Null Book in English on lace designs, Margaret Abegg.
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Book in English on lace designs, Margaret Abegg. " APROPOS PATTERNS " well documented book on the designs used through the centuries to create lace or textile patterns.

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Book in English on lace designs, Margaret Abegg. " APROPOS PATTERNS " well documented book on the designs used through the centuries to create lace or textile patterns.

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Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

[Nouveau recueil de voyages]. Geneva P. Barde [- Manget & compagnie]; Paris, Moutart, Mérigot the young 1785-1787 6 vols. 8vo. Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-ruled spines with raised bands, red spr. edges (sm. and occ. traces of use, front joint of vol. VI split). Complete collection in 6 vol. composed of: - Voyages aux montagnes d'Écosse et aux isles Hébrides, de Scilly, d'Anglesey, &c. Translated from English by a society of literary men, with the necessary notes and clarifications. Enriched with maps and many views and drawings, engraved by the best artists. 2 vols: xv-[1 bl.]-375-[2], vi-[2]-328-[2] pp; 10 pl. (vol. I: sl. marg. damp stain at the begin., marg. stain on pl. p. 250, sm. stain on pp. 272-273). Illustrated with 10 fold. plates: one map and 9 views. Contains a.o. "Isles of Scilly" by William Borlase, "Description de l'isle d'Anglesey, au nord-ouest du Pays de Galles", "Relation d'un voyage de Milord Littelton au nord du Pays de Galles, & à l'isle d'Anglesey" and "Voyage en Écosse et aux isles Hébrides, fait en 1772" by Thomas Pennant, "Description de l'isle de Staffa" by Uno von Troil, "Description de l'isle de Saint-Kilda" by Kenneth Macaulay and "Écosse" by Samuel Johnson, etc. - Coxe, William - Voyage en Pologne, Russie, Suède, Danemarck, etc. [...]. [...]. Translated from the English, enriched with notes and the necessary clarifications and increased by a voyage to Norway, by Mr. P.H. Mallet [...]. Work decorated with maps, portraits, plans & figures in intaglio. 4 vols. xii-380, [4]-404, [4]-293 [= 393], [4]-303 pp. 19 pl. (tear in 1st map of vol. I, marg. damp stains in vol. IV, tear in 3rd map in vol. V). Illustrated with 19 plates: 5 fold. maps (Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark), 7 fold. plans (Moscow, St-Petersburg, Stockholm, etc.), 4 portraits and 3 plates (2 fold.). Ref. Brunet IV:114.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

LA BARRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS (Antoine). Le Temple des muses, orné de LX. Tableaux Où sont représentés les Evenemens les plus remarquables de l'Antiquité fabuleuse ; Dessinés & gravés par B. Picart le Romain, & autres habiles Maitres ; et accompagnés d'explications et de remarques, Qui découvrent le vrai sens des Fables, & le fondement qu'elles ont dans l'Histoire. Amsterdam : Zacharie Chatelain, 1742. - In-folio, 455 x 283: frontispiece, (5 ff.), 152 pp., (2 ff.), 60 plates. Marbled calf, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red edges (period binding). Cohen, I, 531-532. Second edition in French, after that of 1733, dedicated, like the first, to Prince Philippe-Charles, Archbishop of Mainz. It is adorned with a frontispiece, a title vignette, a band bearing the arms of the dedicatee and 60 plates, all engraved by or under the direction of Bernard Picart (1673-1733). These plates feature two engravings, the first depicting a scene from an ancient fable, captioned in French, English, German and Dutch, the second framing this scene. According to Cohen, these engravings are slightly modified copies by Diepenbecke, executed for the 1655 Temple des Muses, with text by Michel de Marolles. Binding skilfully restored, some spotting. Soiling to false title. Frontispiece slightly cut by binder. Missing tear and slight damage to text at top of folio Bb2. Worm damage in the inner margin of several leaves at the end of the book.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

[ORLINSKI (Richard) - CHAINE (Sonia). Richard Orlinski. English translation by Anne Muller and Sinead Healy. Paris : Cimarosa, 2012. - Square folio, 405 x 400: 177 pp. (20 ff.). Publisher's illustrated boards, in wood and Plexiglas slipcase, also containing a lacquered and resin-pressed plate featuring a Kong in half-round hump, all in a wooden military case. First bilingual French-English edition of this monograph devoted to the artist and sculptor Richard ORLINSKI (b. 1966), featuring numerous photographs of his work, reproductions of drawings and system elements. Limited edition of 2,500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, enhanced by a half-round resin sculpture of Kong. The book is numbered 34, while the sculpture is numbered 245. Enriched with a 33-centimeter "Wild Kong" sculpture in red resin numbered 13/100, part of the "Wild Born Concept" series, and a computer-retouched color photograph of a giant Kong imprisoned behind the facade of a metal building, signed by the artist and numbered 245/2500. The whole was placed in a large military-style wooden box (L 46 x W 46 x H 40 cm), with inscriptions in Russian on the lid and one of the sides.

Estim. 13 000 - 15 000 EUR

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