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COSTUMES OF ALL NATIONS.
Durhan, NC W. Duke, Sons & Co. n.d. The covers are worn, chipped, and creases, but the plates are clean and bright (two with repairable paper adhesions), a few finger smudges
Small oblong quarto. 21 pages of rather brilliant chromolithographs, 10 with only one or two images per page, others with nine or ten cigarette card type images (Duke Sons was a cigarette manufacturer). Bound in stapled color-printed wraps
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75.00 USD
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Bunyan, John. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
Glasgow James Lumsden n.d. [c. 1847] Ink inscription on flyleaf, very minor foxing, quite a nice copy in this rare binding
Quarto. xxiv, 376p. Illustrated with chromolithographed title page by H. Wilson highlighted in gilt, text printed with decorative borders in colors, steel-engraved frontispiece portrait and 25 full-page steel engravings by William Harvey engraved by the Dalziel brothers. Bound in original Victorian publisher's binding by Rowley & Evans in full morocco, a.e.g., the spine and covers with intricate pictorial embossed designs in gilt and colors, orange pattern endpapers.
With the binder's ticket " Rowley & Evans, Binders Embossers and Illuminators, 108 Hatton Garden"
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995.00 USD
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Gondar, Jacques. CHRONIQUES FRANCOISES.
Paris Louis Janet [1830] Recased with plain cloth backstrip, else fine in original leather slipcase with backstrip missing
12mo. [ii], clvii, [i], 11p., [i], 44p., [i]. Includes Recherches sur le Style, Et Particulierement sur Celui Des Chroniques by M. Ch. Nodier. Illustrated with four full-page illuminated plates highlighted in gold, and one illuminated incipit page and eight similar initial letters, three on which surround the page. Bound in the rare velvet covers in relief with pictorial designs
Rare, particularly in this binding
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1200.00 USD
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Hopkins, John H. THREE KINGS OF ORIENT, A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
New York Hurd & Houghton (1865) Minor splitting to joints at spine ends, else very clean and bright. Very scarce in this condition with no foxing
Unpaged. Title-page and 5 plates chromolithographed by Julius Bien, the plate of the printed music in sepia. Bound in publisher's brown pebbled cloth over beveled boards with cover titles in gilt
Hopkins (1820-1891) was the Bishop of Vermont and wrote the Christmas hymn We Three Kings. Not in Bennett or Reese.
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500.00 USD
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Kellerhoven, F. LE LEGENDE DE SAINTE URSULE: PRINCESSE BRITANNIQUE ET DE SES ONZE MILLE VIERGES
Paris Chez L'Auteur [1863] Scattered light foxing, all else fine
Quarto. 218p [ii]. Illustrated with frontispiece, dedication, and 23 numbered plates in brilliant chromolithography by Hangard-Mauge, Paris. An additional plate in monochrome by Lemercier. All text pages with elaborate historiated borders and frames. Text in French by J.B. Dutton. Binding signed with an monogram that we cannot decipher dated 1922. Full black morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles, the spine and covers with embossed designs
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995.00 USD
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