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18917594CBZürich, Hofer & Burger, 1891. Quer.-folio. (7) Bl. Mit Frontisp., Übersichtskarte und 56 Karten (chromolithogr. Reproduktionen). Illustr. Orig.-Halbleinenband.
183612808AB2 Bände. London, George Virtue, (1836). 4°. IV, 188 S.; (1) Bl.; (2), 152, (2) S. Mit 2 gest. Titel und 106 Stahlstiche von William Henry Bartlett sowie 1 gef. Karte. Spätere Halblederbände.
18604762AB2 Bände. Zürich, Im Selbstverlage des Herausgebers, 1860 und 1865. Gr.-8°. 1: (125) Bl, Chromolithogr. Titel, 52 lithogr. Tafeln; 2: Chromolithogr. Titel, 224 S., 8 S., 40 lithogr. Tafeln. Die Tafeln in Farb-, Gold- u. Silberdruck. Gold- u. blindgepr. Orig.-Leinenband.
182830176AB7 Bände. Zürich, Orell Fuessli, 1828–1833. 8°. Mit 28 kol. Kupfertafeln. Pappbände aus der Zeit mit verg. Rückenschild und Rückenvergoldung.
18177702CBBern, J. J. Burgdorfer, 1817. Quer-kl.-4°. (8) S., (1) Bl. (Verlagsanzeigen). Mit 15 Kupfertafeln. Orig.-Umschlag.
18404793BB10 Mappen. Bern, Verlag der lithogr. Anstalt von J. F. Wagner, o. J. (1840). Quer-Gross-8°. 32 S.; 12 S.; 13 S.; 18 S.; 12 S. Mit 199 lithogr. Tafeln, (+ 1 zusätzliche lithogr. Tafel) nach Zeichnungen von J. F. Wagner. Lose Blatt in Papierumschlägen unter Verwendung der Orig.-Titel (diese auf vord. Deckel mont.)
184031170AB(Bern, um 1840). 8°. 12, 18, 13, 13, 32 S. Mit 219 (von 225) Tafeln. Späterer Halblederband.
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
188512353Lyon, H. Georg (Lyon, A. Waltener imprimeur), 1885 ; in-4, broché ; 20 pp., 47 eaux-fortes hors-texte protégées par des serpentes, couverture imprimée en rouge et noir.
182331215AB1823?1835. Div. Formate. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, A
190015849ABca. 1900. 24 : 18 cm. 8 double-page hand-coloured paltes, partly in aquatinta. Japanese boards with tile-label on front cover.
1808426584Dessau u. Leipzig, Voß, 1808-09. 4to u. 8vo. S. III-VIII, 1 Bl. "Nachricht", S. III-XX (recte XVIII), 624 S., 1 Bl. u. 1 Bl. Anzeigen; 1 Bl., XXIV, 382, 106 S., 1 Bl., 156 S. Halbleder (beschabt u. bestoßen) u. Pappband d. Zeit (berieben u. bestoßen). [3 Warenabbildungen]
1900141111900 P., Imprimerie Eugène Verneau, s.d. (ca 1900), frise montée dans un rouleau en zinc, environ 3700mm x 235mm.Dernière scène froissée avec petites restaurations anciennes à ladhésif au verso, bel ensemble.
185114661Très rare suite de 5 lithographies (sur 6) sous portefeuille illustrée d'une gravure. Les lithographies sont tirées sur chine appliqué. Voici les dimensions des feuilles : Portefeuille 66x51 cm, L'ivrognerie 65 x 50 cm, Débauche et luxure 47,5 x 30 cm, Le duel 51,5 x 37,5 cm, La guerre 52 x 35 cm, Le calomniateur 65 x 50 cm. Il semblerait qu'il s'agit du tout premier tirage de cette suite avant la publication en 1855 avec la dédicace à Froment-Meurice. En feuilles Bon Paris Delarue 1851 1 volume in-8°
1840598DG(um 1840). Kol. Lithographie. Bildgrösse: 20,2 x 30,7 cm. Blattgrösse: 28,5 x 38 cm.
182331215AB1823–1835. Div. Formate.
18403656DBUm 1840. Lose in Papp-Schachtel, mit farb. Illustr. in Schuber der Zeit. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, Abb.
1837STLL0043München, M. Lindauer [1837]. 16° (82 x 50 mm). 32 nn. Bll. Text, 12 Tafeln, 5 Bll. vakat; mit 12 Leerblättern durchschossen. Rotes OLdr. mit Blind- u. Goldpräg. sowie Voll-Goldschnitt. Mit Lasche, Schlaufe u. lederner Bleistiftschlaufe. Gering berieben. Fehlt bei Köhring. Die 12 altkolorierten Kupfertafeln zeigen die Kalendermonate mittels kindlicher Darsteller. Der 'Münchener Sackkalender' erschien von 1832-1865. Nach Genealogie u. Kalendarium (mit Wetterprognosen) enthält der vorliegende Jahrgang zwei lyrische Beiträge König Ludwigs, Charaden, Rätsel, ein detailliertes Verzeichnis der Briefpost- und Wagen-Verbindungen in Bayern, zuletzt sogar eine Übersicht über die wöchentliche Floßverbindung von München über Passau nach Wien. Mit einigen zeitrgen. Bleistift-Notizen auf den letzten Leerblättern.
185515126Paris, Garnier-Frères, 1855 ; grand in-8 ; demi-veau glacé rouge sang, dos à faux-nerfs plats noirs à froid, caissons décorés et dorés aux petits fers dans un encadrement de filet doré, titre doré, plats de papier gauffré rouge (reliure de l'époque) ; VII, 528 pp., 18 planches hors-texte finement gravées sur acier d'après Allom, Beutley, Salmon et Leitch, très grande carte dépliante par L. Berthe, lithographiée et coloriée à la main.
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
18403656DBUm 1840. 29 handschriftlichen datierten und unterschriebenen Blättern, Kolorierte Ansichten von Zürich, Engelberg, Basel, Genf, Zeichnung von einen Reh/Hirsch, Bleistiftzeichnung von einem Gebäude von H. Keller. Lose in Papp-Schachtel, mit farb. Illustr. in Schuber der Zeit.
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
18432163DBBern u. Zürich, Chr. Fischer, u.Stämpfli u. Friedrich Schulthess u. J. Körber, 1843-1858. 8°. Pappbände der Zeit mit goldgepr. Rückenschildern (nicht uniform gebunden). + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 2163D 3 Bde.; 2 Bde.; 3 Bde.; 3 Bde.
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
