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Hardcover, 19 x 13.8 cm, crimson buckram with tan paper label with lettering to spine; printed on laid paper; pp.: ffl [i-vi] vii-x] 11-184, collation 8vo, 1-118 124, total 92 leaves. Title-page: AMERICAN ENGRAVERS | AND | THEIR WORKS | BY | W. S. BAKER | Collige et inscribe | PHILADELPHIA | GEBBIE & BARRIE PUBLISHERS | 1875 || Motto: Collige et inscribe [Collect and record, lat.] Contributors: William Spohn Baker (American, 1824 – 1897) – author. George Gebbie (American, 1832 – 1892) – publisher. George Barrie (American, 1843 – 1918) – publisher. George R. Bonfield (British-American, 1802 – 1898) – dedicatee. -
Owner’s hardcover, 182 x 120 mm, yellow buckram, crimson morocco label to spine with gilt lettering; publisher’s pink wrappers preserved, round engraved bookplate to front pastedown “DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE JULES RICHARD” cut to the border (“Imp. r. C. Motteroz” cut out); Pp.: [4] [1-5] 6-83 [84], various mss and printed clippings, 2 extra ffls to front and back. Title-page: 1871-1873 | — | GORGES VEYSSET | — | UN ÉPISODE DE LA COMMUNE | ET DU | GOUVERNEMENT DE M. THIERS | PAR | Mme DE FORSANS-YEYSSET | — | BRUXELLES | LANDSBERGER & C°, LIBRAIRES ÉDITEURS | 2, RUE DE NAMUR, 2 | 1873 || Provenance: Jules Richard (French, 1848 – 1930). Ref: BNF. -
Rose quartz snuff bottle of rounded rectangular form on raised foot with round neck, carved in relief with a double dragon in a cartouche; round turquoise stopper with silver collar.The Eastern dragon is not the gruesome monster of medieval imagination, but the genius of strength and goodness. He is the spirit of change, therefore of life itself. Hidden in the caverns of inaccessible mountains, or coiled in the unfathomed depth of the sea, he awaits the time when he slowly rouses himself into activity. He unfolds himself in the storm clouds; he washes his mane in the blackness of the seething whirlpools. His claws are in the fork of the lightning, his scales begin to glisten in the bark of rain-swept pine trees. His voice is heard in the hurricane, which, scattering the withered leaves of the forest, a dragon quickens a new spring [C. A. S. Williams. Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs / 3rd Revised Edition. — Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1993].
The Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Mid-19th century. Dimensions: H90 x W52 x D30 mm -
NEWArtist: Utagawa Kunisada [歌川 国貞], a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代 歌川 豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865). Signed: Toyokuni ga [豊国 画] in a yellow double-gourd. Publisher unknown. Media: Untrimmed fan print (uchiwa-e), 228 x 298 mm. Series title: Six Jewel Faces (六玉颜, mu tama-gao), a pun on Six Jewel Rivers (六玉河, Mu Tamagawa). The date seal and censor seal are absent. Another print from the same series in the Metropolitan Museum of New York reads:The colorful background, with explosions of tie-dyed floral motifs, is a reminder of how Kunisada made all his thousands of Genji-print designs a visual record of different textile patterns of the day. The title Six Jewel Faces (Mu tama-gao), along with its allusion to the literary theme of Six Jewel Rivers, suggests that this set of fan prints captures the appearance of a half-dozen attractive individuals, and, indeed, the other five works in the set show images of beautiful women, mostly courtesans of the pleasure quarters.
Mitsuuji with Mountain Roses (Yamabuki), from the series “Six Jewel Faces” (Mu tama-gao).
MET Accession Number:2019.3
Ref.: [LIB-2967.2022] Utagawa Kunisada: His world revisited / Catalogue 17, Exhibition March 17-21, 2021. — NY: Sebastian Izzard, LLC., 2021. -
NEWA salt print 208 x 155 mm hand-coloured with watercolours depicting a fencer standing in full gear, mounted on cardboard with all four corners cut out and traces of an oval frame. -
NEWConvolute: Pélagie la sainte. Quarter red buckram over marbled papers with brown gilt-lettered calf label to spine, 399 x 290 mm. Consists of: One blank leaf- Gérard de Nerval. Mémoires d'un parisien: Sainte-Pélagie, en. 1832. Published in L'Artiste : journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts 1841 (SER2,T7). L'ARTISTE, | JOURNAL DE LA LITTÉRATURE ET DES BEAUX-ARTS. | 2° Série. – Tome 6 (ms pencil 7 et 8) | {vignette signed M. ALOPHE} | PARIS. | AUX BUREAUX DE L'ARTISTE, RUE DE SEINE-SAINT-GERMAIN, 39 | 1840. (crossed out, ms pencil 1841) || Engraved title, h.t./imprint, t.p., pp. 251-256 (six leaves); p. 252-5:
- Talon / Maison de Sainte-Pélagie November 18, 1822 (One leaf)
- Maxime du Camp. Les prisons de Paris. Published in: Revue de deux mondes, 83, № 3 (1eroctobre 1869), pp. [598]-634 (17 leaves).
- Philibert Audebrand. La Gazette de Sainte-Pélagie. Published in: L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, № 518, 10 Dec 1889, p. 711. (Newspaper clip).
- Pélagie la Sainte 1889. Numero unique. Edité par les soins du Journal « la France » | SOUS LA DIRECTION DE M. PILLARD D'ARKAÏ || Title engraved on wood and hand-painted. Texts by Paul Adam, Paul Bonnetain, Simon Boubée, Léon Cladel, Camille Dreyfus, Ch. Gilbert-Martin, Victor Hugo, Camille Lemonnier, Maurice Mac-Nab, Louise Michel, Félix Pyat, Rachilde, Xavier Raspail, Jean Richepin, Henri Rochefort, Laurent Tailhade, Émile Zola, etc. Illustrations by Ch. Clérice, Ch. Gilbert-Martin, Alfred Le Petit, Eugène Rapp. Pp. 1-24 (12 leaves). Gallica: Pélagie la sainte, 1889 / [signé Pillard d'Arkaï]
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NEWThree volumes, hardcover in-folio, 495 x 350 mm, 1st edition, uniformly bound in red faux-chagrin with gilt coat of arms of the city of Paris in the centre of gild-decorated panel, gilt decorated spine with lettering, marbled endpapers, 3 vol. (122 p.-[46] pl., 76-44-24-22-36-26...); vol. 1 – 340 pp, vol. 2 – 296 pp, vol. 3 – 268 pp ; total 100 leaves of plates. Title-page (red and black): PARIS | DANS SA SPLENDEUR | MONUMENTS, VUES, SCÉNES HISTORIQUES, DESCRIPTIONS ET HISTOIRE | DESSINS ET LITHOGRAPHIES | […] | VIGNETTES DE FÉLIX BENOIST ET CATENACCI, EXÉCUTÉES SUR BOIS PAR LES PREMIERS GRAVURS | TEXTE | […] | Premier Volume (Deuxième Volume, Troisième Volume) | PREMIERE PARTIE. — DESCRIPTION DE PARIS | {vignette} | Publié par | HENRI CHARPENTIER, IMPRIMEUR-ÉDITEUR | PARIS, QUAI DES GRANDS-AUGUSTINS, 55. — ÉTABLESSEMENT A NANTES, RUE DE LA FOSSE. | M. DCCC. LXI. || Contributors: Mérimée, Prosper (French, 1803 – 1870) – text Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène (French, 1814 – 1879) – text Audiganne, Armand (French, 1814 – 1875) – text Philippe Benoist (French, 1813 – 1896) – lithography Benoist, Félix (French, 1818 – 1896) – woodcuts Catenacci, Hercule Louis (French, 1816 – 1884) – woodcuts Charpentier, Henri-Désiré (French, 1806 – 1882) Henri Charpentier imprimeur (Nantes) – printer Henri Charpentier éditeur (Paris) –publisher -
NEWA folding pocket map of Paris, 620 x 890 mm, hand-coloured, folded size: 168 x 102 mm. A high-quality image at Wikimedia Commons. Description by seller: "Contours des arrondissements et mur des fortifications aquarellés. Les arrondissements nouvellement annexés ne sont pas reproduits à l'échelle. Avec indication en bleu des percements haussmaniens en cours. Deux panoramas gravés en marge". Label: NOUVEAU PLAN | DE PARIS, | ou Guide des Étrangers. | {Panthéon} | A Paris chez LALLEMAND Rue de Poitevins No. 6. Title: NOUVEAU PARIS [—] FORTIFIÉ 1860. || PLAN GARANTI~COMPLET | OU | LE GUIDE DAN PARIS | DRESSÉ | PAR LALLEMAND, GÉOGRPHE. GRAV. AU DÉPOT DE LA GUERRE | 1860 | A Paris Rue de Poitevins No. 6. Engraver: Dépôt de la guerre Publisher/Cartographer: Lallemand, Armand Joseph (French, c.1810 – 1871) -
NEWSet of three tablespoons and three forks of fiddle thread pattern with imperial monogram NE under crown to handle in .950 silver by Etienne Henri Sanoner (Paris), with his hallmarks:- Minerva’s head with a lock of hair on the temple in an irregular octagonal frame; Paris from 1838 to 1919.
- E (rabbit) S in a diamond of Etienne Henri Sanoner, 79 rue Quincampoix, 75003 Paris.
- Grasshopper (la sauterelle) with chevron
