Search Results: Authors starting with D from Antiquariat Banzhaf

3 volumes (volumes II – III – IV). London Strand No 39, MDarly 1772. Engraved embellished title, 24 engraved plates ; engraved embellished title, 24 engraved plates ; engraved title, engraved advertisment leaf, 23 (of 24) engraved plates. Uniformly bound in cont. stiff marbled wrappers with oval engraved title shield "1772 Darly's Comic-Prints 39 Strand" embellished with an ornamental border, pasted onto front cover. Oblong 4to (155 x 250 mm). Wrappers dust-soiled and rubbed.
A fine example of the works of the husband and wife printsellers, Mary and Matthew Darly. From the time of their marriage, they worked in tandem designing, engraving and publishing prints using the signature, MD or MDarly. Mary was one of the first professional caricaturists in England. The present collection includes many of their most famous prints, including numerous "macaroni" satires. Contents fine.

Paris, Societé des Amis des Livres 1912. (and) Maquette of the book with the original drawings by Henri Paillard. Two volumes. 144, (6) pages with 35 etched vignettes with views of Venice in the text, richly adorned with woodcut initials and borders by and after Henri Paillard and an extra-suite of the etchings on 35 plates.; (2), pages (7)-142 with the full complement of the original pen sketches of the views and designs for borders and initials by Henri Paillard, 35 etched proof plates, heavily reworked with pen heightening, of which 4 pasted onto mounts, and 5 plates with the original pen- and ink and watercolour designs for borders and initials. Uniformly bound set in somewhat later French brown morocco bindings signed Canape et Corriez, on five raised bands, second compartments with gilt stamped title, foot of spine of the published volume with gilt stamped date, maquette volume with gilt stamp "Maquette d'Artist", covers framed by triple blind rules. Red morocco doublures, with a geometrical… Read More

Catalogus van een groote verzameling … prent-kunst, door voornaame Italiansche, Fransche, Engelsche, Nederlandsche en andere Meesiers, waar by veele proefdrukken. Mitsgaders losse en gebonden prent-werken. Keurlyke optische Instrumenten, als telescopen, door J. van der Bilt, Nachtkyker, door Dollond, Brand-Spiegel en Illuminatie-kasten, kunstige geschilderde Stellen Glaasen, Toverlantaarn, met beweegende en andere Voorwerpen, Chamber-Obscura, Kunst-Stukken, door Kampman en andere magnetische Rariteiten. Laastelyk eenige fraaye Kunst-Kasten. Al het welke ... nagelaaten door wyllen den Kunst-Minaar den Heer Jan de Groot, op Maandag den 10 December 1804, en volgende dagen, zal verkocht worden, te Amsterdam, ... door de makelaars: Philipppus van der Schley, Jan de Bosch Jeronimusz, Jan Yver, Cornelis Sebille Roos, Roelof Meurs Pruyssenaar en Jacobus Vinkeles. ... Te Amsterdam, by de Wed. H. W. en C. Dronsberg, P. den Hengst en Zoon, en Jan Yver, Boekverkoopers (1804). (2), 128, (2) pages. Cont. Dutch… Read More

20 pages, including 16 plates. Title, text and plates with decorative rule frame and border. Publisher's printed blue wrappers. Upper cover with decorative frame and ornaments, lower cover with printer's advertisment. Oblong folio (320 x 240 mm). First edition. The Abbé Delaplace, a keen student of deaf education and almoner at the Institute of St. Médard in Soissons, produced this attractive illustrated alphabet for the instruction of deaf-mute students with mouth and tongue positions with phonetic descriptions together with detailed illustrations of the vocal organs and lungs. A very nice copy.

Extracted from Nouvelles Archives de Musée d'Histoire Naturelle. 1895, 3. série, tome. VII. pp. (83)-114 with four text woodcuts and two chromolithographed plates by A. Millot (Lit. Lemercier) showing Max and Maurice.Contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. An extra-illustrated volume with 22 engravings, lithographs, half-tones and especially important 9 mounted original photographs by an unknown photographer showing the two orangoutans (living and as stuffed animals) with their zookeeper, their taxidermist (?) and with an exotic looking young male. It must have been a fascinating entertainment for the Parisian public and it is said that they attracted more than 100.000 visitors in 1893. They were imported from Borneo and travelled throughout Europe, public viewing was possible in Antwerp, Bruxelles and Paris. Within a year they died from stress and pneumonia. Ernst Pinkert from the Leipzig Zoological Gardens eventually bought them to nurse them back to health… Read More