1737 NICOBAR PIGEON, RELATIVE OF THE EXTINCT DODO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (173138) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life,... View More...
1736 MUSCOVY DRAKE, ADAPTED TO TROPICAL AND COLD CLIMATES, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (173138) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's ear... View More...
1737 THE TURACO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (173138) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-bo... View More...
1737 THE BLACK AND WHITE PHEASANT, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, small crease to lower right corner not affecting image; heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (173138) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736).... View More...
2009 SIGNED COPY OF R. CRUMB'S MASTERPIECE, THE BOOK OF GENESIS, WITH SIGNED SERIGRAPH PRINT IN SLIPCASE, COPY 155 OF 250 LIMITED EDITION--NOW TRANSLATED INTO 10 LANGUAGES. 8 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches hardcover, black cloth binding with gilt title, in 9 x 11 1/2 inch black cloth slipcase with color image of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, unpaginated, illustrations, signed book together with signed 8 x 10 inch 9 color serigraph print (by Alex Wood of Wildwood Serigraphs)--unopened in original clear plastic shrink wrap, #155 from edition limited to 250. First published October 2009, R. Crumb... View More...
SIGNED & FRAMED ORIGINAL CARTOON PRINT OF DR. B. CAREFUL SURROUNDED BY MALPRACTICE WORRIES, BY CARTOONIST TO THE STARS. Framed original hand-colored print, number 49 of 150 copies, signed by the artist, John DeAmicis. Image size 7x8 inches, matted size 11x14 inches, signed in pencil by the artist, fine in fine black metal frame with black matte and glass. John DeAmicis's drawings and illustrations have been compared to Charles Bragg and Daumier. He depicts his unusual interpretations of common situations and clichs creating complex and sophisticated satirical art pieces. Fanciful lines flow fr... View More...
1904 DANISH BOOK OF THE SEA WITH ART DECO COVER AND MANY DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 394 pages, cloth backed color art deco cover and spine, marbled edges, over 200 black and white figures in the text and 4 superb chomolithographs, 1 highlighted with silver, all with tissue guards, 3 with captioned tracings. TEXT IN DANISH. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, small dampstain to bottom edge of rear cover, small handstamp of institutional library to front free endpaper, no other library markings. Overall, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. ARTHUR FREDERICK FEDDERSEN (... View More...
SCARCE LIMITED EDITION COMPILATION OF 25 SHORT STORIES ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS OF MURDER VICTIMS TAKEN BY FRENCH CRIMINALIST ALPHONSE BERTILLON--INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, EUGENIA PARRY. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, color printed laminated covers, no dust jacket or endpapers as published, inscribed and signed by author on title page, 319 pages with many black & white illustrations from a photographic album collection of Gerard Levy, Paris, historic archives, and La Photographie judiciaire by Alphonse Bertillon, Paris 1890. Fine. EUGENIA PARRY (born 1940), formerly professor of art history at Well... View More...
Publisher:
Paris, Ancienne Maison Quantin, Librairies-Imprimeries Reunis : 1895
Seller ID: 1298
LIMITED FRENCH EDITION SUMPTUOUS COLLECTION OF STORIES ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL ETCHINGS, LITHOGRAPHS, AND PHOTOGRAVURES INCLUDES THE END OF BOOKS--PREDICTING TODAY'S eBOOKS AND AUDIOBOOKS. 12 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 green pebbled leather binding, gilt rules, marbled paper covered boards, decorative gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers, 2x2.5 inch photographic bookplate to front free endpaper, Ex. Lib. E. C. 1895, original art deco color lithographed paper covers by Auriol bound in, title page with hand colored vignette by Robida and facing limitation notice (volume 467 of 1000 printed o... View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo and Co. : 1851
Seller ID: 158
1851 SCARCE MYSTICAL TREATISE ON HUMAN BODY. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, original brown cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, Dedicated to Henry James, Sr [father of the novelist]. Two spots of insect abrasion on front cover, corners and edges of covers worn, 1 inch split to bottom of front joint, spine ends frayed, previous owner pencil signature to front free endpaper, scattered foxing to first and last pages, overall good +. In protective custom archival mylar cover. PREFACE: 'Persons for the most part have no idea that the sciences belong to the great world in the first place,... View More...
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