A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French General Jean-Charles Pichegru, by Delpech after Zéphirin Belliard. Hand-tinted (clothing), with a facsimile of Pichegru's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Z. Belliard". At lower right: "I. Lith. de Delpech". A clean and attractive image, light foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs actions, soit p... View More...
A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French lawyer and statesman Antoine Roy, by Delpech after Zéphirin Belliard. Hand-coloured (clothing), with a facsimile of Roy's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At right: "Z. Belliard". At left: "G. Lith. de Delpech.". A clean and attractive image, light foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs actions, soit par le... View More...
A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French King (disputed) Henri, Comte de Chambord, 1st Duc de Bassano, by Delpech after Charles Louis Bazin. Hand-tinted (clothing), with a facsimile of Henri's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Bazin / 1831". At right: "Lith. de Delpech.". A nice clean copy, light foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs act... View More...
A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French nobleman Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, by Delpech after Antoine Maurin. Hand-tinted (clothing and hair), with a facsimile of de Sacy's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At lower left: "Lith de Delpech". At lower right: "Maurin (signature/monogram) / dessine d'apres nature par". Light foxing, a fresh and attractive copy. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se r... View More...
A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French President and statesman Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers, by Delpech after Zéphirin Belliard. Hand-coloured (clothing & hair) and some highlighting, with a facsimile of Thiers' signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Z. Belliard". At right: "Lith. de Delpech.". An attractive image, some foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculiè... View More...
A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French Prime Minister Joseph de Villèle, by Delpech after Charles Louis Bazin. Hand-tinted (clothing), with a facsimile of Villele's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Bazin". At right: "G. Lith. de Delpech.". A nice clean copy, light foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs actions, soit par leurs écrits, a... View More...
A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French politician Abel-François Villemain, by Delpech after Antoine Maurin. Hand-tinted (clothing and hair), with a facsimile of Villemain's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At lower left: "Lith de Delpech". At lower right: "Maurin (signature/monogram) / dessine d'apres nature par". Light foxing, a fresh and attractive copy. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se ratta... View More...
A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French statesman and Prime Minister Louis-Mathieu Molé, by Delpech after Zéphirin Belliard, from an original by Ingres. Hand-tinted (clothing), with a facsimile of Mole's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Z. Belliard". At right: "Ingre pinxt.". At center: "Lith. de Delpech". A clean and attractive image, some foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se ratt... View More...
A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French painter François Pascal Simon Gérard, by Delpech after Zéphirin Belliard, from an original by Marie Eléonore Godefroy. Hand-tinted (clothing), with a facsimile of Gerard's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Z. Belliard". At right: "Lith. de Delpech.". At bottom: "d'apres le portrait peint par Melle. Godefroy." A clean and attractive image, some foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Por... View More...
London: James Ridgway, 1862. First edition. 8vo. [34]pp. Disbound. Ownership signature on title, final leaf detached (and not trimmed, so larger than the book); very good // London: James Ridgway, 1863. Third edition. 8vo. 34pp. Disbound. Ownership signature on title, very good. The third edition incorporates some small changes, and adds a "Postscript" on the final page. Cobden's "Three Panics" had to do with the comparative strengths and costs of the British and French Navies. For the two works, the first & third editions together: View More...
Original brown cloth, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt. Brown coated end papers. Homemade paper title label affixed to the spine. The cloth is worn and rubbed with some discoloration, inner front hinge is cracked, otherwise a very good copy, internally nice, the front cover lettering bright. A scarce book by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke [1843-1911], the grandson of Charles Wentworth Dilke [1789-1854] (who knew and lived with Keats). This later Dilke was a politician, once touted as a future prime minister, whose career disintegrated following a notorious sexual scandal and divorce in 1885... View More...
Self-wrappers, 20pp. Disbound from a volume, clean and very good. Woodcut headpiece, decorative initial, and tailpiece. Small numbers in pen on upper corners of all leaves (777-795). Text in Latin. A discussion between the two authors, relating to genealogy without parents. View More...
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1854. First edition. Disbound, 24pp. Stitch holes along spine, a few creases, very good condition. This copy without the portraits found in some copies; this one has no illustrations, nor any sign that they ever were present. View More...
Publisher:
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd / London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1829. First edition.
Seller ID: 55937
Half-calf, marbled boards, marbled end papers & page edges. Covers ruled in gilt, spine designed and lettered in gilt, lettered on panels of green & red. Foxing to early and late leaves, a clean very good copy generally. Outer front hinge split but intact. Dunlop was best known for his 1814 book: 'The History of Fiction'. This narrative is presented chronologically in diary form, looks to be pro-temperance, anti-Catholic. A scarce book. View More...
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Norristown, PA.: Herald Printing and Binding Rooms, (1898).
Seller ID: 55294
First edition. Brown & white 2-tone cloth, floral end papers, spine lettered in gilt. Some scuffs to cloth, a few folded page corners and scattered foxing; a very good copy. We take some comfort in the final words of Louis XIV: "I thought that dying had been more difficult". View More...
This is a single engraved plate, extracted from the book: Les Devirgineurs et Combabus .... printed in Amsterdam, 1765. It measures 4 x 6.5 inches. Some discoloration to edge, still attached to two blank (preliminary?) leaves, very good condition. At the bottom left: "Ch. Eisen Inv." At the bottom right: "De Longueil Sculp." The plate depicts a young woman being forcibly removed from her mount by a group of armed young men. The book which is its source is very scarce. Charles Eisen (1720 - 1778) was notable for his designs for La Fontaine, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the Henriade of Voltaire. View More...
Disbound, 36pp. Very good condition. Ownership signature of Lord Stanley on upper title. The Preface indicates that the "following observations appeared originally in a provincial paper called The Yorkshireman, under the signature of "Peter Freeland."". On the financial aspects of church leases. View More...
Publisher:
London: Thomas Bowles, [c.1702 - 1735] [Joseph Smith].
Seller ID: 55944
Three large 18th Century prints of St. Paul's, published by Tho. Bowles. 1) On a decorative cartouche in the upper left: "The South Prospect of ye Cathredal of St. Paul's London. .... and now Published in the First Year of Our Soveraine Lady Queen Anne 1702. Will. Emmett Fecit." At lower left: "Sould by Tho. Bowles in St. Paul's Churchyard." At lower right: the plate number: IV. The image measures 69 x 45 cm; the paper is 75.5 x 54 cm. // 2) On a decorative cartouche at the bottom center (printed on a strip affixed to the base of the folio plate): "St. Pauls. The East prospect. Wm. Emmitt... View More...
This is the final signature/gathering from this 1549 Tindale/Tyndale translation of The New Testament. Four leaves, the final one containing the colophon. It is the Table from the book, headed: "This is the table where ye shall fynde ...". Woodcut initial at the beginning, the letter 'F'. Very good condition, old restoration to the final (colophon) leaf. [with] A single leaf from the New Testament ... Parallel text, English in black letter, Latin in Roman type. This is Folio.C. lxix. Trimmed close at the upper margin, part of the running title trimmed away, other margins are fairly generous... View More...
[np/nd: 1930s?]. Printed photographically on heavy textured paper, measuring 5.5 x 8.25 inches. These are copies of earlier etchings and engravings, many look to be originally from the 18th & early 19 century. Condition is generally fine, a couple have dark coffee stains at margins. Subjects range from quite explicit to merely suggestive. View More...