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1875E25861New York: E.P. Dutton 1875. Hardcover. fair. Very scarce. Part I all issued so far as can be determined covering the New Englans states and New York. OCLC locates only 12 copies in book form. Quarto sized 10" x 12" in blindstamped red cloth hardcovers stamped in gilt over black tape cloth spine. Unpaginated 46 pp. A uniquely designed geography/freading aid for young people that instead of maps features a full page of small hieroglyphic engravings for each descriptive word or group of words that illustrated notable facts places names etc. for each of the states covered. For example for Maine one small item is "The minerals are" with a small engraving of a handiron "granite" small picture of a rock; "More engraving of a ship are built here than in any other State". Each hieroglyphic page is followed by a single page of text of desciptive text which which is an non-illustated transcription of the the illustrated page. Covers well soiled though the gilt titling is still bright. Some tape stains to the dark brown endpapers front hinge split but all pages firmly attached; dampstaing to the lower aprox. quarter of all pages. Christmas 1882 gift inscription on the first front blank to a boy from his grandfather. Complete SOLD AS IS. E.P. Dutton hardcover
1860DEMO010833IWashington: Thomas H. Ford 1860. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. chromolithographs b&w pls. Quartos 358 40; 399 pages 21stC 3/4 calf marbled boards waterstains <br/><br/>House Exec. Doc. no. 56. Howes P3; Wheat TRANSMISSISSIPPI 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 261ff; Rittenhouse 442. Vol.I has 70 chromolithographed scenes. With 3 folding maps. Vol.1 has the Report. Vol.2 has the Botany Zoology Ornithology Fish Mollusks & Crustaceans. "The plates in Book 1 are all really tinted. Book II has 8 fine colored plates of birds; 45 black & white plates of fish animals insects and plants -Whitman Bennett in his PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS p.101." Thomas H. Ford hardcover
1850247341850. Very good condition. An archive of 27 portraits of the founding fathers of botany including Dodoens Leeuwenhoek Grew Hill Aldrovandi Smith Desfontaines Palisot Gessner Everard Bonnet Banks Buffon Gray Evelyn Linnaeus Cuvier Klein Clusius and Agassiz.<br /> <br /> 1. Rembert Dodoens born Rembert Van Joenckema 1517 – 1585 was a Flemish physician and botanist. Rembert Dodoens Rembertus Dodonaeus was one of the great botanists of the 16th century who pursued a knowledge of plants in their own right not simply for medicinal uses. Contemporary copper engraving 4 7/8 x 7" on 7 3/8 x 10 1/2".<br /> <br /> 2. Antonius Leeuwenhoek 1632 - 1723 Dutch "Father of Microbiology" with botanical importance who worked with William III of Orange and his wife Mary II of England and Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. Copper engraving 5 1/2 x 7 1/8".<br /> <br /> 3. Nehemiah Grew 1641 – 1712 was an English plant anatomist and physiologist known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy". Copper engraving 5 3/4 x 9 1/4".<br /> <br /> 4. John Hill ca. 1714 – 1775 was an English author and botanist who contributed to contemporary periodicals including the botanical compendium 'The Vegetable System'. Copper engraving 8 7/8 x 11 1/4" on 9 5/8 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 5. Ulisse Aldrovandi 1522 – 1605 was an Italian naturalist professor of botany and one of the founders of the Bologna's botanical garden one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the Comte de Buffon considered Aldrovandi the father of natural history studies. 5 7/8 x 8 3/8".<br /> <br /> 6. Sir James Edward Smith 1759 – 1828 was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society 5 x 7" on 8 7/8 x 11 5/8".<br /> <br /> 7. Rene Louiche Desfontaines 1750 – 1833 was a French botanist who studied medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier at the Jardin des Plantes 9 1/4 x 12 1/4".<br /> <br /> 8. Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel 1776 – 1854 was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cytology 9 1/2 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 9. Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot Baron de Beauvois 1752 - 1820 Paris was a French naturalist who was trained as a botanist and published an important paper on American entomology 9 x 12".<br /> <br /> 10. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu 1748 – 1836 was a French botanist notably the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; his system remains largely in use today 9 1/2 x 12 1/2". <br /> <br /> 11. Conrad Gessner 1516 – 1565 was a Swiss physician and naturalist regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography zoology and botany. Gessner was working on a major botanical text at the time of his early death from the plague 3 5/8 x 5 1/8" on 6 1/8 x 7 7/8".<br /> <br /> 12. Michael Rotenbeck 1569 - 1623 physician and collector of botanical works. Copper engraving 7 5/8 x 4 3/4" on 13 x 8 1/2".<br /> <br /> 13. Dr. Giles Everard or Gilles Everaerts 16th century; active in 1580s Dutch physician who wrote works on the beneficial medicinal effects of tobacco smoking. Copper engraving 4 7/8 x 6" on 8 1/2 x 10".<br /> <br /> 14. Charles Bonnet 1720 – 1793 Naturalist and philosophical writer. He coined the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. 8 1/2 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 15. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788 was a French naturalist mathematician cosmologist and encyclopediste. Buffon was the director at the Jardin du Roi now called the Jardin des Plantes. Buffon published 36 quarto volumes of his 'Histoire Naturelle' during his lifetime. Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century". 4 1/2 x 6 3/8" on 9 x 11 1/2".<br /> <br /> 16. Sir Joseph Banks 1st Baronet GCB PRS 1743 – 1820 English naturalist botanist and patron of the natural sciences. 7 x 10 3/8".<br /> <br /> 17. Asa Gray 1810 – 1888 is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was significant as an explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Gray was convinced that a genetic connection existed between all members of a species. He was opposed to the idea of hybridization within one generation and believed evolution was guided by a Creator. 6 x 8 5/8".<br /> <br /> 18. John Evelyn 1620 - 1706 author and botanist noted for his knowledge of trees. Evelyn's treatise Sylva or A Discourse of Forest-Trees 1664 was written as an encouragement to landowners to plant trees to provide timber for the English navy. 8 x 10".<br /> <br /> 19. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778 Carl von Linne was a Swedish botanist physician and zoologist who formalized binomial nomenclature the modern system of naming organisms. 6 images: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" 6 x 8 1/2" 4 7/8 x 8 5 1/2 x 9" 7 x 10 1/2" 6 1/4 x 8 1/2".<br /> <br /> 20. Jean Leopold Nicolas Frederic Baron Cuvier 1769 – 1832 known as Georges Cuvier was a French naturalist and zoologist instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. 4 images: 5 x 8 1/4" 6 3/4 x 9 7/8" 6 x 9" 7 1/2 x 10".<br /> <br /> 21. Jacob Theodor Klein 1685 – 1759 was a German jurist historian botanist zoologist mathematician and diplomat in service of Polish King August II the Strong. 9 x 14 5/8" on 9 1/2 x 15 1/2".<br /> <br /> 22. Charles de l'Ecluse L'Escluse or Carolus Clusius 1526 – 1609 was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists. 4 5/8 x 6 5/8".<br /> <br /> 23. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 1807 – 1873 was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4".<br /> <br /> 24. John Lindley 1799 - 1865 English botanist and orchidologist whose orchid collection was housed at Kew's herbarium noted for his 'Theory and Practice of Horticulture'.<br /> <br /> 25. Joseph Decaise 1807 - 1882 French botanist and agronomist. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4".<br /> <br /> 26. Louis Van Houtte 1810 -1876. Belgian horticulturist. Published the "Journal Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe". 5 1/2 x 8 3/4".<br /> <br /> 27. Georg Eberhard Rumphius Rumpf 1627 - 1702 Batavian botanist best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense a catalogue of the plants of the island of Amboina Indonesia. 9 1/2 x 14".<br /> <br /> The portraits mainly steel engraved some lithographic mostly 4to. All in very good condition. unknown
186726899Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson 1867. Print. Otherwise very good condition. Plate 5 in Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68.<br /> <br /> "The bold and romantic headland which bears this title forms one of the most picturesque "bits" of scenery on the Victorian coast. The rocks have been worn into the most grotesque and fantastic shapes by the action of the waves which rush in with a majestic sweep from the Southern Ocean . the artist has indicated the entrance of Port Phillip by the position of the steamer faintly visible in the offing." NGV. <br /> <br /> Color lithograph signed in the plate with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 14 1/4x19 1/4" on paper 25 x 18 3/4". Archivally cleaned and backed repairing some marginal splits including one that would be visible when matted. Color tastefully enhanced. Libraries Australia ID 7744596. Hamel & Ferguson unknown
1848005412London: Hering & Remington 1848. Near Fine. 1 hand-colored lithograph 430 x 527 mm. image is 264 x 372 mm.; mat is 19.5 x 23.25 inches. The lithograph was created by Robert Carrick 1820-1905 of Day & Son after James Rattray's drawing. James Rattray 1818-1854 was a lieutenant in the British Bengal Army during the first Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842. The sketches he produced were published in 30 plates in Scenery Inhabitants & Costumes of Afghaunistan 1847-48. This is plate no. 14 showing two falconers from Kohistan Khudadard and Guldin with their hawks. Rattray saw them in September 1841 when they were part of the cavalry escort of his brother Captain Rattray. Green dealer's label on back of mat from Harold T. Storey London. Very scarce. In Near Fine Condition: lithograph is clean and bright; minor soiling to mat. Hering & Remington unknown
186727482Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson 1867. Print. Plate VII from Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68.<br /> <br /> A stunning view oin the Blue Mountains N.S.W. Originally named The Weatherboard the town was Jamisons Valley in 1815. In July 1867 the first railway journey to the Blue Mountains traveled through to Weatherboard Station where the train terminated. In 1879 the village took its name from the nearby waterfalls which had been named for William Charles Wentworth one of the men that headed the exploration to cross the mountains in 1813 and a friend of John Jamison. <br /> <br /> Two men with a rifle are overlooking the falls. <br /> <br /> Color lithograph signed in the plate with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 13 x 19 1/2" on paper 18 x 24 1/2". Archivally cleaned and backed color tastefully enhanced. Libraries Australia ID 7744602. Hamel & Ferguson unknown
1807Flo543<p>Very good copy of two scarce Thomas Rowlandson titles bound together</p><p>With 14 of 16 copperplate engravings by Thomas Rowlandson in the first book and seven handcoloured copperplate engravings by Thomas Rowlandson in the second book</p><p><em><strong>Advice to Sportsmen</strong> Rural or Metropolitan Noviciates or Grown Persons with Anecdotes of the Most Renowned Shorts of the Day </em>bound with<em> <strong>The Pleasures of Human Life</strong> Investigated Cheerfully Elucidated Satirically Promulgated Explicity and Discussed Philosophically in a Dozen Dissertations on Male Female and Neuter Pleasures</em></p><p><em>Advice to Sportsmen </em>Thomas Tegg London 1809 by Marmaduke Markwell pseudonym b/w copperplate engravings drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson</p><p><em>The Pleasures of Human Life</em> Longman Hurst Rees and Orme London 1807 by Hilaris Benevolus pseudonym of John Britton English antiquary topographer author and editor 1771-1857 two handcoloured engraved title-page vignettes by W. Bond after illustrations by William Satchwell and Sir Charles Bell and five handcoloured copperplates drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson</p><p>Thomas Rowlandson 1757-1827 was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian and Regency eras noted for his ribald satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker his most famous works include <em>The Miseries of Human Life </em>1808 <em>The Tours of Dr. Syntax</em> 1812-21 <em>Microcosm of London</em> 1810 <em>The English Dance of Death</em> 1815 <em>Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome</em> 1815 <em>History of Johnny Quae Genus</em> 1822 <em>The English Spy</em> 1826 etc.</p><p>Both books scarce: <em>Advice to Sportsmen</em> held by the British Library and London University <em>Pleasures of Human Life</em> held held by the British Library King's College Cambridge Universities of London Manchester Nottingham Durham Southampton etc.</p><p>Bound in quarter green leather spine with raised bands gilt title on red leather label green marble boards rubbed book block solid. First book <em>Advice </em>with slight spotting and toning throughout 14 engraved plates with good dark impressions. Second book <em>Pleasures </em>in very good condition all text and seven handcoloured copperplates clean and bright with delicate and vivid colour.</p> Thomas Tegg; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme hardcover
1809Flo541<p>Very good copy of the first edition of this classic of equestrian humour</p><p>With 26 of 29 handcoloured copperplate engravings by Thomas Rowlandson after illustrations by George Moutard Woodward and Henry Bunbury unsigned</p><p>The illustrations show Regency gents falling off horses ladies falling off horses gamblers pursued by officers of the debtors' prisons raggedy dogs yokel fashions and furniture famous beauties etc.</p><p>The 26 plates include: portrait of <em>Caleb Quizem Esq. title page vignette with courtier falling from Pegasus The Maid of Mim; Costume of Hogs Norton: Morning dress</em>; <em>Game Wigs</em> 2 plates;<em> Hounds</em> 2 plates; <em>Mathematical Horsemanship</em> 6 plates; <em>The True Method of Sitting on a Horse Mathematically Delineated; How to Vault from the Saddle; Fashionable Furniture at Hogs Norton</em> 2 plates; and <em>The Bailiffs Hunt</em> 8 plates.</p><p>Lacks the folding plate <em>The Bucephalus Riding Academy for Grown Gentlemen</em> and two other plates <em>Costume of Hogs Norton: A Back Front View of Miss Dickinson's new Dress</em> and <em>How a Man may Shoot his own Wig.</em></p><p>George Murgatroyd Woodward 1765–1809 more commonly known as George "Moutard" or "Mustard" Woodward was an English caricaturist and humourist. He was a friend collaborator and drinking companion of Thomas Rowlandson who engraved many of his prints.</p><p>Thomas Rowlandson 1757-1827 was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian and Regency eras noted for his ribald satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker his most famous works include <em>The Miseries of Human Life </em>1808 <em>The Tours of Dr. Syntax</em> 1812-21 <em>Microcosm of London</em> 1810 <em>The English Dance of Death</em> 1815 <em>Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome</em> 1815 <em>History of Johnny Quae Genus</em> 1822 <em>The English Spy</em> 1826 etc.</p><p>The pseudonym Caleb Quizem is often attributed to the artist George Moutard Woodward. The portrait however links the author to Geoffrey Gambado i.e. Francis Grose. In the picture a corpulent man sits in an armchair looking at the viewer through a monocle. Two books Gambado's <em>Annals of Horsemanship </em>a popular book attributed to Grose reissued with Rowlandson's engravings in 1809 and Laurence Sterne's <em>Tristam Shandy</em> are on the table next to him and a portrait of Gambado with gouty foot and crutch hangs on the wall.</p><p>Quite scarce copies held by the British Library and Oxford University.</p><p>Bound in full red morocco leather spine with five raised bands gilt title and decoration to compartments front board with 2cm scratch to leather TEG marbled endpapers book block solid. Interior clean and bright all copperplates under tissue guards with vivid handcolour.</p><p>Engraved armorial bookplate of Herman Le Roy Edgar a New York real-estate broker amateur photographer and book collector 1865-1938.</p><p>Very good copy of this rare classic of horsey fun.</p> Thomas Tegg hardcover
1832ST15199b-e<p>London 1832-58. Quartos. 26 leaves; 40 leaves of text 1 leaf ads; iv 4 256 pp. errata slip; 2 p.l. 192 pp. Four separately published works. <br />Court Album in blue publisher's cloth decorated in gilt and blind; "Waverley Gallery" in green half morocco over green cloth raised bands spine gilt in compartments with central fleuron; "Heath's Picturesque Annual" in publisher's red morocco decorated in gilt and blind; "Tourist in Wales" in half calf over purple buckram raised bands spine panels with gilt floral sprig at center. Court Album with 14 engraved portraits of female aristocrats; "Waverley Gallery" with 36 engravings of the principal female characters in Sir Walter Scott's romances; "Heath's Picturesque Annual" with extra engraved title page and 26 engravings by Ritchie after drawings by Clarkson Stanfield; "Tourist in Wales" with extra engraved title page and 49 engravings of views. ◆Bindings with minor imperfections but all solid and pleasing; occasional mild offsetting or minor marginal foxing a couple of short marginal tears to text leaves bur excellent copies internally the text clean and fresh the plates bright with fine impressions.<br /><br />These are appealing examples of the illustrated works that were so popular in the Victorian era providing readers with glimpses of the nobility images of their favorite literary characters and the opportunity to enjoy dramatic scenery from the comfort of their drawing rooms. The first two works here contain portraits of beautiful women both real society belles and heroines of bestselling romances. The latter two transport the armchair traveller to the wilds of Wales to the Austrian and Italian Alps and to the Rhine River. Although in black and white the engravings are so detailed and finely executed particularly in the use of shadow and light that both portraits and landscapes come to life. In the days before photography--much less streaming videos--books like these brought beauty and imagination into everyday lives.</p>
1826ABE-90785021091826 Faust was Goethe's most celebrated creation with international editions in his lifetime and subsequently in films and books across the world with translations in most languages. This is a complete set of the 26 engravings Moritz Retzsh produced as an illustration of Goethe's text; the book has no words in it not even a publisher or date. What it does have is a fabulous set of the original plate pulls complete with plate marks. Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch was a German painter draughtsman and etcher; much celebrated in his day. This is in a way a fine example of what would now called a graphic novel. The 26 etched pictures tell the story and words are not needed. In Germany there were many such books without words and this one in particular influenced the English Pre Raphaelites. This volume is in its original binding with a very fragile leather spine which turns around to the original marbled cover boards which are also in a fragile state. There is no title page or date and no publishing house is mentioned. The corners are leather also and the spine has five subtly raised bands and no title. A much poorer copy of this was featured in the exhibition of Pre Raphaelites at Tate Britain. My copy is considerably better but it is by no means a fine one. It has been used and looked at probably a great deal over the last 200 years or so. The leather is very worn the marbled cover boards are patinated and there is a mixture of hand written names and an inscription on the front end paper. It is very rare in any state at all because it was easily broken up so the plates could be framed. This is I must stress a complete bound full set and as such it is very rare indeed. The earlier of the two dated inscriptions states 1826; but it cannot be viewed as an accurate issue date. An edition exists which has a German title page and text but this is not one of those. It's a bit of a mystery. The exhibited copy in the Tate exhibition was inspected by me I knew one of the curators and it was also without any text. International Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. hardcover
184488648London England: Virtue and Co. City Road and Ivy Lane 1844. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. W. H. Bartlett. TWO VOLUMES IN A SINGLE BINDING<br /> Quarto. Forest green half-morocco corners and spineruled in gilt. Full-page Frontis Map by W. Hughes & Aldine Chambers. Aquamarine/White diagonally-striped silver-veined marbled endpapers. 120 magnificent tissue-guarded full-page engravings with Historical and Descriptive Text by J. Stirling Coyne N.P. Willis and others. EXCEPTIONALLY clean and Bright after 180 years. Each volume separately paginated with its own title page. Beautiful book. Virtue and Co., City Road and Ivy Lane hardcover
1872025507Philadelphia: J B Lippincott & Co 1871 1872. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth Gilt. Very Good . 6 7/8' Tall. 203 Pp. Green Cloth Gilt And Black Lettering And Design Two Blank Front Free Endpapers Two Blank Rear Free Endpapers The Elaborate Green Cloth Binding Being Very Similar To Strahan's 1871 London First Edition And The 1871 Routledge New York Printing But With No Publisher's Name At Base Of Spine And Lippincott Name And 1872 Date On Title Page The Actual Publication Date Of This Lippincott Edition Is Cited As December 1871 And As Lippincott Was Strahan's American Publisher At This Time It Seems Likely That This Edition Is The First Authorized American Edition. The Strahan Edition Has "Goblin" On Spine And Cover In Black But In The Routledge And This Lippincott Edition That Word On The Spine Is In Gilt. 30 B/W Illustrations In The Text Half-Page At Center Of Pages Signed With The Dalziels' Name In Plural And Hughes' Initials. Very Well Preserved Covers Clean All Gilt And Black Complete And Strong All Gilt Still Brilliant Rubbing And Wear To Cloth At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips A Few Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spine And Pinpoint Frays At Three Of The Tips; Hinges Tight Original Off White Coated Endpapers No Cracking To Hinges No Names Or Marks No Repairs Slight Spine Lean. Display Quality. <br/> <br/> J B Lippincott & Co [1871] hardcover
186727481Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson 1867. Print. From Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68.<br /> <br /> A panoramic view taken from a hill looking down towards the lake farmland surrounding it. The lake is a large coastal lagoon just south of Woollongong 100 km south of Sydney. <br /> <br /> Color lithograph signed in the plate with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 14 x 20 1/2" on paper 18 x 24 1/2". Archivally cleaned and backed color tastefully enhanced. <br /> <br /> nOT ON TROVE . Hamel & Ferguson unknown
1809Flo540<p>Very good copy of this classic of equestrian humour</p><p>First edition with the improved Thomas Rowlandson engravings of this popular book that went through many editions</p><p>Complete copy with 29 handcoloured copperplates engraved by Rowlandson after designs by Henry Bunbury</p><p><em><strong>An Academy for Grown Horsemen</strong>; containing the Completest Instructions for Walking Trotting Cantering Galloping Strumbling and Tumbling with <strong>Annals of Horsemanship</strong>: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents both Successful and Unsuccessful Communicated by Various Correspondents.</em></p><p>The text has been attributed to the artist Henry Bunbury and Francis Grose the antiquarian and compiler of a <em>Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.</em> In the 19th century the humorous text was ascribed to Grose in <em>Catalogue of the library of the late Sir Francis Feeling </em>1836 John Bohn's <em>Catalogue of English Books </em>1843 Samuel Halkett's <em>Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain </em>1882 D.C. Sapp's <em>The Honey Jar </em>1898 etc. John C. Riely however in <em>The Age of Horace Walpole in Caricature</em> 1973 claims that Grose only contributed the introduction.</p><p>Henry William Bunbury 1750-1811 "drew chiefly in pencil or black and red chalk; but although he seems to have used the needle he was never successful as an etcher and his designs were generally reproduced by engravers mostly in stipple or dot. The three works by which he is best known belong to 1787: <em>A Long Minuet</em> <em>The Propagation of a Lie</em> and the volume of equestrian misadventures called <em>An Academy for Grown Horsemen</em> by Geoffrey Gambado. In 1791 appeared the <em>Annals of Horsemanship</em> a kind of sequel to the <em>Academy for Grown Horseman</em>." D.N.B. His other published works include Angelica Kauffman's<em> Angelica's Ladies Library </em>1794 <em>Bunbury's Illustrations of Shakspear</em> engraved by Bartolozzi 1796 <em>Tales of the Devil </em>1801 etc.</p><p>Full red morocco leather binding by Root and Son spine with five raised bands gilt title and tooling neatly rebacked at some time with original spine relaid marble endpaper TEG book block solid. Interior very clean all plates under tissue guards copperplates with vivid hand-colour. "Capt. Grose" in ink in parentheses next to author's name Gambado on the front title page.</p><p>Engraved bookplate of Cortlandt Field Bishop American pioneer aviator balloonist autoist traveller and book collector on front endpaper.</p> Vernor, Hood and Sharpe hardcover
1809Flo542<p>Near fine copy of this classic of equestrian humour</p><p>First edition with the improved Thomas Rowlandson engravings of this popular book that went through many editions</p><p>Complete copy with 29 handcoloured copperplates engraved by Rowlandson after designs by Henry Bunbury</p><p><em><strong>An Academy for Grown Horsemen</strong>; containing the Completest Instructions for Walking Trotting Cantering Galloping Strumbling and Tumbling with <strong>Annals of Horsemanship</strong>: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents both Successful and Unsuccessful Communicated by Various Correspondents.</em></p><p>The text has been attributed to the artist Henry Bunbury and Francis Grose the antiquarian and compiler of a <em>Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.</em> In the 19th century the humorous text was ascribed to Grose in <em>Catalogue of the library of the late Sir Francis Feeling </em>1836 John Bohn's <em>Catalogue of English Books </em>1843 Samuel Halkett's <em>Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain </em>1882 D.C. Sapp's <em>The Honey Jar </em>1898 etc. John C. Riely however in <em>The Age of Horace Walpole in Caricature</em> 1973 claims that Grose only contributed the introduction.</p><p>Henry William Bunbury 1750-1811 "drew chiefly in pencil or black and red chalk; but although he seems to have used the needle he was never successful as an etcher and his designs were generally reproduced by engravers mostly in stipple or dot. The three works by which he is best known belong to 1787: <em>A Long Minuet</em> <em>The Propagation of a Lie</em> and the volume of equestrian misadventures called <em>An Academy for Grown Horsemen</em> by Geoffrey Gambado. In 1791 appeared the <em>Annals of Horsemanship</em> a kind of sequel to the <em>Academy for Grown Horseman</em>." D.N.B. His other published works include Angelica Kauffman's<em> Angelica's Ladies Library </em>1794 <em>Bunbury's Illustrations of Shakspear</em> engraved by Bartolozzi 1796 <em>Tales of the Devil </em>1801 etc.</p><p>Full tree-calf leather binding by Myers and Co 80 New Bond Street London rebacked with mottled spine with gilt title boards a little dry and rubbed new endpapers book block solid. Interior very clean all plates under tissue guards copperplates with vivid and delicate hand-colour. One text page 124 with repaired 3cm tear and paper fault that has caused a printing error with no loss to text.</p> Vernor, Hood and Sharpe hardcover
186726900Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson 1867. Print. Plate XV from Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68.<br /> <br /> American Creek Mt. Kembla. Trees pictured include cabbage trees bangalow palms and flame trees. Timbermen are working in the foreground to fell the huge trees. Von Guerard describes the scene thus: This sylvan scene is situated at a distance of little more than ten miles from Wollongong near the junction of a little stream upon which some prosaic devotee of the bottle has bestowed the dishonouring appellation of the Brandy and Water Creek with the American Creek and at the foot of a noble range of mountains. With the lofty bangalow palm the cabbage palm the gigantic wild fig-tree the fire tree otherwise known as the blaze tree with its vividly scarlet blossoms are intermingled the nettle tree the rose-wood the sassafras the white-wood the wild rose numerous varieties of the fern tree and parasites innumerable the whole being woven together into one dense and almost impenetrable mass of foliage. Unfortunately the progress of settlement is necessitating the destruction of some of these magnificent forests which in many instances clothe a rich chocolate soil of especial value to the farmer. At the time this view was sketched numerous fires had been kindled by the wood-cutters and the stately giants were rapidly falling before the pitiless axe of the hardy pioneers of civilization.<br /> <br /> Color lithograph signed in the plate with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 14 1/4 x 20 3/4" on paper 25 x 18 3/4". Archivally cleaned and backed repairing some marginal splits including one that would be visible when matted. Color tastefully enhanced. Libraries Australia ID 774462. Hamel & Ferguson unknown
186727483Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson 1867. Print. Plate XVI from Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. The location is now named Budj Bim and is a dormant volcano near Macarthur in southwestern Victoria Australia. The volcanic history of this part of Victoria is remarkable and the quarried black volcanic rock is seen throughout buildings & walls.<br /> <br /> Color lithograph signed in the plate with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 13 x 19" on paper 18 x 24 1/2". Archivally cleaned and backed color tastefully enhanced. Libraries Australia ID 7744685. Hamel & Ferguson unknown
186727435Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson 1867. Print. From Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68.<br /> <br /> Two horsemen are approaching a punt to cross the Goulbourn. A boat in the foreground holds two fishermen. <br /> <br /> Color lithograph signed in the plate with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 14 x 20 1/4" on paper 18 x 24 1/2". Archivally cleaned and backed color tastefully enhanced. Two small marginal cracks repaired. Not recorded on Trove. Hamel & Ferguson unknown
183318856Milano: Fortunato Stella e Figli 1833. First Italian edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Oblong folio 12 6/8 x 18 1/2". 1 leaf Title 38 leaves Plates 1 leaf List of content. Original half morocco over burgundy paper covered boards. Gold lettering and tooling on spine. Rare first Italian edition of Paul-Louis-Bernard Drach's atlas volume of his "Sainte Bible de Vence" a series which was originally published in 27 volumes in Paris from 1827 to 1833. The striking 38 engraved plates featured in this atlas are composed of 13 maps by A. R. Fremin and 25 engravings signed by Falkeisen Angelini and Lanzani. The engraved plates have been laid down on beautiful hand-made paper and describe the following: 1. Map of the place of Eden Mesopotamy and Persian Gulf; 2. Noah's Arch construction; 3. Noah's Arch; 4. Map of the land divided among Noah's sons; 5. The Babel Tower; 6. Map of the Land of Canaan; 7. Map of Jews' Pilgrimage; 8. The Jerusalem Sahnedrin; 9. The Temple of Jerusalem plans and sections; 10. The Temple of Jerusalem square plan; 11. Map of ancient Jerusalem; 12. The Temple of Salomon; 13. The Temple's foundations; 14. The East Gate; 15. The Buildings of the Temple; 16. Musical Instruments of the Jews; 17. Hebrew Alphabet; 18. Jew's Vestments and worship's objects; 19. Two Menorah; 20. High Priest's vestments and Golden Menorah; 21. Moses' Tabernacle; 22. The Loaves of Proposition; 23. Plan and section of the Tabernacle; 24. The encampment of the Israelites; 25. Map of the Holy Land South; 26. Map of the Holy Land North; 27. Map of Syria; 28.Map of Israel under Salomon; 29. Plan of the House of the Forest of Lebanon; 30. The House of the Forest of Lebanon; 31. The Bronze Sea; 32. The Washings; 33. The Altars of the Holocausts; 34. Map of the Persian Empire; 35. Map of the Land of Canaan according to Ezechiel; 36. Map of Herod's Reign; 37. Zachary's Vision; 38. Map of the travels of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The plates measure appr. 12 1/2 x 18 1/4" image size appr. : 9 1/2 x 14 6/8". Binding rubbed on covers and along edges. Head and tail of spine chipped. Previous owner's Ex-libris Calvin Bullock on inside of front cover. Minor and sporadic foxing along paper margin not affecting plates. Title and captions in Italian. Binding in overall fair interior in very good plates in near fine to fine condition. About the author: "David Paul Drach aka Paul-Louis-Bernard Drach after his conversion 1791-1865 was a Catholic convert from Judaism and librarian of the College of Propaganda in Rome. Drach received his early education from his father who was a rabbi. After spending some time in various Talmudic schools he became a teacher at Rappoltsweiler though only sixteen years of age. The love of the secular sciences brought him to Paris where he was welcomed by his coreligionists and became tutor in a wealthy Jewish family. His reputation as a teacher brought him Christian pupils; and this may have had some influence on his subsequent conversion; in fact he had always manifested some leaning toward Christianity. Drach had already begun the study of Greek and Latin so as to become acquainted with the Christian doctrines in their original sources. Struck by the accusation of some of the Fathers that the Jews had corrupted the Hebrew text he began a comparative study of the Hebrew and the Septuagint which study he continued in spite of the remonstrances of the president of the Central Consistory. Drach was received into the Catholic faith in 1823 together with his two daughters and his son Paul who afterward became a priest and a distinguished Biblical scholar. In 1827 Drach accepted the position of librarian of the Propaganda in Rome which position he held until the year of his death." From the Jewish Encyclopedia. Fortunato Stella e Figli hardcover
1859833001859. PRINTS - BOSTON SOUTH BOSTON 1859 HANDCOLORED LITHOGRAPH BY JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE. Boston: J. F. A. Cole ca. 1859. Image matted to 22 x 29 1/2 inches. Three spots of browning to the sky area faint arc of foxing a few more to the scenes below the main image. Main image features a main intersection of roads one signposted "G Street Ward 12". Great perspective. Very good overall. Below the title is printed: "To the citizens of South Boston this picture is most respectfully dedicated by the Artist. unknown
189369768Paris France: Galerie Georges Petit. Very Good. 1893. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE-- IN STOCK AND AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY-- - EXEMPLAIRE SUR IMPÉRIAL JAPON NO. 72 --Text in French; 1465 works catalogued. Many lovely b/w illustrations. Pages tight to spine. Leather-trimmed marbled coverboards; decorated endpapers; top fore-edge gilt -- with a bonus offer--; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall . Galerie Georges Petit hardcover
189337839Paris France: Galerie Georges Petit. As New. 1893. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE Text in French; 1465 works catalogued. Many lovely black and white illustrations. Cover wear front hinge cracked; pages tight to spine. Gold-embossed red coverboards top fore-edge gilt. -- with a bonus offer--; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall . Galerie Georges Petit hardcover
1886BIBLIO-31166Trustees of the British Museum London first edition 1886 - 1906. 15 fascicules each in its own portfolio 52 cm parts I-IV and 66 cm parts V-XV. introductions of a few pages each and a total of 233 plates on stiff card. . Uncommon. A complete set of this series which comprises 15 portfolios each with a short introduction list of plates and between 11 and 22 finely-printed plates as follows: Part I. Early Italian. 20 plates; Part II. Early German and Flemish 22 plates; Part III. German Dutch and Italian. 18 plates; Part IV. Italian 16th century. 18 plates; Part V. Specimens of early mezzotint engraving. 16 plates; Part VI. Specimens of line-engraving by Masters of Germany and the Low Countries 1530-1620. 15 plates; Part VII. Specimens of line-engraving by Masters of the Netherlands Schools under the influence of Rubens and Vandyck about 1620-1660. 12 plates; Part VIII. Specimens of line-engraving by Masters of the French School about 1580-1680. 14 plates; Part IX. Specimens of line-engraving by the earliest Masters practising in England about 1545-1695. 18 plates; New Series Part X. Additional specimens of line-engraving by the earliest Masters working in England about 1580-1670. 21 plates; Part XI. Specimens of line-engraving by French Masters of the Eighteenth Century. 14 plates; Part XII. Specimens of line-engraving by French Masters of the Eighteenth Century continued. 12 plates; Part XIII. Specimens of line-engraving by English Masters of the Eighteenth Century. 11 plates; Part XIV. Specimens of line-engraving by Italian Masters of the Eighteenth Century. 11 plates. Part XV. Specimens of line-engraving by German Masters of the Eighteenth Century. 11 plates. The plates are generally Very Good clean copies: the versos of the final plate in each potrtfolio and the title-page rectos are in most cases tanned from contact with the portfolios. Some plates have small 'British Museum facsimile' stamps on the versos and there is sometimes a small library blindstamp in the lower margin well away from the image. The portfolio boards are generally rather duststained and a little rubbed the portfolio for Part VI has bumping and tearing to its top edges and that for Part XV is torn at the head of spine with trifling edgewear to a few plates a few other portfolio corners have minor edgewear. The porfolio flaps are generally in very good condition and seem to have been renewed in most cases; a few others are broken. A few portfoilios have library bookplates on their front inner boards. Overall a well-preserved set of a series rarely found complete. Trustees of the British Museum, London, first edition, 1886 - 1906 hardcover
1900664unknown: unknown 1900. 9 1/2 x 8 inches 8 x 8 inches 8 x 8 inches. Very good condition. This is a set of three very rare etchings of golf. The first is a layout of the first tee and closing hole at St. Andrews Old Course. The second is of a golfer finishing his swing with. golfers in the background. The third is a golfer loonig at a difficult shoe if not impossible. These are very old and quite rare. They have been in my possession for 40 years and are new to the market. At one time I had the name of the artist but have misplaced my fact sheet. See pics. unknown unknown
186726902Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson 1867. Print. Very good overall. From Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. Von Guerard is said to have painted the work "at the entrance to Dobson's Gully in the Dandenong's'. The area was the location where Thomas Dobson made his home and established a timber camp. He called it 'Lightwood Gully' the original name for Ferntree Gully.<br /> <br /> "His remarkable image of a fern-tree gully in the Dandenong Ranges some 40 kilometres east of Melbourne conveys a sense of the landscape as a spiritual sanctuary. Painted on return to the artist's Melbourne studio Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges is a work that combines von Guerard's meticulous observation of local plant species with his artiistic interest in compositional arrangement and the creation of a 'mood' particular to this environment. In this case we are privy to the magical world of a bower - an enclosed gully of natural foliage created by towering tree ferns. A pool of light on the forest floor leads us to two male lyrebirds cast in shadow one withits characteristic tail feathers raised.: Tiom Bonyhady Australian Colonial Paintings in the Australian National Gallery Canberra; Australian National Gallery 1986 p. 171. <br /> <br /> Color lithograph signed in the plate with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 14 x 20 1/4" on paper 19 x 24 1/2". Archivally cleaned and backed color tastefully enhanced. Hamel & Ferguson unknown
