Colour Plate Rare Books and Prints
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A Monograph of the Lories,
MIVART, St. George Jackson.Original price £14,000.00 - Original price £14,000.00Original price £0.00£14,000.00£14,000.00 - £14,000.00Current price £14,000.00Parrots by Keulemans. Mivart's Lories is perhaps the greatest and most desirable monograph on the nectar feeding parrots ever published. Mivart (18...
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Branta Rufina [Red-crested Duck].
GOULD, John; H. C. Richter.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00JOHN GOULD 1804 - 1881John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic ski...
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Moeurs Administrative dessinés d'aprés nature
MONNIER, Henry, illustratorOriginal price £5,500.00 - Original price £5,500.00Original price £0.00£5,500.00£5,500.00 - £5,500.00Current price £5,500.00This unusual volume contains a fine set of handcoloured plates on both Parisian and London life. The illustrator Monnier spent two years in London...
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Trattato su la Commedia dell'Arte, ossia improvvisa. Maschere Italiane, ed alcune scene del carnevale di Roma.
VALENTINI, Francesco.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Valentini's delightfully illustrated treatise on the famous cast of characters from the Commedia dell'Arte, for example 'Arlechino' and 'Pantalone...
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Illustrirter Spaziergang durch München. Ein Panorama
[MANZ, Hermann (publisher)].Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Manz's scarce panorama of Munich. Designed for visitors, it contained 80 squares, streets and public buildings worth a visit, together with a plan...
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The Right Sort.
ALKEN, Henry.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy. The Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy of this rare early Alken series, issued without a title-page and which Schwerdt says was...
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Characteristic sketches of the lower orders,
ROWLANDSON, Thomas.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Rowlandson's superb record of the street traders of London now long disappeared: the night-watchman, the raree-showman, the sellers of poodles, ba...
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The great and small game of India,
LYDEKKER, Richard.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00'A sumptuous rendering of south Asia's wild game species in art and text. Lydekker describes more than seventy varieties of game with attendant no...
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The Authentic representation of the magnificent marriage procession and ceremony
[VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND].Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Fine panorama of Queen Victoria's wedding to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1840 at the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace, resplendent wit...
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Yachting a series of twelve celebrated yachts
DUTTON, Thomas Goldsworth.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Dutton's scarce and beautiful series of coloured lithographs of yachting. Dutton was the foremost draughtsman and lithographer of shipping subject...
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Portraits des Hongrois, des Pandoures ou Croates, des Waradins ou Esclavoniens, et des Ulans, &c.
[HUNGARY].Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00First published in 1742 in folio format, both editions are extremely rare. WorldCat lists just 2 copies of the first edition and only a few copies...
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Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople,
DUPRE, Louis.Original price £95,000.00 - Original price £95,000.00Original price £95,000.00£95,000.00£95,000.00 - £95,000.00Current price £95,000.00The finest colour plate book on Greece & Turkey. First edition of the finest colour plate book ever produced on Greece and Turkey.Born in Versa...
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Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique
ENGELMANN, Godefroy (1788-1839); G. Berger.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...
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A Monograph of the Cranes.
BLAAUW, Frans Ernst.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Ornithology - one of 170 copies. This beautiful monograph on Cranes was originally the project of the director of the Amsterdam Zoo, G.F. Westerman...
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Tetrao Urogallus [Western Capercaillie].
WOLF J. & RICHTER, H.C.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00From 'The Birds of Great Britain'.John Gould (1804-1881) is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, com...
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Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel.
SPALOWSKY, Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton.Original price £195,000.00 - Original price £195,000.00Original price £0.00£195,000.00£195,000.00 - £195,000.00Current price £195,000.00Luxurious copy with original watercolours. Unique copy of one of the rarest works of zoological book illustration, from the library of the banker, ...
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Administration des Haras. Atlas statistique de la production des chevaux en France.
GAYOT, Eugène; Hippolyte Lalaisse (artist).Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £4,750.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00Horse breeding in France in the mid-19th century . Impressive and uncommon work on French horse breeding at the beginning of Napoleon III's reign -...
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Ciconia Alba [Stork].
GOULD J. & RICHTER, H.C.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00From 'The Birds of Great Britain'.John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both ...
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Picus Major [Spotted Woodpecker].
GOULD J. & RICHTER, H.C.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00John Gould (1804-1881) is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill and bea...
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