BRINK, Carol Fredrik. Nouvelle Description du Cap de Bonne-Esperance. Two parts in one volume. [8], 130, [2], 100 pp. With 16 folding plates, of which 15 depict African game and 1 of an African tree. 8vo., 205 x 123 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch mottled calf, spine gilt, marbled edges.....
Item nr. 166933
Price: $2,250.00
BASOLI, Antonio. Raccolta di Prospettive Serie, Rustiche, E di Paesaggio, Dedicate al Merito di Alcuni Mecenati, Professori, Amatori di Belle Arti, Ed Amici...inventate da Antonio Basoli...disegnate da Francesco Cocchi...incise da diversi scuolari... Title-page with vignette followed by 102 numbered and signed etched plates. Oblong folio, 380 x 460 mm., bound.....
Item nr. 166924
Price: $8,500.00
PÉRIN, Rene. Le Voyageur Anglais Autour du Monde Habitable: Nouvelle Méthode Amusante et Instructive pour étudier la Géographie...Orné de 45 Gravures coloriees avec soin, Représentant Les Vues des Principales Villes Capitales du Monde et les Costumes de leurs Habitans. [2], 142 pp., illustrated with hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and decorative title.....
Item nr. 165362
Price: $3,500.00
BETTI, Giovanni Battista. A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti. Contents includes illustrated engraved title and 24 engraved plates. Oblong folio, 220 x 300 mm, bound in contemporary paste-paper wrappers, preserved in a red half morocco folding box. Florence: 1779.
First Edition of Betti's imaginative illustrated alphabet-book, containing 24 full-page oblong plates of richly.....
Item nr. 165360
Price: $9,750.00 save 30% $6,825.00
IKEDA, Toritei. Kaisei Kyo machiezu saiken taisei: Rakuchu Rakugai machimachi kona zen. Colour woodcut map. 8vo, folded 210 x 145 mm., unfolded 1650 x 720 mm., bound in contemporary wrappers, in a new chitsu case. Kyoto: Takehara Kobei, 1840.
This is the first printing of this revised version of this map.....
Item nr. 165328
Price: $1,500.00
MATSUOKA, Tokikata and Honma HYAKURI. Shozoku shokumon zue. [Patterns of Brocades Worn at Court]. 92 pp., illustrated with 146 woodcuts. 8vo, 240 x 167 mm., bound in original wrappers in a new chitsu case. Tokyo: n.p., 1815.
The first edition of this wonderful example of early nineteenth century Japanese bookmaking. Many.....
Item nr. 165242
Price: $1,500.00
PILLEMENT, Jean. Cahier de Six Baraques Chinoises WITH: Recueil de Tentes Chinoises. Two suites each comprised of 6 etchings, professionally matted. Plate size: ca. 242 x 165 mm. Sheet size: ca. 350 x 257 mm. All preserved in a large folio sized modern maroon cloth box. Paris: Leviez, 1770.
First State.....
Item nr. 165235
Price: $7,500.00 save 30% $5,250.00
AOYAMA, Toyotaro. Dainihon Hakuranzu, Tochigi-ken no bu. [Catalog of the Industrial Exhibition (Japan): Tochigi Prefecture]. 200 engraved plates on 100 leaves. Oblong folio, 320 x 220 mm., bound in contemporary cloth backed boards, rebacked, with part of the original spine laid down, in a new chitsu case. Tokyo: Seikosha, 1890.
A.....
Item nr. 165229
Price: $7,500.00
UEHARA, Toichiro. Tokyo kaimono hitoriannai. Shonin meika. 173 leaves, all printed on both sides, including a double-page woodcut frontispiece of Tokyo. Oblong 8vo, 125 x 175 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers in a new chitsu case. Tokyo: Uehara Toichiro, 1890.
A beautifully printed guide to shops in Tokyo. With numerous woodcuts.....
Item nr. 165218
Price: $1,750.00
IEHARA, Masanori and Kan'ichiro SHIOZU. Gakko hitsuyo irozu mondo. [2], 40, [2] pp. on 22 double folded leaves. Illustrated with two hand-coloured charts and small hand-coloured squares throughout the text. 8vo., 210 x 150 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers with title label preserved in a new purple cloth folding box.....
Item nr. 165153
Price: $2,500.00
TOKYO GUIDE. Tokyo meisho hitori annai. Illustrated with two double-page woodcut maps and 28 full page woodcut views. Oblong 8vo, 120 x 165 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Tokyo: Hoeido, 1890.
A guide to Tokyo at the end of the nineteenth century. Among the scenes.....
Item nr. 165068
Price: $1,250.00
YASUI, Otsuyu. Tokyo meisho annai: Eiri. [Illustrated Guide Book of Scenic Beauty in Tokyo]. 2 Volumes. Illustrated with 60 plates and a folding map of Tokyo. 12mo, 93 x 54 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers in a modern chitsu case. Tokyo: Bunseido, 1883.
A charming guide book to Tokyo at the.....
Item nr. 165023
Price: $850.00
PRICHARD, John Cowles. The natural history of man comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family. [18], 678 pp., plus 12 pp. ads., illustrated with steel engraved hand-coloured frontispiece, 55 steel engraved plates (on 50 sheets) of which 50.....
Item nr. 164560
Price: $3,500.00 save 30% $2,450.00
MICHAUX, André. Histoire des Chênes de l'Amerique ou, Descriptions et Figures de toutes les espèces et variétés de Chênes de l'Amérique Septentrionale, Considérées sous les rapports de la Botanique, de leur culture et de leur usage. [4], 7, [49] pp. 36 leaves of engraved plates, 32 after Pierre Joseph Redouté.....
Item nr. 164236
Price: $6,500.00
TUCCARO, Arcangelo. Trois dialogues de l'exercise de sauter et voltiger en l'air. [4], 197 ff, (misnumbered throughout). Illustrated with woodcut title vignette, large folding woodcut plate (270 x 385 mm), 87 large woodcuts throughout text (many full-page, some repeating). 4to., 215 x 165 mm, bound nineteenth-century vellum over boards, brown.....
Item nr. 163853
Price: $18,500.00 save 30% $12,950.00
VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Hans. XII Caesarum Romanorum Imagines. E numismatibus expressae, et historica narratione illustrata. By Franciscus Sweertius. 30 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 12 engraved portraits with elaborate borders by Hans Vredeman de Vries. Small 4to., 200 x 140 mm, bound in eighteenth-century Dutch calf, spine gilt. Antwerp.....
Item nr. 162757
Price: $7,500.00 save 30% $5,250.00
BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien. American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson. Four volumes . Illustrated with 27 hand- coloured engraved plates after T.R. Peale, A. Rider, and J.J. Audubon (one figure of plate 4) by A. Lawson, all hand-coloured by Rider. Folio.....
Item nr. 162271
Price: $9,750.00
PARIS. Paris Guide par les principaux ecrivains et artistes de la France. Two volumes. I: xiv, 902, 27, [1] pp. II: xiv, 903-2139, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout, including many folding plates and maps. Thick 8vo., 190 x 120 mm, bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt armorial at center of front.....
Item nr. 159495
Price: $1,500.00
LAFEVER, Minard. The Architectural Instructor, Containing a History of Architecture from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time... 526 pp., illustrated with 112 numbered engraved plates containing hundreds of elements and views. Folio, 215 x 303 mm., bound in brown buckram with a new black morocco spine label stamped in.....
Item nr. 157655
Price: $2,750.00
BOSTON. Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners. January, 1893. House No. 150. [i]-xvi, [1]-147, [1] pp. Illustrated with 31 plates, 14 maps, plans, and diagrams (4 folding). 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth. Boston: Metropolitan Park Commissioners, 1893.
The first and most important of the 27 annual reports published on.....
Item nr. 153794
Price: $350.00
WASHINGTON, D.C. Bohn's Hand-Book of Washington. With an Appendix. Illustrated with twenty engravings of public buildings, etc. By Cassimir Bohn. 104 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece, 17 tinted full-page lithographs, fold out lithographic map of Washington, D.C., engraved fold out plan of the House and Senate chambers. 12mo., 148 x......
Item nr. 153793
Price: $1,250.00
MOSCOW. Guide du voyageur a Moscou. By A. and F. Tastevin. [4], 194; 29, [1], XIII, [1] pp. Illustrated with 30 photographic views in text and two large folding maps of Moscow. 8vo., 153 x 105 mm, bound in publisher's green cloth, title gilt on front cover. Moscow: Imprimerie Th.....
Item nr. 153299
Price: $575.00
STOCKHOLM. Stockholm och desz sköna nejder. Med en i koppar grawerad tafla. [2], 24 pp. Illustrated with 12 leaves containing 51 mounted engraved plates, cut up from one large sheet. 8vo., 185 x 110 mm, bound in original red calf backed glazed boards. Stockholm: Hörberg, 1826.
First Edition. A lovely copy.....
Item nr. 152906
Price: $2,500.00
OKADA, Gyukuzan, et al. Morokoshi Meisho Zue. [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China]. Six volumes bound in five, xylographically printed and illustrated throughout, including many double-page woodcut illustrations. 8vo, 265 x 185 mm., bound Japanese-style in original tan paper wrappers with printed paper lettering pieces, in a modern green.....
Item nr. 151243
Price: $15,000.00
BARBARO, Daniel. La Pratica della Perspettiva di Monsignor Daniel Barbaro Eletto Patriarca D'Aquileia, Opera molto utile a Pittori, a Scultori, & ad Architetti. [2], 196, [12] pp. Illustrated with over 200 woodcut diagrams and illustrations of which over 20 are full-page and one double-page. Folio, 300 x 204 mm, bound.....
Item nr. 151063
Price: $17,500.00