MILITARY PRINTS.MareMagnum
10.930 Ergebnisse
First edition, 4to, x, 488pp., ex-library, coloured frontis., 50 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. The work records for the first time all known British military costume prints. Over 15,000 plates are described, in sets, collections, and books, and as single prints.
First Edition, 69,[1]pp., cont. calf-backed marbled boards, a little rubbed. The earliest book in English devoted to the subject of engravers' marks. Containing 160 marks or monograms, the initial letters used by engravers for their marks and an alphabetical index of the Christian names and Surnames of the engravers, etc.
[iv],25,[1]pp., prices supplied in pencil, 560 lots, disbound, preserved within a folding card wallet. Ralph Bernal was for many years chairman of Way and Means, and committees of the House of Commons, and M.P. for Rochester.
[ii],45,[1]pp., prices supplied in pencil, 439 lots, disbound, final couple of leaves a little frayed at margins, preserved within a folding card wallet.
Second Edition, with additions, 4to, vi,151,[1]pp., with the armorial bookplate of Lady Frances Scott, engraved frontis., light water stain to lower outer corner of first 15 pages, cont. calf, hinges cracked, label chipped. First published in 1745 and Dedicated to the Duchess of Portland, from whose most extensive collection it was compiled. Vertue derived much of the information for the life of Hollar from the younger Faithorne and Mr. F. Place, both of them engravers, who were very conversant with Hollar during his residence in London.
First Edition, [ii],viii,163+2pp., of adverts, frontis., portrait, title printed in red and black, manuscript index to endpapers, orig. marbled boards, re-backed, uncut. Caulfield, a printseller by trade, produced many books on the history of engraving. The DNB states that "His knowledge of English history and biography was minute and extensive, while his acquaintance with engraved British portraits was unequalled by any person of his time". An interesting volume, full of snide remarks about publishers, description of portraits, prices, notes on the engravers, etc.
[iv],395,[1]pp., title-page and prelims spotted, cont. cloth-backed boards, spine a little frayed, printed paper label to spine, 11,756 items. Caption title, 'Catalogue of prints, part iv. Forming the first part of a catalogue of portraits...' A second part was issued in 1853.
[2],35,[1]pp., recent paper wrappers, uncut. From the materials left by the author and his own ample collections Noble compiled a useful three-volume Continuation (1806) of James Granger's Biographical History of England.
19,[1]pp., 278 lots. 2 Works bound as one, presentation inscription from Bullock to William Upcott, cont. half morocco, marbled boards, rubbed, head of spine torn.
4to, 39,[1],ivpp., one of 125 numbered large paper copies, frontis., 9 plates, orig. stiff printed wrappers, uncut, 234 lots. One of the special post sale catalogue which includes the printed list of prices and buyers' names.
First Edition, [4],245,[1]pp., frontis., 6 engraved plates, orig. embossed cloth, 14,131 items.
180 x 111mm, single sheet printed on one side only. List 14 prints offered for sale by Mr. R. Richards which "representing the History of our Saviour". Not listed on ESTC, OCLC or Copac.
First Edition, square 8vo, frontis., 1 plate, illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. An absolute necessity to the collector, student and dealer of Baxter colour prints.
First edition, large folio, [2], 2pp., without the list of subscribers, engraved frontispiece and 10 engraved plates with a total of 26 portraits of royalists, letter-press title and preface, some minor spotting and light browning but overall the plates are very clean and bright, expertly rebound in cont. style calf calf, marbled boards, red morocco spine label, an attractive copy. Rare: ESTC locates only three copy in the UK (all at Oxford) and four copies in North America. A reason for the scarcity of the complete volume may be found in a note on the title page, which advises that: "As these Prints are an agreeable Ornament for Rooms, they may be had of the Proprietors in neat black Frames and Glasses". Vertue's parents had served in the court of the exiled James II, and the publication of this volume in praise of loyal servants to the Stuart crown in the year of Culloden may well suggest Jacobite sympathies. This may be signalled by couplet from Pope quoted in the frontispiece: "Rich Industry Sat Smiling on the Plain | And Peace, and Plenty, told a Stuart's reign."
First Edition, large 4to, limited to 350 copies, 571pp., frontis., plates and illustrs., facsimiles, a very good ex-library copy, later cloth. A complete bibliography of Engraving.
First edition, 4to, x, 488pp., coloured frontis., 50 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. The work records for the first time all known British military costume prints. Over 15,000 plates are described, in sets, collections, and books, and as single prints.
First edition, 4to, 224pp., 96 coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w. Extensive descriptions of the individual plates.
4to, xxv, 327pp., large paper de-luxe edition printed on thick paper, frontis., 118 plates, orig. cloth, ruled in gilt, a fine copy. A valuable reference tool for early American prints, with historical notes, and indices of artists, engravers, and subjects.
First edition, 4to, 209pp., coloured frontis., numerous illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth.
First edition, oblong 4to, 128pp., 95 illustrs., (some coloured), orig. cloth, d.w.
First edition, [4], 80pp., with half-title, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, Middle Hill boards, spine torn, uncut. An early monograph on the restoration of engravings and old bindings. Provenance: The library of Sir Thomas Phillipps; the library of Graham Pollard and Esther Potter.
Large 8vo, 69, [1]pp., some prices and buyers names supplied in pencil, orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled, centrefold crease, 482 lots.
First Edition, frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
4 Vols., 4to, 331; 404; 406; 227pp., numerous illustrations throughout, orig. cloth, a little soiled.
Folio (430 x 320 mm), [4], 373, [3], liii, [1]pp., printed for private circulation only in 200 copies, early armorial bookplate to front paste-down, cont. half blue morocco, marbled boards, slightly rubbed otherwise a very good copy indeed. Printed uniformly with the catalogue of books and, like that work, printed only for presentation. The map collection was an important constituent of the Royal library (Samuel Johnson recommended buying maps locally in his famous letter to Barnard); The King's Topographical Collection of around 50,000 maps, charts, prints and drawings formerly owned by George III and donated to the Library by George IV, included antiquarian drawings by William Stukeley, large collections of views by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, the Bucklers and Edward Blore, and the drawings from Captain Cook's voyages or Robert Hay's of Egypt. It was reprinted in 2 vols. 8vo in the same year for commercial distribution. Martin, Privately Printed Books, p. 259.