THIEBAUD, Wayne. Trout Fishing in America. By Richard Brautigan. Preface by Ron Loewinsohn. xxi, 98, [4] pp. With a photograph of the author by Edmund Shea and an original signed lithograph by Wayne Thiebaud. Small folio, 300 x 230 mm., bound in publisher's blue and grey cloth with black lettering.....
Item nr. 147667
Price: $2,750.00
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LOUIS XV, King of France. Fêtes Publiques Donnees par la Ville de Paris, à l'occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, les 23 et 26 Fevrier M.DCC.XLV. Engraved throughout. With title-page, allegorical frontispiece, [18] pp. of calligraphic text within ornamental borders, and 19 plates, of which 10 are.....
Item nr. 109750
Price: $35,000.00
EUCLID. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners. By Oliver Byrne. xxix, [1], 268 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour-printed diagrams. Small 4to., 237 x 188 mm, bound in original publisher's.....
Item nr. 168501
Price: $22,500.00
BOURGEOIS, Louise. Homely Girl, A Life. By Arthur Miller. With 10 drypoints by Bourgeois. Two volumes. Folio, original beige half morocco over grey cloth, preserved in a grey cloth slipcase. New York: Peter Blum, 1992.
A fine copy of this highly effective example of contemporary bookmaking. The playwright Arthur Miller gave.....
Item nr. 168500
Price: $12,500.00
JESPERS, Oscar. Bezette Stad. By Paul van Ostayen. [152] pp., illustrated with woodcuts by Oscar Jespers. 4to, 285 x 220 mm., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth box. Antwerp: Uitgave van het Sienjaal, 1921.
Belgian avant-garde bookmaking at its best. The innovative use of typography, combined with dramatic.....
Item nr. 169131
Price: $7,500.00
MENDOZA, [Juan Gonzales de]. Dell'Historia della China. [48], 380 pp. Small 4to., 210 x 150 mm, bound in later vellum. Rome: G.A. Ruffinello, 1586.
First Edition in Italian, of this popular and key Western text on Ming China printed the year following the original Spanish edition. Juan Gonzales de Mendoza (1545-1618).....
Item nr. 169177
Price: $3,250.00
VON BEZOLD, Wilhelm. The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-Industry...Translated from the German by S.R. Koehler...with an introduction and notes by Edward C. Pickering...Authorized American Edition. Revised and enlarged by the author. xxxiii, [1], 274 pp. Illustrated with chromolithographic frontispiece, 13 chromolithographic plates, plus numerous in-text.....
Item nr. 169113
Price: $1,500.00
[GEFFROY, Gustave]. La Vie Artistique. Préface d'Edmond de Goncourt. Eight volumes (all published). xvi, 375; 396; xx, 395; xviii, 334; 408; 462; 368; 483 pp. With an original etched frontispiece to each volume (by Carrière, Rodin, Renoir, Raffaelli, Fantin-Latour, Pissarro, Vierge, and Willette). 12mo., 167 x 110 mm, bound contemporary.....
Item nr. 169228
Price: $12,500.00
ARP, Jean. Dreams and Projects. Illustrated with 28 woodcuts by Jean Arp of which 21 are printed in black and 7 in gray and black. Small folio, bound loose in the orginal wrappers and publisher's cardboard slipcase. New York: Curt Valentin, 1952.
A fine copy of one of Arp's most impressive.....
Item nr. 169195
Price: $4,750.00
ARP, Jean. Soleil Recerclé 61 pp. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts by plus a signed colour woodcut frontispiece on Rives. Large folio, 475 x 380 mm, loose as issued in publisher's wrappers with colour woodcut illustration in the publisher's grey slipcase (with one of the 18 woodcuts) and vellum backed chemise.....
Item nr. 169143
Price: $17,500.00
NAVILLE Pierre. Les reines de la main gauche. 8vo., publisher's wrappers. Alençon: Imprimerie Alençonnaise, 1924.
First edition of the author's first book published in a very few copies and inscribed by Naville to Marcel Sauvage.
Item nr. 169390
Price: $750.00
LÖNBERG-HOLM, Knud and Ladislav SUTNAR. Catalog Design. 72 pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., bound in publisher's spiral; bound boards, in a new light blue cloth folding box, New York: Sweet's Catalog Service, a division of F. W. Dodge Corporation, 1944.
An immaculate copy of a fragile work rarely found thus. This is.....
Item nr. 168823
Price: $2,500.00
MAZING, B and N.P.AKIMOVA. Akter Germanskogo Kino. 50 pp. With black-&-white illustrations throughout. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Leningrad: Academia, 1926.
An early Russian work on German film with a dramatic contructivist cover. A fine copy of this fragile pamphlet. Very rare. OCLC lists only 2 copies, in the British.....
Item nr. 145634
Price: $495.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Early Auden. By W.H. Auden. Illustrated title-page and 10 accordion-folded panels of translucent paper wrapped around white bristol paper containing colour aquatints by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 350 x 215 mm, bound in smooth white vellum-covered boards, tan reversed calf spine in a new green cloth folding box. San.....
Item nr. 167358
Price: $12,500.00
QIANLONG, EMPEROR OF CHINA (1736-1796). Suite of four engravings depicting the conquests of the Qianlong Emperor. From the suite of sixteen engraved plates. Printed in Paris under the direction of Charles-Nicholas Cochin. Broadsheets, image size: 515 x 890 mm. Preserved in the contemporary French green paper mounts with black ink.....
Item nr. 169181
Price: $100,000.00
TACCHINI, Pietro. Eclissi totali di Sole del Dicembre 1870, del Maggio 1882 e 1883, e dell' Agosto 1886 e 1887. Relazioni e Note. [8], 236 pp. Illustrated with 24 plates, e.g. three heliogravure plates and 21 plates in lithography,chromolithography & heliogravure at the end. Large 8vo., 235 x 160 mm.....
Item nr. 169169
Price: $3,500.00
GUIGNES, Chretien-Louis-Joseph de. Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacres des Chinois qui renferme les Fondements de leur ancienne Histoire, les Principes de leur Gouvernement & de leur Morale. [4], cxliv, 474, [2] pp. Illustrated with 4 fold-out engraved plates. 4to., 250 x 190 mm, bound in contemporary cats-paw calf, red.....
Item nr. 169165
Price: $3,500.00
EARHART, John. The Color Printer. A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing. 137, [1] pp. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author and 90 plates. 4to., 270 x 205 mm, bound in green publisher's cloth stamped in gold and colour, with emblem of three ink.....
Item nr. 169128
Price: $2,850.00
CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY. Severnaia Manchzhuriia i Kitaiskaia Vostochnaia Zheleznaia Doroga [Northern Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railway]. IX, 692, XXIII, III [2] pp. With photo-Illustrations, maps, charts and graphs throughout. 4to, bound in publisher's blue cloth. Harbin: Tipografiia Kitaiskoi Vostochnoi Zheleznoi Dorogi, 1922.
A splendid account of this railway whose interest.....
Item nr. 168904
Price: $5,750.00
PICIARELLI, Camillo. Epistola di Camillo Piciarelli, Professore di Belle Lettere, sul Antico Naso di Fozio, pubblicato per almanacco dell'anno 1820. [xii], 39, [1] pp. Illustrated with an alligorical aquatint frontispiece. 8vo., 205 x 140 mm, bound in contemporary pattern wrappers, preserved in a new red half morocco box. Milan: Manini.....
Item nr. 168844
Price: $2,250.00
A KEMPIS, Thomas. A Kempis. [4], 307, [1] pp. Small 8vo., bound in contemporary three-quarter blue morocco, spine gilt, five raised bands. Uncut. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907.
A handsome printing containing the writings of Thomas A Kempis, including his musings on the love of solitude and silence, the profit of.....
Item nr. 37743
Price: $475.00
SIMAK, Vaclav. Postovni Knizka na Rok 1895. 82 pp. 12mo., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Prague: Jos. R. Vilimka, 1895.
An immaculate copy of this little Victorian Czech almanach cum trade catalogue.
Item nr. 139160
Price: $375.00
VENTURI, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Introduction by Vincent Scully. 143 pp. Illustrated with 350 black and white plates. 8vo., 200 x 145 mm, bound in publisher's cloth and printed dust wrapper. New York: Museum of Modern Art in association with The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the.....
Item nr. 45258
Price: $495.00
NOVLIANSKII, N. Iskusstvo grima: Nagliadnoe posobie dlia kruzhkovtsev. [i.e. Art of Makeup. A Visual Handbook for Membersof Art Sections, Drama Schools and Professional Stage Actors]. 24 leaves, illustrated throughout with colour plates and photographs. Oblong folio, 255 x 360 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new green.....
Item nr. 168898
Price: $2,500.00
MASSON, André. Soleils Bas. By Georges Limbour. With 4 etchings by Masson, one of which is on the front wrapper. 4to., bound in original wrappers, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon [Daniel Henry Kahnweiler], 1924.
A fine copy of Masson's rare first book, which.....
Item nr. 169030
Price: $7,500.00