Fairy Tales. Illustrated By Twelve Large Designs in Colour After Original Drawings By E.V.B. Newly Translated By H.L.D. Ward and Augusta Plesner by ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN - 1872

1919. BIANCO, Pamela. FLORA: A BOOK OF DRAWINGS. With Illustrative Poems by Walter de la Mare. London: William Heinemann, (1919). First edition of Bianco's first book; it is inscribed by her on the ffep.: "For Harriet Sprague, with love from Pamela Bianco." Illustrated with 8 color plates and many line illustrations. [8],43 pp. Quarto, illustrated paper boards. A little minor wear to boards, else a fine copy in a very good illustrated dust-wrapper, which has some occasional light soiling, is starting at spine folds, and has shallow loss at heel and crown. Pamela Bianco, born in 1906, was a drawing prodigy; and this book is a result of her first exhibition at the Leicester Galleries, in 1919, when she was thirteen. Walter de la Mare, a visitor to the show, was moved by her exquisite drawings to write the poems that accompany them in this volume. Bianco went on to illustrated books written by others, including her mother, Margery Williams Bianco, as well as books that she wrote. (National Book League,… Read More

Bound collection of issues No. 1 to 60 from the 27th year of the magazine, from 5 January to 31 October 1823. Most women's fashion plates by the famous illustrator Louis Marie Lante, 1789-1871.Plates numbered 2121 to 2194, missing 2160-2162, 2170, 2191-2193, several out of order, but a total of 64 fine fashion plates. La Mesangere (1761-1831) was author, journalist and editor, and published the Journal from 1797 to 1839, covering the post-Revolutionary Directory era through the Napoleonic Empire and the Bourbon Restoration. Brown leather spine, black leather labels with gilt decoration, boards with brown marble paper. Condition: Binding scuffed, front hinge weak, plates slightly browned and spotting with usual crease down the centre (where the magazine was folded before binding).

1944. Uncut, Unbound Copy of Hemard's Illustrated French Tax Code Hemard, Joseph [1880-1961], Illustrator. Code General des Impots Directs et Taxes Assimilees. Texte Integral des Lois, Decrets, Decrets-Lois, Decret de Codification, Suivi d'un Formulaire Administratif. Paris: Editions Litteraires et Artistiques/Librairie "Le Triptyque", [1944]. x, 330, [1] pp. 183 illustrations, 62 of them in color. 8 pp. addendum of changes to the code, titled Rectificatif, laid in, Quarto (9-1/4" x 6-1/2"). Uncut, unbound in signatures, as issued, copy in publisher's wrappers housed in publisher's chemise and slipcase. Light soiling and edgewear to slipcase and spine of chemise, which has some discoloration around its lower corners, lower joints of slipcase beginning to crack. Offsetting to margins of endleaves, rear joint cracked at ends, negligible light toning to text, images vivid. $750. * From an edition limited to 800 copies, this number 744. Hemard presents the official text of the French Tax Code with witty,… Read More

Very good copy of William Alexander's translation of Octavian Dalvimart's depiction of the costumes of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century. A complete set of these charming costume plates showing different ranks of courtiers and servants to the Sultan, enslaved women Sultanas, Odalisks and Eunuchs of the Seraglio or Harem, musicians and dancing girls of Constantinople, whirling dervishes, Spahi and Janissaries, officers and soldiers, Bedouin Arabs, Armenian, Tartar and Jewish men, etc.Title page, vi, and 120 unnumbered pages (60 hand-coloured engraved plates and 60 text pages).First published in 1802, and reissued by various publishers several times until the 1830s. [Some plates in this copy watermarked 1823.]Octavian Dalvimart or d'Alvimart was a French painter and engraver active in London. He travelled in the Ottoman Empire from 1796 to 1800, sketching people of Constantinople (Istanbul) and their costumes from life. The explanatory texts are based on works by Baron Francois de Tott, J.… Read More

Evanston, Illinois:: Mardy Sears,, 2022.. Edition of 8. 101 cyanotypes. Wooden boards.Ethiopian binding with carved walnut covers, cyanotype prints and indigo Kozo on the spine of some signatures. Signed and dated by the artist. Mardy Sears: "In 2020 I was asked to hand bind a Caxton Club publication, Chicago by the Book, 101 publications that shaped the city and its image, that would be put up for auction along with several other Chicago artist bindings. As I am more of an artist than a binder, I decided to make an artist book using the commercially printed book pages. The first question I asked myself in the process is 'What shapes Chicago?' and the answer I gave myself was - the people. I decided to create portraits of 101 Chicagoans to pair with the 101 publications; but how to go about this during a worldwide pandemic? I began at work while the Art Institute of Chicago was shut down and very few people were working in the museum. I wandered the empty galleries looking for those who… Read More

Paris: Devambez, editeur. First edition. First edition. n.d. (ca. 1918). Huge folio (13 x 17 inches) suite of ten superbly colored full-page illustrations loose, as issued, and a full-color illustrated title page by noted French illustrator Guy Arnoux. Original color pictorial folding covers with ribbon ties. Limited to 475 numbered copies (#218), printed on laid paper, watermarked. Each plate in very good condition, but contains remnants of plastic tape on verso of image not affecting images. Some minor marginal tearing of fragile paper. Binding spine sl. frayed and covers a little soiled. A remarkable survival. Printed on handmade paper watermarked, "Ingres, 1871." Exceedingly scarce and desirable graphic art by this exemplary French artist.

1687 1st ed Mabillon Museum Italicum Italian Voyages Paleography Illustrated
Jean Mabillon, a 17th-century French Benedictine monk, was tasked by King Louis XIV of France to venture on a tour of Italy in search of early Church history books to expand the royal library. The events of his journey and his findings along the way were published in a book entitled 'Museum Italicum seu Collectio'. This book was responsible for giving Mabillon the moniker of the 'father of paleography'.

Item number: #11453
Price: $950
MABILLON, Jean; GERMAIN, Michel
Museum Italicum Seu Collectio Veterum Scriptorum Ex Bibliothecis Italicis. Tomus I. In Duas Partes Distinctus : Primas Pars Complectitur Eorundem Iter Italicum Litterarium: altera vero varia Patrum Opuscula & vetera monumenta, cum Sacramentario & Pænitentiali Gallicano
Luteciae Parisiorum : Vidua E. Martin, J. Boudot & S. Martin, 1687. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages;
o [20], 244; 397, [11]
o 11 engraved plates
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1668 Vulson's Lives of Illustrious Men Ambrose JOAN of ARC Pucelle Gaston Foix

Marc Vulson de la Colombiere was a 17th-century French historian who is known for his biographical sketches of notable figures, priests, politicians, philosophers, and scholars. One of his best works was 'The Lives of Illustrious Men' – a work that includes those sketches. Vulson includes descriptions of famous men and women including:
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Joan of Arc
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Louis de la Trimouille
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Gaston de Foix
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Pierre Terrail
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Charles de Cosse
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Francois de Lorraine
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Blaise de Montluc
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Henry IV, France
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Queen Anne of Austria
This 1668 edition includes 26 full-page portrait engravings bound in fine, Moroccan leather.
Item number: #14180
Price: $750
VULSON, Marc de la Colombiere
Les portraits des hommes illvstres françois, qui sont peints dans la galerie du Palais cardinal de Richelieu. Avec leurs principales actions, armes & devises
A Paris: Chez F. Mavger, 1668.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. 2nd edition. Elephant folio (15 by 18-1/2 inches), original pictorial cloth gilt, beveled boards, all edges gilt. Complete with 39 full-page plates with tissue guards, engraved title page vignette and engraved vignette headpiece at beginning of text. Square and solid binding. Rare in collectible condition. Wear to tips, edges, and spine. Half-inch surface tear to cloth at foot of spine. Gift inscription on first blank end paper. Cloth has some spotting and fading.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the most notable 19th-century English romance poets. Coleridge's longest poem was 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. This poem was one of the most important poems written at the end of the 18th-century.
It was illustrated by famous French artist, Gustave Doré, known for his incredible woodcut engravings. Doré's illustrations are unparalleled and richly detailed. May require extra postage due to its size. Additional shipping costs for… Read More

1750 Order of Saint George German Military Bavaria Equestrian Knights Catholic
A rare, 18th-century German history of the Royal Order of Saint George. The Catholic Church established this order to honor nobles and distinguished military service. Also known as the Royal Bavarian House Equestrian Order of Saint George, this order published a year almanac filled with impressive illustrations depicting events of Bavarian and German history.
Item number: #20095
Price: $750
Royal Order of Saint George
Kleiner des Chur-Bayerischen hohen Ritterordens des heil. Ritter- und Martyrers Georgii, unter dem Titul: deren Beschuetzern der unbefleckt-empfangenen Allerheiligsten Jungfrauen Mariae, Allmanach auf das Jahr
Muenchen: Vötter, 1750. First edition.

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· Collation: complete with all pages
o Unpaginated; [84]
o 70 engraved plates
· Language: German

· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~5.25in X 3.25in (13.5cm x 8.5cm)
· Very rare and desirable
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