GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm

Der Zaunkonig Und Der Bar

[Providence, RI], [1961-62]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small thin folio (9-1/2" x 12-3/4") in decorated boards; [12] pages. Illustrated with a number of small black and red woodcuts scattered throughout the text. This version of Grimm's tale "The Kingbird and the Bear," a story of a humorous battle between the land animals and the flying creatures of the world, was printed and illustrated by Ilse Buchert in obviously small numbers, though no statement of limitation is included in the book. Ill.: Ilse Buchert. Minor foxing to preliminaries. Near Fine .

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Book number: 014609

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: German Language, Wood Engravings, Grimm Brothers, Children's Literature, Ilse Buchert, Woodcuts Ilse Buchert Children's Literature Colored Woodcuts Illustrated Books German Literature

CHRIST-JANER, Albert

Boardman Robinson

University of Chicago, (1946). First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9-3/4" x 13") in gilt-lettered cloth. With a chapter by Adolph Dehn and a catalogue raisonee. Illustrated with numerous plates, mostly black-and-white. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 004248

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Art, Illustrated Books, Catalogue Raisonee, Biography Biography Illustrated Books Catalogue Raisonee Art

[JAPAN]

The Ceremonies of a Japanese Marriage

(Kobe, Japan), (T. Takagi), (1908). First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in flexible string-tied silk boards (10" x 7") with a color-printed title page and 20 color collotypes with some hand-coloring protected by tissue guards depicting the process of making silk. Near Fine .

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Book number: 018530

Catalogue: illustrated Books

Keywords: illustrated Books, Anthropology, Japan, Marriage, Gift Item Japan Marriage Wedding Gifts illustrated Books

JORDAN, David Starr & EVERMANN, Barton Warren

American Food and Game Fishes. A Popular Account of All the Species Found in America North of the Equator, with Keys for Ready Identification, Life Histories and Methods of Capture

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's cloth with a gilt-lettered leather label. Illustrated with text drawings, photographs, and 10 full-page chromolithographs by Julius Bien; xlviii, 572 pages. Rubbed, spine label chipped; contents clean. Very Good .

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Book number: 004628

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Natural History, Color Plates, Illustrated Books, Fishing, Angling, Sports Illustrated Books Angling Natural History Americana

SAINT-JUIRS

The Tavern of Three Virtues

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in publisher's bright red cloth with gilt decoration. One of 650 copies illustrated with 60 drawings by Daniel Vierge. Includes a critical essay on Vierge by Edmund Gosse. Ill.: Daniel Vierge. Just about Fine .

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Book number: 018768

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Daniel Vierge, Limited Editions, French Literature Daniel Vierge French Literature Illustrated Books Limited Daniel Vierge

KIPLING, Rudyard

Sea & Sussex

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's blue cloth. Illustrated with 24 color plates by Donald Maxwell. Ill.: Donald Maxwell. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Minor fraying to tips of spine which is sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper .

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Book number: 001517

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Illustrated Books, Donald Maxwell, Rudyard Kipling Donald Maxwell 20th Century British Literature Illustrated Books Literature: English Modern First Editions

KIPLING, Rudyard

Sea & Sussex

Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's blue cloth. Illustrated with 24 color plates by Donald Maxwell. Ill.: Donald Maxwell. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Minor fraying to tips of spine which is sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper .

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Book number: 015221

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Illustrated Books, Donald Maxwell, Rudyard Kipling Donald Maxwell 20th Century British Literature Illustrated Books Literature: English Modern First Editions

KIPLING, Rudyard

Tales of India

New York, Rand McNally & Company, (1937). Reprint. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth. Illustrated with 5 full-page color plates and black-and-white text illustrations by Paul Strayer. Ill.: Paul Strayer. Aging to cheap paper; light wear to head of spine. Very Good .

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Book number: 020192

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, India, 19th Century British Literature Paul Strayer India Illustrated Books 19th Century British Literature 19th Century Literature

KNOOP, Johann Hermann

Pomologia, Dat Is Beschryvingen En Afbeeldingen Van de Beste Zoorten Van Appels En Peeren, Welke in Neder- En Hoog-Duitschland, Frankryk, Engleland En Elders Geagt Zyn, En Tot Dien Einde Gecultiveert Worden [with] Fructologia, of Beschryving Der Vrugtbomen En Vrugten... . [with] Dendrologia, of Beschryving Der Plantagie-Gewassen...

Leeuwarden, A Ferwerda and G. Tresling, [1758]. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (8-1/4" x 13") bound in contemporary half calf leather gilt, spine with raised bands with gilt borders and gilt decorations, red morocco spine label. With 3 printed title pages and illustrated with 39 folding engraved plates of apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, nuts, and grapes, all with fine contemporary hand-coloring, among the earliest books on the subject to be illustrated with color plates. Two ink stamps to front endpaper and one to title page, a few faint marginal stains; light wear to binding. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021658

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Hand-Colored, Floral, Botanical, Illustrated Books, Fruit, Gardening, 18th Century Botanicals Hand-Colored Illustrated Books Fruits

KUBIN, Alfred

Fûnfzehn Facsimiledrucke: Portfolio of 15 Prints. Diese Fünfzehn Drucke, Getreue Wiedergaben Der Originale in Papier, Format Und Bild, Wurden in Der Kunstansalt Von J.B. Obernetter in München Hergestellt. 1000 Exemplare Wurden Auf Einem Nach Muster Des Originalpapiers Geschöpften Bütten Abgezogen, 100 Exemplare Auf Kaiserl. Japan über Kupferdruckpapier Wurden Numeriert Und Vom Künstler Signiert

München, Hans von Weber-Verl. [1903]. First Edition. Hardcover. Large (15" x 18-1/2") string-tied black cloth portfolio with the artist's name in gilt on the front cover and containing 15 loose prints (14" x 17-1/2") from original drawings with the artist's printed signature and title beneath each image. The first independent publication by the artist and the first published work by Hans von Weber. Kubin, an Austrian (1877 - 1959) Expressionist artist, seems to have been influenced by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer on suffering and misfortune. His work is dark, unflinching, and symbolic. One print, "The Hour of Death" depicts the scything hand of the clock as it beheads men as it turns, the severed heads caught in a net below. Another, "The Fate of Mankind" shows a woman with a cloth over her head sweeping the living towards the cliff of their deaths. Yet another titled "Epidemic" depicts a giant hunched skeletal figure spreading disease like seeds over a village. Another titled "Science" shows a chimp scratching its head in puzzlement as it stands over a human corpse. Others concern war, death, and other "torments that plague our existence." This copy lacks the limitation page which, according to Paul Raabe (ALFRED KUBIN LEBEN - WERK - WIRKUNG, Hamburg, 1957, no. 8, mentioned page 71), was not issued with every copy. This likely from the edition of 1000 as a copy of the smaller limitation with the signed limitation page sold at Sotheby's London in 2020 (15,000 GBP) is described as slightly larger. In 2019, several of the original drawings these prints are based on sold also at Sotheby's London for between 500,000 and a million GBP each. Ill.: Alfred Kubin. Title page soiled; prints are Fine but for a few minor turned corners. Housed in a soiled, Very Good slipcase. Quite scarce .

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Book number: 020587

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Expressionism, Limited Editions, Original Art, Illustrated Books, Alfred Kubin Alfred Kubin Illustrated Books Alfred Kubin Original Art Expressionism

LACROIX, Paul

1. Les Arts Au Moyen Age Et a L’époque de la Renaissance (1871, Third Edition); 2. Moeurs, Usages Et Costumes Au Moyen Age Et a L’époque de la Renaissance (1872, Second Edition); 3. XVIII Siècle Institutions, Usages Et Costumes France, 1700 – 1789 (1875, First Edition); 4. Vie Militaire Et Religieuse Au Moyen Age Et a L’époque de la Renaissance (1877, Fourth Edition); 5. Sciences Et Lettres Au Moyen Age Et a L’époque de la Renaissance (1877, Second Edition); 6. XVIII Siècle Lettres Sciences Et Arts XVII Siècle France, 1700 – 1789 (1878, Second Edition); 7. Institutions Usages Et Costumes France, 1390 – 1700 (1880, First Edition); and 8. XVII Siècle, Lettres, Sciences Et Arts France, 1390 – 1700 (1882, Second Edition)

Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1871 - 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Eight quarto (7-1/2" x 11") volumes bound in full green morocco leather by Bickers & Son with triple gilt-ruled covers with gilt fleur-de-lys corner decorations, gilt-decorated spines with contrasting morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 131 full-page chromolithograph plates as well as numerous full-page black-and-white plates and text engravings illustrating all facets of life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Text in French. Each volume with the bookplate of Lovis Childs Madeira, designed by Walter M. Aikman, on the front pastedown. Occasional spot of foxing but generally clean and bright; minor scratches and wear to bindings, spine labels rather dry. Near Fine set of these beautifully illustrated and bound books .

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Book number: 021304

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Chromolithographs, French, 19th Century, Color Plates, Middle Ages, Medieval History, Fine Bindings Middle Ages Chromolithographs French Illustrated Books

LAFITAU, Joseph-Francois

De Zeden Der Wilden Van Amerika

The Hague, Gerard Vander Poel, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio (7-3/4" x 12") volumes bound in one in contemporary full Dutch vellum, covers tooled in blind with large central blocked arabesque, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, early manuscript titling to the second compartment. Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, a map, and 41 plates. First Dutch Edition of a key work on Native American peoples. Lafitau was assigned as a Jesuit missionary to Canada from 1711-1718 and was based for much of that period among the Iroquois at Sault Saint-Louis. His work, written in an attempt to prove that the native American peoples were descended from Tartar stock, provides a wealth of information on the customs, religious beliefs, and social organization of the Iroquois and the other northern tribes. Field 851: "a grand cyclopaedia of Indian history, and the customs at that date"; Howes L22; JCB (I), page 472; Lande S1194: "This is one of the most beautiful editions of Lafitau's works"; Sabin 38598; TPL 159. Some light toning throughout; upper joint split, covers bowed and soiled. Very Good .

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Book number: 014123

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Americana, Dutch, 18th Century, Travel, Indians Native Americans Early Printed Books Canada Maps

LAWRENCE, D. H. (HUGHES-STANTON, Blair)

Birds, Beasts and Flowers Poems

London, The Cresset Press Ltd. 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's pigskin by Wood (8-1/2" x 13-1/2") gilt lettered on the spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 10 striking full-page wood engravings and two text engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. First published in 1923, this edition differs because of the addition of 10 wood engravings by Hughes-Stanton as well as new prose paragraphs by Lawrence at the head of each section. Copy XV of 30 copies with extra suite of 10 proofs from a total edition of 530. Lawrence's reflections on the world beyond humanity. Ill.: Blair Hughes-Stanton. Contents fresh. Some spotting to covers with mild rubbing at extremities; some edge creasing to proofs (not affecting images) with a few hints of foxing. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021643

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Limited, Blair Hughes-Stanton Blair Hughes-Stanton Modern First Editions Illustrated Books Literature: English Limited

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. The Author's Edition: quarto (6-3/8" x 8-3/4") bound in 3/4 brown morocco leather and green boards with gilt rules, five raised bands, and a gilt-lettered and decorated spine, top edge gilt; iv, 644 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Longfellow and 180 designs by Sir John Gilbert, R.A. engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Contents generally clean, occasional light foxing. Minor rubbing to joints and spine tips with the lower rear corner rather severely bumped. Ill.: Sir John Gilbert. Contents clean; some rubbing to the joints. Very Good with wonderful illustrations .

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Book number: 011959

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Poetry, Illustrated Books, Brothers Dalziel, Victorian Illustration, Sir John Gilbert, Henry W. Longfellow, 19th Century Literature Sir John Gilbert 19th Century American Literature Literature: American Sir John Gilbert Fine Bindings

LONGUS

Daphnis Et Chloe

Paris, Editions Nilsson, n.d. [@1930]. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-1/8") in stiff paper binding with a thin brown paper cover with watercolor decorations on front and rear panels, as well as the spine. The French text is accompanied by 6 hand-colored pochoir plates by G. P. Joumard on the same thin paper tipped in. Stated limitation of 100 copies. Some foxing throughout, heaviest at endpapers and not affecting the illustrations. The fragile illustrated paper dustwrapper is intact but for a 1-1/2" chip at the base of the spine. Very Good .

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Book number: 019494

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Color Plate Books, Pochoir, Erotica Illustrated Books French Literature Hand-Colored Plates Erotica