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Boilly's Humorous Designs

Boilly's Humorous Designs by BOILLY, Louis-Léopold

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Title
Boilly's Humorous Designs
Author
BOILLY, Louis-Léopold
Seller
David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823. Scarce First British Appearance of Boilly's Grimaces BOILLY, Louis-Léopold. Boilly's Humorous Designs. Seven Plates, Coloured After the Original Drawings. Price One Guinea. London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823. First UK publication of a selection of Boilly's initial plates from his Recueil de Grimaces (1823). Folio (14 1/2 x 11 in; 375 x 275 mm). Seven hand-colored lithographed plates after Boilly with original tissue guards. The third plates is watermarked "J. Whatman 1823". The wrappers are watermarked "1820". Original printed buff wrappers. An excellent copy, housed in a later black cloth portfolio, lettered in gilt on front cover and with the bookplate of Alfred N. Beadleston. Exceedingly scarce, with only one copy in institutional holdings worldwide, at Harvard's Houghton Library "Address to the Public. On or before November the 1st, will be Published by E. and C. M'Lean, a Second Series of Boilly's Designs, executed in the same superior and elegant form. October 1, 1823" (inside front wrapper). The first plate is unnumbered and the only one with title, Reading the Will ("La lecture du testament," Les Grimaces 10 in the French original). The remaining six plates are identified only as Grimaces Pl. 1 through Grimaces Pl. 6. Grimaces Pl. 1 is Les Grimaces 1 in the French original; Grimaces Pl. 2 is Les Grimaces 6; Grimaces Pl. 3 is Les Grimaces 3; Grimaces Pl. 4 is Les Grimaces 7; Grimaces Pl. 6 is Les Grimaces 34, "Les Fumeurs et les Priseurs. We've yet to identify the French original of Grimaces Pl. 5 but it is likely within the first ten plates of Recueil de Grimaces. "Today, at least outside France, Boilly is best known for his lithographs. Although credited with having drawn the first lithograph in France in 1802, he did not return to the medium until 1822, when he more or less abandoned oil painting. The caricatural aspects of his lithographic work go back to the English caricaturists Cruikshank, Gillray, and Rowlandson and the earlier innovations of Hogarth. His most popular series of lithographs, Recueil de Grimaces, was published between 1823 and 1828... The vignetted subjects of these prints appear to be cut out and applied to a plain background, a format also used by Pigal during the Restoration. The series was so popular that Philipon's printer Aubert re-published it in 1837 under the new title Groupes physionomiques... "The series Recueil de Grimaces, published over the course of five years, included ninety-six lithographs... Boilly's popularity during the Restoration was largely due to this series. The interest in expressive heads had precedent in France... During the late eighteenth century, physiognomy, the art of reading inner character by means of facial expressions, was popularized by engravings illustrating Lavater's well-known Essays on Physiognomy, which may well have influenced the format of Boilly's Recueil de Grimaces' (The Charged Image: French Lithographic Caricature). The son of a wood-carver, Louis-Léopold Boilly lived in Douai until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to Arras to receive instruction in trompe-l'oeil painting at Domenica Doncre before moving to Paris in 1785. Between 1789 and 1791 he executed eight small scenes on moralizing and amorous subjects for the Avignon collector Esprit-Claude-François Calvet (1728-1810), including The Visit (1789; Saint-Omer, Musée Hôtel Sandelin). He exhibited at the Salon between 1791 and 1824 and received a gold medal at the Salon in 1804. These paintings thoroughly observed and reflected all aspects of urban life, its costumes and its habits, between the revolutionary period and the Restoration. In 1823, Boilly produced a series of humorous lithographies entitled Grimaces. In 1833, at a time when his popularity was declining, he was admitted to the Légion d'honneur and the Institut de France. His three sons, Julien Léopold (1796-1874), Édouard (1799-1854) and Alphonse Léopold (1801-1867), were also painters. (Susan Siegfried. The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly, p. 122-123). Alfred Nash Beadleston, Sr. (1848-1915), partner in the Beadleston & Woerz Empire brewery of New York City, made headlines when, in 1909, the 60 year old Beadleston married 21 year old Helen F. Hazard (1888-1937), daughter of Edward Clarke Hazard of the grocery firm E. C. Hazard and Company, thus uniting stale old beer and ripe fresh groceries in one cart down the supermarket aisle.
Hortorum libri IV, et cultura hortensis. Hortorum historiam addidit Gabriel Brotier

Hortorum libri IV, et cultura hortensis. Hortorum historiam addidit Gabriel Brotier by RAPIN, René; BROTIER, Gabriel, editor

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Title
Hortorum libri IV, et cultura hortensis. Hortorum historiam addidit Gabriel Brotier
Author
RAPIN, René; BROTIER, Gabriel, editor
Seller
Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Paris: J. Barbou, 1780. 12mo (149 x 82 mm.). [2] ff., xxxvi, 319, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece of a gardener in classical setting, by Benoît Louis Prévost, Barbou’s woodcut device on title, woodcut, typographic and engraved head- & tailpieces. Publisher’s list of other works from the Collection d’Auteurs Latins on last page. Printed on pale blue paper (papier bleuté). Fine. Contemporary French gold-tooled red morocco, covers tooled to a dentelle design, smooth spine gilt with flower tools, edges gilt, blue watered silk liners (light scuffing to extremities, faint stain on front cover). Provenance: bookplates of Charles Lormier (oval monogrammed booklabel with motto Vita sina litteris mors est; sale, Paris, 1901-1907); Jules Lemaître (sale, Paris, 18 June 1917, no. 443); Henri Beraldi (sale, part 3, Paris, 18 Dec. 1934, no. 212); and Alain de Rothschild.*** A beautifully bound, bibliophiles’ copy of an erudite edition of Rapin’s neo-Latin didactic poem on gardens, first published in 1665, translated into English by John Evelyn in 1672-73, and celebrated for its early descriptions of the classical French garden. Written to “complete” Virgil’s Georgics, Rapin (”the father of Jesuit Georgic poetry” – Haskell) treats in turn the flower garden (Flores), park (Nemus), water (Aquae), and the fruit garden (Pomarium). While his aim was literary rather than practical, Rapin’s descriptions, especially of the park and waterworks as means of imposing order on nature, accurately portrayed the symmetrical, stylized French garden perfected during the reign of Louis XIV. This edition includes Rapin’s later prose essay on classical and modern horticulture. The editor Brotier added a biographical introduction, exhaustive notes, his own essay on gardens, and an index of plant names in Latin and French. Rapin, whose poem is packed with classical allusions, was one of a handful of modern writers to be included in Joseph-Gérard Barbou’s Collection d’Auteurs Latins, all 68 volumes of which could be purchased (bound in calf) for 395 livres, as advertised on the last page. Quérard VII:454; Brunet IV:1114; de Backer-Sommervogel VI:1446. Cf. Gothein, History of Garden Art (1913), online, art. “René Rapin’s garden poetry”; Y. A. Haskell, Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry (2003), pp. 17-38.
Konsum-Genossenschaft Berlin und Umgegend, e.G.m.b.H.

Konsum-Genossenschaft Berlin und Umgegend, e.G.m.b.H. by Zille, Heinrich (Illustrator)

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Konsum-Genossenschaft Berlin und Umgegend, e.G.m.b.H.
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Zille, Heinrich (Illustrator)
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
vg
Description
Berlin: Vorwärts Buchdruckerei, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Oblong quarto. [6], 24pp. Original embossed brown leatherette. Decorative endpapers and initial. Decorative title-page. Rare and fascinating work published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Konsum-Genossenschaft Berlin und Umgegend company. It is profusely illustrated with 23 full-page photogravures of the various buildings of the company in and around Berlin, and one full-page illustration by Heinrich Zille. Laid in, an 8-page contract signed by an employee entering the company, and dated 15. Dez. 1934. Binding and interior in overall near to fine condition.
Tatlin
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Tatlin by Zhadova, Larissa Alekseevna

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Tatlin
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Zhadova, Larissa Alekseevna
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN
9780847808274
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vg
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New York: Rizzoli, 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. vg. 4to. 533pp. Blind-stamped black cloth with red lettering on spine in original photographic dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Detailed publication on the life and work of Russian avant-garde artist, Vladimir Tatlin. Includes Tatlin's manifestos, letters and writings, as well as many contemporary articles by various scholars. Illustrated with color duo tone and b/w reproductions of the artists work. Includes b/w reproductions of photographs. Minor scratches on front cover, very slight creasing to head of dj spine. Near fine condition.
The Ides of March

The Ides of March by Wilder, Thornton

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The Ides of March
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Wilder, Thornton
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Very Good
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original cloth, rubbed along the bottom, in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Wilder in March of 1948: "Arthur from Thornton and most affectionately."
Judy, Judy, Judy (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Judy, Judy, Judy (Original screenplay for an unproduced film) by William Claxton, Lennie Bleecher (screenwriters)

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Judy, Judy, Judy (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
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William Claxton, Lennie Bleecher (screenwriters)
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Royal Books (United States)
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N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Two copied manuscript annotations to the title page, presumably noting the phone numbers of screenwriters William Claxton and Lennie Bleecher. A troubled gay Latino teenager leaves his family in order to pursue his dream of performing onstage in drag as Judy Garland, but things quickly go too far when he meets Judy's real-life former best friend. Set in New York. Navy untitled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriters William Claxton and Lennie Bleecher. 86 leaves, with last page of text numbered 72. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, with a blue Velo binding.
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A Financial History of California. Public Revenues, Debts, and Expenditures. by FANKHAUSER, William C.

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A Financial History of California. Public Revenues, Debts, and Expenditures.
Author
FANKHAUSER, William C.
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Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
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Fine
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1913 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Tall octavo. [2], 101-408pp. plus 4pp. index. 4 folding tables. Bibliography, index. Publisher's gray wrappers printed in black. Fore-edge of front wrapper and upper corner of rear wrapper with some curling and chipping, spine a bit darkened, else a fine copy. First edition. Scarce. Covers the early Spanish period (Spanish revenue laws, Mexican commercial regulations, etc.); an entire section of the decade of experimentation, 1850's (temporary state loan of 1850, foreign miner's license tax, the funding acts, stamp duties, etc.); California's financial problems of the 1860-1872 period; a period of unrest (1872-1880); revenue laws and railroad tax litigation; state receipts; state and local taxation, and more. The last section provides detailed charts of State expenditures, 1850-1910. .
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THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES, Volumes 49-50, 1946 by ANTIQUES

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THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES, Volumes 49-50, 1946
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ANTIQUES
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
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ANTIQUES. THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES, Volumes 49-50, 1946. (New York: 1946). Small folio. Cloth. 392 pages; 416 pages. Being a bound set of Antiques magazines for the year 1946. Well illustrated. Withdrawn from the Yale University School of Fine Arts. Covers rubbed, else very good.
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Russian Impact On Art by ALPATOV, Mikhail

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Title
Russian Impact On Art
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ALPATOV, Mikhail
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
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very good
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New York: Philosophical Library, 1950. hardcover. very good/good. Two-sided frontispiece and 30 other black-and-white plates. 352 pages (lower right corner bumped on several pages), 8vo, black boards with red gilt-stamped label, dust wrapper (chipped and worn). New York: Philosophical Library, (1950). A very good copy in a good dust wrapper.
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News from Indian Country

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News from Indian Country
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(Hayward, WI): (Indian Country Communications). 1990. Newspaper, with Indian news from around the country and also Canada and Mexico. Volume 4, No. 8. Tabloid; mild sunning; else fine. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition.
[Printed envelope].

[Printed envelope]. by BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO., Rochester, NY.

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BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO., Rochester, NY.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
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Rochester, NY:: Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., [n.d.].. 17 x 25 cm. Brown printed envelope. Ownership signature of Frederick Herzig, Los Angeles. Contains: "Cabinet Key Inside" Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, NY; Certificate of Inspection from Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.; Bausch & Lomb Instrument Registration [for Herzig]. Added receipt from Braun Corp., Los Angeles, from whom Herzig bought a microscope [no date].

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