Colour Plate Rare Books and Prints
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National sports of Great Britain.
ALKEN, Henry.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00The cornerstone of any Alken collection. 'the size and beauty of the plates make this the cornerstone of any Alken collection' (Tooley). One of the...
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Historical portraiture of leading events in the life of Ali Pacha,
DAVENPORT, W.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00The strikingly dramatized scenes depicted were evidently chosen by Davenport to give a romantic view of Ali Pacha's life. The text was taken from ...
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Tauromachia,
PRICE, Lake (illustrator); FORD, Richard.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00Bull fighting in Spain. Rare issue hand-coloured on card. A handsome copy of a lively set of bull fighting plates.'A speaker of French, Italian, Sp...
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Stamboul Souvenir d'Orient.
PREZIOSI, Amadeo.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00Superb evocative plates of Constantinople, its people and their customs. A native of Malta, Preziosi first visited Istanbul in 1842; depicting the ...
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The Natural History of British insects.
DONOVAN, Edward.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00With over 500 hand-coloured plates. The work that established Donovan's reputation. Each volume contains high quality plates illustrating the life-...
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Zoologia Britannica
PENNANT, Thomas.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...
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Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria,
WITTMAN, William.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to ...
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Mergus Serrator [Merganser].
GOULD J. & RICHTER, H.C.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00John 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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Fuligula Marila [Scaup Duck].
GOULD J. & RICHTER, H.C.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00John 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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Querquedula Circia [Garganey].
GOULD J. & RICHTER, H.C.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00John 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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Gamonia: or, the Art of Preserving Game;
RAWSTORNE, Lawrence; RAWLINS, J.T. (illustrator).Original price £1,400.00 - Original price £1,400.00Original price £0.00£1,400.00£1,400.00 - £1,400.00Current price £1,400.00They are very charming and excellent illustrations, precise with bright colouring, showing more aquatint ground than in the stories Alken illustra...
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The Soft Porcelain of Sèvres,
[CERAMICS] GARNIER, Edouard.Original price £1,900.00 - Original price £1,900.00Original price £0.00£1,900.00£1,900.00 - £1,900.00Current price £1,900.00Many connoisseurs and collectors have a preference for soft-paste porcelain, especially that of Sèvres, since the colouring is more translucent an...
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Select views of London;
PAPWORTH, John.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00John Papworth was the architect responsible for the design of Ackermann's showroom at 101 Strand. He adopted the second name of Buonarroti after h...
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Recueil de cent estampes
LE HAY, Jacques; FERRIOL, Charles de.Original price £75,000.00 - Original price £75,000.00Original price £0.00£75,000.00£75,000.00 - £75,000.00Current price £75,000.00An outstanding example. An exceptional example. Most copies were issued uncoloured. A few were sold with hand-colouring and a smaller number were i...
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On active service.
LLOYD, W.W.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00With the complete set of the original watercolours. A unique copy with the original highly finished watercolour drawings.William Whitelock Lloyd wa...
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Popular History of the Palms and their Allies,
SEEMANN, B[erthold].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £750.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00This attractive work features palms chiefly from the United States, and Central and South America, all set against their natural backgrounds.Berth...
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Des alten Nürnbergs Sitten und Gebräuche in Freud und Leid.
MAYER, Moritiz Maxmilian.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £1,500.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Rare German costume book of the Nuremberg carnival Hand-coloured illustrations of carnival scenes, the second volume also contains a facsimile of ...
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A history of the birds of Europe.
DRESSER, Henry Eeles.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £17,500.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00The first complete work on the avifauna of Europe since Gould. Dresser's Birds of Europe is the first complete work on the avifauna of Europe since...
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