WALKER, Francis Amasa. Statistical Atlas of the United States Based on the Results of the Ninth Census, 1870, with Contributions from Many Eminent Men of Science and Several Departments of the Government, Compiled under Authority of Congress. [4], 5, 4, 14, 13, 8, 3, 4 pp. Illustrated with 60 chromolithographic...
Item nr. 142882
Price: $3,500.00
ITAGAKI, Takao. Atarashiki Geijutsu no Kakutoku. 246 pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers preserved in a new black cloth box. Tokyo: Tenjinsha 1930.
First edition of this essay on the machine and new architecture and design, by the champion of modernism in Japan. OCLC lists only 2 copies...
Item nr. 167410
Price: $1,500.00
KIMONO DESIGNS. Album of hand-painted Japanese Kimono Designs. Comprising 100 leaves with more than 500 hand-painted samples of patterns for Japanese kimonos, most of them pasted in. A few are painted on cloth. Oblong folio, 410 x 310 mm, bound in original printed wrapppers, preserved in a new blue cloth...
Item nr. 164751
Price: $5,850.00
ORIGINAL ETCHING BY REMBRANDT
REMBRANDT. Der Zee-Vaert Lof, Handelende vande gedenckwaerdighste Zeevaerden met de Daeraenklevande op en Onderganghen der Voornaemste Heerschappijen der Gantscher Wereld. By Elias Herckmans. [20], 235, [9] pp. Illustrations include engraved allegorical title-page and 18 large etchings illustrating the text, one by Rembrandt and 17 by Willem Basse...
Item nr. 153634
Price: $22,500.00
GAZAN, Henri. Marie-Anne et son oncle sam. Unpaginated, 18 ff. Illustrated throughout with pochoirs. Oblong folio, 277 x 380 mm, bound in publisher's raspberry paper boards with pochoir illustrated label on the front cover. Paris: G. Boutitie, [1919].
First and only edition, one of 500 copies. A striking allegorical work illustrating...
Item nr. 167371
Price: $5,500.00
VASI, Mariano and Antonio NIBBY. New Guide of Rome, and the Environs Naples and their Environs according to Vasi and Nibby, from the Italian of Vasi and Nibby. Carefully Revised, and Enlarged with an Account of the Latest Antiquarian Researches. xlii, 532 pp. Illustrated with 28 engraved plates plus a....
Item nr. 167027
Price: $975.00
PORTUGALOV, P.A. Parki kul'tury i otdykha Moskvy: Putevoditel'... [Parks of
Culture and Recreation: Guidebook]. 113, [11] pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and plans. 8vo., 190 x 135 mm, bound in publisher's decorated wrappers and dust-wrapper by Buev and Iordansky. Preserved in a new light blue cloth folding box. Moscow: Moskovsky rabochii...
Item nr. 166612
Price: $1,500.00
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KOOLHAAS, Rem. S, M, L, XL. [Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large] 1,344 pp. with roughly 1,250 illustrations, 350 in colour. 4to., bound in original boards, in a new cloth grey folding box. New York: Monacelli Press, 1995.
First Edition with yellow lettering on spine. Signed, initialed and dated by Koolhas. A publication...
Item nr. 166655
Price: $1,500.00
TYML, Jan. Domovem jdem, v svet se berem vlakem, lodí, autem, aerem. 4 parts, each with 8 leaves illustrated throughout. Oblong 8vo., loose in original illustrated wrappers in a new light blue cloth folding box. Praha: Cs. grafická Unie, 1936.
A beautifully designed childrens' book showing various modes of transport on...
Item nr. 166048
Price: $1,750.00
MIRÓ, Joan. Parler Seul. By Tristan Tzara. Illustrated with 72 lithographs by Miró. Folio, 377 x 285 mm, loose as issued in original publisher's wrappers and illustrated cover and slipcase. [Paris]: Maeght, 1948-1950.
A fine copy of one of the outstanding examples of modern book illustration. Parler Seul is unreservedly accepted...
Item nr. 167224
Price: $30,000.00
NEW YORK ART SCENE. New York: The New Art Scene. Text by Alan Solomon. 341 pp. Illustrated with ca. 500 photogravure plates by Ugo Mulas. Folio, bound in publisher's tan cloth, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. New York:, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1967.
Ugo Mulas' homage to Manhattan's art world of the...
Item nr. 165671
Price: $2,750.00
WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. [Wendingen]. The Life-Work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. 7 Numbers. Illustrated with black and white photographs, floor plans and drawings. Square folio, bound in the original decorated wrappers. In a new red cloth folding box. Santpoort, CA: Mees, 1925.
A spectacular copy of this legendary monograph...
Item nr. 165610
Price: $4,750.00
[JAPANESE MATCHBOX COVERS]. Album containing over 950 Japanese Matchbox covers mounted on 59 leaves. Small folio 4to., bound in original boards in a new blue cloth folding box with a red leather label. Japan: 1920s and 30s.
This collection provides a unique view of Japanese pre-war design. Many of the labels...
Item nr. 162577
Price: $2,500.00
L'HUMANITE. L'Humanite 20 Ans. Illustrated throughout with photomontages. Folio, bound in original staple-bound wrappers, preserved in a new red cloth box. Paris: Organe Central Du Parti Communiste, August 1934.
A fine copy of this fragile issue of the celebrated Communist paper L'Humanite published to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak...
Item nr. 141258
Price: $975.00
![XXeme Siecle. [Vingtieme Siecle]. Paris: Editions des Chronique du Jour, Vingtieme Siecle](/pictures/thumb/38146.jpg?v=1561174278)
VINGTIEME SIECLE. XXeme Siecle. Serie II: nos. 1-59 (last published), together with all 14 of the special numbers. Illustrated throughout with 163 original graphics. Folio, in wrappers and boards as issued, some wrappers slightly bumped, but overall a fine set. Paris, 1951-1985.
A complete set of the second series of one...
Item nr. 38146
Price: $17,500.00
RUBENS, Peter Paul. Théorie de la Figure Humaine: considérée dans ses principes, soit en repos ou en mouvement. Ouvrage traduit du Latin de Pierre-Paul Rubens, avec XLIV planches gravées par Pierre Aveline, d'après les desseins de ce célebre artiste. xi, [1], 55, [1] pp. With an engraved full-page self-portrait of.....
Item nr. 167421
Price: $3,750.00
CHEVREUL, M.E. Exposé d'un moyen de définir et de nommer les couleurs, d'après une méthode précise et expérimentale...[title from table of contents]. In: Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Tome 33, text and plates bound separately. Text volume: [3] ll., lxxiii, [1], 944 pp. A few text.....
Item nr. 166846
Price: $5,500.00
ROUGET de LISLE, [Amédée]. Notice sur les Machines et Procédés relatifs à la Composition, à l'Impression des Dessins, et à la Fabrication des Tapisseries, présentée à la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale. ... Suivie de la Chromagraphie, ou l'Art de composer sans Peine des Dessins et des belles Tapisseries et.....
Item nr. 166816
Price: $3,750.00
LE BLON, Jacques-Christophe and Antoine GAUTIER DE MONTDORGE. L'Art d'Imprimer les Tableaux. Traité d'après les Ecrits, les Opérations & les Instructions verbales, de J.C. Le Blon. xi, vi, [2], [xiii]-xxv, [26]-180, [4] pp. Illustrated with 1 hand coloured sepia mezzotint and two black and white folding plates. 8vo., 195 x....
Item nr. 166681
Price: $15,000.00
ECKERSBERG, C.W. Linearperspectiven, anvendt paa Malerkunsten, en Række af perspectiviske Studier af C. W. Eckersberg, med tilhörende Forklaringer. One Page Introduction by G.F.Ursin and 11 Plates, numbered 1-10, with 9a and 9b, accompanied by 9 Text Leaves (the Texts accompanying Plates 7a and 8, and 9a and 9b are each.....
Item nr. 166374
Price: $12,500.00
IEHARA, Masanori and Kan'ichiro SHIOZU. Gakko hitsuyo irozu mondo. [2], 40, [2] pp. on 22 double folded leaves. Illustrated with two hand-coloured charts and small hand-coloured squares throughout the text. 8vo., 210 x 150 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers with title label preserved in a new purple cloth folding box...
Item nr. 165153
Price: $2,500.00
SCHEYB, Franz Christof von. Theresiade, ein Ehren-Gedicht. Two parts in one volume. [369] pp. Engraved allegorical portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page vignette, engraved dedication leaf, 13 historiated engraved initials, and 29 engraved vignettes by Salomon Kleiner after his own designs and those of Preissler and Buch. Each leaf is enclosed by...
Item nr. 168271
Price: $4,500.00
DEPERO, Fortunato. 96 Tavole a Colori per 'I Dopolavoro Aziendali in Italia'. [97 leaves]. Leaf with calligraphic title (repeat of the front board of the binding) in pink, copy number and signature verso, leaf with explanatory text recto and 95 colour plates, each with guard leaf, recto only. Small folio...
Item nr. 167349
Price: $22,500.00
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SHIMOMURA, Shotaro. Chudo-Ken. Views Within and Outside. Chewdoh-Ken (Tudor House). One leaf of text and 31 mounted gelatin silver prints, each with printed tissue guard. Oblong 4to., 218 x 278 mm, bound in contemporary decorative morocco by Matsuzaki & Co. Kyoto: [ca. 1930].
Only Edition of this eccentric Japanese book, published...
Item nr. 126157
Price: $5,000.00
BRAQUE, Georges. L'Ordre des Oiseaux. By Saint-John Perse. 54 pp. Illustrated with 12 original colour aquatints by Georges Braque. Oblong folio, bound in black morocco-backed moiré silk-covered boards by Jean Duval, upper board with onlaid paper collage bird design after Braque, in a new cloth slip case. Paris: Au Vent...
Item nr. 165076
Price: $27,500.00