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

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 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 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: 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

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: 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

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by C. Baron. Plate 19 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. The plate is undated. The 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from..... More

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Madeleine-Therese Rousselet. Plate 11 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. The plate is undated. The 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from..... More

London: T. Stackhouse, 1783. Map. Matted hand-colored copper engraving. Image size: 14.5 x 15.25 inches. Mat size: 22.75 x 23.75 inches. A beautiful example of this map of Eastern Europe showing the jurisdictions (as titled on the map) of Moscow, Woronesk, Bielgorod, Kiow, Smolensk, Novogorod, Nisi Nowogorod, Penzinskoi, Alatyrskoi, Galicoskoi..... More

1954. 43 black-and-white 8 x 10 photographs, which include 24 that were used in The Brick-End Barns of the Pennsylvania Dutch: A Record of Early American Architecture by J. William Stair (Lancaster, Pa.: Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center, Franklin and Marshall College, 1954), originally published in The Dutchman, vol. 6, no..... More

Exmouth, Eng. 1800. 1 folded sheet creating 4 pages; handwritten letter on 2 pages (signed), 1 page blank, address on the 4th page. Teignmouth notes that "Lady Teignmouth has lately presented me with another son." The engraved portrait (drawn by J. Richmond, engraved by W. Walker) was published by Hatchard..... More

Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University Press, 1957. DePol, John. Hardcover. [4], 34, [2] p.: wood engravings; 18 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; small illustrated paste-down on front cover. With original gilt-printed clear plastic dust jacket. Black endpapers. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slight ding in upper edge of..... More