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...EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS FROM THE INDIAN GALLERY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR, AT WASHINGTON. The first volume of this magnificent three-volume set. Folio (14-3/4" x 21") bound in contemporary half red morocco with matching corners and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine with six raised bands and matching black morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 48 beautiful hand-colored lithographs of Native Americans based on original oil portraits painted from life in the studio of Charles Bird King, to whom McKenney brought many of the subjects. The rest were copied from watercolors executed in the field by a young frontier artist named James Otto Lewis. The finished portraits were housed in the Smithsonian where all but four were destroyed in a fire in 1865. There appearance here is not only the best but in many cases the only likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Bennett, p. 79; BAL 6934; Field 992; Howes M129: "The most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed"; Reese 24: "the grandest color plate book issued in the United States up to the time of its publication, and one of the most important of the century"; Sabin 43410a. Bookplate of Samuel Spaight Reeves on the front pastedown.
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS...
McKENNEY, Thomas L. and HALL, James [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenbough, 1838.
Price: $50,000.00
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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES
WILSON, Alexander [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1814.
Price: $30,000.00
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Folio (11-1/2" x 14-1/2") bound in contemporary half brown leather with leather corners, though the spine is lacking and both covers are detached. The atlas volume only consisting of a title page and 76 beautiful hand-colored plates, mostly multi-image. Wood (p. 360) notes that "the hand-colored drawings in the atlas are from the original copper plates, colored anew by pigments which seem to have been of better quality than those used by Wilson" in the first edition published 15 - 20 years earlier. A superb American production. Along with Audubon it is one of the color plate masterpieces of the 19th century, but significantly less expensive to obtain though becoming very difficult to locate. Colors still bright, occasional and light spot of foxing or small stain, but generally quite clean with most tissue guards still present. Minor edge tear on one or two plates not extending into image; a few plates detached. Both endpapers and blanks wrinkled to varying degrees.
Atlas Volume of Plates for AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES
WILSON, Alexander [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
New York & Philadelphia: Collins & Co/Harrison Hall, 1829.
Price: $20,000.00
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Two parts in one volume with separate title pages. Small folio (7-1/4" x 11-3/4") bound in somewhat later parchment-backed boards; [14], [1], 1-382, [19] pages. An early edition of one of the most popular herbals of the time and a richly illustrated scientific and medical encyclopedia. Eventually over twenty editions were published, the first in 1546 and the last in 1783. This copy has its approximately 800 woodcuts all with early hand-coloring. The woodcuts are mainly botanical, but the final section of 70 leaves includes birds, mammals, and related subjects. Also depicted are scenes of farming, mining, and distilling. Graesse IV, 256; Nissen 1228; Pritzel 5599. This copy has several leaves in facsimile: the contents page, the last three pages of text (only one illustration affected), and six leaves of the register. The front blank is lacking, and there is an eight-page manuscript index with notes at the rear. Text generally aged but mostly clean with occasional soiling and several repairs; first few leaves including the title page laid down. Considering that this book was likely used in maintaining a family's health and was subject to hard use, this delightful compendium is in very good condition.
KREUTERBUCH. KUNSTLICHE CONTERFEYTUNGE DER BAUME, STAUDEN, HECKEN, KREUTER, GETREYDE, GEWURTZE...
LONICER (LONITZER), Adam [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Frankfort: S. Latomus for V. Steinmeyer, 1609.
Price: $12,500.00
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Six octavo (4-3/4" x 7-3/4") volumes bound in contemporary calf-backed decorated boards with contrasting red and black gilt-lettered spine labels and gilt spine decorations. A full three years of this scarce publication which began in 1797 and lasted until 1839. Present are all of the issues for the period of 1816 - 1818 but one (Issue 63 from 1818) and a total of 247 hand-colored fashion plates of predominantly but not exclusively women numbered from 1533 to 1784. The 4 plates not accounted for are 1668 and 1739, both the second plate in a single issue, and plates 1773 and 1774 from the missing issue. Most of the plates feature people dressed in fashions of the time, but there are also plates of individual items, usually hats and several to a plate.
JOURNAL DES DAMES ET DES MODES
[HAND-COLORED COSTUME PLATES]
[Paris]: (Revue de La Mesangere), 1816 - 1818.
Price: $5,000.00
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Two folio volumes (11" x 15") containing all five parts bound in original publisher's red morocco-backed, gilt-decorated cloth. Illustrated with 100 exceptional tinted lithographs of costumes and dresses as well as 5 tinted lithographed extra title pages all with hand-colored detailing, 25 tinted lithographs of town views and monuments of the province of Bretagne (Brittany) in France, and 5 hand-colored maps. A scarce and beautiful work.
[HAND-COLORED COSTUME PLATES] GALERIE ARMORICAINE. COSTUMES ET VUES PITTORESQUES DE LA BRETAGNE...
LE MEDER, J. C.; LALAISSE, Hyppolite; & BENOIST, Francois
Nantes: Charpentier Pere et Fils, 1848.
Price: $5,000.00
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Quarto (10" x 13"). Five of the original six parts (lacking Part Six) in original printed wraps with each part containing five hand-colored plates except Part One which lacks Plate Two. A total of 24 of the original 30 plates are present with a page of text for each plate. Included are the prospectuses for Parts Two, Four, and Five. First published in 1830, this second edition is unaltered. The plates are absolutely stunning with strong, gorgeous hand-coloring heightened with gum arabic and are from drawings made from living specimens in the southern part of the island of Ceylon. British Museum of Natural History Catalogue p. 130; Wood p. 231: "a well-known and important treatise."
[Hand-Colored Plates] FISHES OF CEYLON; A SELECTION FROM THE MOST REMARKABLE AND INTERESTING OF THE FISHES FOUND ON THE COASTS OF CEYLON...
BENNETT, John Whitchurch [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
London: Longman, Rees, et al., [1834].
Price: $4,000.00
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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES
WILSON, Alexander & BONAPARTE, Charles [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
London/Edinburgh: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot/Stirling & Kenney, 1832.
Price: $3,500.00
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DE GOUPIL A MARGOT. HISTOIRES DE BETE
PERGAUD, Louis [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Bruxelles: Editions Terres Latines, (1965).
Price: $2,500.00
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First Edition in book form. Half burgundy morocco with gilt decoration and burgundy floral- patterned boards. Illustrated with a wood-engraved vignette on the title page and 70 superb anthropomorphic hand-colored plates engraved on wood by Mouard, Porret, Hildibrand and others after Grandville. Absolutely clean, fresh copy with all tissue guards in place.
LES METAMORPHOSES DU JOUR
GRANDVILLE [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Paris: Gustave Havard, 1854.
Price: $2,000.00
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GAME-BIRDS & WATERFOWL. TEN ETCHINGS HAND-WATERCOLORED BY ALAN JAMES ROBINSON
(CHELONIIDAE PRESS) ROBINSON, Alan James [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
(Easthampton, MA): (Cheloniidae Press), [1980].
Price: $1,500.00
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SPRIG AND TURFY
ROESCH, Kurt [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
(Mt. Vernon, NY): (The Golden Eagle Press), n.d [1938].
Price: $1,500.00
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Small quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in brown cloth with sivler lettering. Illustrated with numerous black and white plates. Of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies with an ORIGINAL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH by Weber, this is copy #8 of only 25 in which the lithograph has been colored by the artist. Additionally SIGNED by both the artist and the author on the colophon page.
MAX WEBER
[WEBER, MAX] CAHILL, Holger
New York: Downtown Gallery, 1930.
Price: $1,350.00
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THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA; THE DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES BASED CHIEFLY ON THE COLLECTIONS IN THE MUSEUM OF THE SMITHSONIAN
BAIRD, Spencer [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Salem, MA: Naturalist's Book Agency, 1870.
Price: $1,000.00
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Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's half brown morocco. Illustrated with 140 (of 141) hand-colored lithographs of birds and containing "detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders." Lacks plate 84, likely never bound in. Moderate foxing to just a few pages of the text. The plates are clean with varying degrees of offsetting affecting about 20% of them, usually with little detriment. Some rubbing to the corners and spine.
NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK. ZOOLOGY OF NEW YORK, OR THE NEW YORK FAUNA.... PART II. BIRDS
DE KAY, James [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Albany: Carroll & Cook, 1844.
Price: $950.00
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Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") bound in contemporary morocco-backed boards. Illustrated with fifty delicately hand-colored engraved plates. This is the eighth volume from Bertuch's illustrated encyclopedia for children: BILDERBUCH FÜR KINDER. With title pages and text in four languages: Latin, German, Hungarian, and French. Plates primarily depict plants and birds but also includes animals, shells, etc. Two of the most interesting multi-figure plates depict monkeys.
NOVUS ORBIS PICTUS JUVENTUTI INSTITUENDAE ET OBLECTANDAE...
BERTUCH, F. I. (Friedrich Justin)
Vienna: Antonii Pichler, 1807.
Price: $850.00
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THE THREE TOURS OF DOCTOR SYNTAX
[COMBE, William] [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
London: Nattali & Bond, n.d.
Price: $750.00
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THE BIRDS OF BERKSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TWO COUNTIES
KENNEDY, Alexander W. M. Clark
Eton/London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1868.
Price: $650.00
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Folio (11" x 14-3/4") complete with 10 individual parts in decorated wraps and glassine housed in the original decorated publisher's folder with silk ties. The French text is accompanied by 100 hand-colored pochoir plates with the front and rear covers of each of the 10 parts also in pochoir. Covered in this, one of the more desirable volumes in the series, are costumes of China, Japan, Egypt, Assyria, Persia, India, Greece, Rome, and the Orient. The detailed illustrations depict full costumes as well as component parts including hats, jewelry, etc. A lovely presentation and valuable reference.
L'HISTOIRE DU COSTUME FEMININ MONDIAL DE L'AN 5318 AVANT J.C. A NOS JOURS
GIAFFERRI, Paul Louis de [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Paris: Editions Nilsson, [1922-23].
Price: $500.00
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Duodecimo (4-1/4" x 7") bound in recent half black polished calf with gilt-ruled spine retaining the original marbled boards with leather lacking from the corners. xviii, 267 pp; list of plates; explanation of the table of classes; pronunciation of the Latin names of plants; explanation of botanical terms; index. Illustrated with 22 fine hand-colored plates, all in bright, clean condition. Inscription on the top of the title page "to Caroline Elizth. Goodwin./ F. H. Bakewell 1824."
CONVERSATIONS ON BOTANY
[FITTON, Sarah Mary & Elizabeth] [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al, 1823.
Price: $450.00
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