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Wells, H.G. Práce, blahobyt a štestí lidstva (The work, wealth and happiness of mankind). 2 vols., 420 and 460pp., b&w photographic ills throughout, 24 plates w. Isotypes. 4to, 240 x 180 mm. cloth in dustwrappers and original board boxes. Prague, F. Strnad, 1937.
Originally publises in English in 1932, this is.....
Item nr. 173221
Price: $675.00
NEURATH, Otto and Gerd ARNTZ. Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft: bildstatistisches Elementarwerk. das Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien zeigt in 100 Farbigen Bildtafeln Produktionsformen, Gesellschaftsordnungen, Kulturstufen, Lebenshaltungen. Contents includes title-page, 100 plates and 30 text pages. Oblong folio, 303 x 454 mm., loose as issued in a new cloth folding box. Leipzig.....
Item nr. 172295
Price: $25,000.00
CRUIKSHANK, R.J. Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England. 308 pp. Illustrated with 14 isotype charts and profusely illustrated. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth. London: Pitman, 1949.
A typical example of the postwar use of isotype charts in England. A fine copy, with just the slightest wear to the dustwrapper.
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Item nr. 173325
Price: $150.00
50 Jaren Sociale Verzekering. 74 pages, 17 colour isotype pp, 1 in b&w and various small b&w illustrations throughout. 8vo, 223 x 150 mm., wraps. Amsterdam, Rijksverekeringsbank, 1951.
A clean copy in a mylar jacket, with brilliantly colored Isotypes representing fifty years of social progress in the Netherands. Produced directly in.....
Item nr. 173218
Price: $1,250.00
SVERDLIN, L.S. U nas i u nikh: itogi XVII konferentsii VKP(b). 10 pp. text and 36 plates. Folio, 370 x 270 mm, loose as issued in publisher's illustrated portfolio. Moscow: Izogiz, 1932.
A truly spectacular book, which transcends its subject matter, and which can stand on its own as an important.....
Item nr. 173162
Price: $9,750.00
Ettinger, J. van. et al. Welvaart en industrie in Nederland. Is Nederland overbevolkt? Het bouwbedrijf in Nederland. De landbouw, hoeksteen van ons volkbestaan. Winkelier en verbruiker. Groothandel en scheepvaart. 148 pp. among 6 volumes, profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. 4to, 260 x 185 mm. Leiden, Nederlands Stichting voor Statistiek.....
Item nr. 173214
Price: $2,500.00
FRIML, Jiri and Karel TEIGE. Sovetske hospodarstvi. 45 Numbers, all published. 8vo, 212 135 mm, loose as issued in 4 publisher's cloth binders
A complete set of these monographs on the Soviet economy designed by Jiri Friml and Karel Teige and with some particularly attractive isotypes. In a remarkable state of.....
Item nr. 171743
Price: $7,500.00
ISOTYPE. Czechoslovakia: Chekhoslovakiya stroit svoye budushcheye. [Czechoslovakia is Building its Future]. 36 pp. illustrated throughout. Oblong 4to, publisher's wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Prague: Orbis, 1947.
Extremely rare and attractive isotype book from the period of the Third Czechoslovak Republic (1945-1948), which lays out the Benes "Two-Year Plan" created.....
Item nr. 171852
Price: $1,750.00
IJZERMAN, A.W. De 80-jarige oorlog. Publicatie van de Nederlandsche Stichting voor Statistiek. Vol. 1 56 pp. Vol. 2 54 pp., profusely illustrated with isotypes. 4to, 190 x 265 mm, bound in wrappers, in a new black cloth folding box. Leiden: H.E. Stenfert Kroese's, [1951].
A statistical study of the 80 Years.....
Item nr. 171084
Price: $675.00
POLAND. L'exécution du plan triennial: de reconstruction économique en Pologne. 62 pp., illustrated throughout with isotype diagrams, charts and photographs. Small oblong folio, 210 x 287 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Warszawa: n.p., 1950.
A stunning example of avant-garde book design with extremely imaginative use of isotypes, as is often.....
Item nr. 170980
Price: $1,250.00
NEURATH, Otto. International Picture Language. The First Rules of Isotype. 117 pp. Profusely illusrated with Isotype charts. Small 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1936.
Rare First Edition of one of the rarest and also most important Isotype books, inscribed by Otto Neurath. . In.....
Item nr. 141790
Price: $3,500.00
NEURATH, Marie. I'll show you how it happens. 32 pp., illustrated throughout. Small 4to, 209 x 175 mm., bound in publisher's cloth and illustrated dust jacket. London: Max Parrish, 1956.
A typical example of the books produced by Marie Neurath. Her children's books tended to take complex information and transform it.....
Item nr. 168990
Price: $675.00
NEURATH, Marie. They Lived Like This in Ancient Palestine. 34 pages. 4to, cloth. London: Max Parrish & Co., 1965.
Cover slightly faded at edges. Missing dustjacket, otherwise a fine copy of one of the lovingly produced books in this series...
Item nr. 173255
Price: $375.00
NEURATH, Marie. They Lived Like This in Ancient Mexico. 32pp. Illustrated. 4to. Publisher's cloth and dustwrapper. London: Macdonald Educational, 1971.
An exceptionally clean copy of one of the many imaginative books written by Marie Neurath. Rubbing to head and tail of spine on dust jacktet. Marking on front free endpaper.
Item nr. 172951
Price: $475.00
Neurath, Marie. They Lived Like This In Ancient Mesopotamia. 32 pp. 4to, illustrated throughout. Publisher's cloth and illustrated dust jacket. London: Max Parrish & Co., 1964.
Item nr. 173242
Price: $375.00
ISOTYPE. Pechat' strany sotsializma. 80 pp. Folio, 328 x 250 mm, publisher's cloth. Moscow: Vsesoiuznyi nauchno-izdatel'institut izobrazitel'noi statistiki tsunkhu gosplana SSSR, 1939.
A fine copy of this unusual Russian book on the printing trade profusely illustrated with isotypes. Slight wear to the cloth spine, but otherwise fine.
OCLC lists Getty, Chicago, Harvard.....
Item nr. 172592
Price: $2,500.00
ARNTZ, Gerd. Statistisch Zakboek. (Isotype). 23 Volumes. 8vo, bound in publisher's wrappers. The Hague: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, 1940 - 1966.
This is a complete run of the volumes containing Arntz's contributions. The publication actually began in 1926. In 1940 Arntz was put in charge of graphic design at the.....
Item nr. 164825
Price: $2,500.00
WENDINGEN. Beeldstatistiek. Number 9 of Series 11. Introduction by Peter Alma. 36 pp., illustrated throughout. Square folio, 334 x 336 mm., original wrappers illustrated with a woodcut by Peter Alma, preserved in a new folding box. Amsterdam: Uitgevers-maatschappij de Hooge Brug, 1930.
An issue of the legendary Dutch periodical Wendingen entirely.....
Item nr. 164659
Price: $1,250.00
NEURATH, Otto. Modern Man in the Making. 159, [1] pp., illustrated throughout with charts and diagrams. Small 4to, 265 x 205 mm., bound in publisher's blue cloth with title in silver on spine and front cover. New York: Knopf, 1939.
In the 1920s, Neurath developed the "Museum of Society and Economy".....
Item nr. 170990
Price: $1,500.00
CHINA. First five-year plan for Development of the National Economy of the People's Republic of China in 1953-1957. Unpaginated (approximately 70 pp.), profusely illustrated. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1956.
An astonishing example of modernist book design from communist China. The avant-garde layout combined with the use.....
Item nr. 170012
Price: $2,500.00
BAKKER, Piet, et al. Spoorwegserie Nos. 1-4. 8vo, 235 x 153 mm, bound in original illustrated wrappers. Netherlands: Nederlandsche Spoorwegen, ca. 1941.
A complete set of these scarce wartime pamphlets published by the Dutch railways, whose design was strongly influenced by the work of Piet Zwart. The pamphlets are Seinwesen; Hoe.....
Item nr. 139850
Price: $575.00