WOMEN. Soviet Women. Unpaginated. Illustrated with photographs throughout. 4to, bound in publisher's embossed yellow cloth, in publisher's cardboard slipcase. Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939.
A photographic homage to the role of women in Soviet Russia. Unlike so many of the Soviet propaganda books, where the reality is far removed from that.....
Item nr. 170930
Price: $3,500.00
TELINGATER, Solomon. Podshipniki: sharikovye: rolikovye. [Bearings: Roller Ball]. 239 pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo, 245 x 170 mm., publisher's green cloth binding with silver embossed cover. Moscow: Soiuzpodshipniktrest, n.d. [1930s].
Perhaps nothing demonstrates the surreal nature of books published in Russia between the Wars than this stunning trade catalogue of the Soyuzpodshipniksbyt.....
Item nr. 170434
Price: $17,500.00
BONNARD, Pierre. Almanach illustré du Père Ubu (XXe Siècle). En Vente Partout. Text by Alfred Jarry. 56 pp., illustrated with 79 pen and ink drawings by Bonnard, executed in lithograph and printed in red and blue. Folio, 287 x 203 mm., uncut and unopened. Loose in original wrappers as issued.....
Item nr. 170381
Price: $9,750.00
TELINGATER, Solomon. Slovo Predostaviliaetsia Kirsanovu. By Semen Kirsanov. Small 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new gold cloth folding box with a black label. Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1930.
A fine copy of this rare and spectacular example of avant-garde book design from the complex cover, which combines collage and typography.....
Item nr. 170363
Price: $4,950.00
SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME. International Exhibition of Modern Art. Arranged for the Société Anonyme for the Brooklyn Museum. Assembled by the Société Anonyme. November December 1926. Text by Katherine S. Dreier. Composed by Katherine S. Dreier and Constantin Aladjalov. [10], 117, [7] pp. Illustrated with photographs and typographical elements. 8vo, bound in.....
Item nr. 170154
Price: $9,750.00
ONCHI, Koshiro. Chu. Gyo. Kai. [Insects, Fish, Shells]. Unpaginated, 14 ff. Illustrated with 10 prints done with a mix of techniques including pochoir and woodcut. 4to., 265 x 210, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Aoi Shobo, Showa 18 [1943].
Onchi was an extremely prolific and gifted artist whose work with.....
Item nr. 169968
Price: $7,500.00
ILIAZD. A. Kruchenykh Grandiozar. 16 pp. Small 4to., bound in original wrappers, in a new linen cloth folding box with an orange label. Tiflis: 41°, 1919.
$ 7500.00
An immaculate copy of this rare publication of the 41° group in Tiflis, created by a "duo of three idiots" - Kruchenykh, Terentev and.....
Item nr. 169840
Price: $7,500.00
MAN RAY. Revolving Doors. Comprised of 10 pochoir plates. Folio, loose in original publisher's black portfolio with ties. Laid into a new folding box. Paris: Editions Surréalistes, 1926.
A fine copy of this legendary surrealist publication. Between 1916 and 1917, the artist and photographer Man Ray created a series of collages.....
Item nr. 169684
Price: $85,000.00
LE CORBUSIER. La Charte d'Athenes, avec un Discours liminaire de Jean Giraudoux. 212 pp. 8vo., 145 x 135 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Plon, 1943.
First Edition of the Athens Charter inscribed by Le Corbusier to the legendary publisher, Christian Zervos. The Athens.....
Item nr. 169426
Price: $3,750.00
PICASSO, Pablo with André VILLERS. Diurnes. Decoupages et Photographies. By Jacques Prévert. 18 pages text accompanied by 30 loose-leaf collotypes. Folio, in original wrappers in publisher's box with decorative colour design by Picasso. Paris: Berggruen, 1962.
"Picasso made some cut-outs of heads and silhouettes of men, women and animals. Villers mounted.....
Item nr. 169401
Price: $7,500.00
EDEL, Nico. Una visita a Cinzano. 44 pp. Illustrated throughout. Folio, bound in original illustrated wrappers in a new blue cloth folding box. [Milano, Alfieri & Lacroix], n.d. [1934 or 1936].
A spectacular and rare piece of Italian book design under fascism, but without the usual heavy hand of Mussolini, presumably.....
Item nr. 168738
Price: $3,500.00
DAVIS, Alexander Jackson. Rural Residences, etc. Consisting of Designs, Original and Selected, for Cottages, Farm Houses, Villas, and Village Churches... Unpaginated. Content includes: Title-page, advertising leaf, 8 leaves of descriptive text, [16] pp of "Specification of the Material and Work Required for Building a Dwelling House." Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured.....
Item nr. 170506
Price: $25,000.00
GUNDRY, John. Specimens of Penmanship from Gundry's Business College Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. Comprises 22 full page calligraphic designs in black, white and metallic inks on bright blue [13], black [7] and white [2] grounds, one of which incorporates an albumen portrait of Gundry; 41 smaller designs arranged on three sheets;.....
Item nr. 170502
Price: $35,000.00
ROUGET DE LISLE, A. Chromagraphie. Four parts in one volume. 8; 8; 16; 12, 8 pp. Illustrated with four wood-engraved vignettes, 10 folding hand-coloured lithographed plates showing over 100 pairs of colour arrangements numbered figs. 1-74; three engraved folding diagrams of weaving designs by Durau fils; one plate of weaving.....
Item nr. 170387
Price: $12,500.00
ADAMS, Rudolph. Die Farben-Harmonie in ihrer Anwendung auf die Damentoilette. xii, 322, 4 pp. Illustrated with 3 lithographic plates of which two are chromolithographs. 8vo., 213 x 135 mm, bound in publisher's mint green illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Leipzig: J.J. Weber, 1862.
First Edition of this German.....
Item nr. 170382
Price: $3,500.00
ADAM, Victor. Les Synonymes en Action. Contents include; hand-coloured lithographed title and twenty-four hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, (W, X & Y on one plate). Folio, 337 x 250 mm, bound in publisher's blind stamped red cloth over boards, front cover decorated and lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked.....
Item nr. 170270
Price: $8,500.00
ACCOLTI, Pietro. Lo Inganno de gl'occhi, prospettiva pratica. Trattato in acconcio della pittura. [12], 152, [4] pp. Illustrated throughout, woodcut diagrams, illustrations. Folio, 303 x 217 mm, bound in contemporary mottled calf. Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1625.
First Edition of the practical manual of perspective, of special interst to painters. Contains the.....
Item nr. 170104
Price: $5,000.00
HAKKI, T. Ismail. Album d'outillage. Werkzeug-Album. [Anatolian-Baghdad Railways … Album of Tools and Machines]. 1st part A-L. 69 ff. Blueprints with illustrations throughout on the recto only, with contemporary mounted corrections in Ottoman in black ink on white paper. Large 4to., bound in original illustrated blueprint wrappers, original black spine.....
Item nr. 169979
Price: $3,500.00
FARINATI, Paolo. Diverses Figures a l'eau forte de petits Amours, Anges vollants, et Enfans, popre a mettre fur frontons portes et autres lieux. Contents includes engraved title-page followed by 29 full page engraved plates. Small oblong folio, 200 x 255 mm, bound in contemporary half vellum over marbled boards. Paris.....
Item nr. 169944
Price: $3,750.00
VIRGIL. Les Eclogues de Virgile. Texte Latin et Traduction Francaise de Marc Laforgue imprimees par Harry de Kessler. With 43 woodcut engravings by Aristide Maillol, initials and title-page designed by Eric Gill. Large 4to. Loose in the original wrappers and publisher's vellum-bacled folding case. Leipzig: Cranach Presse, 1926.
First Edition, one.....
Item nr. 169584
Price: $7,500.00
ARMENIA. Hayeri verabnakets'umy HSSH-its' durs. viii, 112 pp. Illustrated with 97 full page maps and charts. Large 4to., bound in publisher's maroon cloth. Erevan: Haykakan SSRò Gitut'yunneri Akademia, 1961.
This atlas presents an unusual and stunning example of avant-garde book design from what what was then Soviet Armenia.
Some marginal waterstaining, heavier.....
Item nr. 170979
Price: $2,500.00
DECKER, Paul. Chinese Architecture Civil and Ornamental. Title-page + 24 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:
-----. Chinese Architecture. Part the Second. Title-page + 12 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:
-----. Gothic Architecture Decorated. Title-page + 12 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:
-----. Gothic Architecture.....
Item nr. 170368
Price: $22,500.00
PELLE, Clement and Thomas ALLOM. L'Empire Chinois, illustre d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux. 4 Volumes. [4], 68, 26; 76; 74 pp. Illustrated with 4 engraved added title-pages and 124 full page steel engraved plates. 4to., bound in publisher's elaborately decorated red cloth. Paris: Fisher, 1845.
First Edition in French.....
Item nr. 170092
Price: $8,500.00
[ALBUM OF CHINESE WATERCOLOURS]. 635 miniature paintings, each ca. 82 x 46 mm, inserted into a specially designed Russian album consisting of 26 leaves of heavy card stock, each with 24 "windows" revealing miniatures (one miniature missing), plus 1 leaf of heavy card stock with 12 "windows," for a total.....
Item nr. 169965
Price: $75,000.00
COOK, G.D. & Co. Illustrated Catalog of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser, New Haven, Ct. [iv], 226 pp. Oblong 8vo., 170 x 245 mm, bound in original embossed brown cloth, rebacked in tan calf, spine gilt. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1860.
This illustrated catalog is a wonderful study of mid-nineteenth-century.....
Item nr. 170108
Price: $3,750.00