The New Print Magazine. being a Collection of Picturesque Views & Beautiful Scenes in the Several Counties of England and Wales
The very rare, HAND-COLOURED Engraved Views of England and Wales c1796. Engraved title and fifty eight hand coloured engraved plates, each plate with leaf of descriptive letterpress, except for Luxborough House, where one description answers both…
Picturesque Views of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in England and Wales.
An alphabetical arrangement of one hundred picturesque views of seats of the nobility and gentry in England and Wales VG 100 pls. First & only edition in a beautiful full red long grain morocco, quarto, gilt rolled borders in the Greek Key…
The Copper Plate Magazine, or Elegant Cabinet of Picturesque Prints consisting of Sublime and Interesting Views in Great Britain and Ireland
With 249 (of 250) Copper Plates, n.d. [1792-1802] Five volumes, oblong folio, in contemporary full maroon blind and gilt embossed, a little rubbed. Spines, decorative gilt tooling & titles, raised bands, edges rubbed. Calligraphic engraved…
The military costume of Europe; exhibited in a series of highly-finished military figures, in the uniform of their several corps; with a concise description, and historical anecdotes; forming memoirs of the various armies of the present time
Complete With All Ninety Six Hand Coloured Military Plates First editions, two volumes, small folio, in contemporary long grained morocco, elaborate gilt and blind tooling. Re-backed spines, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling & titles, edges…
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English
[ALEXANDER William] 1767-1816
FIFTY HAND COLOURED AQUATINT PLATES, EACH WITH AN ACCOMPANYING LEAF OF TEXT First edition, 4to, in full black morocco, spine gilt titled, lower and fore edges untrimmed, title leaf, contents leaf, & 50 hand coloured engraved plates, each with…
The Melange of Humour;
[ALKEN Henry Thomas] 1784-1851. [EGERTON Daniel Thomas] 1800?-1847
First collected edition of this acclaimed series of humorous situations with Fifty Hand Coloured Plates Caricaturing the English Lifestyle of the 1820s. c1835, Folio, letterpress title and fifty hand coloured plates (including frontispiece). Most…
A Few Ideas; Being Hints on Hunting and Driving and other sports; caught in Leicestershire, &c.
[ALKEN Henry] 1784-1851
ONE OF THE RAREST COLOUR PLATE SPORTING BOOKS c1830. First edition, early issue, with some plates watermarked 1828 and 1829, folio, letterpress title, and forty two hand coloured etched plates, some heightened with gum arabic. In contemporary…
[Guide Through Wales and the Marches]
[BAKER James]
109 Hand Coloured plates by James Baker The Topographer In contemporary diced half calf over boards, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Spine, gilt tooling & titles, top edge worn. Internally, 106 pls (all hand coloured, 53 oblong, 53 oval, 1…
Select Landscape Views of the Seats, and interesting Scenes of Art and Nature, to be Found on and Contiguous to the Great Post Roads, Described in the Imperial Guide;
[BAKER James]
James Baker's uncommon 1801 Views First edition, in contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Spine, gilt tooling, titles in gilt to red calf label, edges worn. Internally, [3], 4-16, [1], 12-18,…
A Selection of Fac-Similes of Water-Colour Drawings, from the works of the most distinguished British Artists.
[BOWYER R]
A Tour de Force of Engraving and Colouring, with Twelve Finely Coloured Aquatint Plates. 1825, First Edition, First Issue (without title below image), folio, title, 9 ff. text, twelve superb coloured aquatint plates, with guards accompanied by 8…
An Illustrated Record of Important Events in The Annals of Europe, [and] The Campaign of Waterloo. An illustrated record of important events in the annals of Europe, during the years 1812, 1813, 1814, & 1815 : comprising a series of views of Paris, Moscow, the Kremlin, Dresden, Berlin, the battles of Leipsic, etc... Together with a history of those momentous transactions
[BOWYER Robert] 1758-1834
With 30 plates - (Twenty-Two Hand-Coloured Aquatints) First edition of both titles, two folio volumes bound as 1 (as is common), in half calf over contemporary red marbled boards, some blind tooling, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, 1815,…
Popular pastimes, being a selection of picturesque representations of the customs & amusements of Great Britain, in ancient and modern times; accompanied with historical descriptions.
[BRAYLEY Edward Wedlake 1773-1854. STEPHANOFF Francis Philip 1788-1860]
Pastimes include football, exorcism and wife selling VG 1st ed 1816 In contemporary full calf, decorative gilt edge tooling. Spine skilfully rebacked with the original laid down, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, gilt titles to red calf…
Britannia [Grangerised North Wales section]
[CAMDEN William] 1551-1623. GOUGH Richard 1735-1809 ed. & tr. NICHOLS John 1745-1826 editor.
A superb, grangerised copy of the North Wales section of Camden's Britannia Volume 3 only (of 4), [1806], near Fine, in modern green morocco over green marbled boards (by Delrue 1982), spine with raised bands, gilt title to black cal label.…
Fifty Wonderful Portraits
[COOPER, Robert, and PAGE R.]
Fifty Hand-Coloured Engraved Portraits of Remarkable Persons. Quarto, [2], 8 pp (pl descriptions), fifty hand-colored engraved plates, printed on pink paper, attractively bound by Kelly & Sons (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full dark…
Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ, nunc vulgo dictæ Cambro-Britannicæ, a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae, ab aliis Wallicæ, et linguæ Latinæ, dictionarium duplex :
[DAVIES John] 1567-1644
Welsh - Latin and the Latin - Welsh Dictionaries G, 1632, in worn tree calf, gilt edge tooling, tip refurbished. Modern calf spine, gilt tooling, gilt titles to red calf label. Internally, *1-***1, A-P3, Aa-Iii6, title page (*1) lacking title…