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1872. Heavy Morocco. Very Good. 4to. 31 by 24 cm. The watercolors or gouaches are mounted onto the heavy card leaves of the album. Each measures 12 by 9 cm. They are very fully, richly painted. Depicted is the woman playing croquet, holding a fan, dancing ballet, ice skating, walking, balancing on a high wire, at prayer, in riding habit, playing a guitar, mountain climbing, at the theater, punting, wading in water, shooting a bow, etc. In some of the paintings she is merely modeling an extravagant costume. While much of the dress was undoubtedly the latest cosmopolitan fashion coming out of Paris, there is enough that has a specifically Spanish flavor, and this combined with explicit Catholic references and in keeping with her facial features, leads one to conclude with confidence that she was Hispanic, and in fact, probably South American. The artwork has a naive quality, but this might have been also cultivated by the artist, who was at the same time unstinting in rendering fine details in…
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Album of 36 Original Watercolors and Gouache Paintings of One Upper Crust Hispanic Woman Engaged in Various Leisure and Sporting Activities
by D.R.F.
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Histoire de Belle-Isle-en-Mer
by R. P. François de Belle-Isle, Capucin, and R. P. le Gallen (also spelled "le Galen" on first title page).
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Belle Isle en Mer, 1754, 1840. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Manuscript local history of Breton island written with a beautiful cursive hand, a beautiful watercolor of a shore panorama and a highly decorative title page. 4to. 25.5 by 19 cm. 650 pp. (325 leaves.) The watercolor is actually dated 1840, and this suggests strongly to us that the manuscript text was of this later date, and probably a copy of an earlier manuscript, especially since the ruling on the pages and the style of cursive is entirely consistent with that of the mid-19th century. Bound by Bauzonnet Trautz in full brown morocco, tooled turn-ins. Belle-Isle is in the Department of Morbihan, a part of ancient Brittany. It was the last stronghold of about 7,000 Royalists in 1795. With several small ports, the island's economy was heavily reliant on pichard fishing. In more recent times it has become predictably a favored location for second homes. The history begins with the formation of the island, its place in antiquity and…
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Kasper Putschenelle: Historisches Uber Die Handpuppen Und Hamburgische Kasperspiele
by Rabe, Joh[anne]s E.
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Hamburg: C. Boysen, 1912. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Pictorial cloth, slighly rubbed; hand-colored frontispiece, lacking tissue guard; vignette illustrations to text; a few specks of light foxing. Excellent historical survey of Kasperl plays and the hand puppet theater, particularly in central Europe. It also contains a number of Kasperl sketches or dialogues from various countries. It concludes with glossary and some bibliographical references. The front depicts Kasperl beating the devil.
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A Nineteenth Century, and Familiar History of the Lives, Loves, Misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa: A Matchless Pair, Who Flourished in the Twelfth Century
by Rabelais, Robert (pseudonym); etchings by T. Landseer, aquatinted by G. Lewis, from drawings by Thurston
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London: J. Bumpus, 1819. Very Good. 8vo. xvii, 384 pp. With nine of ten hand colored aquatint plates. Since there is no evidence in the form of offsetting of the missing plate, it may never have been bound into this particular copy. Notwithstanding its omission, the scarcity of this work of English caricature and illustration from Regency England make this a desirable copy. Prideaux 348. Small repair to the top of one plate, a tiny chip on another, and and a few text pages with a repair. Heavy offsetting onto text pages of plates. Otherwise internally quite clean. Attractively bound in three quarter red morocco.
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Satiren (4 in 3 Bande or Volumes)
by Rabener, Gottlieb Wilhelm
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Leipzig: Johann Gottfried Dyck, 1761. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. H. C. Keller. 8vo - over 7¾. 4 parts in 3 volumes and complete of Rabener's Satires, a format then in vogue and influenced by Juvenal and other Classic authors. Set includes several copper engraved plates in each volume, generally meant to be amusing, along with title illustration. Bound in attractive full calf with gilt decoration around perimeter of boards and five raised bands on spine. Spines are a bit dry; leather healthy on boards. Some shelfwear and rubbing along edges and along gutters. Some scattered soilage to pages, yet overall tight and generally clean interiors.
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Album of 58 Original Pen-and-Ink and Watercolored Caricatures and Cartoons During World War One
by Rabet, M.
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1916-1918. Hardcover. Fabric pastedown on cloth. . Very Good. Oblong, 13.5 by 20 cm. 33 leaves, drawings only on rectos, with two per page on 25 leaves, and eight full page cartoons. Cartoon captions are in French, and the venom is directed at Kaiser Guillaume (Wilhelm II), the Crown Prince, Bethmann-Hollweg, his generals and admirals such as von Tirpitz, von Bissing, von Zeppelin, Turkey and other Central Powers. The caricatures are masterful miniatures. Rabet captures the essence of his target's facial features with a panache of the accomplished caricaturists, and the illustrations truly stand on their own, even without the captioned short dialogues accompanying the drawings. We don't have information about the artist, M. Rabet, but we can comfortably appraise the artwork as professional level. Light wear.
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Les Petites Miseres De La Vie Des Animaux
by Rabier, Benjamin
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Paris: Librarie Garnier Freres, 1923. Cloth. Very Good Plus. Rabier, Benjamin. Oblong 12 by 9 Inches. Book. 50 comical color plates of animals in uncomfortable, humiliating or disconcerting situations. Slight shake to front inner hinge. Pages very toned, as inevitable with particular paper stock, but very clean otherwise. As if a child never touched the book. VG plus
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Gedeon En Afrique
by Rabier, Benjamin
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Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Rabier, Benjamin. Folio. Unpaginated. Tale of goose Gedeon and adventures in Africa. Rabier's color illustrations would seem to prefigure the anthropomorphic charm and acuity of Warner Brothers' Loony Toons. Text is minimal and not critical to enjoyment of the cartoon-like format, with some frames half and even full page, which measures 12.5 by 9.5 inches. Some shelfwear to boards, with moderate soilage and some minor losses to paper on board along edges. Heavy stock paper with toning but clean otherwise. Tight binding. A very good copy overall.
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Oeuvres de Jean Racine precedees des Memoires sur Sa Vie Par Louis Racine, Nouvelle Edition Ornee du Portrait en Pied Colorie des Principaux Personnages de Chaque Piece
by Racine, Jean
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Paris: Ancienne Librairie Morizot -- La Place, Sanchez et Cie., 1870. Quarter Morocco over Leatherette. Good. Geffroy, MM.; Allouard, H.. 636 pp. With 20 color plates, including frontis portrait of Racine. Others of principal characters of plays. 4to, 10.5 by 7 inches, 27 by 18 cm. Included are La Thebaide, Alexandre le Grand, Andromaque, Les Plaideurs, Britannicus, Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridate, Iphigenie en Aulide, Phedre, Esther, Athalie, along with poetry, correspondence, miscellaneous prose wriing. Stamp of Paul Child (husband of Julia Child). Considerable wear to binding. Light soilage scattered. Text block has a stiffness. Marbled free endpapers with minor edge chipping.
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Oeuvres de Jean Racine (5 Volumes)
by Racine, Jean
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Paris: Pierre Didot L'Aine, Firmin Didot, 1803 (An XI). Full Calf. Very Good. 24mo. 14 by 8.5 cm. Rubbing along joints, with volume two actual splitting but holding. Scuffs and wear on spines, with considerable wear by some spine extremities. Still an attractive, diminutive set.
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Le Costume Historique (6 volumes, Elephant Folio edition)
by Racinet, Albert Charles Auguste
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Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1888. 1st Edition. Half Morocco . Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15. This is the much less common folio version of this work, with each of 6 volumes measuring 16.5 by 12.5 inches, or 42 by 32 cm. With 500 plates, 300 using color chromolithography. This copy is about as as good as it gets. Modern half morocco over green boards is pristine. Five thick raised bands on each spine, with gilt lettered labels. Traditional Victorian endpapers. All bindings are tight. Interiors are about as clean as can be, notwithstanding the most occasional and lightest of speck. This is one of the most elaborate and detailed costume books ever produced, if not the single most ambitious such work. It is still an invaluable reference, but it functions fabulously well simply as visual entertainment, and the plates contained herein have found their ways to many a print shop where they have been framed and later hung on walls as decoration. As not uncommon among costume books, Racinet also…
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Undine
by Rackham, Arthur, illustrator. De La Motte Fouque, author. Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney.
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London and New York, respectively.: William Heinemann and Doubleday Page & Co. , 1909. First Trade Edition. Decorated Cloth. Near Fine. 4to. 25.5 by 19 cm. viii, 136 pp. 15 tipped-in color plates. Minor edgewear, with a touch of corner bumping. Clean and tight.
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Some British Ballads
by (Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)
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London: Constable & Co., 1919. First Limited Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. Number 427 of 575 of the first signed limited edition. Large 4to. 29 by 23.5 cm. With 16 tipped-in color plates and 24 text vignettes. Among the favorite ballads the full-color illustrations bring to life are "Lord Randal", "Chevy Chase", "The Twa Corbies" and "Sir Patrick Spens". Latimore & Haskell 50-1. Riall 137. Contemporary full blue calf, with silk moire endpapers, handsomely bound by Monastery Hill. T.e.g. Front joint expertly repaired. A number of small abrasions on spine. Abraded edges as well, especially front upper edge. Text and plates are clean.
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Switzerland, Its Mountains and Valleys
by Raden, Woldermar
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London: Bicker & Son, 1878. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Alexander and Arthur Calame, Etc.; Engraved By A. Closs. Folio. xiv + 487 pp. 90 plates, and 418 illustrations in all. Folio red gilt full leather on five raised bands with gilt borders by John Maclaren & Sons, Edinburgh. Tips worn. Foot of spine damaged for 1" by 1". All edges bright. Title page in red and black with tissue guard for frontis. A bright, unfoxed copy of this heavily illustrated work. Very good overall.
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Art Nouveau Watercolors of Decor and Other Subjects
by Ragot
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1909. Quarter Calf. Very Good. Folio, 48 by 33 cm. 39 watercolors and chalk drawings mostly of furniture and decor items but also a smattering of decorative book bindings, architectural details, flowers, animals, landscapes, etc. Particularly nice are the studies of furniture, screens and stained glass windows. Ragot was a student at the Lycee de Laval at the time. The work is generally quite precise, and he satisfyingly captured the prevailing Art Nouveau aesthetic that was soon to recede. All the leaves are now loose from their binding. Many of them are stamped in the corner with the school name and information about when the work was done, how long it took to do, and for what class it was assigned. The folio is quarter calf and heavily worn. The artworks are mostly on heavy card paper and are generally clean.
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Le Caccie Fiere Armate e Disarmate, e degl'Animali Quadrupedi, Volatili, ed Acquatici.
by Raimondi, Eugenio
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Venice: Francesco Locatelli, 1785. Fifth Edition. Limp card.. Very Good. Alken, Henry. 8vo. 19 by 11 cm. 393, [5] pp. 7 engraved plates depicting snakes and hunting. A combination of natural history and hunting manual on a wide array of animals. Manuscript title to spine. Contemporary boards. Hand-written title on spine. Minor spotting. Small loss to lower corner of a few leaves.
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The Gentle Shepherd. A Pastoral Comedy.
by Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)
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Glasgow: A. Foulis, 1788. First Illustrated Edition. Half Morocco, Marbled Boards. Near Fine. 4to. 30 by 23 cm. iv, x, ii, 111, iii, 17, i, 18 pp. Hand-colored portrait frontis of Ramsay plus twelve hand-colored aquatint plates. Ramsay's enormously successful play dates to 1725. It celebrates rural life, particularly that in Scotland of the day. The principal character of Sir William Worthy is supposedly based on the pretenderJames Stuart. The play employs light Scottish dialect throughout. This edition of the play has an useful glossary of Scottish words, and also eighteen engraved pages of songs (with musical notation) inspired by the play. The light caricature illustrations by David Allan, which are original to this edition, perfectly complement the material, and the coloring, although possibly not arranged for by the publisher, captures the rich lushness of the countryside and its picturesque country folk. Some rubbing to the boards. Light dustsoiling within, and occasional light…
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The Little Book of Famous Insults
by Ramsey, Betty Jo
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Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Fritz Kredel. 8vo - over 7¾. 58 pp of zingers. Interesting paper pasted on board covers.
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Floral Design Album of a Furniture Maker
by Rattray, Wilbert
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Half Morocco. Pebbled cloth on boards. . Very Good. Folio, 38 by 28 cm. 96 pages of original botanical or floral artwork mounted onto the pages of the album. Most pages are devoted to a single subject, which is generally a one flower or plant, with multiple depictions of the plant. Thus we are shown the flower, stem, and/or leaves from various angles, or we might be given various examples of any of these plant parts. Clearly the purpose was to inspire the designer as well as provide a handy reference for verisimilitude as he was working on an actual ornament design. It is probable that all the artwork was done by one hand, as there is a coherence in the execution and style. We think the artist is likely to have been a Wilbert Rattray, whose card is mounted onto the corner of the FFEP, but of course we can't be sure of this, and we assume that Mr. Rattray was employed by Brown Brothers of Glasgow and Edinburgh, whose name and address is stamped several times in the album. Brown Brothers was clearly a…
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1st Battalion Coldstream Guards. Household Brigade Drag Hounds. 1893-1894
by Rawlinson, Captain and R. J. Marker
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Windsor, England: Oxley & Son, 1895. First edition. Half Morocco. . Very Good. Scarce. with no copies found on OCLC First Search. Oblong 4to, 25.5 by 34 cm. [6], 43, [2] pp. 22 plates -- photographs, copies of mostly humorous drawings relating to the account. Not counted as plates -- among the pages that are paginated -- are the final leaves with mounted programmes, menus, invitations relating to the hunts. Drag racing began as a preparatory exercise to train foxhounds, who instead of chasing an actual fox, run after an artificially laid scent, one carried by a person bearing a material soaked in a pungent aniseed or other smelly substance. By the mid-nineteenth century had become a sport in its own right. Because the sport isn't dependent on the vagaries of the fox, it is more controllable by the master running the show, and thus can be more consistently fast-paced, if that is the objective. Among its greatest enthusiasts became members of the British army and cavalry. Drag hunts…
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