EVANS, R.O. Evans' Arithmetical Study. Title and 16 chromolithographic plates (each 775 x 584 mm), mounted on a contemporary wooden frame. Chicago: R.O. Evans, 1897.
An extraordinary survival: a striking set of chromolithographed teaching charts. The illustrations recall Byrne's Euclid in their brightly coloured, at times, abstract presentation. Most of the.....
Item nr. 168256
Price: $8,500.00
COWLEY, John Lodge. An Illustration and Mensuration of solid Geometry in seven Books: containing forty-two moveable Copper-plate Schemes for forming the various Kinds of Solids and their Sections... 32 pp. Illustrated with 42 full-page geometric engravings printed on heavy paper which cut-out to demonstrate solid forms London: printed by S......
Item nr. 168577
Price: $8,500.00
ALBRECHT, Andreas. Zwey Bücher, das erste von der ohne und durch die Arithmetica gefundenen Perspectiva, das andere von dem dartzu gehörigen Schatten. 2 parts in 1 volume. Part 1: Title-page, dedication, 75 pp., illustrated with 6 fold-out engraved plates. Part 2, Title-page, 1 page to the reader, pp. 77-125. Illustrated.....
Item nr. 168571
Price: $7,500.00
DORÉ, Gustave. La Ménagerie Parisienne. Comprised of a printed title and 24 lithographic plates. 4to., 243 x 325 mm, disbound, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Journal Pour Rire, 1854
First Edition of this very early work by Dore. Created as a social satire of French culture, La Ménagerie Parisienne.....
Item nr. 168152
Price: $4,750.00
LORIS, Daniel. Le thresor des parterres de l'univers, contenant les figures et pourtraits des plus beaux Compartimens, Cabanes et Labyrinthes des Jardinages, tant à l'Allemande qu'à la Françoise. Avec la manière de les construire, compasser et former dextrement. Descripts en Latin, François, Allemand et Anglais et distingué en trois livres.....
Item nr. 167290
Price: $35,000.00
MORRIS, John. A Series of large geological Diagrams, illustrating the Principles of this important and practical Science, comprising elementary Section of the Earth's Crust, Table of the Order of Succession of the stratified Rocks, forms of Stratification, Section of the London Basin ... the carboniferous Group - Coal and Iron.....
Item nr. 164759
Price: $3,750.00
FOSSATI, Giorgio. Raccolta di Varie Favole delineate, ed incise in Rame. Six volumes in two. [16], 44; [16], 48; [8], 76; [8], 59; [8], 59; [8], 36 pp. Title-pages in vol. I with engraved ornamental borders printed in red. Illustrated with 3 engraved headpieces and 216 engraved plates, printed in.....
Item nr. 116357
Price: $47,500.00
NAPIER, James. A Manual of Dyeing Receipts for General Use. iv, 83, [1], 4 pp. Illustrated with 56 mounted textile samples. 8vo., 188 x 115 mm, bound in publisher's navy cloth, title gilt on front cover. London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Company, 1855.
First Edition, a sequel to the same.....
Item nr. 148564
Price: $450.00
LOVIBOND, Joseph W. Measurement of light and colour sensations. A new method of investigating the phenomena of light and colour by means of the selective absorption in coloured glass, graded into scales of equivalent colour value. 132 pp. Illustrated with 13 text illustrations, 23 tables, 9 colour charts and 13.....
Item nr. 142456
Price: $850.00
PFINZING VON HENFENFELD, Paul. Optica, das ist Gründtliche doch kurtze Anzeigung wie nothwendig die löbliche Kunst der Geometriae seye inn der Perspectiv. Sambt einem nutzlichen Extract dreyerley Sorten und Wege darauff die Perspectiva zu verstehen und zugebrauchen. 18 ff. Engraved title-page border by L. Kilian, illustrated with 14 full-page woodcuts.....
Item nr. 168582
Price: $3,850.00
PLANELLA y COROMINA, José. Esposicion completa y elemental del arte de la perspectiva y aplicacion de ella al palco escénico. [4], 94 pp. Illustrated with 100 engraved plates. 8vo., 220 x 145 mm, bound in full contemporary calf, professionally rebacked. Barcelona, J. Verdaguer, 1840.
A fine copy of the first edition.....
Item nr. 168579
Price: $3,500.00
HEINEKEN, Paul. Lucidum prospectivae speculum: das ist ein heller Spiegel der Perspective. in welchem so wohl der Grund dieser Kunst als auch die in Praxi täglich vorfallende mannigfältige Application derselben durch viele behörige Exempel klar gezeiget wird ; wozu noch beygefügt sind achtzehen Plafonds oder Decken-Stücke von diversen Sorten ;.....
Item nr. 168575
Price: $7,500.00
HAMILTON, John. Stereography, or, A compleat body of perspective, in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules, the appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed in all manner of positions. [9], 400, [36] pp. Illustrated with 130 engraved folding plates. Folio, 395 x......
Item nr. 168574
Price: $3,500.00
KIRBY, John Joshua. Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author. [4], iv, xvi, 78; [2], 84, [18] pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece by W. Hogarth, plus 51 full.....
Item nr. 168573
Price: $5,750.00
GARCIA BERRUGUILLA, Juan. Verdadera Práctica de las Resoluciones de la Geometría sobre las tres Dimensiones para un perfecto Architecto: con una total Resolución para medir y dividir la Planimetría para los Agrimensores. Title, [30], 135 pp. Illustrated with 18 folding engraved plates. 8vo., 225 x 150 mm, bound in contemporary.....
Item nr. 168572
Price: $3,750.00
RINGELBERG, Ioachim Fortius. Ioachimi Fortii Ringelbergii Andoverpiani opera, quae proxima pagina enumerantur. 664, [2] pp. Profusely illustrated with Woodcuts. Small 8vo., 165 x 100, bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with a Roman goddess on the front cover, and a portrait of Luther on the back cover. Lyon: M. Sylvius for.....
Item nr. 168537
Price: $4,950.00
SARAYNA, Torelli. De Origine et amplitudine civitatis Veronae. 70 leaves including illustrations, erratic pagination (see below). Illustrated with woodcut printer's device on the title, woodcut portrait of the author and 26 woodcut plates, many double-page or fold-out plates, with several in-text woodcuts designed by Giovanni Caroto. Verona: Ex Officina Antonii.....
Item nr. 168506
Price: $12,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Petites Misères de la Vie humaine, par Old Nick [Paul-Émile Daurand Forgues] et Grandville. [4], viii, 392 pp. Illustrated woodcut frontispiece and 49 full-page woodcut plates and woodcuts in text throughout by Grandville. 8vo., 230 x 145 mm, bound in publisher's gilt-stamped cloth. Paris: H. Fournier, 1843.
A fine.....
Item nr. 168510
Price: $1,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les Fleurs Animées. Introduction by Alphonse Karr. Text by Taxile Delord. [3]-260; [2], 102, [4], iv, [2], 106-166, [2], iv, 169-234, [2] pp. Illustrated with 2 engraved title-pages, 50 hand-coloured engraved plates by Grandville, plus 2 engraved botanical plates. 4to., 264 x 178 mm, bound in original publisher's.....
Item nr. 167915
Price: $4,750.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. La Sibylle des Salons. 52 lithographic playing cards, coloured by hand. With a small 24 pp. printed guide to the cards in the original printed wrappers. 115 x 58 mm, in publisher's decorated box, housed in a new green half morocco folding box. Paris: H. Pussey [1848].
This is.....
Item nr. 167585
Price: $7,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les Etoiles. By Joseph Mery. [4], xvi, 252 pp.; [4], 186, [2] pp. With 15 hand-colored engravings. 8vo., 255 x 176 mm, bound in the original publisher's wrappers, in a new blue half moocco folding box. Paris: G. de Gonet, [1849].
A fine copy of this charming work, Grandville's.....
Item nr. 167581
Price: $5,750.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Un Autre Monde. Transformations, visions, incarnations... et autres choses. By Taxile Delord. [4], 295, [1] pp. Half-title and title-page printed in red. Illustrated with 133 woodcut vignettes, 15 full-page woodcuts, and 36 hand-coloured plates. Large 8vo., 270 x 195 mm, bound in contemporary full decorated morocco, with the.....
Item nr. 167578
Price: $7,500.00
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 publisher's full decorated cloth binding with gilt vignettes of Grandville designs.....
Item nr. 167577
Price: $7,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Voyages de Gulliver dans des Contrées Lointaines par Swift. Two volumes. [4], LXIX (i.e. LIX), [1], 279; [4], 319 pp. With a frontispiece of the gigantic Gulliver above an arch, 6 section-titles, and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville throughout. 8vo., 210 x 125 mm, uniformly bound in contemporary.....
Item nr. 167574
Price: $2,250.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les Etoiles. By Joseph Mery. [4], xvi, 252; [4], 186, [2] pp. With 15 hand-coloured engravings. 8vo., 255 x 176 mm, bound in publisher's elaborately gilt decorated cloth binding. Paris: G. de Gonet, [1849].
A fine copy of this charming work, Grandville's last book of illustrations. It actually consists.....
Item nr. 167498
Price: $4,750.00