Search Results: Titles starting with R from Florilegius

Extraordinary pocket edition of exotic travel illustrations for a Regency armchair traveller.Set of fine plates only from Sonzogno's attractive Italian editions of great travels books from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.Covering ethnography, costume, landscape, ceremonies, natural history and more from Africa, China, South America, Europe, Turkey, the Pacific, etc.With 175 copperplate engravings (15 b/w) by Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Duche-de-Vancy, etc., most handcoloured by Lazaretti, after various artists.The plates from:John Mawe's Travels in the Interior of Brazil, 1812. Felix de Azara's Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridionale, 1809.Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage, 1797.Samuel Holmes' Journal of a Voyage to China and Tartary, 1798. Joseph Billings and Martin Sauer's An Account of an Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia, 1799.Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa, 1799.Francois Le Vaillant's Second Voyage into the Interior of Africa, 1795.Guillaume-Antoine Olivier's Travels in the… Read More

Large dramatic print of a pair of red-breasted geese, Branta ruficollis (formerly Bernicla ruficollis).Fine handcoloured ornithological lithograph by Henry Constantine Richter and John Gould from Gould's The Birds of Great Britain, London, 1862-73.Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902) was an English zoological illustrator who produced a large number of handcoloured lithographs of birds for English 19th century ornithologist John Gould.Large lithograph (34 x 52cm) mounted in a cream-coloured French matt (52cm x 74cm).

Good run of six monthly issues of this influential magazine, Third Series, Volume I, January to June 1826, bound in one volume. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the year 1826, with the steady rise of the Gothic taste in interiors, and the profits from the slave trade in architecture. Complete with 30 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 6 engravings of needlework patterns.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, curtains, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins). There are promenade, carriage, evening, dinner and ball gowns by Miss Davis of Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, along with other dresses by anonymous designers and milliners. The architecture plates mostly landscape scenes showing stately homes and gardens of the aristocracy by John Gendall. These… Read More

Collection of 190 fine hand-coloured stipple and line-engraved fashion plates from two decades of Ackermann's influential Repository of Arts.Plates date from January 1809 to December 1828 and include examples of outfits for all times of the day and social occasions: morning dress, walking or promenade dress, full evening dress, opera and ball gowns, carriage or travel clothes, dinner, garden, mourning and wedding dresses. Some of the clothes and hats were designed by famous London dressmaker Miss Pierpoint of 9 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, tailor and habit-maker Mr Barry of 55 New Bond Street, milliner and dressmaker Mrs Elizabeth Gill of 1 Cork Street, Burlington Gardens, Mrs Charlotte Bean of Albemarle Street, Mrs Griffin of Rider Street, St. James, and the notorious serial bankrupt Madame Ann Margaret Lanchester.The elegant ladies are shown dancing at balls, sitting on chaise longues, walking on beaches, reading love letters while strolling, playing the piano, looking at etchings, reading music… Read More

Very good set of a complete year of this influential magazine, Third Series, Volumes V and VI, 12 monthly issues from January to December 1825 bound in two volumes. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the Regency era, still basking in Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo.With 59 (of 60) handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture under tissue guards, 11 engravings of needlework patterns.Frontispiece, "To Readers and Correspondents," title page, Plate 1, pages 2 and 3 of the January issue provided in facsimile.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins), and depicting designs by anonymous London milliners and dressmakers. There are elegant dinner and balls gowns, casual morning and promenade dresses, hats and bonnets, and… Read More

Good run of six monthly issues of this influential magazine, Third Series, Volume I, January to June 1823, bound in one volume. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the year 1823.Complete with 29 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 6 engravings of needlework patterns, one engraved fold-out music score of a German waltz by Beethoven, and one engraved plate of a military trophy.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, curtains, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins). The fashions include bonnets and hats, casual morning and promenade dresses as well as elegant evening wear and ball gowns, a few by Miss Pierpoint of 9 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, the others by anonymous designers. They show women lounging on a chaise longue playing an oud, wearing carriage… Read More

Good run of six monthly issues of this influential magazine, Third Series, Volume IV, July to December 1824, bound in one volume. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the year 1824.Complete with all 29 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 6 engravings of needlework patterns.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, curtains, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins). The plates show fashionable women in morning and promenade dresses, elegant opera and ball gowns, etc.The architecture plates mostly landscape scenes showing stately homes and gardens of the aristocracy by John Gendall. The Marquis of Stafford's seat at Trentham Hall, actor-manager David Garrick's house on the Thames Hampton House, Egyptologist Richard William Howard Vyse's house at Stoke Place, the… Read More

Very good set of a complete year of this influential magazine, Second Series, Volumes I and II, 12 monthly issues from January to December 1816 bound in two volumes. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the year after Wellington's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Includes a handcoloured plate of Napoleon's carriage from Waterloo, and an engraved plan of the newly built Waterloo Bridge.Complete with all 55 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 12 engravings of needlework patterns, and 4 miscellaneous engravings.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, curtains, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins), and depicting designs by London milliners and dressmakers such as Mrs Charlotte Bean of Albemarle Street, Mrs Griffin of Rider Street, St. James,… Read More

Very good set of a complete year of this influential magazine, Second Series, Volumes III and IV, 12 monthly issues from January to December 1817 bound in two volumes. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the years after Wellington's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. With 54 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 12 engravings of needlework patterns and an early example of lithography. Two missing fashion plates and text pages 364/365 from the December issue provided in facsimile.Each issue typically with one handcoloured architecture or landscape plate, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, etc.) and one needlework pattern. This year contains nine plates by popular caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson illustrating Sentimental Travels to the South of France, later published by Ackermann.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins), and depicting… Read More