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Nuremberg:: Trew, Christoph Jakob and Wirsing, A.L.,, 1750-86.. first. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored copperplate engraving. Folio (12.5/8 x 19.25 inches, 32.05 x 48.89 cm). Presented matted in an Ivory rag mat with gilt line decoration. Sized to 18.5 x 24.5 inches, 46.99 x 62.23 cm). One of the rarest, and most elusive, of all botanical works. As stated in Gordon Dunthorne's Flower and Fruit Prints of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries, London. 1938: Hortus Nitidissimis is one of the finest records of the cultivated flowers of the period, containing full-sized coloured of the figures. This is the showiest of the Florilegia; garden and florist's flowers painted for their beauty opposed to their scientific appeal. Many of the botanicals were rendered and appropriately credited to Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70). Ehret's contribution to the art of botanical illustration is so instrumental, that in his well-referenced and essential tome…
Read More ( Original Woodcut Print on Rice Paper ) Head of a Woman by Hahn, Betty ( American, 1940 ) - 1965
by Hahn, Betty ( American, 1940 )
( Original Woodcut Print on Rice Paper ) Head of a Woman
by Hahn, Betty ( American, 1940 )
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The Artist, 1965. Original woodcut print on rice paper , paper size 12 1/4" x 16", image size 8" x 11", pencil signed bottom right with pencil title "Head of a Woman", 6/9, 1964 ? ( pencil faint). Near Fine, bottom edge with 1/2" horizontal fold, small hole edge of right margin. Betty Hahn is best known for her photographic artworks, which have incorporated a range of artistic techniques unconventional to that medium. Her works are in many museum, university, and private collections worldwide, including The Chicago Art Institute, The Museum of Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. This woodcut is an early work, dating from her MFA years at Indiana University in the mid-1960's, and her works from this era are SCARCE. . SIGNED BY ARTIST. Print. Near Fine. 12 1/4" x 16".
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Hortus Nitidissimis omnem per annum superbiens floribus: Balsamina I- Plate 80
by Trew, Dr. Christoph Jakob.
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Hortus Nitidissimis omnem per annum superbiens floribus: Caryophyllus VI, VII Plate 53
by Trew, Dr. Christoph Jakob.
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Nuremberg:: Trew, Christoph Jakob and Wirsing, A.L.,, 1750-86.. first. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored copperplate engraving. Folio (12.5/8 x 19.25 inches, 32.05 x 48.89 cm). Presented matted in an Ivory rag mat with gilt line decoration. Sized to 18.5 x 24.5 inches, 46.99 x 62.23 cm). One of the rarest, and most elusive, of all botanical works. As stated in Gordon Dunthorne's Flower and Fruit Prints of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries, London. 1938: Hortus Nitidissimis is one of the finest records of the cultivated flowers of the period, containing full-sized coloured of the figures. This is the showiest of the Florilegia; garden and florist's flowers painted for their beauty opposed to their scientific appeal. Many of the botanicals were rendered and appropriately credited to Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70). Ehret's contribution to the art of botanical illustration is so instrumental, that in his well-referenced and essential tome…
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Return to Plain Awful Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
by Barks, Carl
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Scottsdale, AZ: Another Rainbow, 1989. Non-Book. Thirteenth in a series of Carl Barks lithographs. Edition limited to 345 numbered copies. Signed by Carl Barks on the lower right corner. Continuous-tone, 22-color lithograph based on the story Lost in the Andes, originally published in 1949. The lithograph measures 25" x 21.5" and the image area measures 20" x 16". Printed on Opalesque archival quality paper by the Black Box of Chicago. Comes with the matching numbered certificate of authenticity. Condition is fine. ; Prints; Signed by Author.
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STORIA DELL'AUGUSTA BADIA DI S. SILVESTRO DI NONANTOLA AGGIUNTOVI IL CODICE DIPLOMATICO DELLA MEDESIMA ILLUSTRATO CON NOTE
by GIROLAMO TIRABOSCHI
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Foligno (PG), Italy
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MODENA: PRESSO LA SOCIETA TIPOGRAFICA, 1784. In folio. cm. 38,5x27. Pp. XIX+526+(4). Splendida opera del 1784, la storia della Badia di Nonantola scritta da Girolamo Tiraboschi (1731-1794). L'opera era composta da due tomi, siamo purtroppo in possesso solo del primo tomo contenente tutte le incisioni e pagine ma mancante della carta.<BR>L'opera descrive i beni e le proprietà della Badia includendo quindi i territori di Modena, Bologna, Avellana, Solara, Frignano, Cremona, Pavia, Milano, Mantova, Piacenza, Parma, Ferrara, Valfabbrica nella diocesi di Assisi, Nocera Umbra, Sassoferrato. Una parte dedicata allo stato di Modena a partire dal XII secolo, Vescovi di Modena, storia della Badia di Nonantola dalla sua fondazione fino al presente (tra cui descrizione della biblioteca), Delle chiese e dei beni che il Monastero di Nonantola avea in diverse parti d'Italia. Alla fine del volume lista dei vescovi di Modena, Abati del Monastero di Nonantola, abati, vicari. Il testo è…
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Dolores - complete suite of 11 wood engravings
by John Buckland Wright
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Maastricht: [A.A.M. Stols] , 1933. Print. Very Good. No Binding. 2nd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Suite of 11 wood engravings of female nudes for the second edition of Dolores by J.C. Swinburne, printed on imperial Japanese paper. The engravings for the first edition were reworked as silhouettes in the second edition. Privately printed by Stols for the collector Baron Emile van der Borch van Verwolde. The second edition of Dolores was limited to 40 copies. 9 engravings measure 10 x 5 cm., the head- and tailpieces measure 5 x 5 cm. Sheets are 25 x 16 cm. The tailpiece of a female nude with three ravens refers to the coat-of-arms of Emile, Baron van der Borch van Verwolde. Very rare. .
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Hortus Nitidissimis omnem per annum superbiens floribus: Lilium ll- Lilium Persicum- plate 120
by Trew, Dr. Christoph Jakob.
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Nuremberg:: Trew, Christoph Jakob and Wirsing, A.L.,, 1750-86.. first. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored copperplate engraving. Folio (12.5/8 x 19.25 inches, 32.05 x 48.89 cm). Presented matted in an Ivory rag mat with gilt line decoration. Sized to 18.5 x 24.5 inches, 46.99 x 62.23 cm). One of the rarest, and most elusive, of all botanical works. As stated in Gordon Dunthorne's Flower and Fruit Prints of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries, London. 1938: Hortus Nitidissimis is one of the finest records of the cultivated flowers of the period, containing full-sized coloured of the figures. This is the showiest of the Florilegia; garden and florist's flowers painted for their beauty opposed to their scientific appeal. Many of the botanicals were rendered and appropriately credited to Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70). Ehret's contribution to the art of botanical illustration is so instrumental, that in his well-referenced and essential tome…
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Hortus Nitidissimis omnem per annum superbiens floribus: Caryophyllus XII, XIII- Camilla, Feu de Japan- Plate 91
by Trew, Dr. Christoph Jakob.
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Nuremberg:: Trew, Christoph Jakob and Wirsing, A.L.,, 1750-86.. first. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored copperplate engraving. Folio (12.5/8 x 19.25 inches, 32.05 x 48.89 cm). Presented matted in an Ivory rag mat with gilt line decoration. Sized to 18.5 x 24.5 inches, 46.99 x 62.23 cm). One of the rarest, and most elusive, of all botanical works. As stated in Gordon Dunthorne's Flower and Fruit Prints of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries, London. 1938: Hortus Nitidissimis is one of the finest records of the cultivated flowers of the period, containing full-sized coloured of the figures. This is the showiest of the Florilegia; garden and florist's flowers painted for their beauty opposed to their scientific appeal. Many of the botanicals were rendered and appropriately credited to Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70). Ehret's contribution to the art of botanical illustration is so instrumental, that in his well-referenced and essential tome…
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Hortus Nitidissimis. Plate 45: Caryophyllus V- General Clayton.
by Trew, Dr. Christoph Jakob.
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Nuremberg:: Trew, Christoph Jakob and Wirsing, A.L.,, 1750-86.. first. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored copperplate engraving. Folio (12.5/8 x 19.25 inches, 32.05 x 48.89 cm). Presented matted in an Ivory rag mat with gilt line decoration. Sized to 18.5 x 24.5 inches, 46.99 x 62.23 cm). One of the rarest, and most elusive, of all botanical works. As stated in Gordon Dunthorne's Flower and Fruit Prints of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries, London. 1938: Hortus Nitidissimis is one of the finest records of the cultivated flowers of the period, containing full-sized coloured of the figures. This is the showiest of the Florilegia; garden and florist's flowers painted for their beauty opposed to their scientific appeal. Many of the botanicals were rendered and appropriately credited to Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70). Ehret's contribution to the art of botanical illustration is so instrumental, that in his well-referenced and essential tome…
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Pl. 383 Trumpeter Swan (Young): The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories
by Audubon, John James .
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New York & Philadelphia:: Audubon, J. J. & Chevalier, J.B.,, 1840-44.. First Royal Octavo. Fine condition with bright original hand-coloring. A fine original hand-colored lithograph on paper. Sheet size: 6.5 x 10.25 inches. Drawn from nature by John James Audubon, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Linnaean Society. Lithographed, printed and colored by JT Bowen, Philadelphia for the First Royal Octavo Edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America. Includes the text from Audubon's Ornithological Biography. The Royal Octavo Edition represents John James Audubon's (1785-1851) desire to create an affordable work based on his magnum opus; the Double Elephant Folio Edition of The Birds of America. London: Published by the Author, 1827-38, with engravings produced by William H. Lizars and Robert Havell, Jr. after Audubon's dramatic life-sized portraits of North American birds set amidst their native foliage and surroundings. During the…
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Four Picturesque Views in North Wales..
by BROUGHTON Rev Brian 1767?-1839
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London Oxford: Rev Brian Broughton, 1798. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good. ALKEN Samuel 1756-1815. Engraved in Aquatinta by Alken, from Drawings made on the spot. With Poetical reflections on leaving that country. In modern grey oblong cloth covers, with photocopied title to top cover and spine. Internally new endpapers, title page has a 7.5" closed tear, also 3 small worn holes or stab sown holes, edges a little chipped, 14 pp, 4 pl, errata pasted in, some browning and light foxing to a few fore-edges, paper watermarked J Whatman 1794, plates dated June 12, 1798, with 3 of the original tissue guards, the plates are Fall of the River Machno, Conway Castle, Pulpit of Hugh Llwyd and Pont y Glynn, plates are 42*30.5 cm and the leaves are 66*49 cm, the poems that runs throughout is "REFLECTION", with its own cloth covered slipcase with its copies title, a very good copy of a rare and fragile suite of engravings with added romantic topographical verse and much scarcer than the enlarged but…
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
by William R. Gillis
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William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
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Sagittaria rigida Pursh (1814)
by Sydenham Teast Edwards
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1 leaf, verso blank. Sydm. Edwards del.; Pub. S. Curtis Walworth, July 1, 1801, Vol. 15. F. Sansom Sc. No 1472. A hand-colored engraving of Sagittaria rigida Pursh, commonly known Canadian Arrowhead.
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Selago ovata L’Hérit. ex Aiton
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1 leaf, verso blank. Pub. by W. Curtis St. Geo. Crescent. Mar. 1, 1792. No 186. A hand-colored engraving of Selago ovata as described by Aiton, W., Hortus Kewensis, vol. 2 (1789).
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[Uvularia grandiflora Sm.]
by Sydenham Teast Edwards
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1 leaf, verso blank. Sydm. Edwards del. Pub. June 1 1791 by W. Curtis. No 159. A hand-colored engraving of Uvularia grandiflora, family: Liliaceae; subfamily: Colchicoideae
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Aurinia saxatilis (L.) Desv. (1792) [Golden Alison]
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1 leaf, verso blank. Sydm. Edwards fecit Pub. June 1 1791 by W. Curtis. No 159. A hand-colored engraving of Aurinia saxatilis, commonly known as Gold dust, Golden Alison (alyssum saxatile).
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[Feather Calceolaria; Calceolaria pinnata L.]
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1 leaf, verso blank. Publish'd. by W. Curtis, Botanic Garden, Lambeth Marsh. No 42. A hand-colored engraving of Calceolaria pinnata L., known as Feather Calceolaria in English.
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Sesamum indicum L. (1815)
by Sydenham Teast Edwards; William Curtis
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1 leaf, verso blank. Sydm. Edward del. Pub. by S. Curtis Walworth. Dec. 1, 1814. No 1688. F. Sansom Sculpsit. A hand-colored engraving of Sesamum indicum, Sesame plant
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Syringa inodora (L.) Moench No 1472 (1812)
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1 leaf, verso blank. Sydm. Edwards del.; Pub. S. Curtis Walworth, July 1, 1812. F. Sansom Sc. No 1472. A hand-colored engraving of the herb Syringa inodora, or Philadelphus inodora, in the Hydrangea family.
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Micranthus tubulosus (Burm.f.) N.E. Br. (1801)
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1 leaf, verso blank. Sydm. Edwards del.; Pub. S. Curtis Walworth, July 1, 1801, Vol. 15. F. Sansom Sc. No 1472. A hand-colored engraving of Micranthus tubulosus (Burm.f.) N.E. Br., a member of the Iris family.
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Le Retour de Paris, or, the Neice presented to her Relatives by Her French Governess
by Cruikshank, George
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Thomas McLean, 1835. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (120 x 165 mm), full margins. Printed by Thomas McLean. Light, small circular area of dampstaining at left sheet edge recto, well outside of image area. Second very small area of light dampstaining at extreme lower-center sheet edge, well outside of image area. Paper tape remnants from a former mount at top right, center, and left corners. With fresh colors. Ex-collection: The Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, Fresno, CA.
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