WICQUEFORT, Abraham de and Romeyn de HOOGHE. Advis Fidelle aux veritables Hollandois, touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave et Swammerdam, et las cruautés inouies, que les Francois y ont exercées. [2], 202 pp. Illustrated with 8 folding etched plates (the last two plates with 2 scenes.....
Item nr. 171424
Price: $9,750.00
PELLE, Clement and Thomas ALLOM. L'Empire Chinois, illustre d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux. 4 Volumes. [4], 68, 26; 76; 74; 73, [3] pp., illustrated with 4 engraved added title-pages and 124 full page steel engraved plates. 4to, 275 x 214 mm., bound in publisher's elaborately decorated red cloth.....
Item nr. 170092
Price: $8,500.00
WITH AN UNRECORDED 31st MAP
TOMATSU Masanori, Muneyasu KAGEYAMA et al. Edo Kiriezu. A complete set of 31 Coloured Woodblock Maps of Tokyo. 12mo, 165 x 90 folded, 490 x 535 unfolded, each bound in original pale blue wrappers, preserved in a contemporary wooden box. Edo: Owariya Seishichi, 1852-1864.
A very special.....
Item nr. 171513
Price: $25,000.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. L'Ingénieux chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche... Traduction nouvelle, illustrée par J.J. Granville. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Two volumes in one. viii, 552 pp., with steel engraved frontispiece, 6 steel engraved plates, and 24 woodcut engravings, all executed after designs by Grandville. 8vo, 2350 x 150 mm......
Item nr. 171344
Price: $3,500.00
DORE, Gustave. Histoire Dramatique, Pittoresque et Caricaturale de la Sainte Russie, D'après les Chroniquers et Historiens Nestor, Nikan, Sylvestre, Karamsin, Segur, etc... [4], 207 pp. (printed on recto only), illustrated with 500 engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré cut onto woodblocks by Sotain. 4to, 290 x 195 mm., bound in contemporary.....
Item nr. 169256
Price: $4,950.00
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
VARIN, Amédée. Papillons Metamorphoses Terrestres des Peuples de L'Air. Two volumes. [4], 232, [4]; [4], 258, [4] pp., illustrated with 35 hand-coloured engraved plates, including frontispieces and title-page plates, and with the portrait Cazotte opposite vol. II, p. 152, not included in the list of plates. 8vo, 262 x 175.....
Item nr. 167496
Price: $7,500.00
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
PROVOST, A. Les Trains de Plaisir, le Touriste en Chemin de Fer Ligne de Paris a Versailles. Title and 22 coloured lithographs including 1 caricature, 20 views and 1 map. Oblong 8vo, 150 x 230 mm., publisher's blind-stamped green cloth with title ("Voyage de Paris a Versaille") in gilt on.....
Item nr. 169783
Price: $875.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les Métamorphoses du Jour. [4], xxviii, 283 pp., with 70 hand-coloured wood engravings after designs by Grandville. Large 8vo, 262 x 163 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated polychrome boards. Paris: Havard, 1854.
First edition in book form, comprised of 67 designs from the excessively rare 1829 suite, 2 lithographs.....
Item nr. 167495
Price: $5,850.00
DAVIS, Alexander Jackson. Rural Residences, etc. Consisting of Designs, Original and Selected, for Cottages, Farm Houses, Villas, and Village Churches... Unpaginated. Content includes: Title page, advertising leaf, [16] pp. of "Specification of the Material and Work Required for Building a Dwelling House." Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured lithographed plates and 1.....
Item nr. 170506
Price: $25,000.00
GUNDRY, John. Specimens of Penmanship from Gundry's Business College Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. Comprises 22 full page calligraphic designs in black, white and metallic inks on bright blue [13], black [7] and white [2] grounds, one of which incorporates an albumen portrait of Gundry; 41 smaller designs arranged on three sheets;.....
Item nr. 170502
Price: $35,000.00
ROUGET DE LISLE, A. Chromagraphie. Four parts in one volume. 8; 8; 16; 12, 8 pp., illustrated with four wood-engraved vignettes, 10 folding hand-coloured lithographed plates showing over 100 pairs of colour arrangements numbered figs. 1-74; three engraved folding diagrams of weaving designs by Durau fils; one plate of weaving.....
Item nr. 170387
Price: $12,500.00
ADAMS, Rudolph. Die Farben-Harmonie in ihrer Anwendung auf die Damentoilette. xii, 322, 4 pp. Illustrated with 3 lithographic plates of which two are chromolithographs. 8vo., 213 x 135 mm, bound in publisher's mint green illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Leipzig: J.J. Weber, 1862.
First Edition of this German.....
Item nr. 170382
Price: $3,500.00
ADAM, Victor. Les Synonymes en Action. Contents include; hand-coloured lithographed title and twenty-four hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, (W, X & Y on one plate). Folio, 337 x 250 mm, bound in publisher's blind stamped red cloth over boards, front cover decorated and lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked.....
Item nr. 170270
Price: $8,500.00
ACCOLTI, Pietro. Lo Inganno de gl'occhi, prospettiva pratica. Trattato in acconcio della pittura. [12], 152, [4] pp. Illustrated throughout, woodcut diagrams, illustrations. Folio, 303 x 217 mm, bound in contemporary mottled calf. Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1625.
First Edition of the practical manual of perspective, of special interst to painters. Contains the.....
Item nr. 170104
Price: $5,000.00
OGAWA KAZUMA. A Model Japanese Villa. 4 pp., illustrated with 14 hand-coloured collotype plates. Oblong folio, 265 x 375 mm., bound in publisher's silk-covered boards, in a new cloth folding box. Tokyo: Ogawa, 1899.
Splendid Japanese photo album depicting Meiji style gardens surrounding a model country villa. This appealing work in.....
Item nr. 123383
Price: $1,750.00
DECKER, Paul. Chinese Architecture Civil and Ornamental. Title-page + 24 plates. London: [the author], 1759. BOUND WITH:
-----. Chinese Architecture. Part the Second. Title-page + 12 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:
-----. Gothic Architecture Decorated. Title-page + 12 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:
-----. Gothic Architecture. Part.....
Item nr. 170368
Price: $22,500.00
ALLOM, Thomas. Original Drawing- Pencil and pen with sepia wash and white highlights. The Imperial Travelling Palace at the Hoo-Kew-Shan, or Tiger Mound, Henan Province.128 x 194 mm. Matted and framed. London, ca. 1840.
The subject of the palace at Huo-kew-shan in the Henan Province was famous throughout China for its.....
Item nr. 170153
Price: $7,500.00
COOK, G.D. & Co. Illustrated Catalog of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser, New Haven, Ct. [iv], 226 pp. Oblong 8vo, 170 x 245 mm., bound in original embossed brown cloth, rebacked in tan calf, spine gilt. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1860.
This illustrated catalog is a wonderful study of mid-nineteenth.....
Item nr. 170108
Price: $3,750.00
MONTULE, Édouard de. Recueil des Cartes et des Vues du Voyage en Amerique en Italie et en Égypte fait pendant les Annees 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819. Atlas vol.: 59 numbered lithographed plates, comprising: lithographed title within oval cartouche framed by 4 allegorical vignettes depicting America, Italy, Sicily and Egypt.....
Item nr. 119879
Price: $8,500.00
PROVOST, A. and Charles B. P. VAN PELT. Panorama intérieur de Paris. Panorama consisting of 16 attached lithographic plates in contemporary hand-colouring. 145 x 360 mm., bound in publisher's red morocco-backed boards. Paris: Aubert, 1843.
The panorama represents a walk through Paris from the Madeleine in the west to the Place.....
Item nr. 169989
Price: $3,500.00
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 contemporary black half morocco. Paris: Hetzel et Paulin: 1842-1844.
A splendid copy.....
Item nr. 169739
Price: $12,500.00
THURNEISSER ZUM THURN, Leonhardt. Historia unnd Beschreibung Influentischer Elementischer un Naturlicher Wirckungen Aller fremden unnd Heimischen Erdgewechssen auch irer Subtiliteten sampt wahrhafftiger und Kunstlicher Conterfeitung dereselbigen auch aller teiler... [12], CLVI, [24] pp. Woodcut title-page, 42 arabesque initials, 12 astrological diagrams, 126 small woodcut figures, 36 botanical woodcuts within figured.....
Item nr. 169436
Price: $12,500.00
GARDENS DESIGNED BY LE NOTRE; FOUNTAINS BY LE BRUN AFTER AESOP; ENGRAVINGS BY SEBASTIEN LE CLERC
PERRAULT, Charles. Labyrinte de Versailles. 34, [1], 79, [4] pp., with an engraved title-vignette (arms of France) and 41 full-page engravings by Sébastien Le Clerc. 8vo, 203 x 130 mm., bound in contemporary calf. Paris.....
Item nr. 169397
Price: $8,500.00