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ROSA, Salvator · 1690 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,240.92 | £1,874.37 | ¥397,027)

Nuremberg. Jacobum de Sandrart Pictorem. First Edition. Small quarto (6-1/2" x 8-3/4") bound in early marbled boards. Famous series of exquisite etchings by Salvatore Rosa (1615-1673) of soldiers and people of other occupations drawn with lively gestures and expressive facial ...

TALES OF INDIA

KIPLING, Rudyard · 0 · Charles Agvent

$31.30 (€28.06 | £23.47 | ¥4,971)

New York. Rand McNally & Company. Reprint. Pictorial cloth. Illustrated with 5 full-page color plates and black-and-white text illustrations by Paul Strayer.. Paul Strayer . Aging to cheap paper; light wear to head of spine. Very Good

THE RHINE, ITALY, AND GREECE. In a series of drawings from nature by Colonel Cockburn, Major Irton; Messrs. Bartlett, Leitch, and Wolfensberger

WRIGHT, G. N · 0 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€560.23 | £468.59 | ¥99,257)

London & Paris. Fisher, Son, & Co. First Edition. An early issue with just Fisher listed as publisher. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") volumes bound together in contemporary half green morocco leather and cloth with morocco corners, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 2 engraved t...

LES MISERABLES

HUGO, Victor · 1887 · Charles Agvent

$562.50 (€504.21 | £421.73 | ¥89,331)

London and New York. George Routledge and Sons. First Illustrated Edition. Early but likely not first printing. Five quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") volumes bound in publisher's green cloth with printed paper spine labels. According to the title page, "with illustrations from design...

LA TOURAINE

HALLAYS, Andre · 1930 · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€392.16 | £328.01 | ¥69,480)

Tours. Maison Alfred Mame et Fils. First Edition. Folio (mostly 9-3/4" x 13-1/4' with some leaves smaller) consisting of loose signatures within printed wraps and in a decorated cloth folder; (viii), 244, (4) pages. Copy #4 of only 5 copies on imperiales du Japon (of a total e...

PERTH-SHIRE ILLUSTRATED: A SERIES OF SELECT VIEWS OF ITS PICTURESQUE AND ROMANTIC SCENERY, PALACES, CASTLES & SEATS. With Historical & Descriptive Illustrations; and an Account of the Royal Progress

[SCOTLAND] · 0 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€280.12 | £234.30 | ¥49,628)

London, Edinburgh & Glasgow. A. Fullarton & Co. First Edition. Two small folio (8-1/2" x 10-5/8") volumes bound in half brown morocco leather and cloth with matching leather corners, gilt-decorated and lettered spines, marbled edges. Illustrated with a steel-engraved title pag...

CANADIAN SCENERY ILLUSTRATED

[BARTLETT, W. H.] WILLIS, N. P · 1842 · Charles Agvent

$562.50 (€504.21 | £421.73 | ¥89,331)

London. George Virtue. First Edition. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in publisher's full heavily gilt-decorated dark brown morocco leather. Complete with a map, a portrait, 2 engraved title pages, and 116 steel-engraved views, all with tissue guards, by W. H. Bart...

LIFE OF MICHAEL ANGELO

GRIMM, Herman · 19061903 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€112.05 | £93.72 | ¥19,851)

Boston. Little Brown and Co. New Edition. Two volumes in publisher's attractively decorated maroon cloth retaining the original maroon cloth dustwrappers. Translated by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett. With additions to the First Edition and illustrated with photogravures from works o...

REVERIES OF A YOUNG MAN IN QUEST OF A WIFE

WILLOUGHBY Frank M · 1888 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€112.05 | £93.72 | ¥19,851)

Philadelphia. Sherman & Co.. New Edition. Decorated cloth with 50 drawings in the text.. Owner name on front pastedown. Near Fine

THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE. POEMS OF CHILDHOOD

[RACKHAM, Arthur] FOUQUÉ, De La Motte · 1909 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€112.05 | £93.72 | ¥19,851)

London & New York. William Heinemann & Doubleday, Page & Co,. First Trade Edition. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10-1/8") in publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated with 11 full-page color plates by Arthur Rackham, all with captioned tissue guards, as well as a number of black-a...

CANDIDE OU L'OPTIMISME. ZADIG. JEANNOT ET COLIN

VOLTAIRE · 0 · Charles Agvent

$62.50 (€56.02 | £46.86 | ¥9,926)

Paris. Editions Nilsson. First Edition. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-1/8") in stiff paper binding with a thin brown paper cover with watercolor decorations on front and rear panels, as well as the spine. The French text is accompanied by 6 hand-colored pochoir plates by Robert Polack on...

DAPHNIS ET CHLOE

LONGUS · 1930 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€112.05 | £93.72 | ¥19,851)

Paris. Editions Nilsson. First Edition. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-1/8") in stiff paper binding with a thin brown paper cover with watercolor decorations on front and rear panels, as well as the spine. The French text is accompanied by 6 hand-colored pochoir plates by G. P. Joumard on...

A FINE ENDEAVOR: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF FASHIONABLE COLLECTING. Kent State University Museum, 1985 - 2010

DRUESEDOW, Jean L · 0 · Charles Agvent

$31.30 (€28.06 | £23.47 | ¥4,971)

(Barberton, OH). Kent State University Museum. First Edition. Softcover (9-1/2" x 9-1/2"), 224 pages. Foreword by Linda Allard. Color illustrations on nearly every page.. Fine

MEDICAL FLORA; OR, MANUAL OF THE MEDICAL BOTANY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: And notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes

RAFINESQUE, C(onstantine) S(amuel) · 18281830 · Charles Agvent

$3,125.00 (€2,801.15 | £2,342.96 | ¥496,283)

Philadelphia. Atkinson & Alexander (first volume); Samuel C. Atkinson (second volume). First Edition. Two duodecimo (4-1/4" x 7-1/4") volumes bound in recent burgundy cloth-backed off-white boards with title information printed in black on both boards and printed white paper s...

THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE. POEMS OF CHILDHOOD

[RACKHAM, Arthur] SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles · 1918 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€112.05 | £93.72 | ¥19,851)

Philadelphia & London. J. B. Lippincott Company & William Heinemann. First Trade Edition. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10") in publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated with 8 full-page color plates by Arthur Rackham, all with captioned tissue guards, as well as a number of black...

LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES

[RACKHAM, Arthur] GRIMM BROTHERS · 0 · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€392.16 | £328.01 | ¥69,480)

London. Constable & Co. Ltd.. First Trade Edition. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 10-1/4") in publisher's decorated cloth. Illustrated with 12 full-page tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham, all but one with tissue guards, as well as a number of black-and-white drawings, many also...

THE TAVERN OF THREE VIRTUES

SAINT-JUIRS · 1963 · Charles Agvent

$93.80 (€84.08 | £70.33 | ¥14,896)

London. T. Fisher Unwin. First Edition. Large quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in publisher's bright red cloth with gilt decoration. One of 650 copies illustrated with 60 drawings by Daniel Vierge. Includes a critical essay on Vierge by Edmund Gosse. . Daniel Vierge. Just about...

[CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN AND THE ADJOINING COUNTRIES...]

[FROISSART, Sir John] · 0 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€560.23 | £468.59 | ¥99,257)

[London]. [Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme; And J. White]. Third Edition. Quarto (7-1/4" x 11") bound in contemporary marbled boards with later calf leather spine and corners. The atlas volume only of the multi-volume set complete with 57 lithographs and a map.. Occasional ligh...

THE AMERICAN ANNUAL: ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA

EASTMAN, Mary H[enderson] · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,120.46 | £937.18 | ¥198,513)

Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott. First Edition. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in the publisher's gilt-decorated gray cloth, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 21 fine steel-engraved plates, mainly of the Sioux and the Pueblo, after Seth Eastman, the author's husband and one of ...

THE CEREMONIES OF A JAPANESE MARRIAGE

[JAPAN] · 0 · Charles Agvent

$187.50 (€168.07 | £140.58 | ¥29,777)

(Kobe, Japan). (T. Takagi). First Edition. Bound in flexible string-tied silk boards (10" x 7") with a color-printed title page and 20 color collotypes with some hand-coloring protected by tissue guards depicting the process of making silk.. Near Fine