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Condición: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 24 x 29 cms. Category: The Connoisseur; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. No Jacket.

Two attractive small original hand-coloured copperplate engravings. Both in good condition, lightly aged, and each with slight traces of previous mount on blank reverse. ONE: Captioned at foot 'A Freschi sculpsit | MONKEYS GATHERING TEA. | Pubd. 25 April 1812 by H. Stockdale, 41 Pall Mall'. Portrait: 10.5 x 17.5 cm. Depicts a Chinese man beneath a tree taking leaves from a monkey on the ground, whilst three other monkeys in the tree collect more leaves. TWO: Captioned at foot 'A Freschi sculpsit | INDIAN INK.' No place or date. Landscape: 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Depicts three men preparing the ink. One in the background at a long counter; a second to the left, seated at a tub with a pestle; a third to the right, sitting astride a bench holding a rod and a bowl. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. In modern (to style) half calf over contemporary worn green boards, some edge wear. Spine, gilt & blind tooling, gilt titles to red calf label. Internally, [2], [2], (iii-x) leaves, [4] subscribers, [2] contents, 36 B&W plates, tissue guarded, each with a leaf of descriptive text, plates dated 1788, 89 & 90, text leaves watermarked WL, some light spotting, edge browning & chipping, top edge trimmed, remainder not, hinges strengthened. Contemporary signature to fep (Francis? P Scott). (298*228 mm). Birch, enamel painter & printmaker was particularly successful in adapting his skills for translating larger works to a smaller scale. He emigrated to the US in 1794 & his reputation was boosted by the nearly sixty enamels and miniatures he produced, including George Washington. BIRCH William (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. (Tobacco) Hamer, John (editor, printer and publisher). The Smoker's Text-Book. Leeds: The Editor, 7, Briggate, Leeds, 1863. FIRST EDITION. 64mo - 2-3/4" x 2-1/4". Original brown cloth covered beveled boards with titles and decoration stamped in gilt to front cover and spine, and with decorative border blind-stamped to back cover, with light rubbing to the gilt, the head and tail of spine, the corners and edges for what is still a nice copy of the book. A.E.G. Dark brown endpapers with the gilt stamped, red morocco bookplate of Willis Vickery to front paste-down, with offsetting to tipped in page opposite the bookplate; tipped in page with information on the type used in printing the book including: "The type ('Brilliant') from which this book is printed, is the smallest movable type in the world." viii, 112 pp.; engraved title page preceding the printed title page illustrated with Nargileh water pipes, tobacco plants, and in the center, scales weighted on one side by a crown, and counterbalancing it on the other side a smoking pipe. "To all true smokers, of every land and clime, this work is respectively dedicated by the editor." That editor, John Hamer, goes on to praise the attributes and pleasures of smoking with pieces both poetical and prosaic. "The opening essay suggests that those who object to tobacco consider it an indolent habit, to which the smoker replies: 'Most true, and therein lies the excellence.' Hamer defends the practice as not a sin or a crime, and considerably less harmful than 'gluttony, drunkenness, cheating, lying, swearing, high-way robbery, or treason." Internally one page with three small inconspicuous spots of foxing and minor finger marks to the engraved title page with the rest of the interior in FINE condition. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD. Only ten copies located on OCLC/WorldCat. RARE FIRST EDITION COPY IN LOVELY CONDITION. Jeens, C. H. (engraver) (ilustrador).…

2pp., 12mo. In fair condition, on aged paper, with slight creasing and chipping at head. In answer to an enquiry, he states regarding 'the Portrait of the Marchioness of Abercorn' that 'though Mr Moon & I have not yet completed our arrangements I consider that the Plate is his property & not mine as you appear to have been informed'. He concludes by thanking him 'for the favorable opinion you are pleased to express both of the plate in question & the engraving'.…

Poor copy bound in half aniline calf over marble boards. Wear and tear as with age (with the spine band loosely attached). Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Provenance; from the library of A.S.T. Fisher with the owner's bookplate and signature. Physical description; xxviii, 1116 p. : frontis. port., plates ; 24 cm. Notes; Frontispiece portrait engraved by Samuel Freeman. Printed in London by W. Clowes and Sons. Text printed i double columns. Subjects; Fielding, Henry (1707-1754). Genre; Illustrated. 2 Kg. New edition, illustrated by George Cruikshank.…

Poor copy bound in half aniline calf over marble boards. Wear and tear as with age (with the spine band loosely attached). Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Provenance; from the library of A.S.T. Fisher with the owner's bookplate and signature. Physical description; xxviii, 1116 p. : frontis. port., plates ; 24 cm. Notes; Frontispiece portrait engraved by Samuel Freeman. Printed in London by W. Clowes and Sons. Text printed i double columns. Subjects; Fielding, Henry (1707-1754). Genre; Illustrated. 2 Kg. New edition, illustrated by George Cruikshank.…

First Edition. Good miniature copy bound in full buckram with a worn paper label to the spine. Some slight wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; [4], 220 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. (front.) ; 9 cm. Contents; Andria -- Eunuchus -- Heuton Timorumenos -- Hecyra -- Adelphi -- Phormio. Subjects; Miniature books ; Specimens. Latin drama (Comedy). 1 Kg. …

India paper engraving (dimensions c. 22 x 16 cms) neatly laid down on piece of wove paper c. 29 x 22 cms. Very good, with the slightest spotting, and with minor creasing and staining to the extremities of the mount. A pensive Murray sits in an armchair, reading a manuscript.

First Edition. Good miniature copy bound in full buckram with a worn paper label to the spine. Some slight wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; [4], 220 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. (front.) ; 9 cm. Contents; Andria -- Eunuchus -- Heuton Timorumenos -- Hecyra -- Adelphi -- Phormio. Subjects; Miniature books ; Specimens. Latin drama (Comedy). 1 Kg. …

New Edition. Good copy in original gilt-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; xvi, 516 p. : ill. (wood-engravings) ; 20 cm. Notes; Taken in large part from Thomas Boreman's Description of three hundred animals. Includes index. Spine title: Description of three hundred animals. Enlarged edition. Audience; juvenile. Subjects; Animals. Animal Descriptions. Animal Woodcuts. 1 Kg. …

New Edition. Good copy in original gilt-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; xvi, 516 p. : ill. (wood-engravings) ; 20 cm. Notes; Taken in large part from Thomas Boreman's Description of three hundred animals. Includes index. Spine title: Description of three hundred animals. Enlarged edition. Audience; juvenile. Subjects; Animals. Animal Descriptions. Animal Woodcuts. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. [Ornate Binding] Bound in publisher's gilt-tooled pictorial black leather cover. Floral colored frontispiece. Gift inscription to Alice Carrie McGowen of Pittsburgh - inscribed in a lovely hand. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. All edges gilt. 288 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm. Faxon 457a.…

1p., 4to. Bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed on reverse of second leaf to 'James Elmes Esqre.' At the head of the letter Elmes has written: 'From J. Raphael Smith the celebrated mezzotinto Engraver | J Elmes', and down the bottom right-hand corner: 'From J. Raphael Smith, Painter in Crayons & Mezzotinto Engraver to Mr Elmes, with 2 proof prints | J. E'. At the foot of the page Elmes has identified 'Mr. Tooke' in the letter as 'Horne Tooke J.E.' Smith writes: 'Sir | I have sent you an impression of Sr. Francis Burdett for your portfolio & one in an unfinished state of Mr. Tooke which the bearer will bring back or call again for & a compleat impression shall be sent you in a ten day, as soon as they can be printed, the plate is finished but none taken off yet, the unfinished one will do for a certain purpose & a finished one much the better for your portfolio'.…

1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'J. Sainsbury Esq'. The letter reads: 'Dear Sir | My friend, Mr Charles Smith, is engaged by Mr. Colborn to engrave the portraits of Sir Hudson Lowe, Madame Bertrand and M. Bertrand - if you could favour him with the loan of either of these prints - he will readily add to your immense collection proof from the plates in return for theh favour.' For more information about Sainsbury, see Leanne Langley's 'Sainsbury's Dictionary, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Rhetoric of Patriotism', in the festschrift for Cyril Ehrlich, 'Music and British Culture 1785-1914' (2000).…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Scarce 19th-century American children's book (Worldcat records only a later collected printing, ca. 1857). Features 8 hand-colored engravings (2 on covers; 6 in text). 6 illustrated text pages on 12 (printed one side only), bound in original pictorial wraps (some browning and light wear with some spotting; expertly resewn with some slight and expert repairs). Notes: Cover ill. engraved and signed: J.D. Felter, N.Y Illustrations are hand-colored Printed on one side of leaf only, the printed pages facing each other Poem on back wrapper: 'Dialogue between a child and a bird.' 'With original engravings'--Cover.…

Condición: Good. 48mo. Brown Cloth on Decorative Boards 16 pp. Good with minor tears, covers well-rubbed to boards, final pages well-worn to gutter with splitting along spine, else Very Good. Text block in especially good shape. Engravings. Previous owner's notations inside cover. Scarce.

Condición: Good. 4to. 28.5 x 23 cm in publisher's imprinted wrappers, with lettering to front "Pierre Louÿs", in glassine dust jacket, in tan cardboard double slipcase 29.7 x 24 cm .13 gatherings, sheets loose as issued., with 20 drypoint illustrations by Louis Berthomme Saint-André, 15 of them full-page plates, with tissue guards, printed on wove paper watermarked "Lana 15?90", unpaginated.Some foxing on the text pages.Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970) ? 2231, p. 324; Nordmann-Christie's (2): ? 322, p. 157.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1081318460: The imprint is false. Published in Paris by René Bonnel in 1946 (information from Patrick Kearney)The illustrations are by Louis-André Berthommé-Saint-André (see Dutel)"Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage 350 exemplaires sur papier pur fil des Papeteries de Lana, dont: 20 exemplaires, lettrés de A a? T comportant un dessin original, le cuivre correspondant, et un tirage a? part des gravures avec remarques. 300 exemplaires, numérotés de 1 a? 300. 30 exemplaires de présent numérotés de I a? XXX.in-4, en feuilles sous couv. impr. chemise et étui us.Avec 20 pointes-sèches dont 15 hors-texte.Tirage à 350 ex. numérotés sur pur fil de Lana, un des 300 ex. (n°151).Provenance: Alain Métivier, France.…

Condición: Good. Handcoloured engraving. 49 x 62cm. sheet size. Marginal tears/.Peel 2278; Morgan Library Record ID:185903: .Print shows the interior of a country barbershop, where the barber, his assistant, and a boy, are engaged in shaving and wig-dressing. An elderly rustic sits full-face and well-lathered in an arm-chair in the centre of the shop, while a lean and tattered barber holds the bowl. A stout farmer in top-boots (left) with a stubbly face dubiously contemplates a wig, which he holds on a tall wig-block.///// On the right a fat barber painfully shaves an old man, while a younger customer stanches a cut over a basin. A young boy in front of them holds two elaborately curled legal wigs. A long judge's wig, uncurled, hangs from a wig-block. Behind (left) a prim, elderly man in a newly dressed wig adjusts his neck-cloth at a small mirror; a coachman in back view puts on his tightly curled wig. .There are also two dogs, two cats, a magpie taking part of a wig from a box on the floor, and another bird in a cage. Above the door (right) are fishing-rods and a creel. On the wall are four prints: a naval battle (framed); a view of the "County Gaol"; an execution scene; and a skeleton fiddling to exulting demons. There is also "A Calendar of the Prisoners to be Tried. . . ".The room is ramshackle with a casement window, bricks showing through the plaster. From the roof hang a ham and a bundle of turnips and carrots. Cf. BM Satires.From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr., the founder of Gale Research, Detroit.…

Condición: Good. Small folio. 26 x 35cm. Contemporary green straight grain morocco decorated in gilt, with raised bands to spine with gilt lettering and tooling; rebacked.Offsetting from plates to text pages.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:2015495: .[6], xxviii, [100] pages 50 color plates; Abbey, Ttravel, no. 71. …

Condición: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23cm. 2 vols. Original calf covers adn gilt spines laid over new goatskin. v. 1. [4] leaves atbeginning : Directions for placing the cuts [v.1-2]v. 2., p. [367]-440: The life of Daniel Defoe / by George Chalmers, esq. London (Piccadilly) : Printed for John Stockdale, MDCCXC [1790] ; p. 441-454: "A list of writings, which are considered as undoubtedly De Foe's" ; p. 454-456: "A list of books which are supposed to be De Foe's" ; [14] p. of publisher's catalogue.Notes:Title page is engravedVolume 2 title page (engraved)--reads: The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life, and of the strange surprizing account of his travels round three parts of the globe / written by himself"The life of Daniel De Foe / by George Chalmers, Esq.": Volume 2, pages [367]-440Illustrations signed: Design'd by Stothard; engraved by Medland. …

Condición: Good. 6 vols. 21 x 27cm.; l., additional vignette titles and 234 wood-engraved plates after A.F.Lydon, all printed in colours by Benjamin Fawcett, tissue guards, some foxing, upper hinge of vol.1 broken, original decorative cloth, gilt, g.e., rubbed.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:954198864: Title printed in red and blackWith added illustrated t.p.'s printed colorPlates accompanied by guard sheets"B. Fawcett, engraver and printer, Driffield."--Colophon, v. 2-6.Plates engraved on wood and printed by Fawcett after designs by A.F. Lydon. Cf. McLean, p. 19.Date(s) of publication disputed; internal evidence argues against the date range of 1864-1880 provided by Ray for this edition; dates here supplied by McLean.Originally published in parts between ca. 1864 and 1880 under title: The county seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. Cf. Morris, M.C.F. Benjamin Fawcett, p. 59.Vol. 1: iv, 90 p., [40] leaves of plates; v. 2: iv, 80 p., [40] leaves of plates; v. 3: iv, 80 p., [40] leaves of plates; v. 4: iv, 82, [40] leaves of plates; v. 5: iv, 80, [40] leaves of plates; v. 6: iv, 88 p., [40] leaves of plates.…

Rilegato. Condición: ottimo. prima edizione. "A WEEK IN LONDON". BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY PASTEPAPER BINDING. RICHLY ILLUSTRATED, ONE OF THE FEW COPIES THAT STILL PRESERVE THE LARGE FINAL FOLDING MAP. The title roughly translates into English as follows: "A week in London; or, this is how you see the huge city with all its national institutions and landmarks, public buildings, curiosities, etc. in seven days. It includes a historical descriptive sketch of the capital from the earliest times up to the present. With 32 views in steel engraving and 1 plan of London." FIRST EDITION. 8vo. iv, 78 and [6] final pp. of publisher's ads. Illustrated with 4 double-page thick leaves showing views of London monuments and the city's most iconic places and buildings (32 steel engravings in total) and a large map of London, folded and bound at the end, measuring ca. 80 x 40 cm. The large map of London is folded many times. It's titled Payne's Illustrated Plan of LondonPreserves the publisher's yellow front wrappers printed in red. Bound in contemporary pastepaper over boards, cloth-backed spine. Excellent condition. Rare. Albert Henry Payne (1812 London-1902 Leipzig) was a steel engraver, painter and illustrator. He was English, but lived in Leipzig from 1839 onward. REFERENCES: Anderson. The Book of British Topography. A classified catalogue of the topographical works in the library of the British Museum relating to Great Britain and Ireland, p. 184.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Six loose etched and engraved plates on Thomas Dupuy colombier laid paper, folded folio and stubbed. Sheets 51 x 67 cm, edges with red staining and remnants of gilt, with later penciled numbers "16" - "21" indicating sequential placement in the disbound parent volume. Plates vary 35.5 to 36.6 cm high by 59 to 59.5 cm wide, images 32 to 33.3 cm high by 57 to 58 cm wide to the framing lines. Full width inscription space underneath each image with plate title and dedication to the King centering royal eagle coat of arms at the fold, "Dessiné et Gravé d'aprés le Naturel par P.Menant" above platemark lower left corner and "C.P.R." lower right corner. Each sheet has cognate Dupuy watermarks (IHS Holy Name within circle) and countermarks (two bands of letters, mostly open outline, within lozenges, the T and DUPUY separated by a dovecote or "colombier") (see Heawood nos. 1233-5, 2984, 3301-14), supporting a printing date in the 1740's. Generally good to very good, clear impressions, but lacking burr; sheets "19" and "20" relatively strong; sheet "16" light-struck (previously framed) and relatively faded. Condition overall very good, infrequent fox marks, few short closed marginal tears, unobtrusive marginal soiling at edges; rectos unobtrusively stained along vertical center folds mirroring original stubs pasted on folds verso and from old gutter soiling; skinning verso along top edge of each sheet where hinge tape removed, with small losses at top edge on sheets "16" and "20"; sheet "16" has 4 cm closed split at bottom of fold; sheet "19" has small grey spots in blank sky area indicative of original plate foul biting; versos all clean, bright and uniform, not evidencing any other prior condition issues. Originally published in Les Plans, Profils, et Elevations, des Ville, et Château de Versailles, Dessinez et Gravez en 1714 et 1715 (A Paris, Chez Demortain pont Nôtre-Dame, aux belles Estampes, [privilege 1716, but undated later printings]). De Mortain's address and plate numbers (he died in the 1720's) have been burnished from the lower right margins of the plates here, to allow assemblage by other publishers (the "C.P.R." - cum privilego Regis - remains). As may be expected in a later printing, the ephemeral burr of the burin has worn away, leaving the bare engraved or etched lines, which still print distinctly. The plates are as follows: [no. 1, here seq. "16"] "Vuë et Perspective du Château de Versailles, du côté de la Cour"; [no. 2, "20"] " du côte du Parc au Cerf"; [no. 3, "19"] "du côté du Potager"; [no. 4, "21"] "du côté de l'Orangerie"; [no. 5, "17"] "du côté des Jardins"; [no. 6, "18"] "du côté de l'Etang." These plates comprise Menant's entire complement of folded folio "Vuës et Perspectives du Château de Versailles." The choice of paper (one countermark signifies LA/GRAND/RIVE, the Dupuy mill acclaimed the best in France), the stained and gilt edge treatment and the sequence of penciled numbers on the present sheets (ergo preceded by 15 other plates) suggest that they were extracted from a significant volume assembled in the 1740's. (The folded "Plan de Versailles, du petit parc, et des dependances" in Dumbarton Oaks RBR 0-3-5 MOR [there, seq. 16] is dated "M.DCC.XLVI" in the plate. The princely very early BnF Arsenal EST-39, its guide lines still visible, lacks nos. [1] and [5] of the plates here and starts its series of four plates 5, 6, 7 and 8 with no. [2] here as 5.) Laid loose between end blanks of Rodolphe Pfnor, Architecture Decoration et Ameublement Epoque Louis XVI (1865, imperial folio, the text folios and plate broadsheets mounted on stubs, 52.3 x 38.7 cm overall, the paper 51 x 35.5 cm), 44 pp. (text and table of plates), 50 ll. separate monochrome engraved plates, printed on chine laid onto engraved blind-paneled mounts rectos only, and engraved headpieces, opening letters and tailpieces and 23 engraved figures in the text, a fine and luxurious copy in morocco "Bleu de France" (spine slightly sunned).…

Condición: Good. 3 vols in 1, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, leather lettering labels, joints cracked, books plates to front paste-down and front endpaper, folio.22 x 33cm.Wormholes in lower right cortner of first 50 pages, mostly small., Santi Bartoli, Pietro and Giovanni Pietro Bellori.Le Pitture Antiche del Sepolcro de Nasonii Nella via Flaminia.,1 double page and 34 engraved plates, damp-staining to initial leave of text, affecting the engraved plate at corner, Giovanni Battista Bussotti, Rome, 1680; .Menestrier (Claude François) Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua. 24 engravings, Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1688; Writ (Giovanni Michele) Ragguaglio della solenne comparsa. dall'illustrissimo, et eccellentissimo Signor Conte di Castelmaine., engraved frontispiece, one large folding and 14 engraved plates.*** The third work contains an account of the Earl of Castlemaine's embassy to Rome in 1687, on behalf of James II, who wished to return England to the Catholic Church.Text and plates describe wall-paintings and vaults of the ancient tomb of the Nasonii on the Via Flaminia, which had been unearthed in 1674. The work was reprinted throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and served as a pattern book among such Neoclassical designers as Adam, Wyatt, Soane, Percier and Fontaine, Hope and Nash.The plates show: 1. excavation and the façade of the tomb; 2. the plan of the tomb; 3, 4. overall views of two walls of paintings; 5-20. details of the paintings; 21. overall view of a painted ceiling; 22-35. details of the ceiling paintings. The paintings show Greek mythological subjects, hunts and the seasons. The book also carries decorated initials.Bartoli's drawings of the murals are preserved in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. They were used by G. Turnbull for some plates in A curious collection of ancient paintings (1741).OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:702324701;OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1085650529; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 800892296.Provenance: Thomas Longueville, Skene Library, Ampleforth Abbey Library.…

Condición: Good. 4to. 26.2 x 25 cm.Contemporary straight-grain morocco blind-stamped decorative gilt border, extremities rubbed. 64 leaves, LXIII leaves of plates : ill. ..additional engraved title and 63 engraved views by Angus after Sandby, Turner, Nattes & others, each with explanatory leaf of text, spotting and foxing throughout.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:22224907.Engraved title page.First issued 1787-[1797] with 48 plates. Reissued in 1815 with an additional 15 plates; these 63 plates are dated 1787-1815Some leaves have printing on verso.…

Condición: Good. 8vo. 22.7x13.2 cm (9x5¼"), contemporary brown diced half Russia leather, marbled paper boards, gilt decorated and lettered spines. First Editions.11 volumes, comprising: First Series, Volumes 1-7; New Series, Volumes 1-4. Engraved title-pages to each volume of the first series; 58 portraits; nine folding maps; 12 plates and one folding plan.An unusually long run (and almost complete, save for the final two volumes) of this interesting and important monthly periodical published for British military officers. It contains military histories, news on current campaigns (particularly the conflicts with Napoleon l's France on the Iberian Peninsula), biographies of prominent officers, lists of promotions, essays on the art of war, correspondence and, oddly in volume seven is Voyage Down the Rhine From Mentz to Holland by "the Late Mrs. Radcliffe, Authoress of The Mysteries of Udolpho, etc." When this was issued Ann Radcliffe was to live for another ten years. There are other, but less interesting, anomalies, such as a printing of Voltaire's Life of Peter the Great, etc. .Ownership signature in volumes one through four and nine of Sir Charles Chichester (1795-1847) who "was reputed one of the best regimental commanding officers in the British army" - DNB. The folding map for the January 1811 issue is laid in and possibly provided from another copy.Condition:Only light shelf wear and slight fading to some of the spines; a couple of folding plates torn along the folds, without loss; a near fine set in a handsome contemporary binding.Sabin 73801 and 73802; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:224891395 (first series):Supplements: v. 1. Life of Sir John Moorev. 2. Memoirs of Captain George Carleton and the campaigns of the Earl of Peterborough.v. 3. The life of Prince Eugene, of Savoy .v. 4. The life of Charles XII, King of Sweden .v. 6. Life and campaigns of Field-Marshal Suworow.Campaign of General Moreau in Germany in 1796, with his memorable Retreat through the Black Forestv. 7. The life of the great Conde.…

Condición: Good. 4to, 19 x 25.3cm., Contempoary calf, gilt spine, 5 raised bands.; rubbed on cover, worn on edges. 2 volumes in-4, 6 ff. n. ch., LXXX pp., 690pp., 2 ff. n. ch.; 2 ff. n. ch., 822 pp. ch. 842,1 f. n. ch.Ex Libris Forgues, M.M, and Lasméga.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:492927610:Contents:Tome 1 : Vie d'Horace dressée sur ses oeuvres et digérée par annéesDes vers d'Horace.Les Odes d'HoraceTome 2 : Les Satires d'Horace.Les Epîtres d'Horace.Dissertation adressée au P. Sanadon, ou? l'on examine la traduction et les remarques de M. Dacier sur un endroit d'Horace.Index in Horatium.Notes:Odes, satires, épîtres d'Horace, grand poète du siècle d'Auguste;Frontiscipe, vignettes, bandeaux gravés;Epître dédicatoire adressée par le traducteur au Prince de Conti;Texte latin et traduction française en regardA l'achèvement du Privilège, figure un appendice signé par le libraire parisien; Alexis de La Roche qui reconnaît qu'il partage ce droit d'imprimer avec trois autres libraires : Guillaume Cavelier, Claude Robustel et Hugues-Daniel ChaubertMarque au titre (signée par R.), frontispice (du tome 1) et planche hors-texte (dans le tome 2) gravés sur cuivre par Crépy le fils, deux vignettes incisées en taille-douce par L. Crépy (dans le tome 1), deux vignettes sur cuivre par Crépy le fils (dans le tome 2), une vignette sur cuivre non signée ; lettres ornées, bandeaux signés par N[ioul] et [Vincent] L[e] S[ueur], culs-de-lampe gravés sur bois. Titre en noir et rouge.Édition originale de la traductionavec le texte latin en regard. Elle aété traduite et commentée par lePère jésuite Noël-Étienne Sanadon(Rouen 1676-Paris 1733). Elle estdédiée au prince de Conti dontl'éducation venait de lui être confiée.Les textes d'Horace sont précédésd'une préface et d'une Vie del'auteur, d'un essai sur la métriquede ses vers et d'une table alphabétique des pièces. Le second volume comprend une table desmatières et d'un index. Chaque pièce est suivie de nombreux commentaires."Cette version quoique moins fidèle que celle d'A. Dacier, est préférée à elle à cause de l'élégancede son style." (Graesse).L'ouvrage est illustré d'un frontispice représentant une muse et des allégories autour d'un busteet d'un médaillon représentant Horace, d'un hors texte représentant le Triclinium de Nasideniusselon Horace et de deux en-têtes, le tout gravé en taille-douce par Crépy le fils. Il comprendaussi la vignette de l'éditeur Robustel gravée avec la devise Cura Decus que Coloni et un en-tête.Expertise by François GIARD .…

Folio. (17 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches). First edition. [3] a-b2 A-G2 [161]. 182 ff. [4] [i]-x [1]-[28] [322]. 364 pp. Half-title, letterpress title-page printed red and black, engraved dedication to the Earl of Northumberland, Preface, Names of the Subscribers, General Proportions, Rules to Draw Chairs, List of Plates, 161 engraved plates by J. Müller, T. S. Müller, and M. Darly after Chippendale printed on rectos, versos blank. Pencil annotations in a contemporary hand including sketches of furniture, budgets, and an improvised ruler. Original full calf boards worn and refurbished, re-backed spine with six raised bands forming seven compartments, ruled gilt, with gilt-lettered red morocco lettering-piece in second compartment First edition of Chippendale's groundbreaking furniture pattern-book with all 161 exquisite engravings, the most important book of furniture designs in eighteenth-century England. "The Director ushered in a new era in furniture design and forever changed the way furniture designs evolved and were disseminated." [Greene] The Director is a furniture pattern-book that contains 161 engraved plates after designs by Chippendale of furniture in the Gothic, Chinoiserie, English, and French Rococo styles. It was intended to act as a trade catalog for Chippendale's cabinet making firm, which he started in London in 1748. This landmark large folio of Chippendale's had a great impact on American aesthetics, particularly in Philadelphia where several copies were known to have been in the 1760s. "Chippendale's richly carved style had a pervasive influence on local cabinetmaking." [Heilbrunn] His text was extensively relied upon by furniture-makers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the present copy bears authentic witness to this use with contemporary annotations from a craftsman at work, as well as fingerspots of varnish on the leaves and a workaday binding. The object's historicity perfectly portrays the trade as it was at the time. Chippendale states in the preface that his intention behind The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director was to assist the one (the Gentleman) in the choice, and the other in the execution of the designs. The term "Chippendale" is often used to describe English Rococo furniture inspired by The Director's illustrated designs. Published by subscription, the book was an immense success and led to wide dispersal of his work. "His designs were plagiarized from at least the early Victorian period by the publisher John Weale, and more or less free adaptations from The Director have been a staple product of commercial furniture makers since the mid-nineteenth century." [ODNB] The publication's reputation helped Chippendale's firm attract many fashionable clients, including the English actor and playwright David Garrick. Two more editions appeared in Chippendale's lifetime: a virtually identical second edition in 1755, and a revised third edition published in installments from 1759-1762. This complete example of the first edition is as issued, with Page 21 numbered 20. The plates are numbered I-CLX in alternating Roman and Arabic numerals, with two of the plates numbered XXV, the first of which is "Chinese Chairs," the second is "Chinese Sopha," as called for. Avery, Architectural Library, p.160. Berlin Catalogue 1227. Brunet I, 1844. Greene, American Furniture of the 18th Century, p.61. HBS 64829. Heilbrunn, Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art. ODNB. O'Neal 26. Rothschild 614. …