Search Results: Titles starting with I from Shapero Rare Books

[Nuremburg, 1713]. . Copper-engraving, with fine hand colour. Dimensions: 520 by 420mm. (20.50 by 16.50 inches). A magnificent plate from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen. The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler, a pharmacist from Nuremberg. A visitor, Philipp Hainhofer, in 1611 marvelled at the eight gardens, each containing 'flowers from a different country; they varied in the beds and flowers, especially in the beautiful roses, lilies, tulips.' The Hortus records this variety and beauty. The book is exceptional in every sense; in its variety and range of flowers, in its size, in its fine quality of engraving. It is also one of the earliest records of flowers from a specific, documented garden.Besler was asked to… Read More

William Heinemann, London, 1949. . First edition. 8vo, top edge stained red. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered and decorated in gilt,upper board faded and mottled, fore-edge a little spotted, pictorial dust jacket, edgeworn with creasing, a few closed tears and chipping to extremities but no loss of lettering, still a collectible copy of the author's scarce first novel.

London, William Heinemann, 1949. . First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, red topstain. With the pictorial dust jacket. A lovely copy in the dust jacket with just a couple of very minor tear and the merest trace of bleed from the cloth to the verso at one fold. In many ways this is the author's masterpiece. Copies this sharp are not so common.

London, Arthur Barker, 1934. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, titles to spine gilt, bookplate to front paste down, a very good copy in a somewhat worn dust-jacket.

London, Arthur Barker, 1934. . First editions, first impressions; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, titles to spines gilt, dust-jackets, that of the first title with a number of short tears but entirely unfaded and it is distinctly scarce thus, Claudius the God is also a little frayed but bright albeit with some typical rubbing at the spine, in all a very good set. A really attractive set of the I Claudius books memorably filmed by the BBC and in this condition extremely hard to find.

New York, Random House, 1965. . First edition, first printing; folio; colour illustrations throughout; publisher's pictorial boards, slightly rubbed at spine ends but overall a fine copy, in the original dust-jacket with correct price and titles listed, a very good example. A fine first edition example of this classic by Dr Seuss, all about overcoming problems and troubles, in typically amusing Seussian fashion.

[Nuremburg, 1713]. . Copper-engraving, with fine hand colour. A magnificent plate from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen. The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler, a pharmacist from Nuremberg. A visitor, Philipp Hainhofer, in 1611 marvelled at the eight gardens, each containing 'flowers from a different country; they varied in the beds and flowers, especially in the beautiful roses, lilies, tulips.' The Hortus records this variety and beauty. The book is exceptional in every sense; in its variety and range of flowers, in its size, in its fine quality of engraving. It is also one of the earliest records of flowers from a specific, documented garden.Besler was asked to complete the work by Gemmingen in 1606; the huge… Read More

London, Jonathan Cape, 1935 . First edition, signed presentation copy to the author's mother; 8vo (198 x 139 mm); light spotting at extremities; publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, extremities slightly bumped, dust-jacket discoloured with wear at extremities and chips at edges, good condition overall.

[Nuremburg, 1713]. . Copper-engraving, with fine hand colour. Some tear on edges otherwise very good condition. A magnificent plate from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen. The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler, a pharmacist from Nuremberg. A visitor, Philipp Hainhofer, in 1611 marvelled at the eight gardens, each containing 'flowers from a different country; they varied in the beds and flowers, especially in the beautiful roses, lilies, tulips.' The Hortus records this variety and beauty. The book is exceptional in every sense; in its variety and range of flowers, in its size, in its fine quality of engraving. It is also one of the earliest records of flowers from a specific, documented garden.Besler was asked to… Read More

[Nuremburg, 1713]. . Copper-engraving, with fine hand colour. Some spotting otherwise good condition. A magnificent plate from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen. The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler, a pharmacist from Nuremberg. A visitor, Philipp Hainhofer, in 1611 marvelled at the eight gardens, each containing 'flowers from a different country; they varied in the beds and flowers, especially in the beautiful roses, lilies, tulips.' The Hortus records this variety and beauty. The book is exceptional in every sense; in its variety and range of flowers, in its size, in its fine quality of engraving. It is also one of the earliest records of flowers from a specific, documented garden.Besler was asked to complete… Read More

[Nuremburg, 1713]. . Copper-engraving, with fine hand colour. A magnificent plate from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen. The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler, a pharmacist from Nuremberg. A visitor, Philipp Hainhofer, in 1611 marvelled at the eight gardens, each containing 'flowers from a different country; they varied in the beds and flowers, especially in the beautiful roses, lilies, tulips.' The Hortus records this variety and beauty. The book is exceptional in every sense; in its variety and range of flowers, in its size, in its fine quality of engraving. It is also one of the earliest records of flowers from a specific, documented garden.Besler was asked to complete the work by Gemmingen in 1606; the huge… Read More

[Nuremburg, 1713]. . Copper-engraving, with fine hand colour. A magnificent plate from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen. The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler, a pharmacist from Nuremberg. A visitor, Philipp Hainhofer, in 1611 marvelled at the eight gardens, each containing 'flowers from a different country; they varied in the beds and flowers, especially in the beautiful roses, lilies, tulips.' The Hortus records this variety and beauty. The book is exceptional in every sense; in its variety and range of flowers, in its size, in its fine quality of engraving. It is also one of the earliest records of flowers from a specific, documented garden.Besler was asked to complete the work by Gemmingen in 1606; the huge… Read More

[Nuremburg, 1713]. . Copper-engraving, with fine hand colour. Dimensions: 520 by 420mm. (20.50 by 16.50 inches). A magnificent plate from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen. The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler, a pharmacist from Nuremberg. A visitor, Philipp Hainhofer, in 1611 marvelled at the eight gardens, each containing 'flowers from a different country; they varied in the beds and flowers, especially in the beautiful roses, lilies, tulips.' The Hortus records this variety and beauty. The book is exceptional in every sense; in its variety and range of flowers, in its size, in its fine quality of engraving. It is also one of the earliest records of flowers from a specific, documented garden.Besler was asked to… Read More

Atlanta, Nexus Press, 1987. . First edition, signed within an outline of Burke's hand on verso of the front free endpaper; folio (380 x 285 mm, 15 x 11¼ in); black-and-white photographs and colour reproductions of ephemeral items, printed in offset; endpapers illustrated with a montage of press cuttings, photo-illustrated glazed paper-covered boards, fine; [60]pp. Bill Burke studied Far Eastern art and religion at university while the United States was engaged in the Vietnam War. In the early 1980s, he travelled through Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand and Burma, where he photographed refugees fleeing there from Pol Pot's brutal regime in Cambodia. He subsequently entered Cambodia and took photographs of people there, including members of the Khmer Rouge. Burke used a Leica and a large-format Polaroid camera, reminiscent of the cameras that 19th-century colonial photographers had used, and the layout incorporates photographs of pieces ephemera from his travels such as beer bottle labels,… Read More

New York, Random House/Beginner Books, 1965. . First edition, first printing with correct 195/195 price; large 8vo (230 x 165 mm.); colour illustrations and pictorial endpapers by Barney Tobey, ink name on title-page otherwise internally fine; publisher's pictorial boards, fine, dust-jacket with some minor creasing and toning but overall very good. A cautionary tale on the merits of being oneself rather than always wishing to be something else or more, a first edition from the Beginner Books series by Dr Seuss. Younger & Hirsch 42

St. Petersbourg, [first half of 19th century]. . Watercolour (sheet: 31.5 x 23.5 cm) within an ink ruled and washed border, signed 'C. Kollmann. St. Petersbourg' in the lower left corner, slight rubbing to lower margin. Fresh original watercolour, signed by Kollmann. The subject of this charming composition is a traditional winter scene in the Russian countryside. Russian peasants are depicted transporting large blocks of ice on a horse-drawn sledge.Active in St. Petersburg, Kollmann (1786/88-1846) was one of the greatest engravers and lithographers of the nineteenth century. He worked for the established publisher Pluchart and engraved a substantial portion of Kruzenstern's atlas. Indeed, the present composition is similar in subject to the one published by Pluchart, though, to our knowledge, no lithograph reproducing this specific composition is available on the market.The scarcity of original works by this master make the present work all the more desireable.

London, Archibald Constable & Co, 1908. . First edition; 8vo (24.5 x 17 cms), xv, 444pp., 170 illustrations, some coloured, some full-page, including 3 photogravure portraits, 2 folding maps, original green pictorial cloth gilt, worn at extremities, a very good copy. Account of the authors' 1902-1903 expedition in the Baltistan Himalayas. They explored the Chogo Lungma Glacier and later reached the Nushik La from the Hoh Lumba Glacier. All the impressive illustrations are from the authors own photographs. Mrs. Workman established a new world height record for women (c.23,000 ft.) when she climbed the Pinnacle Peak during a later expedition in 1906. She was aged 47. Neate W123; Yakushi (1994), W229.

Paris, Bertrand, 1857-[58]. . First edition; large folio; 48 hand-coloured, lithographed plates (last plate is misnumbered LXXIX) with descriptive text. The first 15 plates by Emile Théophile Blanchard (1795-1864) have both the birds and the branches coloured, while the branches are left uncoloured in the remaining plates by J. Daverne (? -1860); modern black half morocco gilt slight tear to margin plate 14, spotting, browning and toning to many of the plates as usual with this book due to the slightly inferior paper stock used, but withal a very good example of this work; housed in modern black box. Souancé's Perroquets is a fine sequel to the works of Levaillant and Bourjot Saint-Hilaire. Together these three works constitute the definitive study of parrots in France. The change of printer after the plates I-XV, resulted in the later plates having the branches uncoloured. Anker 479; Fine Bird Books 108; Jackson 161, 217; McGill/Wood 578; Nissen IVB, 887; Zimmer 598.

Paris, Abbé de Sainte-Rose, [1839-]1841-1843. . First edition. 3 volumes, folio (35.7 x 25.9 cm.) 300 fine stipple-engraved plates, partially printed in colour and finished by hand, contemporary navy calf with gilt romantic style decoration, spines gilt in compartments, pink watered silk endpapers, occasional light spotting. a few plates lightly toned. frieze23 An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Lorenzo Berlèse (1784-1863) was an Italian priest who became fascinated with the camellia plant upon his move to Paris, where he was to be a chaplain. Camellias captured the Western imagination when travellers to Japan and China would return with the so-called 'Japan rose'. It was named camellia by Carl Linneaus, and began to be cultivated successfully and in larger numbers toward the end of the eighteenth century.Berlèse accumulated a significant collection of camellias over twenty years,… Read More

London, Shield and Spring, [1917]. . First edition, 8vo, stapled booklet with title and additional title bearing vorticist design by Lewis, internally very good, string-bound into cloth-backed pictorial board folder as issued replicating design by Lewis, folder with edge-wear particularly to fore-corners, some superficial marking and toning. Lewis's first, very scarce, separately published literary publication, preceded only by Timon of Athens (1913), a portfolio of his artwork. One of between approximately 50 (as speculated on by Pound & Grover) and 200 copies of the pamphlet only, comprising three short works: 'The Ideal Giant', 'The Code of a Herdsman' and 'Cantelman's Spring-Mate'. Morrow & Lafourcade A2; Pound & Grover A1