THAMES TUNNEL COMPANY. An Explanation of the Works of the Tunnel under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping. Printed title, illustrated title, 24 pp. text; 8 plates, of which 2 are folding and 1 with flap, and a folding map. 12mo, 105 x 130 mm., somewhat later calf, wrappers with.....
Item nr. 169785
Price: $2,500.00
MUELLER, G.F. Das Reich der redenden Thiere. Neuestes Fabelbuch fuer die Jugend. 58 pp., illustrated title page, 12 plates in contemporary hand colouring. Oblong 4to, 180 x 235 mm., bound in contemporary cloth-backed boards. Nuremberg: Lotzbeck, 1847.
An unusual German collection of illustrated fables. Published just five years after Grandville's Scènes.....
Item nr. 169585
Price: $3,500.00
DORE, Gustave. Histoire Dramatique, Pittoresque et Caricaturale de la Sainte Russie, D'après les Chroniquers et Historiens Nestor, Nikan, Sylvestre, Karamsin, Segur, etc... [4], 207 pp. (printed on recto only), illustrated with 500 engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré cut onto woodblocks by Sotain. 4to, 290 x 195 mm., bound in contemporary.....
Item nr. 169256
Price: $4,950.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Cent Proverbes. With text by Amadee Achard, Taxile Delord, Emile Forguesvand Arnould Fremy. [4], 398, [2] pp., illustrated with wood engraved frontispiece, 50 full page wood engravings hor-texte, plus head-and-tail pieces by Grandville. 8vo, 228 x 140 mm., bound in publisher's polychrome cloth binding. Paris: Fournier, 1845.
A fine.....
Item nr. 168591
Price: $3,850.00
VARIN, Amédée. Papillons Metamorphoses Terrestres des Peuples de L'Air. Two volumes. [4], 232, [4]; [4], 258, [4] pp., illustrated with 35 hand-coloured engraved plates, including frontispieces and title-page plates, and with the portrait Cazotte opposite vol. II, p. 152, not included in the list of plates. 8vo, 262 x 175.....
Item nr. 167496
Price: $7,500.00
FABRE, Francois. Némésis Médicale Illustrée. Recueil de Satires. Two volumes. xxxii, 278; 360 pp., illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Honoré Daumier. 4to, 245 x 155 mm., marbled boards. Paris: Au Bureau de la Némésis Médicale, 1840.
A collection of medical satires written in twenty-five poems, in rhyming couplets. Illustrated with thirty.....
Item nr. 164999
Price: $2,500.00
GOGOL, Nikolai. The Nose. Illustrated by William Kentridge. Oblong 4to., Publisher's cloth-backed boards and clamshell box. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2021.
This edition of The Nose is a new original translation by scholar and author Stanislav Shvabrin. William Kentridge provided 16 altered and collaged images for the book, composed on tear.....
Item nr. 169210
Price: $1,250.00
LE GEAY, Jean Laurent. Rovine, inventione di Giovan. Loren. Legeay Architet., intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768. [24] ff. (24 etchings). 275 x 210 mm., bound in contemporary half-calf over boards. [London]: N.p., 1768.
Complete set of the first issue of Le Geay's extremely rare and extraordinary series of architectural.....
Item nr. 171212
Price: $15,000.00
[VENICE]. ALBRIZZI, Giovanni Battista. Forastiere illuminato intorno le cose più rare, e curiose, antiche, e moderne della città di Venezia, e dell' isole circonvicine; colla descrizione delle chiese, monisteri, ospitali, tesoro di S. Marco, Arsenale, fabbriche pubbliche, pitture celebri, funzioni e divertimenti, e di quanto v'è di più riguardevole. [2].....
Item nr. 169660
Price: $2,500.00
HARE, Augustus. Walks in Rome. Two Volumes. 473; 473 pp., illustrated with 47 original photographs and a folding map. Small 8vo, 175 x 115 mm., original full vellum, gilt, red edges. London: Daldy, Isbister & Co.,1876
A rare edition of this classic, much reprinted, Victorian guide to Rome in a deluxe.....
Item nr. 47563
Price: $1,500.00
SEKKA, Kamisaka. Cho senshu. 2 Volumes, each with 25 double-page plates of coloured woodcuts depicting butterflies by Sekka. 8vo, 248 x 178 mm. folded, bound accordion-style (orihon) in green silk over boards, in a new green cloth box. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, 1903.
A fine copy of the first printing of this.....
Item nr. 171525
Price: $6,500.00
LOCKS - Trade Catalogue. Door Locks, Knobs, Padlocks, etc., Illustrated and Described. Mallory, Wheeler & Co., Manufacturers, New Haven Conn. iv, 5-292 pp. Illustrated with 227 chromolithographic plates. Folio, 455 x 357 mm, bound in contemporary straight-grained brown morocco, blind-ruled fillets, gilt-lettered title on upper cover, by H. M. Robinson.....
Item nr. 165274
Price: $8,500.00
SHIMIZU, Yoshiyasu. Tokaido panorama chizu. [Panoramic Map of Tokaido]. Folding panorama, 230 x 7070 mm unfolded. 8vo., 230 x 90 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated boards. Tokyo: Kanao Bun'endo, 1921.
A charming panorama depicting Tokaido (the East Sea Road), the route connecting Kyoto to Tokyo. Travel, particularly along the Tokaido, was.....
Item nr. 165258
Price: $575.00
CONFUCIUS. Confucius Sinarum Sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita. cxxiv, 108, 160, xx, 20, 8, [2], 23-108, [2] pp. Illustrated with engraved portrait of Confucius and a map of China engraved by François de Louvemont from a drawing by the Belgian missionary Philippe Couplet. Folio, 335 x 225 mm, bound in.....
Item nr. 169179
Price: $12,500.00
PROVOST, A. Les Trains de Plaisir, le Touriste en Chemin de Fer Ligne de Paris a Versailles. Title and 22 coloured lithographs including 1 caricature, 20 views and 1 map. Oblong 8vo, 150 x 230 mm., publisher's blind-stamped green cloth with title ("Voyage de Paris a Versaille") in gilt on.....
Item nr. 169783
Price: $875.00
MITCHELL, Joan. Abstract Expressionism. 4 Volumes. 1. John Ashbery. The Poems. With 4 prints by Joan Mitchell. 2. Frank O'Hara. Odes. With 4 prints by Michael Goldberg. 3. Kenneth Koch. Permanently. With 4 prints by Alfred Leslie. 4. James Schuyler. Salute. With 4 prints by Grace Hartigan. Folio, 445 x......
Item nr. 168742
Price: $7,500.00
PARIS. Le Guide du Promeneur aux Tuileries. By Louis Philipon de la Madelaine. 198 pp., frontispiece and 35 engraved plates. Small 8vo, 150 x 105 mm., bound in modern half brown sheepskin over marbled boards, uncut. Paris: Chez Favre, 1802.
Second edition of this scarce guide to the sculptures in the.....
Item nr. 127786
Price: $575.00
DAUMIER, Honore. Les Bohémiens de Paris. With 28 hand-coloured lithographs, heightened with gum arabic, all by Daumier. Folio, 345 x 260 mm, bound in nineteenth-century green half morocco over mottled green marbled boards, spine elaborately gilt, original front printed wrapper [with letterpress title: Album Comique par Daumier] bound in, a.e.g......
Item nr. 115688
Price: $30,000.00
ALPHABET. ABÉCÉDAIRE du Marechal Petain. [28] ff., illustrated throughout. Square 8vo, 140 x 140 mm., original illustrated wrappers in a new linen box with black label. n.p.: Bureau de Documentation du Chef de l'Etat, 1943.
One of the strange alphabets, but a perfect insight into the creation of Petain as saviour.....
Item nr. 169969
Price: $1,750.00
ANSTRUTHER, G. Eliot. The Bindings of To-morrow. A record of the work of the Guild of Women-Binders and of the Hampstead Bindery. Illustrated with 50 full-page chromolithographs by Griggs. Modern half pigskin over boards. London: Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders & Williams & Norgate, 1902.
The Guild of Women-Binders was.....
Item nr. 169635
Price: $1,250.00
WITH SUPERB ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALVIN-CORREA
WELLS, H.G. La Guerre des Mondes. Translated from the English by Henry D. Davray. 235, [10] pp., illustrated with 32 full-page plates by Henri Alvin-Correa included in the pagination and numerous large headpieces, tailpieces, initials, and vignettes illustrating the text; title-page printed in red and gold.....
Item nr. 169199
Price: $8,500.00
THOMAS DE LA RUE & Co. Original Designs for Playing Cards. No. 10. 25 pp., containing a total of 100 mounted original watercolours of playing cards. Folio, 280 x 229 mm., publisher's cloth. London: De la Rue & Co., [ca. 1875].
A unique collection of original nineteenth century designs for playing.....
Item nr. 169754
Price: $8,500.00
LALAU, Maurice. Tabubu. By J.H. Rosny Ainé. Illustrated throughout with silver and gold highlighted decorations by Lalau. 12mo., original illustrated wrappers, cover adorned with a Lalau decoration highlighted in gold, preserved in a half-morocco folding box. Paris: Jules Meynial, n.d.(1932).
An immaculate copy of this art-deco masterpiece. A true jewel of.....
Item nr. 169311
Price: $9,750.00
COLOUR THEORY. Guide to Colour Standard. 20 pp. Illustrated with 13 colour diagrams, composed of cut out and pasted on pieces of paper with printed tissue overlays. Oblong Folio, bound in publisher's black cloth over boards stamped in silver in original cardboard slipcase. [Japan], Nihon shikisai kenyûjo, 1951.
A rare and.....
Item nr. 169063
Price: $2,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les Métamorphoses du Jour. [4], xxviii, 283 pp., with 70 hand-coloured wood engravings after designs by Grandville. Large 8vo, 262 x 163 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated polychrome boards. Paris: Havard, 1854.
First edition in book form, comprised of 67 designs from the excessively rare 1829 suite, 2 lithographs.....
Item nr. 167495
Price: $5,850.00