DEGAS, Edgar. The Letters of Edgar Degas. Edited by Theodore Reff. 3 Volumes. 1,464 pp. With 55 color plates. 4tos, cloth in slipcase. University Park, Penn State University Press, 2020.
In this critical edition of Edgar Degas's correspondence, eminent Degas scholar Theodore Reff transcribes, dates, and elucidates more than 1,200 letters.....
Item nr. 168774
Price: $200.00
Rulnick, Jason and Veronica Roberts. SOL LEWITT: $100 Works. 240 pages, including 110 color plates. 4to, boards. Santa Fe, Radius Books, 2019.
Item nr. 168323
Price: $65.00
HASSELWANDER, Albert. Ein Anatomischer Totentanz. 27, [1] pp. Illustrated with 50 photographic plates. Small 4to., 220 x 175 mm, bound in original publisher's half vellum over brown boards. Munich: J.F. Bergmann, 1926.
Only Edition, an inscribed copy, of this photographic anomaly, offering an "Anatomical Dance of Death," prepared for the use.....
Item nr. 164781
Price: $8,500.00
LANDELLE, Gabriel, de la. Pigeon Vole. Aventures en l'Air. 414 pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo., bound in contemporary brown morocco over matching pebbled boards. Paris: P. Brunet, 1868.
A fine copy of a scarce little jewel of a book, which anticipates the books created by artists such as Max Ernst and Joseph.....
Item nr. 128078
Price: $3,850.00
AVEDON, Richard. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. By John Ashbery. Containing an original signed photograph by Richard Avedon, and seven original, signed prints by: Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj and Larry Rivers. With a recording of Ashbery reading his poem. Prints.....
Item nr. 168518
Price: $17,500.00
El LISSITZKY. SSSR Stroit Sotzializm. (USSR Builds The Socialism). xxvi, 282, [4] pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards, preserved in a new red cloth folding box. Moscow: Izozis, 1933.
A spectacular example of Lissitzky's skill as a bookmaker, and one of the finest examples of the.....
Item nr. 167434
Price: $12,500.00
BOOM, Irma and Johan PIJNAPPEL. SHV 1896-1996. [Centennial Album / Jubileumboek]. AKA Thinkbook. 2136 pp. Thick 8vo., 230 x 180 x 120 mm, bound in publisher's boards and cardboard box. Utrecht: SHV Holdings, 1996.
An immaculate copy of the chef d'oeuvre of the Dutch designer Irma Boom. Commissioned to commemorate the.....
Item nr. 166812
Price: $7,500.00
TOLMER, A. Mise En Page. The Theory and Practice of Lay-Out. [117] pp. With 16 full-page photomontages and illustrations. 4to., 264 x 212 mm, bound in original decorated boards, in a new yellow cloth folding box with a black leather label. London: The Studio, 1931.
A fine copy of this brilliant.....
Item nr. 165681
Price: $2,250.00
DUSART, Cornelius. Les Héros de la Ligue. Ou La Procession Monacale. Conduitte par Louis XIV, pour la Conversion des Protestants de Son Royaume. Comprising 26 leaves, including an engraved title-page and an engraved Sonnet. Illustrated with 24 mezzotints with contemporary hand-colouring, engraved by J. Gole after Dusart and Picart. 4to......
Item nr. 166947
Price: $18,500.00
LESSER, Ernst. Iron and Metalware Trade Catalogue. 72 double-page lithographic plates, many coloured. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards. Schmalkalden: Ernst Lesser,ND [ca.1875].
A splendid nineteenth century German trade catalogue with magnificent colour plates displaying a wide variety of material including carpenter's tools, bells, belt buckles, corkscrews, bellows, and even pistols.....
Item nr. 165767
Price: $3,500.00
STOPPARD, Tom. The Real Inspector Hound. [48] pp. 8vo., original grey wrappers, in a new cloth box.. London: Faber and Faber, 1968.
First Edition, unorrected proofs. One of Stoppard's most inventive and witty plays, The Real Inspector Hound is a play-within-a-play which parodies the conventions of the stage thriller. A fine.....
Item nr. 164214
Price: $1,750.00
[JAPANESE MATCHBOX COVERS]. Album comprising 112 pages containing approximately 1600 Japanese Matchbox covers. Oblong 4to., bound in original boards. Japan: 1930s up to mid 1940s.
A colourful collection of pre-war Japanese Matchbox covers. This collection provides a unique view of Japanese pre-war design. Many of the labels show the strong influence.....
Item nr. 143517
Price: $2,500.00
INDIA SILK BROADSIDE. Theatre Royal. Secunderabad 1867. The officers of the Amateur Dramatic Club have the honour to announce that their next series of performances will take place as follows...Grand Cantonment Night. On which occasion will be presented the comic drama in two acts by Charles Dance Esquire of A......
Item nr. 142853
Price: $2,250.00
ROCHAS, Albert de. Le Livre de Demain. 44 separate fascicles comprising 424 pp. Illustrated with 11 original samples of rare old paper, 4 chromatic circles, 6 silhouettes by P. Konewka and 5 plates of which 3 are etchings and 2 are reproductions. 8vo., Loose as issued in the original cardboard.....
Item nr. 168538
Price: $9,500.00
GREGOIRE, Gaspard. Théorie des Couleurs: contenant Explication de la Table des Couleurs. Moyen de produire soi-même les Couleurs. Méthode de noter les Couleurs et de les exprimer par les Nombres. Title-page, iv, 88 pp. Illustrated with 9 small hand-coloured swatches in text. 8vo., bound in original buff wrappers in a......
Item nr. 167436
Price: $3,500.00
CHEVREUL, M.E. Des Couleurs et de leurs Applications aux Arts Industriels à l'Aide des Cercles Chromatiques. 27 pp. Illustrated with 27 colour-printed steel engravings, 1 folded. Folio, bound in publisher's blue pebbled cloth. Paris: J.B. Ballière et fils, 1864.
A separately published atlas of plates for colour matching, according to Chevreul's.....
Item nr. 167431
Price: $2,500.00
ROUGET de LISLE, [Amédée]. Notice sur les Machines et Procédés relatifs à la Composition, à l'Impression des Dessins, et à la Fabrication des Tapisseries, présentée à la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale. ... Suivie de la Chromagraphie, ou l'Art de composer sans Peine des Dessins et des belles Tapisseries et.....
Item nr. 166816
Price: $3,750.00
LE BLON, Jacques-Christophe and Antoine GAUTIER DE MONTDORGE. L'Art d'Imprimer les Tableaux. Traité d'après les Ecrits, les Opérations & les Instructions verbales, de J.C. Le Blon. xi, vi, [2], [xiii]-xxv, [26]-180, [4] pp. Illustrated with 1 hand coloured sepia mezzotint and two black and white folding plates. 8vo., 195 x......
Item nr. 166681
Price: $15,000.00
CAUDERON & Cie. Specimen des Encres d'Imprimerie. [10] pp. Illustrated with wood engraved frontispiece printed in maroon followed by 13 full page black ink samples and 45 coloured ink samples. Small folio, 280 x 195 mm, bound in publisher's brick red cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Paris: Typographie La.....
Item nr. 165740
Price: $2,500.00
BEAUDENEAU, Julie. Cercle Chromatique servant à trouver complémentaires et triades. Diagram on thick board measuring 360 x 320 mm, with 54 tipped on colour samples and four sided metal pointer, accompanied by 12 matted sheets each containing 36 coulor samples. Preserved in a new orange cloth folding box with blue.....
Item nr. 164778
Price: $3,500.00
D'UDINE, Jean. L'Orchestration des Couleurs. Analyse, Classification et Synthese mathmatiques des Sensations colorees. 216 pp. Illustrated with 50 text illustrations and 10 loose chromolithographic plates. 8vo., bound in original printed cloth. Paris: A. Joanin, 1903.
First Edition. Jean d'Udine is a pseudonym; the author's real name was Albert Cozanet, a musican.....
Item nr. 164568
Price: $1,500.00
LE PILEUR D'APLIGNY. Traité des couleurs matérielles et de la maniere de colorer, relativement aux différens Arts et Métiers. xii, 342, [4] pp. 12mo., bound in modern half morocco over tan boards. Paris: Saugrain et Lamy, 1779.
Treatise on the chemical and physical processes of colouring, including the preparation of various.....
Item nr. 147442
Price: $525.00
BOUTET, Claude. Traite De Mignature pour apprendre aisement a peindre sans maitre. Avec le secret de faire les plus belles couleurs, l'or bruni & l'or en coquille. Frontispiece, [14], 269, [19] pp. Illustrated with 2 leaves of plates. 8vo., bound in contemporary boards. The Hague: Louis and Henry van Dole.....
Item nr. 147182
Price: $2,500.00
CASTEL, Louis B. L'Optique des Couleurs, Fondée Sur Les Simples Observations, & Tournée Surtout À La Pratique De La Peinture, De La Teinture & Des Autres Arts Coloristes. [2], xviij, 487, [9] pp. Illustrated with 2 leaves of plates. 12mo., 165 x 92 mm, bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt.....
Item nr. 147167
Price: $2,500.00
GONFREVILLE, M.D. Art de la Teinture des Laines en Toison, en Fil et en Tissu. 700 pp., followed by 16 pp. of formulas and instructions for dyeing and laundering wool. Illustrated with 8 pp. containing 128 corresponding wool swatches in diverse colours and patterns. 8vo., 207 x 130 mm, bound.....
Item nr. 143974
Price: $550.00