Fumetti e illustrazione

VICK'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, Volume XIII, 1890, and [Volume XIV, 1891]

[BOTANICAL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS] · 18901891 · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€392.16 | £328.01 | ¥69,480)

Rochester, NY. James Vick Seedsman. First Edition. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in dark green publisher's blindstamped cloth. Illustrated with 22 bright chromolithographs of flowers. The 1891 volume ends with the October issue and contains the final chromolithogr...

IL GAZZETTIERE AMERICANO CONTENENTE UN DISTINTO RAGGUAGLIO DI TUTTE LE PARTI DEL NUOVO MONDO DELLA LORO SITUAZIONE, CLIMA, TERRENO, PRODOTTI, STATO ANTICO E MODERNO, MERCI, MANIFATTURE, E COMMERCIO CON UNA ESATTA DESCRIZIONE DELLE CITTÀ, PIAZZE, PORTI, BAJE, FIUMI, LAGHI, MONTAGNE, PASSI, E FORTIFICAZIONI IL TUTTO DESTINATO AD ESPORRE LO STATO PRESENTE DELLE COSE IN QUELLA PARTE DI GLOBO, E LE MIRE, E INTERESSI DELLE DIVERSE POTENZE, CHE HANNO DEGLI STABILIMENTI IN AMERICA

1763 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,403.45 | £7,028.88 | ¥1,488,850)

Livorno. Marco Coltellini. First Edition. Three folio (9-1/2" x 12") volumes bound in twentieth century half green morocco leather with marbled boards and endpapers and matching morocco corners. First Italian Edition of THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER, published in London in three duod...

REIS-BESCHRYVING DOOR DE ZUID-ZEE, LANGS DE KUSTEN VAN CHILI, PERU EN BRAZIL OPGESTELT OP EENE REISTOCHT GEDAAN IN DE JAREN 1712, 1713, EN 1714. NEVENS EENE BESCHRYVINGE VAN DE REGERINGE DER YNCAS, KONINGEN VAN PERU

FREZIER, M · 1718 · Charles Agvent

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

Amsterdam. R & G Wetstein. First Dutch Edition. Small quarto (6" x 7-5/8") bound in modern half green morocco leather and paper patterned boards with matching morocco corners and a heavily gilt-decorated spine with four raised bands and a gilt-lettered blue morocco label, top ...

NARRATIVE, OF A FIVE YEARS' EXPEDITION, AGAINST THE REVOLTED NEGROES OF SURINAM, IN GUIANA, ON THE WILD COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA...

STEDMAN, J[ohn] G[abriel] [WILLIAM BLAKE] · 1813 · Charles Agvent

$4,687.50 (€4,201.73 | £3,514.44 | ¥744,425)

London. J. Johnson. Second Edition. Two quarto (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in early calf-backed marbled boards with calf corners, contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, rebacked. A graphic account of the slave rebellion in Dutch...

ACROSS COUNTRY

"WANDERER" [D'AVIGDOR, Elim H.] · 1882 · Charles Agvent

$187.50 (€168.07 | £140.58 | ¥29,777)

London. Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.. First Edition. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9") bound by Bayntun for Brentano's in 3/4 red morocco leather with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 22 color plates and a number of black-and-white text illustrations by G. Bo...

THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT & NUBIA. / AFTER LITHOGRAPHS BY LOUIS HAGHE FROM DRAWINGS MADE ON THE SPOT

ROBERTS, David · 1855 · Charles Agvent

$8,125.00 (€7,282.99 | £6,091.70 | ¥1,290,337)

London. Day & Son. First Quarto Edition. With Historical Descriptions by The Revd. George Croly. Six quarto (8-1/4" x 12") volumes bound in three in later half red morocco leather with matching corners and gilt-lettered and decorated spines. Complete with 250 tinted lithograph...

TOMBLESON'S VIEWS OF THE RHINE and VIEWS OF THE UPPER RHINE

TOMBLESON, W[illiam] & FEARNSIDE, W[illiam] G[ray] (editor) · 1832 · Charles Agvent

$937.50 (€840.35 | £702.89 | ¥148,885)

London. W. Tombleson and Company. First Edition. Two small quarto (5-3/4" x 9-1/2") volumes bound in gilt-decorated and blind-stamped full black morocco leather. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages and 137 fine steel-engraved views as well as a long (45"!) folding panorami...

TRAVELS THROUGH SWEDEN, FINLAND, AND LAPLAND, TO THE NORTH CAPE, IN THE YEARS 1798 AND 1799

ACERBI, Joseph · 1802 · Charles Agvent

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

London. Joseph Mawman. First Edition. Two quarto (7-3/4" x 10") volumes in contemporary tree calf leather with gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 16 engravings and a large folding map. Acerbi was an Italian naturalist and composer. His record of travels ...

THE HISTORY OF LAPLAND WHEREIN ARE SHEWED THE ORIGINAL MANNERS, HABITS, MARRIAGES, CONJURATIONS, &C. OF THAT PEOPLE

SCHEFFER, John · 1674 · Charles Agvent

$2,187.50 (€1,960.81 | £1,640.07 | ¥347,398)

Oxford. Theater. First English Edition. Small folio (7-1/4" x 11") in worn contemporary calf leather with a modern leather spine; vi, 147, [1] pages. First edition in English of a study of the geography, natural history, and inhabitants of Lapland, originally published in Lati...

THE IRIS: AN ILLUMINATED SOUVENIR FOR MDCCCLII (1852)

[EASTMAN, Mary & Seth] HART, John (editor) · 1852 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€560.23 | £468.59 | ¥99,257)

Philadelphia. Lippincott, Grambo & Co.. First Edition. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in the original full embossed burgundy morocco leather with a gilt decorative figure in the center of both covers. Neatly rebacked at a recent date with a new leather spine. Most notable for ...

SWITZERLAND. ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS TAKEN ON THE SPOT AND EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK BY W. H. BARTLETT

BEATTIE, William · 1836 · Charles Agvent

$875.00 (€784.32 | £656.03 | ¥138,959)

London. George Virtue. First Edition. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 11") volumes bound in plum embossed cloth with polished green calf leather spines and corners, matching morocco spine labels. Illustrated with engraved title pages in each volume, 106 steel-engraved plates after Bartle...

THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN CHARDIN INTO PERSIA AND THE EAST-INDIES

CHARDIN, Sir John · 1686 · Charles Agvent

$5,625.00 (€5,042.07 | £4,217.33 | ¥893,310)

London. Moses Pitt. First Edition in English. Folio (7-3/4" x 12-1/8") bound in later calf leather recently and sympathetically rebacked with a gilt-decorated spine preserving the original morocco spine label; [xviii], 264, 331-417, [9], 154, [6] pages. Complete with the front...

SEA & SUSSEX

KIPLING, Rudyard · 1926 · Charles Agvent

$31.30 (€28.06 | £23.47 | ¥4,971)

Garden City. Doubleday, Page & Company. First American Edition. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's blue cloth. Illustrated with 24 color plates by Donald Maxwell.. Donald Maxwell. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Minor fraying to tips of spine which is sunned. Very Goo...

DER ZAUNKONIG UND DER BAR

GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm · 0 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€112.05 | £93.72 | ¥19,851)

[Providence, RI]. First Edition. Small thin folio (9-1/2" x 12-3/4") in decorated boards; [12] pages. Illustrated with a number of small black and red woodcuts scattered throughout the text. This version of Grimm's tale "The Kingbird and the Bear," a story of a humorous battle...

CANDIDE

VOLTAIRE · 1949 · Charles Agvent

$31.30 (€28.06 | £23.47 | ¥4,971)

New York. Hermitage House. First Edition. Decorated boards. Voltaire's classic with mildly erotic illustrations by Sydney Joseph. One of 1500 copies, this copy not numbered as apparently many were not.. Sydney Joseph. Fine in close to Fine slipcase

DE ZEDEN DER WILDEN VAN AMERIKA

LAFITAU, Joseph-Francois · 1731 · Charles Agvent

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

The Hague. Gerard Vander Poel. First Edition. Two folio (7-3/4" x 12") volumes bound in one in contemporary full Dutch vellum, covers tooled in blind with large central blocked arabesque, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, early manuscript titling to the second com...

[THE DOCTRINE OF MORALITY, OR A VIEW OF HUMAN LIFE]. MORAL VIRTUE DELINEATED

[GOMBERVILLE (Marin le Roy, Sieur de)] (AUBIN, Penelope) · 0 · Charles Agvent

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

[London]. [J. Darby, A. Betteswort &c]. Second Edition. Tall Folio (8-3/4" x 14-1/2") bound in full calf leather neatly rebacked. Two parts in one volume, lacking the printed title page, as seems often to be the case. Text in French and English. Translated by Thomas Manington ...

ALGEMEINE GESCHICHTE DER LANDER UND VOLKER VON AMERICA

[SCHROTER, Johann Friedrich; CHARLEVOIX, Pierre-Francois-Xavier de; LAFITAU, Joseph-Francois] BAUMGARTEN, Siegmund Jakob · 17521753 · Charles Agvent

$5,000.00 (€4,481.84 | £3,748.74 | ¥794,054)

Halle. Johann Justinus Gebauer. First Edition. Two quarto (7-3/4" x 10") volumes bound in early full vellum with gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Illustrated with 8 maps (5 folding) and 59 full-page engravings (6 folding), many of which depict early Native Americans. Mos...

CEREMONIES ET COUTUMES RELIGIEUSES DE TOUS LES PEUPLES DU MONDE, REPRESENTEES PAR DES FIGURES DESSINEES & GRAVEES... Ouvrage qui comprend l'histoire philosophique de la religion des nations des deux hemispheres; telles que celle des Brames, des Peguans, des Chinois, des Japonois, des Thibetins, & celle des differens peuples qui habitent l'Asie & les Isles de l'Archipelage Indien; celle des Mexicains, des Peruviens, des Bresiliens, des Groenlandois, des Lapons, des Caffres, de tous les Peuples de la Nigritie, de l'Ethiopie & du Monomotapa; celle des Juifs, tant anciens que modernes, celle des Musulmans & des differentes sectes qui la composent; enfin celle des Chretiens & de cette multitude de branches dans lesquelles elle est subdivisee.

PICART, Bernard · 1789 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,403.45 | £7,028.88 | ¥1,488,850)

Amsterdam. Laporte. Four folio (10" x 16") volumes bound in calf-backed marbled boards of one of the most spectacular illustrated works of the 18th-century. Illustrated with 263 engravings, all but 1 full page and some with more than one image, and including 41 large folding p...

THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth · 1877 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€112.05 | £93.72 | ¥19,851)

London. George Routledge & Sons. First Edition. The Author's Edition: quarto (6-3/8" x 8-3/4") bound in 3/4 brown morocco leather and green boards with gilt rules, five raised bands, and a gilt-lettered and decorated spine, top edge gilt; iv, 644 pages. Illustrated with a fron...