages has been covered with a pastedown of the Batsford imprint which is heavily foxed. These are large and heavy; regular shipping charges will not apply. Please request a shipping quote before ordering. Bradley T. Batsford hardcover
1849856A23London: David Bogue 1849. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 12.5" by 10" . Not Stated . The first edition of this large paper study of medieval architecture lavishly illustrated. The first edition of this work. With forty-three full page plates three in colour and further vignette illustrations in text. Collated complete. Dedicated to the architectural feature of open timber roofs of the middle ages written by Raphael and J Arthur Brandon architects and authors of 'Parish Churches' 'An Analysis of Gothic architecture' &c. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture Canterbury School of Architecture and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with light wear to extremities bumped to head and tail of spine back strip faded. Internally firmly bound. Light minor spotting scattered to leaves pages otherwise generally very clean throughout. Very Good David Bogue hardcover
18497267London: David Bogue 1849. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1849 1st edition of this very attractive study of the open timber roof of the Middle Ages. "Illustrated by Perspective and Working Drawings of Some of the Best Varieties of Church Roofs; with Descriptive Letter-Press". VG in its decorative blindstamped panels. Bright gilt-design and lettering to the front panel and spine as well. Light fraying along the spine crown otherwise very clean. Beautiful steel-engravings thruout and with their original tissue-guards. Tall quarto striking hand-colored frontispiece. Careful meticulous former owner margin notes in pencil to the text and tasteful bookplate Charles Grant Ellis at the front pastedown. David Bogue unknown
188329965London 1883. Good condition; Covers quite worn. 19 individual years bound together in limp leather covers; Each year 25 pages. unknown
182511300London: Knight and Lacey 1825. Seventh Edition First Edition thus. Half Calf. Very Good. Seventh Edition First Edition thus. Half Calf. Robert Cross Smith 1795-1832 a former carpenter was an English astrologer writing under the pseudonym of "Raphael." He also referred to himself as the Royal Merlin. He married in 1820 and moved to London where he became interested in astrology. Together with G. W. Graham he published a book on geomancy in 1822. Smith began to edit a periodical The Straggling Astrologer in 1824 but failed to receive enough subscribers and the periodical had to be discontinued after a few issues. He collected the issues of the failed periodical in a volume entitled The Astrologer Of The Nineteenth Century in the same year. From 1827 until his death in 1832 he edited an astrological almanac entitled The Prophetic Messenger. Also published by Smith was The Familiar Astrologer and A Manual of Astrology both in 1828. Smith died on 26 February 1832 in London. His almanac continued to be edited as Raphael's Ephemeris and would become a standard work in British and US American astrology. Raphael's Ephemeris popularized the system of Placidian system of astrological houses in the English-speaking world and in modern western astrology in general. Published posthumously. The name Raphael one of the names given to one of the three archangels in the Old Testament was used as Smith's pseudonym. The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century covers in quite dramatic prose a multitude of occult topics in ten chapters or "circles." Raphael contends that he believes firmly in astrology fairly firmly in geomancy and not much in magic rites charms or incantations. Includes many necromantic workings including a summoning spell for Oberon. He only includes these last to satisfy "those who delight in the terrific and the horribly sublime." The book makes a range of arguments for the veracity of astorlogy the most ingenious being that "the greatest rulers and statesmen and chiefs of the present age" are part of a conspiracy. Formerly owned by Alfred Pearce noted 19th century astrologer. Scarce. Boards rubbed and soiled loose and shaken verso boards chipping and cracking printed paper label rubbed and worn foxing throughout unprofessional repairs otherwise tight and sound contents fine. Half marbled boards with printed paper label on spine worn. Lacking all but one color plates. Former owner label. 8vo. xvi 509pp. Illus. b/w engravings 1 color plate "Awful Appearance of a Spirit.". Knight and Lacey unknown
188328858London: Raphael. Good with no dust jacket; Slightly bumped shelfworn. Pages yellowed. . Small stains on edges text block not affecting interior. 1883. Hardcover. Supplemental ephemeris for 1819 published 1900 bound in back of volume. ; 8vo . Raphael hardcover
