Ehon Imayo Sugata by Beisai Kubota, Shikitei Sanba - 1916: (Picture Book of Modern Forms and Figures)

Paris, France: Hachette et Cie, 1898. Text in French. Red Morocco spine with 5 raised bands, bright Gilt title and Gilt tooled decoration, Marbled bds (spine has been professionally rebacked with Red Morocco and original backstrip laid over, very littel wear otherwise apart from light shelf wear) Red marbled eps, title pages are wood block printed in colour, lavishly illus through out and many nice reproduced etching from famous artists with tissue guards. Bright and clean, not inscribed, light age toning to end pages, short tear to tissue guard on frontis. Overweight. Le texte en français. L'épine rouge de Maroc avec 5 bandes haussées, le titre Dorées brillantes et la décoration de tooled Dorée, bds Marbré (l'épine a été professionnellement rebacked avec Maroc Rouge et backstrip original a posé par-dessus, l'usure de littel MEME autrement en dehors de l'usure d'étagère légère)… Read More

London: Putnam's Sons, 1st edition, 1929, July reprint. . 320 pages, original lettered cloth. Neat 3 line red ink name and address of the time on front paste down. In good unclipped and unpriced dustwraper, with an oval Sydney bookseller's price sticker on the wrapper's backstrip. The wrapper backstrip is torn with slight loss at the top and frayed at the bottom. Slight wear and soiling at the foldins of the wrapper. Old tear and tape repair towards the top of the front panel. Despite these defects a reasonable wrapper, seldom found on early editions of this title, on a very good copy of the book.

Half Morocco and cloth hardcover. Boards with blindstamp decoration frames. Spine with raised bands and boxes with gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Beautiful engraved illustrations by Tony Johannot.
Language: French - Translated from Spanish by Louis Viardot
Pages: 840.
Printing: Paris, Typographie de Plon Frères.
Top of the spine over the first raised band has been cracked and not very well doctored. Tail with some rubbing. Hinge of the front board is cracked along 2/3 and separated from the first raised band till the top. Smaller cracking of the hinge at the same level on the back board. Boards are sunned and soiled. Text block with foxing that doesn't affect the reading. Front and backend papers heavily soiled. Fair copy.
Standard shipping is INCLUDED in the price for EU (European Union) and Switzerland. For shipment out of the EU, please ask for quotation.
Weight: 1.790,0 Grs.

New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, 2010. Two volume complete set. cloth, hard covers in dust jackets in pictorial slipcase. Large, heavy set., 640pp. over 2 vols., illustrated throughout, mostly in color. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Will require additional shipping.

Renowned for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was also one of the most important amateur photographers of the Victorian era and the period's finest photographer of children. From 1856 to 1880, Carroll took around three thousand pictures, the majority of which were portraits of family, friends, and colleagues. He also sought out and photographed celebrities of the day, including Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, Michael Faraday, William Holman Hunt, Henry Taylor, George MacDonald, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Ellen Terry, John Everett Millais, Charlotte Yonge, and Prince Leopold. Carroll's remaining output includes images of landscapes and architecture, works of art, and skeletons; assisted self-portraits; and other miscellaneous pictures. Today, his photographs are highly prized and fetch enormous prices at auction.This catalogue raisonne presents images of the nearly one thousand surviving photographs of Lewis Carroll-including many from… Read More

Paris, France: Hachette et Cie, 1898. Text in French. Red Morocco spine with 5 raised bands, bright Gilt title and Gilt tooled decoration, Marbled bds (spine has been professionally rebacked with Red Morocco and original backstrip laid over, very littel wear otherwise apart from light shelf wear) Red marbled eps, title pages are wood block printed in colour, lavishly illus through out and many nice reproduced etching from famous artists with tissue guards. Bright and clean, not inscribed, light age toning to end pages, short tear to tissue guard on frontis. Overweight. Le texte en français. L'épine rouge de Maroc avec 5 bandes haussées, le titre Dorées brillantes et la décoration de tooled Dorée, bds Marbré (l'épine a été professionnellement rebacked avec Maroc Rouge et backstrip original a posé par-dessus, l'usure de littel MEME autrement en dehors de l'usure d'étagère légère)… Read More

London: Putnam's Sons, 1st edition, 1929, July reprint. . 320 pages, original lettered cloth. Neat 3 line red ink name and address of the time on front paste down. In good unclipped and unpriced dustwraper, with an oval Sydney bookseller's price sticker on the wrapper's backstrip. The wrapper backstrip is torn with slight loss at the top and frayed at the bottom. Slight wear and soiling at the foldins of the wrapper. Old tear and tape repair towards the top of the front panel. Despite these defects a reasonable wrapper, seldom found on early editions of this title, on a very good copy of the book.

Half Morocco and cloth hardcover. Boards with blindstamp decoration frames. Spine with raised bands and boxes with gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Beautiful engraved illustrations by Tony Johannot.
Language: French - Translated from Spanish by Louis Viardot
Pages: 840.
Printing: Paris, Typographie de Plon Frères.
Top of the spine over the first raised band has been cracked and not very well doctored. Tail with some rubbing. Hinge of the front board is cracked along 2/3 and separated from the first raised band till the top. Smaller cracking of the hinge at the same level on the back board. Boards are sunned and soiled. Text block with foxing that doesn't affect the reading. Front and backend papers heavily soiled. Fair copy.
Standard shipping is INCLUDED in the price for EU (European Union) and Switzerland. For shipment out of the EU, please ask for quotation.
Weight: 1.790,0 Grs.

New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, 2010. Two volume complete set. cloth, hard covers in dust jackets in pictorial slipcase. Large, heavy set., 640pp. over 2 vols., illustrated throughout, mostly in color. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Will require additional shipping.

Renowned for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was also one of the most important amateur photographers of the Victorian era and the period's finest photographer of children. From 1856 to 1880, Carroll took around three thousand pictures, the majority of which were portraits of family, friends, and colleagues. He also sought out and photographed celebrities of the day, including Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, Michael Faraday, William Holman Hunt, Henry Taylor, George MacDonald, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Ellen Terry, John Everett Millais, Charlotte Yonge, and Prince Leopold. Carroll's remaining output includes images of landscapes and architecture, works of art, and skeletons; assisted self-portraits; and other miscellaneous pictures. Today, his photographs are highly prized and fetch enormous prices at auction.This catalogue raisonne presents images of the nearly one thousand surviving photographs of Lewis Carroll-including many from… Read More