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1793Best.-Nr. lsj02London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly. G : in good condition without dust jackets as issued. Minor rubbing and wear to boards - volume 2 with sm. area of loss to leather on front board. Previous owner's inscriptions to feps. Corner tear to pp17-18 vol 1 with no loss to text. Ink dedication laid-in to volume 1. 1793. Second Edition revised and augmented. Full leather covers. 200mm x 150mm 8" x 6". xxxvi 603pp 34pp 711pp. Engraved frontis plate of Samuel Johnson after Joshua Reynolds volume 1; folding plates volume 2 and to rear of volume 3. First octavo edition of Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'. Published April 3rd 1793. Second Edition second state: v.1 p.135 line 10 states 'give' as in corrected version. Front endpaper of volume 1 with pasted copperplate inscription relating to Francis Barber Dr. Johnson's manservant and heir: 'Francis Barber the faithful valued black son of Dr Samuel Johnson who died in the infirmary of Stafford February 13th 1801'. Previous owner's name John Darlington and date of 1853 to feps. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Henry Baldwin [for] Charles Dilly hardcover
1782Best.-Nr. 17290Carpentras, Dominique-Gaspard Quenin, 1782 ; in-4, veau marbré, dos à nerfs décoré et doré, pièces de titre grenat, roulette sur les coupes (exemplaire réemboité) ; VIII, 288 pp. , blasons gravés sur cuivre.
Best.-Nr. 13973913Genève: Musée Barbier-Müller, 1993 2 vol. in-4, reliure toile sous jaquette illustrée, étui toilé. Volume 1: 424 pages. frontispice, 426 illustrations en couleurs. Volume 2: 232 page, 316 illustrations en couleurs, 9 cartes. Bibliographie, index. Très bel exemplaire de cet ouvrage devenu rare et recherché. Textes de J.P. Barbier, G. Bochet, A.-M. Boyer, R.A. Bravmann, E. Bruyninx, A. Deluz, T. Garrard, A.Glaze, P. Harter, J.-N. Loucou, M.-N. Verger-Fevre, M.B. Visona, S. Vogel. Texte français. Nous disposons également de la version anglaise de cet ouvrage "Art of Côte d’Ivoire from the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum";
Best.-Nr. 77215Paris not published 1924. Original black ink and watercolour drawing heightened with gold. On fine J. Whatman wove paper. Size 24.5 x 19.0 cm. = A unique original aquarelle by the French artist Georges Augustin Barbier 1882-1932. Barbier was one of the foremost French Art Deco artists. "By epitomizing the more refined fantasies of the Parisian world of pleasure . he became the most haunting of Art Deco book artists" Ray. Barbier illustrated luxurious editions of several books including Les Liaisons Dangereuses Les Plus Belles Heures d'Amour de Casanova and l'Escapade. He also designed theatre costumes but he is perhaps best-known for his haute couture illustrations for such magazines as Journal des Dames et des Modes and Gazette de Bon Ton. The present drawing may well be made for publication in the Bon Ton as it features many illustrations by Barbier in the same style i.e. without a background in order to put emphasis on the model and her clothes. Signed: George as often Barbier 1924. A small blind-stamp of paper makers J. Whatman in the lower left corner. "Crêpe Satin" written in pencil on verso as well as C. C. Coco Chanel in ink. Lower left edges a bit irregular for being uncut; some very weak toning but generally in excellent condition. An archetypal Barbier: finely coloured and rich in detail. Ray G. N. The Art Deco Book in France p. 35. hardcover
1924Best.-Nr. 92324Meynial éditeur | s. d. [1924] | 17.5 x 26.2 cm | En feuilles
1713pp. (4), 62, (9), in-4, piena perg rigida, al frontespizio Madonna con i SS. Cosma e Damiano e tre stemmi di cui quello al centro di papa Clemente XI
1930Best.-Nr. 118944Paris: A. et G. Mornay 1930. Number 198 of 1000 copies for sale; one of 847 copies printed on Hollande paper. There were also 91 copies hors commerce. 2 vols quarto. Original printed paper wrappers. With the glassine dust jacket. Glassines a little chipped. Very nice copies. unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 05282Paris: Meynial 1925. No Binding. Good. 26 x 175 cm - 12 pages 12 illustrations: pochoirs by Barbier - sous feuilles dans une chemise avec sur la première page un très beau pochoir deuxième pochoir sur la page de titre et illustration en noir et blanc en haut de la première page du texte - il y a une petite tache sur la première page de la chemise et la dernière page est un peu ondulée - les pochoirs sont dans une très bonne condition - le tout dans une boîte de maroquin rouge foncé avec illustrateuret titre estampés en or plus encadrement estampé en or - e"x libris à l'intérieur de la boîte - en tout bel exemplaire Meynial unknown
1914Best.-Nr. 3009Barbier: La Fontaine de Coquillages Robe de Soir de Paquin. G.d.B.T. #3 March pl. 27. L'Etourdissant Petit Poisson Robe d'été G.d.B.T. #5 May pl.44.Brissaud: Ta Maman va Bien Tailler du Matin et Robe de filete de Jeanne Lanvin. G.d.B.T. #4 April pl. 37.Sais-Tu Ta Leçon Costumes Tailler de Fantasie de Jeanne Lanvin. Gd.B.T. #5 May pl. 40.A published in G.d.B.T. Gazette du Bon Ton 1914 Gazette du Bon Ton
1914Best.-Nr. 3009Barbier: La Fontaine de Coquillages Robe de Soir de Paquin. G.d.B.T. #3 March pl. 27. L'Etourdissant Petit Poisson Robe d'été G.d.B.T. #5 May pl.44.Brissaud: Ta Maman va Bien Tailler du Matin et Robe de filete de Jeanne Lanvin. G.d.B.T. #4 April pl. 37.Sais-Tu Ta Leçon Costumes Tailler de Fantasie de Jeanne Lanvin. Gd.B.T. #5 May pl. 40.A published in G.d.B.T. Gazette du Bon Ton 1914 Gazette du Bon Ton books
1921Best.-Nr. 23039paris Crès & Cie 1921 1 in-8 Trois dessins à l'encre de Chine signés et datés sur papier, 1919, 20 x 12 cm. , 19 x 13.2 cm. et 16.9 x 11.8 cm. Petit roman d'aventures galantes et morales. Illustrations de George BARBIER.. Paris, édition Georges Crès & Cie, 1921, in-8, broché, couverture rempliée, titre imprimé en noir et en rouge, 148 pages.
1796Best.-Nr. 92172De l'Imprimerie de Didot jeune chez Janet et Hubert | à Paris 1796 | 13 x 20.7 cm | relié
1922Best.-Nr. 84386Paris: Lucien Vogel 1922. Fine. Lucien Vogel Paris s. d. 1922 12.50 x 25 cm broché First hors commerce edition printed for the author's friends in 60 copies numbered on hollande and justified in pencil by George Barbier. Work illustrated with wood engravings by Fernand Siméon. Handsome and rare copy despite clear foxing at the foot of the leaves. Lucien Vogel unknown
1914Best.-Nr. 1682Paris, Corrard Meynial, 1914. 1 volume in-4 ((290 x 202) en feuilles sous portefeuille éditeur rigide imprimé et illustré sur le premier plat, rabats de papier décorés, lacets de soie noire (absents). Douze poèmes de Henri Jacques inspirés par les 12 COMPOSITIONS ORIGINALES DE GEORGE LEPAPE COLORIÉES AUX POCHOIRS. 1 des 300 exemplaires numérotés sur Japon impérial. Tirage original rare de ce beau volume des années de geurre de la collection "Modes et Manières d' Aujourd'hui" (7 portefeuilles de 1912-1922 illustrés par George Barbier, Georges Lepape, Charles Martin, André Marty, Robert Bonfils et Fernand Siméon). Excellent état.
Best.-Nr. Z1-M-017-02889Continuum Intl Pub Group. 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. Continuum Intl Pub Group unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-G-033-01441Intercept. 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. Intercept unknown
1842Best.-Nr. 3iiiEh0040New York: S. Tuttle 1842. Book. Used-Acceptable. Decorative Hardcover. 8vo or 8° Medium Octavo: 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 608 pp. Book shows heavy use with clean text. No dj. Extra mylar wrapper included. Back cover board heavily worn and damaged. Corners bumped. Water warped pages. Spine strengthened with adhesive tape. Light foxing on page edges. S. Tuttle Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 2324Barbier has sketched a multicolored fantasy seascape with a pastel toned mermaid at the center. Drawn on folio sheet with some show through of handwriting in an unknown hand on verso. The handwriting shows as soft arcs and fits in with the image. Signed in the middle of the drawing in small letters with date "GB Aug. 1929." Matted in gray and framed in silver toned wood. Frame measures 20 x 16 7/8 inches and matted drawing measures 13 x 9 1/4 inches. Additional images on request. Barbier is best known for his theater designs ballet costumes and particularly for his high fashion illustrations. He led a group of illustrators from the Beaux Arts School known for their flamboyance as much as their art. Barbier also created jewelry glass and wallpaper design and worked with Erté to design sets and costumes for the Follies Bergére. He died at the height of his career. In 1929 the year he created our drawing Barbier was the costume designer for the musical "The Street Singer. unknown
Best.-Nr. 2324Barbier has sketched a multicolored fantasy seascape with a pastel toned mermaid at the center. Drawn on folio sheet with some show through of handwriting in an unknown hand on verso. The handwriting shows as soft arcs and fits in with the image. Signed in the middle of the drawing in small letters with date "GB Aug. 1929." Matted in gray and framed in silver toned wood. Frame measures 20 x 16 7/8 inches and matted drawing measures 13 x 9 1/4 inches. Additional images on request. Barbier is best known for his theater designs ballet costumes and particularly for his high fashion illustrations. He led a group of illustrators from the Beaux Arts School known for their flamboyance as much as their art. Barbier also created jewelry glass and wallpaper design and worked with Erté to design sets and costumes for the Follies Bergére. He died at the height of his career. In 1929 the year he created our drawing Barbier was the costume designer for the musical "The Street Singer. unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 225061925 1 Aquarelle en couleurs, signée et datée au milieu à gauche, 1925, papier collé sur carton, 24.5 x 20 cm., encadrée.
1922Best.-Nr. 84386Lucien Vogel | Paris s. d. [1922] | 12.50 x 25 cm | broché
Best.-Nr. 15829Paris, Augsute Poulet-Malassis, juin 1848. 4 feuillets in-folio imprimés recto-verso.
Best.-Nr. fol214aLondon: The Folio Society. VG : in Very good condition with slipcase. Teg. 2008. Limited Edition of 1980 copies. Red-orange illustrated hardback goatskin leather cover; blue cloth hardback cover. 330mm x 230mm 13" x 9". 282pp. 135 facsimile miniatures comprising the Bestiarum. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. A facsimile of manuscript Bodley 764 in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Handbound in dark-orange goatskin leather over bevelled boards blocked with a design by David Eccles. . The Folio Society hardcover
1908Best.-Nr. 106072Brisbane: Flavelle Roberts and Sankey 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Brisbane Flavelle Roberts and Sankey 1908. Small octavo 114 2 recto blank with the device of the printers Outridge Printing Co. on the verso pages. Original olive-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine 'Noble Opal' and the author's surname and front cover the full title; cloth slightly marked and lightly rubbed at the extremities; top edge endpapers and adjacent leaves a little foxed; an excellent copy. Flavelle's Gem Series Number 1. This copy is inscribed and signed to 'C.C. Brittlebank with kind regards from Sydney B.J. Skertchly. Corinda Qld. 6.3.08'. Sydney Skertchly 1850-1926 arrived in Brisbane in 1891 after a successful career as a geologist in places as varied as the Fenland and East Anglia Egypt California Burma and China. In 1895-97 he was assistant government geologist in the Geological Survey of Queensland; he was President of the Royal Society of Queensland in 1898 and a founder and first president of the Field Naturalists' Club in 1906 the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' entry on Skertchly is most informative without mentioning this publication. The author's end-note to the reader states that the publishers 'asked me to write a series of little books on gemstones and gave me an entirely free hand. As this the first of them shows they will not be mere gatherings from other harvests but original works embodying the results of my own experience'. An early rare and important work on the subject and we know of no other volumes in the Flavelle's Gem Series. The inscription and signature date from what appears to be the month of publication reviews begin to appear in Queensland newspapers from 10 March 1908. Charles Clifton Brittlebank 1862-1945 the recipient of this copy was a notable mycologist and natural history illustrator. Among many original papers on geology and plant diseases Brittlebank's work includes the illustrations to French's 'Destructive Insects of Victoria' 1891-1911 Archibald Campbell's 'Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds' 1901 and many of the works of Daniel McAlpine whom he succeeded as Vegetable Pathologist to the Department of Agriculture in Victoria. This copy also carries the later pencilled ownership signature of Edward Edgar Pescott 1872-1954 horticulturalist naturalist author and bibliographer. We currently have for sale two unsigned copies of this item sourced from a significant collection on the subject. They prove the existence of distinctly variant issues: one contains an unnumbered advertising leaf for 'Queensland the Queen of the Colonies' verso blank tipped in at the rear the other is printed on textured and coarser paper resulting in a noticeably thicker volume 14 mm as distinct from 11 mm. This signed copy is yet a third variant: while it is printed on the better-quality paper it does not contain the additional advertising leaf and it was clearly never present. Flavelle, Roberts and Sankey hardcover
Best.-Nr. 740462 pp. Small 8vo 200 x 130 mm. late 19th-cent. sheep-backed marbled boards joints a bit rubbed spine gilt. Paris: Perrot & Pieri-Bénard 1826. The very rare sale catalogue describing the history painter’s art collection and library. Le Barbier 1738-1826 espoused the Neoclassical tenets of David and Vien and executed a number of pictures in a similar style. He also engaged with sculpture tapestry and book illustration and consistently exhibited at the Salon de Paris beginning in 1781. In addition to a choice collection of art Le Barbier possessed a sizable library rich in literature fine arts and ancient history. This catalogue opens with a lengthy and useful biography of Le Barbier. 476 lots are listed including paintings drawings prints furniture and books. Lots 1-12 & 28-44 consist of paintings and drawings by Le Barbier. His collections of shells and minerals coins and curiosities are combined into lots 53 and 54 respectively. The contents of his library are enumerated from lot 59 to 373. This catalogue concludes with more than 100 lots of prints and print portfolios. A very good copy; unfortunate Scotch tape repair to tail of spine. Two contemporary ink corrections to the title and p. 41. With the engraved bookplate of Georges Pannier 1853-1944 the art dealer and collector of auction catalogues on the inside of the upper cover and the stamp of the Bibliothèque Heim on verso of title. ⧠Lugt 11299. Oxford Art online. unknown
