HUNDERTPFUND, Libertat. The art of painting restored to its simplest and surest principles, translated from the German. xi, 122, [ii] pp. Illustrated with 23 plates of which 3 are engraved and printed on thin cards (one each of a palette and brushes), 20 in colour lithography and a large folding...
Item nr. 143604
Price: $1,500.00
BENHAM, W. Gurney and Frank ADAMS. Arthur and the Boilybird. An A.B.C. Story. Unpaginated. With colour illustrations throughout by Frank Adams. Oblong quarto publisher's colour illustrated boards with cloth spine. London, Blackie & Son [1909].
A delightful and scarce early twentieth century children's book. OCLC lists only the Princeton copy
Item nr. 165808
Price: $2,500.00
JAPANESE ORNAMENTAL WOODBLOCK PRINTS. Bijutsu Kai. Collection of Pictures Regarding Colour Designs for Japanese Textiles Costumes. Five parts in one volume. Five folding plates and 18 full-page coloured woodblock prints per section, for a total of 95 original illustrations. 8vo., 232 x 160 mm, bound in Japanese accordion style with...
Item nr. 142126
Price: $7,500.00
MAYRHOFFER, Johann Nepomuk. Anleitung zur Blumen-Zeichnung. 2 ff. Illustrated with 14 full-page lithographs of flowers. Oblong 4to., 240 x 380 mm, bound in old blue wrappers, preserved in green half-morocco folding case. Munich: Im Verlag der lithographischen Kunst-Anstalt bey der Feyertags-Schule, 1816.
Extremely rare early example of German lithography. "Mayrhoffer's flowers...
Item nr. 55630
Price: $1,750.00
BEAUMONT, Roberts. Colour in Woven Design. With 32 coloured plates and numerous original illustrations. 8vo., 185 x 120 mm, bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt emblem on front cover and title gilt on spine. London: Whittaker & Co, 1890.
First Edition of this standard work on colour in textiles. The...
Item nr. 143176
Price: $125.00
BARTOLI, Cosimo. Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le provincie, le prospettive, & tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini, Secondo le uere regole d'Euclide, & de gli altri piu lodati scrittori. [4], 141, [3] ff. Illustrated with 163 woodcut...
Item nr. 149988
Price: $7,500.00
[ZANETTI, Anton Maria and Marco BOSCHINI]. Della pittura veneziana trattato in cui osservasi l'ordine del Busching, e si conserva la dottrina, e le definizioni del Zanetti... Two volumes. viii, 145 (i.e., 245), [3, including final blank] pp.; 256 (i.e., 272) pp. Each volume illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. 8vo., 165...
Item nr. 150406
Price: $1,850.00
DAAE, Dr. A. Die Farbenblindheit. 9 pp. Illustrated with a wool diagnostic test of 70 dyed wool samples, and a lithographed Snellen chart inserted at front. 8vo., 220 x 144 mm, pamphlet loose in publisher's brown cloth folder incorporating wool sample chart into rear board. Berlin: P. Dörffel, [1878].
Third Edition...
Item nr. 160124
Price: $1,500.00
ANDRE, George G. The Draughtsman's Handbook of Plan and Map Drawing, including instructions for the preparation of engineering, architectural, and mechanical drawings. With numerous illustrations and coloured examples. xii, 150 pp. with [2] pp.of advertisements. Illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations and 33 photo-litho & lithographic plates, of which 15 are...
Item nr. 143973
Price: $495.00
BANCROFT, Edward. Experimental Researches concerning the Philosophy of permanent Colours; and the best Means of producing them by Dyeing, Calico Printing, &c. Two volumes. xlv, [3], 401; [4], 394 pp. 8vo., 210 x 125 mm, bound in contemporary calf. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1814.
First American and Best Edition, reprinted from the...
Item nr. 142410
Price: $975.00
CHEVREUL, M.E. Exposé d'un moyen de définir et de nommer les couleurs, d'après une méthode précise et expérimentale...[title from table of contents]. In: Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Tome 33, text and plates bound separately. Text volume: [3] ll., lxxiii, [1], 944 pp. A few text.....
Item nr. 166846
Price: $5,500.00
FACON-ZEITUNG. Facon-Zeitung fuer Toepfer, Fayance=, Steingut=, Topfwaren= und Offen=Fabrikanten. Monatliche Mustersammlung der modernsten und gschmackvollsten Formen von Topf= und Fayance=Geschirren, Oefen, Ofentafeln und Ornamenten aller Art. Year One through Year Three (all published). Illustrated with 108 plates, of which 87 are coloured lithographs, some with added gilt and/or hand-coloured highlights.....
Item nr. 126740
Price: $5,000.00
IEHARA, Masanori and Kan'ichiro SHIOZU. Gakko hitsuyo irozu mondo. [2], 40, [2] pp. on 22 double folded leaves. Illustrated with two hand-coloured charts and small hand-coloured squares throughout the text. 8vo., 210 x 150 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers with title label preserved in a new purple cloth folding box...
Item nr. 165153
Price: $2,500.00
BLANC, Charles. The Grammar of Painting and Engraving translated from the French of Blanc's Grammaire des arts du dessin by Kate Newell Doggett. xx, 330 pp. Illustrated with colour frontispiece and 42 wood-engraved illustrations. 8vo., 213 x 160 mm, bound in publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gold on spine and...
Item nr. 143720
Price: $235.00
GYOSAI, Kawanabe. Gyosai Gadan. Two parts in 4 volumes. Xylographically printed and illustrated throughout, including many double-page woodcut illustrations. 4to., 178 x 257 mm, bound in original woodblock wrappers with paper labels, sewn Japanese-style, together in original blue shitzu box with coloured woodblock label on front cover. [Tokyo]: Iwamoto Shun...
Item nr. 151893
Price: $8,750.00
MITTERMEIER, L.L. Handbuch der Zeichnen- und Malerkunst. Enthaltend die verschiedenen Methoden, selbst ohne vorgehenden Unterricht im Zeichnen und ohne natürliche Anlage treu nach der Natur und nach Originalgemälden zu zeichnen, das Ganze der Pastell-, Elfenbein-und Miniatur-, Oel-, Glas-, Porzellan- und Staffiroder Gebäudemalerei so wie auch das Lithochromiren, das Restauriren und.....
Item nr. 147361
Price: $2,250.00
VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Hans. Hortorvm Viridariorvmque elegantes & multiplicis formae...delineatae a Iohanne Vredmanno Frisio. Contents include engraved title with and architectural border followed by 28 engraved plates by Philips Galle after Hans Vredeman de Vries. Antwerp: Philips Galle, 1583. BOUND AFTER:
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. Vitruuius Des aller namhafftigisten vnnd Hocherfarnesten Romischen...
Item nr. 164704
Price: $25,000.00
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
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
BOSCHINI, Marco. La Carta del Navegar Pitoresco. [20], 680, [10] pp. Illustrated with an engraved allegorical frontispiece, an engraved portrait, and 25 full-page engravings. Small 4to., 211 x 145 mm, bound in French early eighteenth-century full red morocco, gilt-tooled spine. In Venetia: Per li Baba, 1660.
First Edition, an important work...
Item nr. 144815
Price: $7,500.00
BARBARO, Daniel. La Pratica della Perspettiva di Monsignor Daniel Barbaro Eletto Patriarca D'Aquileia, Opera molto utile a Pittori, a Scultori, & ad Architetti. [2], 196, [12] pp. Illustrated with over 200 woodcut diagrams and illustrations of which over 20 are full-page and one double-page. Folio, 300 x 204 mm, bound...
Item nr. 151063
Price: $17,500.00
VENICE. BOSCHINI, Marco. Le minere della pittura. [36], 572, [4] pp., including seven full-page engravings. 12mo., 160 x 90 mm, bound in contemporary carta rustica, with later manuscript author and title on spine. In Venezia: Appresso Francesco Nicolini, 1664.
First Edition of this seminal guide to public works of art in...
Item nr. 150416
Price: $5,850.00
PATCH, Thomas. The Life of Frá Bartolommeo della Porta, a Tuscan Painter, with his Works engraved from the original Pictures, dedicated to the Honorable Horace Walpole. [2] pp, illustrated with 24 etched and engraved plates printed in black, red or ochre. [Florence: Thomas Patch, 1772]. BOUND WITH:
Al Nobil uomo il...
Item nr. 167025
Price: $13,500.00
ECKERSBERG, C.W. Linearperspectiven, anvendt paa Malerkunsten, en Række af perspectiviske Studier af C. W. Eckersberg, med tilhörende Forklaringer. One Page Introduction by G.F.Ursin and 11 Plates, numbered 1-10, with 9a and 9b, accompanied by 9 Text Leaves (the Texts accompanying Plates 7a and 8, and 9a and 9b are each.....
Item nr. 166374
Price: $12,500.00
BOLLERY, Nicolas. Livre de portraiture, contenant par une facille instruction plusieurs plans et figures de toutes les parties sépareés du corps humain, recueillies des plus excellens paintres de toutte l'Istallye, pour bien aprendre les vrais fondemens de la painture et sculpture. Engraved title-page. Illustrated with 35 engraved plates. Paris: Jean.....
Item nr. 167372
Price: $22,500.00