A unique and truly delightful Arts & Crafts illumination of an account of the pursuit and capture of wild horses in Nevada, calligraphed, illustrated, and bound by San Francisco artist Otis Oldfield. This seems to be the only example in book form of horse-breaker Charles “Pete” Barnum’s vivid, first-hand account...
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A rare costume book depicting the people of Peru. The plates, all of them printed in Paris and bearing the imprints of various lithographers, are captioned as follows: El Cholo Costenõ; La Chola Quesera; El Heladero; La Chola Frutera; El Biscochero; La Chola Rabona; La Tapada (de noche); El...
One of the most important books illustrating Mexico City and vicinity, this copy with more color plates than most, and including two infrequently found folding maps. A splendid document of both Mexican life and lithography, this edition of Mexico y sus alrededores has nearly double the number of color plates...
First edition of Alvin Langdon Coburn’s celebrated volume of highly evocative photogravures of authors and artists. Coburn’s work as a portrait photographer was initially spurred in 1904 by Perriton Maxwell, editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, who—“Out of the kindness of his heart, or, perhaps, more to get rid of...
An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures...
Second edition of this important work first published in 1690, with the addition of six plates. Jan Van Der Heiden (1637–1712) was a fascinating and talented figure, a highly regarded painter of cityscapes and an inventor. He developed the first street-lighting system in Amsterdam, and his contributions to firefighting technology...
Set of ten imaginative color aquatints in the Art Nouveau style, depicting various erotic scenes from the playfully fanciful to the grotesque. One of 20 copies on Japan within the larger edition of 110, each plate signed by the artist in pencil with the pseudonym “Remigius Eques” and numbered 12/20...
A delightful collection of plates depicting London’s street vendors. Consisting of 31 hand colored engravings after drawings by William Marshall Craig, a popular miniaturist (and teacher to the armless painter and wonder Sarah Biffin), this volume was the first in a brief 19th Century surge in popularity of books of...
A scarce, fascinating, and quite lovely British color-plate portfolio depicting the domestic life of an Anglo Indian couple, as well as native Bengalese genre scenes. The six plates are hand-colored lithographs by J. Bouvier of the General Lithographic Establishment, 70, Martin’s Lane, after watercolors by Tayler. The plates are...