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Le Cabinet de beaux Arts ou Recueil d'Estampes gravées d'apres les Tableaux d'un plafond ou les beaux Arts sont representés Avec l'explication de ces memes Tableaux MDCXC.
Se vend AParis Chez G. Edelinck Ruë St Jacques au Seraphin avec Privilege du Roy { Et chez André Charles Boulle aux Galleries du Louvre [1790].
Rare Oblong 4to, marbled boards; engraved title, 3 engraved text plates (first with engraved vignettes) & 42 numbered engraved text plates (last with engraved tailpiece); frontispiece and 11 plates (one folding). Binding distressed, front endpaper detached, engraved title creased with old ink mss., tear in folding plate.
Twelve plates depicting a ceiling painting with images of the classical gods and allegories of the liberal arts. The frontispiece is of an ornate doorway into a library. This later edition has the additional publisher, André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), the famed French cabinetmaker and marquetry-maker.
BM: 1849,1031.463-478, with list of plates and artists.
[Ref: 66536] £850.00 view all images for this item
Se vend AParis Chez G. Edelinck Ruë St Jacques au Seraphin avec Privilege du Roy { Et chez André Charles Boulle aux Galleries du Louvre [1790].
Rare Oblong 4to, marbled boards; engraved title, 3 engraved text plates (first with engraved vignettes) & 42 numbered engraved text plates (last with engraved tailpiece); frontispiece and 11 plates (one folding). Binding distressed, front endpaper detached, engraved title creased with old ink mss., tear in folding plate.
Twelve plates depicting a ceiling painting with images of the classical gods and allegories of the liberal arts. The frontispiece is of an ornate doorway into a library. This later edition has the additional publisher, André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), the famed French cabinetmaker and marquetry-maker.
BM: 1849,1031.463-478, with list of plates and artists.
[Ref: 66536] £850.00 view all images for this item
A Brief Guide to The Rome of the Rock and Al-Harm Al-Sharif.
Published by the Supreme AWQAF Council. Price 220 Fils. Jerusalem 1954. The Industrial Islamic Orphanage Press, Jerusalem.
Small 8vo, printed wrappers; pp. (xii) + 96, half-tones from photographs throughout, stapled. Corner of back cover snipped (as admission ticket). Rust marks from staples.
[Ref: 66537] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Published by the Supreme AWQAF Council. Price 220 Fils. Jerusalem 1954. The Industrial Islamic Orphanage Press, Jerusalem.
Small 8vo, printed wrappers; pp. (xii) + 96, half-tones from photographs throughout, stapled. Corner of back cover snipped (as admission ticket). Rust marks from staples.
[Ref: 66537] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
A Brief Guide to The Rome of the Rock and Al-Harm Al-Sharif.
Published by the Supreme AWQAF Council. Price 220 Fils. Jerusalem 1954. The Industrial Islamic Orphanage Press, Jerusalem.
Small 8vo, printed wrappers; pp. (xii) + 96, half-tones from photographs throughout, stapled. Corner of back cover snipped (as admission ticket).
[Ref: 66538] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Published by the Supreme AWQAF Council. Price 220 Fils. Jerusalem 1954. The Industrial Islamic Orphanage Press, Jerusalem.
Small 8vo, printed wrappers; pp. (xii) + 96, half-tones from photographs throughout, stapled. Corner of back cover snipped (as admission ticket).
[Ref: 66538] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Etchings by S.F. Every.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Folio, original cloth gilt; 32 etchings on 17 sheets, interleaved with tissue. Foxing, ex libris label on front pastedown.
A collection of etchings of various subjects, dates 1832-4, including Italian landscapes and ruins, portraits of street people (many copied from old masters), and a view of Knowles Church. A Derbyshire-born artist, Simon Frederick Every (1804-1888) emigrated to New Zealand in 1856. The bookplate is of Sir Tonman Mosley of Rolleston Hall, great-grandfather of fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.
[Ref: 66535] £380.00 view all images for this item
[n.d., c.1835.]
Folio, original cloth gilt; 32 etchings on 17 sheets, interleaved with tissue. Foxing, ex libris label on front pastedown.
A collection of etchings of various subjects, dates 1832-4, including Italian landscapes and ruins, portraits of street people (many copied from old masters), and a view of Knowles Church. A Derbyshire-born artist, Simon Frederick Every (1804-1888) emigrated to New Zealand in 1856. The bookplate is of Sir Tonman Mosley of Rolleston Hall, great-grandfather of fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.
[Ref: 66535] £380.00 view all images for this item
Dedicated by Gracious Permission To Her Majesty the Queen, Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow. From Drawings Made During the Siege by Clifford Henry Mecham, Lieutenant Madras Army. With Descriptive Notices by George Couper, Esq. Late Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude.
London, Published October 1.st 1858, by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Large folio, bound in original morocco gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. (xii)(dedication, preface, description of plates), 26 numbered tinted lithographs on 17 sheets (including title, lacking plate 9). Spotting and repairs to edges throughout.
A collection of illustrations of the meagre defences of Lucknow during the siege (30th May to 27th November, 1857), when European and loyal troops of the East India Army held out against rebel sepoys outnumbering them 3 to 1. Mecham was an officer of the 52nd Madras Native Infantry.
[Ref: 66534] £580.00 view all images for this item
London, Published October 1.st 1858, by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Large folio, bound in original morocco gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. (xii)(dedication, preface, description of plates), 26 numbered tinted lithographs on 17 sheets (including title, lacking plate 9). Spotting and repairs to edges throughout.
A collection of illustrations of the meagre defences of Lucknow during the siege (30th May to 27th November, 1857), when European and loyal troops of the East India Army held out against rebel sepoys outnumbering them 3 to 1. Mecham was an officer of the 52nd Madras Native Infantry.
[Ref: 66534] £580.00 view all images for this item
A Brief Memoir Intended to Accompany Mr. John Bromley's Engraving of the Trial of William Lord Russell, from the Celebrated Picture, Painted by George Hayter, Esq. M.A.S.L. &c. in the Possession of His Grace the Duke of Bedford. Written by John Landseer, Esq. F.S.A. & A.R.A.
London: printed for R. Bowyer & M. Parkes, 46, Pall Mall, [The Proprietors and Publishers of the Engraving) by Thomas Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street. 1828.
Pamphlet, small 8vo, paper wrappers; pp. 30, etched folding plate. Front of wrapper partly missing, stain to titlepage.
A prospectus for Bromley's mezzotint of 1828, with a keyplate at the rear.
[Ref: 66540] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
London: printed for R. Bowyer & M. Parkes, 46, Pall Mall, [The Proprietors and Publishers of the Engraving) by Thomas Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street. 1828.
Pamphlet, small 8vo, paper wrappers; pp. 30, etched folding plate. Front of wrapper partly missing, stain to titlepage.
A prospectus for Bromley's mezzotint of 1828, with a keyplate at the rear.
[Ref: 66540] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Sure Water Cure.
[London: Mess.rs Fores, 1843.]
Oblong 8vo; printed boards, publisher's letterpress ads on pastedowns; lithographed 'preface', 11 (of 12) lithographic scenes, each with a lithographic description on reverse of previous plate. Covers distressed and rebacked, contents disbound, lacking one sheet (with plate 6 and description of 7).
A volume of satires of 'hydropathy'.
[Ref: 66541] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
[London: Mess.rs Fores, 1843.]
Oblong 8vo; printed boards, publisher's letterpress ads on pastedowns; lithographed 'preface', 11 (of 12) lithographic scenes, each with a lithographic description on reverse of previous plate. Covers distressed and rebacked, contents disbound, lacking one sheet (with plate 6 and description of 7).
A volume of satires of 'hydropathy'.
[Ref: 66541] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item