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Miniature Album with Penwork Church on Cover
Wood Boards and Leather Spine Very Good
N.d., circa 1850. The penwork impression on the front cover is of St. Andrews Church in Burnham, Somerset. This sets the tone, with 20 engraved picturesque views of Britain following, some in oval, others rectangular, with legends on the facing versos. These include Glastonbury Church, St. Donat's Castle, Carnovan Castle, Tematon Castle, Pont Aberglaslyn, the Summit of Snowden, etc. The diminuitive album is a mere 2.5 by 1.5 inches (6.5 by 4 cm). This is a lovely Victorian souvenir and pocket-sized viewbook, and quite special for the genre. The wood boards and red leather spine, plus clasp, remain attractive.
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300.00 USD
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White Mountains Leporello with Twelve Views
New York Wittemann Bros. 1880 Blindstamped cloth leporello Very Good
Early White Mountain viewbook, with no copies on OCLC. The leporello closed measures 5 by 3.25 inches. The slightly tinted views are of the Valley of the Saco and P. & O.R.R., the Frankenstein Trestle, Crawford House by the Notch, Mt. Washington Range, the railroad junction at the base of Mt. Washington, Jacob's Ladder at Mt. Washington, Summit House, Glen House, Echo Lake, Profile House at Franconia Notch, the Flume, and Lake Winnipeseogee. Minor rubbing to the blindstamped cloth covers. The endpaper is chipped by the spine.
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150.00 USD
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Frederic Schoberl. Illustrated by J. and J. Lory Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan, By Way of the Simplon: Illustrated with Thirty Six Coloured Views of the Most Striking Scenes and of the Principal Works Belonging to the New Road Constructed Over that Mountain, Engraved from Designs by J. and J. Lory, of Neufchatel; And Accompanied with Particulars Historical and Descriptive by Federic Schoberl.
London R. Ackermann 1820 First Edition Quarter Morocco over Cloth Boards, with Custom Clo Very Good
Imperial 8vo. 11 by 8 inches, 29 by 20 cm. [8], 136, [2], 8 pp. Plus 36 hand-colored aquatint plates, and tinted frontis map. Includes useful publisher's eight page catalog. One of the most beautiful of plate books, capturing some dramatic and treacherous scenery. Views include Sion, Lake Geneva, Brieg, Bridge at Ganther, Algaby, Ponte Alto, waterfall at Pissevache, bridge at St. Maurice, Lake Maggiore, Arona, Sesto, Milan, Lake Como, etc. Tooley 446, which notes that the work was issued later with title still dated 1820, but that is manifestly not the case here since plates are dated 1819 and 1820 and the publisher's quarter leather binding is consistent with the first issue as thus. (Some plates were issued earlier in Ackermann's Repository.) The publication itself should be seen as a product of the building appreciation of Alpine and Swiss scenery, once scorned, that began in the 1700s, and in particular British fascination with it. Custom clamshell case. Some offsetting from plates, including from frontis to title. Soiling of frontis in margins especially. Clamshell box has a few loose seams along joints and other minor wear. Plates have watermarks from 1819 and 1820.
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5400.00 USD
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Illustrators include Cham, Victor Eeckhout, H. Borremans, van Cuyck, Gerlier, F. Stroobant, J. Van de Putte, Baldisseroni, de Nestele (?) [spellings of these names somewhat elastic] Album D'Ostende
Bruges and Ostende J. Buffa Cloth Good
N.d., circa 1860. A fabulous collection of hand-colored plates of the popular Belgian beach resort, with a mix of character studies (mostly of the local, non-fashionable citizenry), humorous genre scenes and views of the beach, the architecture, the beachgoers, the sea. 52 plates in all, all but one of which is hand-colored, the final plate is a folding tinted panorama of the beach looking in from the sea . Some of the beach scenes are evocative of Boudin. The mix of humor and more sober portraits lends a balance from which we can better approximate the culture and atmosphere at this early destination resort. And through the pictures we can sense the uneasy embrace of the vacationing bathers with the sea. The colored plates are all 13.5 by 10 inches, or 34 by 25 cm, including their margins. The plates are mostly clean, but there is some finger soiling and the like in the margins, and a few plates have chips and small chunks of card missing, never affecting the images. The binding is quite soiled, with the corners chewed up a bit, and the joints have tears in the cloth. No title, and no evidence there ever was one.
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4500.00 USD
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T. Addison Richards American Scenery, Illustrated
New York Leavitt and Allen 1854 First Edition Full Blindstamped Morocco Very Good Minus
A special of this work, with its 32 plates hand-colored, unlike the typical copy. 4to, 9.5 by 8 inches. 310 pp. Large, light dampstain affecting first few text leaves, then fading. Other soiling and light foxing on a few of these leaves, and a few early plates having light foxing. Some later plates with marginal finger smudging, and one with a small light dampstain. The tissue guards are slovenly -- a good number appear to have been tipped in later, and many are creased and a nuisance. Most of the contents otherwise is clean. Blindstamped calf binding chipped in upper spine extremity and some goupiness in upper front joint. Otherwise light wear.
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1600.00 USD
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