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Lovely copy of this infamous and rare botanical by a woman artist.Henrietta Maria Moriarty turned to botanical illustration to support her four children after being left in debt by her no-good, late husband in 1804.Complete with all 50 hand-coloured copperplate engravings, dedication to Dowager Lady de Clifford, preface, list of subscribers, index.While Moriarty claims to have "delineated" the plants, the "plates are in almost every case adapted with slight alteration and no acknowledgement from Curtis' Botanical Magazine" (James Briteen, Journal of Botany, 1917.)The list of 174 subscribers includes many aristocrats, ladies and Army officers, perhaps introduced by the dedicatee, Sophia Southwell, Lady de Clifford (1743-1828), who was a keen amateur gardener and botanical artist herself. She collected many rare and exotic plants at her glasshouses in Kings Weston, Nyn Park and Dudley Grove.Mrs. Henrietta Maria Moriarty (1781-1842), widow of Col. Matthew Moriarty, turned to writing and book illustration… Read More

Very good copy of this classic of 18th century entomology, the first book on British beetles.

Complete with 42 finely hand-coloured copperplates of beetles, arrayed on the pages like specimens in a tray in a cabinet of curiosities.

The plates show some previously unpublished beetle and bug species, many in their tiny original size. The European stag beetle, minotaur, dung beetles, carrion, leaf and weevil beetles, click beetles, tumbling flower beetles, tiger beetles, water beetles, longhorns, carabids, ladybirds, and many others are shown in beautiful colors in 535 intricate illustrations.

The two plain numismatic plates show various gold medallions presented to Martyn from the Pope, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, King Ferdinand IV of Sicily, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, etc.

The English Entomologist, exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England, including upwards of 500 Different Species, arranged and named according to the Linnean System.

With an engraved title page, dedication… Read More

Very good copy of the first volume of Massard's Costumes Francais (French Costumes)
With all 160 hand-coloured lithographs drawn and lithographed by Leopold Massard (one uncoloured)
First volume of a four-volume set that is very hard to find complete
Plates numbered 1-160 in the index, but 1-60, 1-16 of the second series, and 77-160 within the plates.
Very vibrantly hand-coloured plates of 1,000 years of French fashions from the time of Clovis I (5th century) to Charles V (14th century). Subjects include a wide range of society from royalty to peasants, and include kings and queens, dukes and ladies, servants, maids, soldiers, bourgeois, falconer, troubadours, archers, soldiers, crossbowmen, knights, crusaders, executioner, etc. Royal portrait plates include Clovis I, Chlotar I, Charlemagne, Lothair I, Philip the Bold, Henry III, Philip IV, Charles IV, Jean II, Charles V, Louis II, etc.
Leopold Massard (1812-1889) was a French artist, miniaturist, engraver and lithographer. Grandson of the engraver… Read More

A good copy of the Dance of Death with lithographs after Jacques-Antony Chovin/Matthaus Merian. Complete with 42 lithographs reworked from Chovin/Merian with backgrounds removed, some reversed.The 42 subjects are: The Preacher's Word, Ossuary (Charnel House), Pope, Emperor, Empress, King, Queen, Cardinal, Bishop, Duke, Duchess, Earl, Abbot, Knight, Lawyer, Alderman, Canon, Doctor, Nobleman, Lady, Merchant, Abbess, Cripple, Hermit, Young Man, Usurer, Maiden, Minstrel, Herald, Judge, Headsman, Jester, Pedlar, Blind Man, Jew, Pagan, Paganess, Cook, Peasant, Painter, Painter's Wife, Adam and Eve.Unlike Holbein's skeleton of Death, the figure of Death here is a gruesome cadaver with rotten flesh still on the bone. In some images, the skin splits to reveal worms, intestines and other organs.The lithographs are copied from Matthaus Merian's originals first published in 1621 or Chovin's copies from 1744. Merian copied the wall paintings just after they had been restored by Emanuel Bock in 1614-1616. By the… Read More

Bound collection of issues No. 1 to 60 from the 27th year of the magazine, from 5 January to 31 October 1823. Most women's fashion plates by the famous illustrator Louis Marie Lante, 1789-1871.Plates numbered 2121 to 2194, missing 2160-2162, 2170, 2191-2193, several out of order, but a total of 64 fine fashion plates. La Mesangere (1761-1831) was author, journalist and editor, and published the Journal from 1797 to 1839, covering the post-Revolutionary Directory era through the Napoleonic Empire and the Bourbon Restoration. Brown leather spine, black leather labels with gilt decoration, boards with brown marble paper. Condition: Binding scuffed, front hinge weak, plates slightly browned and spotting with usual crease down the centre (where the magazine was folded before binding).

Ornamental Tattoos from a German encyclopedia, 1885
African woman 1
Hitiri Te Paerata, Maori chief of Ngati Raukawa (1828-1909), New Zealand 2
King Tawhiao, the second king of the Maoris (1822-1894), New Zealand 3
body tattoos of a Caroline Islander in loincloth (New Guinea) 4
hand tattoo 5 and foot tattoo 6 of a Dayak (Borneo)
Japanese man with full-body irezumi wearing a fundoshi loincloth 7.
Negerin 1, Hautling Hiriti-Paevata (Newseeland) 2, Konig Tauhiao (Neuseeland) 3, Karolinen Insulaner 4, Hand 5 und Fuss 6 eines Dajak von Borneo, Japaner 7.
Single plate in very good condition, no age-toning or foxing.

Beautiful copy of the rare first edition of this standard work on medieval European armour. With 80 fine illustrations drawn and engraved by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (some engraved by Richard Bridgens and William Maddocks). Complete with three frontispieces with calligraphic titles and engraved vignettes drawn by Richard Bridgens and engraved by Charles Heath, 70 hand-coloured aquatint plates drawn by Meyrick and engraved by himself or William Maddocks, 10 engraved plates drawn by Meyrick and etched by Richard Bridgens, and 27 illuminated chapter initials.Volume I: 22 hand-coloured plates (VIII to XXX) & 8 b/w etchings (I to VII, XXVI), pp. lxxvii, 206Volume II: 35 hand-coloured plates (XXXI to LVI), 1 b/w engraving (XLIV), pp. 297 Volume III: 13 hand-coloured plates (LVII to LXXIX) & 1 b/w (LXXX) , pp.147, unpaginated 132-page glossaryThe plates are essentially a catalogue of the collection of ancient armour collected by Samuel and his son Llewelyn, with a few items drawn from illuminated manuscripts… Read More

Rare first edition of John Mitford's entertaining story of a young midshipman in Lord Nelson's Royal Navy. First edition in book form, originally issued 1819 in eight monthly parts. With twenty hand-colored aquatint engravings by Charles Williams, vii, 224 pages of text and 68 pages of Notes. A cash-in imitation of Alfred Burton's Adventures... with illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson, published in 1818.With lively illustrations of an apprentice midshipman's rambles in the brothels of Portsmouth, fighting the captain in the wardroom, locked in shackles in the gunroom, riding pigs through the market of Gibraltar, stealing planter's wives in the West Indies, humiliated by sailors when crossing the equator, and finally discharged at Greenwich Hospital. John Mitford (1782-1831), joined the navy as midshipman on HMS Victory. He served on ships in battles in the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, Egypt and the West Indies. He was discharged from the navy as an insane alcoholic in 1814, and thereafter made a living… Read More

From Various Museums and Collections. Engraved on 170 Plates.An influential compendium of the decorative motifs of the Greco-Roman world.With 151 engraved plates (numbered 1-150 with additional plate 115*), 18 additional engraved vignettes in the text, and engraved title page (slightly foxed as usual). Including 10 hand-coloured plates of vases, the Portland Vase and paterae in the British Museum, and 11 mezzotints of Roman tombs and sepulchral chambers.Henry Moses (1781-1870) was an English engraver who worked on Ancient Marbles in the British Museum (1812-1845), Select Greek and Roman Antiquities (1817), Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield (1819), as well as book illustrations to Faust (1821), Fridolin (1824), etc.First published in 1814 under the imprint of Richard and Arthur Taylor, Henry G. Bohn acquired the remainders from his father in 1831 and released them under his own name soon after.Rebound in brown cloth with new endpapers, a few signatures springing loose. One plate, No.… Read More

A collection of finely engraved plates illustrating the Regency vogue for neo-Classical dress29 delicate line engravings showing Empire-style costumes and furnishings, as well as scenes from literature (Alexander Pope's Belinda) and antiquity (Pericles, Pan and Syrinx, Echo and Narcissus)Henry Moses (1782-1870) was a sought-after engraver who worked for James Barrie, William Opie and Benjamin West. He enjoyed a great reputation for his outline plates, which are distinguished for the purity and correctness of the drawing. Among his other works are A Collection of Vases 1814, Picturesque Views of Ramsgate 1817, Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield 1819, Sketches of Shipping 1824, Marine Sketch Book 1826, etc.This collection was also issued under the imprint of at least two other London publishers in 1823 (McLean and Miller).Leather spine solid, paper boards soiled, bookplate of Walter and Edith Wiggin on front endpaper, hinges repaired, all 29 plates present, but as often, with varying… Read More

Near fine copy of the First Series of these charming portraits of the children of English aristocracy
Complere with 10 very fine steel engravings of chocolate-box Victoriana
Toddlers and teenagers in ringlets, satin and taffeta, both boys and girls in cute dresses.
One poem by Benjamin Disraeli, MP, who mourns the death of one of the subjects, Susannah Copley, at the tender age of 15.
The portraits by eminent artists such as Alfred Edward Chalon, John Bostock, and Daniel Maclise. The engravings by William Henry Mote, Henry Cook, H. Robinson and J. Thomson.
Supervised by Charles Heath, 1785-1848, British engraver, currency and stamp printer, publisher and illustrator.
Edited by Louisa Fairlie (1881-1843), writer and editor, wife of John Fairlie, niece of Lady Blessington (who contributes one poem).
The poems dedicated to the children by a variety of authors including Benjamin Disraeli MP (future Prime Minister), Lady Blessington (Irish novelist Marguerite Gardiner), Henry Lytton Bulwer (future MP),… Read More

Collection of 149 hand-colored copperplate engravings only from Pierre de La Mésangère's famous fashion magazine.Most women's fashion plates by the famous illustrator Louis Marie Lante, with 12 hat and bonnet plates by Victor Adam, taken from the issues February 1820 through to December 1821.Plates numbered 1878 to 2036, some missing and some out of order, total of 149 fine fashion plates. La Mésangère (1761-1831) was author, journalist and editor, and published the Journal from 1797 to 1839, covering the post-Revolutionary Directory era through the Napoleonic Empire and the Bourbon Restoration. Green leather spine, red leather labels with gilt decoration, boards with green marble paper. Condition: Binding scuffed but solid, plates clean and bright with slight spotting and usual crease down the centre (where the magazine was folded before binding).

First edition of this rare illustrated introduction to meteorological, geological, terrestrial and marine phenomena aimed at students.The 36 (of 37) dramatic lithographs were drawn and printed by the Strasbourg engraver Emile Lemaitre, handfinished in color and gum arabic.The phenomena include meteorological (sunrise, lightning, the Aurora Borealis, tides and rainbows), geological (mines, gold fields and volcanoes), as well as terrestrial wonders (Mount Vesuvius, Niagara Falls, the Andes mountains, Giant's Causeway, Fingal's cave, the Rhone, etc.) The plates are accompanied by explanatory text printed in blue, detailing historical and scientific information, sometimes referring to the latest inventions and events. The Arctic plate includes Sir John Franklin's 1845 doomed expedition to the North Pole, while the Gold Fields plate describes the California Gold Rush of 1848.List of plates: Sunrise - Thunderstorm - Rainbow - Earthquake - Waterspout - Moonlight - Flood - Avalanche - Simoom - Aurora Borealis… Read More