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Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video by VIDAL, Emeric Essex

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

Title: Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video
Author: VIDAL, Emeric Essex
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: R. Ackermann, 1820. The Only Notable English Color Plate Book Devoted to Early Argentina One of Fifty Large-Paper Copies of Vidal's Buenos Ayres and Monte Video" VIDAL, E[meric] E[ssex]. Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: accompanied with descriptions of the scenery, and of the costumes, manners, &c. of the inhabitants of those cities and their environs. By E.E. Vidal, Esq. London: Published by R. Ackermann...Printed by L. Harrison, 1820. First edition. One of fifty large paper copies. Atlas quarto (15 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches; 397 x 317 mm.). xxviii, 115, [1, blank] pp. Twenty-four very fine hand-colored aquatint plates, four of which are double-page and folding, including one with two views. The plates include: "General View of Buenos Ayres, from the Plaza de Toros;" "Landing Place;" "Market Place;" "Milk Boys;" "South Matadero (Public Butchery);" "Church of San Domingo;" "Pampa Indians;" "Estantia (Farm) on the River San Pedro;" "Balling Ostriches;" "Guachos (Rustics) of Tucuman;" "Convoy of Wine Mules;" "Paolistas, Soldiers of the East Bank of the Plata;" "A Quinta (Farm);" and "A Horse Race." Text and plates watermarked 1818 and 1820. Publisher's green morocco-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Very slight wear to upper joint, inner hinges strengthened. Housed in a green cardboard slipcase. A wonderful copy. One of the great illustrated travel books of South America, and the earliest substantial color-plate record of Buenos Aires and Montevideo to be published in England. Emeric Essex Vidal, a British naval officer and accomplished artist, lived in the Río de la Plata region between 1816 and 1818, during a formative moment immediately following the wars of independence. His views were drawn on the spot and record not only architecture and landscape, but daily life, labor, costume, and social types with an ethnographic attentiveness unusual for the period. Issued by R. Ackermann, the leading color-plate publisher of the early nineteenth century, the work exemplifies the highest standards of aquatint engraving and hand-coloring. Vidal's plates range from sweeping urban prospects and coastal landings to vividly observed genre scenes - gauchos, market vendors, soldiers, indigenous peoples, rural estates, and sporting pursuits - together forming an irreplaceable visual document of the region before large-scale European modernization. The large-paper issue, limited to only fifty copies, is of exceptional rarity and was intended for connoisseurs and institutional libraries. With its full complement of boldly colored plates, generous margins, and excellent state of preservation, this example represents the book at its finest. Long regarded as a cornerstone of South American iconography and one of Ackermann's most important travel publications, Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video remains indispensable to collectors of color-plate books, Latin American history, and early nineteenth-century travel literature. "In 1820 began a series of books dealing with travel and scenery. The first was Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, with descriptions of scenery, customs, and manners by E.E. Vidal. The book was issued in six monthly parts, seven hundred and fifty copies on elephant paper, and fifty on atlas...The twenty-four aquatints, all after drawings by Vidal, four of them being large folded plates, are engraved by G. Maile, J. Bluck, T. Sutherland, and D. Havell...[and] possess a subtle charm of their own apart from their historical and geographical value" (Martin Hardie). Emeric Essex Vidal (ca. 1788-1861), born into a naval family, joined the Navy in 1808 and spent much of his career as a purser. He was stationed in 1820-1821 at St. Helena as secretary to Admiral Lambert on H.M.S. Vigo. Vidal was a distinguished painter and many of his fine drawings (like those of his brother Alexander) were adapted for the engraved vignettes on early issues of certain British Admiralty charts. Abbey describes only a red cloth binding on his large paper copy. The green cloth of the present copy, with slightly different tooling on the spine (without the phrase "24 plates coloured"), is obviously a variant. Abbey, Travel, 698. Colas 3000. Hiler, p. 878. Martin Hardie, pp. 107 and 312. Prideaux, pp. 355 and 375. Sabin 99460. Tooley 495.

JULIUS FIRMICUS MATERNUS AND THE ALDINE EDITION OF SCRIPTORES by BLISS, CAREY

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Title: JULIUS FIRMICUS MATERNUS AND THE ALDINE EDITION OF SCRIPTORES
Author: BLISS, CAREY
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1981. BLISS, Carey. JULIUS FIRMICUS MATERNUS AND THE ALDINE EDITION OF SCRIPTORES ASTRONOMICI VETERES. Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, 1981. Folio. Numbered 39 of 164. This study of the Aldine Edition contains a 1499 Aldine leaf in Roman type, paragraph markings printed in red and blue as well as a 3-line initial in blue. There is also a short contemprary ink annotation in the margin. Bound in grey linen with paper titling label at spine. 28pp plus bibliography, acknowledgments and colophon, printed by Patrick Reagh. A fine copy.

PIONEERING WITH WILDFLOWERS by Aiken, George D.

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Title: PIONEERING WITH WILDFLOWERS
Author: Aiken, George D.
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
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Description: Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Putney, Vt 1933. 122 pages, clothbound, no jacket, very good condition. .

Illustration from A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard by [Blake, William. Sales Announcement]

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Title: Illustration from A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
Author: [Blake, William. Sales Announcement]
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1981. [New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Slim 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard's book A Visit to William Blake's Inn. Very good. §.

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