BÖCKLER, Georg Andreas. Architectura Curiosa Nova. Part I. Fundamenta hydragogica, indolem[que] aquae, aëris interventu in altum levandae. Part II. Varios aquarum ac salientium fontium lusus per varia spectatu jucunda epistomiorum seu Siphonum genera. Part III. Magnum amoenissimorum fontium, machinarum[que] aquaeductoriarum sumtu magno exstructarum, ac per Italiam, Galliam, Brittaniam, Germaniam etc......
Item nr. 145997
Price: $5,000.00
PURYEAR, Martin. Cane. By Jean Toomer. 141, [3] pp., illustrated with 10 woodcuts by Martin Puryear, and an afterword by Leon LF. Litwack. Oblong folio, 291 x 352 mm., bound in original tan cloth. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2000.
An immaculate copy of this important book, first published in 1923.....
Item nr. 171916
Price: $6,500.00
GILMAN COLLECTION. Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company. Curated by Pierre Apraxine, with plates by Richard Benson, and notes to the plates by Lee Marks. 480 pp. Illustrated with 199 offset lithographs after photographs plus offset lithographic frontispiece. Large folio, bound in original half maroon calf over.....
Item nr. 37462
Price: $4,750.00
SEDEL'NIKOV, Nikolai. Karatel'naya politika kapitalisticheskih stran: Sbornik statei. [Punitive Policies of the Capitalist Countries]. 196 pp., illustrated throughout with photomontage. 8vo, 223 x 141 mm., publisher's illustrated boards and photomontages by Sedel'nikov. Moscow: Sovetskoe zakonodatel'stvo [State Institute for the Study of Crime], 1933.
Illustrated with 7 photomontages by Sedel'nikov who also.....
Item nr. 171421
Price: $2,500.00
VAN DE VELDE, Ronny. Marcel Duchamp. Folio. Exhibition Catalog, loose objects in a wooden chessboard box. Antwerp: Ronny Van de Velde, 1991.
"This de luxe edition of the catalogue...consists of the following items: a list of the exhibits, a portfolio with faithful reproductions of works by Duchamp, also including a copy.....
Item nr. 114825
Price: $1,250.00
MIRÓ, Joan. Les Penalites de l'Enfer ou les Nouvelles-Hebrides. By Robert Desnos. Illustrated with an additional 25 lithographs by Miro. Loose as issued in the original lithographically illustrated wrappers and cloth folding box. A copy of the original lithograph used for the wrappers was also affixed to the inside of.....
Item nr. 156446
Price: $17,500.00
BRUSKIN, Grisha. Another Name / General Instruction. Poem by Lev Rubinstein. 224 pp., with 112 lithographs. Square 4to, 265 x 265 mm., half cloth over paper covered boards. New York: Christopher Sweet and Marlborough Graphics, 1993.
Early artist's book by Russian Sots artist Grisha Bruskin with poems by the founder of.....
Item nr. 171821
Price: $2,500.00
JAPAN. Manchoukuo and Mongolia. Illustrated in black and white and colour throughout. 8vo, 220 x 150 mm., publisher's cloth. 1941.
Interesting wartime propaganda book composed of just one page of text, the rest being photographs and photomontages. Slight damage to the spine, but overall in fine condition. rare with no copies.....
Item nr. 171537
Price: $850.00
MEHRETU, Julie. Poetry of Sappho. With English translation by John Daley, with an introduction by Page duBois. Illustrated with twenty prints by Julie Mehretu. Folio, 368 x 244 mm., bound in publisher's vellum-backed boards. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011.
$1750.00
A handsome modern edition of the poems of Sappho, superbly printed at.....
Item nr. 167374
Price: $1,750.00
WALKER, Kara. Porgy & Bess. Libretto by Dubose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin for music composed by Ira Gershwin. 140 pp. Illustrated with 16 lithographs by Kara Walker. 4to, 320 x 245 mm., bound in publisher's half red morocco over decorative cloth covered boards, in black matching.....
Item nr. 150317
Price: $1,750.00
DUCHAMP, Marcel. View. Series V., No. 1. With texts by Andre Breton, Robert Desnos, and others. Profusely illustrated, including a foldout plate. Small folio, bound in stapled wraps, in a new navy cloth folding box. New York: March, 1945.
The sought-after Duchamp number of Charles Henri Ford's celebrated magazine, with the.....
Item nr. 167429
Price: $1,250.00
BALCARCEL Y FORMENTO, Domingo et al. Reales Exequias de la serenissima senora Da. Ysabel Farnecio, Princesa de Parma, y Reyna de las Espanas: celebradas en la Santa Iglesia Cathedral en la imperial Corte Mexicana, los Dias 27 y 28 de Febrero de 1767. Title and 38 leaves. 8vo., modern 3/4.....
Item nr. 171429
Price: $8,500.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Early Auden. By W.H. Auden. Illustrated title-page and 10 accordion-folded panels of translucent paper wrapped around white bristol paper containing colour aquatints by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 350 x 215 mm, bound in smooth white vellum-covered boards, tan reversed calf spine in a new green cloth folding box. San.....
Item nr. 167358
Price: $12,500.00
PELLE, Clement and Thomas ALLOM. L'Empire Chinois, illustre d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux. 4 Volumes. [4], 68, 26; 76; 74; 73, [3] pp., illustrated with 4 engraved added title-pages and 124 full page steel engraved plates. 4to, 275 x 214 mm., bound in publisher's elaborately decorated red cloth.....
Item nr. 170092
Price: $8,500.00
Walker, Kara. KARA WALKER. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. Large 4to, cloth. Chicago, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1997.
This copy 1/1000 with gold leaf on cover. A recent recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, Kara Walker engages various racial and historical issues in her silhouetted.....
Item nr. 164610
Price: $475.00
BEARDEN, Romare. The Caribbean Poetry. By Derek Walcott. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky. 232 pp. Illustrated with eight coloured illustrations by Romare Bearden. 4to., bound in original publisher's linen silkscreened after a design by Bearden, in the publisher's cardboard slipcase (lightly sunned spine). New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983.
One of the.....
Item nr. 148283
Price: $1,250.00
BRAUNER, Franz. Lesefibel Kinderwelt. 108 pp., with lithographed colour illustrations in text. 8vo, 221 x 160 mm., publisher's illustrated boards with new cloth spine, in a new cloth folding box. Graz: Leykam-Schulbuchverlag, 1941.
An extremely rare war time alphabet book produced for children in the Greater German Reich.
The illustrations are by.....
Item nr. 171542
Price: $3,500.00
MATISSE, Henri. Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé. [2], 153, [8] pp. Illustrated by Henri Matisse with 29 etchings printed in black. Small folio, 330 mm. x 250 mm., bound in original printed wrappers, and housed in the original calf-backed chemise and slipcase. Lausanne: Albert Skira & Cie., 1932.
A superb copy of.....
Item nr. 170087
Price: $50,000.00
PARIS, Ministere de Travaux Publics. Album de statistique graphique. 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890-1891, 1892, 1893, 1895-1896. Each volume contains 12-26 colored plates of informational graphics, many folding. Folio, 330 x 255 mm., publisher's boards. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1879-1896.
These splendid volumes were published by the.....
Item nr. 169396
Price: $15,000.00
RIDGWAY, Robert. A Nomenclature of Colours for Naturalists, and Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists. 129, [1] pp. Illustrated with 17 plates, 10 of which are hand-coloured. 8vo., bound in publisher's green cloth. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1886.
A fine copy of Ridyway's extremely scarce first book on colour. Ridgway.....
Item nr. 143787
Price: $4,750.00
WITH AN UNRECORDED 31st MAP
TOMATSU Masanori, Muneyasu KAGEYAMA et al. Edo Kiriezu. A complete set of 31 Coloured Woodblock Maps of Tokyo. 12mo, 165 x 90 folded, 490 x 535 unfolded, each bound in original pale blue wrappers, preserved in a contemporary wooden box. Edo: Owariya Seishichi, 1852-1864.
A very special.....
Item nr. 171513
Price: $25,000.00
WELLS, H.G. Les premiers Hommes dans la Lune. Translation by Henry-D. Davray. Illustrations by Martin van Maële. 8vo, 270 x 172 mm., in publisher's polychrome binding. Paris: Félix Juven, [1901].
First edition in French. A superb copy of the French edition of The First Men in the Moon, in the spectacular.....
Item nr. 171347
Price: $7,500.00
CAHUN, Claude. Aveux Non Avenus. With a preface by Pierre Mac Orlan. 237 pp., illustrated with 10 heliographs executed by Moore after designs by Cahun. 8vo, 220 x 169 mm., bound in original publisher's wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Éditions Du Carrefour, 1930.
A much sought-after book, the.....
Item nr. 171303
Price: $8,500.00
LE CORBUSIER. Salubra, Colour Keyboards. Loose introductory text leaf in English. 62 single-page monochrome wallpaper samples, and 12 pages of "Clavier de Couleurs", each with 28 colour samples, and 2 cardboard screens in pocket. Oblong folio, 285 x 220 mm., bound in original publisher's boards, in a new cloth folding.....
Item nr. 171203
Price: $22,500.00
STRADA, Jacopo. Imperatorum romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines. [5], 118, [1] ff., illustrated with a large woodcut title composed of a Renaissance frame of garlands and festoons of fruit and putti, attributed by van Elck to Jos Murer, cut by Christoph Schweitzer, and with 118 full-page woodcut portraits.....
Item nr. 171155
Price: $75,000.00