DECKER, Paul. Chinese Architecture Civil and Ornamental. Title-page + 24 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:
-----. Chinese Architecture. Part the Second. Title-page + 12 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:
-----. Gothic Architecture Decorated. Title-page + 12 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:
-----. Gothic Architecture.....
Item nr. 170368
Price: $22,500.00
ALLOM, Thomas. Original Drawing- Pencil and pen with sepia wash and white highlights. The Imperial Travelling Palace at the Hoo-Kew-Shan, or Tiger Mound, Henan Province.128 x 194 mm. Matted and framed. London, ca. 1840.
The subject of the palace at Huo-kew-shan in the Henan Province was famous throughout China for its.....
Item nr. 170153
Price: $7,500.00
PELLE, Clement and Thomas ALLOM. L'Empire Chinois, illustre d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux. 4 Volumes. [4], 68, 26; 76; 74 pp. Illustrated with 4 engraved added title-pages and 124 full page steel engraved plates. 4to., bound in publisher's elaborately decorated red cloth. Paris: Fisher, 1845.
First Edition in French.....
Item nr. 170092
Price: $8,500.00
HELMAN, Isidore Stanislas. Suite des seize estampes repreìsentant les Conque?tes de l'empereur de la Chine:avec leur explication. Engraved description of the plates followed by 24 full page engraved plates of which three are joined together for one large folding plate. [Paris], 1783-1788. WITH:
Abrege historique des principaux traits de la vie.....
Item nr. 169163
Price: $50,000.00
MONTULE, Édouard de. Recueil des Cartes et des Vues du Voyage en Amerique en Italie et en Égypte fait pendant les Annees 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819. Atlas vol.: 59 numbered lithographed plates, comprising: lithographed title within oval cartouche framed by 4 allegorical vignettes depicting America, Italy, Sicily and Egypt.....
Item nr. 119879
Price: $12,500.00
PROVOST, A. and Charles B. P. VAN PELT. Panorama intérieur de Paris. Panorama consisting of 16 attached lithographic plates in contemporary hand-colouring. 145 x 360 mm, bound in publisher's red morocco-backed boards. Paris: Aubert, 1843.
The panorama represents a walk through Paris from the Madeleine in the west to the Place.....
Item nr. 169989
Price: $3,500.00
PHILIPON DE LA MADELEINE, Louis. Le Guide du Promeneur aux Tuileries, ou Description du Palais et du Jardin national des Tuileries, en l'An VI de la Republique Francaise. [The Walker's Guide to the Tuileries, or Description of the Palace and the National Garden of the Tuileries, in Year VI of.....
Item nr. 169848
Price: $1,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.-J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Two volumes. [8], 386, [6]; [4], 390, [6] pp. With 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo., 261 x 180 mm, uniformly bound in contemporary black half morocco. Paris: Hetzel et Paulin: 1842-1844.
A splendid copy.....
Item nr. 169739
Price: $12,500.00
THURNEISSER ZUM THURN, Leonhardt. Historia unnd Beschreibung Influentischer Elementischer un Naturlicher Wirckungen Aller fremden unnd Heimischen Erdgewechssen auch irer Subtiliteten sampt wahrhafftiger und Kunstlicher Conterfeitung dereselbigen auch aller teiler... [12], CLVI, [24] pp. Woodcut title-page, 42 arabesque initials, 12 astrological diagrams, 126 small woodcut figures, 36 botanical woodcuts within figured.....
Item nr. 169436
Price: $12,500.00
GARDENS DESIGNED BY LE NOTRE; FOUNTAINS BY LE BRUN AFTER AESOP; ENGRAVINGS BY SEBASTIEN LE CLERC
PERRAULT, Charles. Labyrinte de Versailles. 34, [1], 79, [4] pp. With an engraved title-vignette (arms of France) and 41 full-page engravings by Sébastien Le Clerc. 8vo., 203 x 130 mm, bound in contemporary calf. Paris.....
Item nr. 169397
Price: $8,500.00
GELPKE, August Heinrich Christian. Allgemeine Darstellung der Oberflaechen der Weltkoerper unseres Sonnengebietes, besonders der Erde, des Mondes, der Venus und des Merkur's, zur Vergleichung ihrer wundervollen Naturbaue und merkwuerdigen Naturkraefte. VIII, 80 pp. Illustrated with 2 large folded engraved plates coloured by hand.. 4to., 270 x 220 mm, bound in.....
Item nr. 169394
Price: $4,750.00
BOUND BY PADELOUP
LOUIS XV, King of France. Fêtes Publiques Donnees par la Ville de Paris, à l'occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, les 23 et 26 Fevrier M.DCC.XLV. Engraved throughout. With title-page, allegorical frontispiece, [18] pp. of calligraphic text within ornamental borders, and 19 plates, of which 10 are.....
Item nr. 109750
Price: $35,000.00
PLUMIER, Charles. Traité des fougères de l'Amérique. [4], xxxvi, 1-93, 98-146, [10] pp. Illustrated with 172 full-page engravings of ferns. Folio, 167 x 106 mm, bound in contemporary limp vellum, title in MS on spine, pair of fore-edge ties. Preserved in beige linen slipcase. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1705.
First Complete Edition.....
Item nr. 166971
Price: $18,500.00
JARLE. Barème des couleurs, ou, Les teintes faites au nombre de 616: comprenant presque toutes les couleurs qui existent dans la nature avec indication de le composer sans maître : ouvrage utile et presque indispensable à ceux qui colorient ou peignent à l'aquarelle. 14 pp. Illustrated with hand-coloured engraved title-page.....
Item nr. 169402
Price: $8,500.00
VON BEZOLD, Wilhelm. The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-Industry...Translated from the German by S.R. Koehler...with an introduction and notes by Edward C. Pickering...Authorized American Edition. Revised and enlarged by the author. xxxiii, [1], 274 pp. Illustrated with chromolithographic frontispiece, 13 chromolithographic plates, plus numerous in-text.....
Item nr. 169113
Price: $1,500.00
QIANLONG, EMPEROR OF CHINA (1736-1796). Suite of four engravings depicting the conquests of the Qianlong Emperor. From the suite of sixteen engraved plates. Printed in Paris under the direction of Charles-Nicholas Cochin. Broadsheets, image size: 515 x 890 mm. Preserved in the contemporary French green paper mounts with black ink.....
Item nr. 169181
Price: $100,000.00
TACCHINI, Pietro. Eclissi totali di Sole del Dicembre 1870, del Maggio 1882 e 1883, e dell' Agosto 1886 e 1887. Relazioni e Note. [8], 236 pp. Illustrated with 24 plates, e.g. three heliogravure plates and 21 plates in lithography,chromolithography & heliogravure at the end. Large 8vo., 235 x 160 mm.....
Item nr. 169169
Price: $3,500.00
GUIGNES, Chretien-Louis-Joseph de. Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacres des Chinois qui renferme les Fondements de leur ancienne Histoire, les Principes de leur Gouvernement & de leur Morale. [4], cxliv, 474, [2] pp. Illustrated with 4 fold-out engraved plates. 4to., 250 x 190 mm, bound in contemporary cats-paw calf, red.....
Item nr. 169165
Price: $3,500.00
EARHART, John. The Color Printer. A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing. 137, [1] pp. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author and 90 plates. 4to., 270 x 205 mm, bound in green publisher's cloth stamped in gold and colour, with emblem of three ink.....
Item nr. 169128
Price: $2,850.00
PICIARELLI, Camillo. Epistola di Camillo Piciarelli, Professore di Belle Lettere, sul Antico Naso di Fozio, pubblicato per almanacco dell'anno 1820. [xii], 39, [1] pp. Illustrated with an alligorical aquatint frontispiece. 8vo., 205 x 140 mm, bound in contemporary pattern wrappers, preserved in a new red half morocco box. Milan: Manini.....
Item nr. 168844
Price: $2,250.00
TOM TIT [Arthur Good]. La Science Amusante. First through Third Series. 3 Volumes. 246, [2]; 256; 256 pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo., 205 x 145 mm, bound in publisher's polychrome bindings, red cloth with black and gold designs. Paris: Larousse, ND. [1890-1920].
This set consists of three volumes as follows. The first.....
Item nr. 157031
Price: $1,250.00
SIMAK, Vaclav. Postovni Knizka na Rok 1895. 82 pp. 12mo., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Prague: Jos. R. Vilimka, 1895.
An immaculate copy of this little Victorian Czech almanach cum trade catalogue.
Item nr. 139160
Price: $375.00
SIENA. Nuova guida della città di Siena per gli amatori delle belle-arti. viii, 167, [1] pp. Illustrated with four large folding engraved plates. 4to., 185 x 140 mm, bound in original blue paper wrappers, with deckled edges. Siena: Nella Stamperia Mucci, 1822.
Presumed First Edition, with no other edition listed in.....
Item nr. 150397
Price: $1,850.00
COCCHI, Francesco. Lezioni di prospettiva pratica nonchè regole abbreviatrici per disegnare le scene seguite da un facile metodo per la prospettica collocazione delle fi gure ne' quadri di storia. Seconda edizione. Text: 2, 227 and 2 folding plates. 8vo., publisher's wrappers with later linen spine. Plates: letterpress title page followed.....
Item nr. 168580
Price: $2,500.00
PERRET, Jacques. Architectura et Perspectiva etlicher Festungen, Stätt, Kirchen, Schlösser und Häuser, wie die auffs stärckeste, zierlichste und bequemste können gebawet oder auffgerichtet werden. Erstlich von einem Saphoischen vom Adel Jacob Perret, In Französischer Sprach zu Pariß in Druck verfertiget. Jetzo aber Teutscher Nation zu gut verteutschet, mit schönen Kupferstücken.....
Item nr. 168760
Price: $17,500.00