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1694ref. 90853Veuve de Jacques Langlois Veuve de R. Chevillon Jacques Langlois | Paris 1694 | 9.5 x 16.5 cm | Relié
1658ref. LBW-7142Paris, Pierre Mariette, 1656 [1658]. 394 x 542 mm.
ref. Z1-L-019-02293Acton Publishers. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Acton Publishers unknown
1954ref. 1440Aerovoz revista mensual organo oficial de la federacion aerea nacional de cuba director calixto sanchez white 4 anos desde enero de 1954 hasta junio de 1957 director macario fernandez coleccion en 2 volumenes.en muy buen estadorevista ilustrada.es una revista muy rara sobre la aviacion cubana de la republica.con interesantes articulos y resenas historicas y de la actualidad. Talleres editorial puga,guanabacoa hardcover
1696ref. M10191Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier c.1696. Very Good. Size : 393x540 mm 15.47x21.26 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: Maps World; Covens & Mortier unknown
1845ref. 15379Paris 1845. Pen ink and watercolour. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and foxing overall light creasing and a vertical crease in the center. A rare example of an original watercolour design for porcelain by the Samson factory of Paris. This drawing shows a full-height outline of a covered pot with high waisted body and spreading foot drawn in ink and completed in delicate washes of red green and soft blue. The main surfaces are filled with loose asymmetrical floral sprays centred on a large bouquet of roses and other garden flowers repeated on the shoulder foot and domed cover. The spout and opposing handle take the form of sinuous dragon- or serpent-like creatures their heads heightened in red and their scaly bodies mottled in green adding a whimsical zoomorphic note to the otherwise floral scheme. The French porcelain manufactory Samson & Co. was founded in 1845 by Edmé Samson 1810-1891 a Paris-born painter on ceramics who began by making replacement pieces for damaged services before turning to high-quality reproductions of historic wares. Working first at 7 rue Vendôme later rue Béranger in Paris and later from a factory at Montreuil run by his son Emile Samson 1837-1913 the firm drew on a large study collection of original pieces to copy or adapt designs from Sèvres Meissen Chelsea Derby and Worcester as well as Chinese export porcelain Japanese Islamic Delft faience and maiolica. Samson always maintained that its reproductions were distinctly marked to avoid confusion with the originals though later removal or alteration of marks has often led the firms work to be mistaken for earlier pieces. Production continued into the twentieth century finally ceasing in 1969 and the manufactory is now recognised as one of the most inventive nineteenth-century interpreters of historic ceramic styles. Surviving design drawings such as the present work offer rare insight into the way the Samson workshop translated museum models and historic patterns into working colour copies for its painters and modellers. unknown
1845ref. 18737Paris 1845. Watercolor. Very good condition apart from very mild soiling and a vertical crease where the sheet was once folded. This finished design was intended as a reference source from which the porcelain painters could work using the design as a guide for the colours and image to be transformed from paper into fine porcelain. The French porcelain manufactory of Samson & Cie. was established by "Edmé Samson b. Paris 1810; d. Paris 1891 at 7 Rue Vendôme later Rue Béranger in Paris. The intention of the firm was to reproduce ceramics from museums and private collections and it claimed that all such reproductions would be distinctly marked to avoid confusion with the originals. In 1864 the factory was moved to Montreuil by Samson's son Emile Samson 1837-1913. The range of wares included copies of 18th-century porcelain from such factories as Sèvres Chelsea Meissen and Derby Chinese export-wares especially armorial wares decorated with famille rose colours and mugs decorated with the Fitzhugh pattern Delftware Iznikware maiolica and faience." Grove Dictionary of Art. unknown
1845ref. 18737Paris 1845. Watercolor. Very good condition apart from very mild soiling and a vertical crease where the sheet was once folded. This finished design was intended as a reference source from which the porcelain painters could work using the design as a guide for the colours and image to be transformed from paper into fine porcelain. The French porcelain manufactory of Samson & Cie. was established by "Edmé Samson b. Paris 1810; d. Paris 1891 at 7 Rue Vendôme later Rue Béranger in Paris. The intention of the firm was to reproduce ceramics from museums and private collections and it claimed that all such reproductions would be distinctly marked to avoid confusion with the originals. In 1864 the factory was moved to Montreuil by Samson's son Emile Samson 1837-1913. The range of wares included copies of 18th-century porcelain from such factories as Sèvres Chelsea Meissen and Derby Chinese export-wares especially armorial wares decorated with famille rose colours and mugs decorated with the Fitzhugh pattern Delftware Iznikware maiolica and faience." Grove Dictionary of Art. unknown books
1845ref. 15379Paris 1845. Pen ink and watercolour. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and foxing overall light creasing and a vertical crease in the center. A rare example of an original watercolour design for porcelain by the Samson factory of Paris. This drawing shows a full-height outline of a covered pot with high waisted body and spreading foot drawn in ink and completed in delicate washes of red green and soft blue. The main surfaces are filled with loose asymmetrical floral sprays centred on a large bouquet of roses and other garden flowers repeated on the shoulder foot and domed cover. The spout and opposing handle take the form of sinuous dragon- or serpent-like creatures their heads heightened in red and their scaly bodies mottled in green adding a whimsical zoomorphic note to the otherwise floral scheme. The French porcelain manufactory Samson & Co. was founded in 1845 by Edmé Samson 1810-1891 a Paris-born painter on ceramics who began by making replacement pieces for damaged services before turning to high-quality reproductions of historic wares. Working first at 7 rue Vendôme later rue Béranger in Paris and later from a factory at Montreuil run by his son Emile Samson 1837-1913 the firm drew on a large study collection of original pieces to copy or adapt designs from Sèvres Meissen Chelsea Derby and Worcester as well as Chinese export porcelain Japanese Islamic Delft faience and maiolica. Samson always maintained that its reproductions were distinctly marked to avoid confusion with the originals though later removal or alteration of marks has often led the firms work to be mistaken for earlier pieces. Production continued into the twentieth century finally ceasing in 1969 and the manufactory is now recognised as one of the most inventive nineteenth-century interpreters of historic ceramic styles. Surviving design drawings such as the present work offer rare insight into the way the Samson workshop translated museum models and historic patterns into working colour copies for its painters and modellers. unknown books
1674ref. M1744Paris: Jaillot Hubert 1674. Very Good to Excellent. Size : 572x840 mm 22.5x33 Inches Coloring: Original Outline Coloring Category: ; Maps Europe Benelux Jaillot, Hubert unknown
1658ref. M7057Paris 1658. Very Good;. Notes: An early map of the Island of St. Christopher that includes a decorative compass rose in sea area and an ornamental title cartouche in top right decorated with scrolls ribbons and fruit. This is the first printed map of St. Kitts published in "Cartes Generales De Toutes Les Parties Du Monde." With wide margins. Size : 314x429 mm 12.36x16.89 Inches Coloring: Original Outline Coloring cartouche and compass hand coloured Category: Maps West Indies Other Islands; unknown
ref. 16-6522Paris: Pierre Mariette 1665. 4to 24.8 x 17.6cm contemporary mottled calf engraved title-page and dedication leaf 12 engraved folding maps hand-colored in outline all folding each map with 2 leaves of descriptive text trimmed and inset except Hungary no text-leaves present and the Black Sea map followed by 6 leaves of text headed ‘Rivières plus fameuses de l’Europe' title-page lightly damp-stained in margins.The title-page and maps are undated but the imprint on the final page of text is dated 1665. The maps comprise Europe Great Britain Scandinavia Russia France Germany Hungary Poland Spain Italy Greece and the Black Sea.Bookplate of David Smythe Lord Methven FRSE LLD 1746–1806 who was a Scottish lawyer and judge who rose to be a Senator of the College of Justice. Paris: Pierre Mariette, 1665. unknown
1657ref. 5033Paris 1657. Par N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geographe ordre du Roy. Spence 3017 lists a slightly different title but undoubtedly the same map. 53x38 cms. Period outline color central fold very good condition. A double hemisphere map to the North and South poles. The North pole is connected to Greenland and Spitzbergen but there is little other detailed coastline in the polar area. Europe Russia and Canada are delineated. The South pole is based on the great unknown Southland of Magellan. The tip of S. America is shown and a large land mass which encompasses the whole of the hemisphere but nothing else. unknown
1654ref. M2656Paris 1654. Excellent. Size : 385x530 mm 15.125x20.875 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Reference: Nebenzahl 3.9C Category: Maps Asia South East; Maps Asia Central India & Sri Lanka / Ceylon; unknown
ref. 04086London: S.W. Fores 1801. Three of George Moutard Woodward's Hand-Colored Prints from "Symptoms of the Shop" WOODWARD George Moutard artist SANSON Francis printmaker. Symptoms of the Shop. London: S.W. Fores 1801. First edition. Quarto 10 1/8 x 8 1/16 inches; 257 x 265 mm. Three of twelve hand colored 'Satirical' stipple engravings on wove paper drawn by Woodward and etched by Sanson numbers 7 8 and 10. Each with the plate number at the top right margin and with lithographed text at the top of the image. On each of the lower margins is "Pub. June 1st 1801 by S.W. Fores No.50 Piccadilly Prints and Drawings lent on the plan of a Library Folio's of Caricature lent out for the Evening." / Symptoms of the Shop" / "Drawn by G. Woodward Etchd by F. Sansom". Some light marginal soiling otherwise near fine. Plate #7. "After all there is nothing like the true old orthodox principles." Plate #8. "I have brought your Honor home your new suit." Plate #10. "Madam - I was once a Minister and used to negotiations." Very rare. According to OCLC there are only two complete set in libraries and institutions worldwide The Lewis Walpole Library CT. has a complete colored set Princeton NJ also has a complete set but does not mention 'colored'. Yale university has nine of the twelve colored plates missing numbers 1 7 & 8. Harvard MA has one plate. These two artists previously collaborated on Every Body in Town BC-28 Every Body Out of Town BC-29 and Pigmy Revels: All Alive in Lilliput BC-62 all published by Fores. Each plate depicts two persons engaged in humorous wordplay relating to the characteristics of a trade or calling. William Gordon. A catalogue of the Books Drawings Prints and Periodicals forming the William A. Gordon Library of British Caricature. The three images present here include: Plate 7. A man sitting in a wooden chair lifts his hand for emphasis and declares: "After all there is nothing like the true old orthodox principles." An obese clergyman in a padded armchair on the right responds: "Orthodox principles - ah my dear friend you put me in mind of old times - when I was but a simple vicar. How I used to charm my congregation - slim as a Bedles wand - & delicate as a new wash'd surplice - but since I have been raised to higher dignities I do nothing but remain in my chair; bulky & unweildy as a Folio Church Service. - oh how elegantly I used to manage my discourses - fifteen minutes to a point by the clock under the gallery - never exceeded - short praye - text - and devision - one - two - three & away - that was my method." Plate 8. A man with a parcel under his arm bows slightly and says: "I have brought your Honor home your new suit." A stout bespectacled lawyer replies: "Suit - ah - Mr. Buckram you did not know me when I practiced in the Courts - I could have shewn you suits that would have puzzled Judge Blackstone himself - none of your simple matters - brim full of Law as a brief bag - intricate as the Temple avenues -& long as Westminster Hall - Shy Clients sometimes - but it would not do with Paul Parchment - sure to have them on way or other. - Once in never out that was my motto." Plate 10. A former Minister holding his hat wearing a bag-wig and with his pocket filled with scrolls addresses a woman: "Madam - I was once a Minister and used to Negotiations I shall therefore be happy to treat with you on Matrimonial Speculation - I have ample credentials ready to ratify my powers and if you please will enter into preliminaries immediately - but let me have a sight glance at your project and be assured I will deliver to you my contre projet as soon as the definitive treaty is concluded and duly guaranteed." The woman who is short and plump looks aghast at the proposition. London: S.W. Fores, 1801 unknown
ref. 04086London: S.W. Fores 1801. Three of George Moutard Woodward's Hand-Colored Prints from "Symptoms of the Shop" WOODWARD George Moutard artist SANSON Francis printmaker. Symptoms of the Shop. London: S.W. Fores 1801. First edition. Quarto 10 1/8 x 8 1/16 inches; 257 x 265 mm. Three of twelve hand colored 'Satirical' stipple engravings on wove paper drawn by Woodward and etched by Sanson numbers 7 8 and 10. Each with the plate number at the top right margin and with lithographed text at the top of the image. On each of the lower margins is "Pub. June 1st 1801 by S.W. Fores No.50 Piccadilly Prints and Drawings lent on the plan of a Library Folio's of Caricature lent out for the Evening." / Symptoms of the Shop" / "Drawn by G. Woodward Etchd by F. Sansom". Some light marginal soiling otherwise near fine. Plate #7. "After all there is nothing like the true old orthodox principles." Plate #8. "I have brought your Honor home your new suit." Plate #10. "Madam - I was once a Minister and used to negotiations." Very rare. According to OCLC there are only two complete set in libraries and institutions worldwide The Lewis Walpole Library CT. has a complete colored set Princeton NJ also has a complete set but does not mention 'colored'. Yale university has nine of the twelve colored plates missing numbers 1 7 & 8. Harvard MA has one plate. These two artists previously collaborated on Every Body in Town BC-28 Every Body Out of Town BC-29 and Pigmy Revels: All Alive in Lilliput BC-62 all published by Fores. Each plate depicts two persons engaged in humorous wordplay relating to the characteristics of a trade or calling. William Gordon. A catalogue of the Books Drawings Prints and Periodicals forming the William A. Gordon Library of British Caricature. The three images present here include: Plate 7. A man sitting in a wooden chair lifts his hand for emphasis and declares: "After all there is nothing like the true old orthodox principles." An obese clergyman in a padded armchair on the right responds: "Orthodox principles - ah my dear friend you put me in mind of old times - when I was but a simple vicar. How I used to charm my congregation - slim as a Bedles wand - & delicate as a new wash'd surplice - but since I have been raised to higher dignities I do nothing but remain in my chair; bulky & unweildy as a Folio Church Service. - oh how elegantly I used to manage my discourses - fifteen minutes to a point by the clock under the gallery - never exceeded - short praye - text - and devision - one - two - three & away - that was my method." Plate 8. A man with a parcel under his arm bows slightly and says: "I have brought your Honor home your new suit." A stout bespectacled lawyer replies: "Suit - ah - Mr. Buckram you did not know me when I practiced in the Courts - I could have shewn you suits that would have puzzled Judge Blackstone himself - none of your simple matters - brim full of Law as a brief bag - intricate as the Temple avenues -& long as Westminster Hall - Shy Clients sometimes - but it would not do with Paul Parchment - sure to have them on way or other. - Once in never out that was my motto." Plate 10. A former Minister holding his hat wearing a bag-wig and with his pocket filled with scrolls addresses a woman: "Madam - I was once a Minister and used to Negotiations I shall therefore be happy to treat with you on Matrimonial Speculation - I have ample credentials ready to ratify my powers and if you please will enter into preliminaries immediately - but let me have a sight glance at your project and be assured I will deliver to you my contre projet as soon as the definitive treaty is concluded and duly guaranteed." The woman who is short and plump looks aghast at the proposition. London: S.W. Fores, 1801 unknown books
ref. 140897aafA Amsterdam, chez P(ieter) Mortier et Compagnie: Avec Privilege, 1696-1708, Bildgröße - Karte 55 x 75 cm. (inkl. Wappen u. d. Titel über dem Rand 57x83 cm.), Carte géographique coloriée, français (1696-1708), publiée dans : Atlas Nouveau, Contenant toutes les Parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarqués les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Estats, Républiques & Peuples, entre 1696-1708. Unter Glas im Goldrahmen (92 x 66 cm).
1694ref. 90853Paris: Veuve de Jacques LangloisVeuve de R. ChevillonJacques Langlois 1694. Fine. Veuve de Jacques Langlois Veuve de R. Chevillon Jacques Langlois Paris 1694 9.5 x 16.5 cm Relié Rare illustrated first edition with 5 copper-engraved plates hors-texte including 2 folding plates cf. Barbier II 302. Schwab 517. Hage Chahine 4320. Wilson 200. Absent from Blackmer and Atabey. Our copy lacks the two dedication leaves to Rouillié often missing with repairs to the joints and one corner and a manuscript ex-libris on the title-page. Contemporary full mottled fawn calf spine with five raised bands gilt and decorated with gilt compartments and floral tools tan calf title-label gilt fillets to the edges partly faded speckled edges. Sanson a zealous apostolic missionary tireless traveller and accomplished diplomat arrived in Persia in 1683 learning Armenian Turkish and Persian while travelling through the kingdom in order to ""consoler les chrétiens qui y habitent"". He took an interest in everything ""murs situation antiquités"" of the regions he crossed and eventually gained access to the Palace ""qui ne sont accordées qu'aux grands seigneurs de Perse"" attending all audiences and taking part in every banquet. He spent three years close to Soliman before returning to France bringing Louis XIV a personal message from the ""roi"" of Persia. Provenance: copy from the library of the literary critic Émile Faguet 18471916 with his vignette bookplate pasted to the inside board. Veuve de Jacques LangloisVeuve de R. ChevillonJacques Langlois hardcover
ref. 122122Paris 1692. . Double page engraved map with fine original hand-colour with two decorative cartouches surrounded by animals and foliage. Sheet size: 950 mm x 600 mm. Some minor offset and tiny worm holes otherwise very good. The map is dedicated to Jean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert Marquis de Seignelay the eldest son of the French minister of the same name who served Louis XIV. Alexis-Hubert Jaillot 1632-1712 was a French cartographer. He joined the Sanson heirs and redrew Nicolas Sanson's maps on a larger scale. 'Atlas Nouveau' 1674 sea-atlas ' Le Neptune François' 1693. Paris, 1692. unknown
1691ref. LBW-3673Paris, H. Jaillot, 1691. En deux feuilles jointes de 573 x 884 mm.
1698ref. 6703sans lieu [Amsterdam], sans nom [Pierre Mortier], sans date [circa 1698]. In-8 de [2]-30 pages, 25 cartes, 1 pl., 26 pages, couverture de papier marbré du temps (traces de plis au dos, coins un soupçon cornés).
1705ref. 3903Attractive original hand-color. Pin-head size stain just south of Mississippi delta please see image. An otherwise very nice clean copy. Paper size: 8 1/4 x 12 1/4 in 210 x 310 mm. Image size: 7 x 9.8 in 178 x 250 mm. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
1696ref. 16269Paris: Alexis Hubert Jaillot 1696. Copper-engraved map with full original colour and gold embellishment in excellent condition. A stunning map of Normandy by Alexis Jaillot an exceptional example with gilt embellishments. One of the most important figures in French cartography Nicolas Sanson initiated the great school of French geographers. Born in Abbeville in 1600 Sanson established his first printing house in Paris in 1638. He soon became geographer to the king establishing himself as one of the most influential cartographers on the Continent. He was succeeded by his sons Adrien and Guillaume and by his son-in-law Pierre Duval who continued to publish a wealth of maps using Sanson's name. At the close of the seventeenth century Sanson's plates were purchased by the influential cartographer Alexis Hubert Jaillot who continued to publish his maps and atlases under Sanson's title. This stunning map of Normandy is based on Sanson's map published in 1650 but was redrawn and enlarged by Jaillot. It shows the provinces of Normandy as well as the northern tip of Brittany and part of the English Channel. Both Jersey and Guernsey are included as is Mont St. Michel off the coast of St. Malo. In keeping with all of Sanson's and Jaillot's superb maps forests rivers and towns are meticulously identified and named. The map includes an ornate cartouche in the upper section as well as a scale and key. Tooley Maps & Map-Makers pp. 40-41. Alexis Hubert Jaillot unknown
1696ref. 16269Paris: Alexis Hubert Jaillot 1696. Copper-engraved map with full original colour and gold embellishment in excellent condition. A stunning map of Normandy by Alexis Jaillot an exceptional example with gilt embellishments. One of the most important figures in French cartography Nicolas Sanson initiated the great school of French geographers. Born in Abbeville in 1600 Sanson established his first printing house in Paris in 1638. He soon became geographer to the king establishing himself as one of the most influential cartographers on the Continent. He was succeeded by his sons Adrien and Guillaume and by his son-in-law Pierre Duval who continued to publish a wealth of maps using Sanson's name. At the close of the seventeenth century Sanson's plates were purchased by the influential cartographer Alexis Hubert Jaillot who continued to publish his maps and atlases under Sanson's title. This stunning map of Normandy is based on Sanson's map published in 1650 but was redrawn and enlarged by Jaillot. It shows the provinces of Normandy as well as the northern tip of Brittany and part of the English Channel. Both Jersey and Guernsey are included as is Mont St. Michel off the coast of St. Malo. In keeping with all of Sanson's and Jaillot's superb maps forests rivers and towns are meticulously identified and named. The map includes an ornate cartouche in the upper section as well as a scale and key. Tooley Maps & Map-Makers pp. 40-41. Alexis Hubert Jaillot unknown books
1656ref. M8114Paris c.1656. Very Good. Size : 375x521 mm 14.76x20.51 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: Maps Asia Far East Japan & Korea; unknown
