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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…
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The Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians
by George Catlin
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Manuel d'érotologie classique: (De figuris veneris)
by Friedrich Karl Forberg
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Very good copy of FK Forberg's study of classical erotica, with 20 fine monochrome plates.No. 210, of 340 examples on velin de cuve des Papeteries d'Arches, out of a total imprint of 500 copies.Allegorical frontispiece with Venus, Cupid, Pan and Nereid, including a portrait of Forberg, and 19 illustrations by Paul Avril engraved by Théophile Fillon.Chapter headings include de la Futution, de la Pedication, de l'Irrumation, de la Masturbation, des Cunnilinges, des Tribades, du Coit avec des Betes, des Postures spintriennes. The explicit illustrations depict the missionary position, masturbation, fellatio, cunnilingus, orgies, gay sex, Sappho on Lesbos, a Saturnalia, sodomy, Tiberius and the fishes, bestiality, etc., while the text provides literary examples from Virgil, Sappho, Ovid, Martial, Herodotus, etc. Freidrich Karl Forberg (1770-1848), was a German philosopher and classical scholar, while working as a school headmaster and director of the Saxon State Library. His philosophical writings are now…
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Maori portraits: Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle
by Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville
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Rare print of Maori men with facial tattoosTwo heads of Maori men with tamoko or moko facial tattoos, New Zealand.
Vignette of Maori family with man holding a taiaha club, woman with carved club, and girl holding a fish.
Title "Homme: Race mongolique"
Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti after an illustration by de Saimon from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.
In good condition with slight age-toning to top of print.
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Medical Botany: or illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh and Dublin Pharamacopoeias
by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill
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Very good complete copy of Stephenson and Churchill's medical botany.With 187 fine hand-coloured botanical illustrations drawn and engraved by William Clark (Vol. I), others drawn by G. Reid and Charles Morgan Curtis and engraved by [Edward Smith] Weddell and W.M. Maddocks.Includes the endangered plant roughbark lignum-vitae, Guaiacum officinale, Pl. 90.John Stephenson (1790-1864) was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He also wrote Medical Zoology and Mineralogy (1838). James Morss Churchill (1796-1863) was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Fellow of the Medico-Botanical Society of London. He also wrote the first article on acupuncture in the UK in 1821.New edition (after the first in four volumes in 1831) edited by Gilbert T. Burnett, Professor of Botany at King's College, London. William Clark (fl. 1820-1840) was botanical artist and engraver to the Horticultural Society of London, providing illustrations for the Pomological Magazine and the…
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Medicinal Plants: being descriptions with original figures of the Principal Plants Employed in Medicine
by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen
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Very good complete copy of this last great English medical botany of the 19th century.With 306 fine hand-coloured botanical plates, several double-page, some finished with gum arabic, drawn from nature and lithographed by David Blair. Each dynamic plate filled to the edge with details of the plant's stalk, leaf, fruit, seed, branch and flower.Each plate with several pages of text including description, habitat, collection and commerce, general character and composition, medical properties and uses.Robert Bentley (1821-1893) was an English botanist and pharmacologist. He was professor in botany at King's College from 1859, and became a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1874. Henry Trimen (1843-1896) was a London-born botanist who became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon (Botanical Gardens of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) from 1879-95. He also published The Flora of Ceylon (1893) David Blair (1820-1899?), was a botanical artist and lithographer who also worked on Transactions of the…
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Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de Tous les Peuples du Monde
by Auguste Wahlen
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First edition of this scarce and beautiful work on the costumes of the world.Written and compiled in four volumes by Auguste Wahlen, pseudonym for Jean Françios Nicolas Loumyer
With 196 vibrantly hand-coloured plates, most heightened with gum arabic, and four handcoloured vignette title pages.
Text in French.
Loumyer completed his comprehensive survey of world culture and costume with the collaboration of Jacques Joseph van Beveren. The woodcuts were engraved by Doms, Duverger, Lisbet, Markaert, Mercier and others after illustrations from famous explorers on their voyages.
With 196 plates (of 186 plates as called for in the plate list) and four title vignettes. Volume I: Asia is complete with all 79 of 79 plates called for in the plate list; Volume II Africa and America has 39 of 39 (two plates never issued, but two supplemental plates included); Volume III Europe has 41 of 34 (missing Jeune fille de Porto, but including eight supplemental plates), and Volume IV Oceania has 37 of 34 plates. One… Read More
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Moko Shurai Ekotoba: (Illustrated Account of the Mongol Invasion)
by Beisai Kubota
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Woodblock reprint of two famous Japanese picture scrolls which recorded the unsuccessful Mongol invasions of Japan in the 13th century.The scrolls were originally drawn between 1275 and 1293 for the samurai Suenaga Takezaki to record his battlefield valor and deeds during Kublai Khan's attempted invasions of Japan. The scrolls depict the Battle of Bun'ei in 1274 and the Battle of Koan in 1281.Complete in 3 volumes, with 66 pages with 56 color plates in vol. 1, 54 pages with 33 color plates in vol. 2, and 100 pages with 54 color plates in vol. 3. Edited by Beisai Kubota.Condition: paper covers slightly worn, a few pages browned (mostly Japanese text pages) but plates bright and vivid.
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Monumenta Pompeiana
by [Antonio Sogliano, Antonio Niccolini]
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Rare complete set of this monumental study of PompeiiComplete with 150 chromolithographic plates in elephant-folio size of wall paintings, statues, figures, furniture, graffiti, plaster-casts of bodies and views of ruins from ancient Pompeii.Originally published in five parts with 30 plates in each.Lithographed by D. Capri after G. Discanno, A de Simone, V. Mollame, V. Loria, S. de Stefani, A. Carelli, A. Magliano, and directed by Antonio Niccolini. Text by Antonio Sogliano, in Italian, German, English and French.Antonio Sogliano (1854-1942) was an Italian archaeologist. From 1906 to 1929, he was professor of the antiquities of Pompeii at the University of Naples Federico II.Antonio Niccolini was grandson of the architect and scenic designer Antonio Niccolini Sr. (1772-1850). Antonio Jr. also published the final two volumes of Fausto and Felice Niccolini's monumental book on the interior design of Pompeii, Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei (Houses and monuments of Pompeii), 1854-1897, after the…
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The Moral of Flowers
by [Rebecca Hey, William Clark illustrator]
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Lovely copy of Rebecca Hey's charming Victorian book of botanical plates and poetryWith all 24 superb botanical illustrations drawn and engraved on steel by William Clark
The botanical illustrations finished to a very high standard with deep, rich handcolour
Flowers include mostly British plants such almond blossom, rosemary and violet, daisy, primrose, dog rose, lily of the valley, jasmine, myrtle, hawthorn, forget-me-not, bramble, heath, wallflower, speedwell, and a few exotic imports such as rhododendron, passionflower, etc.
With botanical information contributed by Sir James Edward Smith and James Drummond. "The engravings accompanying them, as well as the drawings from which they were taken, are the production of Mr William Clark, formerly draughtsman and engraver to the London Horticultural Society; a sufficient guarantee, it is presumed, for the excellence of their execution." (from the Preface)
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Musée Cosmopolite: Musée de Costumes, Volume 1, France
by [Francois Claudius Compte-Calix, Celestin Deshayes, etc.]
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Single volume only with 95 (of 100) steel engraved plates of French regional costumes of the mid-19th centuryJust as fashion illustrator Louis-Marie Lante travelled through the French departments for Pierre de La Mésangère in the early 19th century, so publisher Aubert's artists visited towns and villages throughout France for this series. The illustrations were drawn by fashion-plate artists such as Francois Claudius Compte-Calix, Adolphe Varin, Marie-Alexandre Alophe, Jean-Joseph Bonaventure Laurens, Celestin Deshayes, and C. Maurice. The fine steel engravings were by Gabriel Montaut d'Oleron, Adolphe Portier, Charles Paquien, Laurent Guerdet, Armand Joseph Lallemand, Alfred Revel, Ernest Monnin, Adolphe d'Hastrel, Ferdinand, Gaite, Geoffroy, Preval, Pelée, Girardet, etc.
There are fishermen and fishwives, sailors, peasants, milkmaids, butter sellers, grisettes (seamstresses and artist's models), yarn spinners, laundry woman, shrimpers, taxmen, and many other trades. They are depicted in their… Read More
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Musée d’Histoire Naturelle: Le cosmographie, le geologie, la zoologie, la botanique
by Achille Comte
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Very good copy of the 1st edition of this introduction to natural historyComplete with all 50 handcoloured wood-engraved plates printed by F. Chardon
Museum of Natural History; cosmography, geology, zoology, botany
In a beautifully restored French mid-19th century polychrome and gilt pictorial binding by Lenegre
The plates cover a wide range of subject matter. The frontis shows the universe with stars, nebulae and comets, the geology plates show erupting volcanoes and a Swedish iron-ore mine. The natural history plates include nine charts of different orders of animal and insect life as well as illustrations of animals in their natural habitat. There are endangered tigers, Indian rhinoceros, kangaroos and wallabies. The birds include the village weaver, lyre bird, twelve-wired bird-of-paradise, Indian peafowl, pigeons, etc. The reptiles include the Aldabra giant tortoise, spectacled caiman, and Martinique pit viper. Others include fish, molluscs, crustaceans, beetles, insects, bees and beehives,… Read More
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Musée royal de Naples: Peintures, Bronzes et Statues érotiques du Cabinet secret
by M.C.F. [Marie César Famin]
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Very good copy of the best edition of Famin's catalogue of erotic art in the secret cabinet at Naples.With 60 hand-coloured plates engraved by A. Delvaux and protected by tissue guards.The plates show phallic sculptures and graffiti, Priapic bronze figures and gods, excited votive amulets, extraordinary winged phalli, as well as frescos depicting fauns and bacchantes, satyrs and nymphs, hermaphrodites, bed scenes with slaves in attendance, Apollo and a nymph, Venus and Cupid, and the famous acrobatic "rope dancers."When King Francis I of Naples visited the Pompeii exhibition at the Naples National Archaeological Museum with his wife and daughter in 1819, he was embarrassed by the erotic artwork and ordered it to be locked away in a "secret cabinet." For most of the 19th century, the specimens could only be viewed by gentlemen scholars by appointment. Famin was granted access to the museum when he was posted to Naples as part of the French consulate, and wrote this catalog of some of the exhibits. When…
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