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
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
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
OGAWA, K. Military Costumes in Old Japan. 34 pp. Illustrated with 15 black-and-white plates reproducing photographs taken by K. Ogawa. Folio, bound in paper wrappers, Japanese-style, side-sewn with new blue ribbon, in new cloth box. Tokyo: K. Ogawa, [1893].
Fifteen black and white plates reproducing photographs taken by K. Ogawa, under.....
Item nr. 143846
Price: $1,850.00
PARIS. Graphic Illustrations of the Most Prominent Features of the French Capital; with Characteristic Figures in the Foregrounds comprised in Twelve Stroke Engravings, From Accurate Designs Taken in Paris during the Imperial Reign of Buonaparte. With Descriptive Notices and Interesting Anecdotes. [26] pp. Illustrated with 12 double-page engravings. Folio, 430.....
Item nr. 143576
Price: $9,750.00
[TRADE CATALOGUE -- NURSERYMAN'S GUIDE]. DEWEY, D.M. Nurseryman's Specimen Book of American Horticulture and Floriculture, Fruits and Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses &c. D.M. Dewey's American fruit & flower plates, colored from nature, 2300 varieties. With a chromolithographic title page and 56 stencillled plates of fruits flowers and 9 chromolithographic.....
Item nr. 142709
Price: $3,750.00
STECHER. Seed Bags and Supplies. 2 pp. Index and 35 chromolithographic plates. Folio, bound in original illustrated wrappers (a small piece missing from the cover). Preserved in a half green morocco box. Rochester, N.Y.: Stecher Litho Co., n.d.
A marvelous example of the work done by Stecher for various nurseries.....
Item nr. 142669
Price: $4,500.00
HOVEY, Charles. The Fruits of America, Containing Richly Colored Figures, and Full Descriptions of All the Choicest Varities cultivated in the United States. Two Volumes. viii, 100; iv, 96 pp. Illustrated with a lithographic frontispiece portrait of Hovey, a lithographic frontispiece portrait of William Sharp, two engraved title vignettes by.....
Item nr. 142628
Price: $12,000.00
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
LAKE, D.J. Atlas of Cuyahoga County Ohio. 205 pp. Illustrated with 48 views, of which two are double page, and 58 hand-coloured maps, of which 27 are double-page, including a double-page map of the United States. Tall folio, 410 x 370 mm, bound in original morocco-backed publisher's boards. Philadelphia: Titus.....
Item nr. 135368
Price: $2,500.00
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., 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 a mine of information.....
Item nr. 130714
Price: $625.00
CALDWELL, J.A. Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Centennial Atlas of Washington County. By J. A. Caldwell. 228 pp. Illustrated with over 100 maps and views. Tall folio, 445 x 355 mm, bound in original publisher's boards, rebacked in black cloth with a red cloth label. Pittsburgh: Otto Krebs, 1876.
An impressive example of.....
Item nr. 130694
Price: $3,500.00
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., bound in half reddish calf over red marbled paper covered boards. Paris: Chez H. Nicole, Rue de Seine, 1813.
A charming little.....
Item nr. 128558
Price: $425.00
EXPEDITION WATERCOLOURS. Krusenstern Voyage. 1 f. text and 50 original watercolours. 4to., 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 first Russian circumnavigation undertaken.....
Item nr. 128519
Price: $15,000.00