HEATH, William. W.M. Heath's Sketches of, in & about Dover. Illustrated title and 6 plates attached to form a panorama, in contemporary hand-colouring. 4to, 200 x 270 mm. folded, publisher's cloth, in a new burgundy cloth box with a navy label. Dover: The Rigden, 1834.
A rare panorama showing Dover from.....
Item nr. 169990
Price: $2,500.00
HEIM, Josef. American Commercial Specimens, Second Series. 24 leaves, printed on one side only of which 17 are all or partly in colour. Folio, 320 x 240 mm., publisher's illustrated cloth-backed boards, Vienna: Josef Heim, 1898.
A stunning and somewhat mysterious piece of Americana. The album was published in Vienna, but.....
Item nr. 169980
Price: $2,850.00
THAMES TUNNEL COMPANY. An Explanation of the Works of the Tunnel under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping. Printed title, illustrated title, 24 pp. text; 8 plates, of which 2 are folding and 1 with flap, and a folding map. 12mo, 105 x 130 mm., somewhat later calf, wrappers with.....
Item nr. 169785
Price: $2,500.00
MUELLER, G.F. Das Reich der redenden Thiere. Neuestes Fabelbuch fuer die Jugend. 58 pp., illustrated title page, 12 plates in contemporary hand colouring. Oblong 4to, 180 x 235 mm., bound in contemporary cloth-backed boards. Nuremberg: Lotzbeck, 1847.
An unusual German collection of illustrated fables. Published just five years after Grandville's Scènes.....
Item nr. 169585
Price: $3,500.00
PARIS, Ministere de Travaux Publics. Album de statistique graphique. 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890-1891, 1892, 1893, 1895-1896. Each volume contains 12-26 colored plates of informational graphics, many folding. Folio, 330 x 255 mm., publisher's boards. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1879-1896.
These splendid volumes were published by the.....
Item nr. 169396
Price: $15,000.00
DORE, Gustave. Histoire Dramatique, Pittoresque et Caricaturale de la Sainte Russie, D'après les Chroniquers et Historiens Nestor, Nikan, Sylvestre, Karamsin, Segur, etc... [4], 207 pp. (printed on recto only), illustrated with 500 engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré cut onto woodblocks by Sotain. 4to, 290 x 195 mm., bound in contemporary.....
Item nr. 169256
Price: $4,950.00
CHILDS, George. Childs' Drawing Book of Objects: Studies From Still Life, For You Pupils and Drawing Classes in Schools. Letterpress title-page, followed by 24 lithographic plates. 4to, 190 x 265 mm., bound in publisher's red cloth. Philadelphia: John W. Moore, 1845.
A unusually well preserved copy of this delightful nineteenth century.....
Item nr. 168867
Price: $2,500.00
EARHART, John F. The Harmonizer. 7, [1], 240, [4] pp., illustrated with 2 plates of ink colours and 240 "colour-plates." With a final leaf of letterpress colophon. 8vo, 182 x 120 mm., bound in original publisher's gray cloth with red, yellow, blue decorations and black-stamped lettering. Cincinnati: Earhart & Richardson.....
Item nr. 168666
Price: $2,750.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Cent Proverbes. With text by Amadee Achard, Taxile Delord, Emile Forguesvand Arnould Fremy. [4], 398, [2] pp., illustrated with wood engraved frontispiece, 50 full page wood engravings hor-texte, plus head-and-tail pieces by Grandville. 8vo, 228 x 140 mm., bound in publisher's polychrome cloth binding. Paris: Fournier, 1845.
A fine.....
Item nr. 168591
Price: $3,850.00
VARIN, Amédée. Papillons Metamorphoses Terrestres des Peuples de L'Air. Two volumes. [4], 232, [4]; [4], 258, [4] pp., illustrated with 35 hand-coloured engraved plates, including frontispieces and title-page plates, and with the portrait Cazotte opposite vol. II, p. 152, not included in the list of plates. 8vo, 262 x 175.....
Item nr. 167496
Price: $7,500.00
CHEVREUL, Michel-Eugène. De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, et de l'Assortiment des objets colorés. Two volumes. I (text): xv, [1], 735 pp., illustrated with two folding letterpress tables. II (atlas): [2], 2 pp., illustrated with 40 engraved and lithographic plates on 22 ff., of which 13 folding; plates.....
Item nr. 166408
Price: $17,500.00
JAPANESE TEXTILE DESIGN. Shozoku shokumon zue. By Matsuoka Tokikata and Hinma Hyakuri. Seven volumes. Containing a total of 160 Japanese folded sheets, illustrated with a profusion of colour woodcut-printed designs. 8vo, 268 x 193 mm., bound in original Japanese paper wrappers, stitched, laid in a new Japanese folding chitsu case.....
Item nr. 165331
Price: $5,750.00
FABRE, Francois. Némésis Médicale Illustrée. Recueil de Satires. Two volumes. xxxii, 278; 360 pp., illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Honoré Daumier. 4to, 245 x 155 mm., marbled boards. Paris: Au Bureau de la Némésis Médicale, 1840.
A collection of medical satires written in twenty-five poems, in rhyming couplets. Illustrated with thirty.....
Item nr. 164999
Price: $2,500.00
GOGOL, Nikolai. The Nose. Illustrated by William Kentridge. Oblong 4to., Publisher's cloth-backed boards and clamshell box. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2021.
This edition of The Nose is a new original translation by scholar and author Stanislav Shvabrin. William Kentridge provided 16 altered and collaged images for the book, composed on tear.....
Item nr. 169210
Price: $1,250.00
MEHRETU, Julie. Poetry of Sappho. With English translation by John Daley, with an introduction by Page duBois. Illustrated with twenty prints by Julie Mehretu. Folio, bound in publisher's vellum-backed boards. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011.
A handsome modern edition of the poems of Sappho, superbly printed at the Arion Press and.....
Item nr. 167374
Price: $1,750.00
LE GEAY, Jean Laurent. Rovine, inventione di Giovan. Loren. Legeay Architet., intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768. [24] ff., 275 x 210 mm, bound in contemporary half-calf over boards. [London]: 1768.
Complete set of the first issue of Le Geay's extremely rare and extraordinary series of architectural fantasies on the.....
Item nr. 171212
Price: $15,000.00
[VENICE]. ALBRIZZI, Giovanni Battista. Forastiere illuminato intorno le cose più rare, e curiose, antiche, e moderne della città di Venezia, e dell' isole circonvicine; colla descrizione delle chiese, monisteri, ospitali, tesoro di S. Marco, Arsenale, fabbriche pubbliche, pitture celebri, funzioni e divertimenti, e di quanto v'è di più riguardevole. [2].....
Item nr. 169660
Price: $2,500.00
HARE, Augustus. Walks in Rome. Two Volumes. 473; 473 pp., illustrated with 47 original photographs and a folding map. Small 8vo, 175 x 115 mm., original full vellum, gilt, red edges. London: Daldy, Isbister & Co.,1876
A rare edition of this classic, much reprinted, Victorian guide to Rome in a deluxe.....
Item nr. 47563
Price: $1,500.00
SEKKA, Kamisaka. Cho senshu. 2 Volumes, each with 25 double-page plates of coloured woodcuts depicting butterflies by Sekka. 8vo, 248 x 178 mm. folded, bound accordion-style (orihon) in green silk over boards, in a new green cloth box. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, 1903.
A fine copy of the first printing of this.....
Item nr. 171525
Price: $6,500.00
CALDER, Alexander. Fables of Aesop according to Sir Roger L'Estrange. [6], 124, [10] pp. Illustrated with 50 reproductions of drawings by Alexander Calder printed in black. 4to., bound in paper over boards, in the original cardboard sleeve and slipcase in new red cloth folding box. Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1931.
A.....
Item nr. 171282
Price: $2,850.00
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
SHIMIZU, Yoshiyasu. Tokaido panorama chizu. [Panoramic Map of Tokaido]. Folding panorama, 230 x 7070 mm unfolded. 8vo., 230 x 90 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated boards. Tokyo: Kanao Bun'endo, 1921.
A charming panorama depicting Tokaido (the East Sea Road), the route connecting Kyoto to Tokyo. Travel, particularly along the Tokaido, was.....
Item nr. 165258
Price: $575.00
CONFUCIUS. Confucius Sinarum Sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita. cxxiv, 108, 160, xx, 20, 8, [2], 23-108, [2] pp. Illustrated with engraved portrait of Confucius and a map of China engraved by François de Louvemont from a drawing by the Belgian missionary Philippe Couplet. Folio, 335 x 225 mm, bound in.....
Item nr. 169179
Price: $12,500.00
PROVOST, A. Les Trains de Plaisir, le Touriste en Chemin de Fer Ligne de Paris a Versailles. Title and 22 hand-colored plates. Oblong 8vo., 150 x 230 mm, Publishers cloth. 22 coloured lithographs with 1 caricature, 20 views and 1 map. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth with title ("Voyage de Paris.....
Item nr. 169783
Price: $875.00
MITCHELL, Joan. Abstract Expressionism. 4 Volumes. 1. John Ashbery. The Poems. With 4 prints by Joan Mitchell. 2. Frank O'Hara. Odes. With 4 prints by Michael Goldberg. 3. Kenneth Koch. Permanently. With 4 prints by Alfred Leslie. 4. James Schuyler. Salute. With 4 prints by Grace Hartigan. Folio, bound in.....
Item nr. 168742
Price: $7,500.00