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Rare print of Maori men with facial tattoos
Two heads of Maori men with tamoko or moko facial tattoos, New Zealand.
Vignette of Maori family with man holding a taiaha club, woman with carved club, and girl holding a fish.
Title "Homme: Race mongolique"
Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti after an illustration by de Saimon from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.
In good condition with slight age-toning to top of print.

Ornamental Tattoos from a German encyclopedia, 1885
African woman 1
Hitiri Te Paerata, Maori chief of Ngati Raukawa (1828-1909), New Zealand 2
King Tawhiao, the second king of the Maoris (1822-1894), New Zealand 3
body tattoos of a Caroline Islander in loincloth (New Guinea) 4
hand tattoo 5 and foot tattoo 6 of a Dayak (Borneo)
Japanese man with full-body irezumi wearing a fundoshi loincloth 7.
Negerin 1, Hautling Hiriti-Paevata (Newseeland) 2, Konig Tauhiao (Neuseeland) 3, Karolinen Insulaner 4, Hand 5 und Fuss 6 eines Dajak von Borneo, Japaner 7.
Single plate in very good condition, no age-toning or foxing.

Madame Adelaide Simonet in the character of Princess Ninette in Gaetan Vestris's Grand Ballet called "Ninette a la Cour," King's Theatre, 1781.

The Italian ballerina Adelaide de Camp married the dancer Louis Simonet and accompanied him to England in the 1770s.

Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, April 28, 1791.

Page size 21.5 x 14cm, plate size 17.5 x 11.5cm

Strong impression on laid paper, slight staining and age toning.

Signora Giovanna Baccelli in Louis Simonet's ballet "Les Amans Surpris."

The Italian ballerina danced the role at the King's Theatre, 1786.

Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, May 15, 1781.

Page size 21.5 x 14cm, plate size 17.5 x 11.5cm

Strong impression on laid paper, slight staining and age toning.

Good copy of Heinrich Lödel's reproductions of Holbein's Alphabet of Death.The painter Hans Holbein's Dance of Death Alphabet, fully reproduced in 24 woodcuts from the Dresden originals for the first time by H. Lödel in Göttingen.According to the exhaustive Dance of Death website dodedans.com, Holbein's alphabet of Death was first used in 1524. Holbein's designs were cut in small woodblocks in incredible detail by the engraver Hans Lutzelburger. These are really dynamic scenes, full of action and drama. In many, two skeletons grapple with their victim, violently grabbing, pulling and murdering with boney arms to fill the tiny square behind the initial letter with action.
All 24 initials printed in black, with decorative borders in sepia by the painter Georg Osterwald.
Heinrich Lödel (1798-1861) was a German painter and etcher, based in Göttingen from 1819. He was later the university engraver at Georg-August University.
Brown cloth spine with gilt title label, amateurishly repaired marble… Leer más

Signor Gaetan Vestris senior, 1729 – 1808, Italian-born ballet dancer and dancing master.

Depicted in the character of the Prince in the grand pantomime ballet called "Ninette a la Cour." In tall plumed hat, luxurious cape, doublet and hose.

Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts in Bell's British Theatre, London, April 9, 1781.

Page size 21.5 x 14cm, plate size 17.5 x 11.5cm

Strong impression on laid paper, slight staining and age toning.

Monsr. Vestris Junior in the ballet "Les Amans Surpris," 1781.

He wears a plumed hat, beribboned coat, breeches and stockings, and holds out a garland of flowers.

Auguste Vestris (1760-1842), illegitimate son of dancers Gaetan Vestris and Marie Allard, made his stage debut in 1772. He made his London debut in the serious ballet "Les Amans Surpris," dancing with Giovanna Baccelli, and astonished England "more by his agility than his grace."

Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts in Bell's British Theatre, London, July 20, 1781.

Page size 21.5 x 14cm, plate size 17.5 x 11.5cm

Strong impression on laid paper, slight staining and age toning, slight crease within the plate mark, browning to page edges.

One volume only from the 8-volume series of guidebooks to the Enchuro School of ikebana or flower arrangement first published in Tokyo in 1807. 8 pages of text and 52 pages of woodcuts of ikebana featuring flowers in vases on tables, in hanging baskets, etc. Condition: Washi paper covers worn and fragile, binding resewn, the delicate woodcuts on thin washi paper mostly clean and bright. Ikebana was a very popular leisure activity in the Edo Era. The Enchuro-Ryu was a new school of ikebana that emerged in the early 19th century alongside the Senke-shinryu, Ko-ryu, Enshu-ryu, Yoken-ryu, Doku-ryu, Shofu-ryu, and many others to challenge the established Genji, Ikenobo and Senke schools.

Profusely illustrated review of the French Navy in the 19th century with engraved title page, 8 finely handcolored plates of men in uniform and 1 of flags of the Nautical Powers, 22 full-page steel engravings of ships and maritime scenes, and over 100 engravings and vignettes in the text by Antoine Leon Morel-Fatio. 240 pp, 31 plates, text in French.The costume plates are handcolored lithographs by the famous Pauquet Brothers after illustrations by Andre Castan, A. Gusman, P. Goyer, Louis, etc., and show ranks from Admiral to Matelot. The steel plates by de Tournemine, E. Isabey, Morel-Fatio, etc., show famous French ships of the line, nautical scenes, historical events.The vignettes by Morel-Fatio show many different types of vessels as well as life on board sailing ships, in the rigging, on deck and below decks. Condition: Covers a little frayed, binding tight, ex-library stamp Marinens Bibliotek on frontis and barcode on front endpaper, some slight browning and foxing throughout. Antoine Leon… Leer más

Good copy of this pocket book of French fashion.Complete with 100 lithographs by George Scharf from original fashion plates by Hippolyte Lecomte in Costumes civils et militaires de la monarchie francaise.Subjects include Joan of Arc, Bloody Mary, Queen of Scots, Ninon de Lenclos, many French kings and queens, courtiers, mistresses, soldiers, knights, politicians and admirals, from five centuries of French history.Published by famous London printer and lithographer Charles Hullmandel (1789-1850). Hullmandel was a prolific publisher and instrumental in many major improvements to lithography in the 1820s and 1830s. Lithographer George Scharf (1788-1860) was a Bavarian-born artist and one of the best lithographers operating in London at the time. Pigskin spine cracking on front hinge, marble boards scuffed and grubby, title page with smudges at top, but all other 99 plates clean and bright.

Good copy of the third edition (first published in 1817) of this popular educational book by woman writer Mary Anne Venning
With 58 (of 60) charming wood engravings of costumes of the world. (Lacking "Man and woman of Strasbourg" and "Savoyards" plates.)
There are fine gentlemen and ladies of London and Paris, Bohemian peasants, Catalonians dancing the Fandango (possibly flamenco?), Hungarian hussars, Laplanders (Saami) riding reindeer-driven sleds, Greeks, Russians, Armenians and Turks.
There are many fascinating plates of African peoples from Mamluks and Copts in Egypt, native peoples of Tunisia, Senegal, Cazegut (Bissagos Islands), Cacongo (Angola), Issinia (Guinea), Congo, Jagga (Chaga) people of Tanzania, Khoikhoi from South Africa, Zulus from Natal, etc.
There are also several Native American peoples including Iroquois of Canada, natives of Virginia and California, Carib of Martinique, Aztecs of Mexico, Inca of Peru, natives of Guianna (Guyana) and Yaghan people of the Land of Fire (Tierra del… Leer más

Very good copy of this collection of chromolithographs of Medieval and Renaissance costumesWith 12 plates from A. Mazuy's Types et Caracteres Anciens, d'apres des Documents Peints ou Ecrits.A dozen romantic figures from history in three colours (red, black and white) on a sepia background by the artists Theophile Fragonard and Dufey, lithographed by Louis Rene Letronne. With many curious vignettes in the text.The subjects include:Venetian courtesan or cortigna onesta, 17th century. La courtisane Venitienne.
La Chatelaine, Dutch woman wearing a fashionable chatelaine belt clasp with purse, keys, etc., 16th century.
Student with book, sword, and knife hanging from his belt, in doublet, cape, hose and shoes, 17th century. L'ecolier.
Dandy in cap, lace ruff collar, short cape, quilted doublet, hose, buckle shoes, wearing a sword. Le Mignon, 16th century.
Romany or Gypsy dancing girl, La Bohemienne, 17th century. Dancing with her hair in pigtails, barefoot, anklets and hitting a tambourine above her… Leer más

Very good Japanese woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada II
Depicting a rather unusual scene from a Kabuki play with two actors holding up another actor as though he were a puppet in a Bunraku play.
Nakamura Fukusuke I is paraded like a Puppet of Yaoya Hanbei by two supporting actors Arashi Kangoro I as Yoshida Kango (right), and Nakamura Kangoro I as Yoshida Kanta (left).
The play is Na Nomi Yaoya Ryori no Futsutsuka, from Wakaki no Ume Satomi no Yatsufusa.
Published by Hayashiya Shogoro in Tokyo in Ansei 4 of the Edo Era (1857).
Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print maker and head of the Utagawa school. He worked in many genres including theatre actors (yakusha-e), beauty pictures (bijinga), erotica (shunga), literary scenes. He never achieved the level of success of his master.
Good impression with deep colour and rich black, slight age toning to the paper.
On verso, four adhesive stains to the bottom and top edges from a previous mount easily covered if matted. Small mark in… Leer más

Lovely suite of the ultra-rare Dance of Death etchings by the genius printmaker and painter Daniel ChodowieckiVery good copy of this meticulous early 20th-century German reprintNumber 856 of a limited edition of 1,000Complete with title-page with engraved vignette, 12 copperplates and 74 pages of text. Decorative front cover in gold and black designed by Ernst NicolasDaniel Chodowiecki's legendary Dance of Death sequence was never published in book form. Instead, the twelve figures only appeared in the Ravenberg Calendar, 1792.There are some unusual subjects along with the usual clerics and royalty. A fish wife killed by Death with a scythe, a prostitute whipped by a skeleton with a cat'o-nine-tails, a baby stolen by a winged skeleton while the mother sleeps, a swordsman losing a duel to a skeleton with a bone, a soldier on guard duty surprised by Death, etc.For this edition, Chodowiecki's engravings were reprinted on a hand press at Meisenbarth Riffarth engraving company in Berlin.Daniel Niklaus… Leer más

Plate 20. Enfans des environs de Rouen
Charming fashion copperplate of two girls from near Rouen in tall lace bonnets and their Sunday best.
From Pierre de la Mésangère's suite of plates Costumes des Femmes du Pays de Caux, Paris, 1827.
The fashion plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine after original watercolours by Louis-Marie Lanté and Benoit Pécheux
The women of the region famously wore tall lace bonnets that dated back to the middle ages.
"Benoit Pécheux, a renowned painter, a specialist in Italian frescoes had worked in France since the Italian campaign and ran a workshop of itinerant Italian painters. In 1811, the church of Yvetot contacted him to decorate the chapel of the Virgin. The same year, he decorated the dome of Saint-Romain in Rouen. He was also called to Limpiville, Fécamp and Le Havre. On Sundays and holidays, he rubs shoulders with Cauchoises adorned with original headdresses and draws them before returning to Paris.
"La Mésangère, who ran the Journal des Dames et des… Leer más

Plate 28. Costume des environs de Dieppe
Charming fashion copperplate of a Dieppe woman in her Sunday Best wearing a tall bonnet with lace drapes, holding a bouquet of roses.
From Pierre de la Mésangère's suite of plates Costumes des Femmes du Pays de Caux, Paris, 1827.
The fashion plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine after original watercolours by Louis-Marie Lanté and Benoit Pécheux
The women of the region famously wore tall lace bonnets that dated back to the middle ages.
"Benoit Pécheux, a renowned painter, a specialist in Italian frescoes had worked in France since the Italian campaign and ran a workshop of itinerant Italian painters. In 1811, the church of Yvetot contacted him to decorate the chapel of the Virgin. The same year, he decorated the dome of Saint-Romain in Rouen. He was also called to Limpiville, Fécamp and Le Havre. On Sundays and holidays, he rubs shoulders with Cauchoises adorned with original headdresses and draws them before returning to Paris.
"La Mésangère, who… Leer más

Plate 10. Cauchoise
Charming fashion copperplate of a woman in her Sunday Best seaed on a stone wall. She wears a tall conical hat trimmed with lace, ruff collar, and simple black dress with puff sleeves.
From Pierre de la Mésangère's suite of plates Costumes des Femmes du Pays de Caux, Paris, 1827.
The fashion plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine after original watercolours by Louis-Marie Lanté and Benoit Pécheux
The women of the region famously wore tall lace bonnets that dated back to the middle ages.
"Benoit Pécheux, a renowned painter, a specialist in Italian frescoes had worked in France since the Italian campaign and ran a workshop of itinerant Italian painters. In 1811, the church of Yvetot contacted him to decorate the chapel of the Virgin. The same year, he decorated the dome of Saint-Romain in Rouen. He was also called to Limpiville, Fécamp and Le Havre. On Sundays and holidays, he rubs shoulders with Cauchoises adorned with original headdresses and draws them before returning to… Leer más

Incomplete copy of a popular book on the Regency spa town of Scarborough.18 (of 21) handcoloured aquatint plates etched by Thomas Rowlandson after original sketches by J. Green. (Plates aquatinted by J. Stadler and J. Bluck.)Missing the title page and frontispiece Widow Ducker, pages I-XV, and the plates The Breakfast Room and The Shower Bath. The surviving 18 plates show life at a fashionable resort town, with scenes of people drinking the healing waters at the Spa Wells, swimming in the sea, dancing at the Ball Room, promenading on the Terrace, shopping at the Shoe Shop, borrowing books at the circulating Library, etc. The naked woman bathing in The Warm Bath is said to be the poet Mary Robinson, George IV's mistress, The poems are by Rowlandson's frequent collaborator William Combe, John Buonarotti Papworth and Francis Wrangham.Condition: Half red morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt decoration, red buckram boards. Binding strong and solid, a few pages and plates with damaged edges, some… Leer más

Good copy of this suite of 10 portraits of English Victorian beauties
The 10 beauties include royalty (Queen Victoria herself), aristocrats, and various sultry ladies in off-the-shoulder gowns making eyes at the portraitist.
The exquisite portraits by eminent artists John Hayter, William Drummond and Claude-Marie Dubufe, stipple engraved on steel by William Henry Mote, H. Hall, W.F. Holl, H. Robinson and W.H. Eagleton.
Supervised by Charles Heath, 1785-1848, British engraver, currency and stamp printer, publisher and illustrator.
The subjects include:
Queen Victoria, when a young beauty (she was just 23 when this book was published).
Lady Grey Egerton, possibly Mary Anne Elizabeth Egerton, only daughter of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 9th Baronet.
Lady Jane Georgiana Seymour, later Duchess of Somerset, 1809-1884. In medieval costume as the Queen of Beauty, with crown over headdress, fur-lined cape over bejeweled robe.
Honourable Louisa Hay, daughter of 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, later Lady Louisa Jane… Leer más

Plate 39. Costume de Bolbec
Charming fashion copperplate of a woman of Bolbec leaning on a chair reading an almanach. The rear view shows the cascade of lace frills descending from her tall bonnet.
From Pierre de la Mésangère's suite of plates Costumes des Femmes du Pays de Caux, Paris, 1827.
The fashion plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine after original watercolours by Louis-Marie Lanté and Benoit Pécheux
The women of the region famously wore tall lace bonnets that dated back to the middle ages.
"Benoit Pécheux, a renowned painter, a specialist in Italian frescoes had worked in France since the Italian campaign and ran a workshop of itinerant Italian painters. In 1811, the church of Yvetot contacted him to decorate the chapel of the Virgin. The same year, he decorated the dome of Saint-Romain in Rouen. He was also called to Limpiville, Fécamp and Le Havre. On Sundays and holidays, he rubs shoulders with Cauchoises adorned with original headdresses and draws them before returning to… Leer más