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London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. Excessively Rare First Edition, First Issue, of "The Coral Island" The Edgar Osborne Copy Exhibited at The Festival of Britain Books in 1951 BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael. The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean... With Illustrations by the Author. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. First edition, first issue, with the plate "Terrible Encounter with a Shark" facing p. 76 (in the second issue, it was tipped in as the frontispiece). Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches; 177 x 117 mm.). viii, [9]-438, [2, blank] pp. Color-printed frontispiece, color-printed pictorial title, and six color-printed plates after drawings by the author. Plate facing p. 214 with original tissue-guard. Publisher's first issue binding of royal blue diagonal ripple-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. The binding is worn and the gilt on the front cover is quite dull. The… Read More

Paris [&] New York: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, Roe Lockwood and Son , 1878. Silly Questions Depicted in Nineteen Humorous Lithographs BARIC, [Jules Jean Antoine]. Ou Diable L'Esprit Va-T-Il Se Nicher? Par Baric. [Where the Devil will the Spirit go?]. Paris [&] New-York: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, Roe Lockwood and Son [1878]. First (only?) edition. Folio (13 3/16 x 10 1/8 inches; 335 x 257 mm.). Lithographed pictorial title and eighteen numbered lithographed plates depicting the Devil. The plates are captioned below. Plates lithographed by Génix. Publisher's pictorial glazed yellow boards, expertly and almost invisibly rebacked to style. Extremities a little worn, light staining to endpapers. Some light foxing and marginal soiling. An excellent copy of this scarce work. Jules Jean Antoine Baric (1825-1905) illustrated several books of caricatures or cartoons for Arnauld de Vresse between 1857 and 1878. No copy has sold at auction since 1975. According to OCLC there is just one copy located in… Read More

Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, [1860]. Eighteen Hand-Colored Lithographs Depicting the Antics of the Austrian Army During the Italian Campaign of 1859. BARIC, [Jules Jean Antoine]. Les Autrichiens en Italie. Par Baric. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, [n.d., ca. 1860]. First (only?) edition. Folio (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm.). Pictorial hand colored lithograph title and seventeen un-numbered hand-colored lithographed plates depicting the antics of the Austrian army. The plates are captioned below. All plates heightened with gum arabic. Plates lithographed by Génix. Modern quarter dark brown cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Original pictorial lithographed front wrapper (same image as title) on thin yellow paper bound in. An excellent copy of this very scarce album in which Baric humorously caricatures the antics of the Austrian army during the Italian campaign of 1859. Jules Jean Antoine Baric (ca. 1825 or 1830-1905) illustrated several books of… Read More

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1930. A Fantastic First English Edition of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel Inscribed by Vicki Baum to Jean Hersholt "In Memory of our really nice time in Hollywood!" Jean Hersholt played Senf - The Head Porter of the Grand Hotel in the 1932 Movie BAUM, Vicki. Grand Hotel. London: Geoffrey Bles, [1930]. First edition in English of Vicki Baum's most famous novel - inscribed by her to Jean Hersholt. Octavo ( 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 184 x 124 mm.). [iv], 315, [1, blank] pp. Publishers pale blue cloth, front cover and spine lettered in black. Some light foxing to edges, not affecting pages. From the library of Jean Hersholt with his bookplate signed by him on the front paste-down. Hollywood Book Store label pasted onto rear paste-down. A fine, sharp copy. The author's most famous novel inscribed in German on the half-title "Mr Jean Hersholt / in Erinnerung /[indecipherable] / [indecipherable] / Hollywood! / Vicki Baum". (In memory of our really nice time in Hollywood.) With an… Read More

Godalming, Surrey: The Pendomer Press, 1979. One of 200 Copies with a Signed Lithograph by Edward Bawden [BAWDEN, Edward]. BLISS, Douglas Percy. Edward Bawden. [Godalming, Surrey]: The Pendomer Press, [n.d., 1979]. First edition, de luxe issue. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this copy being No. 40). Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 inches; 287 x 222 mm.). 200 pp. Eleven color plates and numerous black and white text illustrations. Pictorial title-page. "This book has been designed by John and Griselda Lewis. It has been printed and bound by the Scolar Press. The paper is Glastonbury Book Antique Laid...The book has been set in 12/14 Monotype Modern Extended and printed by offset lithography" (Colophon). Bibliography, by Barry McKay (p. 177-197). With a four-color lithograph laid into a terra cotta paper portfolio: "‘Nekayah, the Prince and Imlac in Cairo' from The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson. Lithograph drawn in four colours by Edward Bawden and printed in an edition of 200 by… Read More

London: Printed for Jones & Co., 1827. Real Life in London with Thirty-Four Hand Colored Plates Two Superb Inlaid Bindings by Bayntun, Bath EGAN, Pierce (imitation of). ALKEN, Henry, illustrator. BAYNTUN, binder. Real Life in London. or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life. By an Amateur. Embellished and Illustrated with a Series of Coloured Prints, Designed and Engraved by Messrs. Heath, Alken, Dighton, Brooke, Rowlandson, &c. London: Printed for Jones & Co. 1827-29. Later issue (first published 1821-22). Two octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 in; 213 x 343 mm.). [ii, title, verso blank], [iii]-x, [1]-656; [2, title, verso blank], [i]-ix, [x, advertisement for British Classic Authors 1827], [3]-668 pp. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and pictorial hand-colored title in each volume. Thirty-four hand-colored aquatint plates,… Read More

London: Horace Cox, 1904. A Wide Range of Culinary Topics The "Queen" Cookery Books Complete in Fourteen Volumes BEATTY-POWNALL, S., compiler & editor. The "Queen" Cookery Books. Collected and Described by S. Beatty-Pownall, Departmental Editor "Housewife and Cuisine" Queen Newspaper, and Author of "A Book of Sauces." London: Horace Cox, 1904-1911. Mixed editions. Complete set of fourteen small octavo volumes (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 163 x 102 mm.). Publisher's cream linen over boards, covers decoratively printed in red and blue. Covers of volume VI a little dust soiled otherwise a near fine set. "The 'Queen' Cookery Books" reflect the early 20th-century interest in culinary arts and household management. S. Beatty-Pownall's compilation offers a diverse set of guides covering different aspects of cooking, making it a valuable resource for domestic kitchens during that period. The volumes cover a wide range of culinary topics, including soups, ices, pickles and preserves, entrees, meat and game,… Read More

Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, Maison Martinet, 1848. Charles-Édourd de Beaumont's Au Bal Masqué - At the Masked Ball BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de. Au Bal Masqué. [At the Masked Ball] Album par Beaumont. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, Maison Martinet, [1848]. [First Series]. Quarto (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title-page and thirty superb lithograph plates. Some light foxing (mainly marginal) to a few plates, otherwise fine. Later violet cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt. Publisher's pictorial yellow wrappers bound in. This exceptionally rare album of lithographs echoes that of Gavarni who dedicated works of the same theme at the same time. Mr. Descamps-Scrive who had a colored copy of the same thirty prints prints of this album indicated that the date was "towards 1860" (catalog Descamps-Scrive, second part). OCLC locates just two complete copies in libraries and institutions worldwide, both at The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA), one of which appears… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, 1848. Three incredibly rare suites by Charles Beaumont bound together in one album Together with Eighteen Hand Colored Lithographs from Three of his Other Works BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de. Les Vésuviennes ou les Soldats pour rire... complete [and] Quartier de la Boule Rouge... complete [and] La Guerre des Femmes [and] Fariboles [and] Au Bal Masqué [and] Les Jolies Femmes de Paris [The Pretty Women of Paris]. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, [1846-1849]. Three incredibly rare complete suites by Charles Beaumont, together with eighteen hand colored lithographs from three of his other works, bound together in one album. A total of fifty-seven hand colored lithographs and forty black & white lithographs. Folio (13 1/8 x 10 inches; 334 x 254 mm.). Late nineteenth century quarter red morocco over marbled boards, spine with five raised bands ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Les Vésuviennes ou les Soldats pour rire... Paris: Au Bureau… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, 1848. Les Vésuviennes - The Radical feminist Group as Depicted by Charles Édouard de Beaumont Twenty Superb Hand Colored Lithographs BEAUMONT, [Charles-]É[douard] de. Les Vésuviennes ou les Soldats pour rire... Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, [1848]. Folio (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 inches; 328 x 247 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title and twenty superb hand-colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum arabic. Publishers lithographed pale green wrappers, rear wrapper expertly replaced with near identical paper. Original glassine wrapper. An exceptionally fine copy. Housed in a felt-lined half black morocco over gray cloth boards clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. The twenty superb hand colored lithographs in Les Vésuviannes depict an imagined state of society in which there is great suffering and injustice, in which women take the functions of national guards and policemen. The title is linked to the resumé of a… Read More

London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. The First Edition of Mrs. Beeton An interesting look at life in a Victorian household, and the running of it BEETON, Isabella Mrs. The Book of Household Management; ... With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all things connected with Home Life and Comfort. London: S.O. Beeton, 1861. First edition, first impression with 18 Bouverie St. stated to the illustrated title page, and the farmyard frontispiece. One volume rebound in two small octavo volumes (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches; 172 x 108 mm.). xxxix, [1, blank]. [1]-512; [513]-1112 pp. Colored frontispiece, color title-page and twelve color plates. Page 887/888 slightly frayed at outer margin. Mid twentieth-century three-quarter dark red morocco over red cloth boards, decoratively ruled in gilt, spines with five raised bands, paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edges stained black. pp. 887 and 888 slightly frayed at outer margin. A very good copy. Isabella Beeton's comprehensive guide to… Read More

London: Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1913. An interesting look at life in a Victorian and then Edwardian household, and the running of it BEETON, Isabella Mrs. Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. A Guide to Coookery in all Branches... New edition. Revised, enlarged, brought up to date and fully illustrated. London: Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1913. Thick octavo ( 8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 207 x 133 mm.). [viii], [1]-1997, [3, blank], [16, advertisements] pp. Thirty-two color plates, one hundred and forty-two black & white plates and two illustrations in the text. Publisher's quarter red morocco over green cloth boards, spine richly decorated in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers with printed advertisements, all edges speckled brown. A remarkable, almost untouched copy. Isabella Beeton's comprehensive guide to cookery, with a wide variety of recipes, advice for the organization of kitchens and larders, marketing, and a calendar of food in season. She also gave advice on table decorations, how… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. Quarto-Millenary. The First 250 Publications and the First 25 Years 1929-1954 of the Limited Editions Club. A Critique. A Conspectus. A Bibliography. Indexes. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Limited to 2250 numbered copies, this being copy no. 1180. Large quarto. xiii, [2], 295, [3] pp. Publisher's quarter black Niger morocco over red cloth on beveled boards with central black medallion. A very fine copy. Housed in the publisher's slipcase.

London: Printed for Edward Orme... by Barnard and Sultzer, 1806 [1824]. An Admirable Album" BLAGDON, Francis Wiliam. MORLAND, George. Authentic Memoirs of the late George Morland, with remarks on his abilities and progress as an artist: in which are interspersed a variety of anecdotes never before published; together with a Fac-simile of his writing, specimens of his hieroglyphical sketches, &c. &c. The whole collected from numerous manuscript communications. London: Printed for Edward Orme... by Barnard and Sultzer, 1806 [i.e. 1824]. Second (uniform) edition. Oblong folio. (17 1/2 x 22 1/4 in; 445 x 565 mm). Hand-colored engraved portrait frontispiece, [1, titlepage], [1, blank], nineteen hand-colored engravings (including one aquatint) with guards, watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1820 and 1824, 3-15, [1, blank] pp., including three text engravings (text bound at rear). Early twentieth century quarter brown calf over marbled boards decoratively ruled in gilt. Front cover with rectangular… Read More

Paris: H. Duru, 1840. A Remarkable Survival [FRENCH BOARD GAME]. Le Jeu Du Portier, [The Doorman's Game] Par H. Duru. [France, ca. 1840]. Original hand colored lithographed board depicting 'The Five Story House" (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches; 222 x 172 mm.) with the right hand top corner beveled as issued. Six original hand colored lithographed figures, each on a wooden base (average size 3 1/8 x 1 1/4 inches; 80 x 32 mm.). Complete in the original card box with the top showing a hand colored lithograph of "the Five Storey House". The Board and the Figures in near fine condition, the box a little soiled on the top and the corners strengthened with cloth tape. The Board is lettered from top to bottom: "No. 6 "/ "No. 5 / Locart Fnt Lunetier au 3 mp" / "No. 4 / F. Sonnet M.De Dentelles" / "No.3 Clagmann Et Cie. Banquiers" / "No. 2" / "No. 1 Loge du Portier." The lid of the box is titles "Le Jeu Du Portier, Par H. Duru." The six figures are titled: [Le Portier] [ The Doorman]; "2 Proprietaire" [Owner]; "3… Read More

London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823 & D. Alexander, 1823. Scarce First British Appearance of Boilly's Grimaces Eleven Superb Hand Colored Lithographs BOILLY, Louis-Léopold. Boilly's Humorous Designs. London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823 & D. Alexander, 1824. A fine collection from the first UK publication of Boilly's initial plates from his Recueil de Grimaces (1823). Folio (14 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches; 372 x 264 mm). Eleven superb hand-colored lithographed plates after Boilly. Plate numbers one & six are watermarked "J. Whatman 1823". Original half red morocco over drab gray boards, expertly rebacked to style, original rectangular red morocco label on front cover lettered in gilt "Humorous Designs by L. Boilly". Later endpapers. A superb collection with bright and vivid hand coloring. Exceedingly scarce. 1. Grimaces. Pl:1. Pubd by E & C McLean (Emotions- five male figures) 2. Grimaces. Pl:2. Pubd by E & C McLean (Emotions- five female figures) 3. Grimaces. Pl:3. Pubd by E & C McLean (five men tasting gruel) 4.… Read More

London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823. Scarce First British Appearance of Boilly's Grimaces BOILLY, Louis-Léopold. Boilly's Humorous Designs. Seven Plates, Coloured After the Original Drawings. Price One Guinea. London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823. First UK publication of a selection of Boilly's initial plates from his Recueil de Grimaces (1823). Folio (14 1/2 x 11 in; 375 x 275 mm). Seven hand-colored lithographed plates after Boilly with original tissue guards. The third plates is watermarked "J. Whatman 1823". The wrappers are watermarked "1820". Original printed buff wrappers. An excellent copy, housed in a later black cloth portfolio, lettered in gilt on front cover and with the bookplate of Alfred N. Beadleston. Exceedingly scarce, with only one copy in institutional holdings worldwide, at Harvard's Houghton Library  "Address to the Public. On or before November the 1st, will be Published by E. and C. M'Lean, a Second Series of Boilly's Designs, executed in the same superior and elegant form.… Read More

Paris: Delpech, 1827. Street Life in Paris in the Early Nineteenth Century Louis-Leopold Boilly's 'Collection of Moral Subjects' Six Superb Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates A Remarkable Survival in The Publisher's Printed Wrappers BOILLY, L[ouis-Leopold]. Recueil de Sujets Moraux Dessinés sur Pierre par L. Boilly. Paris: Delpech, [1827]. Oblong Folio (11 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches; 299 x 425 mm.) Six superb hand colored lithograph plates each measuring (11 1/8 x 14 7/8 inches; 282 x 378 mm.). Loose in the publishers printed lithograph wrappers as issued. Top fold of wrappers expertly and invisibly restored, still a remarkable survival, the hand-coloring bright and fresh. The plates, all dated "1827" were lithographed by Delpech and have the publisher's monogram "CD" on verso. Housed in a fleece lined quarter black morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. 'A Collection of Moral Subjects Drawn on Stone' An exceptionally rare set of… Read More

Paris: chez Delpech, 1823. A Fine Collection of Twenty-Two of Leopold Boilly's 'Grimaces' BOILLY, Louis-Leopold. Recueil de Grimaces. Paris: chez Delpech, 1824-1827. First edition. Folio (14 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches; 374 x 270 mm.). A superb collection of twenty-two fine hand-colored lithographed plates, all with the original tissue guards. Bound ca. 1830 in quarter green chagrin over patterned green cloth boards. Smooth spine decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt, all edges uncut. An excellent collection in fine condition and in it's original binding. A keen observer of society and of human expressions, Boilly was also a caricaturist.  His series Recueil de Grimaces (Collection of Grimaces), a series of 96 lithographs created in the 1820s, satirizes at different professions and societal groups.  The Grimaces were very popular during the period for their humorous observation of the society at that time. They were created and sold in separate sheets rather than bound in a book or portfolio.  They… Read More

Paris: Chez L'Editeur [Pierre de Crapelet], 1827. Seven Fine Hand Colored Lithographs from Le Bon Genre BON GENRE, LE. [Observations sur les Modes et les Usages de Paris], Seven fine hand colored lithograph plates. [Paris: Chez L'Editeur [Pierre de Crapelet, 1830]. Seven plates from a later edition of ca. 1830. Each plate measures 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 276 x 216 mm. Some very small light stains affecting the lower portion of the first four plates. Le Bon Genre was one of the earliest series of prints to record the social trends and leisure activities of contemporary Parisians. It is the most important fashion portfolio of its time documenting, through its caricatures, the rise of the modern city of Paris and the emerging middle-class bourgeois, its fashions, recreations and dating customs. It also has fun at visitors' expense, particularly the English, whose customs and fashions the French found incomprehensible and unfashionable; the years of hostility between France and England did nothing to… Read More