The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; a Magazine, Entirely Appropriated to Sporting Subjects and Fancy Pursuits; Containing Every Thing Worthy of Remark on Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Racing, Fishing, Cocking, Pugilism, Wrestling, Singlestick, Pedestrianism, Cricket, Billiards, Rowing, Sailing, Etc. Etc. Accompanied with Striking Representations of the Various Subjects

London, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822-1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 13 octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") volumes bound in later polished calf leather with gilt rules and heavily gilt-decorated spines with five raised bands and contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Without the rare June, 1828 issue, as usual. Illustrated with a large folding map and 153 plates, some folding, of which 65 are hand-colored, as well as numerous woodcut illustrations within the text, by artists such as Alken, Cruikshank, Roberts, Sutherland, Berenger, Landseer, and others. A comprehensive view of the life and habits of those who lived in the English countryside, often seen as a companion work to Ackermann's REPOSITORY OF THE ARTS, which chronicled the taste and fashions of sophisticated metropolitan life. Tooley 64. Occasional light foxing or staining but contents generally clean. Attractive bookplate of Edward Motley Weld on the front pastedowns of all volumes. Three covers detached, rubbing to the raised bands. Very Good .

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Book number: 019231

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Sets, 19th Century, Cricket, Newspapers, Boxing, Sports, Horse Racing, Fine Bindings, Hand-Colored Plates, Illustrated Books Hand-Colored Plates Sports Horse Racing Illustrated Books

The Race - Jerome Park N. Y

New York, Thomas Kelly, 1869. First Edition. Print. Scarce hand-colored lithograph (28” x 22” matted and framed to an overall size of 34" x 27"), one of a series of four prints published by Kelly and printed by Wm. C. Robertson of Jerome Park, site of the inaugural Belmont Stakes in 1867. The other three views were FALSE START, SADDLING, and RETURNING TO WEIGH. All are uncommon. The oldest of America's three Triple Crown races, the Belmont Stakes was first run on June 19, 1867, at the Jerome Park race course (named after owner Leonard W. Jerome), an oddly shaped, English-style track in The Bronx that required its runners to negotiate three turns instead of two because of a dip in the middle of the backstretch. A filly, Ruthless, won the first Belmont's $1,850 winner’s purse, outlasting DeCourcey by a head. The race has been run annually ever since (the last race at Jerome Park was in 1890), with the exception of 1911 and '12, and the Belmont has established itself as the ultimate test of championship stamina in this country. Small archival linen tape repairs on the reverse used to strengthen the paper where torn at the margins, two tears going into the image slightly; mild dampstain lower right corner, dampstain at left center margin, small circular stain top center, light foxing spread across the left side, scattered soiling. Quite attractive and now nicely matted and framed .

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Book number: 021752

Catalogue: Hand-Colored

Keywords: Hand-Colored, Horse Racing, Belmont, Americana, Sports Hand-Colored Horse Racing Belmont Americana

ALEXANDER, William

Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese

London, John Murray, 1814. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 9-1/4") in later 3/4 black morocco leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Illustrated with 50 hand-colored lithographed plates. Later ink presentation on front endpaper, paper pocket on rear pastedown, scattered and moderate foxing, slightly trimmed; mild wear to binding but attractive. Very Good .

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Book number: 021853

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Lithographs, Color Plate Books,China, 19th Century, Hand-Colored Plates, Costume Plates Costume Plates China Illustrated Books Hand-Colored Plates

ANDREWS, Henry C

The Botanist's Repository, for New, and Rare Plants. Containing Coloured Figures of Such Plants, As Have Not Hitherto Appeared in Any Similar Publication...

London, T. Bensley for the author, 1797-1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Twelve large quarto volumes (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") volumes consisting of volumes 1-6 bound in full green morocco leather gilt with all edges gilt and volumes 5-10 in half brown morocco with marbled boards and matching morocco corners, gilt-lettered spines; marbled endpapers. A complete 10-volume set made up from two different incomplete sets resulting in duplicate volumes of 5 and 6 resulting in a total of 12 volumes. Illustrated with 664 plates with 64 folding/double, in the complete set, plus 144 plates with 4 folding/double bringing the grand total to 808 hand-colored plates with 68 folding/double. Duplicate text for plate 291 with no text for plate 290. Started as a rival to Curtis's THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, this magazine featured more new plants than its rival and larger and generally better quality plates. It also differed in making a contribution of lasting importance to the literature of botany and horticulture by providing records and means of identification of a great diversity of beautiful and interesting plants, many of them new to science. The text of the fifth volume is by John Kennedy (the author's father-in-law), the sixth volume by A. H. Haworth, and the last four volumes by George Jackson. DUNTHORNE 8: "A fine and interesting work of distinct individuality and character"; GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, page 83; NISSEN 2382; PRITZEL 474. Truly magnificent hand-colored plates and quite scarce. Fairly large copy in comparison to others sold in the recent past. Occasional minor foxing, toning, or off-setting; some light pencil notes/corrections to some leaves. In all, rather clean and attractive examples of these volumes with the plates generally bright and vivid with offsetting to text. Rubbing and light scuffs to bindings. Near Fine A beautifully illustrated and important horticulture title providing records and means of identification of a great diversity of beautiful and interesting plants, many of them from Australia and South Africa and many new to science.

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Book number: 021670

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Hand-Colored Plates, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, Illustrated Books, Botanical, Sets, Australia, South Africa, Natural History Hand-Colored Plates Botanical Horticulture Illustrated Books

AYTON, Richard

A Voyage Round Great Britain, Undertaken in the Summer of the Year 1813, and Commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall... With a Series of Views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 8 folio (10-1/4" x 14-1/4") volumes handsomely bound in 6 volumes in later 19th century deep-green morocco leather with gilt rules, heavily gilt-decorated spines with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 308 lovely hand-colored aquatint plates by and after William Daniell on heavy stock and an uncolored aquatint dedication plate in the first volume; without the additional uncolored stipple-engraving of "Kemaes Head, Pembrokshire" and map found in some copies. From the introduction: "While the inland counties of England had been so hackneyed by travellers .. the coast has hitherto been most unaccountably neglected, and, if we except a few fashionable watering-places, is entirely unknown to the public .. It is the design, therefore, of the following voyage, minutely to describe the whole coast round Great Britain." A monumental work with stunning views unsurpassed both in delicacy of drawing and tinting. Ill.: William Daniell. Contents with occasional light foxing (primarily to text leaves facing plates but slightly affecting a few plates) and some offsetting from plates, else clean. All bindings quite solid and attractive, some light rubbing or scuffing to some hinges and edges or corners, one volume with small tear at base of spine, a few small scuffs and similar minor blemishes. A clean and handsome set in nicely preserved bindings, Near Fine Abbey, SCENERY 16; Prideaux page 326: "Such a succession of beautiful plates is scarcely to be found elsewhere and they are unsurpassed both in delicacy of drawing and tinting"; Tooley 177: "FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY.

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Book number: 019235

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Sets, 19th Century, Fine Bindings, Hand-Colored Plates, Illustrated Books, Travel, England, Great Britain, William Daniell William Daniell Hand-Colored Plates England Travel Illustrated Books

BUTLER, Samuel

Hudibras, a Poem

London, Akerman et. al. 1822. New Edition. Hardcover. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound by Bayntun in full red morocco leather with decorative gilt panels on all covers; gilt-decorated and lettered spines with five raised bands; gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Illustrated with 12 hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Clark. Ill.: J. Clark. Light, scattered foxing; just a touch of wear to the handsome bindings. About Fine .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 020728

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Hand-Colored Plates, Fine Bindings, Illustrators, J. Clark, Illustrated Books, 19th Century British Literature, Literature: English, Poetry J. Clark Literature: English Hand-Colored Plates Illustrated Books Fine Bindings

COLBY, Charles

The Diamond Atlas... The Western Hemisphere

New York, Morse and Gaston, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Small square quarto (6-1/4" x 7-1/4") in original publisher's binding of full red morocco leather with heavy gilt decorations; 239 pages. Illustrated with 55 hand-colored maps and charts, mostly full page and including double-page maps of the world and of the United States, all printed on one side only and mostly of the United States. Minor foxing here and there, but maps mostly very clean. Leather from spine lacking; front cover holding by one cord. Good .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 019850

Catalogue: Hand-colored Maps

Keywords: Maps, Atlas, Americana, Hand-colored Maps Americana Atlas Hand-Colored Maps American Atlas

COOKE, George Alexander

Modern and Authentic System of Universal Geography

London, Evans & Bourne, 1817 & 1822. First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio (8-1/2" x 10-1/4") volumes bound in contemporary tree calf leather with contrasting maroon and black morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 2 engraved frontispieces, 52 full-page engraved plates, and 24 folding hand-colored maps, including a fine world map and 3 related to the United States. Some foxing, mostly to the text, the maps largely clean and fresh. Some wear to the binding, the covers strong. Near Fine .

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Book number: 019020

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Maps

Keywords: Atlas, Hand-Colored Maps, Illustrated Books, Geography Geography Americana Illustrated Books Maps

DOWNING, A[ndrew] J[ackson]

The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America; or, the Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit Trees Generally; with Descriptions of All the Finest Varieties of Fruit, Native and Foreign, Cultivated in This Country

New York, John Wiley, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto in 6s (6" x 9-3-16") bound in contemporary half morocco leather with matching corners, gilt-ruled green boards, gilt-lettered and decorated spine, top edge gilt; xiv, 594 pages. Illustrated with 69 hand-colored lithograph plates by Lemercier of Paris and over 200 wood-engraved illustrations in the text. THE FIRST EDITION WITH COLORED PLATES of the most important and influential book on pomology published in America. First published in 1845, the book went through some 20 editions until 1900. All of the early editions are rare, and only two, published in 1847 and 1850, contain color plates and are also printed on larger paper. The plates were colored by hand and finished by Lemercier of Paris from drawings made in America. The text makes no reference to these exquisite color plates of apples, pears, cherries, plums, berries, and other fruits, and as Plesch (page 219) says, they "seem to have crept into the volume by stealth." It has been supposed that there was no fixed edition; perhaps copies were put together as the demand warranted, and as a result the plate count varies from copy to copy. Both the Plesch and the Bennett (page 35) 1850 copies, for example, had 69 plates, as does this copy. The only other copy recently on the market contained 67 plates. The text is lightly to moderately foxed throughout, a bit less so to the color plates. Paper split to the front hinge but the covers are very tight. Rebacked with most of the original spine laid down. Very Good .

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Book number: 019990

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Hand-Colored Plates, Pomology, Botany, Americana, Illustrated Books, Fruits, Natural History Hand-Colored Plates Fruits Natural History Illustrated Books

FIELDING, T[heodore] H[enry] and WALTON, J

A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, Containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, with Accounts of Antient and Modern Manners and Customs, and Elucidations of the History and Antiquities of That Part of the Country, &C. &C Illustrated with Forty-Eight Coloured Views...

London, R. Ackermann, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in contemporary leather-backed cloth with leather corners, gilt rules and lettering. Illustrated with a hand-colored title page vignette and 48 hand-colored aquatint plates drawn by Fielding, and Walton during a two years residence among the lakes. One of only 850 copies printed of what is considered the greatest illustrated book on the Lake District. Text and plates clean with only occasional offsetting from the text to the plates. Spine edges rubbed, corners worn. Very Good Abbey, SCENERY 192; Tooley 219.

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Book number: 019044

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Hand-Colored Plates, Fine Bindings, Illustrated Books, 19th Century British Literature, Literature: English, Travel, Lake Country English Lakes Travel Illustrated Books Hand-Colored Plates

FIELDING, T. H., and WALTON, J

A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, Containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, with Accounts of Antient and Modern Manners and Customs, and Elucidations of the History of Antiquities of That Part of the Country, &C. &C

London, R. Ackermann, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in full crimson morocco leather; gilt rules and gilt-lettered spine; gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; vi, 288 pages. Illustrated with a hand-colored title page vignette and 48 hand-colored aquatint plates drawn by Fielding, and Walton during a two years residence among the lakes. One of only 850 copies printed of what is considered the greatest illustrated book on the Lake District. Neat owner name in ink of A. M. Crossley dated 1825 at top of title page with engraved bookplate of William F. Ross on the front pastedown; plates lovely and bright with strong coloring. Light rubbing and wear to binding. Near Fine example of this beautiful book Abbey, SCENERY 192; Tooley 219.

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Book number: 020726

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Hand-Colored Plates, Fine Bindings, Illustrated Books, 19th Century British Literature, Literature: English, Travel, Lake Country Literature: English Hand-Colored Plates Illustrated Books Lake Country

GOLDSMITH, Oliver [Thomas ROWLANDSON]

The Vicar of Wakefield; a Tale, by Doctor Goldsmith

London, R. Ackermann, 1817. First Edition. leather. Large octavo (6" x 10") in late nineteenth-century full olive morocco leather by Riviere, covers and spine tooled in compartments with gilt floral ornaments, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, burgundy endpapers. The First Rowlandson Edition with 24 lovely hand-colored aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson. Complete with the Introduction leaf, the Advertisement leaf, and the two Memoir leaves. Prideaux, page 138. Tooley, 436. Ill.: Thomas Rowlandson. Leaves a bit dust-soiled along edges, occasional very light scattered soiling to leaves and plates which are generally clean. Rubbing to the front joint of this attractive binding, slightly to the rear; raised bands rubbed with one damaged; covers firm. Very Good .

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Book number: 019249

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Thomas Rowlandson, Aquatints, Color Plate Books, Hand-Colored Plates, Oliver Goldsmith, 19th Century British Literature, Illustrated Books Thomas Rowlandson 18th Century Literature 19th Century British Literature Illustrated Books Hand-Colored Plates

GREENE, W. T

Parrots in Captivity

London, George Bell and Sons, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. A portfolio containing the title page and 79 lovely color xylographic plates (6-3/4" x 10") with hand-coloring, some heightened with gum arabic, of macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Typically these plates are found in a three-volume set with text and 81 plates published between 1884 and 1887. This portfolio with loose plates and no text is complete with 79 plates as stated on the title page. We could find only a handful of examples of this portfolio in auction records. Intended primarily as a guide for those interested in keeping parrots as pets, the publisher spared neither pains nor expense to make the work as attractive as possible. A few plates with light foxing in the margins and a bent corner here or there, some plates trimmed closer than others, but overall bright and clean and quite scarce in this format For the book publication: FINE BIRD BOOKS, page 103; NISSEN 393; ZIMMER, page 274.

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 018527

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Birds, Ornithology, Parrots, Hand-Colored Plates, Natural History Ornithology Hand-Colored Plates Natural History Illustrated Books

AUDUBON, John James and BACHMAN, Rev. John

The Quadrupeds of North America

New York, V. G. Audubon, 1851-1851-1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Octavo Edition of the first volume, First Editions of the second and third. Three volumes in modern half black morocco leather with matching corners, retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled; 6-3/4" x 10-3/8"; viii, 383, [1] pages; [2], 334 pages; [2], 348, [iv] pages with half-title page in the third volume. Complete with 155 hand-colored lithographs with tissue guards by R. Trembly (first volume) and William E. Hitchcock (second and third volumes), after J. A. and J. W. Audubon. Bennett, page 5; Nissen ZBI 163; Reese STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 38; Sabin 2638; Wood, page 208. Some generally minor toning and spotting to the text, as usual, a few plate imprints slightly shaved; the tissue guards are occasionally a bit foxed and discolored, but the plates are bright and free from foxing and other defects. Tears with slight loss to lower margin of pages 3-6 and to the margin of Plate XVI, text and image not affected. Hinges reinforced with cloth, first signature of first volume reinforced at gutter. Attractive set with lovely hand-colored plates .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 020735

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Hand-Colored Plates, Natural History, Audubon, Mammals, Color Plate Books, Americana, 19th Century, Rare Hand-Colored Plates Natural History Americana 19th Century

AUDUBON, John James and BACHMAN, Rev. John

The Quadrupeds of North America

New York, V. G. Audubon, (1849)-1856. Early Edition. Hardcover. Early Octavo Edition of the first two volumes, lacking the third volume. Two volumes in publisher's full brown morocco leather elaborately embossed and stamped, the spine with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; 7" x 10-3/4" with half-title pages. These two volumes complete with 100 hand-colored lithographs with tissue guards. Owner name dated 1876 on first blank of each volume. Toning, foxing, and darkening, sometimes heavy, to the text and a bit less so to the plates. Binding quite nice. Overall Very Good .

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Book number: 020736

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Hand-Colored Plates, Natural History, Audubon, Mammals, Color Plate Books, Americana, 19th Century, Rare Hand-Colored Plates Natural History Americana 19th Century