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1844rif. 88648London England: Virtue and Co. City Road and Ivy Lane 1844. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. W. H. Bartlett. TWO VOLUMES IN A SINGLE BINDING Quarto. Forest green half-morocco corners and spineruled in gilt. Full-page Frontis Map by W. Hughes & Aldine Chambers. Aquamarine/White diagonally-striped silver-veined marbled endpapers. 120 magnificent tissue-guarded full-page engravings with Historical and Descriptive Text by J. Stirling Coyne N.P. Willis and others. EXCEPTIONALLY clean and Bright after 180 years. Each volume separately paginated with its own title page. Beautiful book. Virtue and Co., City Road and Ivy Lane hardcover
1980rif. 588697Market Drayton: Tern Press 1980. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Original prints from etchings engravings and woodcuts by Nicholas Parry. Slim quarto. Printed wrappers. Modest crease near the crown top corners and spine base a bit bumped close to near fine. Copy 5 of 100 printed Signed by Nicholas Parry and Randolph Ellis on the limitation page the original printed limitation of 50 has been canceled in ink. An nice production with illustrations "which are offered as reminders rather than statements of GOYA's etchings. Tern Press unknown
1950rif. C45548London: The Dropmore Press 1950. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Number 46 of 300 copies. Slight wear and lean otherwise very good indeed. The Dropmore Press, hardcover
1847rif. 146851847. Firmin Didot. Three steel engravings published in L'Univers Pittoresque in 1847 depicting the Sultan of Lahij's palace a greeting between two Arab men and a saddled camel prepared for travel. The group belongs to the illustrated French literature through which nineteenth-century European readers encountered the Arabian Peninsula combining architectural views with scenes of customary greeting and travel. The Lahij image is especially useful for documenting how the residence of the sultanate near Aden was visually presented to European audiences before the major political changes that reshaped southern Arabia later in the century. Firmin Didot. Chateau Du Saltan d'Aden a Lahadj; Salut des Arabes; Chameau scelle pour le Voyage. Paris: Firmin Didot 1847. Three original steel engravings each approximately 5 x 8.2 inches. Chateau Du Saltan d'Aden a Lahadj shows the Sultan of Lahij's castle set within a cultivated and mountainous landscape with palm trees and surrounding countryside. Salut des Arabes depicts two Arab men greeting one another with a handshake. Chameau scelle pour le Voyage shows a saddled camel in a desert setting emphasizing the animal's role in overland travel. Comparable examples of these subjects are attributed to the engraver Lemaitre in the contemporary print market. The three prints preserve a French illustrated view of southern Arabia that moves between political architecture social custom and transportation. Their publication in 1847 places them within the period when Aden had already come under British control while neighboring Lahij retained its own sultanate giving the palace view a specific political geography distinct from the port colony itself. Some age-related toning and pinholes in the upper margins; the first engraving has remnants of a sticker at the upper right corner. The third engraving shows former staple marks and an approximately 4 cm loss along the upper edge not affecting the image. Overall very good condition. unknown
1842rif. 38576Leipzig: Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung. Very Good-. Hardcover. 8vo; 2 vols pages; Contemporary diced calf leather over glazed paper covered boards. Two heavy volumes for which extra shipping charges may apply. Somewhat scuffed and worn but the bindings are sound with the thick covers well attached. Old ownership signatures partially covered by bookplates of St. Vincent's Abbey Westmoreland Pennsylvania. The Old Testament 978 pages occupies the first volume. The other volume contains the New Testament 360 pp. -- followed by supplements and corrections to the Testaments "Kurze Erläuterung der katholischen Bilder-Bibel - Supplement zum alten Testamente 124 pp. & -- Supplement zum neuen Testamente 32 p. only -- of 56 both these parts with the imprint matching: Leipzig Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung 1842. Text in German set in double columns of Fraktur type. With over 500 wood-engraved text illustrations. A significant illustrated Bible for Catholics which used the technical advances of the industrial revolution to make the large work available at a popular price -- "wohlfeile". . 1842. Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung hardcover
1900rif. 1421261900. JAPANESE ORNAMENTAL WOODBLOCK PRINTS. Bijutsu Kai. Collection of Pictures Regarding Colour Designs for Japanese Textiles Costumes. Five parts in one volume. Five folding plates and 18 full-page coloured woodblock prints per section for a total of 95 original illustrations. 8vo 232 x 160 mm. bound in Japanese accordion style with Japanese fold pages and silk-thread stitched spine in new linen cloth folding box with leather spine label. Kyoto: Geisodo ca. 1900. A superb set of this important compendium of early Japanese textile designs showing a great variety of patterns and scenes. The woodblock prints are often exceptional Japanese images very much in the wabi-sabi tradition. Not in Hillier The Art of the Japanese Book 1987. hardcover
rif. 7233San Francisco: The Arion Press 2017. Limited Edition. One of 300 copies. Original two-part blue-grey cloth box housing a 13.5" x 50-foot scroll wound on aluminum spool with bookcloth wrapper nestled in grey foam lining together with the cloth-bound 20pp booklet containing Langdon Hammer's Introduction to The Bridge with two photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge by Michael Kenna. Text was handset by Andrew Hoyem with French Elzevir type illustrated with seven woodblock prints by Joel Shapiro. A Fine copy. An imaginative and elaborate production re-envisioning Hart Crane's long poem inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge. The book originally published by The Black Sun Press in 1930 was a collaborative work with Crane's friend the photographer Walker Evans. Arion No.110. The Arion Press unknown
rif. 112186n.p. n.d. eighteenth century circa 1750. . A suite of four original hand coloured engravings titled in Spanish and French La Manna Le Matin; El Mediodia Le Midi; Eldespues de Comer L'Apres Diner and Le Soir La Tarde each approx. 50 x 68 cm modern gilt frames. An exquisite suite of four eighteenth century conversation piece engravings in the rococo style showing the nobility at leisure dining and dancing outdoors in a bucolic setting. Each image is beautifully set within delicately coloured scrolled borders featuring flowers foliage leafy tendrils and fruit. These prints capture the privilege and lifestyle of the aristocracy and are typical of French decorative art in the early to mid eighteenth century. n.p., n.d. [eighteenth century, circa 1750]. unknown
rif. 221757T. Cadell Jnr and W. Davies The Strand London 1798. . 617 pp frontispiece map fold-out map numerous engraved plates list of engraved plates at rear very nice clean and tight copy bound in early nineteenth century half calf with gilt-lettered spine label. Includes many full page engraved plates of aboriginal tribal ceremonies including eye-tooth removal at male initiation ceremony etc. A supplemental volume was published in 1802 covering the period Jan. 1788 to Aug. 1801 however this present volume is the fundamental founding volume relating to the settlement of Australia. From the library of Selwyn Smith with his armorial bookplate and signature : "Selwyn Smith Sydney 1848. T. Cadell Jnr and W. Davies, The Strand, London, 1798. unknown
1959rif. 511Cleveland Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art 1959. 20 prints 7.25"x9.75" in a brown trifold portfolio. Good. Rubbing folder dog ear to print I. Twenty prints from the original artist's proofs of Durer's woodcuts owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art there are doubles of print XX. The Cleveland Museum of Art unknown
1995rif. 20053005London: Frances Lincoln Publishers 1995. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Published by Frances Lincoln Publishers. First printing thus. About 10 x 8 inches bound in green cloth with title information to spine in gold. With beautifully rendered and printed wood engravings throughout. NEW. Not read. Binding firm and square. All corners pointed. Without bumps or creases. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. Dust jacket same. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed. Frances Lincoln Publishers hardcover
1936rif. C90252London: Country Life 1936. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo.pp. 226. A gardener's year recording ""the horticultural adventures the discoveries of wild flowers and the little thrills that come to the country dweller."" Original publisherÕs cloth binding in green lettered white. Finely illustrated dust jacket depicting a Crown Imperial Fritillary. Illustrated with 24 woodcuts by John Farleigh. Neat inscription on the front end paper. Very good indeed in minus very good dust jacket. Slight spotting. Dust jacket with chips at spine and top edge. Country Life hardcover
1810rif. A46018Paris: Chez Osterwald L'aine 1810. First Edition. Wraps. Paperback . Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo.14 by 10.5cms pp 36 with 16 portraits by Bosselman and 5 pages text. Tissue guards to portraits with some slight foxing to tissue and plates. Original publisher's printed grey blue covers slightly chipped at spine ends o/w vg pleasing copy. World Cat dates this book as 1810 possibly from the engravings. Portraits of the Royal family Napoleon Bonaparte Lucien Bonaparte Prince Eugene Napoleon Francois Marie Louise D'Autriche Duchesse D'Angolueleme etc. No date c.1810. Chez Osterwald L'aine, paperback
1949rif. C104113London: Oxford University Press 1949. Re-Issue. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Re-Issue. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 556. Original publisher's cloth binding in cherry red lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket in beige lettered beige on a brown country-style illustration. Finally detailed Wood engraving in black-and-white by Julie Neild. Introduction by H.J. Massingham. Very good in very good dust jacket. Oxford University Press, hardcover
1927rif. 37708London: The Studio Limited 1927. With 8 tipped in colored plates. 1 vols. 4to. Original brown wrappers. Slight soiling to wrappers head of spine lightly rubbed else fine. With 8 tipped in colored plates. 1 vols. 4to. The Studio Limited unknown
rif. 10427Berkeley CA: Editions Koch 2003. Full Leather. Fine binding. Folio. 44 pp. frontis plates. Limited edition one of 120 copies this copy out of series; there are also 26 lettered deluxe copies with a suite of 10 engravings. All are signed by Bringhurst Wagener and Peter Koch at the colophon. Bound by Camille Botelho in black box calf with inlays and onlays of dyed calf vinyl snakeskin painted paper mylar laminates and a porcupine quill; hand embroidered endbands; vinyl snakeskin doublures. A fine copy in clamshell box. True to form Peter Koch has produced a marvelous edition of what remains of Parmenides's poem "On Nature." The fragments of the poem are rendered in this opposite page bilingual edition with the Greek on the left and Bringhurst's English translation on the right. The poetry is brilliantly accompanied by Wagner's striking engravings a frontispiece and 4 additional wood engravings in red and orange. Given it survives only in fragments there is some debate as to the "meaning" of the symbolism of Parmenides's poem making it a work ripe for interpretation. But at base his view of reality is one of stasis unchangeable. And while that enduring Greek logic marks the work Wagener introduces remarkably abstract and kinetic illustrations printed in an urgent deep red and orange-projecting anything but stasis. It is the discord between the logical understanding or reality and the emotional understanding of it that spoke to Botelho and informed her design of this incredible binding. She writes: "In the design I thought of Parmenides looking out past shadowy arches from within a dark room to find total chaos beyond. The curve of the Mylar inlay and the curve of the porcupine quill mimic a column marking a threshold beyond which is uncontrolled noise and movement and mess. I wanted the disparity between the smoothness of the box calf and the chaos of the inlays and yellow foiling to be a comment on how frightening examining one's reality can be." Magnificently achieved Botelho has created an exceptional binding that bridges Parmenides and Wagener giving voice to the paradox she sees in this metaphysical conversation on the nature of reality. Editions Koch unknown
1786rif. 376505Venezia 1786. Ora la prima volta con le stampe pubblicate. Engraved title page with vignette. Engraved Title portrait and 24 leaves of plates XIII page of text. Frontispiece & 15 engraved plates. 1 vols. Folio. Quarter morocco and green boards. Binding showing signs of wear. Interior with light foxing but overall Near Fine. Bookplate of C. W. H. Sotheby. Ora la prima volta con le stampe pubblicate". Engraved title page with vignette. Engraved Title portrait and 24 leaves of plates XIII page of text. Frontispiece & 15 engraved plates. 1 vols. Folio. Including engravings after the works of great Venetian Renaissance painters Giorgione Titian Tintoretto Zelotti and Veronese. With Titian's frescoes for the exterior of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice which have since perished. Also with engravings after the great draftsman Parmigianino. Antonio Maria Zanetti is known as a printmaker for his contributions to the style of chiaroscuro woodcuts as well as for his career as an art dealer and collector. Girolamo Francesco Zanetti was a historian and philologist known for being the first to publish one of the oldest Venetian chronicles the Chronicon Altinate. OCLC 272605179. Provenance: Bookplate of C. W. H. Sotheby d.1887 of Ecton Hall Northampton England unknown
1953rif. 9695New York: Hammer Creek Press 1953. Unbound. Near Fine binding. Portfolio. 6.5" x 4.25." 4 folded leaves. Limited edition number of copies unknown. As issued 4 bifolium leaves laid into portfolio. Only light rubbing to the portfolio; leaves are fine. Comprises as title page with printing on the recto of the first page only; and three engraving on three bifolium with title of engravings in red on the recto of the first leaf and the engraving occupying the recto of the second leaf. Engravings are of "The Hell-Box Press" "The Hammer Creek Press" and "Along the Hammer Creek." An additional pressmark by DePol on the title page. Cohen 24; DePol Catalogue Raisonne p. 41. Hammer Creek Press unknown
1956rif. 9700New York: Hammer Creek Press 1956. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. 12mo. 24 4 blank1 pp. illus. Limited edition to approximately 100 copies. As issued in marbled paper wrappers of stiff covers with printed paper title label on the front cover. Quite a nice copy with little in the way of shelf-rubbing to the cover; Reynolds Stone-designed bookplate of noted collector Norman Sondheim inside the front cover. Short introduction by Fass about the history and aim of the press. Includes 43 described books announcements and ephemera from the press. As this present work is the 43rd item in Fass's list and only 35th in Cohen's checklist there are apparently inclusions here not noted in Cohen. Several examples of pressmarks by DePol Angelo and Carnes. Two by Valenti Angelo are done in multiple colors with gilding. The Hammer Creek Press began when in 1950 when Fass purchased from Valenti Angelo a small Hughes & Kimber cast iron press previously owned by Bruce Rogers who had sold it to Angelo the year before. It was on this press of significant provenance that the bulk of the Hammer Creek Press editions were printed including this present book. Opening this work is an engraving by John DePol of the storied press with a page of "Data" by Fass. One of the mores substantial works issued by the Press as well as one of the more uncommon titles despite the larger-than-usual limitation. As more than 30 institutions are reporting ownership according to OCLC it means this is increasingly rare in commerce. A lovely example of Fass's work. Cohen 35. Hammer Creek Press unknown
1912rif. 20639Paris: Librairie Damascène Morgand Eduoard Rahir Succr 1912. First Edition #262 of350 copies signed. 1 vols. Thick 4to. Boiund in 3/4 green morocco marbled boards te.g. Some waterstaining bottom edge of last 100 pages minor else Very Nice. First Edition #262 of350 copies signed. 1 vols. Thick 4to. Librairie Damascène Morgand, Eduoard Rahir, Succr unknown
1893rif. 40313Paris: Damascène Morgand 1893. First edition no. 571 of 550 copies on Papier Vergé of a Total Edition of 600. 675 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Bound in three quarter green morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. Fine. First edition no. 571 of 550 copies on Papier Vergé of a Total Edition of 600. 675 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Damascène Morgand unknown
1843rif. 434524-KG34Paris : Lafont Éditeur 1843. Hardcover. Fair. Original half leather gilt lettered and decorated spine illustrated with numerous maps with colours foldable map in rear oblong circa 25x32cm.; Edges and corners cover and spine seriously worn; worn spots cover; spine-ends seriously worn/damaged; name on first free endpaper; names and annotations on verso empty last pages; foldable map in rear damaged. Paris : Lafont, Éditeur hardcover
1745rif. 855Regensburg: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer et al. 1745. First edition. Very good. Mezzotint engraving printed in color finished by hand 12.75 x 8.25 inches platemark approx; 15.25 x 9.5 inches overall approx. Left edge retains sewing stabs neatly disbound in some earlier century else a very vibrant example of a hand colored mezzotint engraving. The individual botanicals in this plate are: a. Phaseolus flore puniceo b. Phaseolus major c. Phaseolus orthocaulus d. Phaseolus Indicus e. Phaseolus major seu Faba purgatrioc. Drawn from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia this dazzling print is part of a riotous celebration of plants trees shrubs herbs flowers fruits mushrooms and trailing vines. Printed in color and delicately finished by hand the series stands among the earliest triumphs of color printing and marks the first published collection to feature the work of George Dionysus Ehret one of the eighteenth century's most admired botanical artists. Other artists/engravers included in this work are Bartholomaus Seuter Johann Elias Ridinger and Johann Jakob Haid. In Great Flower Books Satcheverall Sitwell refers to this set as the "pioneering work of botanical prints engraved to be inked in color." . NISSEN2126. DUNTHORNE 327. SITWELL/BLUNT Great Flower Books p. 151 166. . H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer, et al. unknown
1979rif. 371475-AF11The Tern Press 1979. Hardcover. Good. Original decorated cloth marbled endpapers 90 numbered copies issued this is number 47 illustrated with small prints partly in b/w oblong circa 215x275cm. Signed by Peter Abbs Nicholas Parry and Mary Parry. The Tern Press hardcover
1928rif. 1403491Paris: Edward W. Titus 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 6 49 7 pages plus 5 illustrated plates. In Very Good minus condition. In brown cloth binding with red lettering on paper labels to front board and spine. Boards are moderately soiled most heavily on spine with faint stains on boards near the joints. Rubbing along board edges fore corners lightly bumped. Label on spine is heavily sunned and scuffed. Text block shows light wear and foxing to deckled edges. Also foxed sparsely throughout most prominently on endpapers. Stain in gutter of first free endpaper. Small pencil annotation on page 7 indicates a typo in the text. SH consignment. Shelved in Room A. Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound Ernest Hemingway James Joyce William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933 when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. This title was among Bird's private collection having been carted by him from Paris where he stayed until 1940 to Spain Tangiers and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403491. Special Collections. Edward W. Titus hardcover
