Retour de Chasse et Curée
by WOUWERMAN, After Philips (1619-1668)
Paris: Moyreau, 1740. Hand-coloured engraving on laid paper by Moyreau. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling, minor foxing, and mild rippling. A fine composition showing the hunting party returning from the hunt to refresh themselves and organize their spoils.This beautifully coloured print is one of many engravings Jean Moyreau (1690-1762) made of Wouwerman's paintings. Born into a family of Dutch artists in Haarlem in 1619, the prolific draughtsman and painter Philips Wouwerman was primarily renowned... Read More
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La Marchande de Canards
by WOUWERMAN, After Philips (1619-1668)
Paris: Moyreau, 1762. Hand-coloured engraving on laid paper by Moyreau. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling, minor foxing, and a bit of mild rippling. A fine composition showing a group of cavalrymen congregating oustide of a duck merchant's cottage. This beautifully coloured print is one of many engravings Jean Moyreau (1690-1762) made of Wouwerman's paintings. Born into a family of Dutch artists in Haarlem in 1619, the prolific draughtsman and painter Philips Wouwerman was primarily... Read More
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La Grote de Marechal. Gravé d'Après le Tableau Original de Ppe. Wouvermens de dix neuf pouces de large sur vingt trois pouces de haut
by WOUWERMAN, After Philips (1619-1668)
Paris: Moyreau, 1748. Engraving, coloured by hand, by J. Moyreau. A fine composition, showing life on the road in the Flemish low countries: two travellers wait outside a farrier's shop. One of their horses had thrown a shoe and the farrier prepares the hoof whilst his assistant runs out from the shop with a new shoe clasped in a pair of iron tongs. Meanwhile life continues round about. The title notes that the original painting was 23 inches high... Read More
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Depart Pour la Chasse Au Vol
by WOUWERMAN, After Philips (1619-1668)
Paris: Moyreau, 1740. Hand-coloured engraving on laid paper by Moyreau. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling, minor foxing, and mild rippling. A fine composition showing the hunting party embarking on the hunt. This beautifully coloured print is one of many engravings Jean Moyreau (1690-1762) made of Wouwerman's paintings. Born into a family of Dutch artists in Haarlem in 1619, the prolific draughtsman and painter Philips Wouwerman was primarily renowned for his lively battle and hunting... Read More
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Oeuvres de Phillippe Wouvermans, Hollandois. Gravées d'apres ses meilleurs Tableaux qui sont dans les plus beaux Cabinets de Paris et ailleurs. Dediées a son altesse serenissime Monseigneur le Comte de Clermont, Prince du Sang, par son humble et tres obeissant Servieteur I. Moyreau Graveur du Roy
by WOUWERMAN [or Wouwerman or Wouwermans], Philips (1619-1668); Jean MOYREAU (1690-1762, engraver)
Paris: Chez Moyreau, 1762. Folio. (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches). Engraved portrait of Moyreau by Nonnette dated 1749, and 100 engraved plates numbered 1-100 with the engraved rococo title being numbered as plate 25. 88 plates engraved by Moyreau and the others by Cochin, Chedel etc. The title is engraved by Le Parmentier after J. de la Joue. Included are 5 double page plates and one page with 2 plates on the page. The final 8 plates are... Read More
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Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray, comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third
by WRIGHT, Thomas and R.H. Evans
London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1851. 8vo. (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches). 496 pp. Half red morocco with marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands forming six compartments, elaborately gilt, black morocco lettering piece, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers The first edition of the descriptive catalogue accompanying Bohn's collected edition of James Gillray's caricatures, preserving a detailed mid-nineteenth-century reading of Georgian political and social satire. This first edition catalogues 582 of Gillray's prints,... Read More
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Life of William Blake
by WRIGHT, Thomas (1859-1936)
Olney, Bucks: Thomas Wright, 1929. 2 volumes, quarto. (10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches). 135 plates and illustrations, including color frontispieces. Publisher's green cloth Provenance: John Slocum (inscribed to him by Albert Kornfeld on the front endpaper) Lovely set of the first edition of this work by the founder of the Blake Society. Born in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England, Thomas Wright was educated at Buxton College and founded Cowper School in Olney in 1882 at the age... Read More
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The Cruise of the 'Narcissus' with the Detached Squadron, from the 30th of September, 1874, to the 10th of May 1877
by WRIGHT, William Purvis (1846-1910)
Portsmouth: Henry Lewis, 1877. 8vo. vii, [1], 114, [6]pp. Folding map. Publisher's blue cloth, upper cover panelled in black and letter in gilt Scarce journal of the travels of the HMS Narcissus to South America, South Africa, India, Singapore and the China Sea. "The 'Cruise of the Narcissus' with the Detached Squandron has been written with the view to chronicle events in connection with the Squadron. It makes no pretensions to literary merit, but is simply a... Read More
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Libro Primo de la Conqvista del Perv & Prouincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali
by XEREZ, Francisco de
1535. Small quarto. [62] leaves. 19th-century pebbled pigskin, spine gilt. Boards and extremities lightly rubbed. Some minor soiling, a few leaves lightly toned. Two small tears, on titlepage and second leaf, neatly repaired. Men of Cajamarca: two eyewitness accounts of events. As one of the "Men of Cajamarca," Francisco de Xerez holds a very special place among writers on the earliest period of Spanish contact with the Inca of Peru: He was there from day one, a member... Read More
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Smithtown Bay and Approaches
by [New York]
Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1917. Large folding nautical chart, printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of Long Island including Eaton's Neck, Sunken Meadow State Park, Northport, Stony Brook, Old Field, and designated anchorage points. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its... Read More
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Port Jefferson and Approaches: Long Island Sound
by [New York]
Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1917. Large folding nautical chart, printed on heavy paper stock. Colored with minor wear. A rare original coastal survey of Long Island including Old Field, Strongs Neck, Port Jefferson, Mt. Sinai, Miller Place, and Sound Beach as well as designated anchorage points. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian... Read More
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Chemical Atlas: or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects: Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams
by YOUMANS, Edward L. (1821-1887)
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1856. 4to. (12 x 10 1/8 inches). 106 pp. Illustrated with 13 wood engraved diagrammatic plates printed in colours and finished by hand. Publisher's original gilt-and-blind-stamped brown cloth A striking American colour-plate book on chemistry and one of the most inventive scientific teaching books published in nineteenth-century United States. Youmans's Chemical Atlas is one of the most striking American educational books of the mid-nineteenth century. Designed for students and pupils "in... Read More
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Das Malerische, Monumentale, Historische und Artistische Venedig. Eine Darstellung seiner Haupt-Ansichten und alten Gebräuche in 60 Steindruck-Tafeln, gezeichnet von Marco Moro und Josef Rebellato
by ZANOTTO, Francesco (1794-1863)
Venice: Johann Brizeghel, 1859. Oblong folio. (13 1/8 x 19 3/8 inches). 60 hand-coloured lithographs, each plate with descriptive German text, list of plates at rear. Without the later-issued bird's-eye panorama of the city of Venice mentioned in the list of plates and produced after publication, and is therefore not found in most copies. Cloth-backed marbled paper wrappers, housed in an original cloth portfolio with cloth ties, upper cover lettered gilt An extensive, visually rich mid-nineteenth-century survey of... Read More
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Veduta del Palazzo del Sigre. Principe Strozzi, e della Strada che conduce al Ponte a S. Trinita. T.XIII
by ZOCCHI, Giuseppe (1711-1767)
Florence, 1744. Copper-engraving by Baldassare Gabbugiani of Rome after Zocchi. A very fine image of 18th-century Florence by one of the four greatest view painters of the period. `The Strozzi Palace and the Street leading to the Ponte Santa Trinita… [In] the foreground [is] the magnificent Renaissance palace begun in 1489 for Filippo Strozzi. The names of several designers and architects have been associated with the palace: Benedetto da Maiano, Guliano da Sangallo, and Cronaca. The fine wrought-iron... Read More
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