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New York: Abrams, 1988. First edition. Cloth. Orig. decorated white cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 127 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 45 plates in full coor, 54 duotone photographs. Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson, with commentaries by Miriam T. Gross.

Dundonald: Blackstaff Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown calf, marbled boards, raised bands decorated in gilt. Fine in fine matching marbled slipcase. Parker, Richard Dunscombe. 113 pages. 43 x 60 cm. Limited edition 166 of 250, signed by Editor and Designer. 40 mounted color plates reproducing the original watercolour paintings originally discovered in 1976 by the Editor in the recesses of the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Bound for over a century in a flat box, the original 170 watercolours measuring 24 1/2 x 30 inches were painted on white wove paper over pencil outlines. Besides the remarkable plates, Martyn Anglesea describes the history of Ornithological painting, it's place in history, as well as the little known, until now, history of Parker and his extended family. Anglesea states, "Parker's paintings are quite unique as a contribution to nineteenth-century Irish Ornithology and with their Irish topographical backgrounds, for a collection of great value." Including notes… Read More

New York: George Braziller in association with The Rhode Island School of Design, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. salmon cloth lettered in white and black. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Hiroshige. 192 pages. 36.5 x 25.5 cm. 192 full page color plates with descriptive text. Commentaries on the plates by Israel Goldman. Poetry translated from the Japanese by Alfred H. Marks. Contents provide fine examples of his bird and flower prints from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection housed at The Rhode Island School of Design.

Newcastle: Sol, Hodgson, For Beilby & Bewick, 1804. First editions. leather_bound. Rebacked, full brown diced morocco covers. Very good. 2 vols. Bewick, Thomas. 335, 400 pages. 24 x 14.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with wood-engravings. The first volume of this work was published in 1797 for which Beilby furnished the written descriptions with Bewick providing the text of the second volume. Gordon N. Ray [ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND, ETC.] "Bewick's use of end-grained blocks was widely imitated both in England and the Continent. Among his apprentices were some of the most distinguished engravers of the first half of the 19th century. When later artists like Gordon Craig and William Nicholson revived the tradition of creative work on wood, they turned to Bewick's example in freeing themselves from the trammels of reproductive engraving." BRUNET, Vol.I, p.839. Interior contents fresh and clean. Raised bands, spine panels in arabesque motifs and lettered in gilt.

Paris: Librairie Artistique H. Launette & Cie, 1887. First edition. leather_bound. Full decorated mustard calf. Aeg. Fine in fine marbled cloth and brown morocco chemise, backstrip with color onlays and lettered in gilt in matching slipcase, corners rubbed. 206 page. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 31 of 50 on Japan paper. 110 illustrations by Hector Giacomelli, 2 extra original watercolors signed by Giacomelli -- following the limitation page, and prior to the limitation page. Two title pages, the second also an original watercolor. The interior wood engravings by J. Huyot. Gicomelli a French watercolorist, engraver and illustrator, best known for his paintings of birds also worked with Gustave Doré, for which he composed ornaments like "The Holy Bible according to the Vulgate", published in 1866. Covers hand bound by Parisian designer/book binder, Charles Lanoe, full mustard calf with multi-color onlays of birds, flowers at front cover, and a nest with eggs on the back cover. Inner dentelles of… Read More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth. Very good.. 201 pages in text. Large 4to, 29 x 23 cm. Thirty-four tinted lithographs including a host of fold-out plates, and forty wood-cut illustrations in the text. The field work extended from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast, and covered a decade with the first fossil discovered in December, 1870, near the Smoky Hill River, in Western Kansas. Text and plates clean overall with dust soiling to fore-edge and lower page margins of descriptive text to each plate. Binding tight and firm.