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VERONESE, Paul. Exhibition of paintings in fresco...Brought from the Soranza palace, in the Venetian territory, now on view, at the gallery, Maddox-Street, Hanover-Square, opposite St. George's church. London. Printed by Thomas Davidson, [1825]. First edition. 8vo. 15pp, [1]. Recent marbled paper wrappers. A very good copy, with only the slightest of browning to gutter margins of title and final page, and a very small hole to p.11-12. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 13963

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[HOGARTH, William]. [Etched receipt for subscription to 'a Print Representing a March to Finchly in the Year 1746']. [London]. [s.n., c.1750] Dimensions 290 x 240mm, engraving 231 x 178mm . Etched subscription receipt; unused. Sometime mounted at corners, with removal marks to verso, slightly dusty, else fine. More > £ 600.00 Antiquates Ref. 17178

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[WHISTLER, James McNeill]. Eden versus whistler: the baronet & the butterfly. A valentine with a verdict. New York. R. H. Russell, 1899. First American trade edition. 8vo. [32], 78pp, [2]. Uncut in original publisher's cloth-backed drab paper boards, lettered in gilt, housed in recent custom drab paper slipcase. A trifle rubbed and marked. Later inked ownership inscription to FEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 18843

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[IMMERZEEL, J.]. [Drop-head title:] Monogrammen van schilders, teekenaars, graveurs, enz.. [Amsterdam]. [J. C. van Kesteren], [1843]. First edition. 8vo. 43pp, [1]. Original publisher's marbled paper wrappers. Without spine panel, some loss, chipping, creasing, and light marking. Foxed. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 14805

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DAVIDSON, Ellis A. Drawing for elementary schools. Being a manual of Method of Teaching Drawing. Specially adapted for the use of masters of national and parochial schools. London. Chapman and Hall, 1857. First edition. 8vo. viii, 65pp, [5]. With a half-title and numerous line illustrations in the text. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed, lightly sunned. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29778

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[PHOTOGRAPHY]. POUNCY, John. Dorsetshire Photographically illustrated. By J. Pouncy. The detail and touch of nature faithfully reproduced by a new process on stone, by which views are rendered truthful, artistic, and durable. London. Dorchester. Bland & Long. John Pouncy, Photographic institution, [1857]. First edition. Oblong folio. Four parts in two volumes. [90]; [82]pp. Lithographic title to Vol I., terminal advertisements and colophon leaves to each volume (all included in preceding collation). With 79 photo-lithographic plates, one of which double-page. Original publisher's limp cloth, decorated in blind and titled in gilt; Vol II neatly recased in the original binding at an early date. Some rubbing, tearing and a little marking to binding; ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 32953

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TICOZZI, Stefano. Dizionario dei pittori dal rinnovamento delle belle arti fino al 1800. Milano [i.e. Milan]. Dalla Tipograafia di Vincenzo Ferrario, 1818. First edition. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. xv, [1], 328; 363pp, [1]. With two engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, marked, discoloured, spine dulled. Armorial bookplate of Charles Feilding to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25077

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[CARLOS, João]. Dez gravuras de João Carlos [ten engravings by joão carlos]. Lisbon. Edicoes Inquerito, [1957]. Limited issue. [11] leaves. Original publisher's cream card folder lettered black, containing 11 loose leaf cards comprising ten engravings, with an introductory leaf by Charles Oulmont. Folder somewhat worn, with large tear to spine. Inscribed on the covering leaf 'To Mr. Cyril Kenney with the best wishes for a happy New Year Very sincerely João Carlos. Christmas 1957'.
More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30083

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FELIBIEN, Andre. Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent. Avec un dictionnaire des Termes propres a chacun de ces Arts. A Paris. Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard, rue S. Jacques, a la Bible d'or, 1676. First edition. Quarto. [24], 795pp, [1]. With 65 engraved plates. Contemporary continental gilt-tooled speckled calf, with gilt 'Ford-Ward' supra-libros of William Douglas, Duke of Queensberry (1637-1695) to centre of each board. A trifle rubbed, spine at little chipped at foot, short crack at head of upper joint, some loss of gilt to lower supra-libros, else a well-preserved copy; internally fine. With the manuscript shelf-mark 'Press: E. Shel.1. No. ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 18333

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TASSIE, William. Descriptive Catalogue of a collection of devices and mottos english, french, and italian, from Engraved Seals, formed in composition paste, and sold by william tassie, leicester-square. London. Printed by William Bulmer and Co., 1816. First edition. 12mo. [8], 43pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's printed powder blue paper boards, recently rebacked in black cloth. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to front blank fly-leaf, later inked gift inscription and annotation to half-title, manuscript numerals to REP, occasional paper repairs to gutter margins, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 30905

ALBERTI, Leonbatista. Della pittura e della statua. Milano. Dalla Società Tipograpfica de'Classici Italiani, 1804. 8vo. xxv, [1], 136pp, [4]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further six engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, supralibros of George Agar-Ellis to both boards. Rubbed, without lettering-pieces. Recent bookplates of J. B. Bury and Michael Bury to FEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32523

HORSIN DEON, [Simon]. De la conservation et de la restauration des tableux... Paris. Chez Hector Bossange, 1851. First edition. 8vo. viii, 234pp. Recent tan plain paper wrappers. Very minor wear to extremities. Internally immaculate, a fine copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 14648

MEIER-GRAEFE, Julius. Degas. London. Ernest Benn Limited, 1923. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Quarto. One of 1000 numbered copies, of which this is no. 225. 87 pp. With 103 plates. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered gilt. Boards a trifle rubbed and marked, spine ends lightly bumped. Internally bright and clean, save toning to endpapers, with the original 103 tissue guards loosely inserted. With the bookplate of Anthony Eden to front pastedown. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29822

OOSTENS-WITTAMER, Yolande. Das hotel Solvay erleben. [Brussels]. [Editions Lebeer Hossman], [1995]. Second edition. Folio. 32pp. Sixteen folded sheets loosely inserted into original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Extremities a trifle marked. Overall a clean and crisp copy. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 25293

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[SALONIKA]. [Cover title: Salonika fire, 18-19th August, 1917]. [s.i.]. [s.n, s.d., c. 1917] Oblong 8vo. 24 leaves, each with a laid down silver gelatin photographic print, loose in grey paper foling portfolio. A trifle rubbed to extremities; slight occasional spotting to mounts. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33334

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HORTA, Victor. Considerations sur l'art moderne. Ledeberg-Gand. Imprimerie Jules de Vreese, 1925. First offprint edition. 8vo. 8pp. Unopened. Stapled into original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Extremities sunned. Foxed. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24066

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REMY, Pierre. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, desseins & estampes, et autres effets curieux, après le décès de m. de julienne... Paris. Chez Vente, 1767. First edition. 12mo. xx, 316, 80pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf-backed powder blue paper boards. Rubbed and marked, manuscript shelf-marks to upper board. Occasional modern ink-stamps of Jean-Pierre Cornet, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 20801

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CHAFFERS, W[illiam]. Catalogue of the works of antiquity and art collected by the late william henry forman, esq., Pippbrook House, Dorking, Surrey, and removed in 1890 to callaly castle, northumberland, by major a. h. browne. [London]. Printed [by A. Bradley] for Private Circulation, 1892. First edition. Quarto. [4], 209pp, [35]. With seven engraved plates. Handsomely bound in richly gilt-tooled polished calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23084

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ROBINSON, J[ohn] C[harles]. Catalogue of the Soulages Collection; being a descriptive inventory of a collection of works of decorative art, formerly in the possession of m. jules soulages of toulouse, Now, by permission of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Exhibited to the Public at the Museum of Ornamental Art, marlborough house. London. Chapman and Hall, 1856. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [3], 200pp. Original publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22628

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[COIN CATALOGUES]. Catalogue of the coins and medals. .. collected ... by the late joseph miller ... which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. sotheby and son...On Wednesday, February 25th, 1829.... [London]. [s.n.], [1829]. 35pp, [1]. Fore-edge of terminal leaf shaved. Priced in manuscript. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just five locations (BNF, Harvard, NT, NYPL, and Kings College).

[Bound with:] Catalogue of the extensive and valuable collection of coins and medals of the late joseph gordon leybourn...which will be sold by auction, by mr. s. leigh sotheby...On wednesday, june 20, 1838... [London]. [s.n.], [1838]. 27pp, [1]. ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19612