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Chinese art and costume: work sought after on account of the quantity and quality of its beautiful illustrations. View picture(s) 1 BRETON de la Martinière, Jean-Baptiste Joseph. La Chine en miniature, ou choix de costumes, arts et métiers de cet empire, repréntés par 74 (sic) gravures, la plupart d'après les originaux inédits du cabinet de feu M. Bertin, ministre; accompagnés de notices explicatives, historiques et littéraires. Paris, Demonville for Nepveu, 1811. 6 parts in 2 vols. 18mo. Contemporary dark green grained morocco, spines richly gilt in compartments, elegant gilt borders on sides with fleurons, vases, and other ornaments, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (CHILLIAT). 100 full-page and 8 folding engraved plates in beautiful contemporary hand colouring. XXXVI, 144; (4), 172; 188; (4), 220; (4), XXIII, 236; (4), 234, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Book History  Cartography  China  Printing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A who is who of British portrait engravers View picture(s) 2 CAULFIELD, James. Calcographiana: the printsellers chronicle and collectors guide to the knowledge and value of engraved British portraits. London, G. Smeeton, 1814. 8vo. Contemporary boards with paper title label pasted on spine.. Engraved portrait of the author after  a drawing by Walton, engraved by Cooper, title printed in red and black. VIII, 163, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Engravings  Printing  Printing & Publishing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unknown issue of the first edition of the Dutch translation of this eighteenth-century manual on Art history View picture(s) 3 COMTE, Florent Le. Het konst-cabinet der bouw- schilder- beeldhouw- en graveerkunde, of inleiding tot de kennis dier fraaije weetenschappen, vervat in de schilderyen, standbeelden en prenten. Behelzende , behalven een beknopte leevensbeschryving der aloude schilders en beeldhouwers, ook die der latere Italiaanse, Franse, Hoogduitse en Nederlandse meesters, die zo wel in de schilder- en bouw-, als plaatsnykunde uitgemunt hebben, beneevens de catalogi hunner werken. Verrykt met een verhandeling over het glas-schilderen, een vertoog over het etzen, en wat tot het leeren en oeffenen dier kundigheid vereist word en andere weetenswaardige zaaken. Arnhem, J.C. & G.M. Nebe, (1744-45). 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, with red title label lettered in gold, marbled boards. With two engraved frontispieces engraved by F. de Bakker, both dated 1744, titles printed in red & black, and 5 full-page engraved plates with monograms of artists. (24), 475, (3); 751 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Painting & Drawing  Printing  Sculpture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First and only edition of the earliest work of the lawyer, historian, philosopher and printer Elie Luzac (1721-1796) View picture(s) 4 LUZAC, Elie. Disquisitio politico-moralis, num civis innocens irae hostis, longe potentioris, juste permitti possit, ut excidium totius civitatis evitetur. Leyden, Typis auctoris (Elie Luzac), 1749. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, sprinkled edges. Woodcut head- and tailpieces. XVIII, 92 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  Law  Leyden  Netherlands  Politics  Printing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic study on the early history of printing, honouring Laurens Jansz. Coster as the inventor View picture(s) 5 MEERMAN, Gerardus. Origines typographicae. The Haue, Paris and London, for Nicolaus van Daalen, Guil. Franc. de Bure and Thomas Wilcox, 1765. 2 vols. Large 4to. Contemporary calf with gilt decorated borders along the edges of both sides, spine gilt in compartments with green morocco title labels lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. With 2 full-page engraved portraits of the author by J. Daullé after a painting by Peronneau and of Laurens Jansz. Coster by J. Houbraken after A. Schouman, one folding printed table with the genealogy of Larens Jansz. Coster, one folding and 9 full-page engraved plates of specimens from early printed books by A.I. Polack after the drawings by Corn. van Noorde, P.J. Foernier and C. de Salgas, and one half page engraved coat-of- arms of Johannes Schottus from Strasbourg in the text. XI (XII), 260; VIII, 312 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Habsburg  Incunabula  Printing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Love poetry in a beautiful binding View picture(s) 6 ROSSI, Giovanni Gherardo de. Scherzi poetici e pittorici. Rome, Co'tipi Bodoniani, 1795. 8vo. 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, one with black morocco title-label and 5 with gilt ornaments on oval inlaid black morocco pieces, sides with triple fillet borders and gilt corner ornaments with same inlaid oval black morocco pieces as on spine, central oval ornament executed in gilt green morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (R. PETIT). 41 engravings, incl. frontispiece (ca. 70x112mm). 52 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Bodoni  Engravings  Erotica  Literature  Poetry  Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Paper making from all sorts of woods and plants, and other materials View picture(s) 7 SCHAEFFER, Jacob Christian. Proefnemingen en Monster-Bladen, om Papier te Maaken  zonder Lompen, of Met een gering Byvoegsel derzelven. Uit  het Hoogduitsch vertaald. Amsterdam, J.Chr. Sepp, 1770. 2 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary half cloth. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by I.N. Maag after the author, printed in blue, illustrating the  process of papermaking, 32 specimen of paper-leaves made  of different natural materials, and 5 full-page engraved  plates, of plants and honeycoms by I.N. Maag and G.P. Traubner after Loibel, finely coloured by hand. (4), 56, (2); VIII, 32 p. Full description >> Related Subjects: Book History  Paper  Printing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Antwerp at the beginning of the 17th century, with 7 plates View picture(s) 8 SCRIBANI, Charles. Origines Antverpiensium. Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana, Jan Moretus, 1610. Large 4to. Contemporary limp vellum With engraved printer's device on title-page, and 7 engraved folding views, plans and maps. 172, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Belgicana  Low Countries  Netherlands  Printing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Haarlem 'prize binding' with work celebrating the invention of printing in that city View picture(s) 9 SEIZ, Joannes Christianus. Annus tertius saecularis inventae artis typographicae, sive brevis historica enarratio de inventione noblissimae artis typographicae, in qua ostenditur, quo tempore, à quo & ubi locorum ea primum fuerit inventa ... Haarlem, Isaac et Joannes Enschede, (1742). 8vo. 'Prize binding' from Haarlem: contemporary vellum, richly gilt with two borders, centre-pieces and in the centre of both sides the Haarlem virgin in arms with the coat of arms of Haarlem; spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label lettered in gold: 'Ars typogr. a L. Kostero inventa'; inner dentelles; gilt edges. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece with four Latin verses by Petrus Scriverius underneath (dated 1741), engraved vignette on title (also dated 1741) and engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, all by A. van der Laan; 4 full-page engraved plates showing the statue of Laurens Jansz. Koster by A. van der Laan (1740), and three plates with memorial medals; and a folding engraved view of Haarlem, showing Coster's house, by H. Spilman. Added and mounted on the verso of the half-title is the engraved portrait of Coster by J. van Velde after the painting by Jacob van Campen with the four lines of Latin poetry by Petrus Scriverius. XXIV, 248, 14 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Book History  Engravings  Haarlem  Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A nineteenth century classic on mediaeval civilization View picture(s) 10 SHAW, Henry. Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages. London, William Pickering, 1843. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary three quarter red morocco, richly gilt decorated spine and marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and 93 colour plates, many head and tail pieces and initials. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Costumes  History  Printing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most beautiful pieces of italic typography produced in Italy in the 16th century View picture(s) 11 TRISSINO, Giovanni Giorgio. Epistola de le lettere nuovamente aggiunte ne la lingua Italiana. (Vicenza, Tolomeo Januculo, 1529). Small folio. Modern calf, spine ribbed, blind tooled fillet borders on sides. Woodcut printer's device on title. 18 (last blank) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Linguistics  Literary History  Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Type specimen of the famous Enschedé typefoundry View picture(s) 12 [ENSCHEDÉ]. Proeve van Drukletteren. Haarlem, Lettergieterij Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1841. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth. 132 lvs. with different letter types, more than 200 different kinds of engraved head-and tailpieces, 25 initials, 12 engraved coat-of-arms, 623 engraved vignettes and illustrations. 314 lvs. of which 3 folding. Full description >> Related Subjects: Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the masters of the print View picture(s) 13 [GILPIN, William]. An essay upon prints; containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty, the different kind of prinnts, and the characters of the most noted masters; illustrated by criticisms upon particular pieces; to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints. London, printed for J. Robson, 1768. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary half sprinkled calf, red gilt title label. IV, 4, (1), 1-92, 97 (misnumbered text is complete)-249 (= 245), (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Collections  Printing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Epigrams printed by Bodoni View picture(s) 14 [RONCALLI, Carlo]. Epigrammi Francesi tradotti in versi Italiani. Parma, Co'tipi Bodoniani, 1798. 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt. (2), 107, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bodoni  Italy  Literature  Poetry  Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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