VARIN, Amédée. L'Empire des Légumes. Memoires de Cucurbitus Ier. Recueillis et mis en ordre par MM. Eugène Nus et Antony Meray. [4], 310 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 24 engraved plates, all coloured by a contemporary hand. 4to., 266 x 177 mm, bound in publisher's decorated polychrome cloth.....
Item nr. 168841
Price: $7,500.00
DORÉ, Gustave. London. A Pilgrimage. By Blanchard Jerrold. [12], xii, 191, [1] pp. With an added engraved title-page, 52 engraved plates and 126 vignettes illustrating the text, all by Doré. Folio, 405 x 305 mm, bound in contemporary full green morocco, elaborately gilt, a.e.g. London: Grant & Co., 1872.
$ 0.00
First.....
Item nr. 168837
Price: $3,500.00
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
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Voyages de Gulliver dans des Contrées Lointaines par Swift. [6], xxxii, 450 pp. Illustrated 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, bound in publisher's polychrome cloth binding. Paris: Garnier Fréres, 1852.
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Item nr. 168570
Price: $2,500.00
DORÉ, Gustave. Folies Gauloises depuis les Romains jusqu'à nos Jours. 20 lithographs by Doré. Oblong folio, 335 x 260 mm, bound in contemporary half morocco with the original green printed wrappers preserved. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant, n.d. [1852 or 1859].
$7500.00
First Edition of this "dazzling survey of French manners.....
Item nr. 168808
Price: $7,500.00
DORÉ, Gustave. Les Contes Drolatiques. By Honore de Balzac. 8vo., bound in nineteeenth century three-quarter blue morocco with elaborately gilt spine over marbled boards by Victor Champs, with the original wrappers preserved. Paris: En Bureaux de la Société Générale de Librairie, (Imp. par Bénard et Ce [Ancienne Maison Lacrampe], 1855.
$2750.00
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Item nr. 168212
Price: $2,750.00
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
PERSOZ, J. Traité Théorique et Practique de l'Impression des Tissues. 4 Text volumes. [6], lx, 569; [4], 558; [4], 458, 32 pp. of ads; [4], 560 pp. With 429 fabric samples mounted throughout, each with its own tissue guard; Text volumes, 8vo., 210 x 140 mm, bound in publisher's quarter-calf.....
Item nr. 144120
Price: $1,500.00
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
DODOENS, Rembert. Stirpium historiae pemptades sex sive Libri XXX. [xvi], 872, [66] pp. Illustrated with an engraved allegorical title (included in pagination), ca. 1330 botanical woodcuts after Pieter van der Borcht. Folio, 348 x 214 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch dark brown calf, sides paneled with double gilt fillet, spine.....
Item nr. 119809
Price: $7,000.00
[LUYKEN, J.] Leerzaamme zamenspraaken, over eenige dieren, vogels, insecten, en visschen. [2], vi, [4], 296, [8] pp. Illustrated with 25 engraved plates and woodcut tailpieces. 8vo., 200 x 120 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch calf, boards with blind tooling and gilt fillets. Amsterdam: Erven van F. Houttuin, 1769.
A handome copy.....
Item nr. 168263
Price: $2,850.00
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
DePUE & Company. The Illustrated Atlas and History of Yolo County, Cal. Containing a History of California from 1513 to 1850, a History of Yolo County from 1825 to 1880, with Statistics of Agriculture, Education, Churches, Elections, lithographic Views of Farms, Residences, Mills &c., Portraits of well-known Citizens, and the.....
Item nr. 165593
Price: $4,500.00
MORRIS, John. A Series of large geological Diagrams, illustrating the Principles of this important and practical Science, comprising elementary Section of the Earth's Crust, Table of the Order of Succession of the stratified Rocks, forms of Stratification, Section of the London Basin ... the carboniferous Group - Coal and Iron.....
Item nr. 164759
Price: $3,250.00
CAMERIUS, Joachim. Symbolorum et emblematum animalibus quadrupedibus. 116 ff. Illustrated with engraved title-page and 100 engraved circular emblems by Hans Sibmacher. Small 4to., 195 x 140 mm, bound in early 20th-century tan calf, maroon morocco spine label. Nuremberg: P. Kaufmann, 1595.
First Edition. A charming emblem book on quadrupeds, both real.....
Item nr. 164582
Price: $2,750.00
JOURDAIN, Amable Louis Marie Michel Brèchillet. La Perse ou tableau de l'histoire, du government, de la religion, de la literature, etc., de cet empire; des moeurs et coustumes de ses habitans. 5 volumes. [4], xxi, 218; [4], 268; [4], 226; [4] 288; [4] 327, pp. Illustrated with 5 hand-colured engraved.....
Item nr. 148711
Price: $7,500.00
PRUDHOMME, Louis. Dictionnaire des Individus envoyés à la mort judiciairement, révolutionnairement et contre-révolutionnairement pendant la Révolution, particulièrement sous le règne de la Convention Nationale... avec des gravures et des tableaux. Two volumes. lxxxviii, 496; [4], 516 pp. Illustrated with 2 folding plates and 5 folding tables. 8vo., bound in publisher's.....
Item nr. 148563
Price: $1,750.00
AMERICAN MUSIC. Mammoth Musical Exercises: or, Musical Diagrams for the Singing Class, Designed to save Teachers much Labor at the Blackboard. By Lowell Mason. 60 ff. of printed music. Elephant folio, 615 x 515 mm, bound in contemporary American marbled boards with new brown calf spine and corners. New York.....
Item nr. 145949
Price: $7,500.00
BLIND PRINTING. A Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Literature for the Blind: And Practical Hints and Recommendations as to Their Education. With an Appendix, Containing Directions for Teaching, Reading, and Writing to the Blind, With and Without a Regular Teacher. By James Gall. xx, [9]-388 pp. Illustrated.....
Item nr. 142262
Price: $1,750.00
ANTOLINI, Giovanni Antonio. Projetto sul Foro Bonaparte che doveva Eseguirsi in Milano in 24 Gran Tavole. Title-page and suite of twenty-four plates, comprising 14 magnificent double-page aquatint views printed in shades of sepia ink and 10 double-page engraved floor-plans and scaled architectural drawings. Large folio, 572 x 440 mm, bound.....
Item nr. 168399
Price: $35,000.00
ROCHAS, Albert de. Le Livre de Demain. 44 separate fascicles comprising 424 pp. Illustrated with 11 original samples of rare old paper, 4 chromatic circles, 6 silhouettes by P. Konewka and 5 plates of which 3 are etchings and 2 are reproductions. 8vo., Loose as issued in the original cardboard.....
Item nr. 168538
Price: $9,500.00
LE BLON, Jacques-Christophe and Antoine GAUTIER DE MONTDORGE. L'Art d'Imprimer les Tableaux. Traité d'après les Ecrits, les Opérations & les Instructions verbales, de J.C. Le Blon. xi, vi, [2], [xiii]-xxv, [26]-180, [4] pp. Illustrated with 1 hand coloured sepia mezzotint and two black and white folding plates. 8vo., 195 x......
Item nr. 166681
Price: $15,000.00
BOUTET, Claude. Traite De Mignature pour apprendre aisement a peindre sans maitre. Avec le secret de faire les plus belles couleurs, l'or bruni & l'or en coquille. Frontispiece, [14], 269, [19] pp. Illustrated with 2 leaves of plates. 8vo., bound in contemporary boards. The Hague: Louis and Henry van Dole.....
Item nr. 147182
Price: $2,500.00
CASTEL, Louis B. L'Optique des Couleurs, Fondée Sur Les Simples Observations, & Tournée Surtout À La Pratique De La Peinture, De La Teinture & Des Autres Arts Coloristes. [2], xviij, 487, [9] pp. Illustrated with 2 leaves of plates. 12mo., 165 x 92 mm, bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt.....
Item nr. 147167
Price: $2,500.00
WURTZ, Charles Adolphe. Progrès de l'Industrie des Matières Colorantes Artificielles. Extrait des Rapports du Jury de l'Exposition Universelle de 1873. [vi], [2], 192 pp. Illustrated with 5 double-page plates and 29 mounted textile samples, plus numerous diagrams in text. 8vo., 247 x 155 mm, bound in original wrappers. Paris: G......
Item nr. 143835
Price: $495.00