Native Artist (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Undated [1924]. First UK edition. Hardback, bound in the original yellow cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 22 × 13.5cm, 259pp. A collection of six Chinese tales from "Chin Ku Ch'i Kuan" (trans: Observations of Strange Matters, New and Old), written towards the end of the Ming Dynasty (around the start of the 17th century). The authorship is not known, nor if it was a single author or a collection of authors. The Chin Ku Ch'i Kuan consists of about 40 stories, of which the translator has chosen the following six for this title: 1. The Inconstancy of Madam Chuang, 2. The Minister, the Lute and the Woodcutter, 3. The Diplomacy of Li T'ai-Po, 4. The Wonderful Adventure of Li, Duke of Ch'ien, 5. The Judgment of Magistrate T'eng, and 6. Marriage by Proxy. The book is illustrated with twelve full page plates by a Chinese artist whose identity is not revealed other than being described as a "Pekingese youth who has had no special training". Condition: A fair copy. The cloth is damaged to the head of the spine, and both front and rear boards are mottled. The contents are in strong readable condition with some tanning to the pages. Previous owner's signature to ffep (Francesca Claremont, a folklorist and author).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Edgeworn. Published jointly by Tomiko Publications, North Bay, Ontario; and Anishinabe Spirtual Centre, Espanola, Ontario. Includes bibliographical references. Includes excerpts from the 1966 'The Jerusalem Bible.' With inscriptions by all three authors on title page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Pas de couverture. Condition: Très bon. Supplement to the Sudio, June 1888.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Paintings by Leland Bell, Native artist (illustrator). 4to pp. 98. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. PUGH E (illustrator). First Edition. VG, 1st ed, 1816, 71 pls (uncoloured). In half calf, some blind tooling, with maroon morocco cloth, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to maroon calf label, light wear to edges. Internally, frontis, [3], (iv-xv), [1], [1], 2-467 pp, 71 pls (of 71 aquatints, uncoloured), tissue guarded, bookplate to fpd (Isaac Evans), also the original spine label as well as an ink name (GA Humphreys), later orange endpapers, frontis with small marginal tear and corner edge lacking, text block edges uncut, some edge browning, plates dated 1814 or 15, text leaves watermarked 1814, printed by W Clowes, Northumberland-Court. (Abbey 521. Prideaux 348. Tooley 386. Allibone 1702. Bobins 704). Pugh exhibited twenty-three pictures, mainly miniature portraits at the Royal Academy between 1793 and 1808. Another of his pictures was exhibited posthumously in 1821. Pugh supplied the drawings for Modern London, 1805, and, inspired by Boydell, wrote Cambria Depicta: A Tour through North Wales . which, illustrated with over seventy of the author 's own drawings, was published posthumously in 1816. According to the preface, the work took him nine years to complete. See NLW WBO.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, quarto, 10 1/2" x 8 1/2", twentieth century half calf lettered gilt on red morocco to spine, marbled paper covered boards, a very good tightly bound copy, front free endpaper creased, sporadic light foxing and offsetting, 70 uncoloured aquatint plates, xv + 476 [4] pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. PUGH E. BARROW C.IBOTSON. PALMER. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Depicta with hand coloured plates and with many Extra Illustrations Two volumes bound as One, first edition (both), large paper copy, quarto. Xvi, 476 pp. 71 hand coloured aquatint plates and extra illustrated with a double page hand coloured engraved map. 83 uncoloured engravings, 12 aquatint's (including 6 coloured). 3 Lithograph's (including 1 coloured), 3 pages of lithographed music and 13 ink sketches ( 1 coloured) by C Barrow, book label to verso fep (John & Myfaney Piper), plus the ink details of Barrow to ffep. Bound in mid 19 C brown calf, the covers tooled in blind and gilt, the spine divided into 5 panels, lettered in one on a red goatskin label, the others gilt tooled, marbled end leaves and edges (joints and corners worn, rubbed), upper board held by ties. In addition to the extra illustrations there are 3 ff of text accompanying the plates of costumes, published by Havell in 1815. There are also 2 labels taken from the boards of illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains & Views of Noblemen & Gentlemen's seats. North & South Wales. Bound with Jones Harry Longueville. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL SCENERY OF THE SNOWDON MOUNTAINS, accompanied by a description, topographical & historical of the county of Caernarvon. 15 uncoloured lithographs by Baynes & Walton after Jones, printed by Hullmandel & extra illustrated with 1 lithograph. 1st edition, folio viii, 54 pp London by Ibotson & Palmer for Charles Tilt & Thomas Stevenson, 1829. This volume was put together by Corbyn Barrow of Lancaster with the date 1857 on the front fly leaf. The ink sketches are signed by him & are dated between 1858 & 1864. They are competent landscape views, a number of them illustrating the coast line. The extra illustrations are taken from a number of books & also include single prints, some of which are annotated by Barrow with notes of where he bought them. This book is mentioned in Pipers Places p105: "Once again his initial interest [in the landscape of Snowdonia] had been aroused by his precursors. Before the war, in a second-hand bookshop in Hereford, he bought a copy of Pugh's Cambria Depicta which had hand-coloured aquatints and some engravings bound in by a previous owner." (Abbey Scenery 521. Tooley 386 uncoloured. Allibone 1702: Anderson 345. Bohn Natural History p130). (309*234 mm).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original maroon cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. Landscape 10½'' x 12ĵ''. Contains 126 full-page colour illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0934738211 WESTERNS [U.S.A Old West].

Condition: Used: Very Good. Hardcover very good 132 pages First edition.

4to. 74, [4] pp. Title in red & black, marginalia notes printed in blue, 5 colour plates tipped-in. Blue publisher's linen, printed label front cover, w/ d.j. NF/NF copy. First edition, 1 of 250 copies printed, of this account of the rash and impulsive action which resulted in a seriously undermanned detachment of a teenage Lt. Grattan, newly graduated from West Point, 2 sergeants, and 27 enlisted men to arrest High Forehead from the Brule village near Fort Kearny, NE. The entire detachment was wiped out, including Lt. Grattan with 24 hours in his body, and ignited the next 22 years of War between settlers, Native Americans, and the U.S. Army.

Art. Condition: Near Fine. First Nation Artist (illustrator). First American.Edition. Original Near Fine Condition First Nation Etched and Carved Horned Serpent Spiro Shell Mound Gourd. Finely made and painted with hand sewn porcupine quills on the lip of the gourd. Made in the 1980s by a First Nation artist. Ceremonial Horned Sepent with white hand painted finishing touches. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Designs. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans.

Condition: Good. 22 x 17 inches. Short marginal tears lower left.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books. Berkeley.