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ref. 75998Ensemble de 230 planches en noir, dont 2 sur double page, papier d'édition originale de 29 x 21 cm, signées en bas à droite "Benard Direxit" (ce qui signifie qu'elles ont été gravées dans son atelier par lui-même et d'autres graveurs de son atelier), l'ensemble des 230 gravures sont placées dans un cartonnage de l'époque (18e siècle) en mauvais état, Très bel ensemble de 230 gravures en noir d'oiseaux faisant partie de la célèbre encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert parue dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Il pourrait s'agir de l'édition de Panckoucke faite à Paris entre 1751 et 1772 ! L'ensemble est "complet" des planches n° 1 à la planche 230, avec les deux planches qui sont sur deux pages., Je vends bien entendu l'ensembre de toutes les planches. TRES RARE Bon état des planches avec néanmoins certaines qui présentent quelques petites mouillures marginales et quelques petits manques en bordures (rare); la reliure n'est là que pour contenir ces planches !
1870ref. 004071Saint Petersburg: S. E. Cassino 1870. 2 volumes bound in 3/4 green leather marbled endpapers TEG raised bands gilt lettering. 100 hand-colored plates with tissue guards 1005pp. Small quarter-moon water stain on edge of preliminary pages in vol.1. Wear on the corners but not much on spine ends. No fraying. Evidence of sticker removal on spines but no ex-lib markings inside. Scan available on request. Three-Quarter Leather. 4to. S. E. Cassino Hardcover
1918ref. j4630aLondon: Witherby & Co under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed with some marks. Eps marked. Stains to prelims and final pages of volume IV. Plates in VG condition. 1918. Limited Edition 48/600. Maroon hardback cloth covers. 420mm x 320mm 17" x 13". xx 198pp; xv 269pp; xvi 204pp; xv 242pp plates. Beautifully illustrated with 90 collotype and chromolithographic plates 88 photogravure plates all with captioned tissue-guards and 20 red and black printed distribution maps. Illustrators include A. Thorburn G.E.Lodge H.Grönvold and C R Knight; photogravures by William Beebe. Heraldic bookplate to volume I paste-down Sherbourne Library. The four volumes were published between 1918-1922 - publication of the the final three volumes temporarily suspended during period of the the Great War. Very heavy set significant extra shipping needed for overseas. . Witherby & Co under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society hardcover
1891ref. e3201aLondon: R H Porter. VG: in very good condition. Spines faded. Occasional slight foxing. 1891. Second Edition. Green hardback half-leather cover. 260mm x 170mm 10" x 7". xxxv 969pp. 421 chromolithographed colour plates mounted on linen guards. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn and J G Keulemans. Text and plates neatly paginated in pencil. Index in Volume VII. Note that the work was issued in two editions. The first commenced in October 1885 and the second in April 1891. Both editions ended simultaneously. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . R H Porter hardcover
1842ref. 21299Paris, J.J Dubochet, 1842 ; collection des 50 livraisons hebdomadaires reliée en un volume in-4° (275 x 190 mm) demi-maroquin à grain long à coins, dos à nerfs décorés et dorés, grandes compositions dorées aux plats et à froid de style romantique, titre et date dorés, filet doré sur les plats, tête dorée sur témoins, non rogné (Yseux, successeur de Thierry Simier) ; [4] fx titre et titre, LXVI, [2], 472 pp., 50 planches hors-texte gravées sur bois et tirées sur papier teinté, 4 planches H.T d’oiseaux dessinés par Edouard Traviès, gravées en taille douce, aquarellées et gommées, deux portraits en camaïeu par Karl Girardet, lithographiés par Andrew et Felior et 110 planches grands sujets gravés sur bois in-texte, grand plan dépliant du jardin des plantes par Paul Legrand relié ensuite, collection complète des 50 couvertures (en réalité 49, le dernier numéro étant 49-50) des livraisons parues depuis le 1er juin 1841 et dont le premier plat est illustré, à compter du n°12, de 6 bois gravées différents, répétés.
ref. 21293Paris, Baudoin, puis Crochard et Fantin (T2), an VIII [1799] - An XIV - 1805 ; 5 tomes in 8 veau raciné, dos lisse à décor de croisillons “à la grotesque” et palette dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison vertes, dentelle d’encadrement, tranches rouges (reliure de l’époque) : XXXI, 521, [1] pp. d’errata, [1] f. bl., 7 grands tableaux de Classification dépliants ; XVI, 697, [3] pp. ; XXVIII, 558, [2] pp. d’errata ; XII, 539, [3] pp. d’errata ; 368 pp., 52 pl.
1817ref. 21413Paris, Deterville (imprimerie de A. Belin), 1817 ; 4 tomes in-8, veau raciné, dos lisse, nerfs à quadruple filet doré, fleurons dorés, pièce de titre rouge et de tomaison vert empire, tranches marbrées (reliure de l’époque) ; XXXVII, [1 bl.], 540 ; XVIII, 532 ; XXIX, [1 bl.], 653 ; VIII, 255 pp., XV planches gravées hors-texte.
ref. 32313LONDON NICKISSON 1842-50. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION SEVEN VOLUMES COMPLETE VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF GREEN LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS RAISED BANDS GILT TITLES. WITH 432 PLATES MOSTLY COLOURED 322 OF BIRDS AND 110 OF EGGS. VOLUME 1 HAS BEEN MORE RECENTLY REBOUND THAN THE OTHERS BY MALTBYS OF OXFORD BUT IN THE SAME STYLE. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF COSMO NEVILL. EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN AND TIDY. VERY SCARCE. LONDON, NICKISSON, 1842-50 hardcover
ref. 15989PESTH HARTLEBEN 1840. VERY SCARCE - ONLY 300 COPIES PRINTED. THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN HANDSOMELY REBOUND IN FULL BROWN LEATHER NEW END PAPERS ORIGINAL BLUE ENDPAPERS BOUND IN WITH LOSS. SOME FOXING THROUGHOUT AND BINDING VERY TIGHT. TURKISH AND GREEK TEXTS WITH THE GERMAN TRANSLATIONS. INTRODUCTION OF 4 PAGES FURTHER 32 PAGES WITH SOME ANNOTATIONS IN RED PENCIL WITH A SHORT LIST OF WORKS. 115 PAGES ON FALKNERKLEE THEN TEXT IN ARABIC AND GREEK. AN ATTRACTIVE AND UNUSUAL ITEM. PESTH, HARTLEBEN, 1840 hardcover
1860ref. 15529In-4 ; demi-basane ivoire, plats de papier vert-Empire simili-chagrin, "Louise" doré sur le premier plat ; 25 scènes de couples d'oiseaux, bouquets, sujets enrubannés et fleurs en format in-12, reliéesentre des feuilles de papier fin ; suivies de 28 fleurs, format in-4, finement aquarellées, certaines gommées, aux couleurs d'une grande fraicheur.
1905ref. 703978Gera-Untermhaus, Köhler. 1897-1905. Gr.-4°. 12 Bände mit 439 mehrfarbigen Chromolithographien und 10 Taf. Orig.-Halbleinenbände von sehr guter Gesamterhaltung.
1812ref. 032746London : T Cadell and W Davies; R C and J Rivington; et al 1812 A very good set of this 20 volume edition with black and white frontispiece 2 folding maps and 681 hand coloured plates. With an account of Buffon's life by William Wood. It is rare to find this set with hand colouring. In contemporary full speckled calf bindings that have been rebacked to provide new spines with gilt-lined raised bands and title and volume labels. The original boards have scuffing and pitting and there is light wear at edges and corners but the bindings are in very good clean condition. Endpapers are marbled and some of the front pastedowns have a scuffed area indicating the removal of bookplates. 2 of the volumes have the armorial bookplate of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel Bart who was Prime Minister 1834-5. and 1841-6 and is viewed as the founder of the modern British police force. The contents are in very good condition with occasional light spotting generally at the top margin and offsetting from the plates. The occasional plate and text page is toned. All the volumes have 2 initial and final blanks a half title and title contents listings and directions to the binder. All have the original page marker torn in one volume. In this set Vol VI has 2 plates numbered 152 and 2 numbered 158 with different animals; Vol VII lacks one plate 211 and Vol VIII lacks plate 252 but has 2 numbered 254 different animals. Detailed contents: Vol I: preface by translator and life of Buffon pp lv; text 496pp; 2 folding hand coloured maps. Vol II: text 592pp; 13 plates of which 6 are folding. There is a small hole in text p 443. Vol III: text 567 pp; 1 plate. Vol IV: text 419 pp including folding chart of dogs; 48 plates. Vol V: text 378 pp; 63 plates. Vol VI: text 439pp; 67 plates. Vol VII: 477 pp; 49 plates of which 2 are folding. Vol VIII: 400 pp; 49 plates. Vol IX: 406pp; 56 plates. Vol X: text 288 pp; appendix with half title to p396; index 44 pp; 69 plates. Vol XI: first volume of Birdspreface by translator pp xvi; text 435 pp; notes by translator to p 444; 29 plates 29 is misprinted 39 on directions to binder. Vol XII: text 518 pp; 27 plates - plate numbering not in sequence. p 305 has lost the bottom corner tip. Vol XIII: 496pp; 27 plates. Vol XIV: 464 pp; 22 plates. Vol XV: 468 pp; 22 plates. Vol XVI: 494 pp; 15 plates. Vol XVII: 574 pp; 19 plates. Vol VXIII: 567 pp; 31 plates. Vol XIX: 514 pp; 40 plates. Vol XX: text 1-390; appendix by translator to p 515; index 88 pp; 34 plates. T Cadell and W Davies; R C and J Rivington; et al hardcover
1785ref. 032107London : Harrison and Co 1785 A rare and beautiful introduction to natural history. In 2 folio volumes with 99 of 100 hand coloured plates by Moses Harris and others after his style. Martyn is a pseudonym for William Fordyce Mavor who authored a wide range of works. The books are set out alphabetically with the plates reflecting this classification so they can portray lizards and lynx side by side on the same plate. The pages are double column and unpaginated. The text for each animal is thoughtfully put together eg for the guinea pig 'The Guinea-Pig is a very cleanly creature and totally different from that that affords it a name.Guinea-Pigs repose on their bellies pretty much in their usual posture.'. The plates are nicely coloured and the ones by Moses Harris butterflies moths and shells are particularly well drawn. This copy is in a contemporary half leather binding with marbled boards. The half leather corners have been replaced with a paper cover. There is some wear to boards and corners but overall they are in good condition. The spines are leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. There are title and volume labels. There is some wear to joints particularly on Vol I where there is some cracking at the front hinge but the bindings are currently sound. Contents generally clean with occasional marking and some edge tearing. There are some pencil notes at the beginning of both volumes. The paper used in this work is particularly soft and prone to edge-tearing. Vol I: red and black title page; Preface; covers A-K; 55 plates; new rear endpaper. A couple of plates have margin/edge tears - Plate I has tear at the top margin with a small piece missing at the corner and a tear at the bottom margin again missing corners; Plate XLVII has a small piece missing from the bottom edge and a repair. The title page has a small hole and 2 repaired edge tears. Vol II: 44 of 45 plates; title page in red and black; text and plates L-Z; 2pp listing of plates; Finis. There is some offsetting from plates to text occasional browning to pages; and some edge-tearing. Please enquire if you would like more images to assess condition. Harrison and Co hardcover
1668ref. 002733Londini (Londres), Jacobum Allestry, 1668
1776ref. 032975London: Printed for B White 1776 A fair copy complete with 50 hand coloured plates in contemporary binding which has been rebacked preserving the original spine. Classed as 'fair' because text leaf 109/110 is in facsimile; there are some paper repairs; and the colouring is not as detailed and careful as it could be. The binding has a relaid decorative spine with 5 raised bands and gilt compartments - the title is in the second compartment. Boards are marbled. There is scuffing and wear at the board edges surfaces and corners. All page edges gilted. New endpapers. Contents are complete with text in french and english on alternate pages and 50 hand coloured plates. Text 134 pp with 2 pp of index. Contents are generally clean with the odd mark or spot. There is long stain in the gutter of p 69 where an old sticky tape repair has been removed and the original tear professionally repaired. The stain is also lightly visible on the following 2 text pages. Plate 2 has professional repair in the gutter; Plate 36 has a professional repair and has a very small tear at the bottom edge. There is a small nick from the top page edge of Plate 23 and a small edge tear at the top of p 95. There is a small mark at the foredge from pp 110 to 129. Peter Brown was primarily an illustrator and the specimens were taken from the collections of Marmaduke Tunstall; Mr's Lee Yeats and Moon; the British Museum and the Royal Society. Some plates were copied from drawings by Gideon Leon. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images. Printed for B White hardcover
1891ref. 911031891. BIRDS & FLOWERS Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHÔ GAFU. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24-25 1891-2. 4 vols. each approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Vol.1 Spring has 31 color woodblock prints of birds and flowers of which 7 are huge double page prints. Vol.2 Summer has 32 plates of which 8 are double page. Vol.3 Autumn has 38 prints of which 4 are double page. Vol.4 Winter has 34 plates of which 4 are double page and one is a four page spread. These original Tanaka Jihei issues which preceded the Unsodo versions have become quite scarce complete sets even more so and sets with the western number captioning the true first printing almost impossible to find. The original covers are worn and the 4 volumes have been placed into heavy cloth outer bindings with supplied title labels. The printings are excellent the colors much milder than the reprints subtle and lovely. Complete as issued by Tanaka Jihei very unusual. unknown
1891ref. 911031891. BIRDS & FLOWERS Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHÔ GAFU. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24-25 1891-2. 4 vols. each approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Vol.1 Spring has 31 color woodblock prints of birds and flowers of which 7 are huge double page prints. Vol.2 Summer has 32 plates of which 8 are double page. Vol.3 Autumn has 38 prints of which 4 are double page. Vol.4 Winter has 34 plates of which 4 are double page and one is a four page spread. These original Tanaka Jihei issues which preceded the Unsodo versions have become quite scarce complete sets even more so and sets with the western number captioning the true first printing almost impossible to find. The original covers are worn and the 4 volumes have been placed into heavy cloth outer bindings with supplied title labels. The printings are excellent the colors much milder than the reprints subtle and lovely. Complete as issued by Tanaka Jihei very unusual. unknown books
1824ref. 11103ABWinchester, Jacob and Johnson, 1821-1824. 8 v. 10 Bdn. 4°. Mit 169 handkol. Kupf.-Taf. With 169 handcoloured copper-plates. HLdr. Verg. Rü.-Tit. u. Rü. Verg. Dekorative Ausgabe. Half calf. Gilt title on spine and gilt spine. Ber. u. best., Rü. m. kl. Fehlst. Es fehlt jeweils 1 Vorsatzbl. Tls. braunfl. u. Druck abgeklascht bzw. abgefärbt. Bd. II u. VIII fehlen. Dekorative Ausgabe. Rubbed and bumped, spine with little defective spots. Flysheets are missing. Partly browned and stained. Without vols. II and VIII. Nice copy.
1876ref. 0041461876 Paris, J. Rothschild, 1876. Petit in-folio (288 X 362) demi-chagrin vert lierre, dos cinq nerfs, fleuron doré dans les compartiments, auteur et titre dorés, nom de l'éditeur en queue, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque); (1) f. blanc, (2) ff. de faux-titre et titre imprimé en rouge et noir, frontispice, 140 pages, 45 planches couleurs hors-texte sous serpente, (1) f. blanc. Quelques rares rousseurs, principalement aux serpentes, trois taches sur le cuir du plat supérieur, sans gravité.
ref. 142104aafSanson & Compagnie, Deux-Ponts, 1785-1787, in-8vo, Oiseaux, vols 1-18. Avec 114 planches gravées et magnifiquement coloriées à la main, Ex libris “Bestein de Bassompierre”, reliures en d.-cuir d’époque. Bel ensemble.
1960ref. 1757Morancé, Paris, 1960. Un volume in-folio (39,5 x 29 cm) en feuilles. 15 pp. + XXXII feuillets sous portfolio cartonné toilé à rabats, jaquette illustrée en couleurs. Nouvelles sculptures et plaques gravées présentées par Christian Zervos. 32 planches en noir et en couleurs reproduisant les œuvres de Georges Braque. 1 DES HUIT EXEMPLAIRES HC COMPRENANT UNE SUPERBE EAU-FORTE ET AQUATINTE EN COULEUR JUSTIFIÉE ET SIGNÉE AU CRAYON PAR GEORGES BRAQUE, lettrés de A à H sur 8. Et parmi ceux-ci l'exemplaire d'Albert Morancé, l'éditeur, avec la gravure EN TROIS ÉTATS de couleur : rose, violet et bleu. Une belle lettre de Braque adressée à Morancé, au sujet du travail de la gravure pour l'album de tête, est insérée dans le portfolio.
1958ref. 3887Paris, Maeght Éditeur, 1958. Un volume in-folio, en feuilles, couverture illustrée en couleur, étui-chemise éditeur. - Édition originale de cet hommage à Georges Braque. L'ouvrage est illustré par 4 LITHOGRAPHIES ORIGINALES EN COULEURS EN HORS-TEXTE SUR JAPON NACRÉ(couverture, frontispice et 2 à pleine page). - Tirage : 25 ex. sur Japon Nacré avec suite + 200 ex. sur vélin d'Arches, tous signés par Frank Elgar et Georges Braque. Celui-ci, étant l'un des 25 sur papier Japon nacré (n° 13), comporte LA SUITE COMPLÈTE DES 4 LITHOGRAPHIES SUR JAPON NACRÉ réservée à ces seuls exemplaires.
1934ref. 052998Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1934. Book. VG. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dark green pebbled cloth lettered and with front cover mallard device stamped in silver. Mildly rubbed spine extremities and front joint text block edges typically a bit tanned by age. Former owner's signature inked on upper front flyleaf otherwise unmarked. Firm square binding contents clean slightly thumbed. xxi167 pp. illus. w/ 4 color plates with captioned guards 32 monochrome plates. Scarce 1st edition 1st state with matching dates "1934" on lower main title uncorrected "Bob-pumper" in index p. 155; illus. of snowy egret and whistling goose both w/ gray plumage common to 1st and 2nd states. On p. 67 under the Ruff section the letter "l" is missing from the word "loose" in the 2nd line apparently common to some but not all first printings. Limited to 2000 copies as Peterson's editor Paul Brooks reports in his memoir Two Park Street p. 63 while also suggesting that Peterson's innovative influential guide "would make field recognition of birds for the first time into a science." Solid VG likely Near Fine in many estimates with only minor faults but alas no dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin Co. Hardcover
ref. 83117A la Haye, chez Pierre Hondt, 1750, 3 volumes de 23.5x29.5 cm environ, (2) ff., 1 titre, (3) ff. ( au lecteur), 90 pp. et 101 planches - (1) f., 1 titre, (1) f. (au lecteur), 70 pp., et 104 planches, (1) f., - (1) f., 1 titre, (1) f. (au lecteur), 44 pp., et 101 planches, (1 f.), reliure plein veau marbré fauve, dos à 5 nerfs portant titres dorés sur pièces de titre en maroquin bordeaux, pièces de tomaison maroquin fauve, caissons à fleurons aux entre-nerfs, chasses et gardes dorées, tranches et gardes marbrées. Coins émoussés, coiffes frottées, rares épidermures et frottements sur les plats, bel ensemble rare.
1678ref. 30181LONDON : Andrew. Clark. for John Martyn 1678 A very good copy in a high quality full leather binding. With title page in red and black ink; preface; text in 3 books with 2 plates of bird traps bound in and 2 tables which serve as early identification keys; an appendix; summary of falconry; index and 78 plates of birds including the dodo at the rear. This is the first English edition translated from the original Latin which was published in 1676 four years after Willughby's death by his friend and colleague John Ray. It marks one of the first attempts to take a rational scientific approach to classifying birds. It is a matter of debate and current research as to whether Willughby or Ray played a greater part in its development. Ray supervised the publication. The illustrations were commissioned from a number of sources and some birds are depicted twice where the initial image was not very good.This copy lacks the original endpapers - perhaps lost during the later rebinding - but is complete including the additional falconry material. There is some browning to page edges. Some of the plates have some fraying at the very edges where the paper is more fragile. This is most marked in plates LXXVI and LXXVIII - which also has a slight crease. A[ndrew]. C[lark]. for John Martyn hardcover