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Los Caprichos
A superb set of the first edition of Goya's greatest series of engravings, an early copy printed shortly after the scratch occurred to engraving 45, bound in contemporary Spanish calf and with excellent impressions of the prints.
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Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco José deLos Caprichos1799
Le Fleuve. Eaux-Fortes d'Edouard Manet
Manet’s illustrations for Cros’ Le Fleuve, the first truly modern illustrated book, with the rare original wrappers.
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Manet, Edouard. Cros, CharlesLe Fleuve. Eaux-Fortes d'Edouard...1874
Recueil des Plans, Elevations et Coupes...
The rare first edition - a beautiful copy in contemporary red morocco with the arms of Stanislas Leczinski for whom the book was produced - of one of the greatest and most beautiful 18th century books on gardens and architecture.
£160,000
Here De Corny, Emmanuel LéopoldRecueil des Plans, Elevations...1750 c.–1753
La Tentation de St. Antoine. 3e...
From the edition limited to 50 copies.
£58,000
Redon, OdilonLa Tentation de St...1896
Dylan Thomas. Collected Poems 1934 -...
An extraordinary work of sympathy, empathy and synchronicity: Ceri Richards' ink illuminations to the poems of Dylan Thomas - with the beautiful painted dust-jacket - undertaken while the poet was dying.
£55,000
Richards, Ceri. Dylan ThomasDylan Thomas. Collected Poems...1953
Le Vite de' piu eccellenti Pittori,...
The second edition of Vasari's famous 'Vite' but the first complete edition with much new material and the first to be illustrated.
£55,000
Vasari, GiorgioLe Vite de' piu...1568
Keats. (Poems)
A very scarce copy of the vellum issue of the Doves Press' Keats in a highly accomplished binding of red morocco by Frieda Thiersch.
£50,000
Doves Press. Keats, JohnKeats. (Poems)1914
Aesop's Fables WIth His Life: in...
A very rare large paper copy of the scarce first edition of Francis Barlow's undoubted masterpiece of English book illustration.
£40,000
Barlow, Francis. (Aesop). Philipot, Thomas & Robert CodringtonAesop's Fables WIth His...1666
Détail des Nouveaux Jardins à la...
A complete copy of Le Rouge's expansive and virtually unobtainable publication on gardens in the Anglo-Chinese manner.
£40,000
Le Rouge, (George Louis)Détail des Nouveaux Jardins...1776–1787
Toulouse-Lautrec's masterpiece, pre-dating Bonnard's 'Parallèlement' by some 6 years, and one of the earliest and greatest modern illustrated books.
Toulouse-lautrec, Henri de. Geffroy, GustaveYvette Guilbert1894
£38,500
Aesop's Fables with his Life: in...
A superlative large paper copy in a contemporary English binding by the Barlow's Aesop Binder of Barlow's undoubted masterpiece of English book illustration.
£35,000
Barlow, Francis. (Aesop). Behn, AphraAesop's Fables with his...1687
Vitruvius Scoticus; Being a Collection of...
An excellent unsophisticated copy of the notoriously rare Vitruvius Scoticus.
£35,000
Adam, WilliamVitruvius Scoticus; Being a...1730. c.1730–1740 / 1762 / 1811
The Plan and Estimate of Finishing...
An exceptional discrete collection - and a remarkable survival from the early eighteenth-century - of groundplans, elevations and documents, the proposal by Hawksmoor, Campbell and James for Queen Anne's North Pavilion at Greenwich.
£35,000
Hawksmoor, Nicholas, Colen Campbell & John JamesThe Plan and Estimate...1728 / 1729
Le Bon Genre. Observations sur les...
One of the scarcest fashion and caricature suites with superb coloured plates.
£35,000
Vernet, Carle, Louis-Marie Lanté, Dominique Bosio et al. Mésangère, Pierre de la. (Ed.)Le Bon Genre. Observations...1827
Original Futurist Drawing Executed on the...
An extraordinary Futurist drawing by Nevinson from the First World War executed on the verso of the rare photograph of Nevinson standing beside his Friends' Ambulance Unit Mors Motor 'bus'.
£30,000
Nevinson, Christopher Richard WynneOriginal Futurist Drawing Executed...1915
Perspectivae Sintagma, in quo varia eximiaque...
Extremely scarce third edition of Jamnitzer's famous book on perspective, originally published as 'Perspectiva corporum regularium' in 1568.
£30,000
Jamnitzer, WenzelPerspectivae Sintagma, in quo...1626
Ulysses
The deluxe issue of the first edition of Joyce's magnum opus to be printed in Great Britain.
£27,500
Joyce, JamesUlysses1936
The Process of Calotype Photogenic Drawing,...
The rare first edition of the first announcement of William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype method - the negative / positive photographic process - the most important innovation in the history of photography.
£27,500
Talbot, William Henry FoxThe Process of Calotype...1841
Incroyables et Merveilleuses
The rare complete suite of hand-coloured engravings of dandies ('Incroyables') and their female counterparts ('Merveilleuses').
£27,500
Vernet, Horace & LanteIncroyables et Merveilleusesc.1815
Faust. Tragédie de M. de Goethe,...
A large paper copy of the first edition of Delacroix’s masterful interpretation of ‘Faust’, a pioneering meeting of word and image and a monument of nineteenth-century illustration.
£25,000
Delacroix, Eugène. Goethe, J. W. vonFaust. Tragédie de M...1828
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