CRAIG, Edward Gordon. The Mask. A Monthly Journal of the Art of the Theatre. A complete set of eighty-seven issues (bound in seventy-one parts) in sixteen volumes (fifteen volumes of magazines, and an additional volume of covers and inserts from 1911-1915). Volumes I to III have title-pages and index pages.....
Item nr. 168494
Price: $15,000.00
KIRKEBY, Per. Bemerkungen ueber die Farben. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Illustrated with 4 Prints on Japan Paper by Per Kirkeby. Folio. publisher's cloth-backed boards by Christian Zwang. Muenster: Kleinheinrich, 1998.
A handsome illustrated book by the Danish artist, Per Kirkeby, whose work is influenced by theAustrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book forms.....
Item nr. 168466
Price: $2,500.00
KATAGAMI STENCIL DESIGNS. A Collection oof Meiji Period Original Kimono Stencil Plates. With 20 stencil plates. Stencil paper was constructed from the bark of mulberry trees then treated with persimmon juice; the sheets measure ca. 220 x 400 and the largest measuring 350 x 450 mm. Eachin individual mylar sleeves.....
Item nr. 168446
Price: $7,500.00
LUZA, Reynaldo. Presenting Silhouette: a New Pattern in 1847 Rogers Bros. Silverplate. Folio. [14] pp. Illustrated with two heliogravures and two pochoir plates. Folio, bound in original spiral bound black and silver decorative stiff wrappers. Paris: Draeger, [1930].
A stunning trade catalogue, sumptuously printed by Draeger for the Meriden Connecticut based.....
Item nr. 167509
Price: $1,500.00
CATALONIA. Conselleria d'Economía. Butlletí trimestral de la Conselleria dEconomia. No. 1 (of 3 published). 34 pp. Illustrated throughout, some in colour with a colour map. Folio bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new black cloth folding box. Barcelona: Edicions de la Conselleria d'Economia de la Generalitat de Catalunya.....
Item nr. 167449
Price: $1,250.00
BELOUSOV, G.N. Teoriya I praktika primeneniya probnih stekol [i.e. The theory and practice of the usage of test glasses]. 19 pp. Illustrated with 18 colour plates. 8vo., boudn in original light blue wrappers, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. Moscow: GIZ Legkoi promyshlennosti, 1933.
In this work, dedicated to.....
Item nr. 167405
Price: $3,750.00
STILLING, J. Ueber das Sehen der Farbenblinden. Text with 91pp. 8vo. publisher's wrappers. Oblong folio Atlas containing 8 colour plates. in new light blue cloth folding boxes. Kassel and Berlin: Theodor Fischer, 1880-1883.
Second edition, with 8 pages of plates, as opposed to only 2 in the first edition of 1880.....
Item nr. 167383
Price: $3,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.-J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Two volumes. [8], 386, [6]; [4], 390, [6] pp. With 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo., 261 x 180 mm, uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt vingettes of Grandville designs on the.....
Item nr. 167232
Price: $5,000.00
FASCISM. Gioventù italiana del littorio. 71 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's decorative paper boards in original photographic dust-jacket, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. Rome: Pressedienst des Generalkommandos d. G.I.L., 1940.
A scarce Italian photobook given over to glorifying fascist youth and their glorious leader.....
Item nr. 167220
Price: $2,250.00
TESTI, Carlo Vittorio. 1° Mostra Nazionale delle Bonifiche. 109 pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Rome: Ministero dell'agricoltura e delle foreste, 1932.
A scarce Italian fascist photobook, which combines typical agricultural propaganda for the regime together with a surprising sense of design.....
Item nr. 167106
Price: $1,500.00
LUO, Zhenyu. Zhen song tang ji gu yi wen: [16 juan]. 8 volumes [double leaves]. 8vo. As issued in wrappers and folding shisu case. NP. ND [China, 1931].
A handsomely printed collection of Chinese inscriptions taken from bronzes. OCLC lists copies at Columbia, University of Chicago, Ohio State and the Chinese.....
Item nr. 167100
Price: $750.00
MAPMAKING. Chikeigaku Kyotei 1 with Chikeigaku Kyotei Furoku. Five volumes 16x12cm publisher's wrappers with title labels; 27 folding maps and diagrams in the main part, 6 folding maps or diagrams and 11 leaves on heavy paper of examples of notation in the appendix. In a new purple cloth folding box.....
Item nr. 167071
Price: $2,500.00
[JAPANESE EXHIBITION]. Tokyo Seihansho. Dai-Gokai Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai. No text. Illustrated with 24 black and white collotype prints. Oblong folio, 255 x 368 mm, bound in the Japanese style in green, white and red printed paper wrappers with gilt emblem on building from exposition, bound by purple and white tassels.....
Item nr. 167040
Price: $3,500.00
BURR, David H. Atlas of New York. 99 (i.e. 159) pages : including 67 maps (some folded) frontispiece (folded map) ; 19 cmNew York : For sale by the principal Booksellers, 1838.
A fine copy of this charming atlas of New York Statecontaining detailed maps of all the counties. Despite being.....
Item nr. 167026
Price: $2,500.00
MILTON, John. The Paradise Lost of Milton with Illustrations, designed and engraved by John Martin. Two volumes in one. [8], 373 pp. Illustrated with 24 mezzotints by Martin. 8vo., bound in contemporary (original?) relievo stamped morocco, a.e.g., profesionally rebacked with orginal spine laid down. London: [T. White for] Charles Tilt.....
Item nr. 167024
Price: $5,000.00
WADA, Sanzo. Haishoku sokan. 40 pp booklet plus six volumes of plates and two loose folded card leaves. The plate volumes constitute a total of 348 accordion folding card leaves with mounted colour samples arranged in twos in the first two volumes, threes in the next two, and fours in.....
Item nr. 166893
Price: $12,500.00
MENDELSOHN, Erich. Russland, Europa, Amerika: Ein architektonischer Querschnitt. 223 pp. Illustrated with 100 full-page photogravures. Folio, 330 x 232 mm, bound in publisher's red, white, and gray cloth-backed boards, in a new cloth folding box.. Berlin: Rudolf Mosse Buchverlag, 1929.
One of the two celebrated folios of architectural photographs compiled by.....
Item nr. 166892
Price: $975.00
AVIATION. Steel Horizons. Aviation Issue. Volume 2, Number 4. 46pp. Folio. Profusely illustrated. Original wrappers. Pittsburgh: Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation,1940.
Given the subject matter, an unusual example of imaginative design, more of the kind one might have expected from Holland at the time.
Item nr. 166882
Price: $275.00
VIACROZE DECORATION. Aphorismes sur la décoration. Numbers 1-10, all published. 8vo. Publsihers wrappers and cardboard folding case. Paris : Viacroze décoration,1930-1931.
A complete set of this scarce and little know Art Deco design periodical.Cardboard case repaired, otherwise immaculate.
OCLC lists sets at Columibia, Metroplitan Museum, University of Illinois and Bibliotheque Nationale.
Item nr. 166876
Price: $850.00
ZWART, Piet. Amsterdam-Batavia door de lucht : ook post van U? [16] pages (on double leaves) : illustrations ; oblong 8vo., 15 x 21 cm, bound in publisher's wrappers preserved in a new blue cloth box. ['s-Gravenhage] :Hoofdbestuur der Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie, 1929
"Zwart designed the booklet to promote air.....
Item nr. 166815
Price: $1,250.00
BOOM, Irma. Irma Boom : Kleur Farbe Renk Chromo. Original wrappers and folding box, in a new cloth folding case. Folio. In a new blue cloth folding box. Amstelveen : Grafische Cultuurstichting, 2005.
A splendid piece of book design by the Dutch designerr, Irma Boom. The book is an exploration of.....
Item nr. 166719
Price: $875.00
OPPOSITIONS. Oppositions: a Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture. Vols. 2-25, of 26, last published. Small folio. Publisher's wrappers.(spine of number 2 damaged). Cambridge, MIT Press, 1974-1984.
A fine almost complete set of this influential periodical.
Item nr. 166651
Price: $2,500.00
ALEKSEEV, S.S. Elementarnyi kurs tsvetovedeniya. [Basics of Colour Science]. 238, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white plates throughout with 4 colour plates at the end and one large folding diagram. Tall 8vo., bound in publisher's blue printed boards. Moscow; Leningrad: Izogiz, 1937.
First Edition. One of 5000 copies. One of the.....
Item nr. 166629
Price: $975.00
SHESTAKOV, F.K. Soglasovanie tsvetov dlia koloristov, khudozhnikov, khudozhnikov-prikladistov i dlia studentov i uchashchikhsya spetsial'nykhuchebnykh zavedenii. [Colour matching for Colourists, Artists, Applied Artists and for Students of Special Educational Institutions]. 79 pp. Illustrated throughout with diagrams. Tall 8vo., bound in publisher's green and blue printed wrappers in new green cloth folding.....
Item nr. 166628
Price: $1,500.00
TOLMER. Animaux a Fourrure. 4 pp. Illustrated with 24 black-&-white plates by Ray Bret Koch. Oblong 4to., loose as issued in the publisher's decorated boards. Paris: Tolmer, 1931.
A disoncerting advertising piece for the fur coat firm of Jungmann.
Item nr. 165818
Price: $1,250.00