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

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

FUTURISTIC WORLD. The World of To-Morrow. A Junior Book of Forecasts. By Idrisyn Oliver Evans. 163 pp. Illustrated with 24 transparent "Diophane" photo-mechanical plates. 8vo., bound in original publisher's translucent "Rhodoid" boards over original wrappers, yellow cloth spine. London: D. Archer, 1933.

First and Only Edition of this visionary work in.....

Item nr. 170367

Price: $3,750.00

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

PIAZZETTA, Giambattista. Studi di Pittura già dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta ed ora con l'intaglio di Marco Pitteri. [6], 11, [3] ff. Engraved title, Title Illustrated with an engraved title-page vignette, head- and tailpieces, one of the latter with an etched self-portrait of Piazzetta dated 1738, plus 48 engraved plates after.....

Item nr. 169973

Price: $25,000.00

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

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

[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

GRANDVILLE, J.-J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Two volumes. [8], 386, [6]; [4], 390, [6] pp. With 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo., 261 x 180 mm, uniformly bound in contemporary black half morocco. Paris: Hetzel et Paulin: 1842-1844.

A splendid copy.....

Item nr. 169739

Price: $12,500.00

LEWITT, Sol. Piramidi. 10 lithographs, each 222 × 680 mm, in publisher's cardboard box, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1986.

This stunning set of lithographs recall the splendid wall drawings of pyramids that the artist conceived of between 1985 and 1994. These consisted of floor.....

Item nr. 169582

Price: $12,500.00

THURNEISSER ZUM THURN, Leonhardt. Historia unnd Beschreibung Influentischer Elementischer un Naturlicher Wirckungen Aller fremden unnd Heimischen Erdgewechssen auch irer Subtiliteten sampt wahrhafftiger und Kunstlicher Conterfeitung dereselbigen auch aller teiler... [12], CLVI, [24] pp. Woodcut title-page, 42 arabesque initials, 12 astrological diagrams, 126 small woodcut figures, 36 botanical woodcuts within figured.....

Item nr. 169436

Price: $12,500.00

GARDENS DESIGNED BY LE NOTRE; FOUNTAINS BY LE BRUN AFTER AESOP; ENGRAVINGS BY SEBASTIEN LE CLERC

PERRAULT, Charles. Labyrinte de Versailles. 34, [1], 79, [4] pp. With an engraved title-vignette (arms of France) and 41 full-page engravings by Sébastien Le Clerc. 8vo., 203 x 130 mm, bound in contemporary calf. Paris.....

Item nr. 169397

Price: $8,500.00

GELPKE, August Heinrich Christian. Allgemeine Darstellung der Oberflaechen der Weltkoerper unseres Sonnengebietes, besonders der Erde, des Mondes, der Venus und des Merkur's, zur Vergleichung ihrer wundervollen Naturbaue und merkwuerdigen Naturkraefte. VIII, 80 pp. Illustrated with 2 large folded engraved plates coloured by hand.. 4to., 270 x 220 mm, bound in.....

Item nr. 169394

Price: $4,750.00