UNDERWOOD and UNDERWOOD. Hong Kong and Canton. 15 stereoptic cards, loose as issued in the publisher's cloth slipcase, accompanied by an original Underwood stereo viewer. New York: Underwood and Underwood, 1901.
A fine set of this very rare series of views of Hong Kong and Canton. The views are:
1. Britain's rich.....
Item nr. 141450
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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
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MASCAGNI, Pietro. Cavalleria Rusticana. Melodramma in un Atto di G. Targioni-Tozzetti e G. Menasci. Riduzione per Canto e Pianoforte di Leopoldo Mugnone. XVI, 168 pp. Plate number 492 throughout. Folio, 307 x 230 mm., bound in contemporary Italian half brown morocco, matching marbled paper over boards. Milan: Edoardo Sonzogno, 1890.
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Item nr. 125045
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BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Portrait for La Galerie Contemporaine by Etienne Carjat. Woodburytype print with artist's information printed on mount, 225 x 185 mm, matted and framed in polished dark wood. [Paris: Carjat, ca. 1862; published in La Galerie Contemporaine in 1878].
A literary photographic masterpiece. "Among the many nineteenth-century portraits, Carjat's Baudelaire.....
Item nr. 123828
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[LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich]. [Jean-Baptiste CHARPENTIER]. Elemens de la langue russe ou Methode courte et facile pour apprendre cette lanuge conformement a l'usage. [16], 368 pp. 8vo., contemporary sheep, smooth spine with gilt fleurons, red morocco lettering-piece "Grammaire Russe". St. Petersburg: Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1768.
First Edition. A key publication in.....
Item nr. 121950
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MONTULE, Édouard de. Recueil des Cartes et des Vues du Voyage en Amerique en Italie et en Égypte fait pendant les Annees 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819. Atlas vol.: 59 numbered lithographed plates, comprising: lithographed title within oval cartouche framed by 4 allegorical vignettes depicting America, Italy, Sicily and Egypt.....
Item nr. 119879
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Twenty-seven volumes expanded to fifty-one. 8vo., 237 x 152 mm, bound in full deluxe red morocco, elaborate gilt borders, spines elaborately gilt, silk moire endleaves, turn-ins inlaid with blue morocco, gilt extra with wide dentelles composed of small ornamental tools and.....
Item nr. 117290
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[STANLEY, Henry, editor and English translator]. LIONNE, Artus de, Bishop of Rosalie. Chinese Manual. Sse tse ouen tsien-tchou … Four words literature (with) commentary (or) explication … Recueil des phrases Chinoises composées de quartre caractères et dont les explications sont rangées dans l'ordre alphabétique francais. viii, 75 pp. Folio, bound.....
Item nr. 110041
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GILMAN COLLECTION. Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company. Curated by Pierre Apraxine, with plates by Richard Benson, and notes to the plates by Lee Marks. 480 pp. Illustrated with 199 offset lithographs after photographs plus offset lithographic frontispiece. Large folio, bound in original half maroon calf over.....
Item nr. 37462
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DALI, SALVADOR. The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. 400 pp., profusely illus. 4to, cloth and illustrated dust jacket in a new cloth folding box.. New York, Dial, 1942.
With an elaborate double page inscription cum drawing by Dali. From the library of the photographer Arnold Crane with his signature on the.....
Item nr. 1560
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Landau, Ellen. LEE KRASNER: A Catalogue Raisonné. 336 pp., 660 illustrations, 267 in color. Folio, cloth. New York, Abrams, 1995.
Item nr. 42182
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Vitali, Lamberto. MORANDI Catalogo Generale. 2 Volumes. Unpaginated, catalogue raisonne illustrating 1343 paintings in b&w, few in color, intoto. Vol.1 including works 1913-1947. Vol.2 including works 1948-1964. Stout 4to, cloth in box. Milan, Electa Editrice, 1977.
Item nr. 28825
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HORI, Gennyusai; KAWABE Soyo; HORI, Genpo and Yasuyuki MORIKAWA. Eidai Setsuyo Mujinzo: shinso ryoten. Profusely illustrated in black and white and with 9 double-page and 1 single-page coloured woodcuts. 4to., publisher's wrappers. Edo [Tokyo]: Suharaya Mohe; Kyoto: Fugetsu Shozaemon, 1849.
A fine copy of this fascinating, copiously illustrated, pre-Perry encyclopedia covering.....
Item nr. 168632
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MAPMAKING. Chikeigaku Kyotei 1 with Chikeigaku Kyotei Furoku. Five volumes. Illustrated with 27 folding maps and diagrams in the main part, 6 folding maps or diagrams and 11 leaves on heavy paper of examples of notation in the appendix. Small 8vo., 160 x120 mm publisher's wrappers with title labels. Preserved.....
Item nr. 167071
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MOLESWORTH, HELEN. Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933 - 1957. 400 pages, including 318 color and 170 b&w plates. 4to, cloth. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2015.
From the publisher's catalogue:
"In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making artistic experience central.....
Item nr. 160836
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Fortune, Brandon Brame et al. ELAINE DE KOONING: Portraits. 160 pages, including 100 color plates. 4to, cloth. New York, Prestel, 2015.
Item nr. 158719
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EAST ASIA. An Official Guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-Continental Connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. I: Manchuria & Chosen. Vol. II: South-Western Japan. Vol. III: North-Eastern Japan. Vol. IV: China. Vol. V: East Indies. Five volumes. I: [2], LXXXVI, 350 pp., illustrated with 17 colour folding maps, 16 black and.....
Item nr. 153804
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Anfam, David et al. ANISH KAPOOR. 528 pages, hundreds of color and b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. New York, Phaidon Press, 2009.
Item nr. 138713
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ANTOLINI, Giovanni Antonio. Projetto sul Foro Bonaparte che doveva Eseguirsi in Milano in 24 Gran Tavole. Title-page and suite of twenty-four plates, comprising 14 magnificent double-page aquatint views printed in shades of sepia ink and 10 double-page engraved floor-plans and scaled architectural drawings. Large folio, 572 x 440 mm, bound.....
Item nr. 168399
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ANGELOU, Maya. Our Grandmothers. Illustrated with five original full-page lithographs by John T. Biggers. Large folio, 56 x 44cm, burgundy cloth, stamped in black in folding cloth clamshell box. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1994.
A superb celebration of Afro-American art and literature combining one of Maya Angelou's poems about.....
Item nr. 131365
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TUTTLE, Richard. Hiddenness. By Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge. Illustrated with original prints, including lithograph, silkscreen and hand-stamped monotypes by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 380 x 255 mm, bound in publisher's concertina blue paper over boards in the original folding case. New York: The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum, 1987.
One of the most.....
Item nr. 168696
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DIEBENKORN, Richard. Poems of W.B. Yeats. Selected and introduced by Helen Vendler. xxv, [3], 171, [2] pp. 4to, 260 x 205 mm, bound in half red morocco over green cloth, in a green and red slipcase. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990.
Limited edition of 426 copies. Yeats's poems, printed with.....
Item nr. 164400
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LAWRENCE, Jacob. The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 8 colour screenprints. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989.
One of 400 copies, signed on the colophon by Jacob Lawrence who has contributed 8 original silkscreens to this massive and truly magnificent work, one of the high points.....
Item nr. 149195
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Storr, Robert. GERHARD RICHTER: Forty Years of Painting. 340 pp., 138 color, and 87 b&w plates. 4to, cloth. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
This book accompanies a complete retrospective at MoMA of Richter's career, including everything from the photo-based works of the early 60s to the abstractions of the.....
Item nr. 99615
Price: $250.00
DEGAS, Edgar. The Letters of Edgar Degas. Edited by Theodore Reff. 3 Volumes. 1,464 pp. With 55 color plates. 4tos, cloth in slipcase. University Park, Penn State University Press, 2020. Coming in June 2020.
In this critical edition of Edgar Degas's correspondence, eminent Degas scholar Theodore Reff transcribes, dates, and.....
Item nr. 168774
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