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réf. 02645London: R. Ackermann 1820. Don't Cry For Me Argentina & Uruguay You Were One of Only Fifty Large Paper Copies VIDAL Emeric Essex. Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: accompanied with descriptions of the scenery and of the costumes manners &c. of the inhabitants of those cities and their environs. By E.E. Vidal Esq. London: Published by R. Ackermann.Printed by L. Harrison 1820. First edition. One of fifty large paper copies. Atlas quarto 15 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches; 397 x 317 mm. xxviii 115 1 blank pp. Twenty-four very fine hand-colored aquatint plates four of which are double-page and folding including one with two views. The plates include: "General View of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros;" "Landing Place;" "Market Place;" "Milk Boys;" "South Matadero Public Butchery;" "Church of San Domingo;" "Pampa Indians;" "Estantia Farm on the River San Pedro;" "Balling Ostriches;" "Guachos Rustics of Tucuman;" "Convoy of Wine Mules;" "Paolistas Soldiers of the East Bank of the Plata;" "A Quinta Farm;" and "A Horse Race." Text and plates watermarked 1818 and 1820. Publisher's green morocco-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Very slight wear to upper joint inner hinges strengthened. Housed in a green cardboard slipcase. A wonderful copy. "In 1820 began a series of books dealing with travel and scenery. The first was Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video with descriptions of scenery customs and manners by E.E. Vidal. The book was issued in six monthly parts seven hundred and fifty copies on elephant paper and fifty on atlas.The twenty-four aquatints all after drawings by Vidal four of them being large folded plates are engraved by G. Maile J. Bluck T. Sutherland and D. Havell.and possess a subtle charm of their own apart from their historical and geographical value" Martin Hardie. "Not an uncommon book but owing to the importance of its subject and the fact of its being the only notable colour plate book in English dealing with the Argentine it always commands a high price" Tooley. Emeric Essex Vidal ca. 1788-1861 born into a naval family joined the Navy in 1808 and spent much of his career as a purser. He was stationed in 1820-1821 at St. Helena as secretary to Admiral Lambert on H.M.S. Vigo. Vidal was a distinguished painter and many of his fine drawings like those of his brother Alexander were adapted for the engraved vignettes on early issues of certain British Admiralty charts. Abbey describes only a red cloth binding on his large paper copy. The green cloth of the present copy with slightly different tooling on the spine without the phrase "24 plates coloured" is obviously a variant. Abbey Travel 698. Colas 3000. Hiler p. 878. Martin Hardie pp. 107 and 312. Prideaux pp. 355 and 375. Sabin 99460. Tooley 495. London: R. Ackermann, 1820 unknown books
réf. 02645London: R. Ackermann 1820. The Great Color-Plate Book of Early Argentina One of Only Fifty Atlas Large-Paper Copies of Ackermann's Magnificent Buenos Ayres and Monte Video VIDAL Emeric Essex. Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video Consisting of Twenty-Four Views; accompanied with Descriptions of the Scenery and of the Costumes Manners &c. of the Inhabitants of those Cities and their Environs. London: Published by R. Ackermann. Printed by L. Harrison 1820. First edition. One of only fifty Atlas large-paper copies. Atlas quarto 15 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches; 397 x 317 mm. xxviii 115 1 blank pp. Twenty-four magnificent hand-colored aquatint plates including four double-page folding panoramas one incorporating two views. Text and plates watermarked 1818 and 1820. Publisher's original green morocco-grain cloth covers elaborately blocked in blind spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt yellow coated endpapers. Very slight wear at the upper joint inner hinges neatly strengthened. Housed in a green cloth slipcase. A beautiful unusually fresh copy. One of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century travel illustration and unquestionably the most important English color-plate book devoted to the Río de la Plata during the formative years of Argentine independence. Issued by Rudolph Ackermann at the height of his publishing career Vidal's Picturesque Illustrations combines superb aquatint engraving with brilliant contemporary hand-coloring to create one of the finest visual records of early nineteenth-century South America. Emeric Essex Vidal served with the Royal Navy in the Río de la Plata between 1816 and 1818 only a few years after the region had broken from Spanish rule. Unlike many travel artists who relied upon second-hand sketches or romantic invention Vidal drew directly from life recording Buenos Aires Montevideo and the surrounding pampas with exceptional accuracy sympathy and artistic accomplishment. His views preserve an emerging nation at a pivotal historical moment before the rapid political and economic transformation of the nineteenth century forever altered its landscape and society. The twenty-four aquatints form an unrivaled pictorial survey of the region. Sweeping panoramas of Buenos Aires and Montevideo are complemented by intimate scenes of daily life: bustling marketplaces churches and public squares gauchos estancias soldiers indigenous peoples horse races ostrich hunts wine mule convoys rural laborers and the famous South Matadero. Together they constitute one of the earliest and most comprehensive ethnographic portraits of Argentina and Uruguay ever published remarkable both for their documentary precision and for their extraordinary artistic beauty. The present copy belongs to the Atlas issue limited to only fifty copies produced on substantially larger paper for the most discerning collectors and institutions. Martin Hardie records that the ordinary edition consisted of 750 copies making the Atlas issue one of the rarest deluxe publications produced by Ackermann. The generous margins dramatically enhance the visual impact of the plates particularly the four spectacular folding panoramas which rank among the finest achievements of the English aquatint tradition. The binding itself appears to represent an unrecorded publisher's variant. Abbey describes only the large-paper issue bound in red cloth whereas the present copy retains its original green morocco-grain cloth decorated with a slightly different spine design omitting the wording "24 Plates Coloured." Such variants are seldom encountered and add further bibliographical interest to an already exceptional copy. Martin Hardie rightly regarded the aquatints as possessing "a subtle charm of their own apart from their historical and geographical value." That judgment has only strengthened with time. Today Vidal's work is recognized not merely as one of Ackermann's greatest travel books but as the definitive visual record of the Río de la Plata in the years immediately following independence - a cornerstone of South American iconography and one of the supreme achievements of the English color-plate book. References: Abbey Travel 698; Colas 3000; Hiler p. 878; Hardie pp. 107 312; Prideaux pp. 355 375; Sabin 99460; Tooley 495. London: R. Ackermann, 1820 unknown
1891réf. 52249Sous étui bordé. Reliure plein maroquin janséniste de diverses couleurs (bleu, orange, rouge, vert, havane, etc.). Dos à nerfs avec date dorée au talon. Plats décorés de fleurs dorées et mosaïquées aux angles, dentelle intérieure. Tranches dorées sur témoins. Couvertures conservée. Reliure signée NOULHAC. Quelques dos sont très légèrement éclaircis.
1820réf. 13762London: R. Ackermann 1820. 355x293mm. 14x11½". London R. Ackermann 1820. Ejemplar en gran papel en folio mayor 355 x 293mm. xxviii-115 pp. 24 finas láminas coloreadas en acuarela 4 de ellas a gran tamaño y plegadas. Encuadernación de principios del siglo veinte en marroquén verde estilo jansenista. Primera edición ejemplar en gran papel de esta apreciada publicación ilustrada con 24 bellas láminas grabadas y coloreadas a mano al aguatinta representando vistas de Argentina y Uruguay todas diseñadas por Emeric Essex Vidal 1778-1861. Cuatro de ellas plegadas a gran tamaño. Las láminas fueron ejecutadas por diferentes grabadores a partir de 1820 y distribuidas junto con el texto en seis entregas mensuales durante ese mismo año. La edición se limitó a 750 ejemplares. Se trata de una obra importante y la mejor de todas cuantas se habían realizado para ilustrar el paisaje argentino y las costumbres de sus habitantes. En 1820 empezaron una serie de publicaciones relativas a viajes y costumbres de diferentes países la primera de ellas fue Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video que resultó también ser la mejor. Muy buen ejemplar. R. Ackermann unknown
1820réf. 001307London: R. Ackermann 1820. xxviii 115pp 1; 24 plates. Handsomely rebound by Temple Bookbinders in full morocco raised flat bands spine in six panels title and author labels to second and fourth panels remaining panels gilt covers with double panel design inner panel with black onlay elaborate gilt borders gilt to inner edges with marbled endpapers. Internally some light soiling and offsetting some plates with faint offsetting from text but generally clean folding plates a little creased at outer edge plates with stab-holes to outer margins. Twenty-four colour aquatint plates by T.Sutherland G. Maile and J. Bluck after Vidal four folding. Housed in a modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back box with raised bands spine in six panels title in gilt to second panel author to third date to foot with silver flower device to fourth and fifth panels. "English interest in South America flourished after the capture of Buenos Aires by Commodore Sir Home Popham and Colonel Beresford in 1806 . Ackermann exploited the widespread and substantial interest in South American affairs that these events had aroused through a number of fine publications including these views" Thomson - The Exotic and the Beautiful.Tooley 495 the "only notable colour plate book dealing with the Argentine"; Abbey Travel 698; Thomson 31; Colas 3000; Brunet V:1182/83. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. Folio. R. Ackermann Hardcover
1820réf. 179207London: R. Ackermann 1820. Stunning views of South America First edition a desirable copy with pre-publication watermarks dated 1818 of "the only notable colour plate book in English dealing with the Argentine" Tooley. The hand-painted aquatints offer some of the finest depictions of early 19th-century life customs and architecture in the Río de la Plata region. The English sailor Vidal 1791-1861 joined the Royal Navy in 1808 serving as a purser for the next five decades. The plates in his book were based on drawings he made when he visited South America with HMS Hyacinth in 1816-8 as secretary to the admiral on the South American Station. They constitute "the main source of pictorial information about early Argentina" Speake p. 39 and "possess a subtle charm of their own apart from their historical and geographical value" Hardie. Some of the scenes included are "Monte Video" "Church of San Domingo" "Beggar on Horseback" "Pampa Indians" "General View of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros" "Balling Ostriches" "Guachos of Tucman" and "A Horse Race". Vidal depicts the inhabitants of the Pampas and Rio de la Plata Regions outdoor markets and plazas and buildings. "Through E. Vidal's watercolours. you get a sense of the city house facades Vidal never painted any interiors made not of rare stone but of baked adobe bricks called chorizos - sausages" Wilson p. 13. The work was first published in six monthly parts between May and October 1820. The early watermarks here suggest that this volume was possibly bound from the parts rather than from later book-form issues. Ackermann announced 750 small paper and 50 large paper copies. A comparison with the Abbey copy indicates that this example is from the smaller format. Large quarto 325 x 250 mm. With 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates 1 double-page 3 folding. Twentieth-century blue morocco to style spine with raised bands gilt lettering and decoration in compartments covers bordered with blind and gilt frames board edges and turn-ins elaborately gilt grey endpapers edges gilt. Light damp staining to margins of 3 folding plates tape repair on verso of "Buenos Ayres" plate offsetting to contents faintly toned but clean. A very good copy. Abbey Travel 698; Martin Hardie p. 107; Sabin 99460; Tooley 495. Jennifer Speake ed. Literature of Travel and Exploration An Encyclopedia 2014; Jason Wilson Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary Companion 1999. hardcover
1891réf. 75163Sous étui bordé. Reliure plein maroquin grenat, dos à nerfs janséniste, doublures de peau de vélin illustré de deux aquarelles signées de Pierre VIDAL et datées, 1912, dans un encadrement de roulettes et filets dorés, gardes de soie tissée lie de vin, doubles gardes de papier marbré. Toutes tranches dorées sur témoins. Couvertures et dos conservés. Reliure signée par NOULHAC. Quelques légitimes décharges en regard des aquarelles mises à part.
1820réf. WRCAM55021London: Published by R. Ackermann 1820. xxviii115pp. plus twenty-four colored aquatints including one double-sheet and three folding. Large quarto. Antique-style blue morocco boards tooled in gilt and blind spine gilt with raised bands a.e.g. Minor staining in lower margin and tape repair to verso of one folding plate. Occasional marginal thumbsoiling minor offsetting but on the whole quite clean internally. A very good copy handsomely bound. A superbly illustrated work about the people and places of Buenos Aires and Monte Video with striking colored aquatints by the prominent engraver and publisher R. Ackermann making this one of the premier South American view books. Some of the scenes people and places depicted are: "Monte Video" "Church of San Domingo" "Beggar on Horseback" "Pampa Indians" "General View of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros" "Balling Ostriches" "Guachos sic Rustics of Tucuman" and "A Horse Race." Also depicted are representative inhabitants of the Pampas and Rio de La Plata regions and picturesque views of outdoor markets and plazas. Originally issued in six monthly parts the work was then offered in book format apparently bound first in boards and in a later issue bound in half leather. Abbey follows Tooley in suggesting that there were apparently four issues all with the same title and plates and all with the same 1820 watermarks but he provides no satisfactory manner of differentiating the editions; and consequently aside from the original issue in six separate parts there is no means of establishing issue priority. At the time of publication Ackermann announced the production of 750 regular paper copies and fifty large-paper copies. "In 1820 began a series of books dealing with travel and scenery. The first was PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF BUENOS AYRES AND MONTE VIDEO with descriptions of scenery customs and manners by E.E. Vidal. The book was issued in six monthly parts seven hundred and fifty copies on elephant paper and fifty on atlas.The twenty-four aquatints all after drawings by Vidal four of them being large folded plates are engraved by G. Maile J. Bluck T. Sutherland and D. Havell.and possess a subtle charm of their own apart from their historical and geographical value" - Hardie. Aside from its perplexing publishing history this book remains a beautiful pictorial record of early 19th-century life. ABBEY 698. SABIN 99460. TOOLEY 1954 495. THOMSON 31. COLAS 3000. PALAU 363371. BRUNET V:1182/83. HILER p.878. PRIDEAUX pp.335 375. HARDIE ENGLISH COLOURED BOOKS p.107. Published by R. Ackermann hardcover books
1890réf. 007460Paris: Georges Chamerot Pour les Amis du Livre 1890. Limited First Edition. Full Morocco. Near Fine. No. 109 of 125 limitation. Original wraps bound in. Charming color illustrations of the colorful habitues of the Paris streets -- of those who ply their trade on the streets -- merchants food vendors dog walkers etc. etc. Many of these might be living in the margins of society but they have an outsized role in the theatre that is the city street and in providing a soul to the city. A genre of color plate book popular in the early 19th century that Vidal updated and made his own. 8vo. 24 by 18 cm. 132 pp. 30 hand-colored plates. Plates though printed look as if they were original watercolors. The full morocco binding with Art Nouveau ornamentation was done by a G. Champs. Its beauty is commensurate with the book's contents. A beautiful clean copy. Georges Chamerot (Pour les Amis du Livre) unknown
1671réf. 10839Paris, Veuve Claude Thiboust & Pierre Esclassan, 1671, E.O. In-12°, [16]-260-[2] pp. (petits manques marginaux sur le titre restaurés, anciennes mouillures et qqs traces brunes sur une 10aine de ff., bon état dans l'ensemble néanmoins). Rel. cartonnée moderne à la Bradel, dos lisse avec étiq. de cuir titré doré et daté doré en queue (très bon état).
1671réf. 10839Paris, Veuve Claude Thiboust & Pierre Esclassan, 1671, E.O. In-12°, [16]-260-[2] pp. (petits manques marginaux sur le titre restaurés, anciennes mouillures et qqs traces brunes sur une 10aine de ff., bon état dans l'ensemble néanmoins). Rel. cartonnée moderne à la Bradel, dos lisse avec étiq. de cuir titré doré et daté doré en queue (très bon état).
1812réf. 40122PALMA: En la Imprenta de Felipe Guasp 1812-1814. Primera edición.- 4º.- Moderna encuadernación lomera y puntas de piel lomera con texto florones y filetes dorados.- 4 volúmenes que abarcan desde el número 1 del jueves 30 de julio de 1812 al número 106 del jueves 28 de julio de 1814.- Colección completa a falta de dos números.- I: Portada.- 310 páginas.- 3 hojas Ãndice.- Númro 1 al número 25 del 14 de enero de 1813.- II: Portada.- 356 páginas con errores de paginación pero bien completo.- Números 26 de 21 de enero de 1813 al número 54 de 29 de julio de 1813. Más dos suplementos.- III: Portada.- Sigue la paginación al tomo anterior de la página 357 a la 758 con errores de paginación pero bien completo. A falta del nº 56 de 11 de agosto de 1813.- Del número 55 de 5 de agosto de 1813 al número 82 de 10 de febrero de 1814.- IV: Portada.- 301páginas.- Del número 83 de 17 de febrero de 1814 al número 94 de 4 de mayo de 1814. Al final de este tomo contiene la lista de los Suscriptores. El seminario Cristiano - Politico de Mallorca fundado y dirigido por el Franciscano Fr. Raimundo Strauch y Vidal nació para combatir las ideas y políticas liberales de la Aurora Patriótica Mallorquina dirigida por Isidoro María Antillón. Los extremos llegados por parte de Fr. Raimundo Strauch le constaron una larga prisión entre el 28 de julio de 1812 al 22 de mayo de 1814. Después de la Guerra de la Independencia fue numbrado el 12 de enero de 1817 Obispo de Vich. Fue vuelto a procesar en 1820 por sus máximas anti-constitucionales y preso otra vez en la Ciudadela de Barcelona. Cuando se le trasladaba a Tarragona fue asesinado en los campos de Vallirana cerca de Molins de Rey. Palau 322879 - Bover 1230 - XVI En la Imprenta de Felipe Guasp unknown
réf. 65581496 1 er volume : Cours de reproductions industrielles : 496 pages;2 em volume : Exposé des principaux procédés de reproductions graphiques, héliographiques, plastiques, hélioplastiques et galvanoplastiques : 60 pages , 3 em vol : Traité pratique de phototypie ou Impression à l'encre grasse sur une couche de gélatine. 1879, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1879. . Première édition, de la collection Annales de la photographie. En frontispice, phototypie originale montée sur papier fort de A. Quinsac d'après l'auteur représentant Carcassonne, un portrait reproduit en phototypie hors texte, vignettes dans le texte. Exemplaire parfaitement établi par Loutrel. 4 em volume : Traité pratique de photographie au charbon complété par la description de divers procédés d'impressions inaltérables : photochromie et tirages photomécaniques : 132 p.: illustré par de nombreuses photos Paris : Gauthier-Villars, 1877 Quatre volumes superbement reliés demi veau bordeaux à coins, tranche superieure dorée , dos à 5 nerfs, parfait état . Ces ouvrages sont souvent illustrés de quelques photos d'epoque, ici il a beaucoup de photos en exemple des techniques descriptes . Rare , rare dans cet état, rare illustré de la sorte ....
réf. 51716Paris Librairie Armand 1927-1928 15 tomes en 22 volumes in-4, demi-maroquin noir coins, plats de papier marbr, dos nerfs; doublures et gardes de papier marbr, ttes dores, non rogns, couvertures imprimes.Important ouvrage publi sous la direction de P. Vidal de La Blache et L. Gallois, consacr la gographie universelle: Les Iles britanniques (1 volume) - La Belgique, le Luxembourg et les Pays-Bas (1 volume) - Les Etats scandinaves et les rgions polaires septentrionales (1 volume) - LEurope centrale (1 tome en 2 volumes) - La Russie dEurope et dAsie (1 volume) - La France (1 tome en 2 volumes) - LEurope mditerranenne (1 tome en 2 volumes) - LAsie occidentale (1 volume) - LAsie des moussons (1 tome en 2 volumes) - LOcanie (1 volume) - LAfrique (1 tome en 2 volumes) - L'Afrique quatoriale (1 volume) - LAmrique septentrionale (1 tome en 2 volumes) - Le Mexique (1 volume). L'Amrique du Sud (1 tome en 2 volumes). Louvrage est illustr de trs nombreuses cartes, vues et planches dont certaines dpliantes.
réf. 50205Dispuesta por el P. Antonio Vidal de Figueroa Presbitero de la Congregacion de el Oratorio de San Felipe Neri de esta Ciudad de México. Año 1711. Con licencia en Mexico : por los Herederes de Juan Joseph Guillena Carrascoso 1711. Duodecimo 144 x 96 mm marbled paper wrappers; title-leaf pp. 30; a fine copy. A novena devotional prayer intended to be recited over nine days in honour of St. Felipe de Jesús one of the 26 Martyrs of Japan crucified in Nagasaki on 5 February 1597. Recognised as the first Mexican-born saint he is also the patron saint of Mexico City where the pamphlet was published. unknown
1890réf. 41496Paris, Les Amis des Livres, 1890. Grand in-8 (240 x 178 mm) de XVI-132 pp. et 2 ff. blancs, maroquin rouge orné sur les plats de huit filets dorés d'encadrement, fleurons aux angles en forme de fleurs, dos orné à nerfs orné, filets sur coupe, filets dorés contre plat, tranches dorées, couverture illustrée conservée, étui bordé (Chambolle-Duru).
1890réf. 4306Paris: Georges Chamerot Pour Les Amis Du Livre 1890. Pretty contemporary binding by G. Champs of brown levant gilt. Gilt filet border on covers with gilt rose in corners; spine gilt-lettered with climbing vine and urn design. Original black and gilt wrappers and spine bound in with colored scenes on each cover. Minor marginal spotting. One of 120 copies. Preface by Henri Beraldi scholar and the most distinguished book collector of his time who initiated a series of illustrated books celebrating life and locales in Paris published in very limited editions. Thirty colored plates and one vignettte by Pierre Vidal depicting peddlers and merchants each with facing text by various authors. In addition to the flower girl street singer and food and drink vendors there is a chair renter for outdoor evnts a man who picks up cigar butts and a ticket scalper. Vicaire I 46. Brown Levant Gilt. Fine. Illus. by Pierre Vidal. Large 8vo. Georges Chamerot Pour Les Amis Du Livre Hardcover books
1948réf. 57819New York 1948. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal / IX ff 5 / Oct 14 - '48"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Fine. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal / IX ff 5 / Oct 14 - '48"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Very early photographic portrait of the 23-year-old Vidal taken in the year that the publication of his controversial novel THE CITY AND THE PILLAR scandalized the mainstream press. unknown
1948réf. 218953New York 1948. Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches. Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in ink giving the name of the sitter date of the photograph and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print "XV-FF-1". Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches. unknown
1948réf. 57819New York 1948. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal / IX ff 5 / Oct 14 - '48"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Fine. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal / IX ff 5 / Oct 14 - '48"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. In the Year of City and the Pillar. Very early photographic portrait of the 23-year-old Vidal taken in the year that the publication of his controversial novel THE CITY AND THE PILLAR scandalized the mainstream press. unknown books
1948réf. 218953New York 1948. Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches. Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in ink giving the name of the sitter date of the photograph and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print "XV-FF-1". Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches. unknown books
1876réf. 266001Paris: Imprimerie de J. Claye 1876. First edition one of 500 copies. 118 engraved plates. 3 vols. 4to. Contemporary half velum and decorated paper boards red morocco spine labels. Light soiling to covers sporadic foxing an attractive set. Large etched bookplate of Gustav Frid in each volume. First edition one of 500 copies. 118 engraved plates. 3 vols. 4to. A beautiful uncut set of this landmark work on the history of the violin. "This is beyond the possibility of doubt the greatest work ever published or which is ever likely to be published on the violin" Fidiculus Bibliographia. Fidiculus Bibliographia 191 Imprimerie de J. Claye unknown
1946réf. 125772New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1946. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo original black cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper "For Owen Roberts very best wishes -- Gore Vidal 1946." The recipient Owen Roberts was the father of Katherine "Kit" Vidal second wife of Eugene Vidal Gore's father. He was a multimillionaire who bought -- and sold -- a seat twice on the New York Stock Exchange before devoting himself to collecting Chinese art and antiquities. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association. Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first publication and it earned him the reputation as "the best all-around American man of letters since Edmund Wilson"Newsweek. The military novel marked the beginning of his writing career aged twenty-one and is based upon his Alaskan Harbor Detachment duty. Williwaw is a quasi-autobiographical novel and its value comprises not merely Vidal's excellent writing but the insight it offers into the author's experiences. E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover
2014réf. 108285T.F. Editores S.L.C. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- with a bonus offer-- . 2014. 841525332X . T.F. Editores, S.L.C. hardcover
2009réf. 123134Nodolibri. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened. Text in Spanish. – with a bonus offer--; 1668-1842 . 2009. 8497044878 . Nodolibri paperback
