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LOUIS XV, King of France. Fêtes Publiques Donnees par la Ville de Paris, à l'occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, les 23 et 26 Fevrier M.DCC.XLV. Engraved throughout. With title-page, allegorical frontispiece, [18] pp. of calligraphic text within ornamental borders, and 19 plates, of which 10 are.....
Item nr. 109750
Price: $35,000.00
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
JARLE. Barème des couleurs, ou, Les teintes faites au nombre de 616: comprenant presque toutes les couleurs qui existent dans la nature avec indication de le composer sans maître : ouvrage utile et presque indispensable à ceux qui colorient ou peignent à l'aquarelle. 14 pp. Illustrated with hand-coloured engraved title-page.....
Item nr. 169402
Price: $8,500.00
VON BEZOLD, Wilhelm. The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-Industry...Translated from the German by S.R. Koehler...with an introduction and notes by Edward C. Pickering...Authorized American Edition. Revised and enlarged by the author. xxxiii, [1], 274 pp. Illustrated with chromolithographic frontispiece, 13 chromolithographic plates, plus numerous in-text.....
Item nr. 169113
Price: $1,500.00
WITH THE COLOURED PAINT CHIPS
DEVOE & COMPANY, F.W. Exterior Decoration. A Treatise on the Artistic Use of Colors in the Ornamentation of Buildings and A Series of Designs, Illustrating the Effects of Different Combinations of Colors in Connection with Various Styles of Architecture. 13 pp. of text. Illustrated by 20.....
Item nr. 168431
Price: $12,500.00
QIANLONG, EMPEROR OF CHINA (1736-1796). Suite of four engravings depicting the conquests of the Qianlong Emperor. From the suite of sixteen engraved plates. Printed in Paris under the direction of Charles-Nicholas Cochin. Broadsheets, image size: 515 x 890 mm. Preserved in the contemporary French green paper mounts with black ink.....
Item nr. 169181
Price: $100,000.00
TACCHINI, Pietro. Eclissi totali di Sole del Dicembre 1870, del Maggio 1882 e 1883, e dell' Agosto 1886 e 1887. Relazioni e Note. [8], 236 pp. Illustrated with 24 plates, e.g. three heliogravure plates and 21 plates in lithography,chromolithography & heliogravure at the end. Large 8vo., 235 x 160 mm.....
Item nr. 169169
Price: $3,500.00
GUIGNES, Chretien-Louis-Joseph de. Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacres des Chinois.qui renferme les Fondements de leur ancienne Histoire, les Principes de leur Gouvernement & de leur Morale. [4], cxliv, 474, [2] pp. Illustrated with 4 fold-out engraved plates. 4to., 250 x 190 mm, bound in contemporary cats-paw calf, red morocco.....
Item nr. 169165
Price: $3,500.00
EARHART, John. The Color Printer. A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing. 137, [1] pp. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author and 90 plates. 4to., 270 x 205 mm, bound in green publisher's cloth stamped in gold and colour, with emblem of three ink.....
Item nr. 169128
Price: $2,850.00
PICIARELLI, Camillo. Epistola di Camillo Piciarelli, Professore di Belle Lettere, sul Antico Naso di Fozio, pubblicato per almanacco dell'anno 1820. [xii], 39, [1] pp. Illustrated with an alligorical aquatint frontispiece. 8vo., 205 x 140 mm, bound in contemporary pattern wrappers, preserved in a new red half morocco box. Milan: Manini.....
Item nr. 168844
Price: $2,250.00
TOM TIT [Arthur Good]. La Science Amusante. First through Third Series. 3 Volumes. 246, [2]; 256; 256 pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo., 205 x 145 mm, bound in publisher's polychrome bindings, red cloth with black and gold designs. Paris: Larousse, ND. [1890-1920].
This set consists of three volumes as follows. The first.....
Item nr. 157031
Price: $1,250.00
SIMAK, Vaclav. Postovni Knizka na Rok 1895. 82 pp. 12mo., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Prague: Jos. R. Vilimka, 1895.
An immaculate copy of this little Victorian Czech almanach cum trade catalogue.
Item nr. 139160
Price: $375.00
SIENA. Nuova guida della città di Siena per gli amatori delle belle-arti. viii, 167, [1] pp. Illustrated with four large folding engraved plates. 4to., 185 x 140 mm, bound in original blue paper wrappers, with deckled edges. Siena: Nella Stamperia Mucci, 1822.
Presumed First Edition, with no other edition listed in.....
Item nr. 150397
Price: $1,850.00
COCCHI, Francesco. Lezioni di prospettiva pratica nonchè regole abbreviatrici per disegnare le scene seguite da un facile metodo per la prospettica collocazione delle fi gure ne' quadri di storia. Seconda edizione. Text: 2, 227 and 2 folding plates. 8vo., publisher's wrappers with later linen spine. Plates: letterpress title page followed.....
Item nr. 168580
Price: $2,500.00
PERRET, Jacques. Architectura et Perspectiva etlicher Festungen, Stätt, Kirchen, Schlösser und Häuser, wie die auffs stärckeste, zierlichste und bequemste können gebawet oder auffgerichtet werden. Erstlich von einem Saphoischen vom Adel Jacob Perret, In Französischer Sprach zu Pariß in Druck verfertiget. Jetzo aber Teutscher Nation zu gut verteutschet, mit schönen Kupferstücken.....
Item nr. 168760
Price: $17,500.00
PETITOT, Ennemond Alexandre. Raisonnement sur la Perspective: pour en faciliter l'Usage aux Artistes: dedie aux Memes. [10], 20 pp., 9 unnumbered leaves of engraved plates. Folio, 360 x 250 mm, bound in contemporary boards. A Parme: Chez les Freres Faure Libraires, 1758.
A rare and delightful work on perspective by Petitot.....
Item nr. 168548
Price: $3,500.00
DE BRY, Johann Theodor and J. I. DE BRY. Nova Alphati Effictio histories ad singulas literas correspondentibus, et toreumate Bryanaeo artificiose in aes incises illustrate…. Engraved title-page, 24 elaborately engraved plates of letters, all with grotesque Mannerist ornamentation. 4to., 325 x 212 mm, bound by Rivière in full crushed brown.....
Item nr. 148318
Price: $17,500.00
BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Portrait for La Galerie Contemporaine by Etienne Carjat. Woodburytype print with artist's information printed on mount, 225 x 185 mm, matted and framed in polished dark wood. [Paris: Carjat, ca. 1862; published in La Galerie Contemporaine in 1878].
A literary photographic masterpiece. "Among the many nineteenth-century portraits, Carjat's Baudelaire.....
Item nr. 123828
Price: $3,250.00
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
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