folio Auctions Prices | folio Guide Prices

the saleroom

Sign in

Register

Sort by

List
Grid

86082 item(s)

/page

Toovey's

Lot 1

CARRACCI, Annibale (1560-1609). Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi cum Ipsarum Monocromatibus et Ornamentis. Rome: Giovanni Giacommo Rossi, [n.d. but circa 1690.] Engraved throughout, title and 11 plates by Petro Aquila; [bound with:] Annibale CARRACCI. Galeria nel Palazzo Farnese. Rome: Arnold van Westerhout, [n.d.] Title and 40 plates on 29 leaves (1 folding). (Neat old repairs to verso of some plates, some soiling.) 2 works in one vol., oblong folio (440 x 550mm.) Eighteenth century half-sheep (worn, upper cover lacking). Provenance: Nath’l Dance (?1735-1811, 2 signatures to second work). (See illustrations)

Live Auction

FOLIO SOCIETY (publishers). – William SHAKESPEARE. The Norton Facsimile, the First Folio… second edition with a new introduc

Toovey's

Lot 1

FOLIO SOCIETY (publishers). – William SHAKESPEARE. The Norton Facsimile, the First Folio… second edition with a new introduction by Peter W.M. Blayney. London & New York: 1996. Limited ‘Folio Society Edition’ of 1000 copies, this number 467, folio (348 x 230mm.) Original black half-morocco, t.e.g., contained within original slipcase.

Live Auction

Toovey's

Lot 1

BRADSHAW, Percy V. The Art of the Illustrator. London: [n.d. but 1918.] 1 vol., in 20 original parts, folio (340 x 218mm.) 20 mounted half-tone portraits with facsimile signatures beneath, 120 mounted plates (27 coloured, 4 tinted). (1 plate torn.) The plates unbound, the text sewn, both as issued, each part within original grey card portfolio, the 20 parts contained within original cloth publisher’s box (box worn).

Live Auction

Toovey's

Lot 1

MACQUOID, Percy. A History of English Furniture. London: Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, 1938. 4 vols., folio (368 x 260mm.) Titles in red and black, numerous plates, many colour. Original cloth (spines faded).

Live Auction

Toovey's

Lot 1

SIDNEY, Algernon. Discoveries concerning Government… second edition carefully corrected. London: printed by F. Darby, 1704. Folio (315 x 197mm.) Nineteenth century speckled calf, the covers elaborately blocked in gilt with a centrally-placed armorial (front-free endpaper detached and loosely inserted, extremities somewhat rubbed and scuffed, hinges splitting).

Live Auction

Toovey's

Lot 1

AESOP. Fables… with Morals and Reflections by Sir Roger L’Estrange. London: 1692. Folio (310 x 196mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 1 engraved plate. (Light browning and occasional light spotting.) Old speckled calf (worn, covers detached). Wing A706.

Live Auction

The Enid Blyton Nature Plates drawn by Eileen A Soper No. 1-60 inc. "The Brownie's Magic", "The Unhappy Grass Snake" etc. (a

Kent Auction Galleries Ltd.

Lot 1

The Enid Blyton Nature Plates drawn by Eileen A Soper No. 1-60 inc. "The Brownie's Magic", "The Unhappy Grass Snake" etc. (all 60 plates, 2/3 AF) contained in original cardboard folio

Live Auction

Thorburn, A [Archibald], British Birds, with eighty plates in colour, showing over four hundred species, London, Longmans Gr

Neales Nottingham

Lot 1

Thorburn, A [Archibald], British Birds, with eighty plates in colour, showing over four hundred species, London, Longmans Green & Co, 1917-18, 4 vols, folio, vols I & II third editions, vols III & IV 2nd editions, red publishers cloth covered boards, gilt, faded and rubbed

Live Auction

Bruton Knowles

Lot 1

19th Century a folio of unframed humorous and other prints, another folio and a Victorian scrap album.

Live Auction

Dreweatt Neate Godalming Salerooms

Lot 1

Chinese School 1954. The Tunhuang mural Paintings, 3rd series,. a folio of twelve colour woodblock prints, . all unframed, . Each 45cm x 32cm. best Bid

Live Auction

Dreweatt Neate Godalming Salerooms

Lot 1

Chinese School 1953, . The Tunhuang Mural Paintings selection B, . A folio of twelve colour woodblock prints, . all unframed, . each 45cm x 32cm. best Bid

Live Auction

Dreweatt Neate Godalming Salerooms

Lot 1

Chinese School 1952, . The Tunhuang Mural Paintings Selection A, . A folio of twelve colour woodblock prints, . all unframed, . 43cm x 32cm. Tunhuang is situated in the Western part of Kansu Province in North West China, home of the world famous Thousand-Buddha Caves. From A.D 366 when the caves were first built, works of art were executed here over a thousand year period. The caves containing mural paintings now number 469, ranging up and down the mountain slopes over a length of 2 1/2 miles. These prints depict a small representation of the paintings here. best Bid

Live Auction

ALCOTT (John) - Marine Artist 1888-1973, imperial folio, many coloured reproductions, navy gilt full-morocco, fine in slip c

Gorringes

Lot 1

ALCOTT (John) - Marine Artist 1888-1973, imperial folio, many coloured reproductions, navy gilt full-morocco, fine in slip case, limited edition of 500 numbered copies, Sydney, Australia, 1978.

Live Auction

NATTIER AFTER RUBENS - La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg, ....Gravee par les Plus Illustres Gravures..., Paris 1710, 23 fi

Gorringes

Lot 1

NATTIER AFTER RUBENS - La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg, ....Gravee par les Plus Illustres Gravures..., Paris 1710, 23 fine engraved plates including three doubles (lacks portrait and one plate), folio, later half-calf, binding broken, some dust soiling.

Live Auction

Lacy Scott & Knight

Lot 1

ORDNANCE SURVEY ATLAS England & Wales 1922. Oblong folio. ¼D inch to 1 mile, linen backed maps (1)

Live Auction

Lacy Scott & Knight

Lot 1

HOLY BIBLE. Oxford. 1739. John Baskett. Folio re-backed; Illustrated Victorian Family Bible with brass clasps (a/f) (2)

Live Auction

Charles Ross Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

A folio of 12 Dutch coloured reproductions depicting the forming of the Suiderzee

Live Auction

Victorian mahogany desk with raised central slope front section, rising to reveal a fitted interior, three drawers above a d

Ewbank Auctioneers

Lot 1

Victorian mahogany desk with raised central slope front section, rising to reveal a fitted interior, three drawers above a door enclosing four drawers on the left, a central folio recess, and an unusual cupboard on the right which swings open to reveal pigeon holes and shelves. On plinth base with castors, 49" wide

Live Auction

Four Folio Society books to include Albert Drawer The Little Passion, published 1971, Francesco Torniello da Novara The Nobl

Ewbank Auctioneers

Lot 1

Four Folio Society books to include Albert Drawer The Little Passion, published 1971, Francesco Torniello da Novara The Noblest Game by Neville Cardus and John Arlott, published by Australia Publishing Company; and a Comedy of Terence called Andria published 71 Various books to include 'The Noblest Game' a book of cricket prints; and other text on churches

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, containing views of India, Bombay, Port Said and the UK, including scenes of the River Teign, Chagford etc and in Wales - the Summit of Snowdon, some by James Valentine, half calf, oblong folio, Circa 1890.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

BACON (G. W.) NEW ORDNANCE ATLAS OF THE BRITISH ISLES, 32 double page coloured maps and plans, 2 single maps, binding detached and stained, folio, 1883. * This lot is being sold with all faults not subject to return.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

THE DUNCHIDEOCK ESTATE SALE CATALOGUE, 30 pages and 14 maps, original wrappers, rear cover defective, folio, 1905. * The estate was auctioned off in 22 lots, at the London Hotel, Exeter.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

FENNING (D.) AND COLLYER (J.) A NEW SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY, volume 1 only, 31 plates (some with crude colouring), 13 maps with attractive original outline colouring including folding (some carelessly folded and with repairs), contemporary calf, folio. * This lot is being sold with all faults not subject to return. * Includes good Thomas Kitchen maps of India, Turkey, Africa, The Poles, Double Hemispheres etc.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF SOME DEVON FAMILIES (AN EXTRACT), cloth, 4to, n. d., Devonshire, Historical Descriptive Biographical, morocco rubbed, 4to, n. d.; Domesday Books of Devonshire and Somersetshire, cloth, gilt, folio, 1862; Brenan (Gerald) A History of the House of Percy, 2 volumes, cloth, gilt, 8vo, 1902 (6).

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

GIBBS FAMILY - CAWLEY - BOEVEY (A. P.) GIBBS' PEDIGREE, no title, illustrated, morocco, folio, 1891; Gibbs (J. A.) The History Of Anthony and Dorothea Gibbs, etc, 2 part frontispiece, cloth, 4to, 1922; Gibbs (J. A.) Pedigree of the Family of Gibbs etc, buckram, folio, 1932, together with a 1981 re-print (4).

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

PETERMANN (AUGUSTUS) THE LIBRARY ATLAS OF PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, frontispiece, 2 double page maps and 63 maps, half calf, folio, 1854.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

THE WESTERN LUMINARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER FOR DEVON, CORNWALL ETC, various editions bound in defective half calf, elephant folio, 1854 - 55. * This lot is being sold with all faults not subject to return.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

ALEXANDRE (A.) THE DECORATIVE ART OF LEON BAKST, portrait frontispiece, 77 mounted plates, including coloured, lacks original drawing, limited edition of 80 copies, original vellum, soiled, folio, The Fine Art Society, 1913.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

ATKINSON (JOHN AUGUSTUS) A PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATION OF THE NAVAL, MILITARY AND MISCELLANEOUS COSTUMES OF GREAT BRITAIN, ETC, volume 1 (all published), 33 hand coloured aquatints, bound by Zaehnsdorf in full scarlet morocco, raised bands spine, title in gilt on the upper cover, folio, William Miller, London, 1807. * Colas, 172. Abbey, Scenery, 12 "it was originally intended to publish the work in three volumes, with 100 plates".

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

ATKINSON (JOHN AUGUSTUS) AND WALKER (JAMES) A PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATION OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE RUSSIANS, IN ONE HUNDRED PLATES, WITH AN ACCURATE EXPLANATION OF EACH PLATE IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH, 3 volumes bound in one, 3 title pages, 100 hand coloured soft ground etched plates, contemporary full calf, sometime re-backed, folio, London, 1803 - 1804. * With the Coat of Arms of Sir Simon R. B. Taylor.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

BARBERI (C.) COSTUMES DE LA VILLE DE NICE, MARITIME, explanation leaf, 10 hand coloured lithographs, some light soiling, original pictorial paper wrappers, small folio, Paris, (1831). * Colas, 214. * Very scarce in the original wrappers.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

DRUMMOND (JAMES) ANCIENT SCOTTISH WEAPONS, subscription plate, title, 54 colour plates, original dark brown morocco backed buckram boards, a little rubbed, limited edition of 500 copies, folio, 1881.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

BUSBY (THOMAS LORD) THE FISHING COSTUME AND LOCAL SCENERY OF HARTLEPOOL, IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM, 2 of 3 parts only, 4 of 6 uncoloured etched plates, original printed wrappers, folio, London, 1819. * Abbey, Scenery, 154.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

CAMPION (G. B.) SKETCHES OF THE PICTURESQUE CHARACTER OF GREAT BRITAIN, FROM NATURE AND ON STONE, in three parts, 12 hand coloured lithographs on tinted paper, re-bound in cloth, the original lithograph wrappers bound in, oblong folio, Ackermann, London, 1836. * Scarce.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

CHALON (JOHN JAMES) TWENTY FOUR SUBJECTS EXHIBITING THE COSTUME OF PARIS, THE INCIDENTS TAKEN FROM NATURE..., title, 24 hand coloured lithograph plates, later morocco backed cloth boards, folio, London 1822. * Colas, 588.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

CHAM - L'ART DE REUSSIR DANS LE MONDE PROCEDE SIMPLE ET FACILE POUR SE FAIRE JETER A LA PORTE EN FORT PEU DE TEMPS, title, 20 hand coloured lithographs, original pink pictorial paper covered boards, restored, folio, Paris, n. d.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

CHARPENTIER (H.) RECUEIL DES COSTUMES DE LA BRETAGNE & DES AUTRES CONTREES DE LA FRANCE..., 2 volumes bound in 1 from the original parts, 2 printed titles, 120 highly finished hand coloured lithograph plates, well bound in later half calf, folio, Nantes, (1829 - 31). * Colas, 612.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

COLECCION DE TRAJES DE ESPANA TANTO ANTIQUOS COMO MODERNOS, QUE COMPREHENDE TODOS LOS DE SUS DOMINIUS, 2 volumes, engraved title, 83 hand coloured copper engraved plates, some light water staining in volume 1, plates titled in English on the verso in ink, final plate repaired, title torn in margin, modern red morocco backed cloth boards, folio, n. d. (1785). * Colas, 645.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

COLLECTION DE CRIS ET COSTUMES DE ST. PETERSBOURG, DESSINES ET COLORIES, D'APRES NATURE PAR DIVERS ARTISTES, title, 16 hand coloured lithographs within wash borders, contemporary sheep backed paper covered boards, small folio, St. Petersbourg, 1823. * Colas, 659.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

CORNU (M. PAUL) EDITOR... GALERIE DES MODES ET COSTUMES FRANCAIS DESSINES D'APRES NATURE 1778 - 1787, 4 volumes, 325 coloured plates, loose as issued in publisher's portfolios, folio, Paris, n. d., Circa 1910's (4).

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

FENRABEND (SIGMUND) GESCHLECHTER BUCH: DARINN DER LOBLICHEN PAIFELICHE REICHS STATT AUGFPUGFOW, ETC, title in red and black, slightly soiled, 1-162, colphon 1f, 19th Century morocco backed boards, folio, Frankfurt, 1580. * A striking series of woodcuts (on every page) by Christoph Weiditz, depicting Mediaeval armour.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

GALLOIS (EMILE) LE COSTUME EN ESPAGNE ET AU PORTUGAL, 48 coloured stencilled plates, loose as published in cloth backed pictorial boards, ribbon ties, folio, Paris, n. d.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

GIRONI (ROBUSTIANO) SAGGIO DI ROBUSTIANO GIRONI INTORNO ALLE COSTUMANZE CIVILI DEI GRECI, 19 hand coloured aquatints, one gathering loose, original green paper covered boards, folio, Milano, 1823. * Colas, 1254.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

GREVIN (DE A.) COSTUMES DE FANTAISIE POUR UN BAL TRAVESTI, 24 colour plates, modern half crimson morocco, marbled boards, folio, Paris, n. d., Circa 1880's. * Fine quality re-bind.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

HORN (WILHELM) MAEHRENS AU GEZEICHNETE VOLKSTRACHTEN, decorated coloured title, 30 highly finished hand coloured lithographs, contemporary paper covered decorative boards, folio, Brunn, 1837. * Not in Colas.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

JANET-LANGE ET DOLLET (ALOPHE) GALERIE ROYALE DE COSTUMES PEINTS D'APRES NATURE PAR DIVERS ARTISTES.... (COSTUMES ECOSSAIS), title, 10 highly finished hand coloured lithographs, modern half crimson morocco, cloth sides, folio, London, Circa 1840's. * Colas, 1163. * The complete set of large, magnificent lithographs of Scottish clans.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

KURCK (ARVID) AND WALLGREN (O.) SKANSKA FOLK DRAGTER ETC, 22 coloured lithograph plates, one plate stained, original red cloth, re-cased, folio, Stockholm, 1872. * Colas, 1678.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

LAMI (EUG.) AND MONNIER (H.) VOYAGE EN ANGLETERRE, 24 hand coloured lithographs, original printed wrappers. Bound by Durvand Thivet in scarlet half morocco, marbled boards, raised bands and lettered in gilt spine, folio, Paris and London, 1830. * Abbey, Scenery, 34, lists the title in manuscript, the Tingey copy with the wrappers bound in and used as the title would indicate there was no printed title published. * Scarce.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

LE HAY (AND CHARLES DE FERRIOL) [RECEUIL DE CENT ESTAMPES] [PART TWO] EXPLICATION DES CENT ESTAMPES QUI REPRESENMENT DIFFERENTES NATIONS DU LEVANT, 2nd edition, engraved 1f of music, 100 of 102 copper engraved plates only, including 2 un-numbered, contemporary calf, neatly re-backed, retaining the morocco label, folio, Paris, 1715. * Colas, 1820. * Lacks the engraved title to the first part of the work with text pages i-ii being 'Anecdotes de L'Ambassde', also plates 45 and 51. One of the 'great' early plate books depicting every conceivable character from the Ottoman Empire.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

LES FRANCAIS COSTUMES DES PRINCIPALES PROVINCES DE LA FRANCE L. CURMER EDITEUR...ETC, hand coloured pictorial title, 16 highly finished and heightened with gum arabic lithographs with an accompanying uncoloured duplicate set on India paper, original gilt cloth, neatly re-backed, folio, Paris, 1842. * Colas, 1100.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

LEVINSON (ANDRE) THE DESIGNS OF LEON BAKST FOR THE SLEEPING PRINCESS..., 54 mounted colour plates, portrait plate by Picasso, limited edition of 1000 copies, original vellum backed blue cloth, folio, Benn, London, 1923.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

LEVINSON (ANDRE) THE STORY OF LEON BAKST'S LIFE, 68 mounted plates mainly in colour, limited edition of 600 copies, original vellum boards, folio, 1922.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

LOGAN (JAMES) THE CLANS OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, ILLUSTRATED BY APPROPRIATE FIGURES, DISPLAYING THEIR DRESS, TARTANS, ARMS, ARMORIAL INSIGNIA AND SOCIAL OCCUPATIONS, 2 volumes, 2 chromolithograph titles, 72 hand coloured lithographs, original dark green gilt pictorial cloth, morocco gilt spines, folio, Ackermann, London, 1845. * Colas, 1892 (1857 edition).

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

MATEJKO (JEAN) UBIORY W POLSCE 1200 - 1795, 93 mounted hand coloured plates, contemporary morocco backed cloth boards, oblong folio, n. d., Circa 1860.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

MERIDA (CARLOS) MEXICAN COSTUME, 25 colour plates, loose as published in fold over cloth backed boards, folio, Pocahontas Press, Chicago, 1941.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

MEYRICK (SIR SAMUEL RUSH) A CRITICAL INQUIRY INTO ANCIENT ARMOUR AS IT EXISTED IN EUROPE, PARTICULARLY IN GREAT BRITAIN ETC, 3 volumes, frontispiece, 80 etched plates, many hand coloured, 2nd edition, contemporary half gilt morocco, marbled boards, folio, Henry G. Bohn, 1842.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

MEYRICK (SAMUEL RUSH) AND SMITH (CHARLES HAMILTON) THE COSTUME OF THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS TO THE SIXTH CENTURY ETC, frontispiece, 24 hand coloured lithographs, re-bound dark green half morocco, folio, T. M'Lean, London, 1821. * Colas, 2051. Abbey, Life, 427.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

MOINE ET FALCONER.... PUBLISHER, "LES MODES PARISIENNES SOUS LE DIRECTOIRE", a collection of 15 hand coloured plates, modern dark blue half morocco, marbled boards, small folio, Paris, n. d.

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

NUMA - LA GUIRLAN DE ELOIX DE DANSES A CARACTEREDE TOUS LES PAYS LITHOGRAPHIEES PAR REGNIER & BETTANNIER, 6 hand coloured lithographs, lettered and bordered in gold, original printed boards, folio, Paris, n. d., Circa 1850's?. * Not traced in Colas (similar to 2229).

Live Auction

Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 1

PERKOIS EN PRINS - VERZAMELING VAN VERSCHILLENDE GEKLEEDE MANS- EN VROUWEN-STANDEN TER OEFENING VAN JONGE SCHILDERS EN LIEFHEBBERS.... KUNSTGRAVEUR M DE SALLIETH, title with engraved vignette, 33 un-coloured soft ground etched plates, original yellow printed wrappers, soiled, in modern custom made half morocco fold over box, folio, Amsterdam, 1833. * Colas 2312. * Scarce set of trades of Holland.

Live Auction

86082 item(s)

/page