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. Moscow: Gos. Izd-vo, 1929.
A memoir extolling the emancipation of the Chinese woman, illustrated with photomontages by Rodchenko, who also designed the wrappers. This is a......
Item nr. 169835
Price: $2,750.00
ARMENIA. Hayeri verabnakets'umy HSSH-its' durs. viii, 112 pp., illustrated with 97 full page maps and charts. Large 4to, 325 x 338 mm, bound in publisher's maroon cloth. Erevan: Haykakan SSRò Gitut'yunneri Akademia, 1961.
This atlas presents an unusual and stunning example of avant-garde book design from what was then Soviet Armenia.
Text.....
Item nr. 170979
Price: $1,250.00
MAN RAY. Revolving Doors. Comprised of 10 pochoir plates, ca. 580 x 380 mm. Folio, loose in original publisher's black portfolio with ties, laid into a new folding box. Paris: Editions Surréalistes, 1926.
A fine copy of this legendary Surrealist publication. Between 1916 and 1917, the artist and photographer Man Ray.....
Item nr. 169684
Price: $85,000.00
BAUMANN, Paul. Baumanns neue Farbentonkarte: System Prase (DRGM 460 993); 1359 systemat. abgestufte Farbentöne nebst Analyse über Mischverhältnisse und Mitteilungen über Art und Verwendbarkeit der gebräuchlichsten Farbstoffe. 16 pp. text and 47 plates (1 folding), with accompanying text. 8vo, ca. 180 x 105 mm., loose as issued in original boards.....
Item nr. 169278
Price: $5,850.00
MASSANI, Giuseppe. La Sua Terra. [90], 6 pp., illustrated with photographs throughout. Folio, 395 x 313 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated cloth. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1936.
A fine copy of this classic fascist photobook, a hagiography of Mussolini, which is almost a direct takeoff of the books produced in.....
Item nr. 169111
Price: $3,500.00
ARMENIA. Hayeri verabnakets'umy HSSH-its' durs. viii, 112 pp., illustrated with 97 full page maps and charts. Large 4to, bound in publisher's maroon cloth. Erevan: Haykakan SSRò Gitut'yunneri Akademia, 1961.
This atlas presents an unusual and stunning example of avant-garde book design from what was then Soviet Armenia.
Text in Armenian.
Item nr. 172429
Price: $2,500.00
LEWITT, Sol. Piramidi. 10 lithographs, each 222 × 680 mm, in publisher's cardboard box, Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1986.
This stunning set of lithographs recall the splendid wall drawings of pyramids that the artist conceived of between 1985 and 1994. These consisted of floor to ceiling pyramids constructed of multiple facets.....
Item nr. 169582
Price: $8,500.00
PELLE, Clement and Thomas ALLOM. L'Empire Chinois, illustre d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux. 4 Volumes. [4], 68, 26; 76; 74; 73, [3] pp., illustrated with 4 engraved added title-pages and 124 full page steel engraved plates. 4to, 275 x 214 mm., bound in publisher's elaborately decorated red cloth.....
Item nr. 170092
Price: $3,500.00
CONFUCIUS. Confucius Sinarum Sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita. cxxiv, 108, 160, xx, 20, 8, [2], 23-108, [2] pp. Illustrated with engraved portrait of Confucius and a map of China engraved by François de Louvemont from a drawing by the Belgian missionary Philippe Couplet. Folio, 335 x 225 mm, bound in.....
Item nr. 169179
Price: $12,500.00
TELINGATER, Solomon. Slovo Predostaviliaetsia Kirsanovu. By Semen Kirsanov. Small 8vo, 198 x 87 mm, bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1930.
A fine copy of this rare and spectacular example of avant-garde book design from the complex cover, which combines collage and typography, to.....
Item nr. 170363
Price: $4,950.00
GUNDRY, John. Specimens of Penmanship from Gundry's Business College Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. Comprises 22 full page calligraphic designs in black, white and metallic inks on bright blue [13], black [7] and white [2] grounds, one of which incorporates an albumen portrait of Gundry; 41 smaller designs arranged on three sheets;.....
Item nr. 170502
Price: $25,000.00
ADAMS, Rudolph. Die Farben-Harmonie in ihrer Anwendung auf die Damentoilette. xii, 322, 4 pp., illustrated with 3 lithographic plates of which two are chromolithographs. 8vo, 213 x 135 mm., bound in publisher's mint green illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Leipzig: J.J. Weber, 1862.
First edition of this German.....
Item nr. 170382
Price: $3,500.00
ADAM, Victor. Les Synonymes en Action. Contents include: hand-coloured lithographed title and twenty-four hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, (W, X & Y on one plate). Folio, 337 x 250 mm., bound in publisher's blind stamped red cloth over boards, front cover decorated and lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked.....
Item nr. 170270
Price: $8,500.00
ACCOLTI, Pietro. Lo Inganno de gl'occhi, prospettiva pratica. Trattato in acconcio della pittura. [12], 152, [4] pp., illustrated throughout, woodcut diagrams, illustrations. Folio, 303 x 217 mm., bound in contemporary mottled calf. Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1625.
First edition of the practical manual of perspective, of special interest to painters. Contains the.....
Item nr. 170104
Price: $5,000.00
VIRGIL. Les Eclogues de Virgile. Texte Latin et Traduction Francaise de Marc Laforgue imprimees par Harry de Kessler. With 43 woodcut engravings by Aristide Maillol, initials and title-page designed by Eric Gill. Large 4to. Loose in the original wrappers and publisher's vellum-backed folding case. Leipzig: Cranach Presse, 1926.
First Edition, one.....
Item nr. 169584
Price: $7,500.00
COOK, G.D. & Co. Illustrated Catalog of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser, New Haven, Ct. [iv], 226 pp. Oblong 8vo, 170 x 245 mm., bound in original embossed brown cloth, rebacked in tan calf, spine gilt. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1860.
This illustrated catalog is a wonderful study of mid-nineteenth.....
Item nr. 170108
Price: $3,750.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Two volumes. [8], 386, [6]; [4], 390, [6] pp., with 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo, 261 x 180 mm., uniformly bound in contemporary black half morocco. Paris: Hetzel et Paulin: 1842-1844.
A splendid copy.....
Item nr. 169739
Price: $9,750.00
CELMINS, Vija. The View. Poems by Czeslaw Milosz. Unpaginated. Illustrated with four mezzotints by Celmins. Tall 4to., 377 x 280 mm, bound in original publisher's black morocco spine, grey paper over boards in matching slipcase. Uncut. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985.
Considered to be.....
Item nr. 169440
Price: $15,000.00
MALTON, Thomas. A Compleat Treatise on Perspective, in Theory and Practice; on the True Principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. [4], viii, [8], 284 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 46 numbered, mostly folding engravings, five with moveable parts. London: Printed for the author, and sold by Messrs. Robson, et.....
Item nr. 169229
Price: $7,500.00
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ALEKSEEV, S. Tsvetovedeniye dlya arkhitektorov. [Colour in Architecture]. 157, [2] pp., illustrated with 12 leaves of plates, some colour. 8vo, 220 x 153 mm., bound in original brown cloth. Leningrad: GONTI, 1938.
A very good copy of this work on colour in architecture in Russia. Conceived as a textbook for architecture.....
Item nr. 169581
Price: $2,500.00