JAPANESE ORNAMENTAL WOODBLOCK PRINTS. Bijutsu Kai. Collection of Pictures Regarding Colour Designs for Japanese Textiles Costumes. Five parts in one volume. Five folding plates and 18 full-page coloured woodblock prints per section, for a total of 95 original illustrations. 8vo., 232 x 160 mm, bound in Japanese accordion style with.....
Item nr. 142126
Price: $7,500.00
[MAZOIS, Charles-Francois]. Le Palais de Scaurus, ou Decription d'une Maison Romaine, fragment d'un voyage fait a Rome vers la fin de la Republique par Mérovir, Prince des Suèves. 308 pp., illustrated with 12 engraved plates (one folding) and numerous vignettes in the text. 8vo, 210 x 125 mm., bound in.....
Item nr. 142062
Price: $495.00
SPON, Jacob. Histoire de la Ville et de l'Estat de Genéve, Depuis les Premiers Siecles de la Fondation de la Ville jusqu'a present. Tireé fidellement des Manuscrits Par Jacob Spon, Docteur Aggregé au College des Medicins de Lyon, & à la Academie des Ricovrati de Padouë. [24], 435, [9], 413-522.....
Item nr. 141900
Price: $675.00
BELDEN, E. Porter. New-York - As It Is; Being the Counterpart of the Metropolis of America. [2], 18, [2 blank] pp., illustrated with a full-page wood engraving of the "Model of New York." New York: Prall, Lewis & Co., 1851. WITH:
The American Advertiser; Designed for the Cards and Advertisements of.....
Item nr. 141806
Price: $675.00
FORT HILL CEMETERY. Hand-book of Fort Hill Cemetery: Containing Information Respecting the Ancient Mound and Fortification, and the Indian Monument within the Enclosure. Also, The Ordinances of the Board of Trustees. [2], 127 pp. Small 8vo., publisher's brown cloth, title in gilt, blind stamping on spine. Auburn, N.Y.: W.J. Moses.....
Item nr. 141523
Price: $495.00
RIDDELL, John. Architectural Designs for Model Country Residences. Accompanied by general descriptions and estimates. Prepared expressly for persons who contemplate building, and artisans throughout the United States. [14] ff., illustrated with 20 full-page colour lithograph plates (illustrating 22 country houses) each accompanied by a full-page plan. Oblong folio, 370 x......
Item nr. 141465
Price: $17,500.00
CORPORATION OF LONDON. Proceedings in reference to the preservation of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Printed by order of the Corporation of London. [4], 88 pp. 8vo, red publisher's binding with gilt insignia and lettering on front outside cover. London: Benjamin Pardon, 1867.
This collection of proceedings by the Bunhill Fields.....
Item nr. 141229
Price: $255.00
BUFFALO. Buffalo Business Directory, With Alphabetical and Classified Index. Containing, Also, Advertisements of the Principal Business Houses in Rochester, Chicago, etc. [5], 230, [1] pp., profusely illustrated. 8vo, 223 x 150 mm., bound in publisher's elaborately blind and gilt stamped green cloth. [Buffalo]: Hunter & Ostrander, Democracy Printing Association, 1855.
An.....
Item nr. 132283
Price: $585.00
PARIS. Manuel du Voyageur a Paris. By Claude-Francois-Xavier Mercier de Compiegne. [20], 352 pp. 12mo, 140 x 87 mm., bound in original wrappers and paper label, later glassine cover. Paris: Favre, An 1X [1801].
A lovely copy of this extremely detailed Napoleonic guide to Paris for 1801. This little book is.....
Item nr. 130714
Price: $625.00
QUARENGHI, Giacomo. Fabbriche e Disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi Architetto di S. M. L'Imperatore di Russia, Cavaliere di Malta e di S. Waldimiro, Illustrate Dal Cav. Giulio suo Figlio. [5], 6-46, [2] pp., illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Quarenghi, and 59 full-page engraved plates. Folio, 480 x 330 mm......
Item nr. 130538
Price: $8,500.00
ANONYMOUS. Tableau ou Description de la Russie. Avec les Moeurs, Usages, Coutumes, Religion de ses Divers Peuples. Orne de Jolies Figures. [4], 139, [1] pp., with 7 plates. 12mo, 130 x 80 mm., bound in half reddish calf over red marbled paper covered boards. Paris: Chez H. Nicole, Rue de.....
Item nr. 128558
Price: $425.00
EXPEDITION WATERCOLOURS. Krusenstern Voyage. 1 f. text and 50 original watercolours. 4to, 280 x 200 mm., bound in Japanese concertina form, original paper over boards, paper title-label on top cover, in a new chitsu folding case. [Tokyo?]: [ca. 1840].
A fascinating album of watercolours made after the originals painted during the.....
Item nr. 128519
Price: $15,000.00
SAINT-AUBIN, Gabriel. Placets de l'officier Desbans. Preface by Neil MacGregor, Director, British Museum. 62 pp. Illustrated with 15 facsimile drawings by Gabriel Saint-Aubin, plus a few head- and tail-pieces. Folio, 360 x 235 mm, bound in full red silk over boards, with the gilt-stamped coat-of-arms of Marie-Antoinette on both covers.....
Item nr. 127314
Price: $475.00
SUBMARINE NAVIGATION. Nuovo trattato sulla vera rettificazione del circolo misurato esattamente con il diametro: utile alla trigonometria, alla misura delle curve, e degli spazj curvilinei... Con una dissertazione sul modo di navigare sott'acqua, inventato dallo stesso autore l'anno 1799. By Gaetano Marchetti Tomassi. 75, [1], 34 pp. Illustrated with 6.....
Item nr. 124094
Price: $2,500.00
PASSE, the younger, Crispijn van de. Les Vrais Pourtraits de quelques unes des plus grandes dames de la Chrestiente, desguisees en Bergeres. I. Partie. (- Part II: les Damoiselles Nobles & Dames de Qualité… - Part III. les Pourtraits des Femmes et Filles d'honorable Marchants... Part IV. Le Choeur des.....
Item nr. 123770
Price: $22,500.00
ISE, Sadatsune and Nobumitsu KURIHARA. Tazuna Zushiki. [Horse Rein/Bridle Designs]. 10 leaves, including 7 double-page colour woodcuts, on double leaves folded accordion style (orihon). 8vo, 249 x 170 mm., bound in publisher's patterned boards with title-label on top cover, preserved in a new chitsu folding case. Japan, ca. 1834.
An.....
Item nr. 123599
Price: $975.00
SHOOTING FESTIVAL. Beschreibung des Kaiserl. Gnaden-und Frey-Schiessen, welches von ihro Kaiser-und Koenigliche Catholischen Majestaet Carolo Sexto der Wienerischen Burgerschaft durch vierzehn Tag gegeben worden. In der Jahr 1739. 68 pp. text and 10 engraved plates, including double-sheet frontispiece and 4 full-sheet and folding, woodcut armorial headpiece. Small folio, 320 x......
Item nr. 123038
Price: $7,500.00 save 30% $5,250.00
LE PRINCE, Jean Baptiste. Divers Habillemens des Femmes de Moscovie. Dediée à M. de Lagrenée Peintre du roi, par son humble et très obéïssant Snr J.B. Le Prince. Complete suite of six numbered engravings on three sheets, signed "Le Prince 1764." Tipped-on and mounted on heavier paper, in window mats.....
Item nr. 122991
Price: $6,500.00
LONGHI, Francesco M. Informazione alli forestieri delle cose piu notabili della citta, e stato di Bologna. [1] -190, [2], iv pp. Illustrated with fold out engraved map by P. Panfili, 2 small ornamental woodcuts and decorated initial. Small 8vo., 143 x 98 mm, bound in cream paper over boards with.....
Item nr. 119798
Price: $1,250.00
CRUIKSHANK, George. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. By Henry Fielding Esq. Two volumes. xxiv, 456; [6], 448 pp. With eight full-page etchings by George Cruikshank plus frontispiece portrait of Fielding in volume one by another artist. 8vo., 170 x 115 mm, bound in 19th century three-quarter blue morocco.....
Item nr. 117823
Price: $375.00
CRUIKSHANK, George. Songs, Naval and National of the Late Charles Dibdin; with a Memoir and Addenda. xvi, 336 pp. With 12 etchings, including frontispiece, by George Cruikshank. Small 8vo., 165 x 115 mm, bound in late 19th century blue sheepskin over marbled boards, red morocco spine label. London: John Murray.....
Item nr. 117767
Price: $375.00
U.S. NAVY. Regulations governing the Uniform of Commissioned Officers, Warrant Officers, and enlisted Men of the Navy of the United States. 26, [2] pp. With 52 full-page chromolithographic plates of military costume + 1 full-page chromolithograph of an American Eagle. 8vo., 234 x 143 mm, bound in original publisher's blue.....
Item nr. 110097
Price: $850.00
NEILL, Patrick. Journal of a Horticultural Tour through some parts of Flanders, Holland, and the north of France, in the autumn of 1817. xvi, 574, [2] pp. Illustrated with 7 black & white engraved plates, two of which are fold-out plans, by W.H. Lizars after John Hay; 8 illustrations in.....
Item nr. 101834
Price: $975.00
CHILDREN'S BOOK OF TRAVEL IN NORTH, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
TAYLOR, Rev. Isaac. Scenes in America for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers. viii, 120 pp. With a folding map and 28 plates. 8vo., 169 x 105 mm, bound in original publisher's printed boards. London: John Harris, n.d. (ca.1825).
Fine.....
Item nr. 90386
Price: $500.00
MARCHAND, D. Alphabet 41 Militaire. 8 leaves folded accordion style, including colour-printed illustrations. 12mo, 152 x 115 mm. folded., 152 x 900 mm. unfolded, bound in light blue wrappers, title and decorations in gilt, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: R. De Saintonge, (1835).
Primer of the alphabet with a......
Item nr. 88652
Price: $1,250.00