BROWNING, Robert

Saul

Boston, L. Prank and Co. (1890). First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated brown cloth (9-1/4" x 11-3/4") with bevelled edges; printed on one side of heavy paper. Illustrated by Frank O. Small. Ill.: Frank O. Small. Moderate to heavy and mostly marginal foxing; library bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbing to rear cover. Very Good .

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Book number: 020364

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Poetry, Illustrated Books, Robert Browning, Victorian Literature, 19th Century British Literature Frank O. Small Illustrated Books Poetry Literature: English 19th Century British Literature

CELLINI, Benvenuto

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself

New York, Heritage Press, n.d. Hardcover. A reproduction of the Limited Editions Club Officina Bodoni edition. Small folio bound in cloth. Translated by John Addington Symonds with an introduction by Thomas Craven. Illustrated with line and color wash drawings by Fritz Kredel. Ill.: Fritz Kredel. Fine in a partly sunned, Near Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 007168

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Fritz Kredel, Autobiography, Italian Literature Fritz Kredel Italian Literature 18th Century Literature Illustrated Books Fritz Kredel

CHARDIN, Sir John

The Travels of Sir John Chardin Into Persia and the East-Indies

London, Moses Pitt, 1686. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Folio (7-3/4" x 12-1/8") bound in later calf leather recently and sympathetically rebacked with a gilt-decorated spine preserving the original morocco spine label; [xviii], 264, 331-417, [9], 154, [6] pages. Complete with the frontispiece portrait of the author, an additional engraved title-page, a folding engraved map of the Black Sea and surrounding countries, and 16 plates, 11 of which are folding, along with a couple of engravings in the text. Published in English and French concurrently in 1686 as Part I of the Travels. Three other volumes, with the general title page VOYAGES DE MONS. LE CHEVALIER CHARDIN were published in Amsterdam in 1711. The last volume, announced by Chardin in his preface to this edition, was never published. THE CORONATION OF SOLYMAN III. THE PRESENT KING OF PERSIA, at the end of this volume, is a translation of Chardin's LE COURONNEMENT DE SOLEIMAN TROISIÈME, first published in Paris in 1671. Includes two indexes, one bound following part 1; the other bound at the end. The fine plates include views of the cities of Tefflis, Erivan, Tauris, Sultanie, Kom, and Cashan, as well as important monuments. Minor soiling and wear, Near Fine Chardin was a jewelry merchant who traveled extensively throughout Persia in the 1670s and was a keen observer of the area's culture.

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Book number: 017257

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Iraq, Middle East, 17th Century, Turkey, Travel, Crimea Illustrated Books Travel 17th Century Crimea

[BOTANICAL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS]

Vick's Monthly Magazine, Volume XIII, 1890, and [Volume XIV, 1891]

Rochester, NY, James Vick Seedsman, 1890 & [1891]. First Edition. Hardcover. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in dark green publisher's blindstamped cloth. Illustrated with 22 bright chromolithographs of flowers. The 1891 volume ends with the October issue and contains the final chromolithograph of the series. The October 1891 issue announced that beginning with the next issue Vick's Magazine would be enlarged to three columns a page and its price reduced to fifty cents a year. Henceforth, it would be published by the Vick Publishing Company, with the seed business to be conducted by James Vick's Sons. The new magazine would not be as "pretentious" as CENTURY, HARPER'S or SCRIBNER'S, "but in proportion to the price will contain fully as much matter." Two hundred thousand copies of the first issue were printed. The new magazine contained more literature on general topics than before, and gone were the beautiful color frontispieces. Slight fraying of outer edges of three plates in the second volume, which lacks its title page. Bright, clean copies inside and out. Fine .

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Book number: 018489

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Color Plates, Roses, Botanicals, Chromolithographs Botanicals Periodicals Chromolithographs Illustrated Books

COLDEN, Cadwallader

Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals

New York, Corporation of New York, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-3/4" x 9-3/4"), bound in full gilt-decorated calf leather with the city seal blindstamped on both covers, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down; v, [3], 408, [2] pages. Illustrated with the 47 listed lithographs, many folding, including 2 large folding hand-colored maps, as well as 8 lithographed facsimiles of testimonial letters by John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, and a few lithographs not listed. All lithographs were executed by Anthony Imbert, whom Harry Peters called the pioneer lithographer of New York City, after drawings by Asher B. Durand and others, including at least 3 by George Catlin. One of the first recorded American books illustrated with lithographs. Howes C-562; American Imprints 20118; Peters, America on Stone, pp. 228-232. An important volume, commemorating the greatest feat of American engineering to that date, the opening of the Erie Canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. This copy with the name in gilt on the front cover of Samuel L. Mitchill. There is a portrait of Mitchill in the book engraved by Asher Durand. The front endpaper contains an inscription by Mitchill dated 1827 to his brother, Singleton, mentioning that he had received two copies of the book and was giving him this one. On the next blank page is an inscription dated 1849 by Singleton to his grandson. At the end of the book are bound a number of blank pages but for two which contain manuscript descriptions of Signals for the Grand Canal Celebration Fleet of Steam Gallies, with several small watercolors of flags. Light to moderate foxing, but generally a Near Fine and special copy of this rare and attractive book Samuel L. Mitchill was a founding editor of The Medical Repository, the first medical journal in the United States, as well as a member of both the United States Congress and Senate. Mitchill strongly endorsed the building of the Erie Canal, sponsored by his friend and political ally DeWitt Clinton, and gave a speech at its dedication. Mitchill suggested renaming the United States of America Fredonia, combining the English "freedom" with a Latinate ending. His suggestion was not taken seriously, though some towns took on the name. He was known for his widespread knowledge, Thomas Jefferson considering him the "Congressional Dictionary.

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Book number: 017405

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Asher B. Durand, Firefighting, Transportation, Erie Canal, Maps, George Catlin, Flags, Firefighting, Association Copy, Illustrated Books, Engineering, Americana, New York, Canals New York Canals Engineering Americana

COOPER, James Fenimore

Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper with Notes by Susan Fenimore Cooper

New York, W. A. Townsend and Company, 1861. First Edition. Quarto (7-1/2" x 9-3/4") bound in modern 3/4 bright red morocco leather with a heavily gilt-decorated and lettered spine with five raised bands, all edges gilt. Excerpts from Cooper's major novels, each with an introduction by his daughter Susan Fenimore Cooper. Beautifully illustrated with many steel and wood engravings, most by F. O. C. Darley. Ill.: F. O. C. Darley and others. A gorgeous book in Fine condition .

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Book number: 020438

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings, 19th Century American Literature, Americana, 19th Century Literature, F. O. C. Darley, Steel Engravings F. O. C. Darley and others Illustrated Books Fine Bindings 19th Century American Literature F. O. C. Darley

DEWEY, D. M

The Specimen Book of Fruits, Flowers and Ornamental Trees. Carefully Drawn and Colored from Nature, for the Use of Nurserymen

Rochester, NY, D. M. Dewey, [1865]. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") bound in publisher's gilt-decorated blue pebbled cloth, rebacked wiht the original black leather spine, previous owner's name in gilt on front cover with later name in gilt toward bottom; new endpapers. Illustrated with hand-colored title page, 97 full-page hand-colored plates of fruits and flowers, and one plate printed in green, all titled at the bottom and signed in the plate “D. W. Dewey's Series of Fruits, Flowers, and Ornamental Trees. Rochester, NY.” Most have a price in pencil at the bottom of the plate (how Dewey sold them individually). These nurserymen's plates were an American invention. Rochester, NY, was the center of horticultural design in the mid to late 19th century. Dellon Marcus Dewey was the most prolific publisher of these plates, having accumulated around 3000 by the time of his retirement in 1888. Professional artists created the designs, and then Dewey hired young women and girls to paint in the colors. Nurserymen then could select individual plates representing their specific plants or purchase an entire specimen book to show prospective customers. We have found only one copy with more (103) plates which sold in 1999. Most copies seem to have anywhere between 48 and 80 plates. No two specimen books had the same number of plates. This copy is a very early one. Title-page missing a 2” x 3” piece upper right corner and has been mounted on a paper backing. A two-page catalogue dated 1865-6, missing the upper right corner, is mounted at the rear of the book listing over 800 varieties and 200 new colored plates. Some peripheral soiling of several plates, many showing only minimal staining. Eleven plates show some smearing of the color, several suggesting that the smearing might have occurred before the original paint had dried. Circular brown stain measuring 1" on front cover. Very Good .

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Book number: 021652

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Hand-Colored, Floral, Botanical, Illustrated Books, Flowers, Fruit, Americana, Gardening Botanicals Hand-Colored Illustrated Books Flowers

DIETRICH, David

Forst-Flora Oder Abbildung Und Beschreibung Der Fur Den Forstmann Wichtigen Wildwachsenden Baume Und Straucher Sowie Der Nutzlichen Und Schadlichen Krauter

Leipzig, Gebruder Baensch, 1860-1861. Third Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (7-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in publisher's cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards. Revised edition of this scarce treatise on plant specimens native to the German wilderness. Illustrated with 300 hand-colored engraved plates of local forest plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, grasses, flowers, ferns, lichens, mosses, mushrooms, etc. Scarce. Light, occasional foxing to the text, plates quite clean and bright; minor wear to covers. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021651

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Hand-Colored, Floral, Botanical, Illustrated Books, Flowers, Mushrooms, German Botanicals, Mycology Botanicals Hand-Colored Illustrated Books Flowers

DRUESEDOW, Jean L

A Fine Endeavor: Twenty-Five Years of Fashionable Collecting. Kent State University Museum, 1985 - 2010

(Barberton, OH), Kent State University Museum, (2010). First Edition. Softcover. Softcover (9-1/2" x 9-1/2"), 224 pages. Foreword by Linda Allard. Color illustrations on nearly every page. Fine .

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Book number: 019303

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Fashion History, Illustrated Books Fashion Illustrated Books Museum Collections History

EASTMAN, Mary H[enderson]

The American Annual: Illustrative of the Early History of North America

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, [1854]. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in the publisher's gilt-decorated gray cloth, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 21 fine steel-engraved plates, mainly of the Sioux and the Pueblo, after Seth Eastman, the author's husband and one of the finest artists of the frontier American West. The Eastmans depict in words and pictures from their own firsthand experiences the life and manners of Native Americans in the 1840s. Ill.: Seth Eastman. Foxing, mostly light and marginal but occasionally in the image. A few pages toward the end partly detached. Some fading and light wear to spine ends. Very Good Howes E18.

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Book number: 018532

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Americana, Mary Eastman, 19th Century, Pueblo Indians, Sioux, Steel Engravings, Seth Eastman, Native Americans, Western Americana Seth Eastman Steel Engravings Native Americans Seth Eastman Western Americana

[EASTMAN, Mary & Seth] HART, John (editor)

The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir for Mdccclii (1852)

Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in the original full embossed burgundy morocco leather with a gilt decorative figure in the center of both covers. Neatly rebacked at a recent date with a new leather spine. Most notable for the color plates of scenes of Native Americans, some of the earliest chromolithographs made. Also with many articles and poems about Native Americans, most (18) by Mary Eastman. Complete with 12 plates--including the often lacking Presentation plate and The Landing of William Penn--as well as the Illuminated Title Page plate, the List of Illustrations plate, and all 8 chromolithographs of Native Americans by P. S. Duval after drawings by Capt. Seth Eastman are present. They include depictions of "Indian Courtship" and an "Indian Marriage Custom." . Ill.: Seth Eastman. The Presentation plate filled out by the owner in December 1852. Moderate to heavy foxing and staining throughout, the plates darkened a bit but still fairly clean and quite attractive. Overall a Very Good copy with early color plates of Native Americans Seth Eastman was stationed in various posts throughout the West where he and his wife Mary observed and recorded their impressions of American Indians.

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Book number: 017270

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Chromolithographs, Native Americans, Indians, Color Plates, Bindings, 19th Century Literature, Seth Eastman Seth Eastman Western Americana Native Americans Mary Eastman Gift Books

[BOID (Capt. Edward)]

Travels Through Sicily and the Lipari Islands, in the Month of December, 1824. By a Naval Officer

London, T. Flint, 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4") bound in later calf and marbled boards with new endpapers and a gilt-lettered and decorated spine; xvi, 367 pages. Illustrated with a lithographed frontispiece, bound after the title page here, and 11 plates, including 4 hand-colored costume plates, by Louis Haghe. A scarce title that rarely comes up for sale. Slight worming in the gutter of some leaves and the outer margin of one plate, not affecting the text. Foxing, mostly moderate, heaviest to title page and a few plates. Binding solid with some rubbing to the hinges and spine tips. Very Good Abbey, Travel, 265: "This was probably Louis Haghe's first work in England, done at the age of twenty-one.

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Book number: 018487

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Italy, Sicily, Hand-colored Plates Italy Sicily Travel Illustrated Books

FABRE

Book of Insects

New York, Tudor Publishing Company, (1939). Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates with tissue guards by Detmold. Ill.: Detmold. Near Fine .

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Book number: 005323

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Insects, Natural History, Detmold, Color Plates Detmold Natural History Illustrated Books Nonfiction Color Plates

FEILDING, William

The Dragon's Dream

Basle & Geneva, Galerie Schreiner/Galerie Schreiner-Letu SA, [1975]. First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio (18" x 19") in full gilt-decorated and lettered black morocco leather by Zaehnsdorf with gilt dentelles and silk endpapers. Edited by Gerard A. Schreiner. Copy #91 of 99 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page and at the end of the introduction, dated "75." Illustrated with 20 six-color ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS, each individually SIGNED and numbered by Feilding. The lithographs are largely erotically-infused fantastic visions. According to Feilding's introduction, "'The dream of reason produces monsters,' said Goya, and indeed, fascination with the bizarre is as old and universal as the history of art itself. My attempt is to convey the waking dream, looking sublimates the desire to participate, and in the realm of the fantastic, it is a good deal safer. Some scratches to the covers and rubbing to the front joint. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021273

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Signed, Erotica, Original Lithographs, Dragons; Fantasy, Illustrated Books Signed Fantasy Erotica

FINCH, Christopher

The Art of Walt Disney from Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms

New York, Harry N. Abrams, (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. Heavy folio (10-1/2" x 13-1/2") bound in white cloth with wooden cutouts on the cover and protective acetate lettered dustwrapper; 458 pages. Profusely illustrated, 351 plates in color. Based on hundreds of interviews with Disney staff members past and present, this story of Walt Disney and his company's vast artistic achievements through the decades contains more than 800 illustrations ranging from concept art to film stills to views of the theme park attractions. Crease in rear acetate dustwrapper flap with a small section missing at the top of the rear cover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 005519

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Cartoon Art, Animation Art, Disney, Movies, Illustrated Books, Color Plates Children's Literature Animation Art Illustrated Books Disney