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Shapero Rare Books 1 2 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 3 From top left: From top left: item 39 - ROBERTS, David. Egypt & Nubia, item 29 - GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds. item 45 - VAN DER MEULEN, Adam François. [Recueil de vues de Versailles...]. item 7 - BOYDELL, John and Josiah. An history of the Principal item 16 - [COSTUMES]. Costumes of various countries., item 1 - ACCADEMIA ERCOLANESE DI ARCHAEOLGIA. Le Antichita di Ercolano. Rivers of Great Britain.’ item 23 - [EROTICA] - BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Le Decameron de Jean Boccace. item 28 - GOULD, John. The Birds item 20 - D’HANCARVILLE, Baron [Pierre-Francois Hugues]. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, And Roman Antiquities. of Great Britain. item 5. - BLOUET, GUILLEME A BEL. Shapero Rare Books
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1. ACCADEMIA ERCOLANESE DI ARCHAEOLGIA. Le Antichita di Ercolano [WITH] Ottavio Antonio Bayardi, Catalogo degli antichi monumenti. Regia Stamperia, Naples, 1755-60-62-65-67-71-79-92.
Le Antichita di Ercolano Ercoanese. This academy was founded in 1755 by edict of Charles III, king of the Two at Herculaneum. Lavishly illustrated and imperially sized, the Antichita di Ercolano were intended only for private circulation. The individual volumes, published by the royal press, were issued separately and were not sold but presented to deserving visitors and to courtiers. Volumes were also sent as diplomatic gifts to foreign courts.
The years 1738 to 1765 marked the heroic period of excavations at Hercuaneum, some removal of the objects found were meant to provide an unparalleled art collection as part of Charles III’s intention to raise the cultural position of Naples. Although the excavations were shrouded in secrecy, word of the discoveries spread rapidly and caused a sensation affecting international taste and design “from St Petersburg to Edinburgh” (Harold Acton).
Antichita is divided into 5 volumes on the Pitture and 3 volumes on the Bronzi.
Provenance: Private European collection.
First editions. Together 9 volumes, large folio (49 x 37 cm). 9 engraved frontispieces, numerous Millard, Italian 1. ref: 89829 £25,000
8 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 9 FOUNDATION WORK OF NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
2. ADAM, ROBERT. Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia. For the Author, London, 1764.
ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH BOOKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL.
In July 1757, in company with the French architect C.L. Clerisseau and two other draughtsmen, Adam visited Spalatro (Split) in order to explore and measure the ruins of the great Palace of Diocletian. He seems to have been travelling with the intention of producing a book which would establish his reputation “with a great puff” and apparently chose Spalatro because of its residential character, so different from the Greek and Roman architectural monuments being illustrated by his contemporaries found in those earlier works which seem a little dry in comparison.
The text to this work was written by Adam’s cousin William Robertson and Bartolozzi later work and in the work of other Neo-classicists.
ref: 89660 £15,000
10 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 11 3. [BAKST] - ALEXANDRE, Arsene; Jean Cocteau. L’Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. Maurice de Brunoff, Paris, 1913.
BEAUTIFUL, FRESH EXAMPLE OF THIS MAJOR LUXURY WORK ON BAKST’S ART.
“Born in Russia in 1866, Léon Bakst belonged to that young generation of European artists who rebelled against 19th century stage realism, which had become pedantic and literal, without imagination or theatricality. There were no specialist trained theatre designers, so painters like Léon Bakst turned their painting skills to theatre design. Bakst’s fame lay in the ballets he designed for the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, and huge pageant spectaculars for dancer and patron, Ida Rubinstein. He died in 1924 but after nearly 100 such that people who have never heard his name now see the world in a different way” (V&A).
Folio (41.3 x 28.5 cm). Photographic portrait frontispiece, title, [4] ll., 50 pp. and [12] ll.,
[ref: 89485] £3,950
12 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 13 “WHEN RUSSIA RESURRECTED”
BEING DESTROYED IN T HE 1812 FIRE OF MOSCOW.
This lovely work is the only printed visual record of Tsar Mikhail’s wedding, and one of the very few illustrating 17th-century Russia - “a time when Russia, we could say, resurrected and, by shaking off its encroachers, regained its authentic soul” as Beketov emphized it in the preface. As always, he used a historical source: in this case he published an “ancient manuscript with images” (Smirnov-Sok.) which went through the hands of the paleographer and archaeographer Malinovskiy (1762-1840). The scenes, engraved in the 17th-c. style of the manuscript, show the preparations, some Russian orthodox Tsar of the Romanov dynasty, which was to rule the Russian Empire during 300 years. His wife Evdokiya Lukyanovna Streshneva (1608-45) was the daughter of the nobleman Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnev.
Folio (32 x 24.2 cm). 137 pp. incl. title, introduction, half-title and 65 hand-coloured full-page ref: 88525 £25,000
14 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 15 5. BLOUET, GUILLEME A BEL. Didot, Paris, 1831.
WHICH MARKED A TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES AND SERVED AS A MODEL FOR OTHER WORKS OF A SIMILAR KIND” (Blackmer).
Expedition, a work modelled on the French Mission to Egypt. The mission arrived in Greece in 1829 but its members were worn down by sickness and most returned to France after a short time. However an amazing amount of work was carried out. The plan of the work follows the itinerary of the expedition, which included Byzantine, early Christian, and medieval antiquities along with more exhaustive surveys of the principal
Provenance: Private European collection.
Three volumes, folio (57.5 x 43 cm), half-titles, engraved additional titles and 262 plates, Blackmer 153; BAL RIBA 1009. ref: 89830 £22,500
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6. BODMER, Karl (artist) and Prinz Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wield- Neuwied. Reise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834.
RECORDING THE 1832-34 TRAVELS OF THE GERMAN PRINCE MAXIMILIAN AND THE SWISS ARTIST KARL BODMER ON THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER.
Prince Maximilian, whose military career in the Prussian army ended with the victory order to study and report on the native American tribes of the Upper Missouri, the Prince came to America in 1832 accompanied by the Karl Bodmer who was to serve as the expedition’s artist. Arriving in the fall of 1832, the Prince ascended the Missouri The expedition proceeded to Fort Mackenzie in present-day Montana where he spent the summer months. He wintered at Fort Clark amongst the Mandans, whose customs had particularly attracted his attention. In the spring of 1834 they returned to Europe, Prince Maximilian and Bodmer were able to record in words and pictures the Plains tribes in their heyday. They were witness to hunting parties, dances, ceremonies and life among the Mandans and other tribes, as well as the incredible scenery on the upper Missouri before the era of mass settlement from the west.
native American life. Each illustration is printed on papier velin, and bears Bodmer’s blind- stamp.They show people - mostly chiefs and warriors - including Mato-Tope, Wahk- Ta-Ge-Li, Pehriska-Ruhpa, and Abdih-Hiddisch; as well as tribal customs, settlements, hunting scenes, dances (INCLUDING THE ICONIC PORTRAIT OF PEHRISKA-RUPHA, THE MOENNITARRI WARRIOR, IN THE COSTUME OF THE DOG DANCE), weapons, tools and utensils.
18 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 19 In addition to the representations of native American peoples and customs, there are and Missouri, the Lake Erie and the frontier Forts Pierre, Union Clarke, etc.
The text in the last third of volume II deals with details of the Indian languages, including sign languages and speech samples of various Indian tribes. This part was not included in the French and English translations.
A MOVING ELEGY TO A VANISHED WAY OF LIFE FOR NORTH AMERICA’S ORIGINAL INHABITANTS. THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED WORK ON NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER.
Provenance: Ducal Library of Sachsen-Meiningen (stamp “Herzoglicher S. Meiningischer Bibliothek” to verso of text voumes and upper pastedown of atlas volumes); E.H.L.K. (modern engraved bookplates onto the Ducal Library stamps).
Two volumes 4to (32.5 x 27 cm) text (in German) and 2 folio (46 x 31.5 and 62 x 45.5 Plains and the Rockies 76. ref: 88834 £225,000
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7. BOYDELL, John and Josiah. An history of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain (An History of the River Thames)
THE PRESENT COPY IS PARTICULARLY DESIRABLE AS IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY TEN ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY FARINGTON FIVE OF WHICH WERE USED IN THE BOOK.
ALTHOUGH NOT THE FIRST COLOURED AQUATINT BOOK, IT WAS THE FIRST MAJOR ONE, AND IT WAS TO SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE TYPE OF ILLUSTRATION THAT WAS TO ENJOY WIDESPREAD POPULARITY IN ENGLAND FOR SOME FORTY YEARS
which were removed from later impressions.
British prints a viable economic commodity and helped to make artists independent of aristocratic patronage by providing commercial opportunities for them.
London architectural landmarks, Lambeth Palace, the Tower, the Palace of Greenwich
THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS ARE; WOBURN AND CHERTSEY BRIDGE (PLATE 43); LONDON BRIDGE FROM SOMERSET TERRACE; BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE; BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE (DETAIL); GREENWICH HOSPITAL FROM BLACKHEATH POINT (PLATE 21); GREENWICH HOSPITAL FROM THE RIVER; WOOLWICH (PLATE 22); ERITH (PLATE 23); GRAVESEND; SHEERNESS (PLATE 30).
ref: 89542 £12,500
22 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 23 NAVAL WAR IN THE BALTIC
8. BRIERLY, Oswald Walters.
OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEETS WHO WERE ENGAGED HOSTILITIES AGAINST RUSSIA IN THE BALTIC DURING THE CRIMEAN WAR.
campaign was to bring Sweden into the war on the side of the allies, and also to pressure Russia to sue for peace over Sebastopol. Retained by the Illustrated London News to sketch the actions (reproduced from 25 March 1854), Brierly was one of the earliest naval war artists commissioned by a newspaper.
In 1855 he accompanied Keppel, in HMS Rodney, to the Black Sea and Sea of Azov; Baltic and Crimean medals. His work illustrates the transition from the steam frigates of
Large folio, lithographed calligraphic dedication, 1 leaf of descriptive text (no title-page issued ref: 88437 £19,500
24 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 25 FIRST ILLUSTRATION OF AN A USTRALIAN BIRD
NOTABLE FOR BEING THE FIRST BOOK TO INCLUDE AN ILLUSTRATION OF AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD.
very neat limmer”.
The Australian bird was the Blue bellied parrot, painted by Brown in 1774, following Creeper. The work is principally based on specimens in the natural history collections of Marmaduke Tunstall who kept a museum in London, and Thomas Pennant. It also includes plates after drawings by the Ceylonese artist P.C. de Bevere in Java and Ceylon. Forty-two of the plates depict birds, 5 mammals, 2 insects and one an amphibian. Much of the text was supplied by Pennant, whilst the work was published by Gilbert White’s brother, Benjamin.
In 1783 Brown was appointed Botanical Painter to the Prince of Wales.
Provenance: Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (1740-1820; bookplate).
First edition. 4to., (29.5 x 23cm). Titles and text in English and French, 50 hand-coloured ref: 88615 £5,000
26 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 27 LEGENDARY BURNE-JONES RARITY
10. BURNE-JONES, Sir Edward. [late 1880s].
ONE OF PROBABLY NO MORE THAN TWELVE SETS EXTANT OF ONE OF THE FINEST WORKS BY BURNE- JONES AND A LEGENDARY RARITY.
These designs by Burne-Jones were made as part of a vast project to illustrate William Morris’s This daunting scheme, begun in 1865, was abandoned when of the designs were cut as woodblocks by Morris.
Following the abandonning of that project, there is some confusion concerning the printing of the present set. The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery records that eight sets of the plates were printed under the supervision of Emery Walker in the late 1880s on Michellat paper. However, A. R. Duffy, in the introduction to the 1974 edition published by the Rampant Lions Press, states that the sets on Michellat paper were produced by Morris himself by rubbing (one is recorded as being inscribed and dated 1881) and that the Walker sets were printed on Kelmscott paper in the early 1890s.
The set of plates presented here, all on Michellat paper, do not appear to have been produced by rubbing, and the presence of the number ‘2’, added in pencil at lower left of each sheet suggests that this is the second in a series of sets produced. Whether this series is one of the eight Walker sets (it is not on Kelmscott paper) or a set produced by Morris is unclear. Nevertheless, all issues of these plates are rare, and the total number
Also included, loosely inserted, is a sheet of paper with a receipt for the book in sepia ink: ‘Woodcuts by E. Burne-Jones / 44 Woodcuts to illustrate the / Story of Cupid and Psyche - £50.0.0’ and the additional note in pencil: ‘£74 in Ellis Sale’; on the verso is written ‘E. Burne-Jones’ in sepia ink with ‘£70’ added in pencil, crossed through and changed to ‘£50’.
Provenance: Laurence Hodson (bibliophile, connoisseur, art patron, industrialist and founder with C. R. Ashbee of the Essex House Press, was a correspondent and friend of Ricketts and Pissarro and an important patron of William Morris; his bookplate, with the text ‘FROM THE LIBRARY OF / LAURENCE W. HODSON, / COMPTON HALL, NEAR / WOLVERHAMPTON’, was one of the very few - for Morris, Burne-Jones, Walker and select patrons - printed at the Kelmscott Press in Golden type on Batchelor paper - see Peterson D10).
ref: 88514 £30,000
28 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 29 FINE VENETIAN VIEWS
11. CARLEVARIS, Luca.
THE BEST WORK BY THE FIRST DISTINGUISHED PAINTER OF VENETIAN VEDUTA AND ONE OF THE EARLIEST PRACTITIONERS OF THIS PAINTING TYPE.
Born in Udine, Carlevaris (1663-1730) moved to Venice at the age of sixteen. The present work, consisting of 103 engravings, is the most complete survey of the of the city ever produced and served as a model for Venetian view painters throughout consists of predominantly frontal views of the most important buildings and squares of Venice, particularly the Piazza San Marco. It was intended as an accurate description of Venice’s beauties for foreigners. The views are arranged hierarchically the principal sites and buildings of the city. Amongst the most striking views are those of the private palaces (plates 65-103):
“Carlevaris often achieves extraordinary clarity and appeal by the almost modern economy of his line, especially when illustrating the more modest structures that often soaked with light, the planarity of his of his architectural rendering, and his sky and water, Visenti, but also later printmakers like Charles Meryon.” (Millard).
A wide-margined copy of the third edition with the plates numbered 1-101 in second
Provenance: Emily, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1819-1895; engraved armorial bookplate).
Third edition. Landscape folio (30 x 42.2cm). Engraved title, dedication to Doge Luigi marks to the centre-verso of plate 103 running through to plate 95, with associated small to joints and head- and tail-caps. ref: 89705 £37,500
30 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 31 WATERCOLOURS OF KASHMIR
12. CAVE, George Noble, Lt.-Colonel. 1867-70.
AN EXQUISITE SERIES OF WATERCOLOURS.
Subjects include Srinuggar, etc.
Kashmir was a region much favoured by the British in the nineteenth century. The historian Sir Walter Lawrence wrote about it: “The valley is an emerald set in pearls; a the air is cool, and the water sweet, where men are strong, and women vie with the soil in fruitfulness.”
Lieutenant-Colonel in 1867, around the time he commenced these paintings. He married again to Jane Wheatley in 1871, with whom he had a sixth child. He later reached the rank of Colonel before returning to England where he died in 1908.
Provenance: An inscription records the gift of the album by the artist’s son, G. N. Cave (either Gerald, b. 1850, or George, 1855-1948) to his niece, the artist’s granddaughter, in 1934.
Large folio (64 x 51cm. approx). Manuscript title-page with watercolour vignette, 43 original ref: 88836 £25,000
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13. CAVENDISH, William, Duke of Newcastle. A General System of Horsemanship.
TOOLS.
William Cavendish (1592 - 1676), a staunch Royalist, was raised to the Dukedom of Newcastle (hence the omission of that title on the title of the present work) at the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. The archetypal Stuart courtier and aristocrat, the very wealthy and landed Cavendish was a poet, scholar, diplomat, soldier, architect and a famous and accomplished horseman, responsible for example for the King’s training.
The illustrations by Abraham van Diepenbeke - Rubens’ pupil - are remarkable not only for their excellence, but for the number of portraits they contain. Numerous diagrams represent Cavendish himself and his assistant Captain Mazin training horses in his riding school. In the large plates he is performing various feats of horsemanship before Welbeck, Bolsover and some other of his houses. There are also two striking allegorical designs, in which he is adored by a circle of reverential horses.
The publisher J. Brindley, acquired the original copperplates of the 1658 Antwerp French edition. After bringing out an edition in French in 1737 he published the present English original English text, perfected by the author. Volume II is mainly occupied by The Perfect being the English edition of Gaspard de Saumier’s work La Parfaite published originally in 1734. The engraved chapter-heads are copied from Parrocel’s engravings in La Guérinière’s The anatomical plates in volume II are copied from Snape’s
This edition not found in ESTC.
Provenance: Alex. Montgomery (inscription to title); de Luynes family, Chateau de Dampierre (bookplate).
handsome set. ref: 88738 £12,500
34 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 35 14. CHINESE WATERCOLOURS. [Beijing, circa 1900].
A MOST ATTRACTIVE ALBUM REFLECTING WHAT LAURENCE BINYON CALLED THE CHINESE ”EXQUISITE COURTESY TO NATURE” INSPIRED BY DAOIST PHILOSOPHY.
45 of the watercolours are of natural history subjects, principally birds, set amongst foliage. The remaining studies depict Chinese types and costumes. Lively, and showing the Chinese tradition of painting with the calligrapher’s brush rather than pen or pencil. Most of the drawings are in colour, a few in ink monochrome.
This style of natural history painting, based on earlier art of the Ming and Qing dynasties, enjoyed a late nineteenth century revival in Shanghai with its newly wealthy clientele who this style was passed on to Beijing in the early twentieth century through the art of than the old landscape tradition did, and it emphasized decorative qualities, exaggerated
ref: 89587 £12,500
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15. CHRETIEN, Gilles Louis; Edme Queneday. [Physionotrace portraits] [circa 1787-1830].
AN EARLY PRECURSOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
Gilles-Louis Chrétien invented the “physionotrace” in 1783-84. Similar to a silhouette, Physionotrace portrait shows every detail of the sitter, including his or her clothing. The as a pantograph devise. This invention of Chrétien enabled the artist to quicly draw a portait of the sitter for a reasonable price. Quenedey (1756 - 1830) was Chretien’s associate from 1788.
The apparatus reduced all the drawing skills of the artist to a smaller size and engraved it in copper. By this method, this pantograph drawing aid produced small copperplates that could be printed again and again.
The original, and rare plates can be seen as a forerunner of the photographic negative since the basic purpose was the same. A cheaper method to produce a quantity of images in a short time.
Allthough the physionotrace technique was able to produce faster and cheaper portraits of the sitter, they still were a novelty for the aristocracy. Very often these portraits depicts well known sitters with a high status in society. For this reason, these portraits
ref: 89287 £4,500
38 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 39 UNIFORM RED MOROCCO
16. [COSTUMES]. - - - London, various dates [1800 - 1818].
BEAUTIFUL SET OF FIRST EDITIONS, WITH PLATES HAND-COLOURED - AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION, FINELY BOUND IN FULL RED MOROCCO GILT.
William Miller, who published six of the volumes offered here, states in his preface to the : “By presenting to the eye a series of judiciously selected and well executed pictorial representations, forming striking portraits of single subjects, peculiarity of occupation, than can be acquired by any other method, except personal observation.” He goes on to say that the subjects depicted include members of all classes of society, from public dignitaries to common labourers.
also an insight into the nations represented for the armchair traveller.
Provenance: Henry, Duke of Gloucester (bookplate) ; W.A. Green.
ref: 88855 £15,000
40 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 41 THE BEST YEARS OF CURTIS
17. CURTIS, William.
AN EXCELLENT UNBROKEN RUN COVERING THE BEST YEARS OF “THE OLDEST CURRENT SCIENTIFIC PERIODICAL OF ITS KIND WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE WORLD ... IN THE BEAUTY OF PRODUCTION AND HIGH STANDARD OF ITS CONTRIBUTION IT CAN CLAIM A UNIQUE PLACE” (Patrick Synge, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (1948), 7e; 5-6).
Most of the early plates were from drawings by Sydenham Edwards and the colouring William Jackson Hooker.
“The reputation of the Magazine has always resided in the accuracy of its portrayal of plants. This pictorial record of garden and greenhouse plants from the temperate and tropical regions of the world has no rival.” (Desmond) William Curtis had witnessed from personal experience that his clients refused to buy folio pictures of unassuming plants (vide. his Flora Londinensis) but he felt that they would subscribe to an octavo born the Botanical Magazine in February 1787. The work was immediately successful, was published throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and is still produced to this day. The main glory of the Botanical Magazine has always been the coloured plates.
ref: 89738 £13,500
42 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 43 THE GREAT BIRD BOOK OF BRAZIL
18. DESCOURTILZ, Jean Theodore.
(Wood).
in the world. Unlike other similarly blessed countries however, these species were not as thoroughly depicted as they might have been in the heyday of great bird books. This
of Jean Theodore Descourtilz, a French ornithologist, who shortly before his death was appointed to the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. Despite producing the most splendid of all books devoted to Neotropical birds, Descourtilz managed to live out his life in an obscurity that has not been illumined since. The little we know is this: He was born sometime in 1798, a son of Michel Étienne Descourtilz We know nothing of Théodore’s childhood or schooling, but it probably involved some travelling with his father and it must have included art, because he drew over six hundred illustrations for his father’s published between 1827 and 1833. We know he went to Brazil around 1826, because in 1831 he presented a manuscript on birds to the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro in which he refers to a birds, , a collection of sixty plates, without text, was published in Paris in 1834. For the next twenty years he spent time in various parts of southeastern while developing this more comprehensive work on Brazilian birds, four parts of which 1855, while on an expedition in Espíritu Santo, he died from consuming a chemical preparation he was experimenting with as a medicine for birds.
including 15 new species and a new genus’ (Zimmer). The plates were made up in London, and the work appears to have been printed by Waterlow and Sons and also Joseph Masters and Co. (copies cited by Zimmer and Wood bear Masters’ name in the imprint).
Possibly due to the artist’s untimely demise and the period of time over which the lithographs were published, it would seem that very few copies of this work were produced. Faithfully capturing the vivid, vibrant colours of these exotic birds, THE BOOK IS RARE AND GREATLY SOUGHT AFTER (Borba de Moraes).
volume Letterpress title-page with woodcut armorial of Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, the ref: 89702 £45,000
44 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 45 MAGNIFICENTLY COLOURED
19. DEZALLIER D’ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph. [Paris, ca 1784].
A VERY FINELY COLOURED COPY, ATTESTED BY THE COLOURIST AND PAINTER JACQUES DE FAVANNE, AND WITH MANUSCRIPT IDENTIFICATION OF THE SHELLS AND THEIR RESULTS IN THE SALE OF THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF COUNT DE LA TOUR D’AUVERGNE.
The present series of plates is from the third edition of Dezallier d’Argenville’s , published posthumously by the De Favannes in 1780, and is preceded by De Favanne’s manuscript note pasted beneath the title stating that this copy was coloured and furnished to the bookseller Royer. He notes that the present copy is at least as beautiful and as well done, if not more beautiful, as those others that he has supervised and retouched with his own hand for Messieurs De Bure, the publishers of the second edition in 1757. The author of the manuscript title writes that his interleaved lists provide with the synonyms of Linnaeus. He has also added the number under which each shell was entered in the catalogue of Count de Latour d’Auvergne for the sale of his collection, with their size and the price that each realized when it was sold in 1784. He notes that for every shell that did not make at least 20 sols, he has entered a zero.
Provenance Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow (book label).
François Boucher, and 80 engraved plates by J. Robert, F.A. Aveline, Jacques Juillet, Pierre Vernet, V. Vangelisti, Jacques Mesnil, J.B. Bradel, J.B.F. Germain, J.A. Herisset, H. Le Roy, Joseph Breant and Giraud after Guillaume and Jacques De Favanne and HAND-COLOURED IN THE ATELIER OF THE DE FAVANNES. Interleaved with manuscript lists of the subjects in each plate. Contemporary half Russia; joints repaired, some wear at extremities. ref: 88721 £25,000
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20. D’HANCARVILLE, Baron [Pierre-Francois HUGUES]. Morelli, Naples, 1766 - [1776].
A VERY FINE COPY OF THIS “EDITION SPLENDIDE ET DE GRANDE LUXE”, PRINTED IN ONLY 500 COPIES AND RECORDING THE FIRST COLLECTION OF VASES FORMED BETWEEN 1764 AND 1772 BY SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON.
pictures, bronzes, and terracottas, before he left London for Naples, but his arrival in Naples encouraged him to collect on a grand scale. He occasionally acquired large parts of collections built up by others, such as the items from Prince Porcinari’s collection Etruscan. He also collected vases that had been unearthed in recent archaeological excavations and often witnessed the opening of the tombs himself, for example at Capua, Nola, and Trebbia.
There had been British collector-diplomatists before Hamilton, notably Joseph Smith, British consul in Venice, and Hamilton’s own predecessor in Naples, Sir James Gray, yet Hamilton far surpassed them in the scope and size of his collections and, most importantly, in his success in publicizing them in Britain and on the continent. Every his collection, which he knowingly promoted by referring to it as being in his ‘lumber room’ (W. Hamilton to C. F. Greville, 18 April 1769). In addition, he advertised his archaeological interests by commissioning the present work with text written by Pierre issued, publication was then interrupted by Hugues’ expulsion from Naples, apparently not appearing before 1776. The spread the vogue throughout Europe for the ‘antique’ in furnishings, porcelain, wall coverings, and Josiah Wedgwood had opened his pottery works, Etruria, in Staffordshire, and thrown subsequent Wedgwood articles and designs were inspired by the work.
Provenance: ‘Artium genio’ (François Pouillon, sale Paris Drouot, 12 June 1995, lot 27; booklabels on pastedowns); Private European collection.
First edition. 4 volumes, large folio (49 x 38 cm). Titles and text in English and French, 8 hand-coloured engraved titles, 5 engraved dedication leaves, 437 engraved plates, 183 initials, the 10 in volume 4 printed in colours, all after Giuseppe Bracci, Giovanni Battista Nolli, ref: 89827 £275,000
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21. Du CHENTEAU, Théodore.
A RARE ENGRAVED SCROLL DERIVED FROM THE CALENDARIUM NATURALIUM MAGICUM, SUPPOSEDLY DEVISED BY TYCHO BRAHE.
“In the mid-eighteenth century the revival of interest in hermetic ideas in the context of the evolving freemasonry in France inspired this reworking of the seventeenth century into a new form by du Chenteau. The was a large engraving issued by Johann Theodor de Bry in 1620, and edited by J. B. Grosschedel von Aicha, which advertised itself as having been devised by Tycho Brahe, although there is no evidence he was associated with it in any way. It consists of a table of magical correspondences associated with the numbers one to twelve, for the most part copied from Henricus Cornelius Agrippa’s
In this eighteenth century reworking, these correspondences are translated into French, and joined by three diagrams copied from Georg von Welling’s 1719, a popular work for masons at this time, and ten from Robert Fludd’s cosmi historia, and some other engravings from seventeenth century alchemical works. The engraving was given a masonic dimension by placing the two pillars of Jakin and Bohaz on the top left and right. Around these columns grows a wreath of vegetation, on the right spiralling clockwise, and on the left anti-clockwise.
The tables of correspondence are headed with the names of God in one to twelve letters. The various things magically associated with each number, such as the elements, planets, angelical hierarchies, plants, minerals, animals, colours, precious stones, and others, are meticulously listed. These are for the most part derived from the earlier engraving, but du Chenteau has added much supplementary material which he felt would be of interest to his masonic audience. For example, there is a table of the Hebrew alphabet together with the symbolic meaning of each letter, there is a whole new section of text explaining the tables of the planets, and some text added explaining the seals under the number three. The Carte continues to emphasise the supposed connection with Tycho Brahe.
world in its inner structure, found in Robert Fludd’s great work on the microcosm, , 1617-1620, with the illustration adapted to the conventions of the eighteenth century.” (Silent Language).
The Ritman example was in 5 conjoined sheets although the overall dimensions are the same as the present example.
4 engraved sheets, each 76 x 94 cm, window mounted, engravings restored along edges and ref: 89461 £17,500
(Detail showing 2 sheets as though conjoined)
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22. DUBOIS DE MONTPEREUX, FRÉDÉRIC. Pihan de la Forest for Gide, Paris and the author, Neufchatel, 1839-43.
Almost 200 Plates On The Caucasus: A Lovely Example Of This Beautiful Production - Elegantly Bound, With Fine Aristocratic Provenance And Especially Rare With The Text Volumes.
Dubois de Montperreux (1798-1850) travelled most of his life. Sent by the French government for investigation of the natural resources, the population and the political stability in the region, he undertook an expedition around Southern Russia between 1831 and 1834, during which he collected a large quantity of materials for the present, his most famous work. It received in 1838 the prize of the Société de Géographie de Paris. After his death in 1850, the city of Zurich inherited his collections, his works and library.
Covering the Caucasus, the work includes an important section on Armenia and some sometimes picturesque and artistic, as the sections’ titles show: Série de géographie ancienne & moderne; Série pittoresque; Série d’architecture; Série d’archéologie, and Série de géologie. The plates were produced from Dubois’ drawings, the lithography
Provenance: Marie Caroline, Duchesse de Berry, Brunsee Castle (Brunsee shelf label to upper pastedowns).
with lithographed half title and dedication, 5 lithographed vignette section titles, part 1. with 21 maps and town plans, incl. 7 folding; part 2. with 70 views, incl. 1 folding; part 3. with 33 plates (of 37, without pl. 16-18 and 30); part 4. with 38 plates (of 40, without pl. 21, 22); Brunet II, 848; Miansarov 3089. ref: 87955 £33,500
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23. [EROTICA] - BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Le Decameron de Jean Boccace.
(COHEN). IT CONTAINS THE CHARMING GRAVELOT” (GAY-L.).
Indeed our copy has 21 erotic plates plus the frontispiece, instead of 20 usually found of the third bear the ink stamp at the back proving that they belong to the much sought-
Cohen among others praised this great achievement of Gravelot, Boucher, Cochin and Eisen, the best illustrators of the French 18th century. The edition not only shows more than 100 plates, but also includes rich decorative engraved head- and tail-pieces in the best tradition of book illustration of its time. The Italian text was translated into French by A. Le Macon.
Provenance: Private North-Italian collection (acquired from us in the late 1990s).
ref: 89442 £22,500
58 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 59 CLASSIC OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EROTICA
24. [EROTICA] - HANCARVILLE, Pierre-Francois Hugues, d’.
FINE HAND-COLOURED COPY OF THIS FULLY ENGRAVED WORK, - ‘RARISSIMES EXEMPLAIRES DONT LES FIGURES, CHEFS-D’OEUVRE DE GRAVURE, ONT ETE PEINTES DANS UN COLORIS D’UNE BEAUTE SURPRENANTE’ (PIA).
Pierre Francois Hugues was born in 1719 at Nancy, France, the son of a bankrupt cloth- merchant. He himself later added the title of ‘baron d’Hancarville’ to his name.
An amateur art dealer, he introduced William Hamilton, British ambassador at Naples, to the Porcinari family, whose collection of antiquities Hamilton bought, and subsequently sold to the British Museum in London. Hancarville catalogued Sir William Hamilton’s collection of ancient vases in Naples in 1764, from which it is likely he took some inspiration for these images. Veneres depicts classical carved gemstones in over sixty hand-coloured plates, with brief captions in French. Many of the pictures contain graphic scenes of fertility rituals and sexual acts. In one plate, Venus, a satyr, and others make offerings to a statue of Priapus, the Roman god of generation who appears with his characteristically large and erect phallus. Another plate shows two women playing with a wheel of dildos. It remains unknown, however, if the plates represent actual ancient off as art historical study.
ref: 89353 £14,500
60 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 61 FOUNTAINS AND GARDENS OF ROME
25. FALDA, Gio: Battista. Le Fontane di Roma Nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici della in prospettiva. Rossi, Rome n.d. [circa 1800].
TWO CLASSIC LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WORKS ON THE FOUNTAINS AND GARDENS OF ROME.
Falda, born in Valduggia in Valesia, produced his plates of Rome from the age of fourteen,
“Together these albums comprise a stupendous representational collection that gains from its consistent style and format. The illustrations of the fountains are enhanced by the attempt to describe their surrounding landscape, most successfully achieved in the from the dappled gardens planted with splendid old trees.” (Millard.)
Provenance: Emily Mercer, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1819-1895; book label).
Landscape folio I. 4 parts in one volume 4 frontispieces, 4 dedications and 98 (of 99) plates ref: 89602 £10,000
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26. FURBER, Robert. [London 1730-32].
THE MOST MAGNIFICENT OF NURSERYMEN’S CATALOGUES.
In the early eighteenth century, the most important trade association for the purchase, sale, and exchange of plants and seeds was the Society of Gardeners. Its members would bring specimens to monthly meetings at a coffee-house in Chelsea for discussion and to standardise plant names. For reference purposes a selection of the plants might be drawn. This, combined with the wishes of clients to have notes on cultivation, led to the evolution of illustrated catalogues, often handsomely produced.
Furber (circa 1674-1756) displayed the most originality. His nursery, in Kensington Road near Hyde Park, was extremely successful, and having already published a couple of modest lists, he produced the present, extravagant catalogue illustrated in the grand manner.
Rather than producing a conventional brochure, Furber engaged the Flemish artist, Pieter Casteels (1684-1749), resident in London and well-known for his still-life compositions, month of the year. Each presented a baroque bouquet of more than thirty different September 1731, upon which subscribers were reminded to send the balance of their produced in March 1732 dedicated to Frederick, Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the 435 subscribers. Sets of the plates were made available to non-subscribers at customers when ordering.
there are twenty six varieties of auricula, and nineteen of the anenome. Hyacinth, tulip, and ranunculas are also well represented.
The catalogue was a huge success, and the images were used as the basis for later in embroidery and other decorative arts.
- ref: 89261 £55,000
64 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 65 66 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 67 FINE AQUATINTS OF SICILY
27. [GIGAULT DE LA SALLE, Achille Etienne].
AQUATINT BOOKS illustrated by the foremost Swiss and British aquatint artists of the day, including the two Fieldings, after original studies by some of the leading European artists.
Palermo (12 plates), Monreale (2), Segesta (4), Agrigento (16), Syracuse (16), Catania (5), Taormina (4), Messina (5), and several other towns, as well as temples, ruins, and views of Mt Etna.
in between 27 and 32 parts, but as he states in the ‘Avis de l’Editeur’, he resisted this desire and limited the work to 24 parts, in order not to over-extend it, nor weary his subscribers. The remarkable plates are, as Abbey records, in large part the work of English engravers, whose reputation was very high at the time in France and who were responsible for 43 douzaine de graveurs d’aqua-tint les plus habiles de l’Angleterre et de la Suisse’.
The author (born in Paris in 1771, dying c. 1840) was imprisoned for a time in 1792 as a royalist suspect. He married in 1794 and was attached to the Foreign Ministry, dealing with affairs relating to England.
rate of copies has been poor and the work is rarely offered for sale.
First edition. 2 volumes. Folio (66 x 50 cm). (1) half-titles, title pages, (2), 40 pp. 1 map ref: 88995 £16,500
68 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 69 THE FINEST BRITISH BIRD BOOK.
28. GOULD, John. The Birds of Great Britain. For the Author, London [1862]-1873
, AND HIS FIRST COLLABORATIVE WORK WITH JOSEF WOLF. The German natural history painter Josef Wolf brought to Gould’s monographs a realistic vigour and sensibility of nature lacking in the work of many of Gould’s studio artists. “All of Wolf’s plates represent a moment of suspended remarked Wolf, ‘I make a distinction between a picture in which there is an idea, and the mere representation of a bird’”. (Isabella Tree, ).
‘THE MOST SUMPTUOUS AND COSTLY OF BRITISH BIRD BOOKS’ (Mullen and Swann). Gould was especially proud of this work, and it was seen - perhaps partly because its subject was British, as the culmination of [his]... genius’ (Isabella Tree, ‘The Ruling Passion of John Gould stresses its difference from the earlier Birds of Europe in the treatment of the text. In his preface, Gould commented on the colouring of the plates: “Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo- lithography. This, however, is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought”. Elsewhere he remarked upon employing “almost all the colourists in London”.
“SUCH BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS AS THOSE OF THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN SCARCELY EXISTED BEFORE AND ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE SURPASSED” (R. Bowdler Sharpe).
ref: 89581 £70,000
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29. GOULD, John. [1880-] 1887.
(FINE BIRD BOOKS).
of the plates were drawn from specimens from his own collection, which he had built up thanks to a burgeoning trade in the fashionable little bird, and with the help of a pool of collectors whom he commissioned to hunt for rare or unknown varieties in the wilds of South America. He exhibited the collection - which included nearly 2000 birds from 300 different species - in the Zoological Gardens in Regent’s Park for the Great Exhibition in 1851, attracting nearly 75,000 visitors and consolidating his reputation as one of the greatest living ornithologists. Although his claim that the subscribers to the Trochilidae included “nearly all the crowned heads of Europe” (Tree, p. 164) was a slight did attract a larger and more brilliant audience than all of his other works except The Birds of Great Britain. To illustrate the birds’ iridescent plumage, Gould had used a costly technique of painting in varnish and oils over pure gold leaf, which he claimed to have from the American hummingbird specialist William Bailey.
Gould died after the publication of part 1 of the Supplement. He had already supervised the preparation of many of the plates, and the project was completed by Sharpe for the text, W. Hart, who did the drawings, lithographs and coloring for the 58 remaining plates, Gould’s death his bird collections, which by then included 5378 hummingbirds, were purchased by the Zoological Society, and are now part of the British Museum’s natural history collections.
Provenance: Charles Beilby, Baron Stuart of Wortley (1851-1926, a descendant of the Earl of Bute, MP and member of the British government; armorial bookplate to upper pastedown, with motto ‘Avito viret honore’); Henry Sidney (armorial bookplate to upper pastedown, with motto ‘Quo fata vocant’); The Arcadian Library (London, booklabel to upper pastedown; their sale, Christie’s London, Nov. 2007); Private European collection..
Six volumes including Supplement, folio (54 x 36.5cm), 418 hand-coloured lithographic ref: 88862 £165,000
72 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 73 74 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 75 THE BEGINNING OF THE INDIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK TRADITION
30. HODGES, William. The Author, London, 1788.
BOOKS OF INDIA.
Bombay, and Bengal developed during the eighteenth century, British portrait artists were attracted to India by the prospect of patronage, amongst these were John Zoffany,
Captain Cook’s second voyage to the South Seas, and a pupil of Richard Wilson. Hodges disembarked at Madras and made his way to Calcutta in 1781 where he met Warren Hastings who became his life-long friend and patron.
Many public buildings and mansions were under construction in Calcutta at this time and the city made an immediate impression upon him: “The vessel has no sooner gained one other reach of the river than the whole city of Calcutta burst upon the eye”. He likened the various colonnades of the city to Grecian temples and was completely captivated by Indian, as opposed to British, architecture. In the same year Hodges made three journeys up-country, recording his observations. Arriving back in London in 1784, he single-handedly produced the prints for this publication from his drawings and paintings. to preserve the atmospheric quality of his original sketches.
The series was published in 12 parts between 1785 and 1788, with a description of next six parts were published by John Wells until August 1787, when another publisher, J. Grives, took over. Except for a view of Tanjore in the south, all the prints are based on drawings made during Hodges northern tours.
First edition. 2 volumes in one, landscape folio (42 x 59 cm), title, preliminaries and letterpress ref: 88458 £25,000
76 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 77 MAGNIFICENT VIEWS OF THE RHINE
31. JANSCHA, Lorenz; Johann Ziegler. - gezeichnet.
THE MOST MAGNIFICENT SERIES OF VIEWS OF THE RHINE.
Although this vogue can be said to have started with Gilpin’s book on the River Wye, appeared shortly after that book and pre-dates the river journey books by Ackermann. In the Romantic tradition of book illustration, it shows the great castles and ruins of the middle-ages in the most picturesque settings.
Janscha (1749-1812), born in Hungary, studied at the Vienna academy of arts, and later, in 1801, was appointed a professor of the same institution. The engraver Johann Ziegler (1750-1812) also studied at the Vienna academy.
First edition. Landscape folio (43 x 56 cm), engraved throughout, title in French and German - Brunet III, 500. ref: 89534 £65,000
78 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 79 MEXICAN ANTIQUITIES IN COLOUR
32. KINGSBOROUGH, Edward King.
THE HAND-COLOURED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE GREATEST ILLUSTRATED WORK ON MEXICAN ANTIQUITIES.
“KINGSBOROUGH’S NINE-VOLUME SET, THE ANTIQUITIES OF MEXICO, IS, QUITE SIMPLY, STUPENDOUS. Each massive volume is roughly two feet square, weighs about 65 pounds, black-and-white, painstakingly copied from originals by a talented artist named Augustine Aglio. The set took 18 years to produce and the cost of £40,000 was a truly enormous sum in terms of the currency of the time, when a family could live quite well on £500 a year.” (BAS Library).
The story of Kingsborough’s fateful attraction to Mexican manuscripts is well known: -- the very one described by Samuel Purchas in 1626 (in Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. III) -- and decided to devote himself to the study of Central American manuscripts and artifacts. With the support of Sir Thomas Phillipps, many of whose manuscripts are described in the Antiquities, he employed the Italian painter Agustine Aglio to scour Europe’s greatest libraries and private collections for Mexican manuscripts, which Aglio sketched and later lithographed for publication. Besides Aglio’s reproductions of manuscripts in the Bodleian, the Vatican Library, the Borgian Museum, the Imperial Library of Vienna, the Library of the Institute at Bologna, and the royal libraries of Berlin, Dresden, and Budapest, the work includes Dupaix’s Monuments of New Spain, taken from Castaneda’s original drawings, and descriptions of sculptures and artifacts from several private collections. The text, with sections in Spanish, English, French and Italian, includes Sahagun’s Historia General de la Nueva Espana and the chronicles of Tezozomoc and Ixtlilxochitl.
The immense project cost Kingsborough £32,000 and his life: in 1837 he died of typhus contracted in prison in Dublin, a few days after being arrested for a debt to a paper manufacturer. His father the Earl of Kingston died a few month later; Kingsborough would have stood to inherit an annual estate of £40,000.
- ref: 88517 £110,000
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33. LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore. du ministre de la marine]. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 1833-35.
” (SABIN).
The coloured issue can be reliably distinguished from the black and white issue as the plates are printed in blue and sepia inks so as to more easily accept the hand colour washes and highlights. It is a superb production made up of sixty-one landscape views including three of Australia (the Derwent River, Vooloo-Moloo, Sydney Harbour), two of Rio, four of Malacca, two of Singapore, several of Isle Bourbon, India, the Philippines, China and New Zealand. Apart from the views the remaining plates depict the exotic costume of the countries visited, in all but one case, there are two separate studies on each of the eleven sheets. These plates are coloured and varnished with an intensity and attention to detail otherwise only found in the Swiss colour plate books of the era. historical atlases to have been executed in aquatint, a technique which lends itself to the skill of the colourist. The publication of this work was entrusted to Sainson who prepared a number of the drawings and personally supervised the printing of the plates.
Laplace (1793-1875), born at sea, joined the navy as a midshipman and rose though the ranks. In December 1829 Laplace was commissioned to take an expedition to India, the instructions were to provide protection for French merchant vessels and obtain at each port-of-call information which might be of value to French trade. The voyage stopped at Mauritius, the Seychelles, Podicherry, Malacca, Singapore, Manilla, Canton, Indochina, and Java, before sailing for Tasmania, reaching Hobart in July 1831. After he went to Sydney, New Zealand, and the Bay Islands where the French crew developed an aversion to Toulon after rounding Cape Horn, completing 482 days at sea.
84 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 85 The Favorite covered some 56,000 miles on her twenty-eight month voyage. Her mission naturalists and surveyors, the former returning to France with many new species.
Provenance: Private aristocratic estate, South of France (Aix-en-Provence region).
Six volumes, comprising 4 volumes of text in 2 large 8vo and 2 atlas volumes, one folio (32.6 x 48 cm), the other large folio (65.5 × 47.3 cm). [2] ll., xlj, 558 pp., [1] l., 481 pp.; 510 pp., - ref: 88741 £120,000
86 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 87 GARDEN CHINOISERIE COMES WEST
34. LE ROUGE, George Louis. Le Rouge, Paris, 1776-87.
LE ROUGE’S EXPANSIVE AND VIRTUALLY UNOBTAINABLE PUBLICATION ON GARDENS IN THE ANGLO-CHINESE MANNER.
The most impressive illustrated record of garden design produced during the 18th century, Le Rouge’s publication is the fullest collection of engraved views of gardens in the prevailing Anglo-Chinese manner and also of contemporary gardens in other traditions; the range extends chronologically from George Loudon’s early 18th century layout at Wanstead (well illustrated on six plates) to the Jardin de Monceau and Ermenonville. The plates comprise a great number of plans for gardens as a whole and for individual parterres, woodlands and labyrinths, also designs for pavilions, temples, kiosks, dairies and similar garden buildings in classical, Gothic and Chinese styles. There are additional illustrations of balustrades and trillage, bridges, menageries, aviaries, theatres and amphitheatres, grottoes, hermitages, greenhouses, follies, cascades, fountains and statuary.
There is extensive coverage of the major gardens and a host of minor gardens in England, France and Germany. Among English gardens Stowe and Kew are dominant, alongside less expected ones like Blair Atholl and Buckingham House (the garden of the future Buckingham Palace.) French gardens given prominence include those of the Chateau at Roissy, M. de Saint-James’s garden at Neuilly, many gardens in and around Paris, Marly, the Trianon, and so on. A complete cahier is devoted to the Désert de Retz, a charming collection of landscaped ruins conceived by its dilettante owner the Chevalier de Monville.
Germany is well represented by Pigage’s Schwetzingen in its formal French style before the later picturesque additions, and by the garden of the episcopal palace of Werzburg, The Bagno at Steinfort, the Count von Bentheim’s residence near Munster, gets the widest coverage of any European garden, taking up almost the whole of three cahiers in 54 plates.
From the point of view of garden theory the most interesting parts of the work are cahiers IV and V. Cahier IV copies, in a different format and without acknowledgement, (published in 1766), and Wrighte’s ‘ (published in 1767), both collections of designs for garden buildings intended for an English readership and now transformed for continental use. Cahier V - not present in this copy as usual - comprises an edition in French of both text and plates of Chambers’s Buildings, the only instance of the use of a printed - as opposed to engraved - text in the entire 21 cahiers and emphasising Chambers’ importance as the interpreter of Chinese buildings and gardens to Western taste. Cahier V is almost always lacking from otherwise complete sets of Le Rouge as it was available separately, was issued in a different format and with its own title-page.
The crowning feature of the Le Rouge compilation is a series of 97 plates, making up the four cahiers XIV, XV, XVI and XVII, which show the gardens and palaces of the Emperor of China. The original drawings for them were made in China after paintings
88 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 89 on silk, at the instigation of the Swedish ambassador, and entrusted to the Marquis de Biencourt to be engraved in Paris. They go far beyond Chambers in their accurate pavilions, zig-zag steps, streams with waterfalls and bridges, pines and ornamental trees and groups of stones. They comprise delicate landscape views, perspective views and that mode of plans in which the effect is conveyed by laid down front views. If they lack the novelty and something of the grandeur of the engravings done for Father Ripa they also provide a fuller coverage and the one cahier devoted to the gardens at Jehol which were the subject of the Ripa engravings also offers interesting historical comparisons, as
‘CES PLANCHES ONT ÉTÉ JADIS FORT RECHERCHÉES; ON EN TROUVE DIFFICILEMENT LA SUITE COMPLÈTE.’ (BRUNET).
- all edges speckled red. ref: 87915 £50,000
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35. LINDEN, Jean Jules. Pescatorea iconographie des orchidees
A FINE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT LARGE FORMAT WORK ON A WIDE-RANGING SELECTION OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ORCHIDS THEN IN CULTIVATION, ORIGINATING FROM ALL THE TROPICAL REGIONS OF THE WORLD, BUT ESPECIALLY FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA INCLUDING BRAZIL.
The work is named in honour of J.-P. Pescatore of St.Cloud, one of the earliest orchid amateurs.
Jean Jules Linden was born on 3rd February 1817 in Luxembourg. At a the young age of nineteen he started to collect orchids, mainly in South America. He undertook several travels and made detailed notes on the conditions in which the plants were growing in the wild. These notes and observations revolutionized the way in which orchids were grown in European collections. Before Linden all orchids were cultivated in hothouses at high temperatures. Many plants died, Europe was know as ‘the orchid graveyard’. Based upon Lindens observations the British botanist Lindley described the plants he collected and included the information on the natural growing conditions.
botanical garden but he gradually focused on horticulture. He grew thousands of plants: to grow orchids he developed three types of glasshouse with different temperature conditions, the hothouse, the temperate house and the cool house. Under these empire that at its zenith had outlets in Brussels, Ghent and Paris. Awards were won at international exhibitions in London, Paris and St. Petersburgh.
ref: 89582 £9,750
92 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 93 36. LYELL, CHARLES. First edition. 3 volumes, 8vo., 3 frontispiece (2 hand-coloured), 2 hand-coloured maps (1 folding), 1 uncoloured folding map, 5 uncoloured plates (foxed), illustrations in text, “A CLASSIC BY THE “FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGY”, PRESENTING THE DOCTRINE OF UNI- FORMITARIANISM, NAMELY, THAT THE PROCESSES OF THE PAST MUST BE JUDGED BY THOSE OF THE PRESENT. THIS WAS IMPORTANT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DARWINIAN THEORY OF EVOLUTION.” (GROLIER). ref: 89657 £12,500
a keen interest in geology and had attended lectures by William Buckland.
was published by Murray in July 1830. Its ambitions were clear from the title—‘Principles’ still recalled Isaac Newton’s Principia— and the subtitle stated clearly that it was ‘an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation’. Surprisingly for a work on geology, the volume was devoted not to the remote past but wholly to the present world. Lyell gave a systematic description of modern causes such as volcanoes and earthquakes, sedimentation and erosion, culled from a wide range of sources, including many accounts of voyages and expeditions to remote parts of the globe; however, his main source was the great compilation of the physical and topographical changes He used Hoff’s data to illustrate his own view of the earth as a system of balanced antagonistic processes: erosion balanced by sedimentation, for example, and crustal elevation by crustal subsidence. A preliminary section of the book presented a ‘grand new theory of climate’ (Lyell, Life, 1.261), which interpreted long-term climatic changes as the products of an ever-changing physical geography: this neatly undercut what Lyell himself had earlier regarded as conclusive evidence for a slowly cooling earth.
The second volume of the Principles appeared in 1832; it dealt with modern causes in the organic realm, and particularly with the relation between organisms and their environments. Lyell rejected Lamarck’s theory of the incessant mutability of species, arguing instead that they were real stable entities, and that they appeared and became extinct in a piecemeal manner in time and space. Extinctions were attributed not to sudden catastrophes but to gradual changes in the environment, as expounded in the process as yet unknown.
Lyell’s concept of the stability of individual species validated his timescale for the Tertiary era, which formed a cornerstone of the third and culminating volume of the Principles (1833). His review of modern causes, both inorganic and organic, had merely provided the ‘alphabet and grammar’ of geology ( , 3.7); they were the means by which nature’s historical records could be deciphered, in order to reconstruct the
Charles Darwin read the Principles whilst aboard the Beagle. This not only resulted in method to Darwin generally, and its thorough discussion of evolution stimulated Darwin’s thinking on the subject.
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37. MEYER, Henry Leonard. Illustrations of British Birds.
FIRST EDITION OF ‘ONE OF OUR MOST VALUABLE ILLUSTRATED WORKS ON ORNITHOLOGY’ (Mullens and Swan).
No two copies of this work are alike since different issues were published concurrently, with the result that the plates were often interchanged or duplicated. As Wood remarks: study however now provides the bibliophile with a detailed guide to the history and collation of this impressive collection of ornithological plates. It is possible therefore to to note that the lithographic list of plates found here ‘occur in some of the early issues, probably because they were sought long after publication’ (Hale).
drawings of eggs, these with manuscript titles in pencil, four lithographic title-pages and four lithographic lists of plates; neat manuscript notes in pencil at foot of plates, some occasional 25 plates, closed 2cm tear to lower edge of one plate in vol. I, light damp stain to outer edge of 4 plates, paper repair to lower corner of one plate. 11 original pink printed wrappers dated ref: 88616 £12,500
96 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 97 BRITISH BIRDS LIFE-SIZE
38. PENNANT, Thomas.
FINE, FRESH EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST EDITION, WITH VIBRANT ORIGINAL COLOUR.
Bird books enjoyed great popular in eighteenth century England, both as works of scholarship and as splendid collectables for the libraries of wealthy connoisseurs.
works. In his famous autobiography The Literary Life (1793) he states that he sometimes marvelled at his own industry.
- cial loss as it had been printed on paper that was so large that it was impractical for most people. However when reprinted in a smaller format it was a great success and went through several editions. Thereafter all his major works appeared in smaller formats, either octavos or quartos. Pennant believed in meticulous research and preparation and in the importance of high quality illustrations as an adjunct to his work. Consequently the natural history works were generally well received
all of the British species, many of them life-size... Peter Paillou contributed most of the designs and coloured the prints, the colour being extended to the trees, branches and foregrounds. These really splendid folio plates cost Pennant so much that the British came off rather badly, as did Pennant himself. Nevertheless they showed what could be done in the production of good, large pictures of British birds. Much of the credit (Jackson).
ref: 88438 £37,500
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39. ROBERTS, David. F. G. Moon, London, 1846–49.
A FINELY BOUND COPY IN THE PREFERRED DELUXE FORMAT OF “ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND ELABORATE VENTURES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY PUBLISHING, AND IT WAS THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE TINTED LITHOGRAPH” (Abbey Travel).
No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. Representing the completion of a project begun in 1842, but a discrete work in its own right, was published in three formats between 1846 and 1849, with the deluxe coloured-and- mounted format offered at triple the price of the simplest format.
views, but it is on the outstanding success of this project that the modern appreciation of his work is based. In August 1838 he arrived in Alexandria to start a carefully planned the mosques in Cairo, under the proviso that he did not commit desecration by using brushes made from hog’s bristle. Leaving Cairo, he sailed up the Nile to record the monuments represented in the division of the work, travelling as far as Wadi Halfa and the Second Cataract. At the time of publication it was these views that excited the most widespread enthusiasm. Roberts had already discussed publication of the views with Finden before leaving for the Near East, but on his return both Finden and Murray, who was also approached, baulked at the risks involved in a publication of the size and grandeur envisaged. However, Francis Graham Moon - “a self-made man
100 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 101 accepted the challenge, and persuaded Louis Haghe to lithograph Roberts’ drawings. Roberts acknowledged that Haghe’s work was hardly less important than his own, complimenting his “masterly vigour and boldness.” The burdensome demands of the task may have even prompted Haghe’s early retirement as a lithographer. The Reverend The was engaged to edit the text from Roberts’ journal.
This was “undoubtedly the most costly and lavish, and potentially risky, publishing enterprise that Moon had ever undertaken. Investing £50,000 in the project…” As a promotional tool, an exhibition of the original drawings was opened in London in 1840 and subsequently toured the country, creating a considerable stir and drawing praise from Ruskin who described them as “faithful and laborious beyond any outlines from nature I have ever seen.” The exhibition catalogue also served as a prospectus for the projected work, and was apparently very successful in bringing forward subscribers, without whom any work of this size would have been doomed. The work was subsequently published in a variety of smaller formats. In a dramatic gesture, the lithographic stones for the original large format work were broken at an auction of the remaining plates in December 1853 so that the originals could never be reproduced.
WIDELY RECOGNISED AT THE ULTIMATE EXPRESSION OF TINTED LITHOGRAPHY, AN ARTISTIC AND COMMERCIAL TRIUMPH, ROBERTS’ EGYPT & NUBIA WAS THE RESULT OF UNIQUELY FORTUITOUS COLLABORATION BETWEEN ARTIST, PUBLISHER AND ENGRAVER. THIS - A WONDERFUL COPY, IN THE PREFERRED STATE, IN A SPLENDID CONTEMPORARY BINDING - FULLY EMBODIES THE CONTINUING IMPACT OF THE PROJECT.
Provenance: Private European collection.
- age and mounted on card in imitation of water-colours, as issued, mounted on guards through- ref: 89825 £160,000
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40. RUGGIERI, Ferdinando. Scelta di architetture antiche e moderne della citta di Firenze.
. edition of three separate works.
mansion at Kensington, two miles west of Marble Arch. Holland House itself played though nominally referring to Lincolnshire, was, in fact, derived from the London house. The set’s interest in literature—the library at Holland House was extensive and well used—embraced the classics, the Renaissance, and the Augustan period. The glamour of the house was enhanced by its association with the essayist and statesman Joseph
The present work is the posthumous edition of Ruggieri’s a 1728,
Ruggieri was the most distinguished architect of Florence at a time when almost no new building took place. Born in 1687 he studied with Giovanni Battista Foggini in Florence, then surveyed and drew in Rome the most outstanding ruins of antiquity. Ruggieri places an emphasis on local building traditions and the talent of Florentine architects, subdividing the buildings into their constituent parts as taught in the Accademia del Disegno in Florence. These plates made the buildings widely known at a time when Florence was part of the Grand Tour and their publication provided visitors with suitably
Provenance: The Lord Holland, later Earls of Ilchester (Holland House engraved bookplate).
Four volumes, folio (49.1 x 38.6 cm), small cancel slip pasted in the dedication correcting the Millard Italian 118. ref: 89313 £9,500
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41. STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard. An authentic account of an embassy from
THE MOST CELEBRATED AND FINELY ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST BRITISH EMBASSY TO CHINA, WHICH WAS TO LEAD TO THE FOUNDATION OF HONG KONG AS A BRITISH It was the failure of this mission to establish direct trade links with China that convinced the British government of the need to set up its own trading post.
Staunton, a medical doctor and friend of Dr. Johnson, accompanied McCartney as secretary. To write his account, Staunton had access to McCartney’s journal and was assisted by John Barrow. Staunton’s account is noteworthy for his detailed description of the journey, his examination of Chinese customs (including the binding of women’s feet)
Alexander’s plates are of special interest due to their depiction of subjects that very few Europeans had recorded or seen and the indications they gave to the considerable technical, artistic and organizational advancement of the Chinese civilization.
First edition. 2 text volumes, 4to, and atlas folio (56.8 x 41cm). Text with 2 engraved portrait excellent set. ref: 88622 £18,500
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42. STRADA, Jacobus. Imperatorvm romanorvm omnivm orientalivm et occidentalivm
This celebrated work depicts 118 woodcut medallion portraits of the Roman and Roman-German emperors from Julius Caesar to Charles V. The woodcut borders surrounding the portraits are the largest ever cut for a book from a single block, and the emperors’ biographies on the reverse of each portrait are framed by a woodcut border book was published in 1558 by Gessner, son of a goldsmith from Nuremberg. In the beginning of 16th century he moved to Zurich where he opened his workshop in 1550. It was closed 1559 after his death.
and architect to three Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperors. Moreover, he was a famous goldsmith, numismatist, writer, collector and merchant of works of art. Being an antiquary became the basis for the present work.
While the elaborate title was designed by Christoph Schweitzer., the decorations of this beautiful publication are due to from Peter Floetner, who left his monogram on verso of plate 50.
Provenance: With manuscript ownership inscription “Me possidet E.F. von Leutrum 1717” (from the Swabian noble family Leutram von Ertingen).
ref: 89615 £30,000
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43. SWAINSON, William. [The ornithological drawings. The birds of Brazil].
to use lithography for bird illustrations. Although he had produced work using etching and wood-engraving, he was attracted by the idea that he could draw directly onto the plate itself and therefore maintain control over his work. His work paved the way for the adoption of this method for the portrayal of beautiful birds in later publications.
best ornithological artist of the time’ (Jackson). He joined Henry Koster on the explorer’s second journey to Brazil in late 1816, returning to Liverpool two years later loaded with publications. Eventually he was to publish A Selection of the Birds of Brazil and Mexico, Bohn, 1841, with 78 plates, itself described by Borba De Moraes in as a rare book. Before that publication, however, he published, circa 1834-36 the present work (title taken from wrapper). Zimmer cites the ornithological bibliography by Coues, published in 1878-1880 as mentioning 62 plates (as here) which Zimmer speculates as A Selection of the Birds of Brazil and Mexico. No text was issued with this edition.
original upper wrapper to Part I laid down as title; occasional light spotting, darker on plates 29 and 30, paper to plate 11 toned. Modern green half morocco gilt, top edge gilt. ref: 88617 £7,500
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44. TALANI, Vincenzo; Nicola Gervasi. Raccolta di sessanta piu belle vestiture che si costumano nelle provincie del regno di Napoli.
RARE DEPICTION OF THE COSTUMES OF NAPLES. traced in North America.
These were produced at a time when this subject was of considerable interest. The king of Naples, Ferdinand IV, at the instigation of the Marquis Domenico Venuti, had commissioned various artists to produce watercolours of native subjects for the royal There was a competition to choose artists, won by Xavier Della Gatta and Alessandro D’Anna. Della Gatta and D’Anna then travelled through the kingdom, often over rugged original drawings is not known, but the publishers Talani and Gervasi must have had them at some point and used them to produce the present work.
Nearly all of the subjects are women. All the subjects are set against fully landscaped backgrounds making this a particularly attractive and evocative work.
First edition. Folio (39 x 26.5 cm), 2 parts in 1 volume, engraved general title, 60 engraved ref: 89661 £12,500
114 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 115 45. VAN DER MEULEN, Adam François. - 1685-1686.
A MAGNIFICENT SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS IN A HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING BEARING THE ARMS OF LOUIS XIV.
to that of the 5th Earl of Rosebery (sold Sotheby’s 1995) but in a different order and with the addition of 2 plates not present in the Rosebery copy. The list of plates is available on request.
ref: 88854 £28,000
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46. VIDAL, Emeric Essex. R. Ackermann, London, 1820.
Vidal (1791-1861), born in Brentford, Middlesex to a family of Basque origin, joined the Royal Navy when he was 15. While staying in Rio de la Plata from 1816 to 1818, during the expulsion of the Spanish Viceroy and the period of civil wars, produced watercolours depicting the regions surrounding Montevideo and Buenos Aires. The illustrations record numerous views of Buenos Aires, its port and neighbouring villages, and its inhabitants: travelling salesmen, gauchos, soldiers and scenes of peasant customs.
ref: 89693 £12,500
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47. VITRUVIUS Pollio, Marcus. CESARINO, Cesare, (translator) De Architectura Libri Dece.
AND ONE OF THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.
pupils. Although some of the woodcuts follow the classical models of the previous editions, others show water-wheels and various mechanical devices. The three full-page Gothic architecture in a printed book.
Translated by the Milanese Cesare Cesarino (1483-1543) who also provided the commentary as far as chapter 6, Book IX before falling out with the publisher. The commentary was then completed by Benedetto Giovio and Bono Mauro.
: This copy is from the library of Philippe Desportes (1546-1606), favourite poet of Henri III and noted bibliophile.
Provenance: Philippe Desportes (title inscription); A. Fleury (title inscription); D.R. Ray, Edinburgh (title inscription).
Folio (40 x 28 cm), 117 woodcut illustrations (including 10 full page), woodcut initials, manu- marginal spotting. Modern vellum. Mortimer, Italian 544; Norman 2158. ref: 89028 £35,000
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48. VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet, dit. THE MOST FAMOUS EDITION OF VOLTAIRE’S COMPLETE WORKS: A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE, WITH WIDE MARGINS, COMPLETE WITH ITS TABLES AND SUPERBLY BOUND IN FULL GREEN MOROCCO. press for it, this bibliophile production was lavishly illustrated by Moreau and printed in himself, as Cohen notes: ‘Moreau s’était reservé un certain nombre de collections qu’il portant l’addresse de Saugrain’.
ref: 86695 £27,500 works of the French author, but also portray many celebrated royal personalities of the time, such as Frederick II of Prussia, Pierre I and Catherine II of Russia: vol. LXXII in particular reports an extensive correspondence between Voltaire and the Empress. The two-volume appendix was edited by the historian Pierre Nicolas Chantreau.
Provenance: ‘Artium genio’ (François Pouillon, sale Paris Drouot, 12 June 1995, lot 125; booklabels on pastedowns).
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49. WIENER WERKSTATTE. -
including the best pulls of the prints below); this example includes captions to each plate providing the Hefte and plate numbers.
This very rare fashion portfolio was produced by the fashion department of the Wiener Werkstätte under the aegis of Josef Hoffmann at a time when the domestic Austrian market for fashion was growing. The contributors were the teachers and students of the department, many of them young women. The designs they produced vary enormously be understood that the majority of the contributors were not fashion designers in any traditional sense - demonstrate remarkable originality in terms of methodology, content and design. All copies of ‘ differ necessarily: the prints were coloured by hand and features markedly different colouring (as well as some minor differences in captioning) 1984 and depicted in the catalogue with the colophon verso present here which adds to the bibliographical record - an article published in April 1915 in the ‘Neue Badische Landeszeitung’ provides some of the few extant details - concerning ‘Mode’. While the catalogue suggests that title makes it clear that was produced under the aegis of Josef Hoffmann and the contributors were both the students and the teachers at the Werkstätte’s newer iteration, the Kunstgewerbe Schule. The contents leaf for each Heft is here pasted to
are as follows: Maria Likarz (11), Fritzi Löw (18), Irene ‘Reni’ Schaschl (15), Grete von Noë / Noé (5), Eduard Josef Wimmer (3), Arnold Nechansky (1), Dagobert Peche Flöge (2), Hilda Jesser (17), Max Schnischek (6), Ernst Lichtblau (2), Paul Thomas (2), Lendecke (5), Gertrude Weinberger (1), Gabi Möschl (5), Josef Gabriel (2), Mary Ilse Lodron (1) and Wally Wieselthier (1).
The additional prints in the present example are: linocut by Maria Likarz inscribed in ink:
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and we can locate only this copy at auction in the last 35 years; in commerce the only additional copy we locate is the example sold terms we locate only a single copy, that at the Bibliothek des Österreichischen Museums powerful statements through the medium of woodcut; the Austrians picked up the
verso and 144 linocut, woodcut, lithograph or etched plates on handmade laid tissue, each ref: 87907 £100,000
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50. WILKES, Benjamin. B insects.
SCARCE COMPLETE SUITE OF HAND-COLOURED PLATES BY BENJAMIN WILKES.
Approximately 300 species are depicted in a variety of kaleidoscopic arrangements. The prints illustrate the “somewhat geometric, but nonetheless pleasing, artistic style enhanced Wilkes’ standing with his fellow members of the Aurelain Society. The intricate by many more moths. Wing undersides are often shown.” (Dunbar).
Sets of the engravings, either plain or coloured, were sold outside the Horn Tavern in prints were undoubtedly popular with collectors but as they were issued unbound and sold separately, complete sets are extremely rare.
Second edition, 13 hand-coloured engraved plates mounted on guards (including decorative within platemark not touching image or text, light toning, modern green straight-grained half morocco gilt. ref: 89573 £7,500
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Front cover image - item 29. GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds. Inside front cover image - item 20. D’HANCARVILLE, Baron [Pierre-Francois HUGUES]. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, And Roman Antiquities. Frontispiece image - item 26. FURBER, Robert. Back cover image - item 14. CHINESE WATERCOLOURS Inside back cover - item 39. ROBERTS, David. Egypt & Nubia.
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