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
PATCH, Thomas. The Life of Frá Bartolommeo della Porta, a Tuscan Painter, with his Works engraved from the original Pictures, dedicated to the Honorable Horace Walpole. [2] pp., illustrated with 24 etched and engraved plates printed in black, red or ochre. [Florence: Thomas Patch, 1772]. BOUND WITH:
Al Nobil uomo il.....
Item nr. 167025
Price: $13,500.00
WRIGHT, Arnold, ed. Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. 916 pp. Extra-illustrated with black-and-white photographs illustrating the people, costumes, architecture, etc. Bound in full maroon morocco, raised bands on spine, spine gilt, elephant image gilt on front cover, a.e.g. London: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing.....
Item nr. 166980
Price: $2,500.00
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
HOGARTH, William. The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste. And, Rules for drawing caricaturas: with An essay on comic painting by Francis Grose. [iii]-vii, [1], xxx, [3] 34-240, 24 pp. With 7 leaves of plates, of which 2 are triple-page and folding.....
Item nr. 166954
Price: $1,750.00
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
DANREITER, Franz Anton. Die Saltzburgische Kirchen-Prospect. / Les Prospects des Eglises de Salsbourg... Illustrated with an etched title and 20 engraved plates. Augsburg: Johann Andreas Pfeffel, ca. 1730. Millard, Northern 19. BOUND WITH:
_____________. [Schloss Mirabell, Salzberg]. Illustrated with etched and engraved dedication leaf and 5 engraved plates. Augsburg: Johann Andreas.....
Item nr. 166942
Price: $35,000.00
CERVANTES. Les Principals Aventures de Don Quichote. Complete suite of 31 plates, 1 headpiece, and 1 vignette, by Coypel, Picart et al., some mounted on strong paper. Folio, 368 x 252 mm, bound in nineteenth-century French red half morocco over embossed paper boards, embossed white endpapers. The Hague: De Hondt.....
Item nr. 166941
Price: $3,500.00
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. [6], xi, [1], 117, [1] pp. With 11 full-page.....
Item nr. 166940
Price: $15,000.00
CLAESEN, Charles. Recueil d'ornements et de sujets pour être appliqués á l'ornementation des Armes. Illustrated with a lithographic title and 40 lithographic plates, 6 being chromolithographs, including one double-page plate ("34 & 35") in full colour, and 5 plates folding. Large 4to., 352 x 268 mm, bound in recent three-quarter.....
Item nr. 166937
Price: $5,750.00
A MASTERPIECE OF FRENCH
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CALLIGRAPHY
FRENCH CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT. Recueil de Chansons et Romances. [4], 108 pp. Square 8vo., 178 x 137 mm, bound in contemporary French red morocco, spine richly decorated with gilt-tooled lyres and floral ornaments in alternating spine compartments, French filet borders on covers, blue silk endpapers and flyleaves.....
Item nr. 166935
Price: $22,500.00