New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2025
New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2025
115 items found
[19th-Century Chinese Artist]
[Fish Album].
China, ca. 1850. Oblong accordion (leporello) album (15.0 x 20.0 cm) with original watercolour illustrations on rice paper, augmented with gold or silver, of freshwater fish, including a goldfish; all in blue paper frames. Marbled boards.
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Agassiz, [J.] L. [R.] and [A. C.] C. Vogt
Histoire naturelle des poissons d'eau douce de l'Europe Centrale [AND] Embryologie des Salmones. [The complete Atlas].
Neuchatel, Nicolet et Petitpierre et chez l'auteur, 1839-1842. Oblong Folio (31.0 x 45.3 cm). Title page to the whole work, dedication leaf, half-title and title to Embryologie (by Vogt), explanatory leaf in three languages; all 55 fine lithographed, mostly tissue-guarded plates (that of plate D a printed overlay - effectively a 56th plate), of which 20 finely hand-coloured and seven partly hand-coloured [numbered 1, 1a, 1b, 2, 3, 3a, 3b, 4, 4b, 5, 6, 7, 7a, 8, 9, 10, 10a, 11, 12, 13, 13a, 14, 15, 15a, 16, 17, 17bis; 1, 1a, 2, 2a, 3, 3a, 4, 4a, 5, 5a, 6, 6a, 7, 7[a]; A-H, J-O]. Later brown half morocco over contemporary marbled boards; spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt and black linings and gilt title. Edges sprinkled brown.
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Becker, W.
Album of the finest birds of all countries.
Philadelphia, PA, Weik & Wieck, [1854]. Oblong folio (27.2 x 36.0 cm). 25 finely lithographed plates, all in accurate original hand-colouring (14 plates with American birds; five European; one Asian; five Australian). Publisher's moiré silk-covered boards, with elaborate polychrome floral pattern larded with figures of birds and two gilt dragons. All edges gilt.
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Birk, M.
Mich. Birk. Tuttlingen. Deutschland. Katalog Catalogue Catalogo No. 4. [Trade Catalogue].
Tuttlingen, Michael Birk, ca. 1920. Large 4to (28.7 x 20.7 cm). Four section titles on red paper; 290, xxxi pp.; 26 plates, all but six in full colour (of which several double-sized), with additional colouring in silver and gold. Embossed full limp cloth. Spine with title in black and gilt; front board with ornamental early Art Deco bands, gilt title, gilt vignette and mounted b/w engraved views; rear board with large, gilt and black vignette. Grey endpapers.
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"Book simulant", "Buch Atrappe" or "Faux Livre". 17th-century vellum binding.
Geneva, Henri Estienne (the elder), 1592. Folio (33.8 x 21.6 cm). Full vellum. Half title, dedication leaf, 2 pp. Spine with six raised bands; boards blind-stamped with triple-lined border, double-lined panel with floral corner-pieces and with a central large, floral vignette. Edges speckled red.
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"Book simulant", "Buch Atrappe" or "Faux Livre". [Backgammon].
Great Britain, ca. 1870. Folio-sized (46.1 x 28.0 x 9.3 cm). Full calf. Spine with gilt compartments with elaborate floral patterns and vignettes. Boards with gilt floral borders and blind-tooled floral panel. "Edges" marbled. Inside with rich gilt-decorated brown morocco panels with red and black inlays, together forming a backgammon board.
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"Book simulant", "Buch Atrappe" or "Faux Livre". [Cookie Jar].
Reading, Huntley and Palmers, ca. 1910. A tin with lid, disguised as a uniform set of eight pocket-size books, bound in a "leather" strap (15.8 x 12.0 x 16.1 cm). Red painted tin. "Spines" with gilt and black bands, vignettes, and titles; front and rear "board" with black and gilt arabesques; all "edges" gilt; strap brown.
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[Minibar - Five books, a bottle, and two glasses].
France, ca. 1900. A leather covered box (18 x 12 x 13 cm) consisting of five original 19th-century books, containing a bottle and two glasses. Internally decorated with leather-resembling paper. Spines with gilt bands, morocco labels and gilt titles, ‘top’ board with gilt armorial vignette.
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[British Artist]
19th-Century Flower Paintings.
Great Britain, unpublished, ca. 1833-1840. Folio (28.6 x 23.2 cm). "Title page" with elaborate gilt border; 83 leaves (all versos blank, and many either of coloured paper, with blind-stamped and/or colour-printed floral borders), of which 32 with original pochoirs, with watercolour and gouache, framed. Embossed full burgundy calf. Spine with gilt borders; boards with double gilt borders; gilt-bordered rectangular panel with gilt red and orange corner-pieces. Iridescent pink endpapers. Top edge gilt.
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Brodtmann, C. J.
Naturhistorische Bilder-Galerie aus dem Thierreiche gezeichnet von Carl Joseph Brodtmann.
Lindau, Brodtmann, 1816. Folio (43.6 x 35.0 cm). Engraved title, [ii], 72 pp.; 144 lithographed plates. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five embossed bands and gilt title. Marbled edges.
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Bruyas, G.
Guillaume Bruyas & Fils Lyon. [Trade Catalogue of locks, chains, guns, and other metalware - original watercolours]
Lyon, Guillaume Bruyas, ca. 1860-1870. Oblong folio (26.6 x 40.2 cm). 92 leaves with 1734 original watercolour illustrations (a few leaves with blank versos, a few larger, folded, a few with printed illustrations, mounted). Original full calf. Front board with blind-stamped and gilt borders, gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Buller, W. L.
A History of the Birds of New Zealand.
London, John Van Voorst, 1873. Large 4to (30.3 x 23.7 cm). xxiii, [i], 384 pp.; 36 finely lithographed plates, of which 35 in delicate original hand-colouring, and one (frontispiece) only tinted, as intended. Contemporary red half morrocco over pebbled, triple-gilt-bordered linen boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-rolled bands; compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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[Caricature] [Probably by P. C. L. Janet]
Les singeries humaines. Petit museum comique et grotesque.
Paris, Louis Janet, ca. 1825. Oblong 8vo (19.0 x 12.3 cm). iv, 146, [i] pp.; title page with large, engraved and finely hand-coloured vignette, 12 finely engraved, tissue-guarded plates with contemporary hand-colouring. Contemporary quarter polished calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title, and blind tooled vignettes.
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Chamisso, A. de and C. G. Eysenhardt
De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione terrae auspicante Comite N. Romanzoff, duce Ottone de Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta observatis. Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. Cum tabulis XI aeneis pictis.
Berlin, [F. Dümmler], 1821. 4to (26.1 x 20.5 cm). Title page, 30 pp. [numbered: (345)-374]; finely engraved and ten originally hand-coloured plates [numbered XXIV-XXXIII]. 20th century blue buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Cooke, E. W.
Grotesque Animals. Invented, drawn, and described.
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872. Folio (31.3 x 24.7 cm.). Half-title, title page with woodcut vignette, pp. [v]-vi (preface); 24 lithographed plates by the author, each with an explanatory text leaf. Original green pebbled cloth with gilt title and vignette on the front board. Bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers.
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[Darwin, Charles Robert]
Portrait of Darwin - Rare Russian carte de visite.
Saint Peterburg, Wesenberg [Down and London, Elliott & Fry], [1874]. Albumen print, mounted on cardboard with a red ink border (10.3 x 6.1 cm). With the printed name Darwin in Cyrillic and printed Cyrillic text on recto and verso. Name of Darwin stamped in cyrillic on verso. Preserved in transparent sleeve.
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Dorman, R. M.
The Origin of Primitive Superstitions. And their development into the worship of spirits and the doctrine of spiritual agency among the aborigines of America.
Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott, 1881. 8vo (23.0 x 15.1 cm). 398 pp.; 21 numbered text-engravings, five plates of which four originally hand-coloured, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece (= Plate I), Original dark brown buckram. Spine with red lines, gilt pictorial vignette and title; boards with red border; front board with pictorial gilt vignette. Dark green endpapers.
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Driessen, A. [Jan Sluyters]
Bonbondoos. [Candy Box].
[Rotterdam], A. Driessen, ca. 1910. Cardboard box with lid (27.8 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm). Gilt edges, marbled sides; original chromolithograph after a gouache and colour crayon drawing mounted on front (top) board. Round, gilt vignette pasted on rear (bottom) board.
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Eschscholtz, F.
Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten, während des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, auf der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Kriegsschlupp Predpriaetië in den Jahren 1823-1826 beobachtet von Dr. Friedr. Eschscholtz, Professor und Director des zoologischen Museums an der Universität zu Dorpat. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. [All Published].
Berlin, G. Reimer, 1829-1833. Five parts in one. Tall folio (35.6 x 22.2 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Eschscholtz; five letterpress title pages with blank versos; 103 pp.[I: iii-iv, 17; II: 13; III: 18; IV: 19; V: iii-viii, 28]; 25 engraved plates, each in original hand-colouring. 19th-century quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled edges.
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Fullagar, H. F.
The Camellaird - Fullagar balanced marine internal combustion oil engine.
Birmingham, White & Pike, ca. 1920. Elongate folio (26.2 x 11.7 cm). Text on front and rear pastedown; thick cardboard and brass 'machine'. Mustard cloth boards with black title on the front board.
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Gleichen Russworm, W. F. Von [Rußwurm, Rusworm]
Das Neueste aus dem Reiche der Pflanzen oder mikroskopische Untersuchungen und Beobachtungen der geheimen Zeugungstheile der Pflanzen in ihren Blüten, und der in denselben befindlichen Insekten; nebst einigen Versuchen von dem Keim, und einem Anhang vermischter Beobachtungen, beschrieben, und mit Farben nach der Natur vorgestellet. Herausgegeben, verlegt und mit den nöhtigen in Kupfer gestochenen und illuminirten Abbildungen versehen von Johann Christoph Keller.
Nürnberg, Christian de Launoy seel[ig] Erben, [1763]-1764-[1766]. Folio (40.2 x 25.8 cm). Title page with motto on verso, half-title with motto on verso; 159 pp. [(iv), 8, (iv), 72, 40, (vi), 26]; 51 engraved plates [numbered I-V, IIb (all showing microscopes); I-IV, A-E, V-XXX (mainly showing flowers); 1-10 (mainly showing insects)], all in fine, original hand-colouring; and decorated with several large, finely engraved headpieces. Contemporary mottled calf. Spine with seven raised, gilt-lined bands; compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes and corner pieces; brown morocco label with gilt title. Board edges gilt-rolled. Marbled pastedowns. All edges red.
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Guillemin, [V.] A.
Le Ciel. Notions élémentaires d'astronomie physique. Cinquième edition. Entièrement refondue, considérablement augmentée.
Paris, Hachette, 1877. Thick 4to (26.6 x 18.5 x 7.2 cm). Half-title, title page, iv, 970 pp.; 361 text illustrations, 62 plates of which 22 coloured. Publisher's [?] rich gilt burgundy morocco. Spine and boards with various large, astronomical vignettes in gilt and black. All edges gilt.
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Hla, M. T.
[Burma - Myanmar] A pair of late nineteenth to early twentieth century Burmese costume studies.
Burma [Myanmar], ca. 1920. Two watercolour and gouache paintings on Whatman paper. 8vo-sized (images ca. 24.0 x 19.9 cm). Heightened with white body colour; each signed "M. T. Hla" in lower right corner, uniformly mounted. Mounts 30.5 x 24.6 cm.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. [Complete with all titles and plates].
"Frankfurt am Main, J. Hoefnagel, 1592" [But Nuremberg, Paulus Fürst, shortly after 1638]. Oblong folio (extremely wide-margined copy, 29.5 x 37.0 cm). Engraved titles to the four parts. 48 engraved plates. Pars Prima, Plates 1-12; Pars Secunda, Plates 1-12; Pars Tertia, Plates 1-12, Pars Quatra, Plates 1-12. [Complete]. Period style full burgundy morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt with floral borders and floral vignettes; red morocco label with gilt title; boards with broad, gilt-rolled borders, gilt corner-pieces; tripple gilt-lined inner borders and floral corner-pieces. Gilt-rolled edges and inner dentelles.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 1.8.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 2.10
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 2.2.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 4.3.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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