- Category = Art,Illustrated,Architecture,Fine Bindings,Photography,Prints & Posters
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Chastelaine de Vergi
bois Victor Stuvyaert
Bruges: Aux éditions A.G. Stainforth, 1952. Soft covers. Limited edition - copy #112/450. Clean and tidy covers, and internally in excellent condition. Illustrated throughout with Stuvyaert's beautiful woodcuts. Text in French. 58 pages. 165 x 130 mm (6½ x 5 inches). Couvertures souples. Édition limitée - exemplaire #112/450. Couvertures propres et bien rangées, et intérieur en excellent état. Illustré partout avec les belles gravures sur bois de Stuvyaert. Texte en français. 58 pages. 165 x 130 mm
Book ID: 3139More details Price: £28.00 -
Childhoods Heroes.
Stories of Robinson Crusoe, Rip Van Winkle, and Robin Hood.
New York: Mcloughlin Bro's, 1889. Scarce. First edition. Hardback colour illustrated boards. Brief illustrated retellings of three favourite children's stories. Boards a little rubbed at edges, and to top and tail of spine. Gilt embellished colour illustrated title page. Very clean and tidy inside - with 16 very nice full-page colour illustrations, and several in text b/w illustrations. Unpaginated. 270 x 220 mm (10¾ x 8¾ inches).
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Book ID: 3951More details Price: £200.00 -
Chinese Pictorial Art.
Illustrated by Coloured and Collotyped Reproductions from the Author's Collection with Descriptions and Notes on the History of Drawing, Writing, etc., Translated from Standard Chinese Authors. [AND:] Supplement Illustrating a Few Interesting Pieces of Bronze, Ceramics, and Jade.
Book ID: 2240More details Price: £450.00
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Choke-Bore Guns, and How to Load for all kinds of Game.
London, Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin. First edition. Undated - but 1876. Hardback,in publisher's brown cloth boards. Titles and designs gilt stamped to front board and spine. Complete; including large folding plates to both the front and rear pockets. Plates and tables printed on both sides. Boards lightly rubbed at corners; overall in very good condition. vii, 215, [1] pages illustrations, 3 folded plates, 2 folded tables. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3907More details Price: £180.00 -
Church of St. Helena, Bethlehem from Views in the Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia.
Condition: The frame is in good, clean condition, with one tiny nick to the edge of the frame. The lithograph is clean, with just a very faint darkening / foxing to the white edges.
Book ID: 2636More details Price: £500.00 -
Cinderella, and other nursery tales.
With twenty-four page illustrations, printed in colours.
Book ID: 4159More details Price: £80.00
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Cinderella / The Night Before Christmas (Turnover Book - Volume II).
Illustrated by John R. Neill
Book ID: 2590More details Price: £300.00
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Clef des Songes. Trente Bois Originaux.
Suivis d'un repertoire de l'oeuvre grave de l'auteur
Lyon: Ecrivains Réunis, 1950. Lovely copy of this First edition. Limited editions. 30 original woodcuts printed full page followed by the catalogue of the engraved work of the artist 16 pp. 1/700 numbered copies on tinted Lana (n ° 675). Beautiful copy. Slight crease to one corner of the cover. Otherwise immaculate inside and out. Some pages uncut. 190 by 140mm (7½ by 5½ inches). Bel exemplaire de cette première édition. Éditions limitées. 30 bois gravés originaux imprimés à pleine page suivis du catalogue de l'oeuvre gravée de l'artiste 16 pp. 1/700 exemplaires numérotés sur Lana teinté (n°675). Bel exemplaire. Légère pliure à un coin de la couverture. Sinon impeccable à l'intérieur comme à l'extérieur. Certaines pages non coupées. 190 par 140 mm
Book ID: 3265More details Price: £140.00 -
Codex.
Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 2019. First Edition. Hardback green cloth boards, with colour photos pasted to both front and back boards - as issued. Fascinated by nature, the anonymous street artist ROA likes to be inspired by its beauty. His work involves the brutal side of the animal world. With great attention to detail his nomadic lifestyle takes him all over the world, from Moscow to Mexico City, and from Los Angeles to London. This book features amazing photographs of over 300 of his signature colossal monochrome drawings of endangered native species. In a very good / fine condition. 352 pages. 310 x 255 mm (12¼ x 10 inches).
Book ID: 3467More details Price: £50.00 -
Coktail Blues
Book ID: 4367More details Price: £75.00
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Commentarium de Urethrae Corporis Glandisque Structura
Book ID: 3041More details Price: £700.00
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Commerce.
Planche 9 depuis: Diverses figures hiéroglyphiques peintes par Raphael d'Urbin dans une des salles du Vatican à Rome.
Book ID: 3178More details Price: £50.00
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Compte Rendu.
A collection of 18 aquatint views and 11 hand-coloured costumes.
Amsterdam: E. Maaskamp, 1812. First edition. A beautiful bound volume, with 29 plates produced by Maaskamp between 1807 and 1812. These are comprised of 18 Aquatint engravings and 11 hand coloured pictures of traditional Dutch peasant costumes. The binding is in period red leather, with gilt title and decoration. The binding is in very nice, if slightly rubbed condition. The plates are in excellent condition, many with tissue guards, and in a clean and tidy state. 210 by 140 mm (8¼ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2237More details Price: £300.00 -
Contes de Boccace (Le Decameron).
Traduit de l'italien et précédés d'une notice historique par A. Barbier. Vignettes par MM. Tonz Johannot, H. Baron, Eug. Laville, Célestin Nateuil, Grandville, Geoffroi, etc.
Paris: Barbier, 1846. A beautiful copy of this first edition. Full green leather with fabulous gilt designs to the spine. Burgundy label. Blind stamped detail and gilt lines to the boards. A touch of rubbing to the boards only. Internally clean and tidy throughout, with light foxing only. [4],viii,505,[3] pp. 32 engraved plates. 260 by 180mm (10¼ by 7 inches). Bel exemplaire de cette édition originale. Plein cuir vert avec de fabuleux motifs dorés sur le dos. Etiquette bordeaux. Détail estampé à l'aveugle et lignes dorées sur les planches. Une touche de frottement sur les plats uniquement. Intérieurement propre et bien rangé, avec de légers rousseurs seulement. [4],viii,505,[3] pp. 32 planches gravées. 260 par 180 mm.
Book ID: 3471More details Price: £200.00 -
Contes de Perrault.
Book ID: 3389More details Price: £80.00
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Cool Orchids and How to Grow Them.
With a Descriptive list of all the Best Species in Cultivation
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1874. A lovely copy of this first edition. green cloth with gilt titles and border to the front board. Frontis engraving of an Orchid House (complete with waterfall). Four beautifully hand coloured plates and black and white engraved vignettes and illustrations throughout. The cloth is in very nice clean condition, with just a little bumping to the top of the spine. Internally clean, but very slightly darkened. iv. 160 pages. 180 by 120mm (7 by 4¾ inches).
Book ID: 3081More details Price: £90.00 -
Copper etching in sanguine - woman in lingerie
Signed by the artist
1927. Beautiful signed sanguine copper etching on heavy weight paper, with artist's signature in pencil to the lower right corner. We think it says Eden. The subject is a graceful female in her lingerie. She is stood touching her stocking top, and is a perfect example of the 1920s fashion for 'Boudoir art'. Under glass, in a wood effect frame with a cream, lace edged mount. Image measures 355 x 180 mm (14 x 7 inches). Total size (in frame) 540 x 320 mm (21¼ x 12½ inches).
Book ID: 3603More details Price: £90.00 -
Correspondencia.
Chile: AFA Necessaire, 2008. Signed by both authors to the title page. A photobook, with alternate photographs from each photographer. Fold out sheet of text to inside front cover in Spanish. The same in English to the rear fold out cover. Limited to 1000 copies. As well as a transcontinental friendship, the two photographers have struck a dialogue via photographs, resulting in their October 2008 joint exhibition at Galeria AFA and subsequently, this book. Covers are a little rubbed at the corners. Otherwise in a very good condition. 62 pages. 200 x 165 mm (7¾ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 2169More details Price: £120.00 -
Corso Album
Book ID: 4397More details Price: £325.00
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Costume du Moyen Âge d'après les manuscrits, peintures et monuments contemporains
Book ID: 4118More details Price: £350.00