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Engravings Books & Ephemera
Paliacatta or Gesdret; Bird's Eye View of Fort St. David in Pulicat, India
by CHURCHILL, John and Awnsham
London: Churchill, John, 1704. unbound. very good. Engraving. Image measures 11" x 14".<br/> <br/> Named after the patron saint of Wales, Fort St. David lies in Pulicat on the Coromandel Coast, in South East India. It served as a trading post of the British East India Trading Company. The engraving shows a bird's eye view of the fort and its layout. From Churchill's "Collection of Voyages and Travels".<br/> <br/>
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NZ$340.44
Les Aventures de Télémaque fils d'Ulysse. Nouvelle Edition Enrichie de Figures en taille-douce et de Notes Historiques, Politiques, et Morales
by Fénelon, Francois, de Salignac de La Mothe
Venise: chez Guillaume Zerletii, 1768. Two volumes. 8vo. 230 x 155 mm. (9 x 6 inches). xlviii, 272 pp.; 262, 2 pp. Engraved frontispiece, two engraved title-pages, folding map and 24 vignettes. Bound in contemporary paste-paper boards, soiled but sound; some staining to lower right corner of some of the leaves. With faults an acceptable copy. Appears to be the first edition printed by Zerletti, who published a more expensive edition in 1788. This is the first appearance of the engravings by Giovanni...
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Abraham Lincoln Portrait, Working Proof
by SCHLECHT, Charles
Schlecht. Engraving. 3/4" oval portrait on 2 1/2" x 2" paper, mounted on a 10 3/4" x 9" proof sheet.<br/> <br/> Miniature uncolored engraving of Abraham Lincoln by Charles Schlecht, signed in lower right "3d working proof / Charles Schlecht" <br> <Br> Charles Schlecht (1843-1932) was a German-born engraver. Most well known for his stamp and bank note engravings, he had a long and illustrious career with ANBC (American Bank Note Co.) working...
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The Royal Yacht off Margate, Night of March 5th 1863 Lithograph, coloured
by Dudley, Robert Charles
1864. Gilt frame with glass front. Size of engraved surface: 28cm x 17cm. Size within mount 46.5cm x 35cm. In very good condition. One faint foxing patch.
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NZ$21.30
Cleeve Hill the seat of William Player Esq
by KIP, Johannes
London. unbound. very good. Leonard Knyff. View. Uncolored copper plate engraving. Page measures 16 1/8" x 21", plate measures 13.75" x 17".<br/> <br/> Beautifully detailed garden landscape, circa 1708. This print was published in "Britannia Illustrata or Views of Several of the Queen's Palaces, also of the Principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain", which is among the most important English topographical publications of the eighteenth...
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NZ$510.66
Untitled (Plate 10)
by KAPROW, Allan
Milan: Galleria Schwarz, 1964. Etching. Signed in pencil in lower right, artist's proof. Image measures 5 5/8" x 4 1/4"<br/> <br/> Plate 10 by Allan Kaprow from "The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Volume 5: America Discovered." This plate is the artist's proof for an edition of 60. Signed by Kaprow in the lower right corner. Printed by Atelier Georges Leblanc, Paris. MoMA 324.1967.10. In gray cardboard passe...
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NZ$680.88
Auersberg.
by Meyer, Joseph; C. Reiss (illustr.); C. Gerstner (engrav.); Bibliographic Institut in Hildburghausen
Gotha, Germany: Bibliographic Institut in Hildburghausen, [1850].. Engraving. Image Size: 14.5 x 10 cm. Oblong. Good with small perforations, staining. Published originally in Meyer's Universum. Text in German.
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NZ$212.78
Cornichon Blanc P. 280
by MONCEAU, Henri-Louis Duhamel du
Paris, 1768. unbound. very good(-). Magdeleine Basseporte. Fruit botanical. Stipple engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 10.5" x 8.5".<br/><br/> Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) was an engineer, physician and a botanist based in Paris, France. He was commissioned by the French Academy of Sciences in 1728 to investigate a disease that was destroying the saffron plants in Gâtinais. His publication of the findings enabled him to become a member and...
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NZ$255.33
A History of British Wood Engraving First Edition.
by Garrett, Albert
Tunbridge Wells: Midas Books, 1978. First edition, 1978. Hardback. 408pp. No dust jacket. 'The history of wood engraving epitomizes the history of our culture and in this history Albert Garrett synthesizes and presents in microcosm much of the essential part of that culture. It is a work superbly executed; it will be enjoyed and have relevance and importance to generations not only of artists but of all interested in the world about them.' The book contains some 400 black & white...
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The Chorus.
by Hogarth, William (after)
London: Jones & Co., [1833].. Steel Engraving. 6.75" x 6". Good with light staining.
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NZ$85.11
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front Line Dispatches from the Advertising War
by Jerry Della Femina And Charles Sopkin
Simon & Schuster, 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 253 Pp. Blue Gray Cloth, Spine Lettered In Yellow, Yellow Endpapers. Stated First Edition. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket, Price Clipped. Large Bookplate Of Gunther Klaus By Picasso.
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NZ$68.09
Gentleman’s Magazine of Fashion. Plate 3.
Gentleman's Magazine. June 1878. Engraved surface: 6.75 x 9.5 inches with later hand colouring. In wide ivory hard card mount. Overall size: 11.0 x 14.0 inches. In very good condition. A few small marks. Else a clean copy. 19th century fashion plate with later hand colouring. Fashion plate from Gentleman's Magazine, June 1878. Three men and a boy. One man carried a top hat, another a cane. The boy holds a riding crop and wears a sailor suit with knickerbockers and boots and wears what may be a straw hat....
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Autographed Letter Signed
by SHORT, Frank (1857 - 1945)
Brook Green, 1915. unbound. 2 pages each measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches, Brook Green, November 7, 1915, This fine-content letter was written to Dr. Hermann Radin concerning the engraving of bookplates, in part: "...I have now done a tiny bookplate (though I have directed many)...I did not know that Wm. Cole had ever done any. I am always much interested in his work and what is the American School of Engraving - which gave rise to it." One horizontal fold; very good(+) condition.<br/>...
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NZ$425.55
An Herbarium for the Fair
by SHAW-LAWRENCE, Betty & FASSAM, Thomas
London: Printed by the Ditchling Press for the Hand and Flower Press, 1949. First Edition. Being a book of common herbs with etchings by Betty Shaw Lawrence together with curious notes on their histories and uses for the furtherance of loveliness and love by Thomas Fassam. Edition of 260 numbered copies signed by Thomas Fassam. Small quarto, half brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with spine in raised bands with gilt lettering, top-edge gilt and others uncut, engraved title-page by Alfred Richard...
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European Magazine - Mr. John Sewell, late Bookseller of Cornhill
by Drummond; Ridley
London: Jas. Asperne, 1806. 21x12 cm. Black and white engraving. Very Good.
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NZ$212.78
A View of the Royal Palace of Hampton Court
by RIGAUD, Jacques
London: Robert Sayer. Nathaniel Parr. Print. Hand colored engraving. Image measures 10 1/2" x 15 1/2". London: 1750<br/> <br/> Lovely 18th century engraving of the Royal Palace and Gardens at Hampton Court in London. Depicting the palace from the southeast, the view shows the Privy Gardens and part of the Great Fountain Garden, with many courtiers seen strolling and conversing. In good condition, cropped to plate line. Overall wear throughout.<br/> <br/>
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NZ$595.77
Warsaw
by SDUK (Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge)
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1844. unbound. Map. Engraving with hand outline coloring. Image measures 11.5 x 14.5".<br/><br/> This detailed plan of Warsaw provides insight into the city's history. The map itself depicts the city around 1831, rendering in exacting detail the shapes of buildings and curves of streets that make up its structure. Within this rendering, a dashed line highlighted in yellow points out the boundary of the city in 1762. This inclusion reveals the extent of...
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Freius
by Matthaus Merian
Amsterdam. Mathias Merian (1593-1650): Topographia Galliae, Amsterdam, copperplate engravings: Matthäus Merian sr. (the elder; 1593-1630) was born in Switzerland but eventually settled in Frankfurt; he was trained as an engraver. He married Maria Magdalena de Bry, daughter Johann Theodore de Bry and grand-daughter of Theodore de Bry, both highly influential publishers of travel and other illustrated books. In 1623 Merian took control of the business, taking it to new heights. He continued to publish...
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NZ$218.86
The Pedlar and his Pack or the Desperate Effort, an Over Balance
by (Akin, James)
(Philadelphia), 1828. Oblong folio. 258 x 380 mm. (10 x 15 inches). Etching decorated with blue, green, brown and red watercolor, and a yellow border. Small tear to upper right corner minor discoloration, otherwise in very good condition. Born in South Carolina, James Akin (1773-1846) migrated north to Philadelphia in the mid-1790'S and immediately began producing images and cartoons in a satirical style. He moved to Newburyport, MA for a couple of years but returned to Philadelphia where he spent the...
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NZ$1,702.20
Bookplate for 'TP' (Thea Proctor)
by FEINT, Adrian
1926. Rare signed bookplate by hailed master of the medium, Adrian Feint, featuring a portrait of the celebrated Australian artist, Thea Proctor, engraved with her initials. Hand-coloured wood engraving of a lady with a parasol, bookplate, 63 mm x 60 mm, signed in pencil lower right.
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NZ$723.19
Gavarni in London. Sketches of Life and Character with Illustrative Essays by Popular Writers
by SMITH, Albert
London: David Bogue, 1849. Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (1804-1866), pseudonym Gavarni, was a French master lithographer noted for his fashion and satirical illustrations. In 1847 he travelled to London and produced a series of images condemning the conditions of the English working-classes and urban poor, here used to illustrate a series of written descriptions by leading writers of the day. Quarto, original gilt cloth (expertly rebacked), all edges gilt, frontispiece, illustrated title-page and...
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NZ$428.35
Cherubs
by RIDINGER, Martin Elias
1748. Etching. Measures 9 7/8" x 12 7/8"<br/><br/> This lovely engraving by Martin Elias Ridinger shows two winged putti, or cherubs. One holds a bow, and another holds a torch. One of four prints in a series; possibly a study for a mural.<Br><Br>Martin Elias Ridinger was the son of the prolific German engraver Johann Elias Ridinger.<br/><br/>
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NZ$340.44
Jemping
by MONTANUS, Arnold
Amsterdam: Montanus, Arnold, 1671. unbound. very good. Copper plate engraving with modern hand coloring. Image measures 11" x 13.5".<br/><br/> Beautiful view of Jemping (modern day Nanping) in Fukien province in South East China with centerfold. From "Die Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld".<br/><br/>
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NZ$936.21
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Der kleine Strandlaufer [Sandpiper]
by WIRSING, A. L
Nuremberg: Adam Ludwig Wirsing, 1772. Print. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring on laid paper. Image measures 12 1/2" x 8". Sheet measures 16 1/2" x 9 1/2"<br/> <br/> This beautiful 18th century engraving depicts two sandpipers' nest with spotted eggs. <br> <br> Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1733-1797) was a German engraver and publisher based in Nuremberg. In very good condition, with minor scattered foxing and some soiling to outer margin, not affecting...
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Freihafen-Lagerhäuser. Aufgewalzte Chromolithographie.
Berlin, C. Schneider Verlagsanstalt, [ca. 1890]. . Blick auf die Neuerwegsbrücke und das St. Annenfleet mit den neuen Lagerhäusern in der Hamburger Speicherstadt (in der heutigen Hafencity), links davon ein langgezogener Hafenschuppen. - Brillante Farben
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NZ$173.26
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