Moscherosch, Johann Michael

WUNDERLICHE UND Warhafftige Gesichte Philanders von Sittewald, volume 1 only (of 2)

Strasbourg, Tobias Stadeln 1677 Copperplate engraved pictorial TP + 7 copperplates + a full-page woodcut & many woodcut text illustrations . Volume 1 only (of 2) small octavo contemporary leather with 4 raised bands, spine compartments gilt & contrasting gilt title-label over wooden boards once had clasps, now missing. Hinges cracked but covers well attached/chipped down at head and foot of spine/tips worn/scuffed and leather loss to lower cover where one clasp once attached. [48] + 709 + [24] pp. Neat ink notes on front pastedown & bookseller's old catalogue cutting tipped in. Slight browning along gutter of Engraved TP & a few marginal marks to 4 pages, one corner torn away affecting 3 letters of the shoulder notes only. *These tales are in German but with many French, Greek & Latin interpolations and each of the seven is complete in itself. They each have a halftitle and usually a Latin peroration saluting different notables, a german Preface follows and the text has side notes of classical, biblical & other citations. An Epiloge follows the seventh and a German and a Latin "addition" precedes the index. The copperplates show men being tempted by devils, the resurection of the dead, the evils that men do, the punishments of wrongdoers, all in busy town and country scenes. British Library also only has this first volume.

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N° du livre: V67295

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: early printing

A.Mosengel

MIGNON GALLERIE - DIE SCHWEIZ artist Anst. Gustav W. Seitz

Wandsbeck, Gustav W.Seitz chromoliths [25] mounted on card illustrated by Gustav W.Seitz Seitz + 3 Additional advertising cards . Duodecimo green cloth on bevelled boards with gilt and red decoration & titling[tips slightly.worn/edges bit rubbed] opens to what would be the title page with orange & black title/author/artist/publisher information and an oval chromolith view. On the verso of the cover is a List of the 24 views which are inside the case holding the 24 chromoliths mounted on 24 cards. The verso of each card has a full description of the Swiss view shown in the picture.In addition there are three Rare advertisement cards with chromoliths on one side but no description but a sales pitch for the large size framable pictures of views purchable at Seitz's Wandsbeck "Artistic Institute" These large Aquarell-reproductions were 41 x 50mm and cost 5 Marks! These were probaby free samples to entice customers to buy large reproductions. The wallet of 24 cards is complete as listed in the contents list. Four cards have tears without loss to the mount ONLY, one has a repair to the title,and two have some foxing to the Mount only. One mounted picture has a 5 by 2mm corner chip and several have slight signs of handling but the full set of loose cards and the thee advert cards are quite scarce and the small pictures are fine examples of chromolithography.

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N° du livre: V75432

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: SWITZERLAND chromolithographs

A.Mosengel

MIGNON GALLERIE - DIE SCHWEIZ artist Anst. Gustav W. Seitz

Wandsbeck, Gustav W.Seitz 1860's chromoliths [12] mounted on card illustrated by Gustav W.Seitz Seitz An Incomplete set + an oval chromolith to inside of wallet . 12mo green cloth on bevelled boards with gilt and red decoration & titling [tips sl.worn/edges bit rubbed/inside,the wallet has been repaired] Opens to what would be the title page with orange & black title/author/artist/publisher information and an oval chromolith view. On the verso of the cover is a List of the 24 views in a full set. We have only 12 chromolith view cards of which 6 are advertisement cards with chromoliths on one side but no description only a sales pitch for the large size framable pictures of views purchasable at Seitz's Wandsbeck "Artistic Institute" These large Aquarell-reproductions were 41 x 50mm and cost 5 Marks each! These small cards were probaby free samples to entice customers to buy large reproductions. The other 6 cards have a full description of the Swiss view shown in the picture on the front of the card.The mounts of two cards are repaired not affectiong the chromolith plate and there are a few other signs of use but nothing detracting from the lovely Swiss views.

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N° du livre: V75433

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: SWITZERLAND chromolithographs

La Motte Fouque,Baron de

UNDINE a legend ..translated by F.E.Bunnett [Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett illustrated by Julius Hoppner.

London, Griffith,Farran.Okenden & Welsh & New York E.P.Dutton & Co [1885] chromolithograph plates [9] + 42 sepia head- & tail-pieces By Julius Hoppner + every text page within sylistic floral etc frames. . Elephant folio overall gilt tan pebbled cloth on bevelled boards with large central sunken panel with printed on silk [?] the picture of Undine walking on water guided by the old man. Spine dercoratively gilt titled lower cover blindtooled. [Edges and corners worn/ spine rebacked with old spine laid on/scratches to the silk picture/some uneven sunning] All Edges Gilt and with pale green and overall gilt endpapers. Frontispiece + titlepage in sepia and brown pictorial surround with gilt title & text within. Decorative Dedication leaf printed one side only, gilt & sepia decorated dedicatory text printed one side only + half title in floral surround [recto only]+ Chapters 1-19 are unpaginated and printed both sides of leaves making 49pp with verso of last blank. All text within decorated frames and with illustrations to beginning and end of each chapter. Insterspersed are the beautiful large chromoliths each with a captioned protective guard sheet.Some foxing,mainly to edgees of margins else a clean tight copy. Quite scarce this ENGLISH translation is only found at the British Library + at Oxford & Cambridge. [over weight will need extra postage] N.B. most of the German texts of this book are in 8vo size [30 x 23cm] this is 49.5 x 38.5cm.

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N° du livre: V75706

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: chomolithographs Rare English version German legend

Moule, Thomas (1784-1851) drawings by William Westall

GREAT BRITAIN ILLUSTRATED A Series of Original Views from Drawings by William Westall A.R.A. engraved by and under the direction of Edward Finden, with Descriptions by Thomas Moule.

London, Charles Tilt 1st edition 1830 Engravings (111) including large view of London from Greenwich on the engraved title by William Westall, all but the titlepage are 2 per page. . Quarto contemporary red half roan gilt decorated and titled to spine with pebbled cloth sides (tips rubbed but covers well attached an head and tail of spine complete and not chipped just rubbed) vi (includes printed and engraved title, preface & contents) + 118pp +[4]pp of text in English and French on Parisian views. A few sections with foxing but most minimally affected. The contents list strangely repeats most of the names in form of place name followed by city and then listed by city followed by place name making it look as if there should be twice the number of illustrations than actually called for. Two marginal tears neither touching any printed area, front endpaper creased and both free endpapers foxed but pastedowns and versos of free endpapers not foxed. *The scenes depicted are lively and show people, carriages, farm animals, ships etc. They include both town and country views, stately houses, factories, villages and farms, distant views and close up street scenes.

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N° du livre: V74609

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: topography engraved views

Le Moyne, Pierre (1602-1671)

OF THE ART BOTH OF WRITING AND JUDGING OF HISTORY, with Reflections upon Ancient as well as Modern Historians ..By the most Learned and Ingenuous Jesuit Father Le-Moyne.

London, R. Sare and J. Hindmarsh 1695 . Duodecimo tan leather on 5 raised bands gilt ruled to spine & covers as well as fore-edges (top cover held by cords only/tips rubbed) All Edges Rouged, [12]pp prelims + 224pp. Ownership (Biggs) on page after Title, and p1 of text has offsetting from print formerly laid in front of it. Titlepage has 2 wiped inkmarks and somewhat browned as are all prelims, but text pages are clear until last 5 leaves which have some browning. *This 1695 printing seems to be only one in English, it is scarce as only one copy in American Books Prices Current and no others currently for sale. It deales with the merits of History and Historians, truth is essential and faults must be avoided as narrative needs order and style.

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N° du livre: V74694

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: How to Write History

Mudie, Robert (1777-1842)

THE AIR

London, Ward & Co. 1835 Colour frontispiece and Titlepage vignette by George Baxter (1804-1867) from original paintings by W. Fowler. . Octavo (164x101mm) red leather spined, diapered patterned green cloth sides (rebacked with part of old title relaid, corners worn). Colour frontispiece and colour vignette to titlepage + viii + 280pp. Quite heavily foxed at beginning and end, titlepage somewhat stained also, otherwise very good.

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N° du livre: V75316

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Baxter oil colour printing process

Mulgrave, (John Sheffield) Earl of Mulgrave

AN ESSAY ON POETRY

London, H. Hills, in Black-fryars, near the Water-side 1709 . Octavo (17.5x11cm) disbound titlepage with first word of title just at top edge of page as are parentheses of next page number (3) but neither is actually cropped, other margins are all present. Titlepage with 4 printers's ornaments between 2 ruled lines, 16 pages. Usual slight browning else neat. An Essay Upon Poetry is written in couplets and describes the main forms of poetry - songs, elegies, odes, satyr [ie satire] and plays in that order. Misprint on page 10 is corrected in margin in ink {neat and not recent]. *Sheffield led an adventurous life starting in the navy, often in trouble, both in politics and out of favour. Pope admired this Essay and although often attributed to Drydan (it appeared in his collected works) Dryden may actually have had some minor contributions to the poem it is now firmly acknowledged to be Sheffield's work. Referenced by Foxon 5389.

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N° du livre: V75300

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: poetry

Mulholland,Rosa (1841-1921)

LITTLE FLOWER SEEKERS Being Adventures of Trot and Daisy in a Wonderful Garden, by Moonlight. Illustrated with chromographs from the originals in water-colors by W.H. Fitch, W. French, and F.E. Hulme, F.L.S., F.S.A.

London, Marcus Ward & Co. First edition n.d.but circa 1870 Chromographs tipped in (12) from originals by W.H. Fitch, French and Hulme + full page illustration of a poppy which has been neatly hand coloured (p68). . 270x158mm blue pictorial cloth gilt lettered to cover (tips and spine hinges worn, lower cover scratched) 126pp. A very nice clean copy. *LOVELY FLOWER PLATES.

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N° du livre: V72183

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: flower illustrations

Murray,James] (1732-1782) but author not named

SERMONS TO ASSES The Second Edition

London, J. Johnson, T. Cadell & W. Charnley at Newcastle 2nd edition 1768 Copperplate showing ass reading from a book carrying baskets labelled Politics. . 155x92mm contemporary leather on 5 raised bands with gilt rules to spine and covers (tips worn/split to upper & lower band) vi +255pp last pages browned, titlepage and first few leaves slightly foxed but a neat tight copy. A few pencil annotations/comments including the attribution of some of the pseudonyms used to hide the personages being satirised. *A satire on the church establishment. "The author has deferred setting his name to these discourses till the twentieth edition, when he may perhaps find D.D. to fix to them, like other authros" p. vi (attributed to James Murray by ESTC).

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N° du livre: V72078

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: satire English politics religion manners

Musgrave,Samuel

TWO DISSERTATIONS I. On the GRAECIAN MYTHOLOGY II. AN EXAMINATION OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S OBJECTIONS to the Chronology of the Olympiads.

London, Printed by J. Nichols 1782 . Octavo contemporary roan gilt (rebacked with half of old spine leather laid on including most of spine label/corners worn). Titlepage +advert leaf +xxii (subscriber list) +half title +231pp. Victorian Institution label to pastedown with rules for the library's use. *The first edition published after the death of the author to benefit his widow including many Large paper copies including such for Dr.Johnson, Sir Josshua Reynolds, Sir Joseph Banks and others. The second of these treatises seeks to refute Isaac Newton's argument that peoples tend to exagerate the antiquity of their origins as a matter of vanity and thus falsified their chronology. He belived that the Greeks did this with the origin of the Olympiads. Musgrave in this disseration works through the victors of the Olympic games to give a different chronology that actually seems to push the first Olympiad to an even earlier period.

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N° du livre: V72137

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: history mythology Greece Olympic games chronology

Nalson,J.

A TRUE COPY OF THE JOURNAL OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE FOR THE TRYAL OF K.CHARLES I as it was read in the house of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps, Clerk of that infamous Court. With a large introduction.

London, H.C.[Henry Clarke] for Thomas Dring 1684 Frontispiece of King Charles by R. White + full page engraving of the Court +engraving of the execution scene stuck in at p120. . folio pocked leather on 6 raised bands [covers detached/corners worn/spine lacks parts of top & bottom compartment] First blank with watermark of the Royal Coat of Arms + Explanation of Frontispiece + Facsimile of Frontispiece + Portrait of King Charles I + titlepage +[4p=dedication] + [2p=To Reader] =[14pp of prelims] + LXXpp = Introduction + plate of the Courtroom +{2p=explication of the courtroom plate] + 120pp +[6pp=Catalogue of members of court] +{1p=publisher's booklist] + {1p=blank] Note that the catchword at the end of "To The Reader" is for the actual Journal and not for the Introduction but both are Signed B. The Introduction signed B-T2 the Journal B-Mm2. The commissioners Present at the Westminster-Hall are printed in red [p86] as are those those that Sealed and subscribed to the Order for Execution [p110]. the alphabetical catalogue of Members at the end of the volume are listed and shown which of them acted[=signed the Warrant],the times when and where they sat, & those present when Sentence given. Front pastedown has a Coat of arms book plate + "bought at auction by Peter Brooke" to corner of free endpaper.Wing N116

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N° du livre: V75712

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Royalist history King Charles I trial

NAPOLEON III., Emperor of the French illustrated H.G.Hine

THE POETIC WORKS OF LOUIS NAPOLEON now first done into Plain English.

London, David Bogue 1852 Amusing text illustrations (about 100) by H.G. Hine. . 16mo plum pebbled cloth (head of spine chipped for 1cm) xii +112pp +full page tail plate. Satirical poems on events in the Emperor's life and on his “Idees Napoleoniennes”. No author suggested by the British Library catalogue. Last 2 leaves dusty and although there are no library marks in the book the spine has a gilt shelf number.

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N° du livre: V65789

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: satirical attack Emperor Napoleon III

NASH, Treadway Russell.

COLLECTIONS FOR THE HISTORY of WORCESTERSHIRE

London, John White, Second Edition with additions. 1799 Plates [98 in plate list [RECTE 99] including the pedigree plates with many being folding + large folding Map mounted on linen + 15 Domesday plates + 2 large pictorial titlepage vignettes + 19 text-i. 2 volumes, folio [430x262mm] 1/2 calf cloth sides with 5 raised spine bands,decoratively gilt to spine & compartments and gilt titled [front covers held by inner hinges/edges rubbed/tips worn/a few marks but head & foot of spine complete) Folding Map + title page + dedication leaf + xcii [=sheriffs,MPs ,knights, churches, forests etc] + 609pp including index + Portrait + title to vol,II + Dedicartion by compiler + 484pp +appendix = clviii =[168pp] + 32pp [being observations on Doomsday for Worcestershire] + [10p=Index to 2nd vol. & plate list] + 3rd Titlepage + 104pp = Corrections and Additions. The illustrations etc are not within the pagination. A few leaves with minor foxing and five leaves with off-setting from something once laid in now gone. A very neat tight wide-margined copy with interesting plates and well written history. There are 28 pedigrees shown in the plate list, but many others are within the text and thus not counted on the plate list. This 1799 second edition is the preferred edition because of the extra additions, corrections and Supplementary material. Cf.Upcott 1330-7

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N° du livre: V75852

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Worcestershire

Nash, Joseph (1808-1878)

THE MANSIONS OF ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME Series 1 & Series 2

London, T. McLean 1st first edition 1839, 1840 Toned sepia lithographs two with added color as issued (50 plates) + two pictorial lithograph titlepages, engraved by Hullmandel. . Elephant folio (500x350mm [21x14inches] with the engraved area approx 390x300mm). Contemporary roan spined moire boards. Gilt titled to spine and gilt titled to cover - portfolio containing both series (neat repair to head & foot of spine-Less than 1") All plates loose and on thick stiff paper and without text although each has a caption (backs are hand numbered). These are NOT the reduced size reprints redrawn by M & N Hanhart. The plates vary slightly in size but all have good wide margins, some marginal foxing/edge dusting. *The plates show mainly named Elizabethan and Jacobean mansions in views of exteriors and interiors that contain people, horses, children, dogs etc with some recognizable historic characters (eg. Hanry VIII with Anne Boleyn) and domestic scenes with music lessons, family groups around the fire, at a banquet, saddling up for a journey etc.

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N° du livre: V69332

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: large lithographic views