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London: , 1919. "Ride You Naked Through the Town, And I Repeal it" “Then She Rode Back Clothed on with Chastity” [SANGORSKI, Alberto, calligrapher]. [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Lady Godiva and Other Poems. [Sonnet - O Beauty, passing beauty! sweetest Sweet!] & [The Sea-Fairies]. [London: 1919]. A Very..... More
Paris: Paris: H. Gache [&] London: E. Gambart, 1850. The Traditional Dances of France, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic Six Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Pierre-Numa Bassaget NUMA (pseudonym of Pierre-Numa BASSAGET). La Guirlande choix de Danses a caractère de tous les pays. Lithographiées par Régnier & Bettannier..... More
Paris: Chez Ambroise Tardieu, Editeur, 1823. Twenty Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Depicting Caricatures of Various Diseases AUBRY, Charles and others. Album Comique de Pathologie Pittoresque, Recueil de vingt caricatures médicales dessinées par Aubry, Chazal, Colin, Bellangé, et Pigal. Paris: Huzard-Courcier (for) Chez Ambrose Tardieu, 1823. First edition of this exceptionally rare..... More
Paris: Maison Martinet, 1850. Cham's Comical View of 'Fun During the Holidays' CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Les Vacances. Album des Petits Amateurs. Paris: Maison Martinet, [ca. 1850]. First edition. (8 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches; 225 x 292 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title-page and sixteen hand colored lithographed plates..... More
Nurnberg: G.N. Renner, 1838. One of the Most Beautiful 'ABC' Books of the Biedermeier Period Johann Voltz's Wonderful Picture Alphabet Depicting the Everyday Life of Country and Townsfolk VOLTZ, Johann Michael. [ABC]. Bilder-Alphabet zur Erweekung des Scharfsinns oder viele Original Darstellungen, nach jedem Buchstaben in 24 Gemälden. Eine neue Bilderlust..... More
France: , 1900. "Les Trois Chats" A Remarkable Survival of a Passé-Boules Carnival Game PASSÉ-BOULES GAME. [Les Trois Chats]. [in the style of Louis Wain]. Hand-painted 'Polychrome' Papier Maché late nineteenth century ball throwing 'Carnival' game. French, ca. 1900. Three side by side polychrome cats in 'Papier Maché, the structure..... More
Paris: J. Monrocq, 1850. The Original Folio Edition of 'Fair Ideas' ADAM, Victor, illustrator. La Foire aux Idées. Paris: J. Monrocq, [1851-54]. First edition complete. Large quarto (11 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches; 302 x 235 mm.). [Title on front cover]. One hundred numbered leaves, a varying number of illustrations..... More
Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co,, 1901. Inscribed by L. Frank Baum to Fellow Author Harold McGrath With a Page of the Original Manuscript BAUM, L. Frank. Dot and Tot of Merryland… Pictures by W.W. Denslow. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1901. First Edition. Small quarto (8 5/16 x 6 3/8..... More
London: Printed by J. Diggins; Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1815. "The Union of the Gruesome and the Grotesque" Thomas Rowlandson's 'The English Dance of Death' [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [COMBE, William]. The English Dance of Death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with Metrical Illustrations, by the author..... More
Paris: A. Capendu Editeur, 1900. Scholarly Animals "Living the Good Life" [MOVABLE]. REYNAUD, Adeline. Allo, Allo! Bostock. Grand Album d'Animaux Savants. Paris: A. Capendu-Editeur, [n.d., ca. 1900]. Folio (14 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 365 x 240 mm.). Lithograph title-page (recto of page [2] and six full-page colored lever-operated moveable..... More
[Paris]: Lithographie de C. Motte rue des Marais, no. 15, 1825. 'Walks on the Parisian Quays' A Wonderful Tour of the River Seine from Quai de Bourbon to Quai d'Orsay in Panorama Form [PANORAMA]. MOTTE, Charles Étienne Pierre, lithographer. A Paris. Promenades sur les Quais. [Paris]: Lithographie de C. Motte..... More
Paris: Gide fils, 1823-24. Scarce Awkward Clashes! Trés Amusant! Trés Rare Inopportune Social and Personal Events Eugène Lami's Interpretation of Thomas Rowlandson's Miseries of Human Life LAMI, Eugène. Les Contretems en Caricatures. Paris: Gide fils, [Dec.]1823 - [Jan.]1824. First editions of both series complete. Oblong octavo (8 1/4 x 10..... More
Paris: Chez Gihaut Freres... et Sazerac et Duval, 1826. The Disadvantages of Traveling by Stagecoach Illustrated in Twelve Highly Amusing Lithographs LEPRINCE, Xavier. Inconvéniens d'un Voyage en Diligence. [The Disadvantages of Traveling by Stagecoach]. Douze Tableaux, Lithographiés par... Paris: Chez Gihaut Freres... et Sazerac et Duval, 1826]. First edition. Oblong..... More
London: Privately printed at G. Polidori's…, 1847. A Fine Association Copy of Christina Rossetti's First Book Privately Printed by her Grandfather Inscribed by Christina Rossetti to her Aunt E.H. Polidori The Bibliographer Charles Plumtre Johnson's Copy ROSSETTI, Christina G. Verses by Christina G. Rossetti Dedicated to her Mother. London: Privately..... More
Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, 1848. Les Vésuviennes - The Radical feminist Group as Depicted by Charles Édouard de Beaumont Twenty Superb Hand Colored Lithographs BEAUMONT, [Charles-]É[douard] de. Les Vésuviennes ou les Soldats pour rire… Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, [1848]. Folio (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 inches;..... More
London: Printed for John Crook, 1665. A Milestone in the History of Chemistry Robert Boyle’s Treatise on Cold Proving that Ice has a Smaller Specific Gravity than Water And that it Must Therefore Expand on Freezing BOYLE, Robert. New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or An Experimental History of Cold..... More
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873. First Edition of the Poet Laureate Robert Bridges First Collection of Poems In a Spectacular Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' Binding [BINDING]. ZAEHNSDORF, binders. BRIDGES, Robert. Poems by Robert Bridges Batchelor of Arts in the University of Oxford. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873. First edition. Octavo (7 3/8..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. "Vedder's ‘Rubáiyát’ set the standard for the artist-designed book in America and England.” In a Superb Early Twentieth Century Inlaid Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe [BINDING]. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. FITZGERALD, Edward, Translator and Editor. VEDDER, Elihu, Illustrator. KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám..... More
Paris: Chez Gihaut frères, 1828. Henry Monnier's Rare Album of Parisian Manners MONNIER, Henry. Moeurs Parisiennes… [Parisian Manners]. Paris: Chez Gihaut frères, 1828. First edition. Large oblong quarto (10 7/8 x 14 inches; 276 x 355 mm.). Original wrapper as lithograph title-page and ten humorous hand colored plates lithographed by..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Co., 1942. A Finely Bound Rubaiyat Illustrated by Willy Pogany POGANY, Willy, illustrator. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrations by Willy Pogany. Philadelphia: David McKay Co., [1942]. Small folio (9 7/8 x 7 1/16 inches; 250 x 180 mm.). [127], [1, printers..... More
![Item #05299 [The Four Pooh Books]. When We Were Very Young. [Together with:] Winnie-the-Pooh....](https://davidbrassrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/05299_21.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1652466349)
London: Methuen & Co.,, 1924-28. "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day… Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.” A Fine First Edition Set of the Four “Pooh” Books in their..... More
![Item #05269 Album des Charges du Jour [and] Les Cosaques pour rire. Honoré DAUMIER, CHAM,...](https://davidbrassrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/05269_0146.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648063715)
Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari…et chez Martinet, 1859. The Moroccan Sultan, Monsieur Prudhomme and the Chinese Emperor Thirty Fine, Humorous Lithographs by Honoré Daumier Bound together with Les Cosaques Pour Rire Forty fine lithographs by Daumier, Cham & Vernier DAUMIER, Honoré. Album des Charges du Jour. 30 Lithographies par H...... More
London: Printed by William Jaggard, 1623. The Knights Templar in the Time of Shakespeare Published in the Same Year and by the Same Printer as Shakespeare’s First Folio FAVINE, Andrew. The Theater of Honour and Knight-hood. Or A Compendious Chronicle and Historie of the whole Christian World. Containing the Originall..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co, [1934]. "Happiness is the one Thing we Queens can never have." (Catherine de' Medici) A Superb Cosway Binding with a Fine Portrait by Miss C.B. Currie of Catherine de' Medici COSWAY BINDING. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. [MISS C.B. CURRIE], miniaturist. WATSON, Francis. The Life and Times..... More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1925. "The True Art of Memory is the Art of Attention" (Samuel Johnson) A Superb Cosway Binding with a Remarkable Portrait by Miss C.B. Currie of Dr. Samuel Johnson COSWAY BINDING. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. [MISS C.B. CURRIE], miniaturist. A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson by William..... More
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