THEMERSON, Stefan and THEMERSON, Franciszka

Semantic Divertissements

(London), (Gaberbocchus Press Limited), (1962). First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated wraps (9-1/2" x 12-7/8") with text by Stefan Themerson and illustrations by Franciszka Themerson. Ill.: Franciszka Themerson. Mild soiling to covers. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021689

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Gaberbocchus, Franciszka Themerson Franciszka Themerson Illustrated Books Gaberbocchus Modern First Editions Literature: English

STEP, Edward

Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse

London & New York, Frederick Warne, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Four 6-1/2" x 9-3/4" volumes bound in publisher's 3/4 vellum and green cloth, gilt-lettered green morocco spine labels. Complete with half-titles and 316 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Attractive bookplate on front pastedowns; interiors clean and colors bright; light foxing affecting endpapers and bulked text edges. Light soiling to boards with pink dye stains to upper board of fourth volume; spine labels chipped. Near Fine .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 021657

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

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

TAYLOR, Bayard (editor)

Picturesque Europe: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil... Of Great Britain and the Continent...

New York, Appleton & Company, [1875]. First Edition. Hardcover. Two (of 3) folio (9-3/4" x 12-1/2") volumes bound in publisher's full gilt-decorated black morocco leather. Volumes 2 and 3 only. Illustrated with 2 steel- engraved title pages and 39 (of 60) fine steel-engraved views. Minor foxing to a few plates; frontispiece lacking in the second volume, present but detached in the third volume. Covers rubbed with wear to corners and spine ends with text block detached from covers in the third volume. Good, incomplete set with handsome plates .

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Book number: 021420

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, England, Views, Europe, Travel, Steel Engravings, 19th Century Travel Illustrated Books 19th Century Steel Engravings

TELLIER, Jules (Paul NASH)

Abd-Er-Rhaman in Paradise

[Waltham Saint Lawrence], Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Title-page and three full-page wood engravings by Paul Nash. Copy #389 of 400. The First English Translation (by Brian Rhys) of this tale about a man who must choose between Christian and Muslim heavens. Ill.: Paul Nash. Boards slightly bowed with mild sunning to the spine. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper .

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Book number: 011522

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Islam, Golden Cockerel Press, Fine Press, Wood Engravings, Paul Nash, Modern Firsts, Limited Paul Nash Paul Nash Religion Modern First Editions Islam

TOMBLESON, W[illiam] & FEARNSIDE, W[illiam] G[ray] (editor)

Tombleson's Views of the Rhine

London, W. Tombleson and Company, 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. Two small quarto (5-3/4" x 9-1/2") volumes bound in gilt-decorated and blind-stamped full black morocco leather. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages and 137 fine steel-engraved views as well as a long folding panoramic map of the Rhine from Cologne to Mainz in the first volume and a large folding color map of the Upper Rhine in the second volume. Ill.: W. Tombleson. Owner name of Harriet Mosely dated 1835 on the front blank of each volume with an armorial bookplate on the front endpaper of each volume. Plates bright and clean. Some rubbing to the hinges which are just a little tender with slightly pulled headcaps. Near Fine .

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Book number: 018364

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Travel, Rivers, Rhine, Germany, Illustrated Books, Steel Engravings, 19th Century W. Tombleson Illustrated Books Germany Steel Engravings Travel

TURNER, A[uston] A[ugustus]

Villas on the Hudson. A Collection of Photo-Lithographs of Thirty-One Country Residences

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio (19" x 13-1/2") in original gilt-lettered cloth. Three preliminary leaves, 31 photo-lithographic plates (most with two tints applied by stencil, with gold-printed frames and captions), and 21 floor plans. A visual record of the country residences owned by wealthy New Yorkers between upper Manhattan and Dobbs Ferry produced on the eve of the Civil War, containing images based on photographs taken by A.A. Turner during the late 1850s, this is generally considered to be the first large-scale work to use the process of photo-lithography in the United States. Toning, particularly to plates with floor plans, many with some small stains, mostly to margins; split at front joint, occasional loss of small pieces of cloth at extremities. Very Good .

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Book number: 021297

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: New York, Illustrated Books, Photo-Lithography, Americana, Architecture, 19th Century Photography, Illustrated Books 19th Century Photography Architecture New York

VOLTAIRE

Candide

New York, Hermitage House, 1949. First Edition. Decorated boards. Voltaire's classic with mildly erotic illustrations by Sydney Joseph. One of 1500 copies, this copy not numbered as apparently many were not. Ill.: Sydney Joseph. Fine in close to Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 014595

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Sydney Joseph, Erotica, Erotic Illustration, Voltaire, French Literature, Satire Sydney Joseph Illustrated Books Classics French Literature Satire

VOLTAIRE

Candide Ou L'Optimisme. Zadig. Jeannot Et Colin

Paris, Editions Nilsson, (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 Robert Polack on the same thin paper tipped in. Foxing throughout, not affecting the illustrations. The fragile illustrated paper dustwrapper is intact but for small chips on the spine and has neatly detached from the book. Very Good .

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Book number: 019495

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

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

WILDER, Thornton (Jean CHARLOT)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

New York, The Heritage Press, (1962). Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-5/8" x 10-3/4") bound in blue and gray cloth with a silhouette frieze of the Bridge's doomed pedestrians stamped in black on both covers. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Illustrated with 16 color plates by Jean Charlot. A lovely reproduction of the Limited Editions Club version of this Pulitzer Prize winning book. Ill.: Jean Charlot. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 000765

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Jean Charlot, Illustrated Books, Modern Firsts, Pulitzer Prize, Modern First Editions Jean Charlot Modern First Editions Literature: American Pulitzer Prize Illustrated Books

WILLIS, N. P

American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature

London, George Virtue, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Two 8-1/4" x 10-3/4" volumes in publisher's gilt-decorated full green morocco leather, all edges gilt. Beautifully illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait and map, 2 engraved title-pages, and 117 steel engravings after W. H. Bartlett, all with tissue guards. Ill.: W. H. Bartlett. Endpapers foxed, plates generally clean with some light to moderate foxing, mainly in the margins. Light wear to bindings with rubbing, mostly to the joints; covers tight. Very Good .

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Book number: 021466

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Americana, 19th Century American Literature, W. H. Bartlett W. H. Bartlett Illustrated Books Americana 19th Century W. H. Bartlett

WILLMOTT, Ellen

The Genus Rosa

London, John Murray, 1910-1914. First Edition. Softcover. Folio (11" x 15") in printed wrappers housed in two green morocco-backed slipcases with chemises. The complete set of 25 individual parts of the most important work on roses in the twentieth century, illustrated with 132 chromolithograph plates after watercolours by Alfred Parsons, 87 black and white plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. RIX, THE ART OF THE BOTANIST, 1981: "The first great colour-printed book of the twentieth century - it still stands unrivalled, both as an account of the species and as a source of illustrations of wild roses." Ellen Willmott (1858 - 1934) was a celebrated English horticulturist, prominent member of the Royal Horticultural Society, one of the first two women to be admitted into the Linnaean Society, and one of the first recipients of the Victoria Medal of Honour in 1897. At the front of the chemise for the first volume is pasted an original and beautiful manuscript presentation dated September 1929 to William Adams Delano for work on the exhibitions for the International Flower Show. Delano was an American architect and a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich. He designed many of the buildings at Yale University as well as the second-largest residence in the United States, Oheka, overlooking Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island for financier Otto Kahn. He was also the architect for the 1927 renovation to the White House, which later led to structural problems and rebuilding during the Truman Administration. There are many small drawings and tracings throughout this set on loose pieces of paper, possibly by Delano. Ill.: Alfred Parsons. Plates strong and fresh; occasional paperclip impression at very top margin of some pages including plates; some pages loose or detached; light wear to wrappers, somewhat heavier wear to slipcases. Near Fine and quite scarce in original wrappers .

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Book number: 021672

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Color Plates, Roses, Botanicals, Chromolithographs Alfred Parsons Botanicals Roses Chromolithographs Illustrated Books

WRIGHT, G. N

The Rhine, Italy, and Greece. In a Series of Drawings from Nature by Colonel Cockburn, Major Irton; Messrs. Bartlett, Leitch, and Wolfensberger

London & Paris, Fisher, Son, & Co, [1840]. First Edition. Hardcover. An early issue with just Fisher listed as publisher. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") volumes bound together in contemporary half green morocco leather and cloth with morocco corners, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages and 71 fine steel-engraved plates. Plates very clean with tissue guards present. Binding tight with possible repair; hinges rubbed. Very Good .

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Book number: 020185

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: 19th Century Illustrated Books, Italy, Greece, Travel Steel Engravings Travel 19th Century Illustrated Books Illustrated Books