DE BRY, Johann Theodor and J. I. DE BRY. Nova Alphati Effictio histories ad singulas literas correspondentibus, et toreumate Bryanaeo artificiose in aes incises illustrate…. Engraved title-page, 24 elaborately engraved plates of letters, all with grotesque Mannerist ornamentation. 4to., 325 x 212 mm, bound by Rivière in full crushed brown.....
Item nr. 148318
Price: $17,500.00
BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Portrait for La Galerie Contemporaine by Etienne Carjat. Woodburytype print with artist's information printed on mount, 225 x 185 mm, matted and framed in polished dark wood. [Paris: Carjat, ca. 1862; published in La Galerie Contemporaine in 1878].
A literary photographic masterpiece. "Among the many nineteenth-century portraits, Carjat's Baudelaire.....
Item nr. 123828
Price: $3,250.00
DORÉ, Gustave. Folies Gauloises depuis les Romains jusqu'à nos Jours. 20 lithographs by Doré. Oblong folio, 335 x 260 mm, bound in contemporary half morocco with the original green printed wrappers preserved. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant, n.d. [1852 or 1859].
$7500.00
First Edition of this "dazzling survey of French manners.....
Item nr. 168808
Price: $7,500.00
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
DODOENS, Rembert. Stirpium historiae pemptades sex sive Libri XXX. [xvi], 872, [66] pp. Illustrated with an engraved allegorical title (included in pagination), ca. 1330 botanical woodcuts after Pieter van der Borcht. Folio, 348 x 214 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch dark brown calf, sides paneled with double gilt fillet, spine.....
Item nr. 119809
Price: $7,000.00
[LUYKEN, J.] Leerzaamme zamenspraaken, over eenige dieren, vogels, insecten, en visschen. [2], vi, [4], 296, [8] pp. Illustrated with 25 engraved plates and woodcut tailpieces. 8vo., 200 x 120 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch calf, boards with blind tooling and gilt fillets. Amsterdam: Erven van F. Houttuin, 1769.
A handome copy.....
Item nr. 168263
Price: $2,850.00
BENHAM, W. Gurney and Frank ADAMS. Arthur and the Boilybird. An A.B.C. Story. Unpaginated. With colour illustrations throughout by Frank Adams. Oblong quarto publisher's colour illustrated boards with cloth spine. London: Blackie & Son [1909].
A delightful and scarce early twentieth century children's ABC book in unusually fine condition. OCLC lists.....
Item nr. 165808
Price: $2,500.00
DePUE & Company. The Illustrated Atlas and History of Yolo County, Cal. Containing a History of California from 1513 to 1850, a History of Yolo County from 1825 to 1880, with Statistics of Agriculture, Education, Churches, Elections, lithographic Views of Farms, Residences, Mills &c., Portraits of well-known Citizens, and the.....
Item nr. 165593
Price: $4,500.00
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: $3,250.00
CAMERIUS, Joachim. Symbolorum et emblematum animalibus quadrupedibus. 116 ff. Illustrated with engraved title-page and 100 engraved circular emblems by Hans Sibmacher. Small 4to., 195 x 140 mm, bound in early 20th-century tan calf, maroon morocco spine label. Nuremberg: P. Kaufmann, 1595.
First Edition. A charming emblem book on quadrupeds, both real.....
Item nr. 164582
Price: $2,750.00
JOURDAIN, Amable Louis Marie Michel Brèchillet. La Perse ou tableau de l'histoire, du government, de la religion, de la literature, etc., de cet empire; des moeurs et coustumes de ses habitans. 5 volumes. [4], xxi, 218; [4], 268; [4], 226; [4] 288; [4] 327, pp. Illustrated with 5 hand-colured engraved.....
Item nr. 148711
Price: $7,500.00
PRUDHOMME, Louis. Dictionnaire des Individus envoyés à la mort judiciairement, révolutionnairement et contre-révolutionnairement pendant la Révolution, particulièrement sous le règne de la Convention Nationale... avec des gravures et des tableaux. Two volumes. lxxxviii, 496; [4], 516 pp. Illustrated with 2 folding plates and 5 folding tables. 8vo., bound in publisher's.....
Item nr. 148563
Price: $1,750.00
AMERICAN MUSIC. Mammoth Musical Exercises: or, Musical Diagrams for the Singing Class, Designed to save Teachers much Labor at the Blackboard. By Lowell Mason. 60 ff. of printed music. Elephant folio, 615 x 515 mm, bound in contemporary American marbled boards with new brown calf spine and corners. New York.....
Item nr. 145949
Price: $7,500.00
BLIND PRINTING. A Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Literature for the Blind: And Practical Hints and Recommendations as to Their Education. With an Appendix, Containing Directions for Teaching, Reading, and Writing to the Blind, With and Without a Regular Teacher. By James Gall. xx, [9]-388 pp. Illustrated.....
Item nr. 142262
Price: $1,750.00
ANTOLINI, Giovanni Antonio. Projetto sul Foro Bonaparte che doveva Eseguirsi in Milano in 24 Gran Tavole. Title-page and suite of twenty-four plates, comprising 14 magnificent double-page aquatint views printed in shades of sepia ink and 10 double-page engraved floor-plans and scaled architectural drawings. Large folio, 572 x 440 mm, bound.....
Item nr. 168399
Price: $35,000.00
ROCHAS, Albert de. Le Livre de Demain. 44 separate fascicles comprising 424 pp. Illustrated with 11 original samples of rare old paper, 4 chromatic circles, 6 silhouettes by P. Konewka and 5 plates of which 3 are etchings and 2 are reproductions. 8vo., Loose as issued in the original cardboard.....
Item nr. 168538
Price: $9,500.00
LE BLON, Jacques-Christophe and Antoine GAUTIER DE MONTDORGE. L'Art d'Imprimer les Tableaux. Traité d'après les Ecrits, les Opérations & les Instructions verbales, de J.C. Le Blon. xi, vi, [2], [xiii]-xxv, [26]-180, [4] pp. Illustrated with 1 hand coloured sepia mezzotint and two black and white folding plates. 8vo., 195 x......
Item nr. 166681
Price: $15,000.00
BOUTET, Claude. Traite De Mignature pour apprendre aisement a peindre sans maitre. Avec le secret de faire les plus belles couleurs, l'or bruni & l'or en coquille. Frontispiece, [14], 269, [19] pp. Illustrated with 2 leaves of plates. 8vo., bound in contemporary boards. The Hague: Louis and Henry van Dole.....
Item nr. 147182
Price: $2,500.00
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.
$4750.00
First Edition of this very early work by Doré. Created as a social satire of French culture, La Ménagerie Parisienne.....
Item nr. 168152
Price: $4,750.00
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
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
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