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The Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians
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The Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians

by George Catlin

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Very good set of Catlin's classic account of his travels and sojourns with the Native American peoples from 1832-1839.Second edition with colour illustrations featuring 312 full-colour engravings on 180 plates (not the "400 Coloured Plates" described on the title page and spines). Includes three maps in colour.The illustrations show portraits of chiefs, warriors, medicine men and women, buffalo and horse hunts, rituals, religious ceremonies, dances, war games, sports, etc. The Native American peoples described include Choctaw, Blackfoot, Ojibwe, Comanche, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sioux, Seminole, etc. There are several self-portraits of Catlin (Frontispiece, Plates 62 and 132). First published in 1841 with uncoloured plates, it was published with coloured plates for the first time in 1876. Although the title page lists "1841, Egyptian Hall," and there are no other dates printed in the book, it is believed this set dates from 1892-4.In publishers black cloth with gilt title on spine and gilt vignette… Read More
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The Naturalist's Library: Mammalia: Dogs
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The Naturalist's Library: Mammalia: Dogs

by Charles Hamilton Smith, Sir William Jardine

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Complete set of all two volumes on Canines from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 71 steel engravings (62 handcoloured plates, 5 b/w plates, 2 b/w title vignettes and 2 b/w portraits) engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by Lt.-Col. Charles Hamilton Smith and James Stewart
Includes the Falkland Island aguara-dog, Dusicyon australis, that was described as extinct around 1870, as well as the endangered Sumatran dhole, Canadian eskimo dog, and African wild dog, and the critically endangered Darwin's fox. With many species of wolf, fox, hyaena, and wild dog, as well as domesticated breeds such as greyhound, sheepdog, Dalmatian coach dog, setter, spaniel, cocker, poodle, mastiff, bull dog, etc.
Mammalia Vol. IX, Dogs, Canidae or Genus Canis of the Authors, Vol. I, Charles Hamilton Smith, 33 steel engraved plates by Charles Hamilton Smith, portrait of Pallas, 1839 (Volume XXV of the whole series)
Mammalia Vol. X, Dogs, Canidae or… Read More
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Flore Medicale
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Flore Medicale: Flore du Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales

by Chaumeton, Chamberet and Poiret

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Very good copy of the complete first edition of this classic of Enlightenment medical botany
Seven volumes in eight, edited by Francois-Pierre Chaumeton, Jean-Louis Marie Poiret and Jean-Baptiste de Chamberet.
With 425 hand-coloured stipple engravings by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin and Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke
Engraved by Lambert Jr., Boutelou, Mme. Benoit, Bignant, Mlle. Coignet, Mlle. Cornu, Dien, Dubois, Forget, Gautier, Giraud, Goulot, Guyard, Mlle. Louvier, Massard, Phelipeau, Plee, Poulet, Rebel and Victor.
Francois-Pierre Chaumeton (1775-1819) was a French physician and botanist. While working as a military surgeon with the French Army, he studied botany at Strasbourg in 1805 and later moved to Paris to continue his work as a botanical writer and editor.
Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840) was one of the greatest botanical artists of the Napoleonic era, along with Redoute and Bessa. When serving in the French army in Haiti in 1794, Turpin met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau and switched… Read More
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Flore Medicale, Vols. 2,4-6
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Flore Medicale, Vols. 2,4-6: Flore du Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales

by Chaumeton, Chamberet and Poiret

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Very good copy of four volumes of the second edition of this classic of Enlightenment medical botany
Volumes 2, 4, 5, and 6 edited by Francois-Pierre Chaumeton, Jean-Louis Marie Poiret and Jean-Baptiste de Chamberet.
With 240 (of 360) hand-coloured stipple engravings by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin and Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke
Engraved by Lambert Jr., Boutelou, Mme. Benoit, Bignant, Mlle. Coignet, Mlle. Cornu, Dien, Dubois, Forget, Gautier, Giraud, Goulot, Guyard, Mlle. Louvier, Massard, Phelipeau, Plee, Poulet, Rebel and Victor.
Francois-Pierre Chaumeton (1775-1819) was a French physician and botanist. While working as a military surgeon with the French Army, he studied botany at Strasbourg in 1805 and later moved to Paris to continue his work as a botanical writer and editor.
Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840) was one of the greatest botanical artists of the Napoleonic era, along with Redoute and Bessa. When serving in the French army in Haiti in 1794, Turpin met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau… Read More
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Flore Medicale, Vols. 1-4
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Flore Medicale, Vols. 1-4: Flore du Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales

by Chaumeton, Chamberet and Poiret

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Very good copy of the first four volumes of the second edition of this classic of Enlightenment medical botany
4 volumes edited by Francois-Pierre Chaumeton, Jean-Louis Marie Poiret and Jean-Baptiste de Chamberet.
With 339 (of 360) hand-coloured stipple engravings by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin and Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke
Engraved by Lambert Jr., Boutelou, Mme. Benoit, Bignant, Mlle. Coignet, Mlle. Cornu, Dien, Dubois, Forget, Gautier, Giraud, Goulot, Guyard, Mlle. Louvier, Massard, Phelipeau, Plee, Poulet, Rebel and Victor.
Francois-Pierre Chaumeton (1775-1819) was a French physician and botanist. While working as a military surgeon with the French Army, he studied botany at Strasbourg in 1805 and later moved to Paris to continue his work as a botanical writer and editor.
Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840) was one of the greatest botanical artists of the Napoleonic era, along with Redoute and Bessa. When serving in the French army in Haiti in 1794, Turpin met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau… Read More
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Inner Palace of Edo Castle: New Year
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Inner Palace of Edo Castle: New Year

by Chikanobu

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Very good triptych of a charming scene of court ladies celebrating New Year.
A lady brings in a lacquer tray with the second course of a sumptuous New Year meal in three lacquered bowls to two noblewomen seated on the floor.
A scene from the series Chiyoda no o-oku (Inner Palace of Edo Castle), published Meiji 28-29 (1895-1896).
All the women wear elaborately embroidered silk kimono decorated with symbols of good luck: cranes, turtles and plums (right), fans and camellias (middle), and peonies (left).
The room is decorated with winter ikebana (probably a winter-blossoming camellia) and a shimenawa (a Shinto decoration made of foliage and paper) hanging from the alcove wall. A hibachi decorated with cranes is on the floor in front of the ladies.
Chikanobu, 1838-1912, also known as Chikanobu Toyohara, Hashimoto or Youshu, was a prolific Japanese painter and printmaker of the Meiji era. He worked in many genres including battle scenes, historical pictures, beauty pictures, famous sites, portraits,… Read More
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Les Modes Parisiennes sous le Directoire
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Les Modes Parisiennes sous le Directoire: apres Moreau

by Francois Claudius Compte-Calix

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Very good copy of Compte-Calix's suite of fashion plates of the French Directory era
Complete with all 15 very finely handcoloured fashion plates, 13 belles and two dandies
The women dressed in bonnets and gowns decorated with frills, bows and ribbons, a few Merveilleuses in Roman style robes. The gentlemen, or Royalist Incroyables, in tricorne or top hat, riding coat, gilet, breeches and boots, armed with cudgels.
All the plates drawn by Francois Claudius Compte-Calix, an artist who worked for the weekly fashion magazine Modes Parisiennes
Based on contemporary illustrations by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune, the French draftsman, illustrator and engraver whose career spanned the last years of the Ancien Regime and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.
Finely engraved on steel by E. Bracquet, A. Carrache and Paul Lacourriere and very finely hand-coloured
With two-page explanation of the costumes bound in at rear
François-Claudius Compte-Calix (1813–1880) was a French genre painter and fashion… Read More
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Costumes de l'Epoque de Louis XVI
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Costumes de l'Epoque de Louis XVI

by Francois Claudius Compte-Calix

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Very good copy of Compte-Calix's suite of fashion plates of the era of Louis XVI and Marie Antionette
Complete with all 15 very finely handcoloured fashion plates, 11 belles and four dandies
The women dressed in baroque bonnets with plumes, gowns richly adorned with frills, ribbons, fur and lace. The gentlemen in wigs, riding coats, waistcoats and breeches.
All the plates drawn by Francois Claudius Compte-Calix, an artist who worked for the weekly fashion magazine Modes Parisiennes
Finely engraved on steel by E. Bracquet, A. Carrache, Paul Lacourriere and Paquin and very finely hand-coloured
François-Claudius Compte-Calix (1813–1880) was a French genre painter and fashion illustrator. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1840, and later in the International Exhibition at Paris in 1867. He provided fashion plates for the weekly fashion magazine Modes Parisiennes in the 1850s and 1860s, and also illustrated many albums of historical and regional fashions in special suites also published by the… Read More
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Costumes de l'Epoque de Louis XVI
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Costumes de l'Epoque de Louis XVI

by Francois Claudius Compte-Calix

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Very good copy of Compte-Calix's suite of fashion plates of the era of Louis XVI and Marie Antionette
Complete with all 15 very finely handcoloured fashion plates, 11 belles and four dandies
The women dressed in baroque bonnets with plumes, gowns richly adorned with frills, ribbons, fur and lace. The gentlemen in wigs, riding coats, waistcoats and breeches.
All the plates drawn by Francois Claudius Compte-Calix, an artist who worked for the weekly fashion magazine Modes Parisiennes
Finely engraved on steel by E. Bracquet, A. Carrache, Paul Lacourriere and Paquin and very finely hand-coloured
François-Claudius Compte-Calix (1813–1880) was a French genre painter and fashion illustrator. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1840, and later in the International Exhibition at Paris in 1867. He provided fashion plates for the weekly fashion magazine Modes Parisiennes in the 1850s and 1860s, and also illustrated many albums of historical and regional fashions in special suites also published by the… Read More
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Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles
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Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles: Planches Zoologie: Poissons et Reptiles

by Hippolyte Cloquet

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Very good copy of the Fish and Reptiles part from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 125 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of fish and reptiles
Includes critically endangered species such as the sawfish or carpenter shark, Ganges crocodile or gharial, great crested newt, Mexican axolotl, Martinique lancehead and European eel. Also includes the endangered geometric tortoise and green sea turtle.
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin, and engraved by Louis Massard, Mlle. Massard, Madame Leroy, Plee, Victor, Joyeau, Louvier, Mlle. Louvier, Forestier, Dion, Prudhon, Guyard, Giraud, etc.
Poissons et Reptiles: Title page, 16pp (tables of plates, index), 85 handcoloured engraved plates of fish, 40 handcoloured engraved plates of reptiles.
Part of Cuvier's massive Dictionary of Natural Sciences that was published in 60 text volumes and 13 plate volumes from 1816 to 1830.
Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849) was a… Read More
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Human Passions Delineated
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Human Passions Delineated: in Above 120 Figures, Droll, Satyrical and Humourous

by Tim Bobbin [John Collier]

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Very good copy of the mid-19th century reprint of the Lancashire Hogarth's book of caricatures, originally published in 1773
Complete with portrait of the artist, engraved title page, and 44 engraved plates printed on 25 pages
The plates show quite an extraordinary parade of 18th century scenes in pubs, hairdressers, shops, dentists and living rooms. A drunk vomits into a bowl at a bar, a wife beats a husband, a demon steals from a preacher, ugly bumpkins gurn, drunken rustics brawl, foppish politicians read the Magna Carta, a judge molests a female witness, a barber fleeces a Macaroni, a sailor is cheated of his prize money, etc.
There are four plates of dentists using tongs and string to extract teeth from unhappy patients. There are even a few portraits of famous people: Lord Bute Pl. 17, diplomat John Russell, Duke of Bedford, in Pl. 18, botanists Daniel Solander and Joseph Banks with Plato in Pl. 20, and a group of rogues and scoundrels in the book trade in northern England and Scotland in Pl.… Read More
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