UNCUT AND IN BOARDS
The Tour of Doctor Prosody, In Search of...
London: Mathew Iley, Somerset Street, 1821. First edition. UNCUT AND IN BOARDS. This is a satire on Samuel... Read More
Price: $1,350
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[Illustrations of Missionary Scenes, An Offering to Youth].
Mainz: Joseph Schulz, [ca. 1855]. First edition. Twenty hand-colored lithographs depicting interactions between Christian missionaries and natives in ancient Briton, the Amazon, Africa, India, New Zealand, North America and China. The unconverted are often depicted as savage, violent and wild, undoubtedly meant to scare the children who were this book‘s.....
Price: $1,250
Beautiful Chromolithographs of Church Ornamentation
Histoire Archéologique, Descriptive et Graphique.
Paris: Ve. A. Morel, 1875. First edition. Beautiful Chromolithographs of Church Ornamentation. Very fine plates by Lemercier of Paris.
Price: $450
Syntax imitation
The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis. A Poem.
London: Printed by J. Johnston, Cheapside, 1820. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. Syntax imitation. This title is one of the many parodies and imitations of William Combe's very popular series of "Tours" of Doctor Syntax (published respectively in 1812, 1820 and 1821) which were also illustrated by Rowlandson. "Both Rowlandson and...
Price: $750
Syntax Spinoff
Doctor Syntax in Paris; or, A Tour in Search of the Grotesque.
London: W. Wright, 1820. Williams, Charles. First edition. Syntax Spinoff. The plates of this rollicking Doctor Syntax spinoff are by Charles Williams, chief caricaturist for the printseller Fores, and they are as fully irreverent as the Rowlandson (and Gillray) plates which were his inspiration, and all the more so for...
Price: $400
Syntax Spinoff
Doctor Syntax in Paris; or, A Tour in Search of the Grotesque.
London: W. Wright, 1820. Williams, Charles. First edition. Syntax Spinoff. The plates of this rollicking Doctor Syntax spinoff are by Charles Williams, chief caricaturist for the printseller Fores, and they are as fully irreverent as the Rowlandson (and Gillray) plates which were his inspiration, and all the more so for...
Price: $600
E.F. Hutton's Copy
The Dance of Life, a Poem by the Author of "Dr. Syntax;" Illustrated with engravings by Thomas Rowlandson.
London: Ackerman, 1817. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. E.F. Hutton's Copy.
Price: $850
Rare, with 16 Hand-Colored Plates
Sam Syntax's Description of the Cries of London as They Are Daily Exhibited in the Streets.
London: Harris & Son, 1821. Second edition (first printed 1820). Rare, with 16 Hand-Colored Plates. Rare in any condition. OCLC records only 3 copies of this second edition, and only three of the first.
Price: $1,750
IN BOARDS, UNCUT
The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of Consolation; A Poem.
London: Published for R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts. 101, Strand, 1820. Rowlandson, Thomas. Second Edition. IN BOARDS, UNCUT.
Price: $1,250
The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax. In Search of Consolation.
London: R. Ackermann, 1828. Fourth miniature edition. The first miniature edition was 1823.
Price: $150
India Proofs
The Cooper Vignettes. From drawings by F.O.C. Darley. India proofs before letters.
New York: James G. Gregory (Successor to W.A. Townsend & Co.), 1862. First edition. India Proofs.
Price: $750
Sir Astley Cooper's Lectures on the Principle and Practice of Surgery, with Additional Notes and Cases. By Frederick Tyrrell, Esq.
Philadelphia: Published by A. Sherman. R. Wright, Printer, 1826. First American edition.
Price: $450
Hand-colored print of Corallium rubrum cortice et floribus from Herbarium Blackwellianum. Plate 341b.
Nuremburg: 1750-1765.
Price: $150
With 20 hand-colored Portraits
Ouevres de P. Corneille. Théatre Complet Précédes de la Vie de l'Auteur, par Fontenelle et suives d'un Dictionnaire donnant l'Explication...
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1877-79. Nouvelle Édition. With 20 hand-colored Portraits.
Price: $200
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED
Corneille and His Times.
London: Richard Bentley, 1852. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED.
Price: $650
Le Corset à Travers les Ages.
Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 28 bis, rue de Richelieu, 28 bis, 1893. First edition. Extra-illustrated.
Price: $165
Histoire du Costume Masculin Français de l'an 420 à l'an 1870.
Paris: Editions Nilsson, 144 Avenue des Champs-Elyssés, [1927].
Price: $750
Rare English issue of an Important Costume Book
The Costume of the Kingdom of Holland, At the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century.
London: printed by J. Barfield for Colnaghi and Co, 1810. First London edition. Rare English issue of an Important Costume Book. A rare English edition of this popular work on the costumes and customs of Holland, a fine copy. Originally published from 1803-05 with a total of 16 plates, the...
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The Mirror of the Graces; or, The English Lady's Costume: Combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty...
London: Printed by B. Crosby and Co. Stationers' Court, Ludgate Street; and sold by All Booksellers, 1811. First edition. Scarce Regency-era woman's manual addressing proper female dress, deportment, and cosmetics. " ... Let me hasten to recommend to you, a publication at this time in much request, and which possesses...
Price: $1,250
Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke.
London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885. First edition, one of 500 copies. 36 poems and posies extracted from the fifth edition of Walton's Angler of1676), presented with Crawhall's inimitable charm and whimsy. Very scarce on the market.
Price: $600
The Creevey Papers. A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the Late Thomas Creevey, M.P. Born 1768-Died 1838. Edited...
London: John Murray, 1903.
Price: $1,250
Greenwich Hospital, A series of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man. By an Old Sailor.
London: Published by James Robins and Co. Ivy Lane, paternoster Row; and Joseph Robins, Jun. and Co. Ormond Quay, Dublin, 1826. First edition. A famous and popular early production of Cruikshank's, illustrating the nautical accounts of Matthew Henry Barker (1790-1846). The artist illustrated other of Barker's sea tales; in 1820...
Price: $2,000
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Cruikshank's Dandy Monstrosities
Monstrosities 1816 [with:] Monstrosities of 1818 [with:] Monstrosities of 1819 & 1820.
London: M'Lean, 1835. Third states, with the imprint as above. Cruikshank's Dandy Monstrosities.
Price: $600
FROM CRUIKSHANK TO DALZIEL
Phrenological Illustrations, or an Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Called Gall and Spurzheim.
London: Republished for the Artist by Frederick Arnold, 86, Fleet Street, E.C, 1873. Cruikshank, George. Later edition (7 shillings 6 pence , coloured). FROM CRUIKSHANK TO DALZIEL. Inscribed at the top of the title page "To George Dalziel with the best regards of Geo. Cruikshank / Janry. 1874." George Dalziel (1815-1902)...
Price: $2,250
The Actor's Regalio, or, Theatrical Budget.
London: Duncombe, nd. Cruikshank, Isaac Robert. Duncombe's Only Correct Edition. Third Collection.
Price: $250