Search Results: Titles starting with P from Antiquariat Banzhaf

Chromolithogr. title with a proscenium with view of a theatre building, 23 interior views of theatres, opera houses, muscial halls, of one arena and one circus all in chromolithography and with seatnumbering. Front and rear paste-downs with printed tables with price lists. Publisher's blue cloth, richly gilt front cover. Oblong-folio (355 x 275 mm). Covers slightly soiled, exremeties rubbed. Not in SMPK, Ornamentale Vorlagenwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. A rare and highly interesting work regarding interior designs and various entrance fees of Paris theatres, opera houses and muscial halls, which of course is a mark for their prestige. The following theatres are shown on the plates: 1. Opéra. 2. Italiens. 3. Opéra-comique. 4. Lyrique. 5. Francais. 6. Odéon. 7. Gymnase. 8. Ambigue-Comiques. 9. Porte-Saint-Martin. 10. Variétés. 11. Vaudeville. 12. Châtelet. 13. Gaîté. 14. Palais-Royal. 15. Folies-Dramatiques. 16. Cluny. 17. Bouffes-Parisiens. 18. Menus-Plaisirs. 19. Athénée. 20. Folies-Marigny.… Read More

With 46 original photographs under mounts (albumen with printed caption and photographer's name stamped in gilt on cardboard mounts) showing his work, mostly European animals in their natural habitat. 14 cardboard leaves with mounts. Cont. embossed leather with one clasp. 4to (275 x 210 mm). All edges gilt. Coves rubbed, spine restored.
A fine and unusual pattern book illustrated with photographs. The photographs with stamp of the photo studio Peter Geus Cologne and Mülheim. Heinrich Sander, taxidermist in Cologne offered this album with his best wishes to his uncle Carl Romanus, in May 1898. The photographs of which 22 cabinet size and 26 carte-de-visite size show various 'Lebendbilder' that is living tableaus of various animals in their natural habitat. This was a new form of an educational instrument for museums in this case for the Altona Museum of natural history to attract young visitors with these sometimes spectacular three-dimensional scenes. A nice copy.

40 mounted original photographs, mostly albumen (36) and tin types (?) (3), slightly varying sizes but mostly carte-de-visite format comprising views of the city (32) with views of its catholic churches (5) and 8 portraits of catholic clergy including 4 portraits of the owner of the album Georg Pax. All photographs loosely contained in matts within gilt rules on recto and verso of 20 white cardboard leaves. Buffalo (1865 - early 1870's). Cont. black morocco, gilt title on spine 'Album' and one metal clasp and hatch to fore edge. Inner gilt dentelles. Front cover with a finely painted raised medal with a half-length tempera portrait of pope Pius IX within a silver frame. All edges gilt. (215 x 170 mm). Minor rubbing to extremeties.
The album belonged to and was probably compiled by the catholic priest Georg Pax, his printed booklabel on front paste-down, who was ordained priest in 1861 and appointed secretary to the bishop of Buffalo in 1862. It seems plausible that the album was put together by Pax… Read More

Nine unnumb. leaves letterpress text, 56 cardboard leaves with 117 finely handcoloured photogravures after photographs, of which 35 large panoramic views (c. 160 x 450 mm) and 82 views (c. 100 x 160 mm), some of the cardboard leaves with letterpress text on verso. Publisher's richly decorated cloth binding, front cover with an inlaid handcoloured view of the Victoria Falls, surrounded by an embossed and handcoloured view of African wildlife with a lion, an elephant, a crocodile, a giraff, and a hippo. All edges gilt. Rear paste-down with gilt stamped address: G. Budricks & Co., fine art publisher and manufacturer, P.O. Box 1018. Oblong folio (230 x 560 mm). Cover illustration rather rubbed, brass clasp missing.
Cf. Sidney Mendelssohn. South African Bibliography, with with several variable compositions of this album differing in bindings and in selections of photographs. "Several albums containing the same text and varied selections of plates were published by the firm G.B. & Co. George Budricks… Read More

Pages (8), 1-74 (1 leaf), 75-164 (1 leaf), 165-170 (1 leaf), 171-174 (1 leaf), 175-(188) (1 leaf), 189-267,(1). Title printed in red and black with large engraved arms of the honoree Francis I, grand-duke of Tuscany and recently elected Holy Roman emperor, one engraved plate with a carmen figuratum in the shape of a cross on Aa2r signed by N. V. (not identified) after Eustachio Cartoli and dated 1747, five engravings of which four armorial or emblematic, including one printed in green and one (the insignia of the Order of St. Stephen) in sepia, and engraved portrait of the author, signed with monogram of Pietro Antonio Pazzi and dated 1749; 3 large engraved head-pieces and an engraved tail-piece, 5 engraved pictorial initials, and numerous typographic vignettes, ornaments, initials and head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary parchment over boards, flat spine with manuscript inked title to spine. Front paste-down with book label of the French banker and bibliophile Horace de Landau (1824-1903). Folio (360… Read More