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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
Price: $250,000.00
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 book. OCLC lists only the Princeton copy
Item nr. 165808
Price: $2,500.00
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
Price: $12,500.00
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
Price: $325.00
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
Price: $750.00
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
Price: $235.00
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
Price: $225.00
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. [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
Price: $375.00
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
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
Price: $150.00
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
Price: $17,500.00
VITRUVIUS, Marcus. I Dieci Libri Dell'Architettura. Translated with additional commentary by Daniele Barbaro. 274 (i.e., 284), [18] pp. (erratic pagination throughout). Illustrated with woodcut architectural title-page, full-page woodcut of two men among ruins, 132 woodcuts within the Ten Books of which eight are double-page plates, six have pasted on extensions...
Item nr. 166976
Price: $37,500.00
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
Price: $38,500.00
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
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., bound in a 217 x 140 mm...
Item nr. 165802
Price: $9,500.00
BLAKE, William. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Engraved title and 21 engraved plates, executed by William Blake after his own designs. Folio, 420 x 275 mm, bound in contemporary blue paper covered boards, grey paper spine. London: Published by the Author, 1825.
First Edition of Blake's final masterpiece, his last...
Item nr. 164041
Price: $85,000.00
WRIGHT, Arnold, ed. Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. 916 pp. Extra-illustrated with black-and-white photographs illustrating the people, costumes, architecture, etc. Bound in full maroon morocco, raised bands on spine, spine gilt, elephant image gilt on front cover, a.e.g. London: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing.....
Item nr. 166980
Price: $2,500.00
PLUMIER, Charles. Traité des fougères de l'Amérique. [4], xxxvi, 1-93, 98-146, [10] pp. Illustrated with 172 full-page engravings of ferns. Folio, 167 x 106 mm, bound in contemporary limp vellum, title in MS on spine, pair of fore-edge ties. Preserved in beige linen slipcase. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1705.
First Complete Edition...
Item nr. 166971
Price: $18,500.00
PERELLE, Gabriel, Adam and Nicholas. Recueil de Veues des Plus Beaux Lieux de France. Comprised of seven parts in one volume, each part with individual title. Illustrated with a total 281 etched and/or engraved plates on 253 leaves, comprising 267 views and 14 plans and/or maps (3 being large folding)...
Item nr. 166967
Price: $22,500.00
MONTANUS, Arnoldus. Gedenkwaerdige Gesantschappen der Oost-Indische Maetschappy in 't Vereenigde Nederland, aen de Kaisaren van Japan: vervatende wonderlyke voorvallen op de togt der Nederlandtsche Gesanten: beschryving van de dorpen, sterkten, steden, landtschappen, tempels, Gods-diensten, dragten, gebouwen, dieren, gewasschen, bergen, fonteinen, vereeuwde en nieuwe oorlogs-daaden der Japanders. [8], 456, [16] pp...
Item nr. 166966
Price: $12,500.00
ITALY. MISSON, François-Maximilien. Nouveau Voyage D'Italie, Avec un Memoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. Three volumes. [54], 339, [21]; 356, [24]; 414, [20] pp. With with 37 fold-out engraved plates, and 40 full-page engraved plates. 12mo., 170 x 110 mm, bound in contemporary...
Item nr. 166965
Price: $3,850.00
ITALY. MISSON, François-Maximilien. Nouveau Voyage D'Italie, Avec un Memoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. Three volumes. [26], 248, [21]; 352, [28]; [18], 413 (i.e., 417), [21] pp. Illustrated with a total of 65 engraved plates of which 39 are folding, plus one folding...
Item nr. 166964
Price: $15,000.00
MENESTRIER, Claude-François. -- LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE, Louis Charles de, Prince de Turenne. Ludovico Magno theses ex universa philosophia dicat et consecrat Ludovicus a Turre-Arverniæ princeps Turennius. [16] pp., (page [4] blank). Engraved throughout: calligraphic title and text engraved by Louis Michault within elaborate emblematic and historiated borders engraved by Louis...
Item nr. 166958
Price: $18,500.00
HOGARTH, William. The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste. And, Rules for drawing caricaturas: with An essay on comic painting by Francis Grose. [iii]-vii, [1], xxx, [3] 34-240, 24 pp. With 7 leaves of plates, of which 2 are triple-page and folding...
Item nr. 166954
Price: $1,750.00
