1. 18th century Illustrated Edition of Paradise Lost – Milton, John.

Paradise Lost – A Poem in Twelve Books. A New Edition, with Notes of various Authors, by Thomas Newton [Complete with two Portraits and 12 plates].

Two Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S.Draper, 1749. Large Quarto (23 cm x 27.5 cm). Pagination of Volume One: Frontispiece-Portrait of a young John Milton, [18 unnumbered pages of Dedication and Preface], LXI pages of “The Life of Milton”, [5 unnumbered pages of Homage in Verses by Samuel Barrow [Physician to Charles II. and admirer of Milton] and also the important poem on Milton’s Paradise Lost by Andrew Marvell [English Metaphysical Poet and Milton’s ‘Latin Secretary’], 16 pages of “A Critique upon the Paradise Lost – By Mr.Addison” [Joseph Addison], 459 pages with six (6) full-page engravings / Pagination of Volume Two: Frontispiece-Portrait of an elder John Milton (dated 1670), 444 pages including six (6) full-page engravings plus 132 unnumbered pages of Index. Hardcover / Modern, stunning half-leather bound to 18th-century style with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Both Volumes now in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only a few signs of foxing. The paper in fantastic condition, illustrations and portraits impressive; wide margins make this a great collectable. A rare opportunity to acquire this important publication in a firm and beautiful binding. The exceptional restoration was done by an english master-bindery.

2. 19th century European Travel – Ireland (Carrick-A-Rede / Giant’s Causeway / Bideford (Devon) / Torrington (Devon) / Lynton (Devon) / Lynmouth (Devon) / Watersmeet (Devon) / Ilfracombe (Devon) / Carnarvon Castle (Wales) / Forth Bridge – (Wales)/

Original Photoalbum from ca. 1870 / 1880 with 37 original Albumen Print / Albumen Silver Print – Photographs of a Tour through Europe. With very interesting photographs of Ireland’s favourite attractions in County Antrim , a large section of the Devon Region in England (The DEVON – Section includes 15 photographs alone), and some beautiful and rare early colour photographs of Luzern in Switzerland: Examples of images: 8. Bideford in Devon (Promenade with ships and people) / 9. Torrington – Devon (Town Mill Bridge) / 10. Torrington – Devon (Northern Bridge) / Two smaller photographs on one board: 11. Torrington – Devon (Castle Ruins) / 12. Torrington – Devon – (Near Railway Station) / Two smaller photographs on board: 13. Torrington – Devon – (The Avenue) / 14. Torrington – Devon (Valley of Rocks / Castle Rock) / 15. Lynton – North Devon / 16. Lynton – North Devon (Castle Rock) / 17. Lynmouth – Watersmeet / 18. Lynmouth (Bridge /Watersmeet near Lynmouth) / 19. Lynmouth (Picturesque Harbourscene with old fisherhuts on left) / 20. Ilfracombe – North Devon (from the Tours Walk – Top of the Hill) / 21. Ilfracombe – Tour Walk / 22. Ilfracombe – View from Capstone Hill /

Devon, ca.1870/1880/1890. Oblong – Quarto. 37 plates. Hardcover. Recently, professionally rebound in half leather with gilt lettering on spine. The large photographs in very good condition.

3. 19th century Medical Illustration in Gynecology – Pouchet, F.A.

Théorie Positive l’Ovulation Spontanée de la Fécondation des Mammifères et de l’Espèce Humaine, basée sur l’observation de toute la série animale.

[Two Volumes: Text plus Atlas / Texte et Atlas]. Paris, J.-B. Baillière, 1847. 23,5 cm x 31 cm. Texte: XXXVI, 479 pp. / Atlas: 30 pp. texte et 20 planches chromolithographiques [With atlas volume bound in the original printed boards, twenty chromolithographic plates, one fold-out, and tissue guards]. Atlas: Reliure original / Original Hardcover / Text-Volume: Library-Binding. Binding stained and corners rubbed. Some foxing thoughout the text-volume. Slight water damage to some of the text pages.

4.

72-dpi anime [Camera / Vector / Linear / Motion / Interactive] – With an interview of Erik Saks: “Untitled – 002 – Infinity” (″Define what ‘infinity’ means to modern culture”).

Berlin, Die Gestalten Verlag, 2001. 28,5 cm x 24 cm. 197 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Softcover. Slightly bumped corners, DVD is missing, otherwise in Very good condition.

5. Aarts, Johannes Josephus (1871 – 1934).

“Bedelaar” [″Bettler” / “Beggar”].

Rare, antique, vintage, original Lithograph by the dutch artist Johannes Josephus Aarts, showing the scene of an invalid beggar entering a Hamlet of farmers and asking for alms. Striking and beautiful scene in the typical earthy, nature-embedded, strong depiction by Aarts; full of character and gripping through the magnified presence of Aarts subjects, which are “in your face”. Signed in pencil by Johannes Josephus Aarts. [Fine Art-Paper watermarked “TRCHES”]. [Amsterdam], Roeloffzen, Hübner und van Santen, 1903. Size of the framed Picture: 63 cm wide x 53 cm high. Size of the Sheet : 49 cm wide x 41 cm high (the image itself: 22 cm x 30 cm). Excellent condition, beautifully framed. The price for this signed and rare lithograph includes free international courier shipping per UPS Express.

6. A’Beckett, Gilbert Abbott.

The Comic History of England. With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech.

Two Volumes in One Volume (complete set). London, Bradbury, Evans and Co., c.1850 14.5 cm x 22.3 cm. Volume I: XVIII, 320 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. / Volume II: 304 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. Original Hardcover with gilt decoration on spine and cover. Recently professionally repaired and restored binding with new endpapers and the saved original bookplate / exlibris of J. Henry H.V. Lane of Kings Bromley in Staffordshire to the pastedown. Gilted edge. Rubbed and sign of wear on cover and spine. Overall very good condition with firm binding and clean interior. Bookplate / Exlibris to pastedown. Inscribed on Augst 10,1879 by previous owner and embossed stamp marks by bookshop W.H.Smyth in London on endpaper.

7. Adams, Marcus.

Child Studies. [Album with seven (7) vintage silver gelatin prints – all signed in a signature album with Adams’ gilted emblemata / supralibro].

London, Marcus Adams, c.1929. Folio. 7 pages. Original Art Deco flexible Hardcover in original slipcase. Extremely beautiful and rare original binding ! Two small coffee-stains on cover of the Volume itself. Slipcase with some minor rubbing and occasional discoloration only. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Besides the vintage photographs all being signed by Marcus Adams, he also signed and dated the Volume on the endpaper: “Marcus Adams – 11/29”.

8. Adams, Maurice B.

Modern Cottage Architecture – Illustrated from Works of Well-Known Architects. Selected and Described by Maurice B. Adams.

Second Edition – Revised and Enlarged. London, B.T.Batsford, (1912). Quarto (19.2 cm wide x 27 cm high). XII, 81 pages Text plus LXXXIII plates and 4 unnumbered pages oof advertising. Original Hardcover. POOR condition of the binding. Last two pages detached. Bookblock firm and all illustrations in excellent condition. Excellent publication with architectural building-plans of english cottages at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.

9. Alderson, Simon / Ball, Ralph / Barber, Edward.

Phaidon Design Classics – Volume One / Volume Two / Volume Three.

Original Edition. Three Volumes (Complete set). New York, Phaidon Press Limited, 2006. Quarto. 3300 pages with thousands of illustrations. Original Hardcover in special collectors protective Mylar. Excellent, close to new condition. The protective Mylar was especially cut so the volumes can be handled without damage to the aesthetic bindings.

10. Allwood, John.

The Great Exhibitions.

London, Studio Vista, 1977. Quarto. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

11. Andreotti, Giulio / Museum of Fine Arts / Accademia Italiana.

Rediscovering Pompeii.

4th edition / Bilingual Edition: Italiano / English. Rome, [Italy], L’Erma di Bretschneider, 1992. Folio (24.5 cm x 30.5 cm). 287 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

12. Angeli, Lanfranco.

Palermo – City of Art.

Palermo, s.r.l. F.lli Mistretta, 1987. 21.5 cm x 28.5 cm. Frontispiece (Porta Nuova), Second frontispiece (Panoramic View of Palermo), 128 pages. Several colour photographs throughout. Gatefold street maps inside covers. Original stiched paper binding softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Tight binding. Slight smudging to title page. Internal pages bright and clean. All three gate fold pull out panoramic photographs intact.

13. Angelini, Luigi.

La Famiglia Bergamasca dei Manni Marmorari Intarsiatori. Estratto de “La Rivista di Bergamo” – Ottobre – Novembre 1960.

Bergamo, Stamperia Conti, 1960. 30,5 x 23,5 cm. 22 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Written inscription by previous owner.

14. Animals – [Anonymous].

Collection of Animal Prints [with italian subtitles].

Original, hand-coloured copper engravings. Italy, [no year], c.1780. Plate Size: 8 cm x 12.3 cm. Sheet Size: 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Original prints. In very good condition. Brightly coloured. Some very minor traces of browning only.

15. [Anonymous].

Guide to Killarney and Glengariff. With a Map and Six Plates.

New Edition, revised and corrected. Dublin, William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1835. 11 cm x 17 cm. Frontispiece, [4], 130 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with spinelabel and label on frontcover. Some staining to the binding but otherwise firm and with the original endpapers intact. Interior in very good condition besides some pages and illustrations being a little dusty. Few illustrations with faded dampstain. Rare and early publication for the tourist in 19th century Ireland. With name of prewoner in ink on titlepage: “Robert Morrison, Shanakiel, Cork”.

16. [Arabian Nights] Forster, Edward / [Provenance: Daniel Callaghan of Lotabeg].

The Arabian Nights, in Five Volumes. [Including “The History of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp” / The History of Ali Baba and of the Forty Robbers, killed by one Slave” / etc.] Translated by The Reverend Edward Forster [based on the French version of Antoine Galland]. With [24] Engravings, from Pictures by Robert Smirke.

First Edition [Large Paper Quarto Edition]. Five Volumes (complete set with all engravings). London, Printed for William Miller, 1802. Quarto (21.5 cm x 27.5 cm). Volume I: LXI, (7), 385 pages with 5 copper-engravings including Errata-Leaf and “Directions for placing the Plates” for all four volumes / Volume: 432 pages with 5 copper-engravings / 405 pages with 5 copper-engravings / 461 pages with 5 copper-engravings / 474 pages with 5 copper-engravings. Hardcover / Original, early 19th century full leather with gilt lettering and date on lower spine [″London, 1802”]. Beautiful, richly ornamented master-bindings. All Volumes in strong, protective collector’s Mylar, which invites the reader/collector to use the work without fear of handling. Armorial Bookplates / ExLibris of Daniel Callaghan, Esquire of Lotabeg (MP for Cork City 1830-1849) to all five pastedowns (Motto: “Fidus et Audax”). Marbled endpapers a little dusty but beautiful. Volume 1, 2 and 5 with some weakening to the spine (slightly cracked), but holding and still firm overall. All plates present. As known and always found with this scarce edition, the original, titled tissue-guards all in place, have created stronger signs of foxing to the plates but in sharp contrast the text in all the five Volumes in bright and clean condition with only occasional faint staining. Endpapers with some minor browning. Very good+ condition overall with some rubbing and minor bumping to the Volumes but really only minor signs of external wear. Extremely sought after publication, not to be confused with the later, much more common Octavo Editions !

17. Arakawa [Shusaku] and Madeleine Gins.

The Mechanism of Meaning.

Revised Edition. New York, Abbeville Press, 1988. Quarto (29 cm wide x 29 cm high). 161 pages (including six translucent pages at the rear) and the two often missing, loosely inserted cards which show a reproduction of a micrograph of zirconium from the Atomic Resolution Microscope at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Minor staining to dustjacket. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

18. Architectural Design.

Architectural Design & Construction. Collection of nine (9) Issues: Volume I – June 1931 / Volume II – April 1932 / Volume IV – December 1933 / Volume IV – January 1934 / Volume IV – February 1934 / Volume IV – March 1934 / Volume IV – April 1934 / Volume IV – May 1934 / Volume IV – June 1934.

[London], Blackfriars Press, 1931 – 1934. Folio (25 cm x 34 cm). c. 450 pages of essays including a multitude of vintage advertising on design, interior, furniture, bathrooms, Tiles, Modern Stairways, Reform Glazing, Hand Made Sandfaced Tiles, Trent Vale Brick & Tile / Circular Staircases / Art Deco Kitchen Design / Aga Cooker / etc. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor tears to some of the original wrappers. Rare !

19. Armando.

Armando – Die Berliner Jahre. Mit Einem Essay von Günther Gercken.

Den Haag, SDU Publishers, 1989. 24.5 cm x 28.5 cm. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

20. [Arnoux, Thérèse] Jacques Prevert et Joseph Kosma.

CHANSONS – Illustrations de Thérèse Arnoux.

FIRST EDITION (No.00177 / 1500). Quarto. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.