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. Illustrated 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.....
Item nr. 167498
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
CRUIKSHANK, Percy. Hints to Emigrants. Or incidents in the emigration of John Smith of Smith-Town. 2 pp. text. Illustrated with wood engraved front wrapper printed on blue paper, followed by 9 wood engraved plates with smaller format proof versions of 6 of the images printed on chine, with two images.....
Item nr. 165757
Price: $2,250.00
SCHENK, Petrus. Afbeeldinge der voornaamste Gebouwen van Amsterdam. Contents include: title-page, index and 100 fine engraved views with captions in Latin and Dutch. Small oblong folio, 210 x 265 mm, bound in contemporary full English calf with red morocco spine label. Amsterdam: 1700.
A rare complete copy of this engraved survey.....
Item nr. 164542
Price: $12,500.00
FUKUZAWA, Yukichi. Seiyo Kakoku Jijo. Three volumes. 38; 80; 84 double folded leaves (i.e., 404 pp.) Illustrated with 14 full-page colour woodblocks of which six form three double-page plates, introductory pages to volume one with colour borders. 8vo., 180 x 125 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers with printed title labels.....
Item nr. 148960
Price: $2,750.00
SCHEYB, Franz Christof von. Theresiade, ein Ehren-Gedicht. Two parts in one volume. [369] pp. Engraved allegorical portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page vignette, engraved dedication leaf, 13 historiated engraved initials, and 29 engraved vignettes by Salomon Kleiner after his own designs and those of Preissler and Buch. Each leaf is enclosed by.....
Item nr. 168271
Price: $4,500.00
FIRST EDITION -- EXCESSIVELY RARE
AMMAN, Jost. Enchiridion artis pingendi, fingendi & sculpendi. [112] leaves. Collation: (:)4, A-Z4, a-d4. Title-page within a woodcut border, 3 ff. (dedication to Hieronymus August von Holtzhusen, with woodcut arms), plus 107 woodcuts by Jost Amman, and with the final letterpress leaf (colophon). Small 4to., 168.....
Item nr. 167311
Price: $27,500.00
VASI, Mariano and Antonio NIBBY. New Guide of Rome, and the Environs Naples and their Environs according to Vasi and Nibby, from the Italian of Vasi and Nibby. Carefully Revised, and Enlarged with an Account of the Latest Antiquarian Researches. xlii, 532 pp. Illustrated with 28 engraved plates plus a......
Item nr. 167027
Price: $975.00
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
PIAZZETTA, Giambattista. La Gerusalemme Liberata. By Torquato Tasso. [12], 254 (i.e., 258) ff. Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece, title vignette, dedicatory portrait of Maria Teresa by Polanzani after Piazzetta, 20 full-page engraved plates surrounded with etched ornamental borders, 20 half-page headpieces containing the "argomenti" to each Canto, 20 culs-de-lampe, 22.....
Item nr. 166968
Price: $38,500.00
PERELLE, Gabriel, Adam and Nicholas. Recueil de Veues des Plus Beaux Lieux de France. Comprised of seven parts in one volume, each part with individual title. Illustrated with a total 281 etched and/or engraved plates on 253 leaves, comprising 267 views and 14 plans and/or maps (3 being large folding).....
Item nr. 166967
Price: $22,500.00
MONTANUS, Arnoldus. Gedenkwaerdige Gesantschappen der Oost-Indische Maetschappy in 't Vereenigde Nederland, aen de Kaisaren van Japan: vervatende wonderlyke voorvallen op de togt der Nederlandtsche Gesanten: beschryving van de dorpen, sterkten, steden, landtschappen, tempels, Gods-diensten, dragten, gebouwen, dieren, gewasschen, bergen, fonteinen, vereeuwde en nieuwe oorlogs-daaden der Japanders. [8], 456, [16] pp.....
Item nr. 166966
Price: $12,500.00
ITALY. MISSON, François-Maximilien. Nouveau Voyage D'Italie, Avec un Memoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. Three volumes. [54], 339, [21]; 356, [24]; 414, [20] pp. With with 37 fold-out engraved plates, and 40 full-page engraved plates. 12mo., 170 x 110 mm, bound in contemporary.....
Item nr. 166965
Price: $3,850.00
ITALY. MISSON, François-Maximilien. Nouveau Voyage D'Italie, Avec un Memoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. Three volumes. [26], 248, [21]; 352, [28]; [18], 413 (i.e., 417), [21] pp. Illustrated with a total of 65 engraved plates of which 39 are folding, plus one folding.....
Item nr. 166964
Price: $15,000.00
LEONARDO DA VINCI. Trattato della pittura di Leonardo Da Vinci. Edited by Raphael du Fresne. [20], 58, 61-64, 63-112, [16] pp. Illustrated with engraved additional title-page with portrait of Leonardo, large vignette on title-page, dedication headpiece of Queen Christina of Sweden, 9 engraved head-and tailpieces, 3 engraved initials and 57.....
Item nr. 166960
Price: $19,750.00
MENESTRIER, Claude-François. -- LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE, Louis Charles de, Prince de Turenne. Ludovico Magno theses ex universa philosophia dicat et consecrat Ludovicus a Turre-Arverniæ princeps Turennius. [16] pp., (page [4] blank). Engraved throughout: calligraphic title and text engraved by Louis Michault within elaborate emblematic and historiated borders engraved by Louis.....
Item nr. 166958
Price: $18,500.00
GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. The Royal Commentaries of Peru... Illustrated with sculptures. Written originally in Spanish, by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega, and rendered into English, by Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt. viii, 1019, [9] pp. (pages 23-26 omitted in numbering). With an engraved portrait of the translator and 10.....
Item nr. 166951
Price: $4,750.00
DE MONTENAY, Georgette. Emblemes, ou devises chrestiennes. [8, including blank], 100, [8] ff. Illustrated with wood engraved title-vignette and 100 engraved plates by Pierre Woeiriot, printed on facing pages. Small 4to., 210 x 150 mm, bound in contemporary vellum, early manuscript title on spine. La Rochelle: Jean Dinet, 1620.
First and.....
Item nr. 166944
Price: $25,000.00
DE MONTENAY, Georgette. Emblematum Christianorum Centuria / Cent Emblemes Chrestiens. [8], 100, [8, incl. final blank] ff. Illustrated with an etched portrait of the author and 100 engraved plates by Pierre Woeiriot, printed on rectos. Small 4to., 192 x 147 mm, bound in nineteenth-century purple crushed morocco by Lortic, gilt-lettered.....
Item nr. 166943
Price: $22,500.00