Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018
287 c (DUTCH VIEWS.) Lutgers, Petrus Josephus. 31 tinted lithographs of estate houses in Utrecht, comprising a selection of plates from Lutgers’ Gezigten in de Omstreken van Utrecht. Oblong 4to, 10 1 / 2 x13 1 / 2 inches, modern quarter calf; intermittent light foxing, marginal damage to final plate. [The Hague, 1869] [600/900] 288 c (EROTICA — JAPANESE.) 3 miniature color woodblock shunga albums. 5x2 1 / 4 inches, blue wrappers with printed paper label containing 9 double-page graphic scenes; 5x2 1 / 4 inches, plain card wrappers containing 1 full-page and 9 double-page explicit scenes (2 uncolored); 6 1 / 2 x3 1 / 2 inches, blue wrappers with printed paper label containing 17 quarter-page adult scenes; nice sets with moderate wear. Japan, circa 1840 [800/1,200] 289 c (EROTICA.) Rops, Felicien. [Eaux-Fortes de F.R.] Collection of 27 etched frontispieces and plates of a naughty nature tipped onto larger album sheets; various states. Small folio, 12 1 / 2 x9 1 / 2 inches, period red cloth with gilt title to spine, minor rubbing; occasional glue discoloration at mount points. Belgium or France, later half of the 19th century [400/600] 290 c FERRARIO, JULES. Le Costume Ancien et Moderne. [Asia - Volume 1]. Aquatint frontispiece, 2 maps (one folding, lacking folding map of the world), and 83 hand- colored aquatint plates of subjects relating to China, Formosa, Korea and Japan. 4to, 14x10 inches, modern quarter leatherette over marbled boards; plates with library blindstamps but otherwise clean and in bright original colors. Milan, 1815 [800/1,200] 287 288
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