107 (Antiquarianism) 3 Vols. Texier, Charles Felix Marie. Description de l’Asie Mineure faite par ordre du Governement Francois de 1833 a 1837. Paris: Didot freres, 1839-1849. Folio, half morocco and cloth; rubbed and worn. With lithographic general map - bound as 4 separate sheets and 254 plates on 249 sheets, including five hand colored and seven tinted plates. Minor internal dust smudging. Ex-library: perforated stamps on title pages, ink stamps on a preliminary leaf in volume 1, half title of volume 2, first part title in volume 3, perforated stamp at bottom right of each plate - touching the image or body of most plates. Brunet III. 768-769. $5,000-8,000 108 (Antiquarianism) 2 Vols. Texier, Charles Felix Marie. Description de l’Armenie, la Perse et la Mesopotamie. Paris: Didot Freres, 1842-1852. Folio, modern buckram. With additional chromolithographic title and 152 (on 149) plates, including 2 color plates, 3 double page maps. Light to moderate dust smudging to front matter, some, generally light, dust smudging to text and plate margins, scattered minor foxing, slightly toned, occasional offsetting from plates, first double page map split at center, chipped and a little dampstained at margins. Ex-library: perforated stamps on title pages, on chromolithographic title, and on all plates - often touching, or just within images, ink stamps on advertisement leaf in volume 1 and bastard title in volume 2, labels on front pastedowns. See Brunet V, 769. $5,000-8,000
109 (Antiquarianism) 1 Vol. Thompson, Steven; Street, George Edmund. Sepulchral Monuments of Italy, Mediaeval and Renaissance. London: Arundel Society, 1883. Large folio, modern buckram. With 49 mounted photo albumen plates. Some dust smudging to front and back matter, wear to a few sheets at fore edges. Original printed wrappers preserved. Ex-library: markings on binder’s blanks. $120-180 110 (Antiquarianism) 1 Vol. Tremaux, Pierre. Paralleles des edifices anciens et modernes du continent africain: dessines et releves de 1847 a 1854 dans l’Algerie, les regences de Tunis et de Tripoli, l’Egypt, la Nubie, les deserts, I’lle de Meroe, le Sennar, la Fa-Zoglo et dans les contrees inconnues de la Nigritie: atlas avec notices. Paris: Hachette, [ca. 1858]. Oblong folio, modern buckram; worn, spine detaching, front cover detached. With additional color lithographic title, 88 plates (44 in tint or color, 7 calotypes - salted paper photo prints - 6 each with a tipped lithographic plate), fold map, 13 letterpress leaves (several toned and chipped at blank edges) - including title and ordre des planches. Light to moderate foxing throughout - plates mostly affected in margins - some dust smudging and very occasional small chipping to blank edges of plates and map, creasing and some foxing to title and additional color title, cello tape repair to title page, creasing and darkening at fore edge to ordre des planches, scattered foxing to folding map which bears a small cello tape repair on its verso, plate 68 tipped to plate 69. Exlibrary: perforated stamps on title and map, ink stamp at foot of ordre des planches sheet. Additional color title and plates (except the fold map) free of library markings. Atlas volume only; issued originally as part of the author’s Voyage au Soudan oriental... (Paris: Borrani et Droz, 1852-1858). Brunet V, 935 (calling for 82 plates, apparently not accounting for the 6 tipped lithographs, and designating the above as the atlas volume of the second series of Voyage au Soudan). $5,000-8,000
111 (Antiquarianism) 1 Vol. (Wood, Robert) The Ruins of Balbec, Otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria. London, 1757. First edition. Folio, modern buckram. With 46 engraved plates on 47 sheets. Light to moderate foxing, dust spotting and smudging throughout. Small close tears to a very few plates. Ex-library: perforated stamp at foot of title page, perforated stamps on plate sheets - most in bottom right blank margins, just touching within plate marks of plates 1, 3, 8, 13, 23, and 24; other library markings on endpapers and foot of page (1). $1,200-1,800 112 (Antiquarianism) 1 Vol. (Wood, Robert) The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the Desert. London 1753. First edition. Folio, modern buckram. With 57 engraved plates, including a folding panorama. Close tear partly through one fold of the panorama. Internally slightly toned, light to moderate foxing and dust spotting throughout. Ex-library: perforated stamp at foot of title page, perforated stamp touching the title of the panorama at bottom right, perforated stamp just touching the body of plates 2-6 at bottom right, perforated stamp in blank bottom margins of plates 7-57, other library markings to endpapers and foot of page (iii). $600-900 113 (Early Printing) 1 Vol. (PseudoAristotle). Aristotle’s Master-piece in Three Parts, Displaying the Secrets of Man... to Which is Added... The Family Physician... The Nineteenth Edition. London: Printed and Sold by The Booksellers, 1738. 8vo, old (contemporary?) ruled calf. $500-800
114 (Early Printing) 1 Vol. (Aristotle). Aristotelis Stagiritae Peripateticorum Principis [Opera Omnia 4]. Venice: Sigmund Seminantis, 1572. Small 8vo, contemporary limp vellum; moderate wear and some dust soiling, ties defective. Hinges stressed. Trimmed - a few heads shaved close. Old ink annotations on front free endpaper recto, old ink ownership canceled in ink at foot of title page. Light foxing to front matter, scattered minor dampstaining, a few quotes toned, but internally generally clean. Leaf size: 115 x 75mm (1)-590, (18) pages. $100-300 115 (Early Printing) 1 Vol. Bacon, Francis, Sir; Godwin, Francis, Bishop. The History of the Reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary. London, 1676. First combined edition. Folio, modern three-quarters speckled calf and marbled boards. Frontispiece portrait. Light to moderate foxing throughout, some darkening to edges. Chipping at top and fore edge edges of portrait . Complete, [12], 138, [12], 201, [1] pages. Wing B-300. $200-300 116 (Early Printing) 1 Vol. (Bandello, Matteo.) [Le Tresor des] Histoires Tragiques. Lyon: Cesar Farine, 1583. [Histoires tragiques extraites des oeuvres italiennes de Bandel, et mises en langue francoise... par P. Boaistiau... et... Francois de BelleForest. Le sixiesme tome.] 16mo, contemporary vellum over flexible boards; light to moderate wear, some spotting, a little dusty. Head of title page repaired, “Le Tresor des” supplied in manuscript, some internal spotting and dust smudging, scattered minor paper faults including small losses to printed shoulder notes on pages 191-192; 477-478. Old ink ownership at the head of page 3. Presumed 2nd edition of the 6th of 7 volumes. (1)840, [24] pages, including terminal blank. Brunet I, 638; FRBNF 30079880; OCLC 83293446 $800-1,200