Fairy Tales. Illustrated By Twelve Large Designs in Colour After Original Drawings By E.V.B. Newly Translated By H.L.D. Ward and Augusta Plesner by ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN - 1872

1904. WAIN, Louis. IN ANIMAL LAND WITH LOUIS WAIN. London: S. W. Partridge & Co. [1904]. [52] pp. + 4 pp. advertisements. 4to., red and green paper covered boards, front board with color illustration by Wain. Very good, spine with moderate tiny chipping, slightly affecting title. Corners slightly worn. Hinges cracked. B/w advertising pages, 2 or 3 ads to a page, some with illustrations, at front and rear. Tipped-in color frontispiece has a small crease to bottom right corner, not affecting image. A few of the age-toned text pages have small closed tears in the margins, with no loss. text and illustrations printed in sepia, green, or blue. Four color plates in fine condition, with only the frontispiece having the small crease. Mostly cats; one color plate illustrates a lane of promenading dogs. Wain's anthropomorphized creatures are not always sweet or friendly!

1822. [COMBE, William]. THE HISTORY OF JOHNNY QUAE GENUS, THE LITTLE FOUNDLING OF THE LATE DOCTOR SYNTAX: A POEM. By the author of the three Tours. London: R. Ackermann, 1822. First edition. Illustrated with 24 color aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson. Octavo. [4],267,[1] pp. Bound in full morocco, gilt title and double-rule frames in spine compartments, gilt double-rule borders and inner dentelles, a.e.g. Leather has faded from a deep purple to brown on spine and top-edge of boards. Text and plates are clean and bright despite occasional offsetting from some plates to facing text leaves. Originally published in monthly parts, the original stab-holes are evident in the borders of a few plates. This is Combe's own sequel to his very popular series of "Tours" of Doctor Syntax (published respectively in 1812, 1820 and 1821) which had inspired many parodies and imitations. Like the earlier titles in the series, it too is illustrated by Rowlandson. (CBEL II, 357; Tooley 413).

Detached covers. Half black morocco with losses to binding. This volume bound by publisher in smyth-sewn signatures, without puncturing the fold-outs. Lampoons Monopolists, Organized Religion, Mormons, Arctic Explorers, British Imperialism, Pensioners, Chinese Xenophobia, Ticket Scalpers, Subsidies to Infant Industries, Press Sensationalism, Accessibility of hand guns, Jews escaping Russian despotism etc. Memorials to Gen. Wm T. Sherman & Henry W. Longfellow. Lacking March 15 centerfold & May 24 final page. Occasional marginal tears and fraying. Approximately 49 complete issues with over 145 full page chromolithographs (of which a third are folding) from one of Puck's best years.

1929, n. Good+. Nice tight copy 1st edition 1st printing (See photos slight spotting

Heinemann. London. 1908. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. (10.1 x 7.7 inches). Colour frontis and thirty nine tipped-in colour plates, each with a printed tissue paper guard, and 30 fine line drawings by Rackham throughout the text, some full page. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Some light foxing throughout but still a very good copy of this beautiful book in an attractive leather binding. Rackham at his very best.

Paris: Devambez, editeur. First edition. First edition. n.d. (ca. 1918). Huge folio (13 x 17 inches) suite of ten superbly colored full-page illustrations loose, as issued, and a full-color illustrated title page by noted French illustrator Guy Arnoux. Original color pictorial folding covers with ribbon ties. Limited to 475 numbered copies (#218), printed on laid paper, watermarked. Each plate in very good condition, but contains remnants of plastic tape on verso of image not affecting images. Some minor marginal tearing of fragile paper. Binding spine sl. frayed and covers a little soiled. A remarkable survival. Printed on handmade paper watermarked, "Ingres, 1871." Exceedingly scarce and desirable graphic art by this exemplary French artist.

1687 1st ed Mabillon Museum Italicum Italian Voyages Paleography Illustrated
Jean Mabillon, a 17th-century French Benedictine monk, was tasked by King Louis XIV of France to venture on a tour of Italy in search of early Church history books to expand the royal library. The events of his journey and his findings along the way were published in a book entitled 'Museum Italicum seu Collectio'. This book was responsible for giving Mabillon the moniker of the 'father of paleography'.

Item number: #11453
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MABILLON, Jean; GERMAIN, Michel
Museum Italicum Seu Collectio Veterum Scriptorum Ex Bibliothecis Italicis. Tomus I. In Duas Partes Distinctus : Primas Pars Complectitur Eorundem Iter Italicum Litterarium: altera vero varia Patrum Opuscula & vetera monumenta, cum Sacramentario & Pænitentiali Gallicano
Luteciae Parisiorum : Vidua E. Martin, J. Boudot & S. Martin, 1687. First edition.

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o [20], 244; 397, [11]
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. 2nd edition. Elephant folio (15 by 18-1/2 inches), original pictorial cloth gilt, beveled boards, all edges gilt. Complete with 39 full-page plates with tissue guards, engraved title page vignette and engraved vignette headpiece at beginning of text. Square and solid binding. Rare in collectible condition. Wear to tips, edges, and spine. Half-inch surface tear to cloth at foot of spine. Gift inscription on first blank end paper. Cloth has some spotting and fading.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the most notable 19th-century English romance poets. Coleridge's longest poem was 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. This poem was one of the most important poems written at the end of the 18th-century.
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1750 Order of Saint George German Military Bavaria Equestrian Knights Catholic
A rare, 18th-century German history of the Royal Order of Saint George. The Catholic Church established this order to honor nobles and distinguished military service. Also known as the Royal Bavarian House Equestrian Order of Saint George, this order published a year almanac filled with impressive illustrations depicting events of Bavarian and German history.
Item number: #20095
Price: $750
Royal Order of Saint George
Kleiner des Chur-Bayerischen hohen Ritterordens des heil. Ritter- und Martyrers Georgii, unter dem Titul: deren Beschuetzern der unbefleckt-empfangenen Allerheiligsten Jungfrauen Mariae, Allmanach auf das Jahr
Muenchen: Vötter, 1750. First edition.

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o Unpaginated; [84]
o 70 engraved plates
· Language: German

· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~5.25in X 3.25in (13.5cm x 8.5cm)
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1767 Clock Making Antoine Thiout Horology Illustrated Watches 50 Engravings RARE
Clock-making treatise with 50 impressive engravings!
Antoine Thiout was an 18th-century French horologist whose treatise on clock-making was one of the best and most referenced book throughout the late 1700s. First published in 1741, "Traité de l'horlogerie mechanique et Pratique" describes the parts of a watch or clock, the reliance of compasses, mechanics, pendulum construction, and more. However, the draw of this work is the exquisite, folding plates – views of watch and clock parts and illustrated direction on making time-pieces!
Item number: #20311
Price: $950
THIOUT, Antoine
Traité de l'horlogerie, mécanique et pratique
Paris : Chez Samson, 1767.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages;
o [26], 175, [1]
o 50 engravings!
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~10.25in X 8in (26cm x 20cm)
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