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London: The Bibliographical Society, 1952. Small 4to. (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). Occasional full-page illustration. Original cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in black. A fine copy of the "Bibliographical Society Publication for the year 1951 issued 1952". ... more information

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Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1943. 2 volumes, octavo. (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches). 300; 390 pp. Half-titles. 67 coloured plates (picturing 141 varieties), numerous illustrations. Green half morocco over patterned paper-covered boards, spines gilt, t.e.g. Second enlarged edition of this beautifully-printed Swedish pomology. Volume one deals with apples, volume two with pears and plums: each variety is fully described with history, synonyms, bibliographical references and tree and fruit characteristic... more information

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[Doncaster]: W. Sheardown & Sons, [1826]. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by C. Hunt, 'Minerva head' blindstamp. 12 x 16 1/4 inches. 16 9/16 x 22 1/4 inches. A fine print from the 'Winners of the Great St. Leger Series', started by John Frederick Herring and ably continued here: David Dalby's "portraits of horses are very fine" (Charles Lane). David Dalby "was born in 1794 and is noted as an animal painter in a York directory in 1815. Within five y... more information

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Paris: Firmin Didot, 1818. Large folio. (28 3/4 x 21 inches). Letterpress title (verso blank), 1p. dedication to Louis XVIII (verso blank), 1p. 'avant-propos' (verso blank), 30ll. explanatory text (all but two printed recto only, one leaf preceding each plate). 30 fine uncoloured aquatint plates by and after Damame-Démartrais. (The 12th plate, a view of Notre-Dame, with a repaired tear in the outer margin). Contemporary blue/green straight-grained morocco-backed paper-covered boards, the fla... more information

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London: James and John Knapton, 1729. 4 volumes, 8vo. (7 11/16 x 4 3/4 inches). 7pp. publisher's advertisements. Frontispiece portrait, 37 engraved maps by or after Herman Moll (19 folding), 28 engraved plates (4 folding). (General title in vol.I with small early repair at fore-edge. Expertly bound to style in panelled calf, the covers with outer double-fillet border in gilt and panelled in blind, the spine six compartments with raised bands. A fine set of the most complete version of these important ... more information

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[Amsterdam: n.d. but circa 1684]. Engraved map. Minor expert repairs. 19 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches. A fine example of the second state of Danckerts' important map. This important map is derived from the Visscher map of about 1655, which is itself drawn from the Janssonius map of 1651. Philip Burden lists three states of this map: the first which was probably published in about 1673 and is easily recognized as it does not include Philadelphia and there is no mention of Pennsylvania in the title. Burden writ... more information

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London: Published by Samuel Daniel, 1804. Aquatint, coloured by hand, backed, with two skilfully repaired tears into image area. Image area: 12 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches. Sheet size: 17 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches. A stunning aquatint from Samuel Daniell's celebrated work, "African Scenery and Animals at the Cape of Good Hope". Samuel was the younger brother of the famous topographical painter William Daniell, and the nephew of Thomas Daniell: the least known because of his early death, but Thomas Sutton ... more information

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814-25. Hand-coloured aquatint, drawn and engraved Daniell. Very good condition apart from some minor foxing in the margins and the image. 9 x 11 7/8 inches. approximately 10 1/2 x 14 7/8 inches. A fine plate from Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', described by Tooley as ''A magnificent series of plates... The most important colour plate [work] on British Topography'' (Tooley). In early 1813, Daniell conceived of the ambiti... more information

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London: Wiliiam Daniell, 15 August 1828. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by Daniell. 18 x 28 3/8 inches. A fine very rare architectural view of the residence of the Louis Philippe, Duc d'Orleans. The scene that Daniell presents is full of life and interest: the foreground teems with figures going about the every day life of the palace, whilst to the left hand side building work progresses with workmen on scaffolding concentrating on hoisting a large block of stone shown half way up the façade.... more information

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814-25. Hand-coloured aquatint, drawn and engraved Daniell. Very good condition apart from several natural paper creases in the left margin. 9 x 11 7/8 inches. 10 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches. A fine plate from Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', described by Tooley as ''A magnificent series of plates... The most important colour plate [work] on British Topography'' (Tooley). In early 1813, Daniell conceived of the ambitious plan to ... more information

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London: William Daniell, 15 August 1802. Hand-coloured aquatint, painted and engraved by Daniell, with black ink-ruled border to the image and grey/green wash border, on card. (Occasional marginal soiling to border). 15 1/24 x 30 1/2 inches. 22 3/8 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches. A wonderful and very rare image of London: separately issued in an effort to publicize George Dance's scheme for the redevelopment of the heart of London This imaginary view is of the Thames looking east from a vantage point somewhere a... more information

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814-25. Hand-coloured aquatint, drawn and engraved Daniell. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor foxing. Two pieces of tape on verso. 9 x 12 inches. 10 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches. A fine plate from Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', described by Tooley as ''A magnificent series of plates... The most important colour plate [work] on British Topography'' (Tooley). In early 1813, Daniell conceived of t... more information

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814-25. Hand-coloured aquatint, drawn and engraved Daniell. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. 9 x 11 7/8 inches. approximately 10 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches. A fine plate from Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', described by Tooley as ''A magnificent series of plates... The most important colour plate [work] on British Topography'' (Tooley). In early 1813, Daniell conceived of the ambitious plan to travel a... more information

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London: William Daniell, January 1st 1821. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by Daniell. Good condition apart from some overall light soiling, minor foxing, a couple of skillfully repaired small tears in the top margin, and a few mild surface abrasions in the top and bottom margins. Trimmed to within top plate mark. 19 1/8 x 27 1/2 inches. 20 3/4 x 31 1/8 inches. A fine and rare view of "one of the loveliest spots in the Eastern world": the former British colony on the island of Penang, now part ... more information

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814-25. Hand-coloured aquatint, drawn and engraved Daniell. Very good condition apart some overall light soiling, a small loss in the upper left-hand corner, and several small losses in the lower margin. 9 x 12 inches. 10 5/8 x 14 1/4 inches. A fine plate from Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', described by Tooley as ''A magnificent series of plates... The most important colour plate [work] on British Topography'' (Tooley).... more information

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814-25. Hand-coloured aquatint, drawn and engraved Daniell. Very good condition apart from some minor foxing. 9 x 12 inches. 10 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches. A fine plate from Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', described by Tooley as ''A magnificent series of plates... The most important colour plate [work] on British Topography'' (Tooley). In early 1813, Daniell conceived of the ambitious plan to travel around the entire coastline ... more information

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814-25. Hand-coloured aquatint, drawn and engraved Daniell. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. 9 x 11 7/8 inches. 10 7/8 x 15 inches. A fine plate from Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', described by Tooley as ''A magnificent series of plates... The most important colour plate [work] on British Topography'' (Tooley). In early 1813, Daniell conceived of the ambitious plan to travel around the entire c... more information

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London: William Daniell, January 1st 1821. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by Daniell. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor foxing. Trimmed to within top platemark. 19 x 27 3/8 inches. 21 x 31 1/8 inches. A fine and rare view of "one of the loveliest spots in the Eastern world": the British colony on the island of Penang, now part of Malaysia. The settlement of Penang off the north west coast of Malaysia in the Strait of Malacca, was formed by the East India Compa... more information

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London: William Daniell, 1 January 1805. Hand-coloured aquatint, drawn and engraved Daniell. (Light surface wear just below title where plate number removed). 15 3/4 x 25 3/8 inches. 19 1/2 x 29 1/16 inches. A wonderful and very rare image 'splendidly drawn, quiet and restrained in...colouring, [which] stand[s] at the high-water mark of aquatint in England' (Hardie & Clayton) This view is taken looking over the terrace at the Adelphi on the north bank of the river, across the river to the sou... more information

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London: William Daniell, 1 August 1804. Aquatint, tinted by hand, drawn and engraved Daniell. 15 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches. 17 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches. A fascinating and very rare image 'splendidly drawn, quiet and restrained in... colouring, [which] stand[s] at the high-water mark of aquatint in England' (Hardie & Clayton) This view is taken, from a high vantage point, from beside the Tower of London, looking westwards across the Pool of London with its mass of shipping of all sizes, to the bridges and... more information

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