WOOL, Christopher. Black Book. 17 screenprints. 578 x 409 mm. Large folio, paper covered boards in a new black cloth clamshell box. New York/Cologne: Thea Westreich / Gisella Capitain, 1989.
One of an edition of 350 copies signed by Christopher Wool. Stenciled text works, printed in black, fill the pages of.....
Item nr. 171145
Price: $45,000.00
KLEIN, Yves. Dimanche: Le Journal d'un Seul Jour. 4 page 'newspaper', 558 x 762 mm when flat. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Issued for one day, November 27, 1960.
Yves Klein published this journal upon the occasion of the Festival d'Art d'Avant-Garde in Paris where it was displayed on newsstands.....
Item nr. 170492
Price: $5,000.00
Klein, Yves. Le Depassement de la Problematique de l'art. 32 pp. with 2 b&w illustrations. 4to, publisher's blue wrappers in a new grey cloth folding box with a blue label. Paris: Montbliart, 1959.
Item nr. 92568
Price: $1,250.00
HELLE, Andre. La Boîte à Joujoux, texte et dessins de André Hellé. 32 pp. Profusely illustrated. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated boards. Paris: A. Tolmer, 1928.
A delightful and rare version of Helle's story, which had originally been published in 1919 as a collaboration between Helle and the composer Claude Debussy.....
Item nr. 171060
Price: $2,500.00
DAVIS, Alexander Jackson. Rural Residences, etc. Consisting of Designs, Original and Selected, for Cottages, Farm Houses, Villas, and Village Churches... Unpaginated. Content includes: Title-page, advertising leaf, 8 leaves of descriptive text, [16] pp of "Specification of the Material and Work Required for Building a Dwelling House." Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured.....
Item nr. 170506
Price: $25,000.00
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: $35,000.00
ROUGET DE LISLE, A. Chromagraphie. Four parts in one volume. 8; 8; 16; 12, 8 pp. Illustrated with four wood-engraved vignettes, 10 folding hand-coloured lithographed plates showing over 100 pairs of colour arrangements numbered figs. 1-74; three engraved folding diagrams of weaving designs by Durau fils; one plate of weaving.....
Item nr. 170387
Price: $12,500.00
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. Leipzig: J.J. Weber, 1862.
First Edition of this German work on colour discussing application specifically.....
Item nr. 170382
Price: $3,500.00
FUTURISTIC WORLD. The World of To-Morrow. A Junior Book of Forecasts. By Idrisyn Oliver Evans. 163 pp. Illustrated with 24 transparent "Diophane" photo-mechanical plates. 8vo., bound in original publisher's translucent "Rhodoid" boards over original wrappers, yellow cloth spine. London: D. Archer, 1933.
First and Only Edition of this visionary work in.....
Item nr. 170367
Price: $3,750.00
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 interst to painters. Contains the.....
Item nr. 170104
Price: $5,000.00
HAKKI, T. Ismail. Album d'outillage. Werkzeug-Album. [Anatolian-Baghdad Railways … Album of Tools and Machines]. 1st part A-L. 69 ff. Blueprints with illustrations throughout on the recto only, with contemporary mounted corrections in Ottoman in black ink on white paper. Large 4to., bound in original illustrated blueprint wrappers, original black spine.....
Item nr. 169979
Price: $3,500.00
PIAZZETTA, Giambattista. Studi di Pittura già dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta ed ora con l'intaglio di Marco Pitteri. [6], 11, [3] ff. Engraved title, Title Illustrated with an engraved title-page vignette, head- and tailpieces, one of the latter with an etched self-portrait of Piazzetta dated 1738, plus 48 engraved plates after.....
Item nr. 169973
Price: $25,000.00
FARINATI, Paolo. Diverses Figures a l'eau forte de petits Amours, Anges vollants, et Enfans, popre a mettre fur frontons pportes et autres lieux. Contents includes engraved title-page followed by 29 full page engraved plates. Small oblong folio, 200 x 255 mm, bound in contemporary half velum over marbled boards. Paris.....
Item nr. 169944
Price: $3,750.00
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-bacled folding case. Leipzig: Cranach Presse, 1926.
First Edition, one.....
Item nr. 169584
Price: $7,500.00
Calder, Alexander. CALDER: An Autobiography with Pictures. 285 pp., profusely illus., 4to, wraps, in a new cloth folding box. New York, Beacon Press, 1969.
With a self-portrait drawing by Calder on the title page.
Item nr. 170999
Price: $3,500.00
CALDER, Alexander. Fables of Aesop According to Sir Roger L'Estrange. [6], 124, [10] pp. Illustrated with 50 line-block reproductions after pen-and-ink drawings by Calder. 4to., 255 x 195 mm, bound in publisher's paper with coloured silk threads over boards, in the original cardboard slipcase, in a new green half morocco.....
Item nr. 170973
Price: $25,000.00
CALDER, Alexander. Animal Sketching: Mr. Calder has Endeavored to Portray in a Strong Technique the Simple Action Lines so Valuable in Sketching Animals- This Book is Intended to Create Interest and Stimulate the Art Student to Make a Serious Effort to Draw Animals as He Sees Them. Illustrated throughout with.....
Item nr. 169806
Price: $1,500.00
Fontaine, Jean de la. Selected Fables. Illustrated by ALEXANDER CALDER. 88 pp. text with numerous line drawings. Folio, cloth, in a new purple half morocco folding box. New York, Quadrangle Press, 1948.
With a full page drawing by Calder inscribed by him to Curt Valentin who was his dealer and the.....
Item nr. 9872
Price: $7,500.00
MASSON, André. La Pieuvre avec huit dessins à la plume d'André Masson pour illustrer Victor Hugo. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Buenos Aires: Édition des Lettres Françaises, 1944.
An extract from "Les Traivalleurs de la Mer" illustrated with reproductions of 8 surrealist drawings by Masson. Slight damage to the head.....
Item nr. 169270
Price: $350.00
MASSON, André. Peine Perdue, Poèmes. By Claude-André Puget. 60, [4] pp. With a loose aquatint engraving by Masson. 8vo., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, uncut and unopened. Geneva: Club du Poeme, [1964].
Here Masson contributes a print to a poem on a subject which interested him, namely how little time one.....
Item nr. 169014
Price: $750.00
MASSON, André. Briques et Tuiles. By Victor Segalen. 68, [4] pp. With a signed etched frontispiece by Masson. Small folio, loose in publisher's wrappers. [Montpellier]: fata morgana, 1967.
Masson contributed an aquatint of his own version of Chinesee calligraphy. One of 50 copies on Japon with a signed etching by Masson.
Saphire.....
Item nr. 169013
Price: $750.00
MASSON, Andre. Metamorphose de l'Artiste. 2 Volumes. Illustrated with 2 signed lithographs and photographic reproductions throughout. Small 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers. Geneve: Pierre Cailler, 1956.
An important work by Masson in which he reviews the past and comments on his present work and thinking. One of 50 copies, with a......
Item nr. 169003
Price: $750.00
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 what was then Soviet Armenia.
Some marginal waterstaining, heavier.....
Item nr. 170979
Price: $2,500.00
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: $2,500.00