MITCHELL, Joan. Smoke. Poems by Charles Hine. Illustrated with 16 sugarlift and spitbite aquatints by Joan Mitchell. Folio, 351 x 230 mm., loose, as issued, laid-in to a cloth folding box. San Francisco: Limestone Press, 1988.
Comprised of 16 diptych etchings by Mitchell and accompanied by poems of Charles Hine, this.....
Item nr. 165359
Price: $12,000.00
PASPA, Karel. ABECEDA. By Vitezslav Nezval. Designed by Karel Teige. Illustrated with 25 black and white photomontages by Teige from Paspa's photographs. 4to., bound in contemporary blue cloth boards with original printed front wrapper bound in. Prague: J. Otto, 1926.
An important landmark of the Czech avant garde and at the.....
Item nr. 168961
Price: $5,850.00
ARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT DER VIER. Der Weg zur Farbe. 138 pp. Illustrated with 25 colour plates. 8vo., bound in publisher's decorated cloth. Hamburg: Verlag Fachblatt der Maler, ND. [ca 1930].
A rare, handsomely illustrated Bauhaus work on colour theory by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vier, namely Grueber, Isenberg, Heinemann and Sternberg. Part one with.....
Item nr. 168778
Price: $2,500.00
MUSSOLINI, Benito. Le Giornate del Duce a Genova: 14-15-16 maggio XVI. 108 pp., illustrated throughout with photomontage and reproduced full page etchings by Ettore Mazzini. Folio, 440 x 335 mm., bound in original embossed boards. Genova: Partito nazionale fascista, 1938.
A spectacular piece of Fascist book design in the form of.....
Item nr. 168739
Price: $2,850.00
SIENA. Nuova guida della città di Siena per gli amatori delle belle-arti. viii, 167, [1] pp., illustrated with four large folding engraved plates. 4to, 185 x 140 mm., bound in original blue paper wrappers, with deckled edges. Siena: Nella Stamperia Mucci, 1822.
Presumed first edition, with no other edition listed in.....
Item nr. 150397
Price: $1,250.00
WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Schumacher's Taliesin line of decorative Fabrics and Wallpapers. 5 leaves of text and 26 Sheets of Wallpaper designed by Wright. Folio, 450 x 345 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated tan cloth. [Chicago: E.W. Bredemeier & Co., ND 1950's].
A scarce salesman's sample book for a line of wallpapers.....
Item nr. 165734
Price: $8,500.00
COCCHI, Francesco. Lezioni di prospettiva pratica nonchè regole abbreviatrici per disegnare le scene seguite da un facile metodo per la prospettica collocazione delle fi gure ne' quadri di storia. Seconda edizione. Text: 2, 227 pp. and 2 folding plates. 8vo, publisher's wrappers with later linen spine. Plates: letterpress title page.....
Item nr. 168580
Price: $2,500.00
ECKERSBERG, C.W. Forsög til en Veiledning i Anvendelsen af Perspectivlæren for unge Malere. Title page and 12 pp., 4 etched plates. Folio, 335 x 255 mm., bound in contemporary grey wrappers. Copenhagen: Thieles Bogtrykkeri, 1833.
WITH:
Linearperspectiven, anvendt paa Malerkunsten, en Række af perspectiviske Studier af C. W. Eckersberg, med tilhörende Forklaringer.....
Item nr. 168786
Price: $17,500.00
BRUNN, Lucas. Praxis Perspectivae Das ist: Von Verzeichnungen ein außführlicher Bericht darinnen das jenige was die Scenographi erfordert begrieffen und in welchen allerley dinge uff allerley Stände in ein Perspectivischen auffzug zu bringen gelehret auch das was wundersam hierbey sich begeben kan erkläret wird. 12, 60 pp., illustrated with 26.....
Item nr. 168760
Price: $17,500.00
RUECKERT, Otto. Die Kunsthandwerkliche Förderung des Baumalers. 63, [1] pp. Illustrated with 42 colour halftone plates, and a few small diagrams in the text. 4to., 229 x 178 mm, bound in publisher's printed cloth-backed boards. Dresden: Verlag des Verbandes Sächsischer Vereinigungen selbständiger Maler und Lackierer, 1929.
First Edition of this most.....
Item nr. 165157
Price: $1,500.00
BONNARD, Pierre. Dingo. By Octave Mirbeau. 194, [4] pp. Illustrated with 55 original etchings by Pierre Bonnard or which 14 are full-page, PLUS an additional suite of the 14 full-page etchings on Arches. Folio, loose as issued in the original illustrated wrappers, in the original half velum clamshell box. Paris.....
Item nr. 163088
Price: $7,500.00
CHINESE GRAMMAR. Elemens de la grammaire chinoise, ou, Principes generaux du kou-wen ou style antique, et du kouan-hoa. By Jean-Pierre (Abel) Remusat. xxxii, 214, [2] pp. Illustrated with 2 folding plates and innumerable Chinese characters executed in woodcut throughout. 8vo., 230 x 155 mm, bound in contemporary calf with the.....
Item nr. 145265
Price: $3,500.00 save 30% $2,450.00
LE CORBUSIER. Des Canons, des Munitions? Merci! Des Logis... s.v.p. Oblong 4to., 283 x 230 mm, bound in original illustrated boards, in a new red cloth folding box. Paris: Editions de l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, [1938].
First Edition of one of the scarcest and most sought-after books by Le Corbusier. This profusely illustrated.....
Item nr. 167448
Price: $3,500.00
DORÉ, Gustave. The Doré Gallery: Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures by M. Gustave Doré on view at 35, New Bond Street, London. By Francis Roubiliac Conder. 72 pp. 12mo., 130 x 105 mm, bound in publisher's pale blue printed wrappers. London: Fairless and Beeforth, 1882.
A rare exhibition of catalogue of.....
Item nr. 168846
Price: $750.00
DORÉ, Gustave. Folies Gauloises depuis les Romains jusqu'à nos Jours. 20 lithographs by Doré. Oblong folio, 335 x 260 mm., bound in contemporary half morocco with the original green printed wrappers preserved. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant, [1852 or 1859].
First edition of this "dazzling survey of French manners and.....
Item nr. 168808
Price: $7,500.00
DORE, Gustave. LA BEDOLLIERE, Emile de. Le Nouveau Paris. Histoire de ses 20 arrondissements. 440 pp., illustrated with a frontispiece and 66 wood-engravings by Doré throughout the text, plus 21 double-page coloured maps of the arrondissements designed by Desbuissons and engraved by Erhard. Large 8vo, 300 x 210 mm., in.....
Item nr. 168171
Price: $3,500.00
MUNARI, [Bruno]. [Libro illeggibile]. [6] ff. 105 x 90 mm., small stamped pamphlet comprised of off-white paper covers, the front cover with a hand torn hole, followed by 6 sheets of various coloured tissue paper (purple, green and yellow) each with a hand torn hole, and a silver paper star.....
Item nr. 164815
Price: $2,750.00
AUTOMOBILES. Chevrolet for 54. America's first choice car. [Dealer's showroom sample catalogue]. Two parts in one volume. 101, [1] pp. many of them large double-page fold-outs, some with mylar overlays. Over 200 colour illustrations, colour plates (some folding), text illustrations, diagrams, several mylar overlays, 1 paper-engineered illustration with shifter for.....
Item nr. 155565
Price: $1,500.00
ROLLS-ROYCE. Rolls-Royce, Phantom III. Introduction by Wilfred Gordon Aston. 44 pp. Illustrated with 7 colour images of cars, one large folding plate showing the top and side view of the 40-50 H.P. chassis, four full-page photographic images of a showroom, service depot, and classroom, and engine and car diagrams throughout.....
Item nr. 153712
Price: $1,250.00
ARTS ET METIERS GRAPHIQUES. Publicite 1934. 82 pp. Illustrated in black-and-white and colour. 4to., spiral-bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers with orange plastic overlay cover. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1934.
An unusually fine copy of this fragile spiral-bound compilation of advertising art, abundantly illustrated by leading French designers, typographers, and artists.....
Item nr. 139021
Price: $975.00
PERCIER, C. & P.F.L. FONTAINE. Recueil de décorations intérieures, comprenant tout ce qui a rapport a l'Ameublement... [1], 43, [1] pp., illustrated with 72 engraved plates. Folio, 433 x 225 mm., bound in nineteenth-century half red morocco over marbled boards. Paris: P. Didot L'Ainé, 1812.
Second edition. The second edition is.....
Item nr. 128601
Price: $2,850.00
DODOENS, Rembert. Stirpium historiae pemptades sex sive Libri XXX. [xvi], 872, [66] pp. Illustrated with an engraved allegorical title (included in pagination), ca. 1330 botanical woodcuts after Pieter van der Borcht. Folio, 348 x 214 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch dark brown calf, sides paneled with double gilt fillet, spine.....
Item nr. 119809
Price: $7,000.00
DEROSSI, Onorato. Nuova guida per la città di Torino. 202 pp., illustrated with an engraved folding map. 8vo, 185 x 100 mm., bound in later wrappers. Torino: Nella Reale stamperia di Torino, 1781.
A beautiful uncut copy of this scarce guide to Turin, with a large folding map of the city.....
Item nr. 165776
Price: $1,750.00
LIEBERT, A. La Photographie en Amérique: traité complet de Photographie pratique, contenant les Découvertes les plus récentes. Quatrième édition, augmentée d'un Appendice sur le Gélatino-Bromure. x, [2], 656, vi, 24, [657]-679, [1], pp. Illustrated with a photogravure portrait of the author as frontispiece, 8 full page illustrations including four full.....
Item nr. 165774
Price: $2,500.00
ERNST, Max. Max Ernst. By Joe Bousquet and Michel Tapie. Illustrated with 2 original signed lithographs by Max Ernst. 4to., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Rene Drouin, 1950.
This rare book is comprised of the two signed lithographs, a text by Bousquet entitled A.....
Item nr. 129995
Price: $5,750.00