The Gate of Rosetta in Alexandria
London: R. Bowyer Historic Gallery, 1801. 1 aquatint engraving 320 x 467 mm. (image is 223 x 312 mm.). In Near Fine Condition: minor soiling on reverse; otherwise, clean and bright. More
London: R. Bowyer Historic Gallery, 1801. 1 aquatint engraving 320 x 467 mm. (image is 223 x 312 mm.). In Near Fine Condition: minor soiling on reverse; otherwise, clean and bright. More
London: R. Bowyer Historic Gallery, 1801. 1 aquatint engraving 316 x 460 mm. (image is 235 x 313 mm.). In Very Good Condition: minor soiling in margins; light creasing along lower edge; otherwise, clean and bright. More
London: Republished by the New Proprietor, J. Dowding, 1828. Hardcover. "An Improved Edition." [90] p., added engraved title page and 24 leaves of color plates; 38 cm. Dark green library buckram with gilt-stamped spine title and call number. Plates state: "Aquatinted by R. Havell. Published June 1, 1815, by R...... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849. Cruikshank, George. Hardcover. [4], viii, 236 p., frontispiece and 7 leaves of engraved plates; 19 cm. Dark brown/purple cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title. Boards have yapp edges. Dark green-black endpapers. The author is D.M. Moir, cf. NUC pre-1956, 389:452..... More
London: H. Moll, 1708. 1 sheet 232 x 267 mm. (image is 180 x 254 mm.) Hand-colored copper engraved map. This is Herman Moll's earliest map of New England, published in the first edition of John Oldmixon's The British Empire in North America in 1708. List of 19 towns in..... More
London, Eng. Whittaker & Co., 1835. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes: xxiv, 379, [5] p.; 389, [5] p.: hand-colored frontispiece and hand-colored title vignette in each volume, 18 hand-colored plates, several in-text drawings in each volume; 21 cm. Original dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles and decoration; all boards..... More
Paris: The Pleiad, 1929. Giauque, Fernand. Hardcover. 57, [1] p., 1 hand-colored frontispiece, 1 addition leaf of a hand-colored plate, and 10 in-text illustrations; 28 cm. Original red cloth with gilt-rooled spine title. Burgundy slipcase with printed paper label on front section, with handwritten copy number. Designed by Frederic Warde..... More
London: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith. 1880. 1 chromolithographed print 38 x 26 cm. signed "Ape," with accompanying leaf of biographical text. Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889), was a caricaturist for Vanity Fair from 1869 to his death in 1889, signing his works "Ape." Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey (1835-1898)..... More
London: Vanity Fair, 1869. 1 chromolithographed print 35 x 23 cm. signed "Ape," with accompanying biographical text. Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889), was a caricaturist for Vanity Fair from 1869 to his death in 1889, signing his works "Ape." Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell (1813-1886), the "most faithful disciple extant of Sir..... More
London: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith, 1874. 1 chromolithographed print 40 x 27 cm. signed "Ape," with accompanying leaf of biographical text (photocopy). Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889), was a caricaturist for Vanity Fair from 1869 to his death in 1889, signing his works "Ape." Henry James, 1st Baron James of..... More
London: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith. 1878. 1 chromolithographed print 34 x 26 cm. signed "Ape," without the biographical text. Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889) was a caricaturist for Vanity Fair from 1869 to his death in 1889, signing his works "Ape." Archibald Forbes (1838-1900), British war correspondent, began writing for..... More
Wissembourg; Paris: Fr. Wentzel, 1869. "Lithographie et typographie de Ch. Wentzel." [2], 10 p., 6 leaves of hand-colored lithographed plates; 27 cm. Title page and each page of text within decorative border. "Contes Illustrés pour Enfants" -- at head of title page. Frédéric Charles Wentzel (1839-1877) and Charles Frédéric Wentzel..... More
London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1838. Hardcover. 4 volumes: 49 steel-engraved portraits, 2 leaves of engraved facsimiles, folded; 27 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; author and volumed number in fourth compartment. Dark green cloth over boards. All page edges..... More
Philadelphia: William S. Young, 1844. Hardcover. 284 p., frontispiece and 6 additional leaves of plates; 23 cm. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Yellow endpapers. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Mary, from Curtis New years Day 1844." Not in Faxon. The..... More
Paris: Gravure Goupil et Cie, 1882. The sheet is 11.5 x 15 inches; the image is 7.25 x 10 inches. The print is a black-and-white image of the painting Rouget de L'Isle Singing the Marseillais for the First Time; by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils (1813-1875). No date of publication. The..... More
Paris: Gravure Goupil et Cie, 1882. The sheet is 11.5 x 15 inches; the image is 7.25 x 10 inches. The print is a black-and-white image of the painting The Jetty Trouville by Maurice Poirson (1850-1882). No date of publication. The series The Masterpieces of French Art was issued in..... More
London: Hering & Remington, 1848. 1 hand-colored lithograph 400 x 475 mm. (image is 276 x 318 mm.; mat is 19.5 x 20 inches). The lithograph was created by Edmund Walker (1813 or 1814-1882) of Day & Son, after James Rattray's drawing. James Rattray (1818-1854) was a lieutenant in the..... More
London: Hering & Remington, 1848. 1 hand-colored lithograph 430 x 527 mm. (image is 264 x 372 mm.; mat is 19.5 x 23.25 inches). The lithograph was created by Robert Carrick (1820-1905) of Day & Son, after James Rattray's drawing. James Rattray (1818-1854) was a lieutenant in the British Bengal..... More
London: Hering & Remington, 1848. 1 hand-colored lithograph 429 x 533 mm. (image is 275 x 375 mm.; mat is 19.5 x 23 inches). The lithograph was created by Edmund Walker (1813 or 1814-1882) of Day & Son, after James Rattray's drawing. James Rattray (1818-1854) was a lieutenant in the..... More
London: T.F. Robey, 1890. 16 black-and-white collotype views loose, as issued, in a light green envelope. Title from envelope. "Robey's Series" -- on envelope and on each image. Thomas F. Robey was a photographer active in London beginning in the 1890s. From about 1894 to about 1905 he was also..... More
Philadelphia: Illman & Sons, 1846. 1 leaf 19 x 11 cm. with engraving of Thomas Paine from a painting by George Romney. No date of publication. Although Thomas Illman and his sons were active as engravers and printers in Philadelphia from 1844 onward, Illman & Sons is only listed in..... More
London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, et P. Jackson, 1835. Allom, Thomas. Hardcover. 3 volumes (each with 76 pages of text and 36 leaves of plates): added engraved title page in vol. 1, frontispieces in vol. 2 and vol. 3 (215 total engraved views on 108 plates); 29 cm. Contemporary linen..... More
Philadelphia: John Sartrain, 1835. 1 mezzotint engraving of Benjamin Carr (1768-1831), American composer, singer, music teacher, and music publisher. Sheet is 30 x 24 cm.; image is 14 x 11 cm. John Sartain (1808-1897) pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States. He engraved this portrait of Benjamin Carr from a...... More
Philadelphia: William Smith, 1860. Sheet is 48 x 57 cm. Image is 33 x 38 cm. Hand-colored lithograph produced by Magee's Lithograph Press, 48 S. 3rd St., Philadelphia. No date of publication. John L. Magee, artist, lithographer, and engraver, was located at 48 or 49 S. 3rd St., Philadelphia, only..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1981. 1 publisher's press sheet (41 x 36 cm.). Color image (23 x 25 cm.) of the main character, Ida, hold her baby sister, as she and her mother watch her father's ship sailing away. In Near Fine Condition: slightly creased; clean and bright... More