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Published 28 June 2017
Title

A New Treatise on Artificial Fireworks.

Authors

Robert Jones

Description
Contemporary half calf with marbled covers, spine with 5 raised bands and gilt-lettered red morocco label. Illustrated with 5 folding engraved plates. Extremely rare first edition from 1765 of one of the earliest English works dealing with recreational fireworks
Publisher

Printed for the author; and sold by J. Millan

Date of publication:

1765

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

Between 23-6-2017 and 27-6-2017

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Published 28 June 2017
Title

La Pyrothecnie Pratique, ou Dialogues entre un Amateur des feux d'Artifice pour le Spectacle et un Jeune homme curieux de s'en instruire.

Authors

[Grignon & Lalaing]

Description
Contemporary full calf. gilt-tooled spine with 5 raised bands, 5 gilt fleurons and a gilt-lettered red morocco label. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt-decorated board edges. Illustrated with 7 folding copper-engraved plates and 1 folding table. Rare early French work on a wide range of recreational fireworks.
Publisher

L. Cellot, & Jombert fils jeune

Date of publication:

1780

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

Between 23-6-2017 and 27-6-2017

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Published 07 June 2017
Title

The Confidence-Man: his masquerade.

Authors

Herman Melville

Description
First English Edition. 354pp., original dark yellow ochre net grain cloth. Spine a little sunned and gilt lettering dull, otherwise flawless: an exceptional copy.
Publisher

Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts.

Date of publication:

1857.

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

01/06/2017

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Published 24 May 2017
Title

A Display of Heraldry

Authors

GUILLIM, John (1565-1621).

Description
FIRST EDITION. Folio. Recently respined and recornered, possibly in panelled calf.
Publisher

Printed by William Hall

Date of publication:

1610

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

4/04/2017-23/05/2017

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Published 25 April 2017
Title

Suite de 14 aquarelles répresentant la culture et le travail du thé en Chine

Authors

Suite de 14 aquarelles répresentant la culture et le travail du thé en Chine

Description
Suite de 14 aquarelles répresentant la culture et le travail du thé en Chine, disposés deux à deux sur 7 feuilles de papier montées sous marie-louise et numérotées à l'encre, protégés dans une boîte moderne gr. in-4, oblong, en toile verte, plats en altuglas, titre doré au dos
Date of publication:

XVIIIe siècle

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

12 mars 2017

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Published 22 April 2017
Title

5 Maps and Engravings:

Authors

Blaeu etc.

Description
- "Comitatus Hollandia", Blaeu, 1608 (ref. Schilder VI, 70)
- "Comitatus Hollandia" Pieter vanden Keere, 1610 (ref. Schilder VI, 71)
- "Novus XVII Inferioris Germaniae Provinciarum Typus" Blaeu, 1608, 2nd state (ref. Schilder VI, 52)
- Cornelis van Dalen, Portret van Maurits von Siegen, engraved portrait (Hollstein 137)
- Lambert Visscher, Portret van Johan de Wit, engraved portrait (Holls tein 31, 2nd
state, before the addition of Cornelis de Witt)
- F.B. van Berkenrode, "Huys te Honsholredyk", engraved view (Hollstein 16)
First edition:

no

Date of theft:

13/04/2017

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Published 14 April 2017
Title

Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the following interesting Subjects. (1776). [Bound with]: Lettre de Thomas Paine au Peuple Français sur la Journée du 18 Fructidor. (1797)

Authors

Thomas Paine

Description
(PAINE, Thomas). Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the following interesting Subjects. (1776). [Bound with]: Lettre de Thomas Paine au Peuple Français sur la Journée du 18 Fructidor. (1797). (Two works in one volume). $16,000.

Philadelphia, printed; London, re-printed [and] Paris: J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House in Piccadilly [and] Imprimerie-Libraire du Cercle-Social, rue du Théâtre-Français, no. 4. An VI de la République, 1776 and 1797.

First editions (see below for details). Two works bound in one volume. Octavo. Quarter bound in early 20th Century parchment and cloth over boards, lettered on the spine in gilt. Modest soiling to the parchment, internally crisp and near fine. The first work, Paine's monumentally important pamphlet *Common Sense*, is the first British edition, third issue: [4], 54pp., with the blank spaces where offending passages (hiatuses) are left blank on the first page of the introduction. The second work is the first French language edition of Paine's *Letter to the People of France and the French Armies, on the event of the 18th Fructidor*. 39, [1]pp. *OCLC* indicates that the English language issue was published in New York in 1797 (and lists 15 holdings); this considerably scarcer French translation (*OCLC* locates only 5 copies) was published the same year as the "Coup of 18 Fructidor" by members of the French Directory on September 4th, 1797. Of Thomas Paine, John Adams wrote: "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain." Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. A plaque in the street where he lived in Paris notes that Paine was an "Englishman by birth, American by adoption, and French by decree." Both pamphlets are well-preserved in a handsome binding. For *Common Sense*: *Gimbel* CS 24-27; for *Lettre de Thomas Paine*: *Martin & Walter* 3, 26322.
Publisher

J. Almon

Date of publication:

1776

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

1/10/2017

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Published 22 Dec. 2016
Title

Le Calendrier de Vénus

Authors

Uzanne Octave

Description
viii-237pp-[3], relié, couverture illustrée par Daniel Vierge imprimée en couleurs.
Édition originale tirée à 100 exemplaires en tirage de luxe sur divers papiers (parchemin, Japon, Chine, Renage, Whatman). Celui-ci, l'un des 15 sur Chine, est l'exemplaire personnel de l'auteur. Sous la justification, les mots autographes : « exemplaire sur chine de l'auteur » sont écrits au crayon par Octave Uzanne qui signe. Il conti ent les particularités suivantes : l'illustration du premier plat de couverture est en deux états supplémentaires sur Chine, un état en noir avant la lettre, un état en bistre avec la lettre ; une encre originale signé de A.(lbert) Lynch ; le frontispice décliné sur 10 tirages différents – deux clichés d'impression retouchés à l'encre dont un en inversion, un tirage avant la lettre sur papier rose, le même en sanguine sur Chine, un troisième en sépia sur Chine, un quatrième en noir sur Chine, trois tirages en noir sur vergé avant la lettre, le tirage définitif sur Chine – ; un portrait de l'auteur rehaussé aux crayons de couleurs contresigné en bleu par Octave Uzanne ; un portrait gravé par Paul Avril de l'auteur, probablement réalisé spécialement pour cette édition. L'exemplaire est en outre enrichi d'une eau-forte originale de F. Courboin d'après Félicien Rops sous forme de compliment adressé par Octave Uzanne pour 1892 et du bulletin d'abonnement pour sa revue Le Livre Moderne. Octave Uzanne, grand amateur de reliures, a fait paré son exemplaire d'une demi-reliure à coins en maroquin lavallière, plats de papier caillouté 'œil de chat'. Dos à cinq nerfs ornés d'une roulette dorée, caissons ornés de filets, fleurons et fleurs mosaïqués dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin bleu, lieu et millésime dorés en queue. Rares doublures et gardes volantes réalisées en estampes japonaises (Zeshin et Kyosaï notamment), doubles gardes de papiers peignés. Tête dorée, non rogné, couv. conservée. [V.Champs]. Exempt de rousseurs, ce qui est rare sur un tel papier.
Provenance : Octave Uzanne (ex-libris multiples et vente), Isidoro Fernandez (ex-libris)
Publisher

Edouard Rouveyre

Date of publication:

1880

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

probablement le 16/12/2016

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Published 20 Dec. 2016
Title

View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the Great Geyser [&] View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the New Geyser

Authors

J. Baynes. C. Hullmandel

Description
Pair of lithographs of Geysers in Iceland made from drawings by Sir Thomas Stanley.
Date of publication:

1820

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

May 2016

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Published 07 Dec. 2016
Title

Observations on Modern Gardening

Authors

WHATELEY Thomas

Description
[viii] + 257pp. Ist edition untrimmed in original boards, new spine and label. Reinforced at the inner hinges but sympathetically done. Ownership possibly initially Anthony Eyre (1727-1788) of The Grove with his bookplate. In 1762 he purchased the manor and estate of Grove in Nottinghamshire, adjacent to his other properties at Rampton, Treswell and Headon, from Mr William Levinz. He undertook alterations to Grove Hall and made it his principal residence. Authorship written in pen on title page. Whateley wrote this book while living in the Mansion House in Nonsuch Park. Close on the heels of George Mason's Essay on Design in Gardening, Whateley's Observations provide the most comprehensive work on the theory and practice of English landscape gardening in the naturalistic taste before Horace Walpole's brief Essay on Modern Gardening (1782). Further it includes descriptions of key landscape gardens of the day that are hailed for the exactness.They include Stowe, Hagley, Peterfield, Painshill, Claremont and Esher Place etc.
Publisher

T Payne

Date of publication:

1770

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

on or around 18th November 2016

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Published 07 Dec. 2016
Title

THE LANDSCAPE GARDENING AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE of the late Humphry Repton Esq., being his entire works on these subjects: a new edition, with an historical and scientific introduction, a systematic analysis, a biographical notice, notes, and a copiou

Authors

LOUDON J C

Description
8vo, xxxi, 619 pp., [4, advertisements]; engraved portrait, 253 wood-engraved text illustrations; original publisher's brown diamond grain cloth, blocked in blind and the spine lettered gilt; spine just a little faded, new endpapers, else fine. The first collected edition of Repton's writings, edited by John Claudius Loudon, with his customary attention to detail, and practicability.
Publisher

printed for the authors

Date of publication:

1840

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

on or around 18th November 2016

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Published 21 Nov. 2016
Title

Sinclairs Notizbuch

Authors

Hesse Hermann.

Description
Limited and signed edition, # 1014 of 1100, signed by Hesse with H Hesse
Publisher

Rascher

Date of publication:

1923

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

end of Sept 2016

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Published 03 Nov. 2016
Title

Accordez-moi une audience et je vous réciterai les vers d'un poète inconnu avec une telle éloquence que vous me voudrez de suite Roi mais je le refuserai

Authors

SURVAGE, Leopold -- PIEUX, Léonard (baronness Hélène d'Oettingen 1887-1950).

Description
Contemporary printed illustrated wrappers. First and unique edition of one of the most remarkable early 20th century illustrated books. This very rare work, entirely engraved, is illustrated with 13 full-page woodcuts in colour (one folding).Printed in 110 copies, all on China paper.
Publisher

SIC

Date of publication:

1919

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

28/10/2016

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Published 27 Oct. 2016
Title

Poster: Un demi-siècle de livres illustrés

Authors

Picasso

Description
Original zincography in 3 colors. Signed with red crayon.
Publisher

Galerie Matarasso

Date of publication:

1956

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

24 September 2016

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Published 27 Oct. 2016
Title

Poster: Affiches Originales des Maîtres de l'Ecole de Paris

Authors

Picasso

Description
Original lithograph in 4 colors.
Publisher

Maison de la Pensée

Date of publication:

1959

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

24 September 2016

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Published 27 Oct. 2016
Title

Poster: Exposition Vallauris

Authors

Picasso

Description
Original color linocut. Signed in pencil and numbered 154/175
Date of publication:

1961

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

24 September 2016

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Published 27 Oct. 2016
Title

Poster: Toros in Vallauris in 1957

Authors

Picasso

Description
Original color linocut. Signed with red crayon.
Date of publication:

July 1957

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

24 September 2016

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Published 27 Oct. 2016
Title

Poster: Galerie Louise Leiris ... dessins 1959-1960

Authors

Picasso

Description
Original color lithograph.
Publisher

Mourlot

Date of publication:

1960

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

24 September 2016

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Published 27 Oct. 2016
Title

Poster: Sala Gaspar

Authors

Picasso

Description
Black and white lithograph.
Publisher

Sala Gaspar... Dibujos de Picasso

Date of publication:

January - February 1961

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

24 September 2016

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Published 27 Oct. 2016
Title

Poster: Exposition Céramique Vallauris 1959

Authors

Picasso

Description
Signed 9/175.
Date of publication:

1959

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

24 September 2016

Date of theft report:

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