BETTI, Giovanni Battista. A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti. Contents includes illustrated engraved title and 24 engraved plates. Oblong folio, 220 x 300 mm, bound in contemporary paste-paper wrappers. Florence: 1779.
First Edition of Betti's imaginative illustrated alphabet-book, containing 24 full-page oblong plates of richly ornamented capital letters, each letter standing in a......
Item nr. 165360
Price: $12,500.00
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
KIMONO DESIGNS. Album of hand-painted Japanese Kimono Designs. Comprising 100 leaves with more than 500 hand-painted samples of patterns for Japanese kimonos, most of them pasted in. A few are painted on cloth. Oblong folio, 410 x 310 mm, bound in original printed wrapppers, preserved in a new blue cloth.....
Item nr. 164751
Price: $5,850.00
SUNQUA. Album of Ornithological Paintings. 12 watercolours on pith paper, 345 x 215 mm surrounded by blue silk borders and mounted in an album bound in nineteenth-century Chinese silk. [Canton?]: [ca.1850].
A decorative hand-painted suite of ornithological watercolours by Sunqua - with all but one of the watercolours signed by the.....
Item nr. 148769
Price: $22,500.00
CHINESE EXPORT GOUACHES. Album of Seventeen Chinese Gouaches on pith paper. Illustrated with 17 gouaches on pith paper ranging in size from 145 x 244 mm to 174 x 300 mm, each with tissue guard and ornamental gold foil border, mounted on thick paper stock. Oblong folio, 260 x 355.....
Item nr. 146488
Price: $50,000.00
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
MARCHAND, D. Alphabet 41 Militaire. 8 leaves folded accordion style. Colour-printed illustrations. 12mo., bound in light blue wrappers, title and decorations in gilt. Paris: R. De Saintonge,(1835).
Primer of the alphabet with a military theme. Colour-printed illustrations in red, blue and gilt depicting military images such as fanfare, Hussars, infantry, new.....
Item nr. 88652
Price: $375.00
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
RIDDELL, John. Architectural Designs for Model Country Residences. Accompanied by general descriptions and estimates. Prepared expressly for persons who contemplate building, and artisans throughout the United States. [14] ff. Illustrated with 20 full-page colour lithograph plates (illustrating 22 country houses) each accompanied by a full-page plan. Oblong folio, 370 x......
Item nr. 141465
Price: $17,500.00
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
HUNDERTPFUND, Libertat. The art of painting restored to its simplest and surest principles, translated from the German. xi, 122, [ii] pp. Illustrated with 23 plates of which 3 are engraved and printed on thin cards (one each of a palette and brushes), 20 in colour lithography and a large folding.....
Item nr. 143604
Price: $1,250.00
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
ASSISI. BRUSCHELLI, Domenico. Asisi citta serafica e santuarii (sic) che la decorano ad istruzione e guida de' forestieri che vi concorrono. VIII, 85, [3] pp. Illustrated with 30 full-page engraved plates numbered I-XXX. 4to., 227 x 145 mm, bound in original Italian blue paper wrappers, manuscript title and author on.....
Item nr. 150396
Price: $1,750.00
WALKER, A.H. Atlas of Bergen County New Jersey. 167 pp. including over 100 maps and illustrations: 61 coloured maps of townships and villages, 37 lithograph views of residences and businesses by A.M. Davis after drawings by George Allen Rudd, plus world maps and advertisements. Folio, 440 x 375 mm, bound.....
Item nr. 150703
Price: $2,500.00
LAKE, D.J. Atlas of Cuyahoga County Ohio. 205 pp. Illustrated with 48 views, of which two are double page, and 58 hand-coloured maps, of which 27 are double-page, including a double-page map of the United States. Tall folio, 410 x 370 mm, bound in original morocco-backed publisher's boards. Philadelphia: Titus.....
Item nr. 135368
Price: $7,500.00
SHOOTING FESTIVAL. Beschreibung des Kaiserl. Gnaden-und Frey-Schiessen, welches von ihro Kaiser-und Koenigliche Catholischen Majestaet Carolo Sexto der Wienerischen Burgerschaft durch vierzehn Tag gegeben worden. In der Jahr 1739. 68 pp. text and 10 engraved plates, including double-sheet frontispiece and 4 full-sheet and folding, woodcut armorial headpiece. Small folio, 320 x......
Item nr. 123038
Price: $7,500.00
JAPANESE ORNAMENTAL WOODBLOCK PRINTS. Bijutsu Kai. Collection of Pictures Regarding Colour Designs for Japanese Textiles Costumes. Five parts in one volume. Five folding plates and 18 full-page coloured woodblock prints per section, for a total of 95 original illustrations. 8vo., 232 x 160 mm, bound in Japanese accordion style with.....
Item nr. 142126
Price: $7,500.00
MAYRHOFFER, Johann Nepomuk. Anleitung zur Blumen-Zeichnung. 2 ff. Illustrated with 14 full-page lithographs of flowers. Oblong 4to., 240 x 380 mm, bound in old blue wrappers, preserved in green half-morocco folding case. Munich: Im Verlag der lithographischen Kunst-Anstalt bey der Feyertags-Schule, 1816.
Extremely rare early example of German lithography. "Mayrhoffer's flowers.....
Item nr. 55630
Price: $1,750.00
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
HOUGHTON, The Rev. W. British Fresh-Water Fishes. Two volumes. Illustrated with 41 chromoxylographed plates of fish engraved by Benjamin Fawcett after drawings by A.F. Lydon and numerous steel-engraved plates of angling locales. Folio, bound in decorative publisher's brick textured cloth over beveled boards with black-, gilt-, and blind-stamped piscatorial vignettes.....
Item nr. 142668
Price: $1,100.00
BUFFALO. Buffalo Business Directory, With Alphabetical and Classified Index. Containing, Also, Advertisements of the Principal Business Houses in Rochester, Chicago, etc. [5], 230, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo., 223 x 150 mm, bound in publisher's elaborately blind and gilt stamped green cloth. [Buffalo]: Hunter & Ostrander, Democracy Printing Association, 1855.
An.....
Item nr. 132283
Price: $585.00
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
LEBER, Maximilien de. Calculs des Raccordements Paraboliques dans les Tracés de Chemins de Fer... viii, 172 pp. Small 4to., 265 x 185 mm, bound in publisher's gold stamped cloth. Paris: Baudrey et Cie., 1892.
An exhaustive work on the construction of railway bridges in an attractive polychrome binding...
Item nr. 148055
Price: $275.00
CALDWELL, J.A. Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Centennial Atlas of Washington County. By J. A. Caldwell. 228 pp. Illustrated with over 100 maps and views. Tall folio, 445 x 355 mm, bound in original publisher's boards, rebacked in black cloth with a red cloth label. Pittsburgh: Otto Krebs, 1876.
An impressive example of.....
Item nr. 130694
Price: $5,750.00
BEAUMONT, Roberts. Colour in Woven Design. With 32 coloured plates and numerous original illustrations. 8vo., 185 x 120 mm, bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt emblem on front cover and title gilt on spine. London: Whittaker & Co, 1890.
First Edition of this standard work on colour in textiles. The.....
Item nr. 143176
Price: $125.00