DANFLOU, Alfred. Les Grands Crus Bordelais. Monographies et Photographies des Chateaux et Vignobles. Two volumes. 110; 106 pp. With 55 photographic plates (albumen prints, each 130 x 170 mm), mounted on thick paper, surrounded by a red ornamental border, captions in red, titles printed in red & black. Folio, 357.....
Item nr. 170551
Price: $8,500.00
NORMAN, John. The Town and Country Builder's Assistant. [3], 4-13, [1] pp. text, with an engraved allegorical frontispiece and 60 engraved plates. Folio, 312 x 185 mm., bound in contemporary sheep (rebacked, corners repaired). Boston: John Norman, 1786.
First edition of the first contribution to the field of architecture compiled.....
Item nr. 170503
Price: $25,000.00
de FORNARO, Carlo. Millionaires of America. Unpaginated, [4] pp. text, illustrated with 12 full-page chromolithographic caricatures. Folio, 360 x 275 mm., loose in publisher's illustrated folded boards. New York: "Medusa" Pub. co., 1902.
A complete set of these scarce caricatures of prominent millionaires: J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Russell Sage, Alfred Gwynne.....
Item nr. 170003
Price: $4,250.00
DUCHAMP, Marcel. Le Surréalisme en 1947. 142 pp., including 139 illustrated pages, with 44 plates. 4to, 240 x 205 mm., a copy of the catalogue bound in publisher's wrappers with a photographic reproduction of the chemise design, enclosed in the publisher's pink paper covered chemise mounted with the female foam.....
Item nr. 169707
Price: $100,000.00
LISSITZKY, El. Dlya Golosa. [For Reading Out Loud]. By Vladimir Mayakovsky. 61, [3] pp., illustrated throughout by Lizzitzky. 8vo, 187 x 132 mm., bound in original publisher's thick orange wrappers designed by Lissitzky, housed in a new cloth box. Berlin: Gosizdat, 1923.
One of the cornerstones of any collection of Russian.....
Item nr. 169675
Price: $17,500.00
Smith, Patti. Woolgathering. 64 pages, including 13 unnumbered color plates. 4to, 256 mm. x 203 mm., in original cloth binding. San Francisco, Arion Press, 2022.
One of 250 numbered copies.
Woolgathering is a collaboration between two contemporary creative masters: author and singer-songwriter Patti Smith and visual and sound artist Christian Marclay. Smith's.....
Item nr. 171592
Price: $1,400.00
SUGIHARA, Jiro (editor). Dai Toa kensetsu gaho: Ajia no mamori, Teikoku Kaigun. 60 pp., iIllustrated throughout with photomontages. Folio, 420 x 295 mm., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Nihon Denpo Tsushinsha Shuppanbu, 1942.
This is the Japanese language edition of the great propaganda magazine Front, which appeared in some 15.....
Item nr. 165015
Price: $1,500.00
LORY, Gabriel, Pere et Fils. Principes de Paysages pour apprendre a dessiner et colorer a l'Aquarelle. Four parts, folio, plates ca. 410 x 270 mm., in original printed wrappers with explanatory text on the inner front wrapper and containing 9 or 10 aquatint plates with a total of 37 variations.....
Item nr. 171597
Price: $27,500.00
![Item nr. 171571 Landwirtschaftliche Tafeln. XII. Forstwirtschaft (Holzzucht). [and] XIII....](https://ursusbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/171571_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679070263)
FREIH. VON BABO, A. et al. Landwirtschaftliche Tafeln. I. Obst-bau.; V. Dünger-lehre.; WITH: Otto Schmidt. VI. Wiesenbewässerung.; WITH: L.J. Melicher. VII. Die Bienenzucht.; WITH: Rudolf Abel. IIX. Gemüsebau.; WITH: Franz Willhem Hofmann. IX. Hopfenbau., X. Seidenraupenzucht.; WITH: J. Pitasch. XII Forstwirtschaft (Holzzucht).; WITH: J. Zenker. XIII. Forstwirtschaft (Forstbenützung). Each contains.....
Item nr. 171571
Price: $4,750.00
[VEVEY]. [Fête des Vignerons, 1833]. Continuous panorama scroll, containing 30 consecutive lithographs (numbered 1-30) from the 1833 Festival of the Vignerons at Vevey, hand-coloured at the time of publication, backed with linen and conjoined to form a continuous scroll of 14.4 meters long. Plate size: oblong folio, 170 x 470.....
Item nr. 171428
Price: $15,000.00
CHILDREN's DRAWING MANUAL. Cahier de Dessin representant les Jeux de l'Enfance & de la Jeunesse avec une Explication & une Devise Morale. Premier Cahier. Title leaf and 10 numbered leaves of letterpress, accompanied by 10 hand coloured plates. Oblong 8vo, 167 x 253 mm., contemporary boards. Paris: Chez N. Shenker.....
Item nr. 171418
Price: $3,250.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Voyages de Gulliver dans des Contrées Lointaines par Swift. Four parts in one. 448 pp., with a frontispiece of the gigantic Gulliver above an arch, 6 section-titles, and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville throughout. 8vo, 212 x 125 mm., in the publisher's polychrome binding. Paris: Garnier Freres, 1856
$.....
Item nr. 171345
Price: $2,850.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. L'Ingénieux chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche... Traduction nouvelle, illustrée par J.J. Granville. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Two volumes in one. viii, 552 pp., with steel engraved frontispiece, 6 steel engraved plates, and 24 woodcut engravings, all executed after designs by Grandville. 8vo, 2350 x 150 mm......
Item nr. 171344
Price: $3,500.00
LANDELLE, Gabriel, de la. Pigeon Vole. Aventures en l'Air. 414 pp., profusely illustrated. 8vo, 185 x 116 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers in a new red cloth folding box with a blue label. Paris: P. Brunet, 1868.
A sound copy of a scarce little jewel of a book, which anticipates the.....
Item nr. 171297
Price: $3,850.00
GAITTE, Antoine Joseph. Recueil des plus belles Maisons et des plus belles Edifices de la Ville de Paris. 24 numbered leaves with 136 engraved oval or circular views, the whole surrounded by an engraved neoclassical frame. Oblong folio, 401 x 280 mm., contemporary half green vellum over paste paper boards.....
Item nr. 171217
Price: $8,500.00
FECHNER, F. Neuer Bildersaal. Nouvelles Galerie de Tableaux. New Picture-Gallery. [18] leaves (including title-page), printed on one side only, with 106 lithographs in contemporary colour, heightened with gum arabic. 12mo, 140 x 91 mm., original dark green publisher's illustrated boards, in a modern cloth folding box. Guben: Bei F. Fechner.....
Item nr. 171149
Price: $2,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Un Autre Monde. Transformations, visions, incarnations... et autres choses. By Taxile Delord. [4], 295, [1] pp., half-title and title page printed in red, a black and white frontispiece, 133 woodcut vignettes, 15 full-page woodcuts, and 36 hand-coloured plates. Large 8vo, 265 x 180 mm., bound in original illustrated.....
Item nr. 170972
Price: $9,750.00
BENJAMIN, Asher. The Builder's Assistant: Fully Explaining, the Best Methods for Striking Regular and Quirked Mouldings. Engraved frontispiece and 37 plates, 2 of which are folding (offsetting with browning and spotting, pl. 25 with chips into platemark but not inked area, pl. 33 detached at fold, some damp staining at.....
Item nr. 170505
Price: $12,500.00
THACKARA, James. Thackara's Drawing Book for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Ladies & Gentlemen in the Pleasing and Elegant Art of Drawing. [4] pp., [54] leaves of engraved plates. Small 4to, 205 x 163 mm., contemporary sheep-backed plain boards, in a recent custom quarter morocco slipcase. Philadelphia: James Thackara.....
Item nr. 170500
Price: $2,500.00
ARTIST'S MANUAL. The Artist's Companion, and Manufacturer's Guide, Consisting of the Most Valuable Secrets in the Arts and Trades. xiv, 179 [1] pp. 12mo, 170 x 105 mm., original sheep, in a modern green quarter morocco box. Boston: J. Norman, 1814.
An early American artist's manual, which among other things, discusses.....
Item nr. 170499
Price: $2,500.00
DENIS, Maurice. Le Voyage d'Urien. By André Gide. 110 pp., illustrated with 29 lithographs in 2 colors by Maurice Denis. 4to, 200 x 192 mm., original wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, 1893.
A fine copy of one of the few Nabis illustrated books, preserved.....
Item nr. 170439
Price: $8,750.00
WRITTEN, DRAWN AND LITHOGRAPHED BY WOMEN
JARRY DE MANCY, Adele and Jean-Francois LE BRETON. Le Dessin d'Apres, Nature et sans Maitre, suivant la Methode du Professeur le Breton, consistant a faire Dessiner d'Apres Nature, des la Premiere Lecon, par Mme Jarry de Mancy, Nee Adele le Breton, Peintre et Professeur... [4].....
Item nr. 170117
Price: $4,750.00
SKETCHBOOK. Souvenir 1894. A collection of 99 original pen and ink drawings. 8vo, 195 x 146 mm., bound in full elaborately gilt contemporary red morocco, stamped "P de R" under a coronet. Paris, 1894.
A charming sketchbook of drawings of Parisian life in the last decade of the nineteenth century.....
Item nr. 170093
Price: $5,500.00
HEATH, William. W.M. Heath's Sketches of, in & about Dover. Illustrated title and 6 plates attached to form a panorama, in contemporary hand-colouring. 4to, 200 x 270 mm. folded, publisher's cloth, in a new burgundy cloth box with a navy label. Dover: The Rigden, 1834.
A rare panorama showing Dover from.....
Item nr. 169990
Price: $2,500.00
HEIM, Josef. American Commercial Specimens, Second Series. 24 ff., printed on one side only of which 17 are all or partly in colour. Folio, 320 x 240 mm., publisher's illustrated cloth-backed boards, Vienna: Josef Heim, 1898.
A stunning and somewhat mysterious piece of Americana. The album was published in Vienna, but.....
Item nr. 169980
Price: $2,850.00