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La Moda Elegante Ilustrada al Ano De 1880: Periodico De Las Familias

By: N/A

Price: $675.00

Publisher: 1880

Seller ID: 000328

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Fine

Folio. 48 color plates, 14 by 10 inches, of women's fashion, with many plates also featuring children and activities. Depicted is an early bicycle, toy boats, a piano. Many of these are not mere static fashion plates, but also interesting genre scenes involving affluent ladies and their children. Backgrounds, whether interior or exterior, also contribute. Calf spine, with raised bands, considerably scuffed and rubbed. Marbled boards have shelfwear and scuffing. Binding tight. Plates all clean. One plate has 1 inch discreet tear in margin -- it does not effect picture itself. Thus, bind...
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Die Kunst Fur Alle 1913 - 1914

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: 000972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

4to - over 9¾. No title page. 480 pp. Profusely illustrated, many color plates as well. Articles on Moreau, Van Gogh, Munich sculpture, Julius Diez, Secessionists (a movement concurrent with publication), miniatures, Wilhelm Liebl, H. Hahn, Alfred von Keller, and many others. It covered art from everywhere, with some emphasis on Teutonic, or German, artists. Half calf over yellow boards. Some soilage to boards. Pages clean. Binding tight.
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Image for Histoire des Missionnaires dans le Midi de la France. Lettres d'un Marin a un Hussard. Bound together with second volume Histoire des Missionnaires dans Le Midi et L'Ouest de la France.

Histoire des Missionnaires dans le Midi de la France. Lettres d'un Marin a un Hussard. Bound together with second volume Histoire des Missionnaires dans Le Midi et L'Ouest de la France.

By: N/A

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Plancher: 1819 and 1820

Seller ID: 001298

Binding: Quarter morocco

Condition: Very Good

112, 144 pp. 8vo, measuring 20 by 13 cm, or 8 by 5 inches. With two exceptional hand-colored fold-out plates (16 by 12 inches each). Quarter morocco over silk moire boards. Edge tear of silk in lower half of front edge. Some wear to spine. Some minor light foxing. Minor close tear in each plate not affecting image and by where bound in (thus predictable). Very good overall of very rare title.
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English Scenery. One Hundred and Twenty Chromo Views

By: N/A

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, Edinburgh and New York, T. Nelson and Sons: 1891

Seller ID: 001457

Condition: Near Fine

8vo, 8 by 6 inches, 20 by 15 cm. Two chromolithographic postcard-sized images per plate, with fine views of the most memorable buildings, landmarks, natural wonders and views of England. Moderate foxing of preliminaries, otherwise generally clean, with all tissue guards intact. Re-cased with very attractive archtypal Victorian styled decorated morocco spine. Marbled boards.
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Heures du Moyen Age

By: N/A

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Paris, Gruel & Engelmann: 1887

Seller ID: 001295

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Fine

Lavish 19th century rendering of a Book of Hours using bright chromolithography that cogently replicates the exquisite detail, sublimity and sheer miraculousness of the Medieval biblio staple. Each of the 192 plates (including title page) is unique with the high Gothic ornamentation that is usually encountered only under glass at better art museums. Usually the ornament frames Gothic type of the text in French and Latin, but occasionally the framed is instead a miniature painting. Credits for this production are Engelmann, artistic director and chromolithography; painting, Ed. Moreau; actua...
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Album of Sixteen Hand-Colored Plates of Erotica

By: N/A

Price: $3,400.00

Seller ID: 001510

Binding: Half Calf over Floral Fabric

Condition: Very Good

Circa 1820, almost surely of Italian origin, and probably Neopolitan. Erotica undoubtedly goes back to when the first artists scrawled figures onto cave walls, but being that so much of it is by its nature and intent "ephemera", it is elusive finding much of it created in pre-Victorian "Modern" Europe. From the dress and adornments we can date these unsigned, undated plates as from approximately 1820. The racy, raucous and raunchy vignettes, some very funny, should speak for themselves, but surely they suggest that when it comes to things priapic, phallic and pornographic, ...
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Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians Illustrated by Sixty-Four Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions

By: N/A

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, James Goodwin:

Seller ID: 001470

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

4to, 9.5 by 7 inches, 24 by 17 cm. 64 plates, each accompanied by a page or two of description (on separate leaves). Colas 2358. This is derived from the same title published by John Murray in 1814, which itself was based closely on the work published by Miller in 1803 and the plates of Georgi from the 1770s (Colas 1223). Notwithstanding the derivative nature of the plates, as hand-colored stipple prints they are exquisite, with color that to this day springs off the page and delights. Leather on spine is dried out and rubbed by extremities. Rubbing of gutter areas. Boards' leather still ...
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Costumes of British Ladies from the time of William the 1st to the reign of Queen Victoria

By: N/A

Price: $2,250.00

Publisher: London, Dickenson & Son:

Seller ID: 001557

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

N.d., circa 1840. Folio, 48 hand-colored lithographed plates, some heightened in gilt, all mounted on card, as originally issued. Each accompanied by brief caption relating to authorities upon which illustration was based, and this caption is on separate leaf's verso, and there is a tissue guard sheet between this and the related plate. Title page with lovely hand-colored floral border. Followed by list of subscribers, which contains 171 names, and this must surely have been the extent of the entire issue since copies are extremely scarce. (Obviously the book has been mined many times as ...
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The Moral of Flowers, Illustrated by Coloured Engravings.

By: N/A

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman and M. Robinson; printed by A. Spottiswoode: 1835

Seller ID: 001601

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good Plus

8vo. xiv, [1], 227 pp. and 24 hand-colored botanical plates. Occasional light foxing, and one plate and a few text pages with a bit more, but still light, foxing. Overall clean and fresh. Some wear to the morocco spine and corners.
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Pretty Farm Pictures. A Big Book for the Little Ones.

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London and New York, Ernest Nister and E. P. Dutton & Co.:

Seller ID: 001600

Binding: Boards attached by cloth spine

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1890. With 19 large chromolithographs, including title, of animals and some children in bucolic settings, all on heavy card which gives the book real heft and durability. The size, 11 by 12 inches each, and prettiness of the illustrations sets this juvenile farm animal compilation from the common fare of the day, and surely the endearing cuteness of the images has led many a time to this book being broken for the purpose of framing the prints. Some soiling of the covers. The red cloth used on the spine has some fraying and weakening. Minor soiling of some margins within, but m...
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Dix Nouvelles Morales et Illustrees Par Les Auteurs et Dessinateurs de la Morale en Images

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Aubert:

Seller ID: 001642

Binding: Blindstamped cloth

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1840. 80 pp. With ten color plates. Small 4to, 10 by 6.5 inches, 25 by 17 cm. This book is extremely scarce, and it should be noted that the same title was used with different stories and illustrations than appeared in this version, and also the plates were not always colored. The ten tales contained in this copy are "Les Dix-Neuf Pots de Confitures" by Eugenie Foa, "Les Deux Amies" by T. Castellan, "La Jeune Orgueilleuse" by T. Castellan, "La Bergamote" by Eugenie Foa, "La Femme du Contrebandier" by T. Castellan, "Le Couvent de Sain...
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Trentasei Grazie Giapponesi

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore: 1959

Seller ID: 001764

Condition: Fine

A stunning Italian homage to the traditional Japanese genre-scene color woodcut. Folio, measuring 14.5 by 10 inches, 37 by 26 cm. A reprint of a 1893 publication, the book contains 36 mounted color woodcuts of Japanese men and mostly women, magnificently arranged in a large leporello, with the volume opening in both directions. Minor soiling and wear to the box. The book itself is pristine, or close thereto.
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Peterson's Ladies National Magazine May, 1872. Vol. LXI.

By: N/A

Price: $18.00

Seller ID: 001806

Condition: Good Minus

One color fold-out fashion plate, and numerous other black and white illustrations. Cover is somewhat rough, with chipping around edges, and shallow chips on some other leaves. The color plate has age toning but is overall in nice shape.
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A Tour Through Paris, Illustrated with Seventeen Colored Plates, Accompanied with Descriptive Letter-Press

By: N/A

Price: $1,650.00

Publisher: London, William Sams:

Seller ID: 001884

Binding: Quarter Calf

Condition: Very Good

N.d., 1834. Folio-sized, 14 by 10 inches, or 36 by 25 cm. 55 pp. 17 hand-colored plates. The subject matter of the plates is full of delight and surprise, and the composition and coloring is singularly tasteful and sublime. Highlights are surely the dancers on stilts, the blind man on the bridge, the juggler or the charcoal porters. But this is not an early, Parisian version of "London Poor" or the street life of Paris, for we encounter people from all walks of life, and we are taken to places more private, such as the interior of a swimming school! Perhaps the most exception as...
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Historical Records of the Life Guards: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Corps in the Year 1660, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1835

By: N/A

Price: $375.00

Publisher: London, William Clowes and Sons: 1835, 1837

Seller ID: 001975

Condition: Very Good

8vo. xi, ix, [1], 291 pp. With six charming hand-colored plates depicting Life Guards on horseback. Edgewear to cloth and soiling of boards. Morocco, which is more modern, is clean and attractive. Foxing in preliminaries; otherwise, only occasional soiling of leaves and overall quite clean. All plates are richly colored and handsome.
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Costume Francais de 1200 a 1715

By: N/A

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, C. Hullmandel:

Seller ID: 001974

Condition: Fine

N.d. Circa 1820s. 12mo, 5.5 by 4.5 inches, or 14 by 11.5 cm. 100 hand-colored lithograph costume plates, all immaculate. Leaves are printed only on one side, and the plates resemble stylish costume cards. This book is usually found with only black and white plates. Other than minor toning along the edges, the thick paper looks virtually new. All is bound in a lush modern reddish-orange morocco, with gilt and incised decoration on both the boards and spine. The gilt figures incorporate the shape of the fleur-de-lys and come off both tastefully simple and elegant. The leather has a par...
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[Meiji Culture] Scenes of Japanese Life

By: N/A

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Tokyo,

Seller ID: 002010

Binding: Cloth on boards, leporello

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1900. Leporello with 14 color woodblock plates. The scenes are various, depicting women, men and children, and scenes around food preparation , dining, pets playing, promenading, prayer, shopping, punishment, etc. Measuring 6.75 by 4.75 inches, or 17 by 12 cm, and each image is about 9 inches, or 23 cm, wide. Patterned silk with some edgewear.
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Aunt Louisa's Nursery Favourite. Comprising Diamonds and Toads. Dick Whittington. Lily Sweetbriar. Uncle's Farm Yard. With Twenty-Four Pages of Illustrations. Printed in Colours by Kronheim.

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co.: 1870

Seller ID: 002087

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

4to. 10.5 by 9 inches, 27 by 23 cm. 6, 6, 6, 6 pp and 24 color plates, along with blank paper (as opposed to tissue) guards. Most plates are a single full page chromolithographic illustrations, with a few featuring two or three illustrations. Original blue pebbled, blindstamped cloth binding. Cloth edges and corner with moderate shelfwear. Spine extremities repaired with matching cloth. Light rubbing of joints. Minor scattered soiling within. Plates are all bright and fresh.
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Image for Woman in Sacred History: Illustrated by Modern Art. A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources. Illustraed with Sixteen Chromo-Lithographs after Paintings by Raphael, Batoni, Baader, Horace Vernet, Portaels, Goodall, Paul Delroche, Koehler, Landelle, Merle, Vernet-Lecomte, Devedeux and Boulanger.

Woman in Sacred History: Illustrated by Modern Art. A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources. Illustraed with Sixteen Chromo-Lithographs after Paintings by Raphael, Batoni, Baader, Horace Vernet, Portaels, Goodall, Paul Delroche, Koehler, Landelle, Merle, Vernet-Lecomte, Devedeux and Boulanger.

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, J. B. Ford and Company: 1876

Seller ID: 002119

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

8vo. Unpaginated. With 16 color plates, all with the appearance of sacred chromos that once frequently decorated the walls of the devout. Clean within, with minor wear to tissue guards. The blindstamped and gilt brown morocco is heavily rubbed along joints and edges.
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Journal des Meres et Des Enfants Revue de L'Education Nouvelle. 12 Chants pour L'Enfance, en Musique. 12 Tableaux Encyclopediques, Colories. Deuxieme Serie

By: N/A

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Paris, Journal des Meres et Des Enfants: 1850

Seller ID: 002181

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Good

Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC. With the unusual format of essentially being two periodicals issued in conjunction with one another, one directed at the children, the other, at the parents. (Think teacher's manual and student's text as a rough corollary.) Although periodical, no other copy found of this or any other issue of this French publication directed at children. 4to. (30 by 20 cm.) The primary interest for most would be the hand-colored two paged plates. While the coloring is not of a high level, the results are most charming, with the showstopper being the plate, "...
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Category: Color Plate Books