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Patavii: Josephus Cominus, 1737. The Best Edition of Catullus Yet Published" The Rare Veronese Gold Medal Winner CATULLUS, C. Valerius. VOLPI, Gian Antonio (editor). C. Valerius Catullus Veronensis et in eum Jo: Antonii Vulpii Eloquentiae Professoris in Gymnasio Patavino Novus Commentarius Locupletissimus. Patavii [Padua]: Josephus Cominus, 1737. First separate Volpi edition, originally issued collectively with Albius Tibullus E.R., and Sex. Aurelius Propertius (1710), here with material not found in that earlier edition. Quarto (10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in; 270 x 189 mm). xl, 608, [1, errata], [1, colophon], [2, blank] pp. Title page engraving. Head- tailpieces. Historiated initial. Includes Vopi's essay, De Metris Catulli, commentary, bibliographical references and index. Contemporary full vellum. Calf spine label. All edges dappled in red and yellow. Stab-stitch holes manifest. Text block crisp and clean. A remarkable copy of a scarce book, here in its fine original eighteenth century vellum binding… Read More

London & Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co., 1881. Calendar of The Seasons GREENAWAY, Kate. Calendar of the Seasons 1881. Four cards depicting the four seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Each card measuring 4 1/8 inches x 2 11/16 inches; 105 mm x 68 mm. Frame size: 12 7/8 inches x 15 1/4 inches; 328 mm x 385 mm. Matted, framed and glazed. Calendar of the seasons, showing the seasons of the year, each card with colored and floral borders. The card for Spring with the title: "Calendar of the Seasons/1881" and depicting three young girls in winter attire. The card for Summer with a young girl standing next to a rose bush, dressed in a bonnet and carrying a basket of flowers. The card for Autumn with a young girl holding a parasol, wearing a large frilly bonnet. The card for Winter showing three young girls with their backs to us, dressed in winter clothes.

London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1884. Calendar For 1884 GREENAWAY, Kate. Calendar For 1884 By Kate Greenaway. London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1884]. Image size: 6 9/16 inches x 9 3/16 inches; 168 x 234 mm. Framed size: 13 1/8 inches x 15 1/8 inches; 332 mm x 390 mm Matted, framed and glazed. The calendar for 1884, showing all the months of the year with colored and floral decorations and containing four groups of costumed figures in color. In the center is a banner "Calendar For 1884 By Kate Greenaway". To the left of the banner are two young ladies, one wearing a bonnet and the other carrying a basket of flowers. Above the banner are three little children - two girls and one boy - the two girls are holding hands and the middle child has her arm around the little boy. To the right of the banner are two young ladies, one holding a baby and the other with a small child leaning into her, dressed to match her mother. Below the banner are three women wearing bonnets. The woman… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1916. With Sixteen Full-Page Color Plates by René Bull [BULL, René, illustrator]. MÉRIMÉE, Prosper. Carmen. Translated by A.E. Johnson. With Pictures by René Bull. London: Hutchinson & Co., [n.d, 1916]. First trade edition. Quarto (10 13/16 x 8 7/16 inches; 275 x 214 mm.). [2, blank], x, 204 pp. Color frontispiece and fifteen color plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Seventy-four black and white illustrations in the text. Publishers red cloth over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Gray and white pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt, others stained red. Gilt on spine dull, some light wear to extremities, neat ink inscription dated 1917 on front free endpaper, and another ink inscription on front blank leaf. A good copy of an uncommon book. Rene Bull's vibrant illustrations perfectly capture the intense drama of love and jealousy in Prosper Mérimée's tale which was the basis for Georges Bizet's opera of the same title.… Read More

Paris: E Prelis Fratrum Mame, 1808. With a Fine Fore-Edge Painting of Verona, Italy by the "Double-Line Painter" FORE-EDGE PAINTING. DOUBLE-LINE PAINTER. HORACE (Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Carmina. Editio Stereotypa Herhan. Paris: E Prelis Fratrum Mame, 1808. With a fine early twentieth century fore-edge painting by the "Double-Line Painter" showing a colorful view of Verona, Italy. Twelvemo (6 5/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 161 x 97 mm.). [i]-xi, [xii, blank], [1]-354 pp. Full contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, spine with four shallow raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board-edges and double-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With the Armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Baronet (1736-1791) with an note in ink by his son Charles Rumbold (1788-1857) who was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and then went to Trinity College, Cambridge. The motto "Virtutis Laus Actio" means "The Praise… Read More

New York: Random House, 1957. Theodore Seuss Geisel's Most Famous Book First Edition, in the Rare First Issue Dust Jacket SEUSS, Dr. (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel). The Cat in the Hat. [New York]: Random House, [1957]. First edition, first issue. Octavo (8 15/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 227 x 163 mm.). [2], 61, [1] pp. Color illustrations throughout. Publisher's unglazed color pictorial boards. Color pictorial endpapers. A near fine copy, far better than is usually seen. In the rare original first issue color pictorial dust jacket, with the price "200/200" (i.e. $2.00) on the front flap and with no mention of the "Beginner Books" series on the rear panel. The bare minimum of rubbing at extremities, dust jacket with slight rubbing at folds, otherwise fine. Later editions/issues possessed glazed boards, and the original price of $2.00 was lowered to $1.95. "Dr Seuss's best-known picturebook epitomises the concept of instruction through delight. The Cat in the Hat was composed as a controlled… Read More

Paris: Paris: Chez Aubert gal: Vero-Dodat, 1837. Thirty Fine and Very Humorous & Satirical Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Henri Bouchot BOUCHOT, Frédéric, illustrator. Ce Que Parler Veut Dire. (What Talking Means). [Paris: Chez Aubert gal: Vero-Dodat, 1837]. Folio (13 15/16 x 10 1/8 inches; 355 x 257 mm.). Complete. Thirty fine hand colored lithograph plates, heightened with gum arabic. All plates signed 'Bouchot' except numbers 22, 27 & 28. Most plates interleaved. Small (3/4 inch) neatly repaired tear to lower blank margin of plate 12. A few very light marginal spots, otherwise fine. Contemporary French maroon scored morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. A wonderful copy of this exceptionally rare book. "French romantic lithography extended from 1817 to the 1850's. It is perhaps the greatest of all schools in the history of the medium" (Ray, p. 155). Artists like Bouchot, Gavarni, and Daumier were masters of… Read More

Paris: Gihaut Frères, 1829. 'What One Says And What One thinks' Forty-Eight Fine Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates by Jean-Gabriel Scheffer [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense [What one says and what one thinks]. Paris: Gihaut Frères, [1829-30]. Folio (13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches; 343 x 260 mm.). Forty-eight (of sixty) hand-colored lithograph plates numbered consecutively up to 36, at which point they jump to 49 and then continue consecutively up to 60, for a total of 48. The last plate with two expert fore-margin repairs, some occasional light marginal foxing otherwise fine. Contemporary half red roan over diced red paper boards, smooth spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Near fine. This is only the second time that we have ever seen this exceptionally rare series of plates. They depict the many manifestations of hypocrisy in French society of the time. That copy, which we sold in 2001 also had the same forty-eight colored plates. We have only been able to locate only… Read More

Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, 1829. 'What One Says And What One thinks' Sixty Fine Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates by Jean-Gabriel Scheffer [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense [What one says and what one thinks]. Paris: Gihaut Frères, 1829. First edition. Complete. Oblong folio (9 3/4 x 13 inches; 248 x 330 mm.). Publisher's original tan pictorial lithograph front wrapper (as title-page) and sixty wonderful hand-colored lithograph plates numbered consecutively. Plates 1-12 are lithographed by Villain, plates 13-60 are lithographed by Gihaut Frères. Plates 13-19 & 37-60 are signed 'Sheffer Gabriel'. A few plates with light, mainly marginal foxing, otherwise near fine. Mid-nineteenth century quarter dark green calf over marbled boards, smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. An excellent example of one of the great scarcities in French caricature. Certainly plate numbers 37-48 are of the utmost rarity. Highly amusing scenes showing classic situations of… Read More

Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, 1829. 'What One Says And What One thinks' Sixty Fine Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates by Jean-Gabriel Scheffer [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense [What one says and what one thinks]. Paris: Gihaut Frères, 1829. First edition. Complete. Oblong folio (9 3/4 x 13 inches; 248 x 330 mm.). Pictorial hand colored lithograph title-page and sixty wonderful hand-colored lithograph plates numbered consecutively. Plates 1-12 are lithographed by Villain, plates 13-60 are lithographed by Gihaut Frères. Plates 13-19 & 37-60 are signed 'Sheffer Gabriel'. Plate numbers 22, 25, 38, 43, 44, 46, & 51 have marginal repairs of varying degrees, most of them expertly and almost invisibly repaired, some of them touching but none of them defacing the image. Plates 37-60 are mounted on stubs, plates 48, 50 & 60 are 1/4 inch shorter at the lower margin and plate 51 is one inch shorter at the fore-margin. Plate 41 has a small ink splatter on the top blank margin. A few of… Read More

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1919. The First of Arthur Rackham's Two Great Silhouette Books The French Edition de Luxe [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. PERRAULT, Charles. Cendrillon. D'Apres Ch. Perrault avec illustrations par Arthur Rackham. Paris: Librairie Hachette, [1919]. French Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 copies signed by the illustrator, of which this is no. 96. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 226 mm.). 110, [2, blank] pp. Mounted color frontispiece with color pictorial border and tissue guard. Three double-page silhouette drawings with color, one single-page silhouette drawing with color (not included in the trade edition), thirteen single-page silhouette drawings without color, and thirty-six silhouette drawings in the text. Title with color pictorial border. Title-page slightly browned from frontispiece tissue-guard. Some very light occasional offsetting from illustrations to text. Original cream parchment over boards, pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover… Read More

Paris: Durand ainé, 1830. With 105 Beautifully Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Depicting French Costume [LANTÉ, Louis Marie, Pécheux, and GATINE, George Jacques, illustrators]. Cent cinq costumes des départemens de la Seine Inférieure, du Calvados, de la Manche et de l'Orne. Paris: Durand ainé, Rue de la Paix 4, A Caen, chez Mancel, [n.d., ca. 1830]. Second issue. Folio (12 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches; 327 x 235 mm.). Hand-colored engraved title and 105 brilliantly hand-colored engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic, by Gatine after Lanté and Pécheux (nineteen of the plates are signed Pécheux). Plate numbers 15, 74, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 103 are watermarked "J Whatman". Plate numbers 56, 60, 62, 65, 69, 92 and 97 are watermarked "L & Conte". Contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards, spine with seven shallow multi-ruled bands, decoratively tooled in compartments in black and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Joints expertly and almost invisibly repaired. A fine clean copy.… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie, , 1839. An Exceptionally Rare Original Hand-Colored Copy [DAUMIER, Honoré, illustrator]. PHILIPON, Charles. Les Cent et Un Robert-Macaire composés et dessinés par M. H. Daumier, sur les Idées et les Légendes de M. Ch. Philipon réduits et lithographiés par MM***; Texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy et Louis Huart. Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie, 1839. First Quarto Edition, Hand Colored Issue. Two quarto volumes. (10 3/8 x 8 inches; 264 x 203 mm.). [viii], [200], [1], [1, blank], [4, advertisements], ; [viii], , [202], [1], [1, blank] [4, advertisements] pp. With 101 magnificent hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum Arabic. A few text leaves with toning, some light scattered foxing which generally only affects the blank plate margins, still a very good copy of the excessively rare hand-colored issue. Contemporary red chagrin over silk paper boards, stamped in gilt. Smooth spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Front pastedowns with the… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1850. Love These Children! But the Joys and Sweets of Fatherhood Are Extremely Scarce [DAUMIER, Honoré. Henri-Daniel Plattel. Jules Platier]. [PLATTEL, Henri Daniel]. Ces Amours d'enfans. Joies et Douceurs de la Paternité. Paris: Aubert & Cie, [n.d., ca. 1850]. Small oblong quarto (6 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 168 x 251 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title by Auguste Belin, and sixteen hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic, eight by Daumier, the remaining by Plattel or Platier. [16 pp. Aubert catalog at rear]. Publishers blind-stamped leather-grain red cloth over boards, "121" in gilt to upper cover, spine decoratively lettered in gilt, green endpapers. Hand colored lithograph title with neat ink "777" on lower blank corner. An exceptionally clean, bright, and fine copy. Reversed restrikes from the Aubert series, Croquis D'Expressions, 100 lithographed prints originally appearing in Le Charivari 1838-1839, fifty-five of which were executed by Daumier,… Read More

London: John Murray, 1837. Alken Off To The Races With Apperley In The Saddle First Edition [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. NIMROD (pseud. of Charles J. Apperley). The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. With Illustrations by Henry Alken, and a Portrait by D. Maclise. London: John Murray, 1837. First edition in book form, originally serially published in the Quarterly Review. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/8 in; 223 x 135 mm). xx, 301, [1, printer's slug], [18, publisher's catalogs] pp. Thirteen hand-colored plates, some in aquatint, with tissue guards, and plain, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece. Publisher's original pictorial green cloth with gilt vignette and borders blocked in blind, expertly recased. Gilt decorated spine. Spine very slightly faded, still an excellent copy. Housed in a later green cloth clamshell case. Charles James Apperley (1777-1843), English sportsman and sporting writer, better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he published his works on the chase and on the turf. A devoted… Read More

New-York: Burgess, Stringer and Company, 1845. The Growing Corruption of Civilization" James Fenimore Cooper's The Chainbearer in the Original Printed Wrappers A Remarkable Survival COOPER, James Fenimore. The Chainbearer; or The Littlepage Manuscripts. Edited by the Author of "Satanstoe," "Spy," "Pathfinder," "Two Admirals, " etc. In Two Volumes. New-York: Burgess, Stringer and Company, 1845. First American Edition. Two octavo volumes (7 11/16 x 4 9/16 inches; 196 x 117 mm.). [i]-iii, iv-vi, 7-212; [1-3], 4-228 pp. Publisher's pale buff paper printed wrappers. The wrappers have been noted by BAL in three different states. No sequence has been determined and the order presented is arbitrary. The wrappers may have been printed simultaneously. In the present copy the wrappers on volume I are in State 'B' with inner front "Mrs. Ellis's Housekeeping"; inner back "History of All Christian Sects..." and back wrapper with "The Great Book". The wrappers on volume II are in State 'A' with inner front… Read More

Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. Pierre-Jean de Béranger "The Most Popular French Songwriter of All Time" "The First Superstar of French Popular Music" Thirty Three (of Forty, as is often the case) Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Henri Monnier MONNIER, Henri, illustrator. Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles et Inédites, avec des vignettes de Devéria et des dessins coloriées d'Henri Monnier. Suivies des Procès Intentés a l'Auteur. Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 209 x 130 mm.). [ii], [1]-439, 1, blank]; [ii], [1]-438 pp. Bound without the half-titles and the additional four-page preface in volume one. Plate 18 (Le Maitre D'École) and the following two leaves of text (pp. 135-138 with neatly repaired tears (marginal on plate). Light scattered foxing throughout, mainly affecting text only. **Thirty-three (of forty) superb hand colored lithograph plates by Henri Monnier and numerous charming black &… Read More

Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. Pierre-Jean de Béranger "The Most Popular French Songwriter of All Time" "The First Superstar of French Popular Music" Thirty Three (of Forty) Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Henri Monnier MONNIER, Henri, illustrator. Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles et Inédites, avec des vignettes de Devéria et des dessins coloriées d'Henri Monnier. Suivies des Procès Intentés a l'Auteur. Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 207 x 130 mm.). [ii], [1]-439, 1, blank]; [iv], [1]-438 pp. Some light waterstaining to the top edge of the first few leaves in volume one, not affecting text. **Thirty-three (of forty) superb hand colored lithograph plates by Henri Monnier and numerous charming black & white vignettes by Achille Devèria. The color plates have the original tissue guards. The plates that were never included in this copy are numbers: 21, 26, 28, 31, 35, 37, & 39.(These seven plates… Read More

Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. Pierre-Jean de Béranger "The Most Popular French Songwriter of All Time" "The First Superstar of French Popular Music" A Superb Copy in the Publisher's Original Printed Wrappers Complete with Forty Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Henri Monnier & a Duplicate Colored Suite. MONNIER, Henri, illustrator. Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles et Inédites, avec des vignettes de Devéria et des dessins coloriées d'Henri Monnier. Suivies des Procès Intentés a l'Auteur. Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. First edition in the original ten parts - inscribed by the publisher/printer, Rignoux. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 225 x 147 mm.). [ii], [iv], [1]-96; 97-192; 193-272; 273-368; 369-439, [1, blank]; [iv], [1]-96; 97-208; [209]-288; 289-368; [369]-438, [2, blank] pp. Forty superb hand colored lithograph plates by Henri Monnier and numerous charming black & white vignettes by Achille Devèria. With a duplicate suite of the forty colored… Read More

Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. Pierre-Jean de Béranger "The Most Popular French Songwriter of All Time" "The First Superstar of French Popular Music" Forty Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Henri Monnier MONNIER, Henri, illustrator. Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles et Inédites, avec des vignettes de Devéria et des dessins coloriées d'Henri Monnier. Suivies des Procès Intentés a l'Auteur. Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 143 mm.). [iv], iv, [1]-439, 1, blank]; [iv], [1]-438 pp. Forty superb hand colored lithograph plates by Henri Monnier and numerous charming black & white vignettes by Achille Devèria. Handsomely bound ca. 1890 by Paul-Romain Raparlier (stamp signed in black on verso of front endpapers) in three quarter red morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others… Read More