LACOUTURE, Charles. Répertoire chromatique, solution raisonée et pratique des problèmes les plus usuels dans l'étude et l'emploi des couleurs. xi, 144 pp., [2] ff., iIllustrated with 29 chromolithographic plates, including frontispiece with printed tissue guard, a few text diagrams. Includes a transparent overlay and printed card screen. Large 4to, 325.....
Item nr. 172723
Price: $4,500.00
OSTWALD, Wilhelm. Die kleine Farbmesstafel. Edition A. 12 pp. text pamphlet and 4 perforated coloured plates. Oblong folio, 295 x 205 mm., publisher's cloth. Goettingen: Muster-Schmidt, 1939.
A rare example of Ostwald's celebrated device for measuring colour. This is a colour table, which displays a spectrum of brilliant hues based on.....
Item nr. 172660
Price: $2,500.00
MUNSELL. Atlas of the Munsell Color System. Letterpress introduction, illustrated with 15 colour charts with colour samples tipped on to boards. Oblong folio, 275 x 355 mm., bound in publisher's boards, blue cloth spine. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Howland & Co., 1915.
The Atlas of the Munsell Color System consists of two.....
Item nr. 171023
Price: $3,500.00
CORONELLI, V. Historische und topographische ausführliche Beschreibung der Reiche Morea und Negroponte, wie auch der Insulen und Hafen selbigen Meeres biß an Salonich. Frontispiece, [10] 254pp., and 39 mostly folding plates. Franckfurt: Johann Balthasar Nieß, 1687.
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CORONELLI, V. Historische Beschreibung der Sieghafften Waffen der Durchleuchtigsten Republ. Venedig :Was solche in.....
Item nr. 169771
Price: $15,000.00
DANFLOU, Alfred. Les Grands Crus Bordelais. Monographies et Photographies des Chateaux et Vignobles. 2 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 and black. Folio, 357.....
Item nr. 170551
Price: $5,750.00
KENTRIDGE, William. The Lulu Plays, by Frank Wedekind. 197 pp. Illustrated with 67 full-page reproductions of drawings by William Kentridge. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth in matching slipcase, both designed by Kentridge. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015.
An exciting publication from the Arion Press featuring the work of one of today's.....
Item nr. 161804
Price: $2,000.00
MAREE, Piet. A.B.C. 28 pp. illustrated throughout with b&w photohraphy by the author. 8vo, 221 x 144 mm., original photo printed publisher's boards. The Hague, G.B. van Goor, n.d. [1932].
Rare with one copy on OCLC at NYPL. A fine copy with light shelf wear and an exceptionally clean interior. A......
Item nr. 173225
Price: $850.00
Hons, J. Svezte se s Nám. With ilustrations by Zdenka Valentova, Vydalo Nakladatelstvi and Josef Lskasik. 7 panels all with photomontage and color illustrations. 4to, 280 x 215 mm., original publishers photomontage printed boards. Prague, M. Schulz, Graficky Zavod Umelecky A.S., 1946.
Fine copy of a charming and extremely rare children's.....
Item nr. 173224
Price: $1,500.00
AVATI, Mario. Aphorismes, Menus et Variétés. By Brillat-Savarin. 108, [8] pp. Frontispiece and 24 mezzotints by Avati. 8vo., bound in original wrappers, in chemise and ultra-suede slipcase. Paris: Les Francs-Bibliophiles, 1961.
A tour-de-force of book illustration. Avati, who is a master of the mezzotint process, displays his virtuosity in the 25.....
Item nr. 52069
Price: $1,650.00
TOLMER. Animaux a Fourrure. 4 pp. Illustrated with 24 black-&-white plates by Ray Bret Koch. Oblong 4to., loose as issued in the publisher's decorated boards. Paris: Tolmer, 1931.
A disconcerting advertising piece for the fur coat firm of Jungmann, with the plates showing models wearing coats and then the animals whose.....
Item nr. 165818
Price: $1,250.00
LISSITZKY, El & Solomon TELINGATER. Vsesoiuznaia Poligraficheskaia Vystavka. Putevoditel'. [All-Union Printing Trades Exhibition: Guidebook]. [248] pp., with colourful tabbed chapter headings designed by Telingater, each with a corresponding photograph. 8vo, 175 x 125 mm., bound in publisher's typographically designed wrappers in a new cloth box. Moscow: Komitet poligraicheskoi vystavki, 1927.
First.....
Item nr. 172456
Price: $7,500.00
SOVIET PROPAGANDA. L'novodsto v SSSR. [Flax Growing in the USSR.] 88 pp., 39 ills., diagrams. Oblong folio, 255 x 355 mm., in original full cloth with colored lettering and blind debossed image of sheaves of flax. Moscow: Izd. Narkomsema SSSR, 1940.
A surreal example of Soviet book making, the subject matter.....
Item nr. 171595
Price: $3,500.00
WEI, Yu-hsiu. Kitaianka Sume-Cheng [Soumay Tcheng the Chinese Woman]. 148 pp. Photocollage illustrations by Rodchenko. 8vo., 200 x 140 mm. bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new green cloth box, with a maroon morocco label. Moscow: Gos. Izd-vo, 1929.
A memoir extolling the emancipation of the Chinese woman, illustrated.....
Item nr. 169835
Price: $2,750.00
RODCHENKO, A.M. Rechevik: stikhi. [The Orator]. By S. M. Tretiakov. 191 pp. 8vo, 180 x 130 mm., bound in original two-color Constructivist letterpress wrappers designed by Rodchenko. Moscow and Leningrad: GIZ, 1929.
A fresh copy of this pamphlet with the stunning vibrant wrappers designed by Rodchenko. The poetical text by the.....
Item nr. 169709
Price: $2,500.00
CORNELL, Joseph. A Joseph Cornell Pop-Up Book for All Ages. With text by Sandra Leonard Starr. 103 pp. Includes a 3D Viewer, 6 pop ups and a folding panorama. Oblong folio, bound in publisher's blue cloth and paper label preserved in a new blue cloth folding box. Tokyo: Tokyo Publishing.....
Item nr. 166704
Price: $5,000.00
KITAJ, Ronald Brooks. A Day Book by Robert Creeley. With 14 Original prints. Folio, bound in full blue and green leather, in matching blue leather-covered slipcase by Rudolf Rieser, assisted by Helmut Klohs. Berlin: Graphis, 1972.
A splendid copy of the deluxe edition this important work. The work was designed by.....
Item nr. 172297
Price: $12,500.00
INDIANA, Robert. Numbers. Containing 10 screenprints by Robert Indiana. By Robert Creeley. Illustrated with 10 screenprints. Large Folio, bound in original tan printed wrappers. Stuttgart und Duesseldorf, Edition Domberger, 1968.
The extremely rare large folio edition, which is not to be confused with the more commonly found 4to edition. One of.....
Item nr. 162580
Price: $17,500.00
EARLY COLOUR LITHOGRAPHY - WITH POEMS IN OVER 100 LANGUAGES
BARTH, Johann August. Pacis annis MDCCCXIV et MDCCCXV foederatis armis restitutae monumentum orbis terrarum de fortuna reduce gaudia gentium linguis interpretans.75 leaves mostly with lithograph borders printed in as many as five colours, one lithographed colophon leaf picturing a printing press.....
Item nr. 173554
Price: $35,000.00
![Item nr. 173341 Svetovoe zrenie [i.e. Color Vision ]. S. V KRAVKOV](https://ursusbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/173341_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774655293)
KRAVKOV, S.V. Svetovoe zrenie [i.e. Color Vision ]. 176 pp. ill., including 4 colour plates on separate leaves. 4to, 237 x 157 mm, original illustrated publisher's boards. Moscow: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1951.
An important work by one of the founders of physiological optics-a scientific discipline that.....
Item nr. 173341
Price: $1,750.00
TRADE CATALOGUE. The Coal Tar Colours of the Farbwerke vorm Meister Lucius & Brüning. 3 Volumes. 236, 136, 196 pp. Illustrated with lithographic frontispiece, title-page, and 1280 tipped-in coloured textile samples. 4to., 267 x 193 mm, bound in original publisher's cloth-backed baords. Hoechst on the Maine, Germany: Farbwerke vorm. Meister.....
Item nr. 173333
Price: $850.00
SEGUY, Eugene Alain. Code Universel des Couleurs. Encyclopedie Pratique du Naturaliste XXX. lxviii pp. Illustrated with 55 plates showing 720 colours. 8vo, 154 x 169 mm, bound loose as issued in the original cloth portfolio. Paris: Paul Lechevalier, 1936.
First Edition. A system of precise designation of colours for the exact.....
Item nr. 173293
Price: $495.00
DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. E.I. Developed Colors on Cotton Yarn. (Second Editon.) 37 pp. of which 6 are thick stock containing cotton thread samples. 4to, 200 x 255 mm, publisher's cloth binding. Wilmington, Delaware: E.I. du Pont de Nemours, 1940.
Presented in gold embossed boards with 346 dyed cotton.....
Item nr. 173208
Price: $1,250.00
[FABRIC DYES]. Les Couleurs d'Aniline de la Badische Anilin-& Soda -Fabrik. ix, 544, xi pp. 2 plates with 3 views of the company's factories, and 20 leaves with 621 (of 624) dyed fabric samples. 8vo, 260 x 180 mm, bound in recent cloth. Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, 1901.
A fantastic trade.....
Item nr. 173205
Price: $1,500.00
![Item nr. 173130 Atlas Tsvetov [Atlas of Colors]. E. B RABKIN](https://ursusbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/173130_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775086411)
RABKIN, E.B. Atlas Tsvetov [Atlas of Colors]. 54 p. [text], 40 leaves of illustrations [atlas], additional leaf - the mask for use in aligning color fields in a pocket at the end of the book. 4to, 230 x 170 mm, publisher's cloth. Moscow: 1956.
The author was a Soviet ophthalmologist, who.....
Item nr. 173130
Price: $3,750.00
GOUPIL, F. et al. Manuel Complet et simplifie de la peinture a l'huile suivi de la restauration des tableaux. 62. [2]pp. Paris:Desages,1860.
WITH: L'Aquarelle et le lavis: applique´s a l'etude de la figure en general du portrait d'apres nature du paysage, de la marine, des animaux et des fleurs.64pp. Illustrated with.....
Item nr. 173091
Price: $2,250.00