Colour plate books

4to (21 x 17 cm) 2 vols in 1; 26 plates (24 of which are hand-coloured) in vol.1 and two plates and a lithograph in the vol. 2; later brown morocco with gilt title to spine; some foxing and tape repairs.

First edition. Landscape folio (43 x 56 cm), engraved throughout, title in French and German engraved by Junker, 50 fine hand-coloured engraved views by Johann Ziegler after Lorenz Janscha, all titled in French and German, within wash borders and with descriptive text, contemporary red half morocco gilt, spine in six compartments, large vase and flower gilt device to each, raised bands tooled in gilt, large red morocco label with floral gilt borders to upper cover, pink marbled boards, a fine copy.

First edition. 3 vols comprising 2 vols 4to text with portrait frontispiece, 11 maps, 1 plate, plan, and wood-engravings in text; folio atlas with 12 maps, 9 plans, 1 aerial view (some tinted), and 48 plates (including 44 bis) on 40 sheets (6 double-page), 11 of the plates in full colour. Original morocco-backed blind-stamped cloth gilt, repairs to corners, old stains to atlas spine, an excellent set.

4 volumes, folio (44 x 33.5 cm), 420 engraved plates by Poiteau and Turpin, printed in colours and finished by hand by Bouquet, Leuleu, Gabriel, Massard, Bocourt, Legrand, Allais, Rodrigue and others, 3 plain plates. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, some light spotting to text, a few plates with light toning and spotting, generally clean and fresh, a very handsome set.

First edition. Two vols in one, 8vo. xii, 231pp with 5 hand-coloured lithographed plates; vi, 339 pp., folding engraved map with hand-coloured outlines. Later half-calf over dark red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover; spine a bit faded.

First edition. Large folio (61.5 x 44 cm). Title, [4] introduction, 27 hand-coloured engraved maps and 55 lithographs on india paper on 31 sheets, each map accompanied with printed leaves of text; bookseller's printed overslip ('Paris [...] Vve. Bouchard-Huzard') pasted onto date of title page, a few maps lightly browned, some spotting, mostly marginal. Contemporary green half morocco, gilt rules to covers, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers; neatly rebacked preserving spine, neat repairs to extremities.

Two volumes, 12mo (approx. 14.5 x 9.5 cm). With 32 hand-coloured plates; very slight occasional offsetting. Later polished tree calf by Morell, London, flat spines richly gilt, red and black morocco labels lettered in gilt, gilt borders to covers, all edges gilt; slightly rubbed at extremities.

6 vols, 4to (27 x 22 cm); Ornamental Greenhouse Plants and Ornamental Perrenials vol 1 First editions, 303 (of 304 hand-coloured lithograph plates, lacking 1 plate from Wild Flowers at page 144) occasional light spotting and soiling; publisher's green cloth gilt, pictorial vignettes to spine and upper covers, spines faded to tan, neat repairs to extremities, a very good set.

Folio (39 x 30 cm), hand-coloured stipple-engraved frontispiece, calligraphic title-page and dedication leaf, 90 etched and stipple-engraved plates, all hand-coloured, 4 partly or entirely captioned in the author's hand, 2 leaves of letterpress at end. Burgundy morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, triple gilt fillet borders on covers, spine gilt with rose motifs in compartments, gilt lettered in two, gilt edges.

Folio (45.7 x30.5 cm). Hand-coloured engraved title with vignette engraved by I. Bugreev, title, dedication page, VIII, 80 pp and 51 engraved plates by Karl Friedrich Knappe, coloured by hand and numbered in the plate. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt border and doule-headed eagle to covers, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco labels gilt-lettered to two, marbled endpapers, blue edges; slightly rubbed.