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1747351229Printed for T. Osborne in Gray's Inn; A. Miller in the Strand; and J. Osborn in Paternoster Row London 1747. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. The engraving depicts inscriptions and relief carvings found on the staircases of Persepolis the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire in modern-day Iran. These carvings showcase royal inscriptions symbolic figures and decorative motifs reflecting the empire's grandeur and artistic sophistication. The hieroglyphics and characters likely represent Old Persian Elamite and Babylonian script which were commonly used in Achaemenid inscriptions. The engraving was printed 1747 in London by T. Osborne A. Miller and J. Osborn.1 folding plate. Size: 23 x 36 cms. Category: Universal History; PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; Printed before 1800; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's Inn; A. Miller, in the Strand; and J. Osborn, in Paternoster Row unknown
1331992397.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19679403Lexington KY: Gravesend Press printed by Robert Middleton 1967. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. 12mo. 4 5 3 pp. frontis illus. Limited edition. As issued sewn into pastepaper wrappers with printed paper label on the front wrapper. <br /> <br /> A beautiful copy with three engravings by DePol including the final tail-piece "Finis / Gravesend / Press." The book was nearly complete already set in type at the time of Graves's unexpected death in 1960. After many years Joe's wife and partner Lucy Graves decided to complete this edition as the final Gravesend imprint complete with the prophetic tailpiece. An absolutely charming piece of Lexington history and most certainly a part of the private press movement that was burgeoning. No indication of the size of the edition. Gravesend Press | printed by Robert Middleton unknown
51-4225A Paris chez Henri Sara et Jean PasleÌ 1647 or 1648. 24 x 18cm. on old laid paper. 12 engravings from the suite of 33.OCLC Number: 457068224François BIGNON d'après Anselmus van HULLE OU ZACHARIE HEINCE - Lot de 12 portraits tirés de la série « Les Pourtraictz au Naturel avec les armoiries et blasons noms et qualitez de Messieurs les Plénipotentiaires assemblez à Munster et Osnaburg pour faire la Paix générale. » XVIIe siècle./- 204 x 168 mm au TC. Belle condition. [A Paris, chez Henri Sara et Jean PasleÌ [1647 or 1648] unknown
0332304299.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1971ABE-10683366153Barre Publishers Massachusetts 1971 Barre Publishers 1971. Hardcover limited and slipcased signed by Michael McCurdy. The illustrations are printed from the original wood blocks. In a sturdy slip case. Signed by the artist limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 49. A beautiful small press production on 100% rag hand made paper. Slight scuffing on the leather spine edges at top and bottom. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Illustrator. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Barre Publishers Massachusetts hardcover
37495London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1927. . Limited edition no. 28 of 375 copies tall 8vo. pp.32 quarter orange buckram gilt orange paper-covered boards coloured frontispiece and 4 further hand-coloured plates; toning and some foxing to endpapers light foxing within spine just lightly sunned with light surface soil to boards and wear to paper covering at lower corners of boards overall a very good copy in good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket partially toned with closed tears and light loss to upper margin. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927. hardcover
0506L007244Fair. Good on the outside 3/4 blue leather and pebbled boards hardcover rebound later 19th C. Lacking initial pages to page 15 introduction. Foxing. Our photos. One photo shows pencilled note on front fly: "Found on camp ground at Manchester where soldiers were encamped before the Battle of Gettysburg. Mathi had this book rebound." Pages 15-828 complete. Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. Phila. 1847. illus. by woodcut engravings thick 8vo. hardcover
27099London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; J. Murray 1816. . Folio pp.viii174 attractive twentieth-century quarter calf with five raised bands gilt marbled boards new endpapers 20 engraved plates including additional pictorial title and one in the text; light foxing to pictorial title lower corner of rear board a little bumped otherwise a very good copy indeed. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; J. Murray, 1816. hardcover
1332958540.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
1334677336.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1334684715.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
111055Reeves and Turner London. c. 1884. Reeves and Turner . Undated but c. 1884. Second Edition greatly englarged and carefully revised. Cloth bound hardback with deckled edge text block with no DW. 8vo. Illustrated with woodcuts by Thomas and John Bewick and their pupils. Boards worn and stained with corners bumped and chipped. Red title plates to front board and spine chipped. Page edges heavily browned. Endpapers grubby with closed tear and gift dedication in ink to front free endpaper. Some foxing to text. Book ow/ sound and containing some beautiful Bewick woodcuts depicting lost social history. hardcover
0259286931.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
356941J Snow 1837. SIXTH THOUSAND octavo half leatherbound brown heavy boards gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to spine with rsaised bands also aeg frontispiece illus title page xviii 590pp illus VG moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork minor fading & rubbing to boards moderate soiling to gilt page edges & eps occasional light cracking to gutters prev. owner's name in ink to prelims moderate foxing throughout J Snow 1837 hardcover
19281409751Reading: Golden Cockerel Press 1928. Limited Edition #285/500. Hardcover. Octavo 151 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine red with black lettering. Bound in publisher's red fabric. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Top edge of text block gilt. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket small closed tears on spine. Three spots of discoloration on front dust jacket. Mild wear and rubbing front and back boards. Shelved in Case 9. Golden Cockerel Press is a curated private press started in 1920 in the Caxtonian tradition of editor-printer-publishers. 1409751. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
188834259Stuttgart: J Engelhorn Circa 1888. Presumed from the unlettered series of plates celebrating German engravers. Very fine large engravings reproducing Italian paintings by the engravers Ludwig Kuhn Peter Halm Karl von Siegl Jakob Groh Wilhelm Krauskopf and Doris Raab. 43.3 x 30.4 cm plates heavy wove paper with wide margins each plate with a tissue guard captioned in red. Six folio plates. In very good condition some of the plates and tissues have a little edgewear or minor light soiling in no case effecting the printed images. A VERY HANDSOME COLLECTION OF GERMAN ENGRAVINGS BASED ON ITALIAN RELIGIOUS ART OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. The six plates included are:<br><br>1. Doris Raab 1851-1899—a fascinating female German engraver. The Christ with the Four Evangelists†aka “The Resurrection of Our Lord†after the painting in the collection of the Galleria Palatina Palazzo Pitti Florence executed in 1516 by Fra Bartolommeo.<br><br>2. Peter Halm 1854-1923. Madonna Enthroned aka Madonna and Child after a circa 1505 painting by Giovanni Bellini.<br><br>3. Ludwig Kuhn 1859-1936 Madonna of the Pesaro Family after the painting in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice executed by Titian circa 1519.<br><br>4. Jakob Groh 1855-1917 Madonna and Child aka "Pitti Tondo" by Michael Angelo Buonarroti reproduced from the marble bas-relief at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence executed sometime around 1504.<br><br>5. Wilhelm Krauskopf 1847-1921 Descent From the Cross "Espagnolet" reproduced from the original in the Museo Nazionale di San Martino in Naples by Jusepe de Ribera in circa 1588<br><br>6. Karl von Siegl 1842-1900 Adoration of the Three Kings Magi after the bas-relief by Venetian Baroque sculptor Giovanni Bonazza 1654–1736 located in the Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo Venice. [J Engelhorn] unknown
1977066307Whiltshire England: Compton Press 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to. Includes slipcase. Limited Edition of 100 numbered copies. This is copy 69. Includes 10 signed and numbered tipped-in artists proofs. Marbled boards with green leather spine gilt lettering along spine. Minor shelfwear moderate spine fade. Tight binding no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Heavy fading and tanning on slipcase with some scuffing. Slipcase is in Very Good-minus condition. Compton Press Hardcover
0504OTFRIWVUnknown Binding. Very Good. SIGNED by the author Harry Worcester Smith with a dedication on the front fly to John Cary Randolph who when he rides is "a thoroughbred on a thoroughbred." Dr. Archibald Cary Randolph a landed surgeon whose family helped settle Virginia was hunt master of the Piedmont Hunt until his death in 1959. Very good red cloth brighter gilt and doecot on front board than on spine; No reader remainder or ex-library marks. first ed. 1st printing in no dustjacket. Foxing at textblock and dusting at top edge only. Illus. excellent throughout. unknown
112186n.p. n.d. eighteenth century circa 1750. . A suite of four original hand coloured engravings titled in Spanish and French La Manna Le Matin; El Mediodia Le Midi; Eldespues de Comer L'Apres Diner and Le Soir La Tarde each approx. 50 x 68 cm modern gilt frames.<br /> An exquisite suite of four eighteenth century conversation piece engravings in the rococo style showing the nobility at leisure dining and dancing outdoors in a bucolic setting. Each image is beautifully set within delicately coloured scrolled borders featuring flowers foliage leafy tendrils and fruit. These prints capture the privilege and lifestyle of the aristocracy and are typical of French decorative art in the early to mid eighteenth century.<br /> n.p., n.d. [eighteenth century, circa 1750]. unknown
AQ20609London and Stuttgart Und Tubingen: J. H. Bohte and in der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung 1824 and 1823. Three volumes within publisher's folder with paper title label. 10; 4 11pp 1; 8 full-page engravings. Two text volumes sewn with small cloth strip glued to spine the plates stitched as issued. Occasional spotting. The beautifully illustrated first illustrated edition of Schiller's 'Fridolin or the Road to the Iron Forge' - a ballad which the German poet Schiller 1759-1805 composed for a poetry competition against Goethe in 1797 with the text volume of the parallel German-English edition published in London by Bohte ‘foreign bookseller to his majesty’. The engravings by Moritz Retzsch 1779-1857 German painter and draughtsman were much praised: accompanied by the illustrations the ballad 'assumes a new and more exalted character' provided by Retzsch's ability to give them 'an airy dimness that softens what is beautiful and deepens all that is terrific' Monthly Review 1825 p.522. OCLC locates a single copy in the British Isles BL and three in North America. . Oblong quarto. J. H. Bohte [and] in der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1824 [and] 1823. hardcover
1810373757c.1810-1820. Unframed Print. Good Condition. Spanning at least 70 pages with a few duplicates and measuring approximately 13 20 cm. Condition varies but none are torn some are bright others a little browned a number have a small piece of paper attached from the rear at the edge. A useful and large collection of plates showcasing hand-coloured designs and furnishings published in the early 19th century. Each engraving offers a vivid glimpse into Regency England an era defined by elegance invention and visual harmony these images reflect a world where utility was shaped by style and everyday life was framed in refinement. Originally issued in Ackermanns Repository of Arts a renowned periodical devoted to design fashion and domestic culture the plates exemplify the taste and innovation of the period. Their hand-applied colouring enhances both their decorative charm and their documentary value capturing the rhythm and sophistication of a society in transition. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; PRINTS : Historic Interest; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. unknown
1958263089New York: Thomas Yoseloff Inc 1958. Signed. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. #23 of 100 copies Signed by Robert Graves and illustrator James Metcalf. The dustjacket presents nicely with small chip at the top of the spine and two small chips at the top of the rear panel. There is modest loss to the bottom of the spine and a piece at the bottom has been reattached from the verso using heat-set tissue. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Thomas Yoseloff, Inc unknown
