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REMBRANDT. Der Zee-Vaert Lof, Handelende vande gedenckwaerdighste Zeevaerden met de Daeraenklevande op en Onderganghen der Voornaemste Heerschappijen der Gantscher Wereld. By Elias Herckmans. [20], 235, [9] pp. Illustrations include engraved allegorical title-page and 18 large etchings illustrating the text, one by Rembrandt and 17 by Willem Basse.....
Item nr. 153634
Price: $22,500.00
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.....
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
WALKER, A.H. Atlas of Bergen County New Jersey. 167 pp. including over 100 maps and illustrations: 61 coloured maps of townships and villages, 37 lithograph views of residences and businesses by A.M. Davis after drawings by George Allen Rudd, plus world maps and advertisements. Folio, 440 x 375 mm, bound.....
Item nr. 150703
Price: $2,500.00
VASARI, Giorgio. Ragionamenti del Sig. Cavaliere Giorgio Vasari. Sopra le inventioni da lui dipinte in Firenze nel Palazzo di loro Altezze Serenissime. Insieme con la inventione della Pittura da lui cominciata nella Cupola. [8], 186, [18] pp. Illustrated with the Giunta printing device with initial "F" on title-page and, in.....
Item nr. 150554
Price: $7,500.00
RACINET, Auguste. Le Costume Historique. Cinq cents planches, trois cents en couleurs, or et argent, deux cents en camaieu. Types principaux du vétement et de la parure rapproche s de ceux de l'inte rieur de l'habitation dans tous les temps et chez tous les peuples avec de nombreux détails sur.....
Item nr. 150530
Price: $2,500.00
RIBUFFI, Gaspare. Guida di Ravenna...con compendio storico della citta. Engraved title-page, X, 163, [3] pp. Illustrated with three full-page engraved plates and one very large engraved folding plate. 8vo., 202 x 135 mm, bound in original publisher's printed wrappers, with title on front cover in a decorative frame repeated on.....
Item nr. 150417
Price: $975.00
PANNI, Anton-Maria. Distinto Rapporto delle Dipinture che trovansi nelle Chiese della Città, e Sobborghi di Cremona. XXIV (i.e., 20), 214, [2] pp. 8vo., 171 x 120 mm, bound in contemporary carta rustica, sewing visible along spine. Cremona: Nella Stampa del Ricchini, 1762.
First and Only Edition. Panni's book remains the ultimate.....
Item nr. 150410
Price: $1,750.00
[ZANETTI, Anton Maria and Marco BOSCHINI]. Della pittura veneziana trattato in cui osservasi l'ordine del Busching, e si conserva la dottrina, e le definizioni del Zanetti... Two volumes. viii, 145 (i.e., 245), [3, including final blank] pp.; 256 (i.e., 272) pp. Each volume illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. 8vo., 165.....
Item nr. 150406
Price: $1,850.00
ASSISI. BRUSCHELLI, Domenico. Asisi citta serafica e santuarii (sic) che la decorano ad istruzione e guida de' forestieri che vi concorrono. VIII, 85, [3] pp. Illustrated with 30 full-page engraved plates numbered I-XXX. 4to., 227 x 145 mm, bound in original Italian blue paper wrappers, manuscript title and author on.....
Item nr. 150396
Price: $1,750.00
AMSTERDAM. Description de l'Hotel de Ville D'Amsterdam. Avec l'Explication de tous les Emblemes, Figures, Tableaux, Statues, &c. qui se trouvent dehors & dans ce Batiment. [4], 3-126, [2] pp. Illustrated with 4 fold-out engravings of city hall and woodcut tailpieces. Small 8vo., 155 x 90 mm, bound in contemporary mottled.....
Item nr. 149674
Price: $1,250.00
HASHIZUME, Kanichi. Sekai Shobai Orai. 26 leaves. Illustrated throughout with small woodcuts in text. 8vo., 180 x 118 mm, bound in Japanese style original blue wrappers in a new blue cloth folding box. Tokyo: Seizando, 1873.
A handy bilingual vocabulary of world trade giving the English, with Japanese explanations, of a......
Item nr. 148958
Price: $975.00
PARIS. Les Rues et les Environs de Paris. Contenant dans la premiere Partie les Rues de Paris, Carrefours, Cul-de-Sacs, Cloîtres, Cours, Passages, Marchez, Ports, Portes, Quais, Places, et généralement tout ce qui contient plusieurs maisons et habitations, et qui ne désigne aucun domicile en particulier. La seconde partie contient les.....
Item nr. 148562
Price: $1,250.00
LEBER, Maximilien de. Calculs des Raccordements Paraboliques dans les Tracés de Chemins de Fer... viii, 172 pp. Small 4to., 265 x 185 mm, bound in publisher's gold stamped cloth. Paris: Baudrey et Cie., 1892.
An exhaustive work on the construction of railway bridges in an attractive polychrome binding...
Item nr. 148055
Price: $275.00
BLASIS, Carlo di. L'uomo fisico, intelletuale e morale. [4], 224, 108 pp. Illustrated with 2 frontispieces, 5 engraved plates, and various technical drawings in the appendix. 8vo., 250 x 175 mm, bound in contemporary green and black morocco-backed boards, with the original illustrated wrappers preserved. Milan: Tipografia Guglielmini, 1857.
A rare.....
Item nr. 148004
Price: $1,750.00
REYNOLDS, Sir, Joshua. A Collection of 6 Discourses, Delivered by Joshua Reynolds to the Royal Academy as President, in the years 1769-1791, of which four are Presentation copies, inscribed by Reynolds. 4to., 250 x 190 mm., bound in early twentieth-century full crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf. London: 1769-1790.
First Editions. A collection.....
Item nr. 147824
Price: $2,500.00
FERNANDEZ, Luis. Tratado Instructivo, y Práctico sobre el Arte de la Tintura: Reglas Experimentadas y Metódicas para tintar Sedas, Lanas, Hilos de todas clases, y Esparto en rama. xxx, 250 pp. Illustrated with 13 full-page copperplates, including the final large folding copperplate. Folio, 286 x 196 mm, bound in full.....
Item nr. 145412
Price: $5,850.00
NIVEN, James Craig. Inaugural Ceremonies in honour of the opening of Fountain Gardens Paisley. iv, 86 pp, (including list of subscribers), engraved portrait frontis and 6 full page engraved plates. Large 4to., 312 x 280 mm, bound in original green cloth covered bevelled boards, the title blocked in gilt within.....
Item nr. 145342
Price: $1,250.00
SHIGEMASA, Kitao and Katsukawa SHUNSHO. Seiro Bijin Awase Sugata Kagami. Three volumes. Xylographically printed and illustrated throughout, including mostly double-page woodcut illustrations. 4to., 175 x 280 mm, bound alike in original gray-green wrappers in glassine, sewn Japanese-style, together in a new patterned silk chitsu box. Tokyo: Yamakazi Kinbei and Tsutaya.....
Item nr. 145013
Price: $17,500.00
FREEDLEY, Edwin T. Philadelphia and its Manufactures; a Hand-Book, exhibiting the Development, Variety and Statistics of the Manufacturing Industry of Philadelphia in 1857, together with Sketches of Remarkable Manufactories; and a List of Articles now made in Philadelphia. [2], 21-504 pp. Illustrated with ten lithographic plates including one coloured. Philadelphia.....
Item nr. 144859
Price: $275.00
BOSCHINI, Marco. La Carta del Navegar Pitoresco. [20], 680, [10] pp. Illustrated with an engraved allegorical frontispiece, an engraved portrait, and 25 full-page engravings. Small 4to., 211 x 145 mm, bound in French early eighteenth-century full red morocco, gilt-tooled spine. Venice: Per li Baba, 1660.
First Edition, an important work by.....
Item nr. 144815
Price: $7,500.00
D'ARCLAIS DE MONTAMY, Didier. Traite des Couleurs pour la Peinture en Email et sur la Porcelaine; precede de l'art de peindre sur l'Email, et suivi de plusieurs Mémoires sur différent Sujets ... lii, 287 pp. 8vo., 175 x 105 mm, bound in original pink wrappers, in a new blue cloth.....
Item nr. 144158
Price: $495.00
ANDRE, George G. The Draughtsman's Handbook of Plan and Map Drawing, including instructions for the preparation of engineering, architectural, and mechanical drawings. With numerous illustrations and coloured examples. xii, 150 pp. with [2] pp.of advertisements. Illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations and 33 photo-litho & lithographic plates, of which 15 are.....
Item nr. 143973
Price: $495.00