MENDOZA, [Juan Gonzales de]. Dell'Historia della China. [48], 380 pp. Small 4to., 210 x 150 mm, bound in later vellum. Rome: G.A. Ruffinello, 1586.
First Edition in Italian, of this popular and key Western text on Ming China printed the year following the original Spanish edition. Juan Gonzales de Mendoza (1545-1618).....
Item nr. 169177
Price: $3,250.00
VON BEZOLD, Wilhelm. The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-Industry...Translated from the German by S.R. Koehler...with an introduction and notes by Edward C. Pickering...Authorized American Edition. Revised and enlarged by the author. xxxiii, [1], 274 pp. Illustrated with chromolithographic frontispiece, 13 chromolithographic plates, plus numerous in-text.....
Item nr. 169113
Price: $1,500.00
[GEFFROY, Gustave]. La Vie Artistique. Préface d'Edmond de Goncourt. Eight volumes (all published). xvi, 375; 396; xx, 395; xviii, 334; 408; 462; 368; 483 pp. With an original etched frontispiece to each volume (by Carrière, Rodin, Renoir, Raffaelli, Fantin-Latour, Pissarro, Vierge, and Willette). 12mo., 167 x 110 mm, bound contemporary.....
Item nr. 169228
Price: $12,500.00
ARP, Jean. Dreams and Projects. Illustrated with 28 woodcuts by Jean Arp of which 21 are printed in black and 7 in gray and black. Small folio, bound loose in the orginal wrappers and publisher's cardboard slipcase. New York: Curt Valentin, 1952.
A fine copy of one of Arp's most impressive.....
Item nr. 169195
Price: $4,750.00
ARP, Jean. Soleil Recerclé 61 pp. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts by plus a signed colour woodcut frontispiece on Rives. Large folio, 475 x 380 mm, loose as issued in publisher's wrappers with colour woodcut illustration in the publisher's grey slipcase (with one of the 18 woodcuts) and vellum backed chemise.....
Item nr. 169143
Price: $17,500.00
NAVILLE Pierre. Les reines de la main gauche. 8vo., publisher's wrappers. Alençon: Imprimerie Alençonnaise, 1924.
First edition of the author's first book published in a very few copies and inscribed by Naville to Marcel Sauvage.
Item nr. 169390
Price: $750.00
LÖNBERG-HOLM, Knud and Ladislav SUTNAR. Catalog Design. 72 pp., illustrated throughout. 8vo, bound in publisher's spiral; bound boards, in a new cloth folding box, New York: Sweet's Catalog Service, a division of F. W. Dodge Corporation, 1944.
An immaculate copy of a fragile work rarely found thus. This is the first.....
Item nr. 168823
Price: $2,500.00
MAZING, B and N.P.AKIMOVA. Akter Germanskogo Kino. 50 pp. With black-&-white illustrations throughout. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Leningrad: Academia, 1926.
An early Russian work on German film with a dramatic contructivist cover. A fine copy of this fragile pamphlet. Very rare. OCLC lists only 2 copies, in the British.....
Item nr. 145634
Price: $495.00
QIANLONG, EMPEROR OF CHINA (1736-1796). Suite of four engravings depicting the conquests of the Qianlong Emperor. From the suite of sixteen engraved plates. Printed in Paris under the direction of Charles-Nicholas Cochin. Broadsheets, image size: 515 x 890 mm. Preserved in the contemporary French green paper mounts with black ink.....
Item nr. 169181
Price: $100,000.00
GUIGNES, Joseph de. Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacres des Chinois qui renferme les Fondements de leur ancienne Histoire, les Principes de leur Gouvernement & de leur Morale. [4], cxliv, 474, [2] pp. Illustrated with 4 fold-out engraved plates. 4to., 250 x 190 mm, bound in contemporary cats-paw calf, red.....
Item nr. 169165
Price: $3,500.00
EARHART, John. The Color Printer. A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing. 137, [1] pp., illustrated with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author and 90 plates. 4to, 270 x 205 mm., bound in green publisher's cloth stamped in gold and colour, with emblem of three ink.....
Item nr. 169128
Price: $2,850.00
CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY. Severnaia Manchzhuriia i Kitaiskaia Vostochnaia Zheleznaia Doroga [Northern Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railway]. ix, 692, xxiii, iii, [2] pp., with photo-illustrations, maps, charts and graphs throughout. 4to, 292 x 213 mm., bound in publisher's blue cloth. Harbin: Tipografiia Kitaiskoi Vostochnoi Zheleznoi Dorogi, 1922.
A splendid account of.....
Item nr. 168904
Price: $5,750.00
PICIARELLI, Camillo. Epistola di Camillo Piciarelli, Professore di Belle Lettere, sul Antico Naso di Fozio, pubblicato per almanacco dell'anno 1820. [xii], 39, [1] pp. Illustrated with an alligorical aquatint frontispiece. 8vo., 205 x 140 mm, bound in contemporary pattern wrappers, preserved in a new red half morocco box. Milan: Manini.....
Item nr. 168844
Price: $2,250.00
A KEMPIS, Thomas. A Kempis. [4], 307, [1] pp. Small 8vo., bound in contemporary three-quarter blue morocco, spine gilt, five raised bands. Uncut. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907.
A handsome printing containing the writings of Thomas A Kempis, including his musings on the love of solitude and silence, the profit of.....
Item nr. 37743
Price: $475.00
SIMAK, Vaclav. Postovni Knizka na Rok 1895. 82 pp. 12mo., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Prague: Jos. R. Vilimka, 1895.
An immaculate copy of this little Victorian Czech almanach cum trade catalogue.
Item nr. 139160
Price: $375.00
VENTURI, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Introduction by Vincent Scully. 143 pp. Illustrated with 350 black and white plates. 8vo., 200 x 145 mm, bound in publisher's cloth and printed dust wrapper. New York: Museum of Modern Art in association with The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the.....
Item nr. 45258
Price: $495.00
NOVLIANSKII, N. Iskusstvo grima: Nagliadnoe posobie dlia kruzhkovtsev. [i.e. Art of Makeup. A Visual Handbook for Membersof Art Sections, Drama Schools and Professional Stage Actors]. 24 leaves, illustrated throughout with colour plates and photographs. Oblong folio, 255 x 360 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new green.....
Item nr. 168898
Price: $2,500.00
MASSON, André. Soleils Bas. By Georges Limbour. With 4 etchings by Masson, one of which is on the front wrapper. 4to., bound in original wrappers, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon [Daniel Henry Kahnweiler], 1924.
A fine copy of Masson's rare first book, which.....
Item nr. 169030
Price: $7,500.00
PALANTI, Mario. "Auditorium" Progetti Roma Anno XIII. 34, [2], [6] pp., illustrated with 42 full page black & white plates. Folio, 352 x 252 mm., bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in silver on the cover, preserved in a new matching cloth folding box. [Milan: Rizzoli & Co., 1935].
Handsomely printed.....
Item nr. 168923
Price: $2,750.00
MASSON, André. C'est les bottes de 7 lieues Cette phrase "Je me vois". By Robert Desnos. [13 ff]. Illustrated with 4 etchings by Masson. Folio, bound in publisher's wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Galerie Simon [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], 1926.
A fine copy of the most beautiful of the books.....
Item nr. 168915
Price: $8,750.00
FRASCHETTI, Vincenzo and Carlo TESTI. Italia dall'A alla Z. [88] pp., illustrated throughout. Small 4to, 250 x 230 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated boards, in a new red cloth folding box. Novarra: Officine dell'Istituto Geografico de Agostini, 1936.
A stunning example of fascist book design. Published by the Italian Foreign Ministry.....
Item nr. 168884
Price: $8,500.00
"A PROSE-POEM AND A MASTERPIECE"
JIMÉNEZ, Juan Ramon. Platero y yo, elegia andaluza... [3]-142 pp. (plus advertisement leaf). Illustrated throughout in colour by Fernando Marco. 8vo., 169 x 100 mm, bound in publisher's tan cloth covered boards, in a new purple cloth folding box. Madrid: Ediciones de "La Lectura," 1914.
First Edition.....
Item nr. 168882
Price: $5,750.00
MOHOLY-NAGY, L. Malerei, Photografie, Film. 140 pp., includes over 100 black & white illustrations. 4to, 230 x 176 mm., publisher's cloth, dust jacket and glassine, in a new cloth folding box. Munich: Albert Langen Verlag, 1925.
Rare first edition of this landmark work with typography, dust jacket, and design all by.....
Item nr. 165685
Price: $3,500.00
DUCHAMP, Marcel. International DADA Exhibition 1916-1923. Large Poster printed in black and orange, designed by Duchamp. Single sheet, 965 x 635 mm, (38" x 25"), folded. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953.
A fine copy of this extremely rare Duchamp poster, which was also the catalogue for the famous Dada exhibition.....
Item nr. 164557
Price: $9,500.00
LALANNE, François-Xavier. Quelques Fables de La Fontaine. Illustrated with 19 etchings by François-Xavier Lalanne. Folio. 380 x 285 mm, loose as issued in publisher's wrappers and slipcase. Paris: Les Presses de Serendip, 2002.
A pristine copy of this wonderful collection of some of La Fontaine's lesser know fables, including 'La Chatte.....
Item nr. 169095
Price: $7,500.00