The Family Atlas Containing Eighty Maps, Constructed By Eminent Geographers, and Engraved on Steel Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Including the Geplogical Map of England....the Star Maps By Sir John Lubbock by Anon - 1857

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.

Mexico: Decaen, 1855. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. published 1855-1857,original pebbled finished boards with cloth spine,lithograph title page,folding plan of mexico city,41 tinted lithograph views on 37 plates,covers rubbed,faded and worn,internally all plates very clean and in very good condition.

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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o [20], 244; 397, [11]
o 11 engraved plates
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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

1885 FASHION Journal des Demoiselles French Victorian Costume Clothing ART

In the 19th-century in Paris, numerous fashion magazines and journals circulated throughout France. In fact, French, Victorian-era fashion set the stage for what would become perhaps the most famous era of fashion and clothing styles. Magazines such as the 'Journal des Demoiselles' provided exquisite, color engravings of dresses, hats, accessories, furniture, and much more. This 19th-century collection of 36 engravings is beautifully bound and considerably rare!
Item number: #18038
Price: $795
periodical
Journal des Demoiselles
Paris: 1885.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 36 color engravings
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~10.75in X 7.5in (27cm x 19.5cm)
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Nattali and Bond. London. No Date.,Circa 1850. THREE VOLUMES. Tall 8vo (10.2 x 6.6 inches). Text and plates taken from the Ninth edition. Complete set of this famous trilogy, with 80 fine hand-coloured, full page, aquatint plates, the colouring still strong and bright, by Thomas Rowlandson. Some minor spots of foxing to a few leaves in each volume but generally clean and bright copies in the scarce original publisher's brown cloth bindings, with gilt lettering and decoration on spines. Decorative blind stamped panels on boards. Original yellow coated endpapers. Previous owners bookplates to front paste downe endpapers. Some rubbing to top and tail of spines and fore-edges, and a couple of the hinges with neatly repaired splits (about 1.5 inches) but generally these are very good examples. Slight uniform fading to spines but overall a very attractive set of this classic work with Rowlandson's humourous plates. Uncommon in the publishers original decorative cloth bindings.:

Mexico: Decaen, 1855. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. published 1855-1857,original pebbled finished boards with cloth spine,lithograph title page,folding plan of mexico city,41 tinted lithograph views on 37 plates,covers rubbed,faded and worn,internally all plates very clean and in very good condition.

Hodder and Stoughton. London. -- No date. 1913. FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 4to.(10.5 x 8.4 inches). 22 mounted colour plates, each with a printed paper guard. A fine and clean copy in an early fine binding of half green morocco. The spine has two raised bands, each with decorative gilt tooling. Tan title label, gilt. Gilt ruled box designs. There is an illustrated multi coloured leather onlay design to the middle of the spine showing a couple walking in the rain, under an umbrella. Blue cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Previous owners colour bookplate to the front paste down. A fine copy in a fine binding. The binding is unsigned but certainly the work of a master bookbinder.

Macmillan & Co. New York. 1889. New edition. 12mo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). xii, 192, 12 pp publishers catalogue. Also an extra gathering bound in so that pages 117 to 124 appear twice. One gathering slightly sprung. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt and black decorative band across the top of the front board and the top and bottom of the spine. Black decorative roll to the bottom of the front board. Title on gilt to the middle of the front board. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Rear board with blind stamped floral roll to the top and bottom. Floral decorative endpapers. Neat two line inscription to the front free endpaper. The rear endpapers have an early previous owner's name and address written in red crayon to the free endpaper and a few short lines to the pastedown. Cloth a bit rubbed to the edges and a couple of small marks to the boards but overall a very good copy. An uncommon and attractive nineteenth century edition, printed in New York by J. J. Little and Co. This 1889 new edition was… Read More

Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2019.. Edition of 8. 2.5 x 2.5" miniature. Accordion structure extending from front board. Compound drum leaf assembly with a variation on a secret Belgian binding for the covers. Dry points, á la poupée or hand-colored. Text letterpress printed by Scott Vile of Ascensius Press. Handmade paper by Bernie and Patty Vinzannni as well as handmade paper by Katie MacGregor. Signed and numbered by the artist. Poem and book by the artist inspired by spiders in her life.