Eastern Carpets Twelve Early Examples (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large Folio. pp xvii, 12. 52cm by 39cm. Original publisher's beige cloth, lettered red at the spine and front cover. Twelve chromolithographic illustrations on eleven leaves. Bookplate on the front pastedown of Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919) an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union. He closely studied the fauna and flora of Central America and had several plants name after him, he also collected Iznik, Hispano-Moresque and early Iranian pottery. He corresponded with other scientists of his time including Charles Darwin and lived at South Lodge, Lower Beeding where his ceramics collection was kept. The so called 'first series' is the first work on carpets in English, and not to be confounded with the very similar, but later, work from 1893 (second series), which is much more common than the first series from 1882. Faint foxing to endpapers, cloth a little mottled, with some wear and slight splitting at lower spine, overall sound, near very good with very clean text and plates.

Hardcover. Second series. Off-white cloth over boards; Unpaginated, approx. 50 pp.; 10 color plates. Preface by Sir George Birdwood, M.D., LL.D., K.C.I.E.; Includes rugs from Italy, Spain, Goa, Afghanistan, and more; Oversized, approx. 18" tall. Fair (Ex-lib., heavy markings, particularly the perforated stamps at each plate; Color from plates has bled to opposite page).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Tall folio, 20 x 14.5 Inches. Publisher's tan cloth cover, rebacked and remounted on later cloth. Twelve chromolithographic illustrations on eleven leaves. Minor offsetting, opposite some plates. Printed in Colors after Water-Colors by E. Julia Robinson. Includes rugs from Italy, Spain, Goa, Afghanistan, etc. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Hard. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Second Series. Disbound: boards are detached. Chromolithography plates of Eastern carpets and accompanying texts. Uncut pages. F-fep is creased and there is some light foxing but otherwise the pages are good - clean, bright and bound together. Unfortunately the boards are rubbed and detached from the pages and the spine is fraying. Size: Elephant Folio.

London, 1893. 19 pp. 10 lithogr. plts. Cloth, spotted and worn; spine sev. dam. Folio.

Two Volumes. Vol. 1: 1882 Folio (37 x 51 cm); xvii pp.; twelve color plates after water-color drawings by E. Julia Robinson, each with leaf of descriptive text. Spine mostly lacking; front board detached; contents bright and clean. Vol. 2.: "Second Series", 1893. Folio (37 x 51 cm); [6] pp.; twelve illustrations after water-color drawings by E. Julia Robinson on eleven plates, each with leaf of descriptive text. Spine mostly lacking; contents clean and bright. Covers and spines rough on both volumes; light pencil notation to a few plates. Complete set of this important reference, with the scarce first volume. American architect Russell Sturgis's copies.