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
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
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: $4,750.00
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., 268 x 196 mm, bound in contemporary quarter morocco over matching pebbled.....
Item nr. 166654
Price: $4,750.00
COWLEY, John Lodge. The Theory of Perspective Demonstrated; in a Method Entirely New. By which the Several Planes, Lines, and Points, used in this Art, are shewn by Moveable Schemes, in the True Positions in which they are to be Considered. [8], xi, [1], 117, [1] pp. With 11 full-page.....
Item nr. 168576
Price: $12,500.00
KATAGAMI STENCIL DESIGNS. A Collection of Meiji Period Original Kimono Stencil Plates. With 20 stencil plates. Stencil paper was constructed from the bark of mulberry trees then treated with persimmon juice; the sheets measure ca. 220 x 400 mm and the largest measuring 350 x 450 mm. Each in individual.....
Item nr. 168446
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 green cloth with gilt vingettes of Grandville designs on the.....
Item nr. 167232
Price: $5,000.00
BURR, David H. Atlas of New York. 99 (i.e. 159) pp. Illustrated with hand-coloured engraved large folding map frontispiece, 67 wood-engraved maps (some folded). 8vo., 200 x 190 mm, bound in publisher's ribbed cloth. New York: For sale by the principal Booksellers, 1838.
A fine copy of this pocket atlas of.....
Item nr. 167026
Price: $2,500.00
MILTON, John. The Paradise Lost of Milton with Illustrations, designed and engraved by John Martin. Two volumes in one. [8], 373 pp. Illustrated with 24 mezzotints by Martin. 8vo., bound in contemporary (original?) relievo stamped morocco, a.e.g., profesionally rebacked with orginal spine laid down. London: [T. White for] Charles Tilt.....
Item nr. 167024
Price: $5,000.00
BAUDRY DE SAUNIER, L. L'Automobile Théorique et Pratique. Two volumes. 416; 512 pp. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings. 8vo., bound in publisher's light blue and tan cloth. [Paris]; the Author, 1899-1900.
Fine copies of these French turn-of-the-century guides to motoring. One volume is dedicated to 'Voitures a Pétrole' and the second.....
Item nr. 165758
Price: $750.00