Chicago: Kurz & Allison, 1890. Color lithograph. Image size: 18 1/2 x 25 inches; sheet size: 22 x 28 1/4 inches. Matted to an overall size of 25 x 31 inches. Some moderate chipping and edge tears, not affecting image. Reinforced with older tape along top edge. Lightly toned, though.....
London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Colored frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large quarto. Original buckram, t.e.g. Very good. In worn dust jacket. Number 80 from an edition limited to 400 copies. The most comprehensive work in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals.....
New York: Published by Williams and Stevens, 353 Broadway, 1849. Handcolored lithograph, image 11 3/4 x 16 inches, full margins. Title and legend in lower margin. Uniformly but lightly browned. An interesting panorama of downtown New York City, peopled with stylish Manhattaners, their horses and coaches. In addition to the.....
Omaha, Ne. 1884. 64,[6]pp. including several full-page and in- text illustrations, plus three colored plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Light wear to wrappers, but on the whole very clean and near fine. An interesting Nebraska promotional item, giving a county-by-county description of the state and the best types of fruits to.....
[Philadelphia. ca. 1900]. 48pp. plus two-sided folding leaf and two- sided printed wrappers, containing approximately 150 photographic images (over seventy in color). Original printed wrappers. Spine neatly repaired with black cloth tape. Some wear, small chips in wrappers. Very good. Richly illustrated color catalogue for W.T. Smith & Son, Philadelphia-based.....
[Cincinnati, Oh. Cohen & Co., 1892]. [4],xiv,269pp. plus addendum of forty chromolithographic plates. Portrait. Oblong octavo. Original pebbled cloth, gilt. Worn at spine ends and corners. Front hinge cracked. Internally clean, save for a few pencil emendations. A very good copy. An incredibly extensive compilation of rules and regulations for.....
Cambridge. 1924. vii,102pp. plus forty-one colored plates. Quarto. Original red cloth. Small white paint spot on lower front cover. Bookplate. Else clean and very good. Beautiful color plates of bird watercolors done by the author, including sandpipers, plovers, etc.
New York & Washington. 1902. [29]pp. plus 34 color plates. Oblong octavo. Original cloth backed boards. Pasted illustration to front cover. Negligible shelf wear. Very good. A color plate book illustrating the mural art in the Library of Congress.
Maplewood. 1967. xvi,307pp. Cloth. Very good. In slightly torn dust jacket. Includes 150 color prints by Audubon and his son of American Quadrupeds.
London. 1829. Double elephant folio print, framed. Near fine condition. Audubon's depiction of the Mississippi Kite appeared in 1829 as plate 117 in THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. This plate aroused considerable debate at the time, because many natural historians were quick to note the similarity between the lower of the.....
Baltimore: Williams & Watkins Company, 1925. xxi,[1],146pp., plus folding map and seventy- six color plates. Quarto. Original brown faux leather, front board and spine gilt. Light edge and spine wear. Later gift inscription, ownership and bookseller's labels on front free endpapers. Light tanning to text, plates fine. About very good.....
New York. 1866. [31]pp., printed on recto only. Each page embellished with decorative border in combinations of gold and rich colors. Quarto. Original heavily gilded calf, beveled edges, expertly rebacked in cloth, a.e.g. Some minor edge wear, but exterior gilt is bright. Internally fine except for almost negligible library blindstamp.....
Philadelphia. 1865. 144pp. plus four hand-colored plates. 12mo. Publisher's brown embossed cloth, spine gilt. Some rubbing and edge wear. Minor foxing, a few leaves tanned, a couple corner tears. Good. The first American edition of this Ballantyne juvenile. The plates show Arctic explorers fighting a polar bear, a ship stuck.....
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1968. x,[4],180pp., including frontispiece and fifty-eight plates, many in color. Text printed in two columns. Large folio. Original green cloth, gilt. Some discoloration to cloth along the bottom edge. Near fine, in a slightly worn dust jacket. William Bartram was an American botanist and ornithologist.....
Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905. [2],xx,409,[3]pp. including nine in text figures, plus forty-one half-tone plates, and eighty-seven full color plates. Frontis. Original dark green cloth, spine and front board stamped in gilt. Very minor shelf wear. Internally clean, bright, and unmarked. Near fine. First volume only of this lavishly illustrated.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892/1895. Two volumes. viii,446pp. plus twelve chromolithographic plates; viii,[1],518pp. plus seven chromolithographic plates. Large quarto. Contemporary back cloth, spines gilt. Spines worn, edges torn on spine of first volume. Boards rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on fly leaf. Some very minor foxing, else quite clean internally. Very.....
Philadelphia: Published by John Grigg, 1828. 189pp. plus twelve color plates, including frontispiece and extra engraved title. Contemporary three quarter sheep and paper boards, spine gilt. Rear board detached, inner front hinge reinforced. Binding rubbed and worn, especially at spine ends and corners. Small tear in outer margin of page.....
Philadelphia: Published by John Grigg, 1828. 179pp. plus ten (of twelve) handcolored engraved plates. Engraved titlepage. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and paper covered boards. Lacks the frontispiece plate of American Gros Beak and Baltimore Oreole [sic], and the plate of the American Snow Owl, and pages 29-32. Closed tear at the.....
New York and Paris: Goupil & Co., 1856. Handcolored aquatint line and mezzotint engraving, 28 1/4 x 36 inches, on thick paper. Noticeable chips at three corners, small gouge at top right corner (all outside the plate mark and none of these affecting the image). Minor mat burn from earlier.....
Springland Cot, Pa. W. Birch, 1800. Engraved titlepage by William Barker with vignette of the arms of Philadelphia, engraved plan of the city by Barker, twenty- seven handcolored copper engravings by and after William and Thomas Birch, letterpress list of subscribers, letterpress leaf of introduction with list of plates. Large.....
Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster, 1830. 372pp. plus five color plates of flowers (of six, lacking the frontispiece) and four uncolored plates. Contemporary calf, black morocco label, gilt. Worn along hinges, at spine ends, and extremities. Light foxing, light dampstain in upper portion of first one hundred pages and.....
Coblenz, Paris & London. [ca. 1839-1842]. Handcolored engraving, 10 x 13 1/2 inches; matted and framed to 14 x 19 inches. Clean and fresh, with handsome modern color. Very good. A handsome view from Staten Island, captured by Swiss artist Karl Bodmer upon his arrival in New York harbor in.....
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1837. Two large quarto text volumes plus folio atlas. Text volumes: vi,742; xvi,351,165,[2]pp. Atlas: [4]pp. plus fifty- six engraved or lithographed plates and double-page maps, many handcolored. Errata. Lacking front blank in first volume. Half titles. Uniform contemporary half tan diced russia and marbled boards, text and.....
Boston & New York: Munroe and Francis & Charles S. Francis, 1833. 288pp. including seventy-three handcolored engravings. Later pebbled cloth boards and modern morocco backstrip, leather label. Corners worn. One signature moderately foxed (affecting four illustrations). Very good. A treatise on botany, with interesting early American color plates. In the.....
London: Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles, January 1, 1778. Copper plate engraving with hand-coloring, 10 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches. Near fine. Matted and framed to 17 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches. Not examined out of the frame. A handsome view of colonial Philadelphia, printed by mapmaker Carington.....
