"Byblis;" miroir des arts du livre et de l'estampe.

Paris: A. Morance, 1922-1924. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. II-IV Année. 3 volumes. Edition limited to 600 copies; this set one of the 'de luxe" edition limited to 100 copies on Arches paper. In half calf bindings. Illustrated with original artwork. With 29 original signed prints by Brangwyn (2), Masereel (2), Vertès (2), Beltrand (1), Willaume (2), Achener (1), Amédée-Wetter (1), Gusman (2), Lombart (1), Carlègle (1), Bardet (1), Gobéô (1), Jouas (1), Frélaut (1), Simon (1), Rambousek (1), de Hérain (1), Bouroux (1), Laboureur (2), Broutelle (1), Vox (1), Meheut (1), and Coubine (1). Very Good.

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Book number: 1218

Catalogue: Artbooks, Illustrated Books, Signed and/or Presentation Copies

Keywords: Original Art

A Catalogue of the Collection of Prints from the Liber Studiorum of Joseph Mallord William Turner formed by the late Francis Bullard of Boston Massachusetts and bequeathed by him to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Boston: Privately Printed, 1916. 0. Hardcover. Folio. [x], 204 pages. Edition limited to 300 copies. In the publisher's original gilt-titled brown cloth spine over gilt-titled boards. Illustrated with 91 prints, which are described and illustrated . Ex-library copy, but very clean. Call number stamped on spine, previous library's bookplate on front pastedown. Ghosts of dustwrapper on inside front covers. A very good copy. Good.

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Book number: 1014

Catalogue: Artbooks

Keywords: ART ARTBOOKS

Galerie du Palais Royal: graveìe d'apreÌs les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composent: avec un abreìgeì de la vie des peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau.

A Paris: Chez J. Coucheì, graveur .: J. Bouillard, graveur . 1786-1808. 0. Hardcover. Large folio. Three volumes. Incomplete, volume three only. Contemporary green calf, rebacked. With 352 engravings; 130 in volume I, 143 in volume II, and 82 in volume III. The engraved plates are after paintings by various French, Dutch, Flemish and Italian masters by Couché and Bouilliard. Although the plate count total in the index is 355, only 352 plates are listed. Approximately 80 plates present. Good.

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Book number: 1390

Catalogue: Artbooks

Les grands maîtres de la Renaissance. Les arts en Italie. Iconographie des chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture, la sculpture, et l'architecture italienne par ... le Marquis de Baldassini, C. J. Cavallucci, G. Lafenestre, ... P. Mantz ... Avec 45 eaux-fortes, 2

Paris: J. Rothschild, 1888. 0. Hardcover. Large folio. Edition limited to 225 copies; this is No. 93. In a library buckram binding. Illustrated with 45 etchings, 2 copperplates, and 325 textual illustrations. Shipping for this item, due to the weight and size of the book, will be at cost. Good.

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Book number: 1595

Catalogue: Artbooks, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Sculptura-historico-technica: or The history and art of ingraving.

London: Printed for S. Harding, on the Pavement in St. Martin's-Lane, 1747. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 112, [i], 112-225, [i]pp. A6, B12-K12, L6 (- L6 blank). First edition. With a folding chart at the end. Publisher's advertisement, [1] p. at end. Pages 111-112 repeated in numbering; signature F has 13 leaves. Contemporary calf, double rule fillets, repaired. With ten engraved plates of the techniques of engraving. Large folding letterpress table of artists bound between pp. 162 & 163, and numerous metalcut artists' marks and cyphers to the text. Bigmore & Wyman II, 332; Levis, The Bibliography of Engraving, p. 37; ESTC T84861. From the library of Sir Edward Littleton, Barrister. Good.

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Book number: 2029

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Artbooks, Illustrated Books

Xiling Collection.

n.p.: n.p. 2007. 0. Soft cover. Large quarto. 38 pages. Cloth. Dustwrapper. Illustrated. Exquisite book on Chinese Art. Fine. Very Good.

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Book number: 1399

Catalogue: Artbooks, Illustrated Books

Keywords: Chinese Art

Agostini, Antonio.

Dialoghi di D. Antonio Agostini Arcivescovo di Tarracona; sopra le Medaglie, Iscrizioni, e altre Antichita; tradotti da lingua Spagnuala in Italiana da Dionigi Ottaviano Sada.

In Roma: Presso Michel'Angelo, e Pier Vincenzo Rossi, 1698. 0. Hardcover. Folio. [20], 318, [30]pp. []4, +4, ++4, A4-Rr4, a4-d4. Woodcut title within architectural border. Sixth Italian edition. Contemporary vellum, respined, with original spine pasted on. Illustrated extensively with woodcuts of coins and monuments, large woodcut on Rr4 recto. Palau 4106; Cicognara 2727; Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 11; Graesse I, 252. This edition, like all later editions, includes an additional twelfth dialogue, set in Antwerp, in which the participants are André Schott, the cartographer Abraham Ortelius and the humanist Laevinus Torrentius (Lieven van der Beke), Bishop of Antwerp from 1586 to 1595. Good.

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Book number: 1510

Catalogue: Artbooks, Seventeenth Century Books, Architecture

Anawalt, Patricia Rieff.

Indian Clothing Before Cortes: Mesoamerican Costumes from the Codices.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. 232 pages. First edition. Original cloth. With the dustwrapper. Illustrated with over 350 illustrations. Good.

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Book number: 1233

Catalogue: Artbooks, Illustrated Books

Keywords: Costume

Nimrod [C. J. Apperley].

Sporting. Embellished by large engravings and vignettes illustrative of British Field Sports.

London: A.H.Bailey & Co. 1838. 0. Hardcover. Folio. viii, 144 pages. First edition. Original cloth, rebacked with spine reapplied. Illustrated with 38 engravings. Good.

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Book number: 1328

Catalogue: Artbooks

Arnold, Sir Edwin.

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING - BUDDHA] The Light of Asia: or, the Great Renunciation. Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tru?bner & Co. Ltd. 1890. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii-240pp. Title-page in red-and-black. Vellum by Mudie. Illustrated. With a fore-edge painting of the Buddha. Good.

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Book number: 1780

Catalogue: Artbooks, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Keywords: Fore-Edge Painting, Buddha

Aubert, Jean Louis.

Les Traits de l'Histoire Universelle, Sacrée et Profane d'après les plus grands Peintres, et les meilleurs Ecrivains.

Paris: Ches Le Bas, Graveur du Roi,1771. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes. Engraved title-page and text (signed Le Maire) printed on one side of leaf only. Illustrations at top of page, followed by text in Latin and French. Contemporary quarter calf over boards. With engraved plates by Jean Le Maire and others. Volume I lacks plates 15, 39, 40, 41, 66, 84, 108, and 111. Volume II lacks 1, 6, 16, 17, 18, and 87. Good.

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Book number: 873

Catalogue: Artbooks

Keywords: Artbooks

D'Aviler, Charles Augustin.

Ausführliche Anleitung zu der gantzen Civil-Bau-Kunst, worinnen nebst denen Lebens-Beschreibungen und der fünf Ordnungen von J. Bar. De Vignola. [Detailed guidance for civic architecture,... ]

Augsburg: Bey Johann Georg Hertel, 1747. 0. Hardcover. Small quarto. [30], 402, [25]pp. )( 2, a1, b4-c4, d2, )( 3-4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Ggg4, Hhh2. Title-page in red-and-black. Third edition of L. C. Surm's German language adaptation. Contemporary calf, repaired. With 84 full-page illustrations in the text and 56 double-page plates, all with French captions, numbered sequentially 1-139 (57 used twice). In addition, there are 12 folding plates with German captions, numbered 'Fig. 1 (-12),' to illustrate Sturm's notes and small unnumbered illustrations on pp. 160 (engraved), 361 (woodcut), and 402 (woodcut). Lacks all 56 double-page plates, the last two folding plates and the second plate 57. Millard, Northern European Books I; RIBA, Early Printed Books 164 note. Good.

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Book number: 1238

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Artbooks, Architecture

Baldinucci, Filippo.

Raccolta di alcuni opuscoli sopra varie materie di pittura, scultura e architettura scritti in diverse occasioni da Filippo Baldinucci. Con un Ragionamento di Francesco Bocchi sull'eccellenza della statua di S. Giorgio fatta da Donatello ...

Firenze: Appresso Andrea Bonducci, 1765. 0. Hardcover. Octavo in fours. viii, 171pp. a4, A4-V4, X6. Decorative initials and tail-pieces throughout. Contemporary boards, leather label. Top and bottom of spine slightly worn. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 59; Schlosser-Magnino, La letteratura artistica p. 623; Gamba 1764; Brunet I, 623; Razzolini 36. Good.

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Book number: 887

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Artbooks

Keywords: Art

Banister, Manly.

Lithographic Prints from Stone and Plate.

New York: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. 1972. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. Decorated boards. Illustrated. Good.

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Book number: 875

Catalogue: Artbooks

Keywords: Artbooks

Bate, Percy H.

The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters: Their Associate and Successors.

London; G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. 1910. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xix, 124 pages. Fourth edition. Blue morocco by Riviere & Son. All edges gilt. Illustrated. Very Good.

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Book number: 759

Catalogue: Artbooks

Keywords: Art Riviere Binding