Paris: Chez Michaud Freres, 1810. 4th edition. 56pp. 8vo. Disbound. Some old stains and chipping to first leaf, moderate foxing, very good. Partly unopened; one leaf (pg. 35/36) has been torn partly across due to careless opening. The first edition appeared in 1806. On the profanation of the tombs at St. Denis during Robespierre's Reign of Terror, during which over 170 bodies were exhumed and mutilated, mainly those of kings, queens, and princes. View More...
Publisher:
London: Dawson, 1968. Reprinted from the original editions of 1930-1955.
Seller ID: 57006
Six volumes. 4to. Printed boards, blue cloth spines lettered in gilt. Some light wear to the boards, one pencil mark (cover of Volume II), a few abrasions from sticker removals from the lower back covers; in general, a very clean and unmarked set, which appears never to have been read or used. George Vertue was a great English engraver, and a noted antiquary. His note books were purchased after his death by Horace Walpole, who based his Anecdotes of Painting in England (5 volumes, 1762?1771) on them. The Walpole Society volumes were supplied only to subscribers, and are uncommon. Three of the ... View More...
A large etching/engraving on laid paper, uncoloured. Plate size is 55cm x 44cm, on a sheet measuring 66cm x 50cm. Decorative emblem at bottom center, beneath which is the imprint: "C.S. Roos excudit - Amstelodami - 1801." At lower left: "P. Barbiers del. J. Kuyper fig. del.". At lower right: "D. Vrydag sculp. R. Vinkeles fig. sculp.". Titled in Dutch & French. A depiction of The Drawing Academy at The Felix Meritis Society in Amsterdam, showing the wire frame from which backdrops were suspended, also artists sketching a live model and a skinned cadaver. Some wear to edges and short marginal ... View More...
4 Volumes. 12mo. Full calf, spines gilt. Marbled end papers & edges. Modest edge wear, one title spine-label lacking and three volume-number spine-labels lacking. Engraved headpieces and tailpieces. A clean very good set; the title page of Volume III is detached, all volumes have a penned ownership signature at the upper title page. Bilingual, text in Latin & French, the translation by l'Abbe de Saint-Remy. Errata leaves at the end of Volumes II, III, IV. A nice little set, difficult to find complete. View More...
Glasgow: A. Fullarton, 1837. First edition. 12mo. Original green printed boards. Spine mostly chipped away, both covers are detached; inscription on the front fly leaf dated 1838, a very good copy otherwise. Ebenezer was evidently a sickly child. Much of the book is instructional, indicating how parents might best use the Bible's lessons in the raising of their children. Another edition was published by Maclehose in 1841. View More...
12mo and 8vo. Green half-calf & marbled boards, the spine stamped in blind and lettered in gilt on burgundy panels. Frontispiece portrait of J.R. Planche. A little wear to the tips and the base of the spine, moderate foxing and some discoloration to some of the plates, a very good copy. This is a bind-up of twelve plays, each with its own title page and a frontispiece by Pierce Egan (one play has an additional plate as well). Contributors include James Sheridan Knowles, J.R. Planche, J.S. Coyne, Benjamin Webster, Edward Fitz-Ball, Charles Dance, John Maddison Morton, George Blink, and R.B. Pea... View More...
Publisher:
[NY: A. Stieglitz, c.1913]. First edition.
Seller ID: 51961
Original grey wrappers printed in black. Some chipping of wrappers at edges, but essentially like new, unopened. An offprint from CAMERA WORK no. 42-43, 1913, comprising pages 69-82. Very scarce. View More...
An engraved plate by Weigel, depicting a host of harpists, playing to God and lambs. Unsigned, this design is by either Jan or Caspar Luyken, or possibly F.A. Meloni. This is a page from the [1708 - 1712] Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti / Novi Testamenti, published in Nuremberg by Christoph Weigel. Engravings are from designs by Jan & Caspar Luyken, and Francesco Antonio Meloni. The Old Testament contained 151 plates, and the New Testament contained 108 engraved plates. The engravings have text beneath in Latin and German. Sheet size is 35.5cm x 24,5cm. Condition is clean and very goo... View More...
An engraved plate by Weigel, depicting a scene from Revelation 8, The Seventh Seal: "Upon the opening of the seventh seal, angels are given seven trumpets while another pours out a golden censor upon the earth. The judgments of the seven trumpets are seen below. God is depicted as a triangle, representative of the Trinity." Unsigned, this design is by either Jan or Caspar Luyken, or possibly F.A. Meloni. This is a page from the [1708 - 1712] Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti / Novi Testamenti, published in Nuremberg by Christoph Weigel. Engravings are from designs by Jan & Caspar Luyken... View More...
An engraved plate by Weigel, depicting an angel with giant pillars for legs, a scene from Apocrypha 10.1. Unsigned, this design is by either Jan or Caspar Luyken, or possibly F.A. Meloni. This is a page from the [1708 - 1712] Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti / Novi Testamenti, published in Nuremberg by Christoph Weigel. Engravings are from designs by Jan & Caspar Luyken, and Francesco Antonio Meloni. The Old Testament contained 151 plates, and the New Testament contained 108 engraved plates. The engravings have text beneath in Latin and German. Sheet size is 35.5cm x 24,5cm. Condition ... View More...
An engraved plate by Weigel, depicting an angel battling a multi-headed dragon. Unsigned, this design is by either Jan or Caspar Luyken, or possibly F.A. Meloni. This is a page from the [1708 - 1712] Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti / Novi Testamenti, published in Nuremberg by Christoph Weigel. Engravings are from designs by Jan & Caspar Luyken, and Francesco Antonio Meloni. The Old Testament contained 151 plates, and the New Testament contained 108 engraved plates. The engravings have text beneath in Latin and German. Sheet size is 35.5cm x 24,5cm. Condition is clean and very good, ni... View More...
An engraved plate by Weigel, depicting an angel with a chained monster, God above and skeletons upon the clouds. Unsigned, this design is by either Jan or Caspar Luyken, or possibly F.A. Meloni. This is a page from the [1708 - 1712] Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti / Novi Testamenti, published in Nuremberg by Christoph Weigel. Engravings are from designs by Jan & Caspar Luyken, and Francesco Antonio Meloni. The Old Testament contained 151 plates, and the New Testament contained 108 engraved plates. The engravings have text beneath in Latin and German. Sheet size is 35.5cm x 24,5cm. Con... View More...
This is four (of five) divisions of American Scenery; Division IV is lacking. In addition to being issued in parts, the work was issued in clothbound divisions containing part of the text, and 24 plates apiece. Binding is the original plum blind-stamped cloth, spines designed and lettered in gilt, both covers designed in gilt with an image of a native archer. Pale yellow coated end papers. Some mild chipping at the spine ends, some foxing to margins, but plates are clean. The first few leaves of Division I are loose. Divisions I and V contain the decorative title pages for the work; at the end... View More...
Publisher:
London: Printed for Longman and Rees, 1802. Second Edition.
Seller ID: 57046
Volume Two only, the Second Edition. 8vo. 250pp. Old full calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine designed in gilt and titled on a panel of red. Marbled end papers. Printed on paper watermarked 1800. Some wear to lower spine, moderate wear to edges, a piece of leather chipped from back cover, very good and internally very clean. A strip has been cut from the upper edge of the title leaf, presumably to remove a signature. There is a stain to the margin of leaf C6 (page 43). Original silk[?] bookmark still present and attached. This is usually found in the company of the Third Edition of Volume One, b... View More...
Publisher:
London: Printed for the Society / Longmans, Green, 1887.
Seller ID: 56164
730pp. Green pebbled cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated end papers. Armorial bookplate of P.L. Lumsden on the front end paper, a very clean copy. 55 plates, and many woodcuts throughout the text. 36 of the plates are coloured (some tinted), of which several are quite exquisite; birds, bats, butterflies, reptiles and insects. Not common. View More...
4to. Red half-calf, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated end papers. All edges gilt. 12 plates by George Cruikshank. Calf rubbed at joints and edges, some offsetting of plates as usual, a clean very good copy. Some text leaves are misbound: pages 161-168 are bound in after page 176. The book is complete, with nothing missing. Unusually, the plates in this copy are not coloured. Laid in is a 6-page list of a Centenary exhibition of the Royal Naval College, published by Woodlands Art Gallery, 1973. View More...
Publisher:
Luxuropolis [Probably Paris]: De l'Imrimerie ordinaire du Clerge, 1748 [possibly later].
Seller ID: 56899
12mo. 132pp. In a relatively modern binding of quarter-calf & marbled boards, the spine lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers. A little foxing, mainly to late leaves, a clean very good copy. An erotic, anticlerical work by the 18th century rascal Jacques Rochette de la Morlière, also known as the Knight of the Mortuary, who was born in 1719 to an old noble family. The work was first published anonymously in 1747 as "Les campagnes de l?Abbé de T*** ", reissued the following year as "Les lauriers Ecclesiastics.... ". This copy is surely of spurious imprint and date. There are many editions [Rose:... View More...
