RUBENS, Peter Paul. Théorie de la Figure Humaine: considérée dans ses principes, soit en repos ou en mouvement. Ouvrage traduit du Latin de Pierre-Paul Rubens, avec XLIV planches gravées par Pierre Aveline, d'après les desseins de ce célebre artiste. xi, [1], 55, [1] pp. With an engraved full-page self-portrait of.....
Item nr. 167421
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CHEVREUL, M.E. Exposé d'un moyen de définir et de nommer les couleurs, d'après une méthode précise et expérimentale...[title from table of contents]. In: Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Tome 33, text and plates bound separately. Text volume: [3] ll., lxxiii, [1], 944 pp. A few text.....
Item nr. 166846
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ROUGET de LISLE, [Amédée]. Notice sur les Machines et Procédés relatifs à la Composition, à l'Impression des Dessins, et à la Fabrication des Tapisseries, présentée à la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale. ... Suivie de la Chromagraphie, ou l'Art de composer sans Peine des Dessins et des belles Tapisseries et.....
Item nr. 166816
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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
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ECKERSBERG, C.W. Linearperspectiven, anvendt paa Malerkunsten, en Række af perspectiviske Studier af C. W. Eckersberg, med tilhörende Forklaringer. One Page Introduction by G.F.Ursin and 11 Plates, numbered 1-10, with 9a and 9b, accompanied by 9 Text Leaves (the Texts accompanying Plates 7a and 8, and 9a and 9b are each.....
Item nr. 166374
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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
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SCHEYB, Franz Christof von. Theresiade, ein Ehren-Gedicht. Two parts in one volume. [369] pp. Engraved allegorical portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page vignette, engraved dedication leaf, 13 historiated engraved initials, and 29 engraved vignettes by Salomon Kleiner after his own designs and those of Preissler and Buch. Each leaf is enclosed by...
Item nr. 168271
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BOLLERY, Nicolas. Livre de portraiture, contenant par une facille instruction plusieurs plans et figures de toutes les parties sépareés du corps humain, recueillies des plus excellens paintres de toutte l'Istallye, pour bien aprendre les vrais fondemens de la painture et sculpture. Engraved title-page. Illustrated with 35 engraved plates. Paris: Jean.....
Item nr. 167372
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FIRST EDITION -- EXCESSIVELY RARE
AMMAN, Jost. Enchiridion artis pingendi, fingendi & sculpendi. [112] leaves. Collation: (:)4, A-Z4, a-d4. Title-page within a woodcut border, 3 ff. (dedication to Hieronymus August von Holtzhusen, with woodcut arms), plus 107 woodcuts by Jost Amman, and with the final letterpress leaf (colophon). Small 4to., 168...
Item nr. 167311
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PATCH, Thomas. The Life of Frá Bartolommeo della Porta, a Tuscan Painter, with his Works engraved from the original Pictures, dedicated to the Honorable Horace Walpole. [2] pp, illustrated with 24 etched and engraved plates printed in black, red or ochre. [Florence: Thomas Patch, 1772]. BOUND WITH:
Al Nobil uomo il...
Item nr. 167025
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LEONARDO DA VINCI. Trattato della pittura di Leonardo Da Vinci. Edited by Raphael du Fresne. [20], 58, 61-64, 63-112, [16] pp. Illustrated with engraved additional title-page with portrait of Leonardo, large vignette on title-page, dedication headpiece of Queen Christina of Sweden, 9 engraved head-and tailpieces, 3 engraved initials and 57...
Item nr. 166960
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THE DEDICATION COPY
WITH THIRTY ORIGINAL DRAWINGS
METASTASIO, Pietro. Opere del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio, Poeta Cesareo giusta le ultime correzioni ed aggiunte dell'Autore. Alla Maestà di Caterina II. Imperatrice ed Autocratice di tutte le Russie. Seven volumes. Illustrated with 116 plates, plus the engraved portrait of the author, and an unrequired...
Item nr. 116383
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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 book. OCLC lists only the Princeton copy
Item nr. 165808
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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
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BABBITT, Edwin D. The Principles of Light and Color: Including among other things the Harmonic Laws of the Universe, The Etherio-Atomic Philosophy Of Force, Chromo Chemistry, Chromo Therapeutics, and The General Philosophy Of The Fine Forces Together with Numerous Discoveriews and Practical Applications. xii, 560 pp. Illustrated with 204 photo-engravings...
Item nr. 148021
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D'ARCLAIS DE MONTAMY, Didier. Traite des Couleurs pour la Peinture en Email et sur la Porcelaine; precede de l'art de peindre sur l'Email, et suivi de plusieurs Mémoires sur différent Sujets ... lii, 287 pp. 8vo., 175 x 105 mm, bound in original pink wrappers, in a new blue cloth...
Item nr. 144158
Price: $495.00
AUDSLEY, W. & G. Polychromatic Decoration. As Applied to Buildings in the Mediaeval Style. viii, 32 pp. Illustrated with 36 plates, each with accompanying text leaves. Folio, 402 x 277 mm, bound in brown publisher's cloth, gilt on spine and front cover. London: Henry Sotheran, 1882.
First Edition of this Victorian...
Item nr. 143943
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BLANC, Charles. The Grammar of Painting and Engraving translated from the French of Blanc's Grammaire des arts du dessin by Kate Newell Doggett. xx, 330 pp. Illustrated with colour frontispiece and 42 wood-engraved illustrations. 8vo., 213 x 160 mm, bound in publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gold on spine and...
Item nr. 143720
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BREWSTER, Sir David. A Treatise on Optics. 8, [2], x, 383 pp. Illustrated with an additional engraved title-page plus 176 text illustrations. 12mo., 172 x 100 mm, bound in original cloth, later paper label on spine. London: Longmans, &c., 1831.
First Edition of this study of optics, especially notable for influencing...
Item nr. 143617
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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. [16], 175, [1] pp. Illustrated with woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials, and one woodcut diagram showing resizing of an image. 8vo., 157 x....
Item nr. 143602
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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
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BACON, J. The Theory of Colouring. Being an Analysis of the Principles of Contrast and Harmony in the Arrangement of Colours with Their Application to the Study of Nature and Hints on the Composition of Pictures. viii, 51 pp. Illustrated with 6 colour plates, plus 40 pp. of advertisements for...
Item nr. 142394
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NEW YORK CITY. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New-York. By D. T. Valentine. 25 Volumes. Profusely illustrated with lithographic maps, views, diagrams, plans and document facsimiles, many folding and many either tinted in chromolithography or hand-coloured. 12mo. & 8vo., various sizes, bound in late nineteenth-century three-quarter calf...
Item nr. 150539
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PIAZZETTA, Giambattista. La Gerusalemme Liberata. By Torquato Tasso. [12], 254 (i.e., 258) ff. Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece, title vignette, dedicatory portrait of Maria Teresa by Polanzani after Piazzetta, 20 full-page engraved plates surrounded with etched ornamental borders, 20 half-page headpieces containing the "argomenti" to each Canto, 20 culs-de-lampe, 22...
Item nr. 166968
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BLASIS, Carlo di. L'uomo fisico, intelletuale e morale. [4], 224, 108 pp. Illustrated with 2 frontispieces, 5 engraved plates, and various technical drawings in the appendix. 8vo., 250 x 175 mm, bound in contemporary green and black morocco-backed boards, with the original illustrated wrappers preserved. Milano: Tipografia Guglielmini, 1857.
A rare...
Item nr. 148004
Price: $3,500.00