IL Gazzettiere Americano Contenente Un Distinto Ragguaglio Di Tutte le Parti Del Nuovo Mondo Della Loro Situazione, Clima, Terreno, Prodotti, Stato Antico E Moderno, Merci, Manifatture, E Commercio Con Una Esatta Descrizione Delle Città, Piazze, Porti, Baje, Fiumi, Laghi, Montagne, Passi, E Fortificazioni IL Tutto Destinato Ad Esporre Lo Stato Presente Delle Cose in Quella Parte Di Globo, E le Mire, E Interessi Delle Diverse Potenze, Che Hanno Degli Stabilimenti in America

Livorno, Marco Coltellini, 1763. First Edition. Hardcover. Three folio (9-1/2" x 12") volumes bound in twentieth century half green morocco leather with marbled boards and endpapers and matching morocco corners. First Italian Edition of THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER, published in London in three duodecimo volumes by J. Millar in 1762, which Sabin 26814 refers to as "A meritorious work." Illustrated with engraved title vignettes and 78 engraved plates and maps (including engraved frontispiece, 20 folding maps, 19 maps, 35 plates, 3 folding views). This work covers parts of South America, Cuba, New England, and up to Newfoundland. The natural history plates include bison, penguins, and many others. A handsome presentation. Half-title with marginal repair, one leaf (Ll1) with a small repaired hole affecting text, first folding map with repair to verso, some light staining, mostly marginal; binding close to Fine with a little spotting to the leather. Overall Near Fine Borba, page 347: "This translation of the American Gazetteer [3 vols. London, 1762], is practically a new work, having been greatly enlarged, and with eighty plates and maps engraved for this edition"; Howes, A 207.

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Book number: 018452

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Early Printed Books, Americana, Maps, Travel, Natural History, Cuba, 18th Century Americana Maps Travel Illustrated Books

The Officina Bodoni. The Operation of a Hand-Press During the First Six Years of Its Work

Paris & New York, Editiones Officinae Bodoni. At the Sign of the Pegasus, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-decorated cloth (8-1/2" x 12"); 80, [3] pages. Copy #59 of 500 numbered copies in English printed by the Officina Bodoni on a hand-press on hand-made paper. Includes a bibliography of the press. Illustrated with 13 plates and tipped-in specimen pages as well as 12 full-page woodcuts by Frans Masereel describing How a Book Is Made at the Officina. Attractive book. Ill.: Frans Masereel. Paper splitting to front hinge, covers tight. Near Fine, lacking as usual the dustwrapper .

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Book number: 021543

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Woodcuts, Books on Books, Officina Bodoni, Frans Masereel, Limited, Fine Press Frans Masereel Officina Bodoni Frans Masereel Fine Press Illustrated Books

Swiss Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil

London, Religious Tract Society, n.d. New Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 11-1/4") in original gilt-decorated cloth. Generously illustrated by Whymper and others with numerous wood engravings and with two color lithographs of Mont Blanc and the Summit of the Aiguille Verte. Much on wildlife and mountain climbing. Foxing to endpapers but text very clean. Spine rubbed with loss of gilt and some cloth. Very Good .

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Book number: 001656

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Rhine, Natural History, Alps Mountains Travel Switzerland Mountain Climbing

ACERBI, Joseph

Travels Through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the Years 1798 and 1799

London, Joseph Mawman, 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (7-3/4" x 10") volumes in contemporary tree calf leather with gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 16 engravings and a large folding map. Acerbi was an Italian naturalist and composer. His record of travels in Scandinavia describes the customs of the people and detailed observations on natural history. Much of the second volume concerns Lapland where he visited remote areas described here. The map is detached and has a short closed tear with little effect on the image. Scattered staining and foxing but generally clean. Bindings rubbed but the covers are tight. Very Good .

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Book number: 017983

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Natural History, Science, Lapland, Scandinavia Scandinavia Travel Illustrated Books History

COGNIAUX, Celestin Alfred and GOOSSENS, Alphonse

Dictionnaire Iconographique Des Orchidées

Brussels, F. Havermans, 1897-1907. First Edition. Softcover. Collection of original parts (7-1/4" x 5-1/2") housed in publisher's purple cloth folders with gilt lettering and ribbon ties along with a small pamphlet containing a table of plates: DICTIONNAIRE ICONOGRAPHIQUE DES ORCHIDEES. TABLE DES PLANCHES. Bruxelles: Vandievot, [1902]. Apparently complete work with approximately 824 fine chromolithographed plates of orchids, including a few folding, with accompanying descriptive text. Goossens, perhaps the greatest of all orchid painters, illustrated this rarest of all serially-published orchid iconographies with only 250 examples published. NISSEN BBI 2236n. A total of 17 volumes, plus index, with the larger genera of the orchid gathered in individual volumes and the remaining in two large compilation sections. The final volume comprises 61 supplementary text parts. Issued in an edition of only 250 copies. Also included is the wrapper-bound index volume. Library labels on spines and penciled numbering on title leaves but no library marking to contents. Plates overall very good to fine, a few of the folding plates splitting along the crease, some plates with small adhesion spots from opposing leaves. Very Good or better and quite scarce .

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Book number: 021673

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Orchids, Chromolithographs, Floral, Botanical, Illustrated Books, Flowers, Gardening Botanicals Orchids Illustrated Books Flowers

(CRUIKSHANK, George) [MAYHEW, Augustus and Henry]

“the Greatest Plague of Life. ” or, the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant. By One Who Has Been “Almost Worried to Death”

(London), David Bogue, [1847]. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce first edition in the original 6 parts, each bound in decorated beige 5" x 7-1/4" wrappers. The Mayhew brothers were journalists and authors who wrote several books in collaboration with one another, including this humorous work about a woman's struggles balancing her happy family life with the challenges of managing domestic daily affairs. Embellished with 12 full-page illustrations by British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank. House in a cloth chemise and brown morocco-backed slipcase with gilt lettering on the backstrip. Ill.: George Cruikshank. Contents clean. Two spines with neat repairs; rear cover of last part detached but present; early owner name in ink at the top of each front cover. Very Good in chemise and slipcase .

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Book number: 021527

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrators, Illustrated Books, 19th Century British Literature, Literature: English, George Cruikshank George Cruikshank Literature: English George Cruikshank Illustrated Books 19th Century British Literature

WANDERER" [D'AVIGDOR, Elim H.]

Across Country

London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9") bound by Bayntun for Brentano's in 3/4 red morocco leather with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 22 color plates and a number of black-and-white text illustrations by G. Bowers. Ill.: G. Bowers. Occasional light foxing. Fine in an attractive, Fine binding .

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Book number: 018443

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings, Fox Hunting, Horses G. Bowers Fox Hunting Illustrated Books Fine Bindings Horses

[BACON, Fryer]

The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon. Containing the Wonderfull Things That He Did in His Life. Also the Manner of His Death. With the Lives and Deaths of the Two Conjurers Bungye and Vandermast. Very Pleasant and Delightfull to Be Read

[Edinburgh], (Otto Schulze & Co.), n.d. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto (9-1/4" x 11-3/4") in cloth-backed boards. The third in the series of Early English Prose Romances, attractively illustrated by Harold Nelson. One of only 500 copies. Some soiling to spine and edges; internally clean. Very Good .

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Book number: 007260

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Magic, Medieval Literature., Early Printing Magic Illustrated Books Limited Prose Romance

BANGS, John Kendrick

Mr. Munchausen. Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures...

Boston, Noyes, Platt & Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. BAL 753: Second (Third?) printing. Cloth with an attractive color design by Peter Newell. Charmingly illustrated with 15 full-page color plates by Newell, creator of the even more charming THE HOLE BOOK. Early owner name and date mostly erased from front endpaper; a little rubbing to the covers. Ill.: Peter Newell. Early inscription mostly erased on the front endpaper. Light rubbing to cloth. Near Fine .

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Book number: 010500

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Peter Newell, Baron Munchausen Peter Newell Peter Newell Illustrated Books 19th Century Literature Color Plates

[BARTLETT, W. H.] WILLIS, N. P

Canadian Scenery Illustrated

London, George Virtue, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in publisher's full heavily gilt-decorated dark brown morocco leather. Complete with a map, a portrait, 2 engraved title pages, and 116 steel-engraved views, all with tissue guards, by W. H. Bartlett. Ill.: W. H. Bartlett. Light to heavy foxing throughout, mostly marginal, with some plates completely clean and others heavily foxed, most with just a spot or two of marginal foxing. The front cover of the first volume is detached with much of the spine lacking; the second volume's binding is fine. Overall a Good, solid set .

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Book number: 019806

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Canada, W. H. Bartlett, Illustrated Books, Views, Fine Bindings W. H. Bartlett Canada Illustrated Books Steel Engravings Views

BAXTER, Glen

Drawings

(New York), (Adventures in Poetry), (1974). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 32 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. Cover title is CRANIREONS OF BOTYA. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen and ink drawings at the Gotham Book Mart. Ill.: Glen Baxter. Close to Fine .

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Book number: 020917

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Glen Baxter, Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts Glen Baxter Illustrated Books Modern First Editions Glen Baxter Literature: American

BEATTIE, William

Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken on the Spot and Expressly for This Work by W.H. Bartlett

London, George Virtue, 1836. First Edition. hardcover. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 11") volumes bound in plum embossed cloth with polished green calf leather spines and corners, matching morocco spine labels. Illustrated with engraved title pages in each volume, 106 steel-engraved plates after Bartlett, and a folding lithograph map of Switzerland. Most plates free from foxing, a few with moderate to heavy foxing. Some rubbing to the leather but bindings solid and rather attractive. Very Good .

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Book number: 017260

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Mountains, Alps, Switzerland Steel Engravings Travel Illustrated Books W. H. Bartlett

BEDIER, Joseph

Le Roman de Tristan Et Iseut L'édition d'Art

Paris, L'Édition D'Art, (1928). Hardcover. Bound in light brown boards with black stamping with the original wraps bound in (7" x 9-3/4") by Mercier, the front board neatly detached. Illustrated from watercolors by Robert Engels. Ill.: Robert Engels. Near Fine but for the front cover which is neatly detached .

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Book number: 021677

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Medieval Literature, Love Stories, Robert Engels, Color Plates, Ancient Literature Robert Engels Illustrated Books French Literature Romance Color Plates

BEWICK, Thomas

A General History of Quadrupeds

Newcastle, S. Hodgwon et al. 1792. Third Edition. Hardcover. Demi-octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") bound in contemporary calf leather, recently and neatly rebacked; x, 483 pages. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Title page spotted otherwise only light foxing. Near Fine .

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Book number: 002134

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Fine Bindings, Thomas Bewick, 18th Century, Mammals, Illustrated Books, Natural History Illustrated Books Natural History Literature: English Animals

BROWNE, Patrick

The CIVIL and Natural History of Jamaica...

London, T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9" x 14-1/4") in modern calf-backed marbled boards with gilt decorations on the spine and a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; [vi], viii, 503 pages. Complete with half-title page and list of subscribers. Illustrated with 2 large folding maps (Jamaica; Port Royal and Kingston) and 49 engraved plates, mostly botanical (38) but also including sea life and animals (11), after George D. Ehret by B. Cole, F. Garden, F. Patton, and others. Browne, an Irish physician and botanist, settled in Jamaica in 1746, working as a physician. He was the first English author to use Linnaeus's system of classifying plants in print. GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, page 52; NISSEN BBI 255. A clean, fresh copy in an excellent binding. About Fine .

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Book number: 021604

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: West Indies, Travel, Jamaica, Illustrated Books, Copper Engravings, Natural History, Botanical, Botany, Caribbean Jamaica Illustrated Books Botany Natural History