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
LE BRUN, Charles. Dissertation sur un Traité de Charles Le Brun. With text by Morel d'Arleux. [1] f., xxii pp. Illustrated with an engraved portrait and 37 engraved plates. Large folio, 605 x 430 mm, bound in original publisher's blue boards, paper label on spine, entirely uncut. Paris: Chalcographie du.....
Item nr. 169162
Price: $17,500.00
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise. Enrichie des Cartes générales et particulières de ces Pays, de la Carte générale et des Cartes particulières du Thibet et de la Corée. Four volumes. I: [2] ff., viii.....
Item nr. 169180
Price: $35,000.00
RUBENS, P.P. Palazzi moderni di Genova. Title, dedication 67 engraved plates, some folding. In Anversa: Appresso Enrico e Cornelio Verdussen, 1708. BOUND WITH:
Palalazzi antichi di Genova. Title, 72 engraved plates, some folding. Folio, 550 x 400 mm, bound in later sheep over marbled boards. In Anversa: Appresso Enrico e Cornelio.....
Item nr. 169171
Price: $4,750.00
GALIMARD, P.-J. Architecture des Jardins. With Engraved title and 68 engraved plates on stubs. Folio, bound in nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards. A Paris, Chez Mond-hare Rue St. Jacques a l'Hotel de Saumur, Ca.1760.
A fine copy of this scarce collection of garden designs by a seemingly little-known French.....
Item nr. 169170
Price: $4,950.00
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
KIRCHER, Athanasius. China Monumentis, quà Sacris quà Profanis. [14], 237, [11] pp. With an added engraved title-page, engraved portrait of Kircher, 2 folding maps, 23 leaves of plates (some folding) and 59 half-page engravings illustrating the text (2 repeated). Folio, 380 x 240 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch calf. Amsterdam.....
Item nr. 169166
Price: $15,000.00
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
NIEUHOFF, Johan. L'Ambassade de la Compagnie orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'empereur de la Chine, ou grand cam de Tartarie, faite par les Srs. Pierre de Goyer, & Jacob de Keyser. Two parts in one volume. [14], 290; [2], 134, [2] pp. With an engraved title/frontispiece, engraved portrait of Colbert.....
Item nr. 169164
Price: $7,500.00
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
LE BLON, Jacques-Christophe. Coloritto; or the Harmony of Colouring in Painting. [4], viii, [5]-28; 8 pp. Illustrated with 5 mezzotints. 4to., 280 x 210 mm, bound in contemporary French cats paw calf, red morocco spine label. NP, ND, [London: 1720's].
A fine copy of the black tulip of colour printing, a......
Item nr. 169080
Price: $50,000.00
BENSON, William. Principles of the Science of Colour concisely stated to aid and promote their useful Application in the Decorative Arts. x, 48 pp. Illustrated with 6 uncoloured lithographs, 4 text illustrations of which 2 are hand-coloured and 5 plates with mounted coloured circle patterns. 4to., 275 x 210 mm.....
Item nr. 168987
Price: $4,500.00
GAUTIER D'AGOTY. Mercure de France, dédié au Roi, Juillet 1749. 228; 213, [3] pp. Illustrated with a four-colour folding mezzotint (149 x 206 mm) showing an artist's palette. 12mo., 160 x 97 mm, bound in contemporary mottled armorial calf. Paris: Andre Cailleau, 1749.
First Edition of the volume of Mercure de.....
Item nr. 168968
Price: $7,500.00
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
PORTA, Giovanni Battista della. De Humana Physiognomia libri IIII. 138 ff., complete (numerous errors in pagination). Illustrated with engraved title-page (including a portrait of the author within an architectural border), engraved portrait of the dedicatee Cardinal Luigi d'Este two full-page engravings of a man and a woman (each repeated once).....
Item nr. 168505
Price: $9,750.00
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
PENSEE, Charles. Éléments de Perspective pratique à l'Usage des jeunes élèves, comprenant la Perspective des Droites et des Courbes, celle des mbres et des Lignes de Refléxion dans l'Eau. 30 pp. text and 14 lithographic plates, 1 with flaps. Folio, 326 x 250 mm. Loose as issued in publisher's illustrated.....
Item nr. 168583
Price: $1,250.00
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
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