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Paris: ca 1889. 11 Ω x 9 9nches. Circa 1889, Day became intrigued with the French author Balzac, and during a trip to Paris painted three watercolors while he was researching Balzac and making connections with other artists and authors. As well, he photographed these houses, and some of those..... (Item #6249)

Large quarto (11.7 x 8 1/2 inches). Jansenist full crushed morocco binding. A stunningly beautiful manuscript on superfine and heavy vellum featuring 15 exquisite hand-illuminated and watercolor-paintings with illuminations, of the highest quality, two of which are full-page, depicting various aspects of childhood pleasure and idyllic countryside in the context..... (Item #6245)

Offered here is a wonderful crisp and clear albumen print by the firm of ND Phot, the Eglise Saint-Martin (the Abbey of Saint-Martin, in Leon, France. ND. Phot. was the "signature" used by Neurdein Freres, French photographer, active in the 1860's. 10 1/2 x 8." Fine. Scarce. (Item #6241)

Two superb albumen prints mounted to card of the mosque El Azhar in Cairo, by Jean Pascal Sebah, son of Pascal Sebah who was a photographer in Constantinople in the mid-1850's. His son Jean inherited the photography business in 1883, signing his photographs J. P. Sebah, as in these photographs..... (Item #6239)

Offered here are 12 very large (10æx14º") mounted albumen photographs of wall paintings in an elegant French salle. Most mount cards bear Marville's embossed stamp. Charles Marville, the pseudonym of Charles FranÁois Bossu (1813 - 1879), worked as an illustrator before taking up photography around 1850. He mainly photographed architecture..... (Item #6237)

Paris: Arts et MÈtiers Graphiques, 1936, 1938. First Edition. 4to. Color pictorial paper wrappers. Issue #46 (1936) and #65 (1938) of the AMG series issued by Arts et MÈtiers Graphiques featuring superb color lithography, photo and print work by Bonnard, Raynal, Dupassage, Selz, Vitrac, Noriey, Zuber and many others. Near..... (Item #6231)

Berlin: Ernst Waysmuth, ca. 1901. First Edition. Offered here are 52 folio printed leaves from the original portfolio, loose as issued, of the eventual 150 plates consisting of architectural floor plans, sketches, some full page and in color, including the color study for a house in Darmstadt and the color..... (Item #6226)

Paris: Firmin-Didiot Freres, ca. 1880. Deuxieme Edition. Large folio, with the original publisher's (16 x 12 inches) green cloth folders with cover stamped in white, and top sections of each the four flaps with attractive ornamental printed design. Title page in red and black, and ONE HUNDRED exquisite plates in..... (Item #6224)

St. Louis: Haberly, 1943. Finely bound by Haberly in full red-brown calf with Haberly's all-over ornate and pleasing stylized gilt work which has become quite recognizable. Limited to only 48 copies. Beautifully patterned green endpapers. This copy is inscribed by Haberly in the form of a poem, on the leaf..... (Item #6222)

Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1927-1928. First Edition. Two volumes. Folio (17 x 12 inches). Extremely scarce in the Ashendene full pigskin binding which Ashendene procured W. H. Smith to expertly bind (signed on rear lower dentelle of volume two in gilt pallet: "Bound by W. H. Smith and Son," An impressive..... (Item #6220)

London: John Starkey, 1860. Second Edition. 12mo. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. A beautiful De Sauty binding on the true Second Edition of Milton's renowned "sequel," in contrast to "Paradise Lost," which was more ornate in style and decorative in its verse, "Paradise Regained" is carried out in a...... (Item #6217)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. First Edition Thus. Original publishers beige cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine. One of 250 copies printed on handmade paper. With the full 32-page facsimile of Austen manuscript for chapters 10 and 11 mounted onto tabs in front. Fine. Scarce thus. (Item #6215)

Paris: Chez Jean, Rue de Beauvais, ca. 1775. Scarce and early edition of what has been called ìone of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written,î originally produced by Jacques Barozzio de Vignole in 1562. Our copy beautifully preserved in a contemporary brown tree-calf binding with leather label on spine..... (Item #6213)