Ikebana-Tsu by Shinshintei Ryuka - 1835: (Introduction to Flower Arranging)

Volume 4 of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs number 217-286 and 31 pages of explanation in German.Plates include suits of armour, tapestries, gravestones, portraits of knights and ladies, jewelry, combs, mirrors, tournaments, etc. from the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe.Condition: Some scuffing to the marble boards and cloth spine, but all chromolithographic plates clean and vivid, many handfinished in gold and silver.Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.

Volume 1 of the Supplement (Volume 10 of the series) of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs number 1-72 (649-720 of the series) and 28 pages of explanation in German.Plates include portraits, costumes, weapons, pistols, suits of armour, goblets, fascinators, musketeers, etc., from the 16th and 18th centuries in Europe.Condition: Top half of leather spine missing, but plates vivid and clean. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.

Reprint from the 1880s of ukiyo-e artist Masanobu Okumura's depiction of nightlife in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters in the Edo era.Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, illustrator and painter.This orihon concertina-style book includes 38 double-page illustrations of geisha with their maids and samurai customers, playing board games and cards, smoking tobacco pipes, playing shamisen, reading books, etc. One plate shows the artist Okumura painting a large screen. 38 woodblock prints printed in three colors on 76 pages bound in orihon concertina-style with decorative washi paper over boards.Condition: binding repaired with washi paper, interior bright and fresh with no spotting.

Military and religious life in Europe in the middle ages and the Renaissance by noted French bibliographer and author, Paul Lacroix or Bibliophile Jacob (1807-1884). Chapters include Military Orders, Charitable Orders, the Crusades, Chivalry, Heresies, the Inquisition, Graves and Funeral Rites. Profusely illustrated with 14 chromolithographs by Franz Kellerhoven, Felix Elie Regamey and E. Allard, and 410 woodcuts, many full page, in the text by Etienne Huyot and his son Jules Huyot.Bound in red buckram with intricate gilt embossing on the covers and spine, decorative black and gilt endpapers, AEG. Text in French. v, 577pp. 4pp. of publisher's advertisements. Condition: spine repaired, rear board starting, interior fresh and clean with very slight foxing. Heavy book, additional shipping charges required.

Good copy of this beautifully illustrated book of classic fables with realistic animal studiesComplete with 56 etchings, drawn and engraved "from the life" by Samuel Howitt, with title page and list of platesPlate 32, The Dog in the Manger, bound opposite the title page as the frontispieceSamuel Howitt (1756–1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher, famous for his scenes with animals, hunting, horse-racing, sporting and landscapes. He is best known for his illustrations to Captain Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports (1807). Other works include Thoughts on Hunting (1798), Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals (1803), British Field Sports (1807); The Angler's Manual (1808), Groups of Animals (1811), The British Sportsman (1812) and Foreign Field Sports (1819).Blue buckram spine, marble boards bumped and darkened, new endpapers, tissue guards, all plates with varying degrees of spotting and foxing, mostly outside the image, one with 10cm tear within image, first 25 plates with small… Read More

Volume 4 of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs number 217-286 and 31 pages of explanation in German.Plates include suits of armour, tapestries, gravestones, portraits of knights and ladies, jewelry, combs, mirrors, tournaments, etc. from the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe.Condition: Some scuffing to the marble boards and cloth spine, but all chromolithographic plates clean and vivid, many handfinished in gold and silver.Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.

Volume 1 of the Supplement (Volume 10 of the series) of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs number 1-72 (649-720 of the series) and 28 pages of explanation in German.Plates include portraits, costumes, weapons, pistols, suits of armour, goblets, fascinators, musketeers, etc., from the 16th and 18th centuries in Europe.Condition: Top half of leather spine missing, but plates vivid and clean. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.

Reprint from the 1880s of ukiyo-e artist Masanobu Okumura's depiction of nightlife in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters in the Edo era.Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, illustrator and painter.This orihon concertina-style book includes 38 double-page illustrations of geisha with their maids and samurai customers, playing board games and cards, smoking tobacco pipes, playing shamisen, reading books, etc. One plate shows the artist Okumura painting a large screen. 38 woodblock prints printed in three colors on 76 pages bound in orihon concertina-style with decorative washi paper over boards.Condition: binding repaired with washi paper, interior bright and fresh with no spotting.

Military and religious life in Europe in the middle ages and the Renaissance by noted French bibliographer and author, Paul Lacroix or Bibliophile Jacob (1807-1884). Chapters include Military Orders, Charitable Orders, the Crusades, Chivalry, Heresies, the Inquisition, Graves and Funeral Rites. Profusely illustrated with 14 chromolithographs by Franz Kellerhoven, Felix Elie Regamey and E. Allard, and 410 woodcuts, many full page, in the text by Etienne Huyot and his son Jules Huyot.Bound in red buckram with intricate gilt embossing on the covers and spine, decorative black and gilt endpapers, AEG. Text in French. v, 577pp. 4pp. of publisher's advertisements. Condition: spine repaired, rear board starting, interior fresh and clean with very slight foxing. Heavy book, additional shipping charges required.

Good copy of this beautifully illustrated book of classic fables with realistic animal studiesComplete with 56 etchings, drawn and engraved "from the life" by Samuel Howitt, with title page and list of platesPlate 32, The Dog in the Manger, bound opposite the title page as the frontispieceSamuel Howitt (1756–1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher, famous for his scenes with animals, hunting, horse-racing, sporting and landscapes. He is best known for his illustrations to Captain Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports (1807). Other works include Thoughts on Hunting (1798), Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals (1803), British Field Sports (1807); The Angler's Manual (1808), Groups of Animals (1811), The British Sportsman (1812) and Foreign Field Sports (1819).Blue buckram spine, marble boards bumped and darkened, new endpapers, tissue guards, all plates with varying degrees of spotting and foxing, mostly outside the image, one with 10cm tear within image, first 25 plates with small… Read More