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19443114833Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1944. Second Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Second printing. Though not called for SIGNED by Anais Nin on front end-paper. Close to fine in pictorial boards in supplied chipped un-printed acetate protective cover. Neat book shop sticker at base of rear pastedown. 86pp. One of 800 copies. Nicely preserved copy. ; 4 3/4" x 8 1/2"; 86 pages . hardcover
19792092902141000212Bijutsu shubbansha 1979. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B4 Bijutsu shubbansha paperback
1848005411London: Hering & Remington 1848. Near Fine. 1 hand-colored lithograph 400 x 475 mm. image is 276 x 318 mm.; mat is 19.5 x 20 inches. The lithograph was created by Edmund Walker 1813 or 1814-1882 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. 2 a portrait of Dost Mohammed who had been deposed as Emir of Afghanistan. In January 1841 when Rattray was granted an audience with him in Peshawar Dost Mohammed was a prisoner on his way to exile in Calcutta. Rattray wrote that since Dost Mohammed had been "a ruler just and merciful and attentive to affairs of state" the people of Peshawur thought that he had been unjustly treated by the British. 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
1848005410London: Hering & Remington 1848. Near Fine. 1 hand-colored lithograph 429 x 533 mm. image is 275 x 375 mm.; mat is 19.5 x 23 inches. The lithograph was created by Edmund Walker 1813 or 1814-1882 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. 22 in regard to which Rattray wrote: "I sketched this Uzbeg at the Fort of Lughmaunee Cohistaun." The ambassador represented Mir Wali prince of the frontier town of Kulum near Kunduz. In September 1840 the British were negotiating with Wali to transfer his allegiance to Shah Shuja. 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
1920biblio650Würzburg : Verlagsdruckerei Würzburg 1920-22. <p>22 volumes in8 en 19 1920-22 Nouvelle édition  illustrations facsimiles de monogrames avec tables et index portrait ; 23 cm Rel demi-toile avec légers accrocs aux dos et plats généralement bel ex ex-libris MKG</p><p>v 1-5 Niederlaender --</p><p>v 6-11 Les vieux maiÌ‚tres allemands --</p><p>v 12 Les clair-obscurs des maiÌ‚tres italiens --</p><p>v 13 Les vieux maiÌ‚tres italiens --</p><p>v 14 Å’uvres de Marc-Antoine et de ses deux principaux eÌleÌ€ves Augustin de Venise et Marc de Ravenne --</p><p>v 15 Estampes de diffeÌrents graveurs anonymes qui semblent eÌ‚tre de l'eÌcole de Marc-Antoine Raimondi --</p><p>v 16-18 Peintres ou dessinateurs italiens: MaiÌ‚tres du seizieÌ€me sieÌ€cle --</p><p>v 19-21 Peintres ou dessinateurs italiens: MaiÌ‚tres du dix-septieÌ€me sieÌ€cle</p><p>v 22 zusatze zu Adam Bartsch's Le peintre graveur von Joseph Heller; Supplémentspar Rudolph Weigel</p><br /><br /><br /> Verlagsdruckerei Würzburg unknown
1913214931913-1914. Print. Very Good. This antique advertising print has just a hint of toning along the outer edges of the margins but is clean bright and in very good condition. 10" x 7.75". Gage brothers ad on the reverse side. . unknown
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
176626550Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. The colour aquatint shows a bacchanal scene-- a youth in peplos reclines on an ornate couch he holds a large bowl in his left hand his right gestures toward a kylix above--all within a Greek-key tondo. Above him there are three dancing satyrs. This is a nicely detailed image on a black background coloured in shades of brown tan terracotta and gold. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 15" the image approximately 8.25" X 10". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. 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
1646D6064Paris: de l'imprimerie de Louys Sevestre et chez Pierre Daret graveur ordinaire du Roy 1646. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Modern morocco gilt-stamped lettering in black and green leather spine labels; folio; two parts in one volume. Lacking the main title-p. and engraved plates introducing part 1 but otherwise complete with full-page engraved frontis. pp. 24 illustrated text poem author portrait then 103 large plates engraved on coppy by Pierre Daret accompanied by text comprising the substance of the work. Light stains and marginal browning to first 20 or so pages otherwise text is in excellent condition with nice bright plates and ornate chapter headings and illuminated initials. Incomplete and sold as is. <br/><br/> de l'imprimerie de Louys Sevestre (et) chez Pierre Daret graveur ordinaire du Roy hardcover
199938518Barcelona: printed by Roser S. Noguera for the Galeria Alejandro Sales 1999. Four poems by Dachs illustrated with six original prints by Arbós: three etchings printed on Japanese paper laid down on fine wove paper and three silkscreens. EDITION LIMITED TO 25 NUMBERED COPIES. The first etching is SIGNED by Arbós and the justification is SIGNED by both the artist and the poet. Large folio. Loose as issued in publisher's cloth folding case. FINE AND BRIGHT with no defects. RARE. <br/><br/> printed by Roser S. Noguera for the Galeria Alejandro Sales hardcover
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
1948008728New York: Printed at The Spiral Press 1948. First edition. Paperback. This original Robert Frost 1948 Christmas Card features a trifecta of virtues. This is the first published appearance of this poem which had an unusual text history detailed further below. Of 2275 copies printed for 9 different names this is one of 375 printed for the poet himself. Last but certainly not least this is not only one of Frost's copies but is inscribed and signed by him. Following the first and second printed lines on the presentation page "This new poem brings Holiday Greetings from Robert Frost December 1948" Frost wrote "the Hendersons" and signed "Robert Frost". <br /> <br />Condition is near fine. The gray-green card wraps are clean bright and sharp cornered the binding staple firmly intact and uncorroded. We note only a tiny blemish above the title on the front cover and a trivial hint of wear to the spine heel. The contents are crisp and clean lightly age-toned but with no spotting or soiling. <br /> <br />With the permission of Frost and his publishers in 1929 the Spiral Press began printing an annual Robert Frost Christmas Card featuring one of his poems. The tradition continued until 1962 Frost's final Christmas. Each annual Christmas poem publication was printed with varying names on the title page to accommodate their being sent by various Frost publishers artists and important friends. This copy is one of those printed for Frost himself. <br /> <br />The 1948 Christmas poem "Closed for Good" has an unusual textual history. After it was first printed here it appeared in a number of other Frost collections including in the 1949 edition of Complete Poems and the 1954 1955 and 1963 editions of selected poems. In 1962 a revised version of Closed for Good was published as part of In the Clearing. There the poem is altered; the first stanza lines 1-6 is deleted And becomes They in line 7 and the word brush becomes spread in line 24. <br /> <br />This is clearly how Frost wanted the poem to evolve. In the Clearing was his final new collection and in 1958 Frost told Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant that he was trying out a new version of four stanzas. Nonetheless When Edward Connery Lathems edition of The Poetry of Robert Frost was published in 1969 the poem was presented in five stanzas and the two word changes restored to original. Given both Frosts manifestly deliberative use of words and the fact that the poem is a commentary on Frosts inheritance from the past and his legacy to the future the changes do not seem incidental. <br /> <br />By 1948 when this poem first appeared in his annual Christmas card and he inscribed this copy Robert Frost 1874-1963 had already entered the final decades of his life as the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Half a decade had passed since he had won his still-to-this-day-unrivalled fourth Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. This is all the more remarkable given that he did not publish his first volume of poetry until he was nearly 40 years old. <br /> <br />References: Crane B19; Tuten and Zubizarreta; ANB <br/><br/> Printed at The Spiral Press paperback
1959008606New York: Henry Holt and Company 1959. First edition first printing. Hardcover. This strikingly clean jacketed copy of the first edition first printing of Robert Frosts 1959 collection of Favorite Poems for Young Readers is signed by him "Robert Frost" on the title page just above his printed name. <br /> <br />This collection takes its title from the words repeated at the end of each stanza of this book's first poem "The Pasture" first published as the prefatory to North of Boston in 1914. Of this collection the publisher said Frost "has gathered a group of his poems to be read to and by young people. To Robert Frost a great-grandfather with a remarkable number of small friends this was a labor of love. Frost dedicated the volume to his mother Belle Moodie Frost who knew as a teacher that no poetry was good for children that wasnt equally good for their elders. Evoking Frosts famous poem Mending Wall Frosts friend Edward Hyde Cox 1914-1988 who contributes a Foreword to this volume said of Frost that he had never added a single stone to the wall that so often separates age from youth. Prevalent among the 51 poems herein is Frost's gently subversive inclination to write verse that is superficially accessible "lovely dark and deep" upon sounding. <br /> <br />This is a handsome book bound in orange-yellow linen cloth with a vignette of a bird on a fence post stamped in black on the lower right front cover corner and spine print stamped in black with a red acorn and leaf device between at the spine's center. The contents feature wood engravings by Thomas W. Nason and are bound with endpapers of heavy light gray wove paper and red and yellow head and tail bands. The dust jacket printed on beige laid paper features a wood engraving of birches spanning the lower front face spine and extending onto the rear face. The rear face prominently features Yousuf Karsh's famous portrait photograph of Frost. <br /> <br />Condition is truly fine in a truly fine dust jacket. The illustrated cloth binding is immaculately clean and bright with sharp corners and only the most trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The contents are likewise pristine with no spotting soiling toning or previous ownership marks. "FIRST EDITION" is so stated on the title page verso. The contents retain a pleasingly stiff feel The dust jacket is crisp bright clean and entirely complete with no loss or tears and retaining the original "$3.00" upper front flap price. We note only a hint of wrinkling to the spine heel and a touch of soiling to the lower rear face. The jacket is protected beneath a clear removable archival cover. <br /> <br />Publisher's statements are often hyperbolic. In this case the dust jacket's front flap description of Robert Frost as "America's beloved poet ageless and for the ages" was and remains more accurate than advertising. Before this volume was published on 26 March 1959 Robert Frost 1874-1963 reached the age of eighty-five. His stature had risen to an apex arguably unequalled by any American poet since. Frost had long-since won all of his still-unrivaled four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry 1924 1931 1937 and 1943. He spent his final years as the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration Kennedy January 1961. <br /> <br />Reference: Crane A39; Tuten and Zubizarreta; ANB <br/><br/> Henry Holt and Company hardcover
179946241Philadelphia: Robert Campbell 1799. First American edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Large octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2". xxiii 1 297 1pp Vol. 1; 267 1 xxivpp Vol. 2. Modern brown cloth with gold lettered leather title label to spine. Engraved frontispiece to both volumes. Lacking the separately printed atlas as usual.<br /> <br /> First American edition of this official report on the British Macartney Embassy to China that took place between 1792 and 1794. It was written after the return to England by the Secretary to the mission Sir George Leonard Staunton 1st Baronet 1737-1801 based on his own observations and notes from other crewmembers including his twelve-year-old son Sir George Thomas Staunton 2nd Baronet. <br /> <br /> "The account offers rich insights into the beginnings of British Imperialism in China and thus makes it an important primary source for the historiography of Sino-Western relations. There is an academic dispute whether the account marks a sudden turning point in British-Chinese dynamics or reflects a slow and complex divergence. <br /> <br /> While the political and economic ambitions of the embassy failed the account by Staunton brought back detailed descriptions of and observations on the Chinese culture that were received with curiosity in the West and led to the commercial success of the book and the publication of several translations and subsequent writings on the Macartney Mission." From Wikipedia<br /> <br /> This work is splendidly illustrated throughout with eight stunning engravings by Samuel Seymour two in volume one six in volume two including the frontispieces as called for in the directions to the binder. The xxiv page appendix contains detailed tables and charts dealing with population and socio-economic information.<br /> <br /> Previous owner's stamp E. W. Sage at verso of first frontispiece and at upper margin of first title. Moderate and sporadic foxing / age-toning throughout. Binding in very good interior in good to very good condition. Robert Campbell hardcover
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
168553234München Johann Hermann Gelder 1685. 4to. Later hcalf rebound spine worn but intact. Shaved close throughout loosing pagination number mainly at end. Some leaves with repairs some loosing text. Scattered brownspots. Traces of use. Some leaves frayed in margins. 22 pp. lacking titlepage.The first part paginated 1-1506 the second part ca. 400 pp. pagination shaved and ending abruptly. 14 engraved plates mounted and some with loss and defective. With around 70 large textengravings by Leonhard Heckenauer Jeremias Renner H.G. Bodenehr et al. <br/><br/><em>Richly illustrated by estimated Baroque-engravers such as Heckenauer Renner Bodenehr and others. </em> unknown
1977118788Fribourg : Imprimerie Saint-Paul 1977. 365x260mm. contr™le effectuÂŽ : complet des 7 estampes en feuille sous chemise et emboitage toilÂŽs. Les estampes ont ÂŽtÂŽ tirÂŽes par RenÂŽ-Agass Baumgartner sur ses presses ˆ Fribourg. Les cuivres ont ÂŽtÂŽ barrÂŽs aprÂs le tirage. La mise en page et la maquette sont de Jean-Christophe Aeby. LÕembo”tage a ÂŽtÂŽ rÂŽalisÂŽ par Roger Auderset ˆ Fribourg. Un des 62 exemplaires sur papier vÂŽlin dÕArches teintÂŽ des Papeteries Arjomari-Prioux numÂŽrotÂŽ n.¡ 21 / 60 signÂŽs par lÕauteur et lÕartiste en bas du justificatif de tirage. TrÂs bel exemplaire. 1424 Imprimerie Saint-Paul unknown
1776DEMO016704IGeneve SW 1776. Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplate engravings. 12mos contemporary full tree calf extra extra-gilt spines marbled papers. <br/><br/>Edited by Mons. Voltaire. Originally published in 1774. Very handsome set for one of France's greatest dramatists. Ex libris Sir Richard Bedingfeld probably the 5th Baronet Bedingfeld of Oxborough 1767-1829; however vol. 8 has an inked inscription indicating it was given to C. Bedingfeld -probably his wife Charlotte Georgiana Jerningham Bedingfeld. Note: the frontispiece to vol. 1 identifies its artist as Elizabeth Thiebau. Copperplate engravings. hardcover
198020836Newcastle: David Esslemont 1980; 1981; 1997. Limited editions. Paperback. Fine. 3 volumes. First vol.: xiv 1 24 pp. includes 22 numbered sheets with engravings printed on rectos only; second vol: xiv 1 32 pp. includes 28 numbered sheets with engravings printed on rectos only; third volume: 8 pp. pamphlet in blue printed wrappers accompanying 17 numbered loose sheets with engravings printed on rectos. All volumes unbound each in separate folder of natural linen and marbled boards housed together in matching slipcase with letterpress label. <br/><br/>Impressions from the original blocks of Thomas and John Bewick and Bewick apprentice Luke Clennell. Printed by hand on a Columbian press on BFK Rives Velin Cuve paper by David Esslemont. Limited editions: "John Bewick" No. 104/140; "Luke Clennell" No. 99/100; "Thomas Bewick Birds" one of 100 unnumbered copies. David Esslemont paperback
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
176626519Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. The colour aquatint shows a confrontation between two men one brandishing a sword with cloak draped over his left arm the other attempting to ward him off a stylized tree flanks the illustration. The background is black the image coloured with shades of tan terra-cotta and gold. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 13" the image approximately 11.5" X 9.5". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover
1638193614to. Cont. marbled boards somewhat worn. Engraved title with text on verso. 2 engraved allegorical titles with portrait of Drexel with the years 1638 and 1645. Having 50 of 54 allegorical and symbolical engravings numbered 1-54 nos. 172932 a. 41 lacks. Interfoliert. Some traces of use. A few tears repaired. At the title: FL = Johan F. Lindencrone. hardcover