LE CORBUSIER. Des Canons, des Munitions? Merci! Des Logis... s.v.p. Oblong 4to., 283 x 230 mm, bound in original illustrated boards, in a new red cloth folding box. Paris: Editions de l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, [1938].
First Edition of one of the scarcest and most sought-after books by Le Corbusier. This profusely illustrated.....
Item nr. 167448
Price: $3,500.00
MIRÓ, Joan. Makemono. Lithograph Scroll in colours, on natural Canton silk. 415 x 9847 mm. In the original carved and lacquered wooden box. Paris: Maeght 1956.
A fine copy of this splendid, rare and unusual piece by Miró in the form of a 32 foot long Chinese-style scroll. The scroll took.....
Item nr. 168276
Price: $35,000.00
DORÉ, Gustave. The Doré Gallery: Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures by M. Gustave Doré on view at 35, New Bond Street, London. By Francis Roubiliac Conder. 72 pp. 12mo., 130 x 105 mm, bound in publisher's pale blue printed wrappers. London: Fairless and Beeforth, 1882.
A rare exhibition of catalogue of.....
Item nr. 168846
Price: $750.00
VARIN, Amédée. L'Empire des Légumes. Memoires de Cucurbitus Ier. Recueillis et mis en ordre par MM. Eugène Nus et Antony Meray. [4], 310 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 24 engraved plates, all coloured by a contemporary hand. 4to., 266 x 177 mm, bound in publisher's decorated polychrome cloth.....
Item nr. 168841
Price: $7,500.00
DORÉ, Gustave. London. A Pilgrimage. By Blanchard Jerrold. [12], xii, 191, [1] pp. With an added engraved title-page, 52 engraved plates and 126 vignettes illustrating the text, all by Doré. Folio, 405 x 305 mm, bound in contemporary full green morocco, elaborately gilt, a.e.g. London: Grant & Co., 1872.
$ 0.00
First.....
Item nr. 168837
Price: $3,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Cent Proverbes. With text by Amadee Achard, Taxile Delord, Emile Forguesvand Arnould Fremy. [4], 398, [2] pp. Illustrated with wood engraved frontispiece, 50 full page wood engravings hor-texte, plus head-and-tail pieces by Grandville. 8vo., 228 x 140 mm, bound in publisher's polychrome cloth binding. Paris: Fournier, 1845.
A fine.....
Item nr. 168591
Price: $3,850.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Voyages de Gulliver dans des Contrées Lointaines par Swift. [6], xxxii, 450 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece of the gigantic Gulliver above an arch, 6 section-titles, and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville throughout. 8vo., 210 x 125 mm, bound in publisher's polychrome cloth binding. Paris: Garnier Fréres, 1852.
$0.00
Fourth.....
Item nr. 168570
Price: $2,500.00
DORÉ, Gustave. Folies Gauloises depuis les Romains jusqu'à nos Jours. 20 lithographs by Doré. Oblong folio, 335 x 260 mm, bound in contemporary half morocco with the original green printed wrappers preserved. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant, n.d. [1852 or 1859].
$7500.00
First Edition of this "dazzling survey of French manners.....
Item nr. 168808
Price: $7,500.00
DORÉ, Gustave. Les Contes Drolatiques. By Honore de Balzac. 8vo., bound in nineteeenth century three-quarter blue morocco with elaborately gilt spine over marbled boards by Victor Champs, with the original wrappers preserved. Paris: En Bureaux de la Société Générale de Librairie, (Imp. par Bénard et Ce [Ancienne Maison Lacrampe], 1855.
$2750.00
A.....
Item nr. 168212
Price: $2,750.00
[DORE, Gustave]. LA BEDOLLIERE, Emile de. Le Nouveau Paris. Histoire de ses 20 arrondissements. 440 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 66 wood-engravings throughout the text by Doré. Plus 21 double-page coloured maps of the arrondissements designed by Desbuissons and engraved by Erhard. Large 8vo., 300 x 210 mm, in.....
Item nr. 168171
Price: $3,500.00
CAXTON, William. Canterbury Tales. By Geoffrey Chaucer. Single chancery text leaf with coloured decorative initial, printed both sides. Type bastarda 2:135. Containing 58 lines of text from "the Knight's Tale." Small folio, 239 x 167 mm, professionally matted and framed. Westminster: William Caxton, ca. 1476.
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the first.....
Item nr. 166936
Price: $7,500.00
WITH EXTRA SUITE OF THE COLOURED WOODCUTS
DERAIN, André. Les Horribles et Espovantables Faictz et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel, Roy des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua [The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of the Very Renowned Pantagruel King of the Dipsodes, Son of the Great Giant Gargantua]. Text.....
Item nr. 154370
Price: $35,000.00
CHARMAISON, Raymond. Les Jardins Précieux. Préface by Henri de Régnier. [vi], [8] pp. Illustrated with 8 full-page colour pochoir plates by Charmaison, plus coloured cover illustration and one black-and-white title illustration. Folio, 490 x 335 mm, bound in original publisher's printed paper folding chemise, preserved in yellow cloth folding box.....
Item nr. 123626
Price: $4,750.00
INTERNATIONAL PRINTING INK CORPORATION. Three Monographs on Color: Color Chemistry, Color as Light, and Color in Use. Three cardboards-bound volumes in cardboard slipcase. 3 vols, large 8vo, (2), 18; (2), 21; (2), 17, (11)pp, folding color plate with color wheel & 3 color stops, profusely illustrated in colour. Folio. New.....
Item nr. 165764
Price: $125.00
STEINER, S.E. Wiener Werkstaette Fabrics. 42 Textile Samples. Oblong 4to., bound in publisher's green cloth in a new green cloth folding box. [Vienna: Steiner & Co., ND]
A rare catalogue from S.E. Steiner & Co, which had been producing fabrics for the Wiener Werkstätte before they founded their own textile department.....
Item nr. 165736
Price: $15,000.00
TOWLE, H. Ledyard. Styling with Color. 28 pp. Colourfully illustrated throughout. Oblong 4to., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers preserved in a new orange cloth box. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Paint Company, 1939.
A brilliant cover design for this paint trade catalogue, fully illustrated with colourful pages of interior and exterior paint jobs...
Item nr. 165320
Price: $475.00
LOCKS - Trade Catalogue. Door Locks, Knobs, Padlocks, etc., Illustrated and Described. Mallory, Wheeler & Co., Manufacturers, New Haven Conn. iv, 5-292 pp. Illustrated with 227 chromolithographic plates. Folio, 455 x 357 mm, bound in contemporary straight-grained brown morocco, blind-ruled fillets, gilt-lettered title on upper cover, by H. M. Robinson.....
Item nr. 165274
Price: $8,500.00
MUNARI, [Bruno]. [Libro illeggibile]. Small stampled pamphlet, 105 x 90 mm, comprised of off-white paper covers, the front cover with a hand torn hole, followed by 6 sheets of various coloured tissue paper (purple, green and yellow) each with a hand torn hole, and a silver paper star pasted down.....
Item nr. 164815
Price: $2,750.00
MUNARI, Bruno. Nella notte buia. 18 pp. Using black paper and 16 pp printed on acetate and 16 pp. on grey paper, mostly with die-cut images, and 8 partial pages on acetate. 8vo., bound in publisher's illustrated black boards, in a new blue cloth folding box. Milan: Giuseppe Muggiani, 1956.
First.....
Item nr. 164447
Price: $1,250.00
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
AUTOMOBILES. ACME Production Colors. WITH Rogers Automotive Color Mixing. 2 volumes. Thick 4to., 270 x 210 mm, bound in original embossed black and maroon expandable binders, respectively, with company logos. Detroit: Acme White Lead & Color Works, 1939-48.
First Edition of two scarce automotive colour sample books recording automobile colours in.....
Item nr. 159494
Price: $3,500.00
AUTOMOBILES. Chevrolet for 54. America's first choice car. [Dealer's showroom sample catalogue]. Two parts in one volume. 101, [1] pp. many of them large double-page fold-outs, some with mylar overlays. Over 200 colour illustrations, colour plates (some folding), text illustrations, diagrams, several mylar overlays, 1 paper-engineered illustration with shifter for.....
Item nr. 155565
Price: $1,500.00
BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL. The British Colour Council Dictionary of Colours for Interior Decoration. 3 volumes (2 of colour samples and a third volume of text). III: xxi, [1], 28, [6, memoranda] pp. Two sample volumes, 255 x 200 mm, bound in matching red cloth bolted binders, together in a matching.....
Item nr. 154464
Price: $1,250.00
ROLLS-ROYCE. Rolls-Royce, Phantom III. Introduction by Wilfred Gordon Aston. 44 pp. Illustrated with 7 colour images of cars, one large folding plate showing the top and side view of the 40-50 H.P. chassis, four full-page photographic images of a showroom, service depot, and classroom, and engine and car diagrams throughout.....
Item nr. 153712
Price: $1,250.00
BOSTON VARNISH COMPANY. Kyanize: the highest grade varnishes and enamels in the World. 40 pp. Illustrated with 75 paint and varnish samples, 8 varnished wood samples on one leaf, and colour illustrations throughout. Oblong 4to., 155 x 245 mm, bound in original embossed black and gold post binder. Boston, Chicago.....
Item nr. 151111
Price: $850.00