‎Illustrated books‎

‎"IRELAND, JOHN - WILLIAM HOGARTH. - FROM THE LIBRARY OF DUDLEY COUTTS MAJORIBANKS.‎

‎Hogarth Illustrated by John Ireland. From the original Picture in the Shakspeare Gallery. 3 Vols.‎

‎(London), J. & J. Boydell, 1791, 1791 a. 1798. Beautifully bound in 3 contemp. straight grained full morocco. On covers 4-double gilt line fillets with 4 large gilt floral cornerpieces. All compartments richly gilt with lines and small floral-like stamps. Titles with gilt lettering. Inside gilt borders. Edges of covers gilt. Edges gilt. All volumes with the printed paperlabel of the bookbinder ""Bound by C. Smith, 108, Strand"". All volumes with the gilt exlibris in leather of Dudley Coutts Majoribanks (1st Baron Tweedmouth). 2 engraved frontispieces. 3 engraved title-pages (vol. 3 with both engraved and printed title-page). (6),CXXII,311"(2),(311-) 607,(4)XXIII,380,(1, errata) pp. and with 136 engravings on plates and engraved vignettes. With the engraved dedication-plate. A clean fine copy, printed on good paper with occassionally a bit of offsettings from the plates. Bindings in near mint condition.‎

‎First edition in an exquisite copy.‎

Bookseller reference : 54524

‎"JALOUX, EDMOND.‎

‎Le Reste est Silence...‎

‎(Paris), Éditions Lapina, 1924. Small 4to. Bound uncut with all orig. wrappers in a fine hcalf with gilt back and decoration in 3 colours. 183,(1) pp. Richly illustrated in the text with woodcuts by Maxime Dethomas. No. 278 of 925 copies ""sur Papier de Rives"".‎

Bookseller reference : 37376

‎"KIPLING, RUDYARD. - ILLUSTRATED BY PIERRE FALKÉ.‎

‎Le Livre de la Jungle. Traduction de L. Fabulet et R. D'Humières. Bois gravés par Pierre Falké. 2 Vols.‎

‎Bruxelles, Aux Èditions du Nord, 1934. Uncut in orig. wrappers with orig. coloured woodcut as frotwrapper. Top of spine on vol. one with a small loss of paper. In 2 fine custom made boxes with green morocco spines, gilt and with gilt lettering. Illustrated with many orig. coloured woodcuts, both as plates as in the text and a suite of the illustrations in black One of 50 copies ""sur Hollande et une Suite en noir sur Chine"" (Numerotés de 27 a 76) - This copy no. 72. A total of 1076 copies. Clean and fine.‎

‎"LAWRENCE, D.H. - ILLUSTRATED BY EDOUARD CHIMOT.‎

‎Lady Chatterley. Version premiére traduite de L'Anglais. Compositions en Couleurs de Edouard Chimot.‎

‎Paris, Deux -Rives, (1950). Small 4to. Orig. printed wrappers with glassine and in quires, not sewn as issued. In the orig. clothbox. With 18 fine colouplates and textillustrations in red. No. 193 of 900 ""sur Vélin BFK de Rives a la cuve, numerotés de 101 a 1.000. Fine and clean.‎

‎"LIVIUS, TITUS. - ILLUSTRATED BY JOST AMMON.‎

‎Historiae Principis, libri omnes, qvotqvot ad nostram aetatem pervenervnt. Una cvm doctissimorvm virorvm in eos lucvbrationibvs, post omnes aliorum editiones... repraesentibus, exornati... Tomus I (of 2).‎

‎Franckfurt, (Corvinus), 1568. Large folio. (38 x 25 cm.). Later hcalf. Covers nearly detached and spine gone. Some old owners signatures on titlepage. The first ab. 50 leaves frayed in lower right corners, likewise some at end. Some quires loosening. In general sewing somewhat loose. Old underlinings in ink and some old annotations in margins. Titlepage with broad pictorial wood-cut border. (32),(2) blank,988,(20 - Register) pp. Profusely illustrated with smaller and larger wood-cut initials, and with more than 100 large, fine wood-cut engravings in the text (each ab. 11x15 cm.) by the well-known renaissance-illustrator Jost Ammon.With two traceable Danish ownerships (their names on titlepage). Axel Jul (Juul) 1606-1671. Danish numismatist. He acquired the book 1630. - Michael (Mikkel) Hvass from Sjørup or Søgaard( in Jutland 1583 - ca. 1655). Studied at Sorø Academy and the University atLeyden. Author of two works.‎

‎"LUNDBORG, H. & F.J. LINDERS (Edts.).‎

‎The Racial Characters of the Swedish Nation. Anthropologia Suecica MCMXXVI. Withe the collaboation of the staff of the institute and other scientists edited. - [MAPPING THE NORDIC RACE - FIRST STATE INSTITUTE FOR RACE BIOLOGY IN THE WORLD]‎

‎Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1926. [To be distributed by Gustav Jena Fischer, etc.]. Folio. Original full cloth with gilt title to spine and brown lettering and swedish arms to front board. Gilding to spine a little worn and spine a little soiled. Inner front hinge weak. Internally very nice and clean. Stamp to title-page (Malmö stadsbibliotek). An unusually well preserved copy of this heavy, large book. XIVpp., frontispiece portrait, (1 blank leaf), 182 pp. + 5 plates, 4 of them maps. + Supplement (including tables, explanation of the tables and the plates, and plates): (1) f. (half-title), 108 pp. (1) f. (half-title) + 44 photographic plates depicting Nordic Types, Baltic types, and Lapp types. With many illustrations, maps, and diagrams in the text as well.‎

‎"Léon Valade"‎

‎"L'Affaire Arlequin"‎

‎"Paris. 22 5 cm x 29 5 cm. 1882. Cartonné. 32 pages. Paris Éditions Gallimard 1951 édition originale service de presse. Broché 12 cm x 19 cm 241 pages. Texte de Mouloudji bel envoi de l'auteur bien complet du prière d'insérer. Bon état Paris Éditions Georges Crès & Cie collection « Anglia » 1919 édition originale 1/35 (n°25) exemplaires sur vergé d'Arches seul grand papier. Broché 15 cm x 20 cm 247 pages - Texte de Israël Zangwill traduction de Madame Marcel Girette. Bon état Paris Éditions Charles Delagrave 1882. Cartonné dos toilé rouge 22 5 cm x 29 5 cm 16 pages de texte+ 16 planches couleur au pochoir. Triolets de Léon Valade illustrations de Robert-Dinant. Page de garde légèrement détachée sinon bon état intérieur" "Etat correct"‎

Bookseller reference : 100074892

‎"MARGUÉRITE DE NAVARRE.‎

‎Heptameron francais ou les Nouvelles de Marguérite, reine de Navarre....Suite of engravings for this work.‎

‎(Paris, 1780-81). 8vo. Bound in a very fine full red longgrained morocco with raised bands, richly gilt backs. Covers with triple gilt ornamental borders and with large gilt floral stamps in corners. All edges gilt. Inside gilt borders. (Binding from ab. 1920, unsigned). Engraved frontispiece after Dunker by Eichler and 73 fine engraved plates after Freudenberg by Guttenberg (2), Halbou (24), henriquez (1), de Launay jeune (1), de Longueil (22), Le Roy (16), Mmes Duflos and Thibault (6) and one without signature.‎

‎"MENNIE, DONALD.‎

‎The Pageant of Peking Comprising Sixty-Six Vandyck Photogravures of Peking and Environs from Photographs by Donald Mennie with an introduction by Putnam Weale Descriptive Notes by S. Couling.‎

‎Shanghai, A.S. Watson, 1922. Folio (390 x 300 mm). In the original blue silke covered binding with gilt lettering and decoration to front board. Spine slightly faded. Internally fine and clean, an overall very nice copy. (8), 40 pp. + 66 photogravures tipped into recto of each page with caption on verso.‎

‎Third edition of this fine work with sixty-six fine photogravure plates documenting the twilight of imperial China. It is the most iconic of Donald Mennie's early photobooks and a cornerstone of Western visual records of early 20th-century Beijing Although born and raised in Golspie, Scotland, Donald Mennie (1875–1944) spent the majority of his life in China, arriving around 1899. Trained as a chemist he rose to become Managing Director of the Shanghai branch of A.S. Watson & Co., a firm that by the 1930s was also a dealer in photographic materials. His photographic work, inspired by the Pictorialist style, emphasized mood and composition over mere documentation, making his books highly desirable as both artistic and historical records. From 1914 Mennie traveled widely across China, producing popular photo-books that include ""China by Land and Water"", ""Picturesque China"", and his magnum opus, The Grandeur of the Gorges (1926). The Pageant of Peking remains one of his most sought-after works for its focus on Beijing at a pivotal historical moment - before the empire gave way to modern transformation. This edition is accompanied by an introduction by Putnam Weale (B.L. Simpson) and descriptive notes by S. Couling Tragically Mennie’s life ended in Japanese captivity during WWII, dying in a Shanghai internment center in 1944.‎

Bookseller reference : 62283

‎"MOSS, EDWARD L.‎

‎Shores of the Polar Sea. A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76. Illustrated with Sixteen Chromo=Lithographs and numerous Engravings from Drawings made on the Spot by the Author.‎

‎London, Marcus Ward & Co., 1878. Folio. (49 x 35 cm.). Orig. full pictotial cloth. Richly gilt. Spine-ends repaired. First inner hinge strenghtened. Edges gilt. Halftitle with a stamp. (1-7)8-83 pp. With 16 mounted, fine chromolithographed plates, many textillustrations, 1 map. Title-page printed in red/black. Internally clean fine.‎

‎First edition. ""It is believed by both Artist and Publishers that a much fuller and more vivid idea of Arctic scenery can be produced by careful chromo-lithographic fac-similes of the original drawings made by Dr Edward L. Moss during the Expedition, than by any rendering in black and white. The sketches are not designed to illustrate the progress of the Expedition, or any stirring events in its history, so much as the appearance of the strange and desolate country by the shores of which the ships slowly steamed, the wonderful phenomena of the sky, and the effects of light and shade produced by a midnight sun, or a mid-day moon, on the ice-bound rocks which form the scenery of the region. They are here reproduced ... in order to make them more generally accessible ... It must be added that the sketches are all the work of one hand - Dr Edward L. Moss, who served on board the Alert in the Arctic Expedition which left England on the 29th of May, 1875, and entered the Arctic regions on the 4th of July in the same year. Although the Expedition failed in reaching the Pole - which was among the sailing orders on which it started - it yet achieved results of the highest scientific and geographic value. Of what kind was the life they led - what strange experiences they gained of natural phenomena, and the freaks of light on ice and rock - the accompanying drawings illustrate with a vividness and fullness never before arrived at in sketches of Arctic life."" (Scott Polar Research Institute).‎

Bookseller reference : 54066

‎"Octave Mirbeau"‎

‎Dingo‎

‎"Paris. 17 5 cm x 22 5 cm. 1935. broché. 283 pages. Paris Les Éditions Nationales 1935 exemplaire numéroté sur vélin d'alfa. Broché couverture à rabats 17 5 cm x 22 5 cm 283 pages têtes et fins de chapitres illustrés 17 illustrations noir & blanc pleine page sous serpente. Texte de Octave Mirbeau aquarelles et dessins de Gus Bofa. Bon état" "Bon état"‎

Bookseller reference : 100074984

‎"PEDERSEN, CARL-HENNING.‎

‎Romersk Elegi. Digte og Grafik. Udgivet af Carl-Henning Pedersen og Henry Thejls.‎

‎København, 1971. Stor8vo. Orig. omslag med orig. træsnit. 127 pp. Talrige træsnit trykt med de originale skæringer af Thejls. Nr. 629 af 800 eksemplarer signeret af Carl-Henning Pedersen og med egenhændig dedikation: ""15. april 1972/ Kæreste Grete (Zahle) !/ Nok et nyt forår oplever vi - dine hengivne Kari-Else-og Carl-Henning"". Frisk eksemplar.‎

‎"PEDERSEN, JENS - AKSEL JØRGENSEN (ILLUSTR.).‎

‎Hjerter.‎

‎København, Peter Hansens Forlag, 1909. 8vo. Med orig. for-og bagomslag i nyere hshirtbd., rygforgyldning og titeletiket. 92,(1) pp. Med 7 helsides orig. træsnit (det ene på foromslaget) af Aksel Jørgensen. Lille reparation i foromslaget udenfor træsnittet.‎

‎"Pierre Dudan Dubout"‎

‎"La Peur Gigantesque de Monsieur Médiocre (Histoire folle)"‎

‎"Monte-Carlo. 17 5 cm x 25 cm. 1947. Broché. 176 pages. Monte-Carlo Éditions du Livre 1947 édition originale numérotée sur Hélio Blanc. Broché couverture à rabat 17 5 cm x 25 cm 176 pages illustrations noir & blanc in et hors-texte. Texte de Pierre Dudan illustrations de Dubout. Léger accroc au dos sinon bon état" "Bon état"‎

Bookseller reference : 100075125

‎"Raymond Radiguet Jean Boullet"‎

‎"Le Diable au Corps"‎

‎"Paris. 14 cm x 19 cm. 1947. Broché. 252 pages. Paris Éditions Les Trois Mats 1947 tirage numéroté (n°822) sur vélin blanc. Broché bien complet de la jaquette illustrée 14 cm x 19 cm 252 pages. Texte de Raymond Radiguet illustrations hors-texte noir & blanc de Jean Boullet bien complet du cahier de 12 photos noir & blanc par Raymond Voinquel extraites du film de Claude Autant-Lara avec Micheline Presle et Gérard Philippe. Quelques rousseurs sinon bon état" "Bon état"‎

Bookseller reference : 100074819

‎"REUILLARD, GABRIEL.‎

‎Grasse Normandie. Avec 87 dessins inédits de Maurice Vlaminck.‎

‎Paris, André Delpeuch, 1927. 4to. Bound uncut in a fine green hmorocco. Spine gilt and blindtooled. (Anker Kyster Eftf. 1973). 221,(6) pp. No. 100 of 150 ""sur velin des Papeteries D'Arches"" of a total of 170 of the 4to-edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 35510

‎"RIIS, JACOB A.‎

‎How the Other Half Lives. Studies Among the Tenemants of New York. With Illustrations chiefly from Photographs taken by the Author. - [INITIATING SOCIAL REFORM]‎

‎New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Lex 8vo. Original blue full clothWith title in blue to front board and blue and gilt lettering to spine. Spine and parts of boards lightly brownspotted. A bit of wear to capitaks and corners. But overall a very nice copy of this fairly fragile and delicate cloth binding (there is an original variant binding with cloth spine and illustrated boards, but no precidency between the bindings has been established). Internally very nice and clean. XV, (1), 304 pp. Wih numerous illustrations, most of them photographic.‎

‎First edition of this landmark work on the miserable living conditions of the poor immigrants in New York, constituting one of the very earliest - and certainly the most popular and influential - attempts at making ""the other half"", i.e. the middle and upper classes, aware of how the poor in New York actually lived. Riis's work created attention to the neglected and overseen community that was the underprivileged in New York. In the long run, the great success of the work created attention to the status, living conditions and general health of the poor, and it initiated social reform movements in all major North American cities. Furthermore, the work is regarded the very first example of ""muckraking"" journalism and was the first to extensively use halftone photographic reproductions in a book.Riis used a convincing combination of facts from Dr. Roger S. Tracy, Registrar of Vital Statistics, and his own talents as a photo journalist to make a hitherto unseen powerful description of the correlation between the high crime rate, drunkenness and reckless behavior of the poor and their lack of proper homes. The statistical facts made it a relevant and sober work and lent it enough authority to the book's claims for it to be taken serious by city official. His groundbreaking photographs confirmed the dry numbers and ""spoke directly to people's hearts"". (Pascal, ""Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer"", p. 87). Unlike all previously works on the living conditions of the poor, ""How the Other Half Lives"" offered concrete solutions on how to improve living condition, how to make the tenants improve their buildings, and finally how the politicians and city officials could make the appropriate and necessary juridical changes.The effect of the work was immediately seen and included: the tearing down of New York's worst tenements, sweatshops, and the reformation of the city's schools. The book led to a decade of improvements in Lower East Side conditions, with garbage collection, sewers, and indoor plumbing all following soon after. Because of the present work, Riis quickly rose to fame and in 1895 he became close friends with Theodore Roosevelt, then a New York City official, who wrote of Riis: ""Jacob Riis, whom I am tempted to call the best American I ever knew, although he was already a young man when he came hither from Denmark"". After Roosevelt became President, he wrote a tribute to Riis that started: ""Recently a man, well qualified to pass judgment, alluded to Mr. Jacob A. Riis as ""the most useful citizen of New York"". Those fellow citizens of Mr. Riis who best know his work will be most apt to agree with this statement. The countless evils which lurk in the dark corners of our civic institutions, which stalk abroad in the slums, and have their permanent abode in the crowded tenement houses, have met in Mr. Riis the most formidable opponent ever encountered by them in New York City.""The title refers to the French writer François Rabelais, who famously wrote in Pantagruel: ""one half of the world does not know how the other half lives"". As a work of journalism and of social criticism, Riis's book still stands as a truly seminal testimony to how the lower classes lived at the turn of the century. Due to this work, attention was eventually paid to them and their conditions bettered.‎

Bookseller reference : 48301

‎"SAXO GRAMMATICUS.‎

‎Danmarks Riges Krønike af anden Bog Frode.‎

‎(København), Co'libri, 1977. Lille 4to. Orig. papportfolio i orig. kassette med materien indlagt i løse ark, ubeskåret på bøttepapir. Nr. 44 af 90 nummererede eksemplarer. Med 14 store håndkolorerede initialer, ét belagt med guld.‎

‎"SCHADE, JENS AUGUST - HENRY HEERUP (ILLUSTR.) - DEDIKATIONSEKSEMPLAR.‎

‎Sjov i Danmark eller som man ser det- Illustrationer og Vignetter af Henry Heerup. Satirisk Sangværk.‎

‎København, Helios, 1945. Lex8vo. Orig. papbd. med overtræk af Salto-Papir og originale bogtrykte papirsetiketter på ryg og forperm. Med 12 originale farvelitograferede plancher af Henry Heerup. På fribladets for-og bagside er indklæbet linieret papir med tilskrifter i blæk af Jens August Schade. Forsiden: ""Hilsen til min/Kære Julius/fra din/Jens August Schade/ Med Tak for alt."" - På bagsiden: ""Samtidig med/ Eksemplaret /får Du/ al den Champagne/ Du kan drikke/ i en Nat./ Jens August Schade.""‎

Bookseller reference : 32340

‎"SOULAGES, GABRIEL - CARLÈGLE (Illustr.).‎

‎Le Malheureux Petit Voyage ou La Misérable fin de Madame de Conflans Princesse de la Marsaille, Rapportée par Marie-Toinon Cerisette sa fidèle & dévouée servante. Avec les figures dessinées par Carlègle. Paaris, Valère, 1936.‎

‎Bound with orig. wrappers in private boards, gilt titlelabel. Top edge gilt. Uncut. No 457 of 940 ""sur papier de Rives"", a total of 1050. Many colour-illustrations by Carlègle.‎

‎"TULLY, RICHARD.‎

‎Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the Original Correspondence in the Possession of the Family of the late Richard Tully, Esq., the British consul Comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his famil...‎

‎London, Henry Colburn, 1817. 4to. In a recent half calf pastische binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. First few leaves with soiling and a few small marginal tears, plates with a few brownspots. Small hole affecting p. 95/p. 96. A fine copy. xiii, (3), 376 pp. + 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates + 1 engraved folded map.‎

‎"VOLTAIRE. - BOUND BY BIRGITTE DALL.‎

‎Candide. Illustrations de A. Hallman.‎

‎Stockholm, Jan Förlag, (1946). 4to. Bound uncut with orig. printed wrappers in a fine green hmorocco, gilt back and titlelabel in leather. (Birgitte Dall). 168 pp. No. 123 of 200 copies ""papier special"". Tipped-in colourplates by Adolf Hallman.‎

‎"VÉRTICE".‎

‎Director José María Alfaro. Año VII, Nº 76. [Textos de Pedro Mourlane Michelena, Eugenio Montes, Ciriaco P. Bustamante, Attilio Venturi, Federico Sopeña, José Forns, Leocadio Mejías, Alfredo Marqueríe, Joaquín de Figueroa, J. de las Cuevas, Andrés Révesz, Cecilio Barberán, M. Fernández Almagro, J.A. de Zunzunegui, Juan Losada, Miguel Moya Huertas, Manuel Comba, Gaspar Tato Cumming, Rafael de Urbano, J. Losada, Alfredo Felices].‎

‎Madrid, Talleres de Prensa y Propaganda de FET y de las JONS, 1945. Gran folio; 108 pp., con ilustraciones de Tauler y numerosas fotografías. Cubiertas originales de Tauler.‎

‎( UZELAC ) - GAUTIER Théophile .‎

‎Le Roman de la Momie. Illustré par Uzelac.‎

‎Paris, Eryx, 1947; in-4°, en feuilles, couverture rempliée blanche illustrée au 1er plat d'une momie gaufrée blanc sur blanc, titre gaufré de part et d'autre de la vignette en relief, chemise et étui cartonnés, titre en bleu-vert au dos de la chemise; 239, (4)pp. Chemise et étui jaunis, piqûres à l' intérieur de la chemise et au dos de la couverture, rarissimes au livre ( en bordure de la marge inférieure de 2 feuillets). Lacouverture gaufrée se gondole un peu.‎

‎Ouvrage tiré à 695 exemplaires + 86 hors commerce, celui -ci n° 625 est un des 241 sur velin chiffon de Renage.Lettrines ornées imprimées en noir et beu-vert, et 10 compositions dans le texte et 14 hors texte par Uzelac, reproduites en couleurs par Jacomet. ( Reu-CH1)‎

Bookseller reference : c7061

‎( BOFA Gus ) - HENRY, O. .‎

‎Martin Burney boueux, boxeur et marchand d'oiseaux . Mis en français par Maurice Beerblock . Dessins de Gus Bofa .‎

‎1919 Paris, l'Édition française illustrée, 1919 ; in-8° broché, couverture crème illustrée au 1er plat d'un dessin en couleurs, titre en noir ; 125, (3)pp. Illustré de dessins en noir dans le texte ou à pleine page par Gus Bofa. De la " Collection littéraire des romans fantaisistes ". Edition originale sur papier d'édition ( il n'y a eu que 15 hollande).‎

‎Couverture un peu jaunie avec manque de papier au dos (consolidé à l'adhésif !) . ( GrG)‎

Bookseller reference : 7578