Verzeichniss der geistlichen Ordens-Personen in der streitenden Kirchen, in nette Abbildungen und einer kurtzen Erzehlung Verfasset [Three Parts In One Volume] by Bonanni, P. Philipp - 1724

Zurich: Keller et Fussli. Loose leaf Folio. Good+/No Dust Jacket. No date, though circa 1830. A charming complete collection of 24 hand colored lithographs, each measuring approx. 3 1/2 x 4 inches, and depicting the traditional costume and dress of various regions and occupations within Switzerland. All sheets, along with a colored decorative title sheet are laid into their original paper folder which then slides into a stiff paper slip-sleeve. The images are generally very good or better in condition, though there are a couple with small spots and foxing. The title sheet remains bright and clear, though is darkened and smudged around the edges, and has a small inked number at the bottom edge and at the top of the verso. The teal folder that holds them is intact, though a bit soiled, and the salmon colored sleeve is very worn.

London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757. First Edition . Full Leather. Fair/No Dust Jacket. sm 4to. 47 pages, plus 119 plates; [8] 56-83 [1], plus 120 (of 121) plates. Lacking plate CCXXXI (Aletes, in the Tragedy of Creusa). Complete at the time of publication, though two additional volumes were published in 772. French and English title pages and text with red and black letters. Adam and Eve motif engraving below title, with Milton quote. Full leather covers are significantly worn and pitted. All covers, except for bottom of Volume II, are detached. Blank end leaves are detached. Light to sometimes moderate foxing throughout. Due to size and weight, additional fees will apply for Priority and/or International shipping.

Cellulose inset cover medallion of Bernhardt as La Princesse Lointaine (after Mucha) enveloped by poppies on wood-veneered boards. Twenty-eight fin-de-siecle celebrities, each in photograph (by Nadar, Boyer, et al.) surrounded by colored art nouveau motifs (by Habert-Dys, Orazi and Fraikin) and facsimiles of autographed script. Included are Victorien Sardou, Sarah Bernhardt, François Coppée, Mme Edmond Adam, Anatole France, Mme la Duchesse D'Uzès, Jules Lemaître, Mme Réjane, Jules Claretie, Mme Segond-Weber, Jean Richepin, Marthe Brandès, Coquelin aîné, Jeanne Granier, Jules Massenet, Aïno Ackté, Mounet-Sully, Jane Hading, J-L.Gérôme, Jane Hatto, Antonin Mercié, Marie Delna, Luc-Olivier Merson, Sibyl-Sanderson, F.-A. Bartholdi, Carrère-Xanrof, Alfred Capus & Ranavalo Manjaka III (the ex-queen of Madagascar). Also contains fourteen stunning hors-texte chromolithographed Leonetto Cappiello caricatures of Sarah Bernhardt, Francois Coppee, Jules Lemaitre, Madame Rejane,… Read More

Very good copy of the fourth and best edition of this famous Renaissance collection of world costumes.With 513 costume plates printed on fine vellum paper, with each plate facing a page of descriptive text in Italian and French.This new edition has all the original costume plates corrected by Gerard Seguin and engraved on wood by Etienne Huyot. The decorative frames to both costume and text pages were engraved by H. Catenacci and Fellmann.A panorama of world costume from European nobility and peasants, Venetian senators, prostitutes, Turkish pirates and dervishes, ancient Roman soldiers, fanciful Japanese and Nestorian costumes, Native Americans from Virginia and Peru taken from travel books, etc. Cesare Vecellio (c.1521-1601) was an Italian artist, cousin and assistant to Titian, active in Venice and Augsburg. In 1590, he published his collection of costumes of all nations with woodcuts copied from Christoph Krieger. Despite many fanciful and imaginary costumes, it became an iconic source in the… Read More

Very good set of a complete year of this influential magazine, Third Series, Volumes V and VI, 12 monthly issues from January to December 1825 bound in two volumes. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the Regency era, still basking in Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo.With 59 (of 60) handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture under tissue guards, 11 engravings of needlework patterns.Frontispiece, "To Readers and Correspondents," title page, Plate 1, pages 2 and 3 of the January issue provided in facsimile.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins), and depicting designs by anonymous London milliners and dressmakers. There are elegant dinner and balls gowns, casual morning and promenade dresses, hats and bonnets, and… Read More

Zurich: Keller et Fussli. Loose leaf Folio. Good+/No Dust Jacket. No date, though circa 1830. A charming complete collection of 24 hand colored lithographs, each measuring approx. 3 1/2 x 4 inches, and depicting the traditional costume and dress of various regions and occupations within Switzerland. All sheets, along with a colored decorative title sheet are laid into their original paper folder which then slides into a stiff paper slip-sleeve. The images are generally very good or better in condition, though there are a couple with small spots and foxing. The title sheet remains bright and clear, though is darkened and smudged around the edges, and has a small inked number at the bottom edge and at the top of the verso. The teal folder that holds them is intact, though a bit soiled, and the salmon colored sleeve is very worn.

London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757. First Edition . Full Leather. Fair/No Dust Jacket. sm 4to. 47 pages, plus 119 plates; [8] 56-83 [1], plus 120 (of 121) plates. Lacking plate CCXXXI (Aletes, in the Tragedy of Creusa). Complete at the time of publication, though two additional volumes were published in 772. French and English title pages and text with red and black letters. Adam and Eve motif engraving below title, with Milton quote. Full leather covers are significantly worn and pitted. All covers, except for bottom of Volume II, are detached. Blank end leaves are detached. Light to sometimes moderate foxing throughout. Due to size and weight, additional fees will apply for Priority and/or International shipping.

London: Republished by the New Proprietor, J. Dowding, 1828. Hardcover. Very Good. "An Improved Edition." [90] p., added engraved title page and 24 leaves of color plates; 38 cm. Dark green library buckram with gilt-stamped spine title and call number. Plates state: "Aquatinted by R. Havell. Published June 1, 1815, by R. Havell." No date of publication. The first edition appeared in 1815; this "improved" edition was published in the 1820s. Stamped "Brooklyn Public Library" on upper and lower page edges, and back fixed endpaper; performated library stamp on added endgraved title page and title page; library number stamped at lower edge of title page. Official withdrawn stamp of the Brooklyn Public Library on back free endpaper. Former owner inscription on added engraved title page: Charles John Kean, Limerick, 185?. Charles John Kean (1811-1868) was an Irish actor and the son of actor Edmund Kean. He acquired this volume in the 1850s when he was acting… Read More

Bound collection of issues No. 1 to 60 from the 27th year of the magazine, from 5 January to 31 October 1823. Most women's fashion plates by the famous illustrator Louis Marie Lante, 1789-1871.Plates numbered 2121 to 2194, missing 2160-2162, 2170, 2191-2193, several out of order, but a total of 64 fine fashion plates. La Mesangere (1761-1831) was author, journalist and editor, and published the Journal from 1797 to 1839, covering the post-Revolutionary Directory era through the Napoleonic Empire and the Bourbon Restoration. Brown leather spine, black leather labels with gilt decoration, boards with brown marble paper. Condition: Binding scuffed, front hinge weak, plates slightly browned and spotting with usual crease down the centre (where the magazine was folded before binding).

Very good copy of William Alexander's translation of Octavian Dalvimart's depiction of the costumes of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century. A complete set of these charming costume plates showing different ranks of courtiers and servants to the Sultan, enslaved women Sultanas, Odalisks and Eunuchs of the Seraglio or Harem, musicians and dancing girls of Constantinople, whirling dervishes, Spahi and Janissaries, officers and soldiers, Bedouin Arabs, Armenian, Tartar and Jewish men, etc.Title page, vi, and 120 unnumbered pages (60 hand-coloured engraved plates and 60 text pages).First published in 1802, and reissued by various publishers several times until the 1830s. [Some plates in this copy watermarked 1823.]Octavian Dalvimart or d'Alvimart was a French painter and engraver active in London. He travelled in the Ottoman Empire from 1796 to 1800, sketching people of Constantinople (Istanbul) and their costumes from life. The explanatory texts are based on works by Baron Francois de Tott, J.… Read More