[ARCHITECTURE - FRENCH GRAND PRIX]. Recueil des grands prix d'architecture, et autres productions de cet art, couronnées en France, reduites, gravées et lavées par une Societé d'Architectes. Contents includes: manuscript half-title, title and table, 13 livraison each made up of 6 hand-coloured aquatint engravings printed on thick Holland paper for.....
Item nr. 165236
Price: $18,500.00
PILLEMENT, Jean. Cahier de Six Baraques Chinoises WITH: Recueil de Tentes Chinoises. Two suites each comprised of 6 etchings, professionally matted. Plate size: ca. 242 x 165 mm. Sheet size: ca. 350 x 257 mm. All preserved in a large folio sized modern maroon cloth box. Paris: Leviez, 1770.
First State.....
Item nr. 165235
Price: $7,500.00
AOYAMA, Toyotaro. Dainihon Hakuranzu, Tochigi-ken no bu. [Catalog of the Industrial Exhibition (Japan): Tochigi Prefecture]. 200 engraved plates on 100 leaves. Oblong folio, 320 x 220 mm, bound in contemporary cloth backed boards, rebacked, with part of the original spine laid down, in a new chitsu case. Tokyo: Seikosha, 1890.
A.....
Item nr. 165229
Price: $9,750.00
UEHARA, Toichiro. Tokyo kaimono hitoriannai. Shonin meika. 173 leaves, all printed on both sides, including a double-page woodcut frontispiece of Tokyo. Oblong 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers in a new chitsu case. Tokyo: Uehara Toichiro, 1890.
A beautifully printed guide to shops in Tokyo. With numerous woodcuts throughout and a wide.....
Item nr. 165218
Price: $1,750.00
JAPANESE TEXTILES. Orimon Ruizan. [Historical textiles compiled by the Imperial Museum]. 10 volumes. Illustrated with 1040 colour woodcuts on 520 leaves. 8vo., 250 x 180 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers, in a new chitsu case. Tokyo: Yurindo, 1892.
A masterpiece of the woodblock maker's art. This collection of 1040 plates is.....
Item nr. 165215
Price: $15,000.00
IEHARA, Masanori and Kan'ichiro SHIOZU. Gakko hitsuyo irozu mondo. [2], 40, [2] pp. on 22 double folded leaves. Illustrated with two hand-coloured charts and small hand-coloured squares throughout the text. 8vo., 210 x 150 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers with title label preserved in a new purple cloth folding box.....
Item nr. 165153
Price: $2,500.00
TOKYO. Edo Meisho Zue [Famous Sights in and about Edo]. Twenty Volumes. Illustrated with ca. 600 woodcuts by Hasegawa Settan. By Gesshin Saitô et al. Small 4to., 260 x 185 mm, bound in original Japanese pale blue paper with paper title labels on front covers, stitched and bound accordion style.....
Item nr. 165084
Price: $17,500.00
TOKYO GUIDE. Tokyo meisho hitori annai. Illustrated with two double-page woodcut maps and 28 full page woodcut views. Oblong 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Tokyo: Hoeido, 1890.
A guide to Tokyo at the end of the nineteenth century. Among the scenes which show the growing.....
Item nr. 165068
Price: $1,250.00
YASUI, Otsuyu. Tokyo meisho annai: Eiri. [Illustrated Guide Book of Scenic Beauty in Tokyo]. 2 Volumes. Illustrated with 60 plates and a folding map of Tokyo. 12mo., bound in publisher's wrappers in a modern chitsu case. Tokyo: Bunseido, 1883.
$1250.00
A charming guide book to Tokyo at the beginning of the Meiji.....
Item nr. 165023
Price: $850.00
GALLE, Philippe. Semideorum marinorum amnicorumque sigillariae imagines perelegantes in picturae statuariaeque artis tyronum usum a Philippo Gallaeo delineatae, sculptae et aeditae. Engraved title-page followed by 17 numbered engraved plates. Antwerp: [Galle], 1586. BOUND WITH:
Nimpharum oceanitidum, ephydridum potamidum, naiadum, lynadumque icones, in gratiam picturae studiosae ivventutis deliniatae scalptae, et editae a......
Item nr. 164842
Price: $18,500.00
ROTA, Martino, Nicolò NELLI, & Domenico ZENOI. Imagines Quorudam Principum, et Illustrium Virorum. Ritratti di alcuni prencipi, et huomini illustre. Bolognini Zaltery formis. Engraved title-page followed by 71 engraved plates. 4to., 260 x 200 mm, bound in contemporary limp vellum, title in manuscript on spine, preserved in a recent red.....
Item nr. 164818
Price: $18,500.00
VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Hans. Hortorvm Viridariorvmque elegantes & multiplicis formae...delineatae a Iohanne Vredmanno Frisio. Contents include engraved title with and architectural border followed by 28 engraved plates by Philips Galle after Hans Vredeman de Vries. Antwerp: Philips Galle, 1583. BOUND AFTER:
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. Vitruuius Des aller namhafftigisten vnnd Hocherfarnesten Romischen.....
Item nr. 164704
Price: $18,500.00
PRICHARD, John Cowles. The natural history of man comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family. [18], 678 pp, plus 12 pp ads. Illustrated with steel engraved hand coloured frontispiece, 55 steel engraved plates (on 50 sheets) of which.....
Item nr. 164560
Price: $3,500.00
MICHAUX, André. Histoire des Chênes de l'Amerique ou, Descriptions et Figures de toutes les espèces et variétés de Chênes de l'Amérique Septentrionale, Considérées sous les rapports de la Botanique, de leur culture et de leur usage. [4], 7, [49] pp. 36 leaves of engraved plates, 32 after Pierre Joseph Redouté.....
Item nr. 164236
Price: $6,500.00
TUCCARO, Arcangelo. Trois dialogues de l'exercise de sauter et voltiger en l'air. [4], 197 ff, (misnumbered throughout). Illustrated with woodcut title vignette, large folding woodcut plate (270 x 385 mm), 87 large woodcuts throughout text (many full-page, some repeating). 4to., 215 x 165 mm, bound nineteenth-century vellum over boards, brown.....
Item nr. 163853
Price: $25,000.00
VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Hans. XII Caesarum Romanorum Imagines. E numismatibus expressae, et historica narratione illustrata. By Franciscus Sweertius. 30 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 12 engraved portraits with elaborate borders by Hans Vredeman de Vries. Small 4to., 200 x 140 mm, bound in eighteenth-century Dutch calf, spine gilt. Antwerp.....
Item nr. 162757
Price: $7,500.00
BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien. American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson. Four volumes . Illustrated with 27 hand- coloured engraved plates after T.R. Peale, A. Rider, and J.J. Audubon (one figure of plate 4) by A. Lawson, all hand-coloured by Rider. Folio.....
Item nr. 162271
Price: $9,750.00
PARIS. Paris Guide par les principaux ecrivains et artistes de la France. Two volumes. I: xiv, 902, 27, [1] pp. II: xiv, 903-2139, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout, including many folding plates and maps. Thick 8vo., 190 x 120 mm, bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt armorial at center of front.....
Item nr. 159495
Price: $2,250.00
GUILLIM, John. A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof then hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of Method, whereinto it is now rediced by the industry of Joh. Gwillim. [14], 284 pp. (i.e., 290). Heavily illustrated throughout with woodcut shields and.....
Item nr. 158953
Price: $2,750.00
LAFEVER, Minard. The Architectural Instructor, Containing a History of Architecture from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time... 526 pp. Illustrated with 112 numbered engraved plates containing hundreds of elements and views. Folio, 215 x 303 mm, bound in brown buckram with a new black morocco spine label stamped in.....
Item nr. 157655
Price: $3,500.00
STOWE, Lyman. Poetical Drifts of Thought; Treating upon the Mistakes of the Church ... reconciliation of Science and Christianity ... the Formation of a Solar System ... : embellished with nearly 200 Illustrations. : Together with a Number of fine Poems on popular Subjects including Sketches of the City of.....
Item nr. 156285
Price: $725.00
HUGO, Victor. Paris Guide par les principaux écrivains et artistes de la France. Two volumes. xiv, XLIV, 902, 28, IV, [32]; xiv, 903-2140, [8] pp. Illustrated with 111 wood engraved plates, 2 wood engraved frontispieces, 5 lithograph folding maps, including one loose, large folding map that is hand-coloured inserted in.....
Item nr. 155479
Price: $2,250.00
FIRST JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA
NAKAMURA, Tekisai. Kinmo zu-i. 21 kan in 14 volumes. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white woodcuts with identifying characters. 4to., 270 x 197 mm, bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji, in original blue paper wrappers with printed paper labels, housed in a recent navy chitsu case. [Japan]: Yamagataya, [ca.....
Item nr. 154364
Price: $25,000.00
BOSTON. Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners. January, 1893. House No. 150. [i]-xvi, [1]-147, [1] pp. Illustrated with 31 plates, 14 maps, plans, and diagrams (4 folding). 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth. Boston: Metropolitan Park Commissioners, 1893.
The first and most important of the 27 annual reports published on.....
Item nr. 153794
Price: $350.00
WASHINGTON, D.C. Bohn's Hand-Book of Washington. With an Appendix. Illustrated with twenty engravings of public buildings, etc. By Cassimir Bohn. 104 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece, 17 tinted full-page lithographs, fold out lithographic map of Washington, D.C., engraved fold out plan of the House and Senate chambers. 12mo., 148 x......
Item nr. 153793
Price: $1,250.00