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[ALBIN, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759]

A natural history of English song-birds, including such foreign birds as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing: Their proper Management, Diseases, and Cures. To which are added, figures of the Cock, Hen, and Egg of each species, exactly copied from nature, by Mr. Eleazar Albin, and curiously engraven on copper. with several improvements, under the article of Canary-Birds.

London: printed for T. Lowndes, No 77, in Fleet-Street, and S. Bladon, in Paternoster-Row, 1779. Half-Calf. Small 8vo: [4],107,[3]pp, with a frontispiece and 23 further full-page copper-engraved plates, each showing the cock, hen, and (often) egg of a different songbird. Without the final leaf of advertisements. Recently rebound to period... more

Price: $865.00

[Anonymous; CLARK, J. (fl. 1789-1830), engraver]

[Hand-Colored] Glances at Character

London: Printed by Whittingham and Rowland, Goswell Street; For John Carr, 56, Paternoster-Row, 1814. First Edition. Full Calf. Crown 8vo: viii,158,[2]pp, with 8 delicately hand-colored aquatints, including the frontispiece. Complete with half-title and two pages of publisher's advertisements. (In every copy we've seen, plate no. 5, often described as bound... more

Price: $865.00

BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1818)

A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick

Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, Newcastle: sold by them, by G. G. J. & J. Robinson, & C. Dilly, London, 1791. Second Edition. Full Calf. A superlative example of the second (and best) edition: "no mere reprint: it was a largely... more

Price: $965.00

BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828)

[Ornithology] A history of British birds. by Thomas Bewick

Newcastle: printed by Charles Henry Cook, for R. E. Bewick: sold by him, Longman and Co., London; and all booksellers. 1832. Full Calf. 8vo: xl,386; xviii,424pp. Collated and complete in two volumes: I. containing the history and description of land birds; II. containing the history and description of water birds... more

Price: $935.00

[BEWICK] LEGRAND [LE GRAND] D'AUSSY, Pierre Jean Baptiste (1737-1800)

Fabliaux, or, Tales abridged from French manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth centuries. by M. Le Grand ; selected and translated into English verse, by the late G. L. Way, Esq.; with a preface, notes, and appendix, by the late G. Ellis, Esq

London: Printed for J. Rodwell, (successor to Mr. Faulder,) New Bond Street, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, 1815. Half-Calf. "A New Edition, Corrected. In three volumes." Small 8vo: [4],xli,[3],223,[1]; [4],272; [2],304pp, with 52 superb wood cuts by John and Thomas Bewick. Beautifully bound by Orrock & son in half-burgundy morocco... more

Price: $635.00

BURNET, John (1784-1868)

[Hand-Colored] A Practical Treatise on Painting. In Three Parts. Consisting of Hints on Composition, Chiaroscuro, and Colouring. The Whole Illustrated by Examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools

London: Printed for the Proprietor, and sold by James Carpenter and Son, Old Bond Street, 1827. First Edition. Full Calf. First Collected Edition of this standard early nineteenth century art text in three parts. 4to: [4],31,[1]; vi,[2],45,[1]; ix,[3],64pp, with 9 and 8 leaves of etched plates to parts I and... more

Price: $265.00

[Charles Molloy Westmacott, writing as] BLACKMANTLE, Bernard (c. 1788-1868)

The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious.

London: Sherwood, Jones and Co. [through 1826], 1825. First Edition. Supposed First Issue (with plate 28 , vol. I, misdated 1284 and p.222, vol. II, blank) of one of the finest English color plate books, complete in two volumes. (Abbey and Tooley disagree, with Abbey arguing that these points are... more

Price: $2,150.00

CHESTERTON, G. K . (Gilbert Keith, 1874-1936) and COBURN, Alvin Langdon (1882-1966)

[Photobook] London: with Ten Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn [Inscribed]

Minneapolis: Privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and Alvin Langdon Coburn & their friends . . . by Chiswick Press, 1914. Limited Edition. Quarter-Cloth. Tall, slim 8vo: 19,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece (showing G. K. and Frances Chesterton with Edmund D. Brooks, the Minneapolis bibliophile who financed this book) and 10... more

Price: $1,865.00

COBURN, Alvin Langdon (1882-1966)

[Photobook] Moor Park Rickmansworth: A Series of Photographs. With an introduction by Lady Ebury.

London: Elkin Matthews, Cork Street, 1915. First Edition. One of Coburn's "most exquisite interpretations" (Newhall), with twenty photogravures in the pictorialist style of the "grandest 18th-century mansion in Hertfordshire taken" (Pevsner), made while Coburn was teaching photography to Moor Park's owner, Lady Emilie Ebury. With an introduction by Lady Ebury... more

Price: $1,865.00

COMBE, William [Thomas Rowlandson] Combe, William (1741-1823), and Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827),

The Dance of Life, a poem, by the author of "Doctor Syntax" [i.e. William Combe]; illustrated with coloured engravings, by Thomas Rowlandson

London: R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, 1817. First Edition. Mottled Calf. Royal 8vo: [2],ii,ii,285,[3]pp, with additional engraved title page, frontispiece (representing Time pointing at various scenes on a screen), and 24 hand-colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. (Hardie has shown that the four leaves of advertisements found in some... more

Price: $865.00

[COMBE, William, imitator; Thomas Rowlandson, imitator]

[Color Plate] The tour of Doctor Prosody : in search of the antique and picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney, and Shetland isles ; illustrated by twenty humorous plates

London / Edinburgh / Glasgow: Matthew Iley, Somerset Street / Bell and Bradfute; W. Blackwood / W. Turnbull, 1821. First Edition. Morocco. First Edition. Tall 8vo: [4],251,[1]pp, with 20 leaves of hand-colored aquatints by William Read and C. Williams (after, but not by, Rowlandson, as often asserted). Text in verse... more

Price: $835.00

CURTIS, John Harrison (1778-c.1860)

A Treatise on the Physiology and Diseases of the Eye: Containing A New Mode of Curing Cataract Without an Operation; Experiment and Observation on Vision, Also on the Infliction, Reflection and Colours of Light; Together With Remarks on the Preservation of Sight, and on Spectacles, Reading-Glasses, &c.

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, Paternoster Row, M.DCCC.XXXIII. [1833]. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First Edition of this "admixture of curious and non-sensical theory with sound scientific observation.” (Becker) 8vo: [8],222, [6]pp, with hand-colored stipple frontispiece engraved by J. Neele after H. Stalker, half-title (bearing imprint on..... more

Price: $535.00

DUCHAMP, Marcel (1887-1968); Richard Hamilton (interprets); George Heard Hamilton (translates)

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even. A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box, Translated by George Heard Hamilton

New York: George Wittenborn, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this typographic analog of one of the "most complex as well as one of the most rewarding artistic experiences of modern times" (from the appendices). Tall 8vo (229 x 150mm): unpaginated (including one leaf folding and another printed on... more

Price: $735.00

DWIGHT, James (1852-1917)

[Photobook] Practical Lawn-Tennis

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First Printing. Decorative Cloth. Scarce First Edition of one of the first tennis books to show action photographs illustrating various racket strokes. Small 8vo: xvi,168,[6 adverisements]pp, with 25 full-page photographic plates, 6 tables and 4 text figures. Publisher's navy blue decorative cloth, upper cover... more

Price: $665.00

EVANS, Walker (1903-1975); [afterward by] John Szarkowski (1925-2007)

[Photobook] Message from the Interior

New York: Eakins Press, 1966. First Edition. Card Covers. First Printing (wrappers issue) of these twelve photographic masterworks, iconic images of the American heartland, made by Evans from 1931 to 1962. Very large, square 8vo: unpaginated, with 12 tissue-guarded black and white photographic plates reproduced in sheet-fed gravure on fine... more

Price: $285.00

FELLOWES, W. D. (William Dorset, 1769 - 1852)

[Hand-Colored] A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817: with Notes Taken on a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois and Environs of Paris

London: Thomas M'Lean, 1820. Early Reprint. Morocco. 8vo: xii,188pp, with 12 hand-colored aquatints, 2 uncolored line engravings, and one colored etching (which in previous editions was uncolored). Early full straight-grain green morocco, covers with wide decorative border in gilt and blind, spine very richly gilt in five compartments between raised... more

Price: $485.00

FRIEDLANDER, Lee

The American Monument

New York: Eakins Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, one of 2000 unnumbered copies, of this "encylopaedic lesson in how to put a picture together." (Parr and Badger) Oblong 8vo (293 x 418mm): unpaginated; [2]ff (title page and Walt Whitman quote), [77]ff (photographs), [6]ff (afterword), with 213 meticulous gravure... more

Price: $1,365.00

GOSSE, Philip Henry (1810-1888)

Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea Anemones and Corals. With Coloured Figured of the Species and Principal Varieties [unrecorded binding variant]

London: Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1860. Decorative Cloth. Tall 8vo: xl,362,[2],8pp (pp 7-10 are cancels), complete with 12 tissue-guarded plates (11 of which are chromolithographs) by William Dickes, woodcuts in text, erratum slip tipped in at p. 1. Publisher's original unrecorded textured green cloth binding (similar to but distinct from... more

Price: $485.00

GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771)

Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray [Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard]

London: Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, MDCCLIII [1753]. First Edition. Vellum. Third State (or edition) of this "landmark in the history of English book-illustration." (Hazen) Imperial quarto ( cut to resemble a folio, for which it is often mistaken): [8]pp,35,[1]ff, with six full-page copper-engraved plates, 13 half-page head-... more

Price: $1,865.00

HASSELL, John (d. 1825)

[Color Plate] Tour of The Grand Junction, illustrated in a series of engravings; with an Historical and Topographical Description of those parts of the counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northhamptonshire, through which the canal passes

London: Printed for J Hassell, 27, Richard Street, Islington; and sold by all book sellers, 1819. First Edition. Full Leather. First Edition. 8vo: viii,147,[5] pp, with hand-colored frontispiece and 23 full-page hand-colored plates "of great topographical interest" (Hardie; according to Abbey, some copies were issued uncolored). Full period black straight-grain... more

Price: $1,365.00

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

A Wonder-Book For Boys and Girls

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, And Fields, MD-CCCLII [1852, but 1851]. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing, one of 3,067 copies, with "lifed" for "lifted," line 3, p. 21; first issue (one of only 3067 copies printed and published November,1851), without the inserted publisher's catalogue at rear. Small 8vo: vi,[7]-256pp, with frontispiece... more

Price: $965.00

[John Martin] MILTON, John (1608-1674)

The Paradise lost of Milton; with illustrations by John Martin

London: Printed for Henry Washbourne & Co. 25, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, MDCCCLIII [1853]. Early Reprint. Morocco. Handsomely bound edition of Milton's great epic poem, with John Martin's evocative, atmospheric mezzotints, "without doubt one of the most significant series of British book illustrations ever to have been produced" (Campbell) and... more

Price: $1,865.00

[Johnstone, Johnson ] JOHNSTON, Charles (1719?-1800?)

[Color Plate] Chrysal : or the adventures of a guinea : by an adept : a new edition, to which is now prefixed a sketch of the author's life : embellished with plates

London: Printed for Hector M'Lean, 113, Strand, by Howlett and Brimmer, Frith Street, Soho Square, 1821. First Edition thus. Morocco. First and finest (according to Tooley) Illustrated Edition of this popular eighteenth-century roman à clef, complete in three octavo volumes, with 15 exquisitely hand-colored engravings by Burney, Read, and others... more

Price: $635.00

[Johnstone, Johnson ] JOHNSTON, Charles (1719?-1800?)

[Color Plate] Chrysal, or, The adventures of a guinea: wherein are exhibited views of several striking scenes : with interesting anecdotes of the most noted persons in every rank of life through whose hands it has passed, by an Adept [3 vols.]

London: Printed for Samuel Richards and Co. 3, Grocers'-Hall Court, Poultry; and T. Mason & Sons, 2, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury, 1822. Paper-Covered Boards. Complete in three volumes. 12mo; viii, 319; 321; 326pp, plus 12 hand-colored plates engraved variously by Maddocks, E. F. Burney, and W. Read. Uniformly rebound to... more

Price: $465.00

KENNEDY, Alexander W. M. Clark (1851-1894)

[Photobook] Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties, The

Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpson, Marshall, 1868. First Edition. Original Cloth. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored albumen prints, mounted on cards, of stuffed birds. ("It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that... more

Price: $785.00

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