COWLEY, John Lodge. An Illustration and Mensuration of solid Geometry in seven Books: containing forty-two moveable Copper-plate Schemes for forming the various Kinds of Solids and their Sections... 32 pp. Illustrated with 42 full-page geometric engravings printed on heavy paper which cut-out to demonstrate solid forms London: printed by S......

Item nr. 168577

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DORÉ, Gustave. La Ménagerie Parisienne. Comprised of a printed title and 24 lithographic plates. 4to., 243 x 325 mm, disbound, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Journal Pour Rire, 1854

First Edition of this very early work by Dore. Created as a social satire of French culture, La Ménagerie Parisienne.....

Item nr. 168152

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LORIS, Daniel. Le thresor des parterres de l'univers, contenant les figures et pourtraits des plus beaux Compartimens, Cabanes et Labyrinthes des Jardinages, tant à l'Allemande qu'à la Françoise. Avec la manière de les construire, compasser et former dextrement. Descripts en Latin, François, Allemand et Anglais et distingué en trois livres.....

Item nr. 167290

Price: $35,000.00

FOSSATI, Giorgio. Raccolta di Varie Favole delineate, ed incise in Rame. Six volumes in two. [16], 44; [16], 48; [8], 76; [8], 59; [8], 59; [8], 36 pp. Title-pages in vol. I with engraved ornamental borders printed in red. Illustrated with 3 engraved headpieces and 216 engraved plates, printed in.....

Item nr. 116357

Price: $47,500.00

LOVIBOND, Joseph W. Measurement of light and colour sensations. A new method of investigating the phenomena of light and colour by means of the selective absorption in coloured glass, graded into scales of equivalent colour value. 132 pp. Illustrated with 13 text illustrations, 23 tables, 9 colour charts and 13.....

Item nr. 142456

Price: $850.00

PLANELLA y COROMINA, José. Esposicion completa y elemental del arte de la perspectiva y aplicacion de ella al palco escénico. [4], 94 pp. Illustrated with 100 engraved plates. 8vo., 220 x 145 mm, bound in full contemporary calf, professionally rebacked. Barcelona, J. Verdaguer, 1840.

A fine copy of the first edition.....

Item nr. 168579

Price: $3,500.00

HAMILTON, John. Stereography, or, A compleat body of perspective, in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules, the appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed in all manner of positions. [9], 400, [36] pp. Illustrated with 130 engraved folding plates. Folio, 395 x......

Item nr. 168574

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GARCIA BERRUGUILLA, Juan. Verdadera Práctica de las Resoluciones de la Geometría sobre las tres Dimensiones para un perfecto Architecto: con una total Resolución para medir y dividir la Planimetría para los Agrimensores. Title, [30], 135 pp. Illustrated with 18 folding engraved plates. 8vo., 225 x 150 mm, bound in contemporary.....

Item nr. 168572

Price: $3,750.00

SARAYNA, Torelli. De Origine et amplitudine civitatis Veronae. 70 leaves including illustrations, erratic pagination (see below). Illustrated with woodcut printer's device on the title, woodcut portrait of the author and 26 woodcut plates, many double-page or fold-out plates, with several in-text woodcuts designed by Giovanni Caroto. Verona: Ex Officina Antonii.....

Item nr. 168506

Price: $12,500.00

GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les Fleurs Animées. Introduction by Alphonse Karr. Text by Taxile Delord. [3]-260; [2], 102, [4], iv, [2], 106-166, [2], iv, 169-234, [2] pp. Illustrated with 2 engraved title-pages, 50 hand-coloured engraved plates by Grandville, plus 2 engraved botanical plates. 4to., 264 x 178 mm, bound in original publisher's.....

Item nr. 167915

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GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les Etoiles. By Joseph Mery. [4], xvi, 252 pp.; [4], 186, [2] pp. With 15 hand-colored engravings. 8vo., 255 x 176 mm, bound in the original publisher's wrappers, in a new blue half moocco folding box. Paris: G. de Gonet, [1849].

A fine copy of this charming work, Grandville's.....

Item nr. 167581

Price: $5,750.00

GRANDVILLE, J.J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Two volumes. [8], 386, [6]; [4], 390, [6] pp. With 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo., 261 x 180 mm, uniformly bound in publisher's full decorated cloth binding with gilt vignettes of Grandville designs.....

Item nr. 167577

Price: $7,500.00

GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les Etoiles. By Joseph Mery. [4], xvi, 252; [4], 186, [2] pp. With 15 hand-coloured engravings. 8vo., 255 x 176 mm, bound in publisher's elaborately gilt decorated cloth binding. Paris: G. de Gonet, [1849].

A fine copy of this charming work, Grandville's last book of illustrations. It actually consists.....

Item nr. 167498

Price: $4,750.00