[SALON DE 1857.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1857.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1857.

£75

[SALON DE 1863.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1863.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1863.

£65

[SALON DE 1876.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, Imprimerie National, 1876.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1876.

£75

[SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert]. BODDAERT, Pieter.

Epistola ad virum celeberrimum Johannem Burmannum … De Chaetodonte Argo descripto...

Amsterdam, apud Cornelium van Tongerlo, 1770

First and only edition of Boddaert’s description of this Indo-West Pacific fish species found in the Schlosser natural history cabinet. This is the first monograph on this particular fish species. Boddaert substantially redescribes and for the first time illustrates the species. In his description...

£675

(SCHWERIN) (GLOECKER, A.F.W).

Bibliothek des Vereins für Meklenburgische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde, wie solche am Ende des...

… Erste Fortsetzung 1837 … [until] … Achte Fortsetzung 1844. (Schwerin), 1836-1844.

The Verein für Mecklenburgische Geschichte (‘Association for the history of Mecklenburg’) was founded in 1835. Here we have the catalogue of its library, with over 1500 books, as it grew over the years from its foundation to 1844. This is a fascinating record of local interest books, some published...

£150

SHENSTONE, William.

The Works, in Verse and Prose… in three Volumes … Fifth Edition …

London: Printed for J. Dodsley … 1777.

Fifth edition of the Works (1764), the first edition of which was planned by Shenstone but published after his death, with Robert Dodsley’s description of Shenstone’s important garden at The Leasowes, one of the first natural landscape gardens in England and one of the most influential,...

£325

[SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.]

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Sculptures, Models, Designs in Architecture, Drawings, Prints, &c. Exhibited...

Printed by Harriot Bunce, Printer to the Society. 1774.

First edition of the Catalogue for the selling exhibition of 1774. The Society of Artists emerged in 1760 as a loose association of artists, including Joshua Reynolds and Francis Hayman, who wanted greater control over exhibitions of their work than they experienced under William Shipley’s Society...

£1100

STODDARD, Roger.

Jacques-Charles Brunet, Le Grand Bibliographe. A guide to the books he wrote, compiled, and edited and to the...

[London], Quaritch, 2007.

As an undergraduate in Brown University Roger Stoddard operated a second-hand bookshop from his dormitory room, issuing modest catalogues while working for Goodspeed’s Book Shop in the summer months. From 1958 until 1961 he assisted William Jackson, Librarian of the Houghton Library, and from 1961...

£60

[STRASBOURG.]

Souscription patriotique de la part du beau-sexe de Strasbourg.

[S.l., s.n., 1789?.]

Rare first edition of this entertaining satirical piece on women's clothing, published in the aftermath of the French Revolution. After complaining that the recent craze for ‘gauze, muslin, linen and feathers’ had brought the country to its knees, the text describes how the patriotic women...

£165

TALBOT RICE, David.

Notice on some religious buildings in the city and vilayet of Trebizond. Extrait de Byzantion, tome...

Brussels, Secrétariat de la Revue, 1930.

An offprint from Byzantion. The distinguished Byzantine scholar David Talbot Rice was a lifelong friend of Robert Byron, one of his travelling companions during the visit to Mount Athos recorded in Byron’s The Station, and co-author with him of The birth of Western painting.

£65

TAYLOR, W. B. Sarsfield.

The origin, progress, and present condition of the Fine Arts in Great Britain and Ireland.

London: Whittaker & Co., 1841.

£75

[THE BOOK COLLECTOR.]

A special Number to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

The Book Collector, 1997.

A collection of essays together recounting the history of Bernard Quaritch Ltd, published by The Book Collector to commemorate the firm’s sesquicentenary in 1997.

£25

THENOT, Jean Pierre.

Vollständige Anweisung zur Aquarellmalerei und zum Tuschen ... 1. Heft (all published).

Leipzig, Kirchner, 1837.

First German edition, originally published the preceding year in Paris. A charming watercolour manual.

£350

THOMAS, Dylan, and Sir Peter Blake, illustrator.

Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices.

London: Apple Litho (Bristol) Ltd. for Enitharmon Editions and Queen Anne Press, 2013.

De Luxe edition, number 61 of 100 copies with a signed print by Blake. This finely-produced edition was published to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth and celebrates the culmination of over twenty-five years of work by Peter Blake, one of the founding fathers of British Pop Art. The...

£975

[UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.]

Subscription list for repairs to the College Chapel.

[Oxford, c. 1860].

A printed appeal from University College, signed by the Master Frederick Charles Plumptre (1796–1870), for funds to improve the interior of the Chapel, with an admission that ‘the College has no funds whatever to devote to such a purpose’. The list of subscribers contains some ninety names.

£50

VERTOGRADOV.

За антиимпериалистическую солидарность, мир и прогресс! [For...

Moscow, Izdatelstvo Plakat, 1975.

A dramatic manifestation of the Soviet Union’s claim to be the foremost enemy of imperialism, and a vehement supporter of independence movements throughout the third world, as demonstrated here by the traditional dress of some of the figures in the background.

£250

VILLA, Antonio, and Giovanni Battista VILLA. 

Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium et fluviatilium quae adservantur...

Milan, ex typis Borroni et Scotti, 1841. 

First edition of this catalogue of molluscs and shellfish in the collection of Antonio and Giovanni Battista Villa. 

£275

[VILLAMENA, Francesco].

A street fight in Rome. A fan leaf drawing.

[Italy, late 18th century].

A fine fan leaf drawing, Italian school, late 18th century, copied from a print by Francesco Villamena of c. 1601. It depicts a street fight between Spanish and French factions in Rome with a view of the villa Mattei in the background. The original copper engraving by Villamena was dedicated to the patron...

£2200

VITRUVIUS, and Daniel BARBARO.

De architectura libri decem, cum commentariis … multis aedificiorum, horologiorum, et machinarum...

Venice, Francesco Franceschi & Johann Criegher, 1567.

First Latin edition of Barbaro’s influential commentary, written in collaboration with and finely illustrated by Palladio; ‘the culmination of the Renaissance tradition of Vitruvian studies’ (Cellauri, p. 57 trans.) which ‘served as a foundational text into the next century, as...

£3750

VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.

O Repine [On Repin] …

Moscow, “Ole-Lukoie”, 1913.

First edition thus: three pieces written earlier in the year and published in journals on the work of Ilya Repin (1844–1930), often regarded as Russia’s national artist. At the end is an extract from a lecture (1885) by Landtsert on the painting ‘Ivan the Terrible and his Son’. Voloshin (1877–1932)...

£450