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Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783. Engraving by C. Baquoy, printed on fine laid paper. Very good condition apart from minor foxing in the top and right margins. Slightly uneven left margin.. 9 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches. A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrated treatise on animals ever produced." (Dibner) Comprised of a total of 44 volumes, the encyclop... more information

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Paris: [Mabileau & Co.], 1911. Hand-coloured pochoir print. Very good condition. approximately 31 x 15 1/8 inches. approximately 35 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Modern lightning. The Gamy-Montaut prints document various historical events in the early history of motorized transportation, including Power Boat Racing, Motorcycle and Motor Car Racing, Motor Car Touring, Zeppelins and Airplanes. Having observed the rapidly growing interest in cars and racing during the early years of motor cars, Ernest Montaut (... more information

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Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving, finished by hand, engraved by Bouquet, printed by Langlois. Very good condition. Trimmed within plate mark on three sides. 11 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches. 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches. Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological artist of his time. The son of a weaver at the Aubusson Factory, he is first mentioned as a pupil of Joseph Malaine (1745-1809), the eminent flower painter, and is known to have worked for both the Gobelin Factory and the porcelain factory of ... more information

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Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving. Very good condition. Trimmed inside plate mark on three sides. 11 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches. 13 x 9 3/4 inches. Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological artist of his time. The son of a weaver at the Aubusson Factory, he is first mentioned as a pupil of Joseph Malaine (1745-1809), the eminent flower painter, and is known to have worked for both the Gobelin Factory and the porcelain factory of Sèvres. His most important work was undoubtedly the 300 o... more information

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Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving, finished by hand, engraved by Bouquet, printed by Langlois. Very good condition. Trimmed within plate mark on three sides. 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches. 13 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological artist of his time. The son of a weaver at the Aubusson Factory, he is first mentioned as a pupil of Joseph Malaine (1745-1809), the eminent flower painter, and is known to have worked for both the Gobelin Factory and the porcelain factory of ... more information

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Paris: Chez l'Auteur Rue St. Jacques au dessus de la Rue des Mathurins a lensgne. de la Place des Victoires, 1740. Copper-engraved wall map, with original outline colour, composed from four joined sheets, surrounded by text and vignettes printed on separate sheets, backed onto old linen, with contemporary wooden rollers. 49 x 55 inches. First state of a rare and monumental wall map of the Americas by a great French master of cartography. Jean-Baptiste Nolin was one of the most accomplished and certain... more information

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Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving. Very good condition. 13 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches. 19 1/2 x 12 7/8 inches. Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological artist of his time. The son of a weaver at the Aubusson Factory, he is first mentioned as a pupil of Joseph Malaine (1745-1809), the eminent flower painter, and is known to have worked for both the Gobelin Factory and the porcelain factory of Sèvres. His most important work was undoubtedly the 300 or so drawings that he produced for F... more information

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Paris: Typographie Chr. Krüsi, 1885. Small folio. (15 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches). [4], [1, verso blank], 47 pp. French text in two columns. 31 albumen photographs on captioned mounts (one signed in the image by Samuel Bourne, another by Robert Phillips, the others unsigned). (Scattered foxing to the text, repaired tear to one text leaf). Publisher's red pebbled cloth, front cover decoratively tooled with a gilt and black border and titled in gilt, rear cover with a decoratively tooled black border, spi... more information

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Paris: Published by Verlag von Goupil Cie., Berlin, Coupil et Co., New York, Goupil et Cie. Paris et London, 1854. Hand-coloured lithograph. Goupil Publishers blindstamp, Paris. Good condition apart from some overall light foxing and a 2" loss in the bottom right corner. 17 1/8 x 17 5/8 inches. 19 3/8 x 26 1/4 inches. A fine plate from the series 'Les Touristes', which chronicled Guérard's trip through Switzerland, Savoy and Bavaria. Set in a congested street of the German town of ... more information

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London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1763. Oblong folio. (12 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches). 4pp. subscriber's list, 1p. errata at back. 47 engraved plates after J. Gwin or Gwyn by Hall (25), Ryland (13), Grignion (5), Elliot (2) and Chamber and Gwin himself (1 each). (Expert marginal repairs to title and occasional text leaves). Expertly bound to style in 18th-century half diced russia with marbled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others w... more information

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Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783. Engraving by C. Baquoy, printed on fine laid paper. Very good condition apart from marginal foxing in the top and right margins. Uneven left margin. 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches. A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrated treatise on animals ever produced." (Dibner) Comprised of a total of 44 volumes, the encyclopedic His... more information

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Paris: [colophon: imprime ... par Benoist Prevost] On les vend en la grand salle du Palais, en la boutique de Gilles Corrozet, 1555. 7 parts in one volume, folio. (13 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches). General title-page with integral large woodcut printer's device, 6 divisional titles with similar smaller devices. Woodcut portrait of Belon on the verso of the general title, 2 large woodcuts offering a comparison of the skeletons of a human and a bird, 158 woodcuts of individual birds, numerous uncoloured woodcut h... more information

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Paris: [colophon: imprime ... par Benoist Prevost] On les vend en la grand salle du Palais, en la boutique de Gilles Corrozet, 1555. 7 parts in one volume, folio. (12 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches). General title-page with integral large woodcut printer's device, 6 divisional titles with similar smaller devices, each hand-coloured. Uncoloured woodcut portrait of Belon on the verso of the general title, 2 large hand-coloured woodcuts offering a comparison of the skeletons of a human and a bird, 158 woodcuts of ind... more information

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Paris: A Paris chez Janinet, rue Haute Feuille, No. 5. Et chez Efnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques, a la Ville de Coutances, No. 259, July 1788. Mixed method colour print, printed in yellow, blue, red, pink and black inks from five plates. Two registration marks in plate. In excellent condition with wide margins. Image size: 14 x 11 inches. 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches. 21 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. This print is a breathtaking impression of one of Janinet's most famous prints, from a series of boudoir scenes exe... more information

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Paris: Bibliotheque des Arts, 4to. Cloth, Dust Jacket. Three volumes: L'Oeuvre Grave De Michel Ciry 1949-1954, 130 pp., numerous black and white illustrations; L'Oeuvre Grave De Michel Ciry 1955-1963, 108 pp., numerous black and white illustrations, 6 tipped-in colour plates; L'Oeuvre Grave De Michel Ciry 1964-1970, 152 pp., numerous black and white illustrations. The catalogue raisonne of prints. ... more information

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London: W. Hooker, [1813]-1818. Aquatint and stipple engraving, printed in colour and carefully coloured by Hooker after his own drawings. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. 10 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches. 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. This fine plate comes from Hooker's important pomological work 'Pomona Londinensis', which contains "among the best of all fruit prints" (Dunthorne) by an artist whose work is "equal or even superior to paintings of fruit by the great Pier... more information

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Paris: Moyreau, [circa 1740]. Hand-coloured engraving on laid paper by Moyreau. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor foxing, mild rippling, and slight discolouration of the paper due to age. 13 7/8 x 18 1/8 inches. 18 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches. A fine composition showing the hunting party refreshing themselves before embarking on the hunt. This beautifully coloured print is one of many engravings Jean Moyreau (1690-1762) made of Wouwerman's paintings. 'Born into a family o... more information

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Paris: chez Gersaint et chez Surugue, [1747]. Engraving, printed on laid paper. Very good condition with the exception of some repair in the bottom right hand corner of sheet. Image size: 13 7/8 x 19 inches. 14 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches. 16 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches. A charming decorative plate depicting a group of children playfully engaged in an argument, from Moyreau's "Oeuvres Des Estampes Gravées d'après Les Tableaux & Desseins de feu Antoine Watteau." Born in Valenciennes in ... more information

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[London]: 1839. Lithograph by Thomas Shotter Boys. Printed in colours by Charles Hullmandel. (Small sections of margins torn away, not affecting image area). 16 x 11 1/2 inches. 21 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches. A very fine image from Boys' 'Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen &c': ''a work of exceeding beauty' (Abbey) and one of the most important in the history of English colour-printing. This print represents part of what was the first serious challenge to the s... more information

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Paris: Moyreau, 1747. Engraving, coloured by hand, by J. Moyreau. 17 x 13 1/2 inches. 23 7/8 x 18 5/16 inches. A fine composition, showing rural life in the Flemish low countries: a thatched cottage is seen to the right, in the foreground two men prepare a couple of pack-horses. One man talks to a women seated, who spines wool using a hand spindle. A traveller passes on a laden ass. In the doorway of the house a women plays with a young child. The title notes that the original painting was the same size ... more information

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