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184614853Genève/Paris: Mmes Beroud et Guers/M. L.-R. Delay 1846. Relié. Etat satisfaisant. in-12. 418 pp. Seconde édition revue et corrigée par l'auteur. Long envoi inconnu sur la page de garde. Reliure plein cuir frottée usée. Petits accrocs sur le dos insolé. Ornements dorés sur les plats. Tranches dorées une tache sur la tranche supérieure. Plats intérieurs et pages de garde salis. Jointure intérieure du 1er plat fendue. Mmes Beroud et Guers/M. L.-R. Delay unknown
18391001611839. Lille L. Jacqué 1839. Titlepage 231pp. pp. 3-6 loose. 8vo. Original yellow decorated wrappers dam. & dogeared some foxing throughout and a few pages loose. unknown
18642092902140400734Not Available 1864. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
18642092902140401025Not Available 1864. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
18642092902140400971Not Available 1864. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
187454483New York: Stroefer and Kirchner 1874. First English edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Folio. 148 1pp. Brown-burgundy illustrated cloth boards over leather spine. The front cover and spine are lavishly tooled and ruled in gilt with landscape imagery and period floral designs. Glossy textured endpapers.<br /> <br /> This is the English version of the original German work Rhododendron: Bilder aus den Schweizer Alpen Pictures from the Swiss Alps first published in 1872. The text of the original work was written by German political activist writer and publisher Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch 1813-1883. Here the English text is written by British geologist and mountaineer Thomas George Bonney 1833-1923 who doesn't so much translate from the original German text but rather uses it solely for reference. As stated in the preface Bonney mainly used his own notes and recollections from his experiences in these locations as the basis to create a mostly original text.<br /> <br /> Like the German edition accompanying and inspiring the text are a total 24 plates of mounted albumen photographs reproducing original paintings of various locations and landscapes of the Swiss Alps by Gustav Paul Closs 1840 – 1870 and Otto Frölicher 1840-1890. Also included are numerous smaller in-text engraved images including historiated initials and tailpieces by artist Gustave Roux 1828-1885. Table of contents at the back.<br /> <br /> Binding with minor rubbing to corners. Spine lightly rubbed with minor cracking to the front hinge. Minor scratches to the back cover. Book block tight overall with starting at p.33. Interior mostly clean with only minor age toning to the very edges of pages as well as a few sporadic instances of minor to light water staining and/or smudges. Images all clean throughout. Period inscription to a previous owner in pen at the top of the front free endpaper. Binding in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Stroefer and Kirchner hardcover
188859708Barcelona: Tipo-Litografía de los Sucesores de N. Ramírez y Cía 1888. 42x32 XIp 343p 1h láminas e ilustraciones leve mancha de humedad en esquina de las primeras hojas ver foto. Tela editorial ilustrada. Buen estado. Tipo-Litografía de los Sucesores de N. Ramírez y Cía hardcover
18622110502150908883Kato kiyoshi-ban 1862. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Kato kiyoshi-ban paperback
18832092902138300078Tsunashima kame kichi-ban 1883. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Tsunashima kame kichi-ban paperback
18832092902138300077Tsunashima kame kichi-ban 1883. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Tsunashima kame kichi-ban paperback
1900SW476-7260perhaps early 1900s. Hardcover. Very Good. Dark grey mottled cloth backed in black leather; oblong 178 x 124 mm; contains 8 highly skilled watercolor paintings plus a few hasty pencil sketches. Watercolors are dense haunting richly colored images of forest scenes tree branches boats ashore. Two of the paintings extend beyond the gutter and onto the facing page. Binding is shabby and broken happily so as these are begging to be displayed. <br/><br/> hardcover
1830ST20481-05London: John Murray 1830. FIRST EDITION. 220 x 130 mm. 8 5/8 x 5 1/8". 2 p.l. ii v-xix 1 411 1 pp. <br/> Agreeable contemporary black morocco covers with an elaborate border in gilt and blind of numerous straight and decorative rules and scrolling foliate cornerpieces raised bands gilt in compartments with a central ornament in blind turn-ins tooled in gilt all edges gilt. Carefully rebacked retaining original spine hinges neatly reinforced with buckram. WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING A LANDSCAPE WITH A VERY LARGE CASTLE AND LAKE. With 13 pages of charts. Corners bumped and exposed a handful of scratches to the front cover; occasional spots and soiling internally other trivial defects but still quite a good copy the bulk of the text extremely clean and fresh with a well-preserved fore-edge painting.<br/> <br/> This is a pleasing copy with an attractive fore-edge painting of the final work of Scottish mathematician and economist Robert Hamilton 1743-1829. A professor at the University of Aberdeen and one of the founders of Edinburgh's Royal Society Hamilton wrote this work of political economy shortly before his passing and it was published posthumously. It treats of the relationship between economic principles and the development of social life and is considered perhaps second in importance only to his "Essay on the National Debt" issued in 1813. The fore-edge painting depicts a serene landscape with sailboat gliding across a smooth lake in front of a castle and tree-studded hills. The artist has rendered the details with subtlety for example the castle is faintly reflected in the lake and the scene as a whole is brigher and richer in color than might be expected. John Murray unknown
18522111902158903354Bunkado 1852. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Bunkado paperback
18822092902138300026Junzaburo Morimoto Edition 1882. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Junzaburo Morimoto Edition paperback
1900164294No date. circa1900. 11 original hand painted fan designs approximately 40 x 15cm laid down on archival sheets 51 x 38cm. Each design is unique some are brightly coloured whilst others are more sombre and some have a lacquer or metallic overprinting and silver flecking. Each of the designs has been backed with Japanese paper. Undated and in very good condition apart from some very minor spotting to the backing sheets not affecting the image they appear to be early 1900s. The collection is housed in a custom-made clamshell case. The earliest recorded sighting of the Japanese fan was in the 6th century CE where burial tombs were adorned with pictures of fans. Drawing on the fan began around the Heian period 794-4485 and became such a hit that laws were created to restrict their use to particular social classes. Historically Japanese hand fans were tools of aristocrats and the samurai class. They were a way to signify social standing and even communicate messages. Japanese fan designs enchanted westerners when they first became exposed to them. Those influenced include the Australian artist Charles Conder who in the 1890s inspired by Japanese fan designs made a speciality of painting them on silk. <br> <br>Various images painted on these fans have symbolic or seasonal meanings. One shows an array of golden origami cranes on a red background symbolizing long life. Another is decorated with peonies symbols of fertility and nobility whose flowering marks the end of spring and beginning of summer. A third is decorated with images of pine bamboo and plum blossom - a combination representing health and longevity because all three plants can withstand cold weather. Others have more abstract images based on the flow of rivers the sheen of silk and other themes. . unknown
1831ST20481-04London: Thomas Tegg; J. Cumming Dublin; and R. Griffin and Co. Glasgow 1831. 170 x 100 mm. 6 3/4 x 4". Four volumes. Edited by John Wright. <br/> Contemporary black morocco covers with an elaborate frame in gilt and blind raised bands spine compartments gilt with foliate volutes turn-ins with a narrow gilt roll marbled endpapers all edges gilt rear hinge of fourth volume very neatly repaired. The first volume WITH AN EXCELLENT FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING ROTTERDAM FROM THE WATER. The first volume WITH AN EXCELLENT FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING ROTTERDAM FROM THE WATER. All volumes with numerous wood-engravings in the text. Corners and spine somewhat worn joints a little rubbed hinges of first volume open but nothing loose; pastedowns with shadow of bookplate removal but internally fresh clean and bright with only trivial defects.<br/> <br/> This set of an English adaptation of one of the most widely read works of the Enlightenment features a pleasing fore-edge painting full of charming detail. With his enormously influential "Histoire Naturelle" Buffon 1707-88 became the first person to present the natural world as one unified whole entirely explicable in scientific terms and in a popular form. Modern evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr called Buffon "the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century" and declared that the "Natural History" was read by "every educated person in Europe." Our editor John Wright has augmented Buffon's work with the works of other naturalists including Culver Lacepede and "a British botanist of acknowledged note" among others. The text is supplemented by numerous wood engravings with perhaps livelier and more attractive depictions than might be expected from a small format abridged edition like this one. The main attraction here the fore-edge painting has been done with not inconsiderable skill and charm. In it two vessels cruise the glassy waters of Rotterdam the city's iconic canal houses and the gothic church of St. Lawrence rising in the background. The scene mixes tranquility and commerce in a tableau rendered with a great deal of care and delicacy in its minute details. Thomas Tegg; J. Cumming, Dublin; and R. Griffin and Co., Glasgow unknown
1840ST20481-06Paris: Chez L. Hachette 1840. 224 x 131 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4". 2 p.l. 822 pp. 1 leaf title 1-259 1 pp. <br/> Attractive contemporary scarlet morocco covers ruled in blind central panel with an elaborate gilt-tooled cross surrounded by a scrolling frame raised bands spine gilt in compartments tooled with small fleurons turn-ins tooled in gilt all edges gilt.features a well-executed and historically important fore-edge painting that depicts a famous tribute to one of the most celebrated figures in French Catholicism. The fresh richly painted scene here shows the Place de la Pucelle in Rouen with the fountain of Joan of Arc featured prominently in the foreground. This view inspired works from a number of artists and writers such as watercolorist Samuel Prout and American poet Maria White Lowell whose poem "Rouen Place de la Pucelle" was published ca. 1858. Visual records like this of the square and fountain are historically important because they were destroyed in the Red Week bombings of 1944. WITH AN EXCELLENT FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING LA PLACE DE LA PUCELLE ROUEN. Occasional early pencil marginalia. Corners a bit bumped edges and joints with a little rubbing but this well disguised with dye spine very slightly sunned and dried. Occasional scattered spots mostly marginal other trivial defects but generally fine internally very fresh and quite bright. An attractive binding with a very lovely painting.<br/> <br/> This attractive French-language Bible features a well-executed and historically important fore-edge painting that depicts a famous tribute to one of the most celebrated figures in French Catholicism. The fresh richly painted scene here shows the Place de la Pucelle in Rouen with the fountain of Joan of Arc featured prominently in the foreground. This view inspired works from a number of artists and writers such as watercolorist Samuel Prout and American poet Maria White Lowell whose poem "Rouen Place de la Pucelle" was published ca. 1858. Visual records like this of the square and fountain are historically important because they were destroyed in the Red Week bombings of 1944. Chez L. Hachette unknown
186812840London: Longmans Green and Co 1868. First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Decorated with two fore-edge paintings first edition of A Memoir of Baron Bunsen as collected by his wife Frances Baroness Bunsen. Octavo two volumes 8 1-637pp; 8 1-616pp. Three-quarter dark green leather with marbled paper boards and matching endpapers. Silk bookmarks. All edges gilt. Gilt-ruled trim on covers title within a double gilt-ruled border on spines. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text blocks light rubbing to corners joints and marbled boards. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf of Volume I. Complete with three lithographs and two woodcuts in Volume I five lithographs and three woodcuts in Volume II. Each volume with frontispiece portrait and tissue guard. Volume I has fore-edge painting of Strand-on-the-Green Volume II of Kew Bridge. Strand-on-the-Green is a medieval village in Chiswick England that still stands today previously used as a trading location for businesses due to its access to the River Thames. Kew Bridge crosses the Thames and connects the districts of Kew and Chiswick. The bridge depicted in the fore-edge of Volume II is the second of three bridges at this location. This one being opened in 1789 and demolished in 1899. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown
1809ST14310fLondon: J. Hatchard 1809. 210 x 133 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4". xvi 291 pp.Translated by Louisa A. Marshall. <br/> Contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco covers bordered with gilt rule flat spine with simple gilt rules and titling gilt-ruled turn-ins all edges gilt and WITH A FINE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF A SCENIC RIVER VIEW FEATURING CHRIST CHURCH PRIORY in Hampshire. Front free endpaper with owner signature of E. A. Fetherston. Slight variation in color of boards half title with one inch trimmed away at head probably removing owner inscription leaves a shade less than bright occasional minor foxing or offsetting in the text bed but still an excellent copy the text clean and fresh the pleasant binding entirely sound and the lovely fore-edge painting very well preserved.<br/> <br/> The typically bucolic fore-edge scene here--boat in tranquil water stately building occupying center stage trees all around puffy clouds--stands out for the level of achievement in execution by the artist. The clouds are painted in a delicately applied range of shades so that they are very convincing; there is considerable architectural detail visible on the side of the church; and it seems as if one can almost see individual leaves in the trees. These features are all hallmarks of the work of the so-called "Dover Painter" the name given by Jeff Weber to the artist who produced very high quality painted fore edges in the 1920s and 1930s. He did work for the famous London bookseller Marks & Company for Dawson's Bookshop in Los Angeles and for J. W. Robinson Company the Los Angeles department store. Estelle Doheny 1875-1958 whose library comprised one of the great collections of the 20th century bought actively from Dawson's and Weber estimates that approximately half of the very considerable number of especially fine fore-edge paintings in the Doheny collection in Camarillo California were done by the Dover Painter. As the fore-edge painting here evokes a feeling of serenity so too does the content religious meditations by François Fénélon 1651-1715 priest writer and tutor to King Louis XIV's grandson for whom he composed his best-known work "The Adventures of Telemachus.". J. Hatchard unknown
186027912China 1860. Good overall. A later album of portraits of Chinese Court dignitaries. The turquoise paper borders bear captions in English. The coats of the dignitaries are quite detailed. The first image is of the Emperor followed by Empress both seated Prime Minister his wife Governor General his wife Manchu Tartar General his lady Mandarin of 3rd Rank his lady Inferior Mandarin his wife. The other dignitaries are standing. The images have no background painting. Most have corner cracks not affecting the images. In red silk binding 8vo 9 x 6" with Western opening. The colors vibrant. unknown
186454488Montreal: W. Notman 1864. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg-. Elephant folio. 18x13". 14 leaves including 12 plates unpaginated. Period brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover. All edges in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title page with decorative text printed in a number of different period typefaces. All addition text throughout is finely printed in a cursive typefont.<br /> <br /> An album consisting of a series of 12 mounted albumen photographs reproducing original paintings of landscapes in New England and Northeastern Canada by British artist C.J. Charles Jones Way 1835-1919. During his career Way was noted for his depictions of North American and European landscapes and seascapes. From 1858 Way settled in Montreal where he established an art studio and often collaborated with pioneering Montreal-based photographer William Notman 1826-1891 who had set up one of the most noted early photography studios in the city. Here Notman photographs Way's work with a keen eye and attention to detail. Locations depicted in the images include: the White Mountains New Hampshire Mount Desert Island Maine The Gaspe Coast Quebec Levis/Quebec City Montreal and Niagara Falls. The final five images show areas in the vicinity of Saguenay River Quebec. <br /> <br /> Each of the 12 plates is tissue-guarded with the images and text caption below in landscape orientation. Plates measure approx. 17 3/4 x 12 3/4". The photographs themselves vary slightly in size but most measure approx. 10" x 6". Table of plates at the front.<br /> <br /> Binding with light sunning to the spine and edges of the covers. Covers with some light scratches and a few small stains. Head of spine rubbed with some light cracking along the front hinge. Interiors mostly clean with a few sporadic instance of light smudges and/or stains to the endpapers and/or margins of plates. Images throughout clean and vibrant. Binding in good interior in very good- condition overall. W. Notman hardcover
18782111902160200914Nishizawa Kitaro 1878. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 books Nishizawa Kitaro paperback
188033455Japan: No publisher ca. 1880. An Album of copies of Literati Paintings. Illustrated with 56 Literati Paintings mounted on 25 double-sided accordion-fold boards some with woodblock colour some finished in colour by hand the illustrations mounted with gilt-speckled borders. Oblong folio the album 28 3/4 x 17 1/2 cm. the paintings 22 x 13 1/2 cm. the upper cover of the album with original padded silk brocade and paper label. The album includes 7 'Poetry Competition paintings and poems from the '100 Famous Poems' an 8th century Heian period compilation. A very pleasing example well preserved with minor rubbing to the extremities the mountings and illustrations all in fine condition. A FINE EXAMPLE. THE JAPANESE ART OF BUNJIN-GA WAS INTRODUCED IN THE 17TH CENTURY FROM CHINA'S SOUTHERN SCHOOL OF PAINTING. This occurred during the Ming dynasty through the 'Painting Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden' although that in itself was based on Song and Yuan dynasty landscape painting; and the poetry of the Japanese literati painting was in the style of Classical Chinese poetry termed Kanbun in Japan.<br> Literati painting in Japan is generally referred to as Bunjinga literati painting; Ch. Wen ren hua or Nanga Southern School painting; Ch. nan zong hua both terms borrowed from China. Wen ren hua refers to the status of artists who belonged to the scholar-gentleman class. Nan zong hua was coined by the Chinese painter and theorist Dong Qichang b. 1555–d. 1636 who used it to describe art by literati ostensibly amateurs whose paintings were indebted to their mastery of calligraphy expressed their inner feelings and sought to capture the spiritual essence of their subjects. Japanese Literati Painting and Calligraphy<br>P. J. Graham F. L. Chance.<br> No publisher hardcover
1900221586No date. Circa1900. Twelve very bright colour gouache paintings on pith paper showing a series of Qing dynasty figures arranged by rank blue paper border red silk covered album with contrasting green ties. Images approximately 17.5 x 12cm. Album 22.5 x 15.5cm. All twelve paintings in very good condition. This finely painted gouache album opens with portraits of the Chinese Emperor and Empress followed by the Prime Minister and his wife. The remaining eight leaves depict officials of various ranks with their spouses. A vivid and beautifully executed series the colours standing out with exceptional clarity. . unknown
187570621hLondon & Liverpool: Longmans Green & Co. / G. G. Walmsley 1875. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Beautiful hidden fore-edge paintings: on Vol. I of Liverpool in the olden time with the old castle and ancient ships in the river; on Vol. II the same but contemporary with Atlantic steamers in the river and the shores crowded with buildings. Two octavo volumes bound by Fazakerley Liverpool in matching full crimson crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and raised bands to spines gilt edges and fillets to boards and dentelles and moire endpapers. Minor expert restoration. Old booksellers catalogue clipping for this set tipped in at rear. . Longmans, Green, & Co. / G. G. Walmsley Hardcover
