KORZHEV, M.P. & M.I. PROKHOROVA. Arkhitektura parkov SSSR. [Architecture of Parks of the USSR]. 140 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and plans. 4to., 265 x 200 mm, bound in publisher's grey cloth. [Moscow]: Izd-vo Akademii arkhitektury SSSR, 1940.
First edition. One of 4000 copies. A rare photographic survey of parks across.....
Item nr. 166616
Price: $1,500.00
RUECKERT, Otto. Die Kunsthandwerkliche Förderung des Baumalers. 63, [1] pp. Illustrated with 42 colour halftone plates, and a few small diagrams in the text. 4to., 229 x 178 mm, bound in publisher's printed cloth-backed boards. Dresden: Verlag des Verbandes Sächsischer Vereinigungen selbständiger Maler und Lackierer, 1929.
First Edition of this most.....
Item nr. 165157
Price: $1,500.00
TAUT, Bruno. Ein Wohn Haus. [iv], 118, [2] pp. Illustrated with 104 photos, 72 architectural plans, 1 colour plate, and 1 folding "keyboard" colour chart. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth and dust-wrapper. Stuttgart: W. Keller & Co 1927.
First edition, later issue. In the series "Kosmos-Haus-Bücher," with typography (including binding) by.....
Item nr. 112070
Price: $1,500.00
FASCISM. L'Italia all'Esposizione Internationale di Parigi. Unpaginated. Illustrated with tipped in photographs throughout. Folio, 300 x 240, bound in publisher's spiral bound gilt wrappers, preserved in a new red cloth folding box. Paris: Jacques Makowsky, [1938].
First Edition. A fine copy of this elaborate publication documenting the Italian Pavilion at the.....
Item nr. 168405
Price: $2,500.00
FASCIST BOOK DESIGN. Italia Imperiale. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Frederico Patellani, Stefano Bricarelli, Lucio Ridenti, and Bruno Stefani, and illustrations by Marcello Nizzoli, Mario Sironi, Bramante Buffoni, Ruggero Micaelles, Erberto Carboni, and Paolo Garretto. Folio, 450 x 380 mm, bound in publisher's gray and black decorated glossy boards.....
Item nr. 168070
Price: $5,500.00
TESTI, C.V. Les Routes de l'Italie. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., publisher's illustrated wrappers. (Rome): ENIT, 1933. WITH:
TESTI, C.V. When will you come to Italy. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., publisher's illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. (Rome): E.N.I.T, 1936.
Two wonderful examples of Fascist book design, both in fine conditon.....
Item nr. 168265
Price: $1,250.00
MUSSOLINI. Armi d'Italia: le rassegne del Duce alle truppe dell'armata del Po, della seconda e ottava armata. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontage. Small folio, 310 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's photographic wrappers, preserved in a new green cloth folding box. Rome: 1940.
$1,500.00
A fine copy of this typical.....
Item nr. 167219
Price: $1,500.00
FASCISM. La Pubblicità d'Italia. Numbers 43-46. 467 pp. Profusely illustrated. Folio, 318 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Milan: Sindicato Nazionale Fascista, 1941.
A massive survey of Italian advertising at the begiining of the war, published with text in Italian and German as.....
Item nr. 167163
Price: $2,500.00
LABO, Mario and Attilio PODESTA. Colonie Marine, Montane, Elioterapiche. 79 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and architectural diagrams. Folio, bound in publisher's boards, and illustrated dust-jacket. Milan: Ed. Domus, 1942.
$975.00
A fine example of this wartime study of the architecture of holiday camps, something which would seem to be a strange.....
Item nr. 166852
Price: $975.00
MORGAGNI, Manlio. Viva il Duce! 23 Marzo 1919. 226 leaves. Photographically illustrated throughout. Folio, bound in publisher's boards, in a new linen cloth folding box. Milano: Alfieri & Lacroix, 1939.
This splendid Fascist photobook is massive hagiography of Mussolini, which is redeemed by its imaginative book design, which is in complete.....
Item nr. 166851
Price: $3,500.00
GONFREVILLE, M.D. Art de la Teinture des Laines en Toison, en Fil et en Tissu. 700 pp., followed by 16 pp. of formulas and instructions for dyeing and laundering wool. Illustrated with 8 pp. containing 128 corresponding wool swatches in diverse colours and patterns. 8vo., 207 x 130 mm, bound.....
Item nr. 143974
Price: $550.00
FISCHER, Ludwig Hans. Die Technik der Oelmalerei. 118 pp. Illustrated with 2 plates containing 24 sample colours and one plate with 12 mounted canvas samples, in addition to 24 illustrations in the text and 4 coloured plates. 8vo., bound in publisher's illustrated cloth-backed boards. Vienna: Carl Gerold, 1898.
A fine copy.....
Item nr. 166650
Price: $495.00
WEICHELT, August. Buntpapier-Fabrikation. xii, 329, 18pp. profusely illustrated and with209 tipped-in paper samples. 8vo., publisher's cloth. Berlin! Verlag der Papier-Zeitung, Carl Hofmann, 1908.
A fine copy of the much enlarged second edition of this extraordinary work on the manufacture of coloured paper, with over 100 more samples than in the first.....
Item nr. 165790
Price: $975.00
SINCLAIR & VALENTINE Co. Printing Ink Specimens. "Specimen book no. 6."154pp., plus 4 wax paper sheets and 7 miscellaneous leaves. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's cloth. New York :Sinclair & Valentine Co., ND. Ca 1920
A stunning nineteen twenties printing ink trade catalogue. This one is not recorded in OCLC, which does list.....
Item nr. 165772
Price: $875.00
KORNERUP, Andreas. AIMS: Advanced Ink Mixing System. 16 pp. of text. Illustrated with 132 plates and cut-out overlays, isolating colours in the spectra. 4to., 298 x 210 mm, bound in publisher's cream-coloured plastic-covered printed boards. Copenhagen: The Danish Paint and Ink Research Laboratory, 1968.
Only Edition of this colour atlas. Kornerup.....
Item nr. 159903
Price: $495.00
WILSON, R.A. The Uses of Colour. 118, [10] pp. Illustrated with 56 full page samples illustrating repeating patterns and images showing varying and contrasting coloured inks. 4to., 240 x 183 mm, bound in new blue cloth, preserving the original gilt stamped labels. London: Coates Brothers, ND [1920's].
First Edition. A combination.....
Item nr. 159120
Price: $975.00
PARSONS, Thos. & Sons. A Few Suggestions for Ornamental Decoration. Compiled by F. Scott Mitchell. 130 pp. Illustrated throughout with decoration examples and 4 plates with colour samples. 8vo., 216 x 140 mm, bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt title and floral design on front cover. London: Thos. Parsons.....
Item nr. 153753
Price: $225.00
NAPIER, James. A Manual of Dyeing Receipts for General Use. iv, 83, [1], 4 pp. Illustrated with 56 mounted textile samples. 8vo., 188 x 115 mm, bound in publisher's navy cloth, title gilt on front cover. London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Company, 1855.
First Edition, a sequel to the same.....
Item nr. 148564
Price: $450.00
HURST, George H. A Handbook of the Theory of Colour. Revised by H. B. Stocks. viii, 160 pp. Illustrated with 11 chromolithographic plates. 8vo., 218 x 135 mm, bound in original green cloth, title gilt on front cover and spine. London: Scott, Greenwood & Son, 1916.
Second Revised Edition of a......
Item nr. 143656
Price: $450.00
LOVIBOND, Joseph W. Measurement of light and colour sensations. A new method of investigating the phenomena of light and colour by means of the selective absorption in coloured glass, graded into scales of equivalent colour value. 132 pp. Illustrated with 13 text illustrations, 23 tables, 9 colour charts and 13.....
Item nr. 142456
Price: $850.00
DEPEW, Chauncey M. [editor]. One Hundred Years of American Commerce. 2 Volumes. xxxii, 336; xii, 337-678 pp. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and 99 black-and-white photographic portraits in the text. Folio, bound in recent half black morocco. New York: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1895.
A classic work on the great.....
Item nr. 156624
Price: $975.00
HUGNET, Georges. L'Aventure Dada (1916-1922). With an introduction by Tristan Tzara. 101 pp. Illustrated with 33 photographic plates. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers after a design by Marcel Duchamp, in a new black cloth box with black leather spine label gilt. Paris: Galerie de l'Institut, 1957.
Duchamp created his Project.....
Item nr. 154685
Price: $675.00
WARHOL, Andy. A Group of 3 Early Dustwrappers designed by Warhol. Pistols for Two; Love is a Pie and The Saint in Europe. 8vo., Publisher's cloth and illustrated dust wrappers. New York: New Directions and Doubleday, 1951,1952,1953.
Fine copies of these scarce early examples of Warhol's work as a graphic artist.....
Item nr. 168698
Price: $850.00
CHURCHILL, Winston. Post-War Speeches. The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill, Centenary Limited Edition Volume XXVIII. 3 volumes. 8vo, bound in full vellum, gilt stamped cover, gilt title on spine, preserved in green leatherette slipcase. NP [London]: Library of Imperial History in Association with Cassell & Company Limited, 1975.
A fine.....
Item nr. 137009
Price: $575.00
With an unrecorded 31st Map
TOMATSU Masanori, Muneyasu KAGEYAMA et al. Edo Kiriezu. A complete set of 31 Coloured Woodblock Maps of Tokyo. 12mo., each bound in original pale blue wrappers, preserved in a contemporary wooden box. Edo: Owariya Seishichi, 1852-1864.
A possibly unique set of these Tokyo maps consisting of a......
Item nr. 168611
Price: $25,000.00