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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1884. Rare Variant Issue GREENAWAY, Kate. A Painting Book. With Outlines from her Various Works for Girls & Boys to Paint. London: George Routledge & Sons, [n.d.,1884]. Later edition, a rare variant unrecorded in Schuster and Engen. Octavo (9 x 6 7/8 in; 229 x 178 mm). 80, [2, blank] pp. Numerous black and white illustrations. White glazed color-pictorial wrappers with "One Shilling" at upper margin and "George Routledge & Sons" within lower border. Borders are blue outlined in black. Advertisement on rear wrapper listing illustration sources. A bit of light soiling otherwise an unusually attractive copy. "Kate's publishers continued to exploit her popularity, and at the end of 1884 several gift books had appeared for the Christmas trade. [Renowned color printer] Evans and Routledge chose a selection of line blocks from previous successes to make the Kate Greenaway Painting Book, and printed 40,000 copies" (Engen), despite which few in this, a later (and rarer)… Leer más

Londres [Paris]: Chez Jean Osborne [Didot], 1742. First Complete Edition in French Of the First English Novel Not Seen at Auction in Seventy Years [RICHARDSON, Samuel]. Paméla, ou la vertu recompensée. Traduit de l'anglais. Londres [Paris]: Chez Jean Osborne [Didot], 1742. First complete edition, first printing in French of Richardson's classic epistolary novel integrating his sequel, Pamela's Conduct in High Life, translated by F.-A. Aubert de la Chesnaye des Bois (erroneously attributed to Abbé Prevost). Four twelvemo volumes (6 7/16 x 3 3/4 in; 165 x 94 mm). xxiii, [1], 271, [1]; [4], 324; [4], 298; [4], 302 pp. Two leaves from the end of Volume III have been mis-bound into the last signature of Volume IV. Full contemporary French mottled calf with blind ruled border. The spine features five gilt-tooled raised bands separating six compartments with an unusual gilt floral tool of a lily with eight leaves and central annular dot, within a double-fillet frame with foliate sprigs as corner… Leer más

Paris: Chez Ch. Motte, 1830. A Rare Book on Coaching Twelve Superb Lithograph Plates ADAM, Victor. [Panidochème ou Toutes Sortes de Voitures par V. Adam 1830]. Paris: Chez Ch. Motte, 1830. First Charles Motte edition (preceded only by the 1828 Gihaut Frères hand colored issue with 36 plates). Oblong folio (10 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches; 260 x 346 mm.). Twelve superb lithograph plates. The plates are numbered 1 thru 12 and all have the imprint "V. Adam delt." & "Lith de C. Motte." All plates have the small oval blind-stamp of the publisher on the lower blank margins. Plates 11 & 12 have neatly repaired tears on right blank margin, not affecting image. A few plates with light marginal toning and or minimal foxing. Early twentieth century quarter black morocco over marbled boards, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt. The quality of the lithography is absolutely stunning - a rare book on the most common method of travel in the early nineteenth century. "A retrospective exhibition of engravings… Leer más

New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1900. A Folding Panorama With Six 'Perspective' Plates [POP-UP BOOK]. Panoramic Pictures at the Zoo. New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, [ca. 1900]. First? American Edition. Oblong quarto (8 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches; 207 x 267 mm.). Four pages of text and six 'perspective' plates. Panorama-style publishers glazed color pictorial boards, six panels all joined together with original red cloth hinges. The front cover with children riding on an elephant being led by the zoo keeper and lettered "Panoramic Pictures at the Zoo". The rear cover with two American Bison and "No 918/Printed in Germany". All edges stained red. These panorama books were not reading books in the strictest sense, but folding miniature models of a zoo complete with cages. By simply pulling on the tab with the name of the animal the picture transformed into a 3-D vision (with the animals all safely behind bars). The four pages of text: 1. Lion - Tiger - Kangaroo 2. Camel - Zebra - Ostrich… Leer más

Paris: Chez Aubert, Éditeur du Musée Philipon..., 1842. Twenty Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Daumier, Cham, Beaumont & Quillenbois [DAUMIER, Honoré & others]. Paris Comique, Revue Amusante Des Caractères, Moeurs, Modes, Folies, Ridicules, Excentricités, Niaiseries, Bêtises, Sottises, Voleries et Infamies Parisiennes. Text non politique Par MM. L. Huart, Michelant, Ch. Philipon, et autres Rédacteurs du Charivari et de la Caricature: Dessins Comiques par MM. Bouchot, Cham (de N..), Daumier, Gavarni, Grandville, et autrés artistes du Musée Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert, Éditeur... [1844]. Folio (13 x 9 7/8 inches; 329 x 250 mm.). [iv], [160] pp. Twenty magnificent hand colored lithographs, all heightened with gum arabic. The plates are by Honoré Daumier (10); Cham (8); Beaumont (1) & Quillenbois (1). Contemporary (ca. 1844) quarter dark green morocco over green paper boards, front cover with gilt emblem. Spine with five raised bands tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments,… Leer más

[Paris]: Lithographie de C. Motte rue des Marais, no. 15, 1825. 'Walks on the Parisian Quays' A Wonderful Tour of the River Seine from Quai de Bourbon to Quai d'Orsay in Panorama Form [PANORAMA]. MOTTE, Charles Étienne Pierre, lithographer. A Paris. Promenades sur les Quais. [Paris]: Lithographie de C. Motte rue des Marais, no. 15, [circa 1825] A Spectacular hand colored lithograph (in nine sections) measuring 250 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches; 3616 x 98 mm. [Captions on top]: Quais Bourbon - Quai de l'Archevèché - Quai aux Fleurs - Quai de l'horloge - Quai de la Monnaie - Quais Molaquay - Quai Voltaire - Quai d'Orsay [Captions below]: Isle St. Louis - Pont de la Cité, cid. pont rouge - Pantheon Jardin de l'Archevèche - Eglise Metropolitaine de Notredame - Restes de l'Oratoire St. Landry - Marché aux Fleurs - Pont au Change - Tour de 'Horloge du Palais - Tours de la Concierege - Prisons de Palais de Justice - Pont neuf, Rue Dauphine - Hotel des Monnaie - Pont des Arts - Palais de l'Institut - Hotel… Leer más

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. April in Paris" DUKE, Vernon. Passport to Paris. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1955]. First edition. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 213 x 143 mm.). [x], [1]-502 pp. Eight pages of photographs between pp. 146 & 147. Publisher's green cloth over boards, front cover with publisher's blind stamp, spine ruled and lettered in silver. A very good copy in the original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, small crease on front panel, small closed tear on rear panel repaired with tape. "Vernon Duke calls himself a musical Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and here are his memoirs. Passport to Paris is the story of a symphonic- vs. -stagestruck composer - born Vladimir Dukelsky in a small railroad station in Russia - who wrote a Diaghilev ballet, symphonic music praised by the critics, as well as numerous Broadway hits, including the score to Cabin in the Sky, and the ever-popular tune "April in Paris." Paris is the pivot on which these confessions turn - the full-blown… Leer más

Paris: Aubert & Cie,, 1851. 'Pastorales' or The Romance of Country Life Fifty highly amusing hand-colored Lithographs by Honoré Daumier Depicting the trials and tribulations of Country Life Exceptionally Rare with no other Examples Located DAUMIER, Honoré. Pastorales. [Romance of Country Life]. Paris: Aubert & Cie, [1851]. First Collected Edition, Complete. Folio. 13 x 10 inches; 330 x 254 mm.). Fifty highly amusing hand colored lithographs, stitched as issued, all heightened with gum arabic. Fourteen page Aubert et Cie. catalog bound in at end (a little foxed). Plate no. 1 has a 1/2 inch neatly repaired closed tear to upper blank margin. Plate no 10 has a 2 1/2 inch neatly repaired closed tear to lower blank margin. Plate no 23 is 'toned'. Plate no 25 is 'slightly toned' and has a 1 1/4 inch neatly repaired closed tear to lower blank margin. Plate no 26 is 'slightly toned' and has a 5 inch neatly repaired closed tear to lower margin affecting lower part of image. Plate no 27 is 'slightly… Leer más

London: Chapman and Hall, 1904. Tell it to the Marines" A Near Fine Copy in the Original Pictorial Dust Jacket With Eight Half-Tone Plates by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur]. DRURY, Major W.P. The Peradventures of Private Pagett. With Eight Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: Chapman and Hall, 1904. First edition. Octavo. (7 5/16 x 4 13/16 inches; 185 x 122 mm). [12], 242, [2] pp. Eight half-tone plates by Rackham. Publisher's orange-red cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in black on front cover and spine. Minimal rubbing to extremities, light marginal foxing throughout. Complete with the very scarce publisher's light gray pictorial dust jacket. A near fine copy - the first in dust jacket that we have ever seen. "There is nothing serious about the stories of Mr. Pagett, ex-private of Marines, and some of them are very amusing. The most entertaining in the book is the account of "The Lower-Deck Tantum Club," (pp. 97-127) which spread confusion through the whole of Malta by driving a "… Leer más

London: G.& W.B. Whittaker, 1824. Don't Fouqué With George [CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. LAMOTTE-FOUQUÉ, Friederich Heinrich Karl, Baron de. Peter Schlemihl. From the German of Lamotte Fouqué. With Plates by George Cruikshank. London: G.& W.B. Whittaker, 1824. First edition in English, third issue with no hyphen between "Ave" and 'Maria" in publisher's imprint. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in; 184 x 106 mm). xii, 165, [1, blank], [2, adv. ] pp. Half-title and eight engraved plates. Bound by Rivière & Son in late nineteenth century full crushed olive morocco. Five raised bands. Compartments with blindstamped ornament. Blindstamped false sewing supports. Gilt-rolled board edges. Gilt dentelles. Top edge gilt. Original printed spine label mounted to rear blank. Spine a little sunned to warm brown, still a fine copy. Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de LaMotte-Fouqué (1777-1843) was a German writer of the romantic school. Robert Louis Stevenson admired Fouqué's story The Bottle Imp and wrote his… Leer más

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. The Largest Rackham Plates Ever Printed [RACKHAM, Arthur]. BARRIE, J.M. "Peter screamed out, 'Do it again!' and with great good-nature they did it several times" A single plate from The Peter Pan Portfolio, by Arthur Rackham, from "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," by J.M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1912]. Handsomely framed and glazed in the original mount. Image size 10 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches; 267 x 188 mm. Frame size 21 x 17 1/4 inches; 535 x 438 mm. The Peter Pan Portfolio was limited to 600 copies published in 1912, and contained 12 of Rackham's favorite drawings from his 1906 edition of Peter pan in Kensington Gardens, which had 50 color plates. The Portfolio plates are approximately 60% larger than their 1906 counterparts. Greatly enlarged from their earlier appearance, these plates are considered to be Rackham's personal favorites from the fifty that appeared in his 1906 illustrated trade edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.… Leer más

London: Printed for J.J. Stockdale, 1812. A Political Satire Deploring Ireland's Union With England Four Hand Colored Etchings by Thomas Rowlandson Extra-Illustrated by the Insertion of Five Additional Plates Including a Very Scarce Double-Page Hand Colored Etching by Rowlandson "Comforts of an Irish Fishing Lodge" (Published May, 1812) ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator. [WOLCOT, John, aka Peter Pindar]. Petticoat Loose. A Fragmentary "Tale of the Castle." Embellished with Plates. London: Printed for J.J. Stockdale, 1812. First edition. Quarto (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 270 x 210 mm.). 135, [1, blank] pp. Four hand-colored etchings (all with protective tissue-guards), designed and engraved by Rowlandson. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of five hand plates of which four are hand colored including one fine double-page hand colored etching by Thomas Rowlandson 'Comforts of an Irish Fishing Lodge' (published by Hannah Humphrey) which is not mentioned in Grego. This fine illustration depicts two men… Leer más

Philadelphia: Manufactured by Altemus & Co., 1864. A Fine Altemus Photographic Album [PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM] The Photographic Album. Hinged-Back Patented July 21st 1863. Philadelphia: Manufactured by Altemus & Co., ca. 1864. Small square quarto (5 3/4 x 5 inches; 146 x 127 mm.). Calligraphic title-page printed in gold and purple, Index to portraits, and twenty five thick card, double sided window frame leaves bordered in gold. The first eighteen with a single nineteenth century family photograph. We have been unable to identify the family name. Publisher's full brown embossed morocco over boards. Covers and spine elaborately decorated in blind, both covers with four circular ivory stones set in gilt. Spine embossed and decoratively lettered in gilt "Album" "Patd. July 21st. 1863". Two brass clasps, decorated in relief and fitted with two circular ivory stones with gilt centers, gilt board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt. A fine example of an early Altemus album. Altemus and Company first… Leer más

Paris: Desessart, 1847. Piracy, Banditry and Disorder" Bewitching Beauty Inflames Desires Uncut, in the Original Printed Wrappers SAND, George. Le Piccinino. Paris: Desessart, Éditeur, 1847. First edition. Five octavo volumes (9 1/16 x 5 7/16 inches; 231 x 139 mm.). [4], 315, [1, blank], [1, "Table"], [3, blank] (final blank leaf pasted to rear pastedown); [4], 301, [1, blank], [1, "Table"], [1, blank]; [4], 307, [1, "Table"]; 308, [1, "Table"], [3, blank] (final blank leaf pasted to rear pastedown); [4, advertisements], [4], 318, [1, "Table], [1, blank] pp. Uncut, in the original yellow printed wrappers, protected by glassine wrappers. Advertisements on rear wrappers. Minimal chipping to wrappers, spines slightly darkened, some light foxing and edge browning, as usual. A wonderful set. Each volume housed in a marbled board slipcase and the five volumes housed together in two quarter dark blue morocco over royal blue cloth clamshell cases, spines with five raised bands ruled in gilt, three… Leer más

London: T. and J. Egerton, 1793. Scarce With Hand-Colored Aquatints IRELAND, Samuel. Picturesque Views on the River Medway, from the Nore to the Vicinity of its Source in Sussex: With observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood. London: T. and J. Egerton, 1793. First edition, the scarce hand-colored issue. Octavo (9 x 6 1/8 in; 229 x 155 mm). xii, 206, [1, adv.], [1] pp. Extra hand-colored engraved title-page, black and wite map, and twenty-eight hand-colored aquatint plates. Bound by Root & Son (stamp-signed) in full brown morocco, with multiple gilt-rolled borders and gilt corner-pieces, gilt-rolled turn-ins. Gilt-ruled and ornamented compartments. Top edge gilt. A fine, clean and tight copy of a book generally found with plates in sepia. "Samuel Ireland (17?-1800) was one of the most successful artists who devoted himself to the career of topographic print-making. In the ten years between 1790 and 1800 he brought out six books of views, containing in all… Leer más

London: Printed for the Proprietor by Howlett and Brimmer, 1825. The Great Wight Way RAYE, Charles. A Picturesque Tour Through the Isle of Wight. Illustrated by Numerous Views. London: Printed for the Proprietor by Howlett and Brimmer, 1825. First edition. Oblong quarto (7 7/8 x 10 1/8 in; 200 x 256 mm). [52] pp. Twenty-four hand-colored aquatint engravings with interleaves. Contemporary quarter crimson straight-grained morocco over gray boards with gilt lettered and bordered crimson morocco title label. Gilt-ruled spine with gilt-lettered black morocco label. With the bookplate of Sir Manson M. Beeton. Original printed title label to front paste-down endpaper, catalog note to front free-endpaper. Spine head and inner hinges neatly strengthened, otherwise a very fine copy. Plate no. 8, Sand Rock near Niton, often found plain (as in Abbey and in a few institutional copies) is here vividly hand-colored. Plate List: View of the Isle of Wight from Portsmouth Harbour - Village of Carisbrooke -… Leer más

London: R. Ackermann, 1820. Don't Cry For Me Argentina & Uruguay You Were One of Only Fifty Large Paper Copies VIDAL, E[meric] E[ssex]. Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: accompanied with descriptions of the scenery, and of the costumes, manners, &c. of the inhabitants of those cities and their environs. By E.E. Vidal, Esq. London: Published by R. Ackermann...Printed by L. Harrison, 1820. First edition. One of fifty large paper copies. Atlas quarto (15 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches; 397 x 317 mm.). xxviii, 115, [1, blank] pp. Twenty-four very fine hand-colored aquatint plates, four of which are double-page and folding, including one with two views. The plates include: "General View of Buenos Ayres, from the Plaza de Toros;" "Landing Place;" "Market Place;" "Milk Boys;" "South Matadero (Public Butchery);" "Church of San Domingo;" "Pampa Indians;" "Estantia (Farm) on the River San Pedro;" "Balling Ostriches;" "Guachos (Rustics) of Tucuman;" "Convoy of… Leer más

London: Printed for J. Hassell..., 1817. Large-Paper Copy With 120 "Charmingly Composed " Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates HASSELL, J[ohn]. Picturesque Rides and Walks, with Excursions by Water, Thirty Miles round the British Metropolis; Illustrated in a Series of Engravings, Coloured after Nature: with an Historical and Topographical Description of the Country within the Compass of that Circle. London: Printed for J. Hassell... Islington; and sold by all Booksellers, 1817-1818. First edition. Large paper copy. Two octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 213 x 134 mm.). [iii]-viii, 249, [1, blank], [2, "Directions for Placing the Cuts"], [8, index]; [2], 272, [9, index], [1, blank], [2, "Directions for Placing the Cuts"] pp. Bound without the half-titles, as usual. With 120 hand-colored aquatint plates. Bound ca. 1817 in half dark green roan, ruled in gilt, over drab boards. Smooth spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, with the gilt cipher of the Earl of Essex surmounted by a coronet at… Leer más

London: Published by R. Ackermann....Printed by L. Harrison, 1820. One of the Great Nineteenth-Century Color-Plate Books, with Twenty-Four Hand-Colored Aquatints GERNING, J.J. [Johann Isaac] von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events, and of Popular Traditions. Embellished with Twenty-Four Highly Finished and Coloured Engravings, from the Drawings of M. Schuetz; and Accompanied by a Map. Translated from the German by John Black. London: Published by R. Ackermann... Printed by L. Harrison, 1820. First English edition, early issue. (The original German edition was published in Wiesbaden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln.) Large quarto (13 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches; 336 x 273 mm.). xiv, [xv, xvi], 178 pp. Complete with the list of subscribers (pp. [v]-viii). Large folding engraved map with color highlights and twenty-four fine hand-colored aquatint plates by D. Havell and T. Sutherland after C.G. Schutz, with tissue… Leer más

London: Published by R. Ackermann....Printed by L. Harrison, 1820. Cologne! Cologne! Thy Walls are Won" One of the Great Nineteenth-Century Color-Plate Books, with Twenty-Four Hand-Colored Aquatints GERNING, J.J. [Johann Isaac] von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events, and of Popular Traditions. Embellished with Twenty-Four Highly Finished and Coloured Engravings, from the Drawings of M. Schuetz; and Accompanied by a Map. Translated from the German by John Black. London: Published by R. Ackermann... Printed by L. Harrison, 1820. First English edition, early issue. (The original German edition was published in Wiesbaden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln.) Large quarto (13 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches; 336 x 273 mm.). xiv, [xv, xvi], 178 pp. Complete with the list of subscribers (pp. [v]-viii). Large folding engraved map with color highlights and twenty-four fine hand-colored aquatint plates by D. Havell and T.… Leer más