1931. Etching on watermarked antique laid J Whatman Japon paper, 14 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches ( 368 x 195 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "II" in pencil in the lower margin. One of only 26 impressions of the second state (of 2), printed in 1931. With the..... More
Paris: Nepveu Librairies, 1811 & 1812. First Edition. 18mo, 3 vols.; 5 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches (130 x 82 mm), printed on vélin collé. The first four tomes published as the first series in 1811 (bound into two volumes); the third volume contains the 2 tomes of the second..... More
Rome: Venantius Monaldinus, 1753. First Edition. Oversized folio, 17 1/4 x 12 inches (438 x 304 mm); half title, engraved portrait of Annibale Carracci on frontispiece with tissue guard, rubricated title with large engraved vignette; 10 unnumbered prelim. pages and index, LXXIV pages with wide margins and uncut forty engravings..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. First Edition. Royal 8vo; 9 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches (242 x 168 mm); Half title, frontispiece + title, xi-xx, 196 pp. 20 engraved plates with tissue guards, including frontispiece portrait of the knight all etched by George Cruikshank, plus one woodcut..... More
1948. Lithograph in colors on lightweight wove paper, 11 x 7 7/8 inches (278 x 197 mm) (sheet), full margins. An illustration from Billy Rose's autobiography, Wine, Women and Words, with text on the verso. Inscription in blue ink on the verso, light handling creases, along with a dampstain that..... More
London: Thomas M'Lean, Repository of Wit and Humour, 1823. First Edition. Oblong folio, 10 x 13 3/4 inches (250 x 345 mm); 12 hand-coloured engraved plates on watermarked 1824 paper, titles at top of plates with engraved descriptive letterpress at foot, tissue guards, light scattered spotting, contemporary half polished calf..... More
London: 1830. Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 12 1/4 x 9 5/16 inches (312 x 235 mm), full margins. In good condition with some light areas of minor foxing throughout. Hand coloring is extensive and vibrant. An ass wears his Lord Mayor's gown and chain..... More
London: c1820. Lithograph with handcoloring in watercolor, 9 x 6 1/2 inches (230 x 165 mm), full margins. Light pencil inscriptions in the lower margins which are largely illegible. Light handling wear and some surface soiling, otherwise in good condition with beautiful, saturated watercolor work in the area of the..... More
c1860. Watercolor and pencil on cream wove J Whatman 1827 paper with a partial watermark, 7 x 10 1/8 inches (176 x 256 mm), the full sheet. The left sheet edge has significant wear; the result of its removal from a page in an album to which the sheet was..... More
Paris: E. Dentu, 1877. Popelin. Second Edition. Small 4to, 10 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches (275 x190 mm), LARGE PAPER edition. vii + 223 + 4. Engraved frontispiece by François Flamenq and floral frames around each page of text by Claudius Popelin. Rubricated title page. A facsimile letter is bound..... More
Basel: C. de Mechel, 1790. Chrétien de Mechel after Hans Holbein. First Edition. Folio, 14 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches (360 x 263 mm; hand-colored aquatint title and 12 etchings & aquatint plates with hand-colroing in watercolor by Chrétien de Méchel after Hans Holbein the Younger. Handsome contemporary mosaic binding..... More
New York: c1940. Etching with aquatint in colors on cream laid paper with a partial watermark and a deckle edge, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (297 x 208 mm), full margins. Minor mat tone, overall minor yellowing, and some scattered edge wear. Paper tape tabs on the verso at..... More
1915. Etching with drypoint, 11 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (300 x 186 mm), full margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right. Light mat tone, and minor toning around the perimeter of the sheet edge on the verso. There is one small (1-inch) tab of Scotch tape on..... More
London: William Miller, 1804. First Edition. 2 vol, small 8vo.; 9 x 5 3/8 (226 x 140 mm); vol. 1: xii, [2], 171 [1 blank]; vol. 2: iv, 164, [1 blank] pp.; large paper copy. Ten hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Stadler after Repton's drawings. Stipple-engraved title vignettes by H.R...... More
Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1910. Théophile Steinlen. Limited Edition. 4to; 10 1/8 x7 3/4 inches (258 x 197 mm); half-title, limitation, title with publisher's device, 366 pp, including a glossary of slang (Glossaire argotique), 1, [8] advertisements, printed in black and red with additional colors for title page. 252 illustrations from..... More
Madrid: Librarias de Castillo, 1801. Rodríguez, Antonio. First Edition. 8vo (12mo?); 6 1/2 4 1/8 inches (165 x 105 mm), title page + 12 numbered etchings, hand-colored. Graceful contemporary marbled leather binding with gilt scrolls and fillets on covers, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers; raised bands on spine with decorative..... More
1929. Etching with drypoint in brownish black ink on cream wove paper, 6 1/8 x 10 inches (155 x 255 mm), full margins with a deckle edge. Signed in pencil, lower right margin, and titled (perhaps in another hand) in pencil in the lower left margin. Mat tone, and light..... More
Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1898. First Edition. 12mo, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.(192 x 133 mm), 225 pp. 1898 Riviere and Son binding in red crushed morocco, Art Nouveau leaf-spray devices gilt to spine and covers, gilt fillets on turn-ins and binder's mark which reads "R. Riviere &..... More
1970. Vintage gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 11 3/4 x 9 in. (300 x 228 mm), printed to edge. Photographer's credit sticker on verso, with penciled title "Caltagirone" and negative number. From Scafidi's series dedicated to the towns in Palermo's hinterland, depicting two horse-drawn carriages in front of the..... More
c 1560. Pen and brownish black ink on grayish-cream laid paper, 6 1/2 x 8 inches (165 x 175 mm), irregular hexagonal sheet with margins. Some archival repairs along the top sheet edge, scattered soiling, and an archivally repaired top-right corner. The condition issues are all consistent with age. A...... More
Yokohama, Japan: c 1885. Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/2 x 8 inches (268 x 204 mm), hand-numbered 1103 in negative. Unmounted; housed in an archival mat with clear mounting corners. An elegant and serene studio portrait of a young geisha holding a fan and wearing a precious kimono. Baron Raimund..... More
1946. Silver gelatin print, printed 1980s; image dimension 15 x 11 5/8 in. (380 x 293 mm), sheet dimension, 15 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. (390 x 309 mm). The verso signed "W. Suschitzky" in black crayon, titled and dated Dundee. 1946". [Michael Omasta, et al. Wolf Suschitzky: Seven Decades..... More
New York: The Mail and Express, 1899. First Edition. Oblong folio, 6 1/8 x 16 7/8 inches (155 x 428 mm), 74 chromolithographs (pages printed on both sides), 2 pp. publisher's statement, 1 p. advertisement and 3 pp. index; stapled on short side. Paper wrappers and some advertisement pages missing..... More
Paris: Firmin Didot, 1823. First Edition. Folio, 14 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches (360 x 251 mm); half title, lithographed vignette title, 72 numbered stone lithographs with hand-coloring in watercolor by Jean-François Villain, after the original drawings by Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas; 44 pages of text with descriptions of plates. Occasional..... More
c1920. Etching with drypoint on exceptionally fine laid Japon paper with a double watermark, 10 7/8 x 7 inches (271 x 171 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower left. One small area of superficial skinning in the sheet with an associated "flap" appearing in the left, lower..... More