Colour Plate Rare Books and Prints
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Costumes Suisses
MEYER, Felix.Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00Meyer's scarce series of costume prints, lettered below image with their town of origin.First edition, small 8vo, hand-coloured aquatint frontispi...
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The Speaking Parrots:
RUSS, Karl; SCHULTZE, Leonora.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00The first edition in English of Karl Russ' (1833-1899) introductory guide to 'Speaking Parrots', describing over 100 species of bird, with 8 chrom...
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A monograph of the pittidae, or, family of ant thrushes.
ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud.Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00Beautiful plates of exotic ornithology. The preferred second edition of Elliot's work on the pittidae, with new text and twenty plates by Hart not ...
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The Peacock and Parrot,
[DORSET, Catherine Ann; MULREADY, William (illustrator)].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00The first edition of this scarce illustrated children's tale in the original wrappers, with contemporary hand-coloured plates after designs by Wil...
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Parrakeets.
SETH-SMITH, David.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Hand-coloured lithographs. 'A description of the habits, in life and captivity, of about 131 of the smaller species of the parrot groups... the col...
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Orme's Collection of British Field Sports
HOWITT, Samuel.Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00The finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries. Very rare. The first and only edition of the finest and most important sport...
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Recueil de chevaux de tous genres...
VERNET, Carle & Horace.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00Infiniment rare, surtout en couleurs' (Thiébaud). A remarkable series of lithographs of horses, beautifully hand-coloured. A group of these plates ...
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The National Sports of Great Britain.
ALKEN, Henry Thomas.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00Very rare first issue with fine provenance. The Schwerdt-Jeanson copy of the rare first edition, first issue with the additional title dated 1820. ...
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Officers of the British Army.
[BRITISH ARMY]. MANSION, Leon & ESCHAUZIER, Samuel L.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00A rare set of 'Spooner's Upright Series' depicting officers of the British Army. William Spooner was a prints publisher specialising in topical an...
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Collection des costumes Espagnols anciens et modernes.
CRUZ CANO Y OLEMEDILLA, Juan de la.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00With 72 hand-coloured plates. First French edition of Cruz Cano Y Olemedilla's popular Spanish work, with 72 hand-coloured plates. The collection o...
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Parrakeets.
SETH-SMITH, David.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Hand-coloured lithographs. 'A description of the habits, in life and captivity, of about 131 of the smaller species of the parrot groups... the col...
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Vogelbilder aus Fernen Zonen:
REICHENOW, Dr. Anton.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00An excellent survey of the parrots of the world, including notes and illustrations on more than 250 different species.'A series of coloured plates...
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The Birds of Australia, vol V, Parakeets, Cockatoos, Pigeons.
GOULD, John.Original price £42,500.00 - Original price £42,500.00Original price £0.00£42,500.00£42,500.00 - £42,500.00Current price £42,500.00The images of Australian parrots comprise some of John Gould's most iconic work. Here beautifully presented in fine condition.Folio, 92 fine hand-...
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Recueil des differens costumes des principaux officiers et magistrats de la porte; et des peoples sujets de l'empire othoman.
[TURKISH COSTUME]; [WOLFGANG, Andreas Matthäus].Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00Two extremely rare works bound in a single volume: the first work illustrating the costume of the Ottoman court and the Ottoman empire, almost cer...
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Genera Avium.
WYTSMAN, Philogène Auguste Galilée.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Wytsman's Genera Avium was originally intended to describe all avian groups but his death and the onset of the First World War brought an end to t...
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Iconographie des Perroquets
SOUANCÉ, Charles de.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Souancé's Perroquets is a fine sequel to the works of Levaillant and Bourjot Saint-Hilaire. Together these three works constitute the definitive s...
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