With 60 Hand-Colored Plates
The Costume of Great Britain
London: Printed for William Miller by Howlett and Brimmer, 1804 [but c. 1825]. Pyne, William. First edition. With... Read More about The Costume of Great Britain
Price: $2,500
London: Printed for William Miller by Howlett and Brimmer, 1804 [but c. 1825]. Pyne, William. First edition. With... Read More about The Costume of Great Britain
Price: $2,500
London: Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street, 1847. Leech, John. First edition. Read More about The Comic History of England
Price: $600
London: Bradbury & Evans. 11, Bouverie, [1852]. Leech, John. First Edition with the original parts bound in at back, with ads. With inserted ads as per Abbey. Read More about The Comic History of Rome
Price: $750
London: Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street, 1847. Leech, John. First edition. PRINTED WRAPPERS BOUND IN. Read More about The Comic History of England
Price: $850
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1847; 1848; [1852]. First editions. A fine and attractive set. Read More about The Comic History of England [with:] The Comic History of Rome
Price: $850
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co, nd. Early Editions. A fine and attractive set. Read More about The Comic History of England [with] The Comic History of Rome
Price: $450
London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford. An early copy. The list of plates in vol. I is the first state (it does not list the portraits of Founders; this copy does not include the Founders). Plate 1, vol.1, is mislabeled “History of Cambridge” and..... Read More about A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings
Price: $6,000
London: Ackermann, 1816. First Edition, First Issue (paper watermarked 1816). This folio forms part of one of Ackermann’s larger, though not so successful projects, his History of the Colleges. Ford in his book on Ackermann notes that William Combe wrote the text for this, as well as five other schools..... Read More about History of the Merchant Taylors' School
Price: $750
Londres: Lo Publica R. Ackermann en su Repositorio de Artes Numero 101, Strand. Impreso por J. Moyes, Grenville Street, Londres, 1825 & 1826. These two volumes are all that were done by Ackermann. Volume II has issues 9 & 10 of Tomo II in some copies but not hereat Vol..... Read More about Museo universal de Ciencias y Artes. Año Primeo. Cuatro Trimestres de Julio y Octubre de 824,...
Price: $850
London: R[udolph] Ackermann, 101, Strand, c. 1813. First Edition. Read More about "The Upholsterer's Repository/ Published by R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand,/ Price £1. 4s, in...
Price: $750
Cincinnati, Ohio: Strobridge & Co, 1871. First edition. "In 1871, his Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History was published by Strobridge & Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, the premier publisher of American commercial art. The technique of chromolithography offered the emerging middle class affordable color reproductions and, in this case, made lessons of history..... Read More about Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History. Synchronized by Sebastian C. Adams....
Price: $1,750
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. Angelo, Valenti. Number 160 of 200 copies (175 for sale). Read More about The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by William...
Price: $1,250
London: William and John Innys, 1720-24. With preliminaries and titles of both first and second editions. Read More about A Natural History of English Insects Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven...
Price: $7,500
London: Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street, by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, 1814. First edition. Well executed and precisely colored series of plates illustrating the costumes of the constituent nationalities of the Austro-Hungarian empire, including representatives of Upper Austria, Tyrolia, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, Sclavonia, Dalmatia, Transylvania, Bukowina, etc., etc., as..... Read More about Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated in 50 Coloured...
Price: $1,000
Paris: Chez Aubert, Place de la Bourse, No. 25, c 1842. Read More about Hand-Colored Lithograph, heightened with Gum Arabic, : "Morabite. (Garçon de Bains.)"...
Price: $400
Paris: Chez Aubert, Place de la Bourse, No. 25, c 1842. Read More about Hand-Colored Lithograph: "Mauresque d'Alger. (Costume d'intérieur)" from "Galerie...
Price: $200
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822. First edition. A RARE EXAMPLE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, with title on upper cover and advertisment for 6 works published by McLean on lower cover. Five copies listed in ABPC since 1977, 2 in wrappers. The work tells the amusing tale of the new wealthy Londoner on..... Read More about A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk
Price: $8,500
London: Published by Thomas McLean, 1823 [but later, plates watermarked 1822-1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work... It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" (Tooley)The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great Britain..... Read More about The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descriptions in English and French ... Chasse et...
Price: $30,000
London: Thomas McLean, 1822. First edition. Alken's hilarious, multi-image plates depict a stunning variety of catastrophes, elaborating a favorite theme of his: the pitfalls of fun and games, especially any involving a horse or a gun. Read More about Symptoms of Being Amused. Volume 1 (all published
Price: $2,500
London: S. and J. Fuller, [1821]. First edition. “Extremely Rare" “These plates depict the sundry incidents connected with the sport of hunting and are executed in Alken’s most brilliant style. Comprising: Getting into a difficulty Getting over a difficulty Getting a Dive Getting into a Bog Getting a Fall Getting..... Read More about Some Do, and Some Do Not; It Is All a Notion [… by] Ben Tally Ho
Price: $3,000
[London: Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket, 1833]. Plates:1. Going a Pace2. Putting a Good Head to It3. A Regular Purl4. Feeling a Brook5. Pounded6. Rather Stale. Read More about Thoughts while Fox Hunting
Price: $2,000
London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1840. Second edition. The second edition of this cavalry sword manual by Henry William Angelo, the grandson of Domenico Angelo, founder of London's School of Arms. The first edition was published in 1835 with 10 plates. Read More about Instructions for the Sword Exercise; Selected from Her Majesty's Rules and Regulations, and...
Price: $650
No. 26 of 100 copies. Read More about Angling print: “Hen & Cockfish”
Price: $300