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LOUIS XV, King of France. Fêtes Publiques Donnees par la Ville de Paris, à l'occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, les 23 et 26 Fevrier M.DCC.XLV. Engraved throughout. With title-page, allegorical frontispiece, [18] pp. of calligraphic text within ornamental borders, and 19 plates, of which 10 are.....
Item nr. 109750
Price: $35,000.00
EUCLID. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners. By Oliver Byrne. xxix, [1], 268 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour-printed diagrams. Small 4to., 237 x 188 mm, bound in original publisher's.....
Item nr. 168501
Price: $22,500.00
PLUMIER, Charles. Traité des fougères de l'Amérique. [4], xxxvi, 1-93, 98-146, [10] pp. Illustrated with 172 full-page engravings of ferns. Folio, 167 x 106 mm, bound in contemporary limp vellum, title in MS on spine, pair of fore-edge ties. Preserved in beige linen slipcase. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1705.
First Complete Edition.....
Item nr. 166971
Price: $18,500.00
WALKER, Kara. Porgy & Bess. Libretto by Dubose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin for music composed by Ira Gershwin. 140 pp. Illustrated with 16 lithographs by Kara Walker. 4to., bound in publisher's half red morocco over decorative cloth covered boards, in black matching chemise. San Francisco: Arion.....
Item nr. 150317
Price: $1,750.00
BOURGEOIS, Louise. Homely Girl, A Life. By Arthur Miller. With 10 drypoints by Bourgeois. Two volumes. Folio, original beige half morocco over grey cloth, preserved in a grey cloth slipcase. New York: Peter Blum, 1992.
A fine copy of this highly effective example of contemporary bookmaking. The playwright Arthur Miller gave.....
Item nr. 168500
Price: $12,500.00
THIEBAUD, Wayne. The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the French by M.F.K. Fisher. 355, [1] pp. Illustrated with 9 original lithographs, and reproductions of over 200 drawings by Thiebaud. Folio, 350 x 260 mm, bound in the publisher's light blue illustrated.....
Item nr. 157738
Price: $12,500.00
JARLE. Barème des couleurs, ou, Les teintes faites au nombre de 616: comprenant presque toutes les couleurs qui existent dans la nature avec indication de le composer sans maître : ouvrage utile et presque indispensable à ceux qui colorient ou peignent à l'aquarelle. 14 pp. Illustrated with hand-coloured engraved title-page.....
Item nr. 169402
Price: $8,500.00
JESPERS, Oscar. Bezette Stad. By Paul van Ostayen. [76] ff. Illustrated with woodcuts by Oscar Jespers. 4to., 285 x 220 mm, bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth box. Antwerp: Uitgave van het Sienjaal, 1921.
Dutch/Flemish avant-garde bookmaking at its best. The innovative use of typography, combined with dramatic.....
Item nr. 169131
Price: $7,500.00
MENDOZA, [Juan Gonzales de]. Dell'Historia della China. [48], 380 pp. Small 4to., 210 x 150 mm, bound in later vellum. Rome: G.A. Ruffinello, 1586.
First Edition in Italian, of this popular and key Western text on Ming China printed the year following the original Spanish edition. Juan Gonzales de Mendoza (1545-1618).....
Item nr. 169177
Price: $3,250.00
VON BEZOLD, Wilhelm. The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-Industry...Translated from the German by S.R. Koehler...with an introduction and notes by Edward C. Pickering...Authorized American Edition. Revised and enlarged by the author. xxxiii, [1], 274 pp. Illustrated with chromolithographic frontispiece, 13 chromolithographic plates, plus numerous in-text.....
Item nr. 169113
Price: $1,500.00
CHERNIKHOV, Yakov. Konstruktsiia arkhitekturnykh i mashinnykh form. [Construction of Architectural Forms and Machines]. 232, [80], [2] pp. Illustrated throughout. 4to., 296 x 210 mm, bound in original boards, with title printed in Russian on cover and spine, in a new green cloth folding box. Leningrad: Edition de la Société des.....
Item nr. 169248
Price: $7,500.00
DO AMARAL, Tarsila. Feuilles de route I. Le Formose. By Blaise Cendrars. 80 pp. With 8 illustrations by Tarsila do Amaral (cover illustration repeated on title-page). 8vo., 165 x 120 mm, bound in original wrappers, in a recent folding box. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1924.
A fine copy of this little-known.....
Item nr. 169067
Price: $2,250.00
LALAU, Maurice. Tabubu. By J.H. Rosny Ainé. Illustrated throughout with silver and gold highlighted decorations by Lalau. 12mo., original illustrated wrappers, cover adorned with a Lalau decoration highlighted in gold, in tan cloth chemise and slipcase, futher preserved in a blue half morocco folding box. Paris: Jules Meynial, n.d.[1932].
An immaculate.....
Item nr. 169259
Price: $12,500.00
[GEFFROY, Gustave]. La Vie Artistique. Préface d'Edmond de Goncourt. Eight volumes (all published). xvi, 375; 396; xx, 395; xviii, 334; 408; 462; 368; 483 pp. With an original etched frontispiece to each volume (by Carrière, Rodin, Renoir, Raffaelli, Fantin-Latour, Pissarro, Vierge, and Willette). 12mo., 167 x 110 mm, bound contemporary.....
Item nr. 169228
Price: $12,500.00
ARP, Jean. Dreams and Projects. Illustrated with 28 woodcuts by Jean Arp of which 21 are printed in black and 7 in gray and black. Small folio, bound loose in the orginal wrappers and publisher's cardboard slipcase. New York: Curt Valentin, 1952.
A fine copy of one of Arp's most impressive.....
Item nr. 169195
Price: $4,750.00
MUNARI, Bruno. Arte Concreta 1950/1951. 55 leaves made of various paper stocks in different colours. Illustrated throughout including a 'libro illeggibile' by Munari consisting of 5 sheets of different coloured tissue paper connected with three threads. Oblong 8vo., 110 x 210 mm, bound in publisher's yellow wrappers with red type.....
Item nr. 169176
Price: $2,750.00
ARP, Jean. Soleil Recerclé 61 pp. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts by plus a signed colour woodcut frontispiece on Rives. Large folio, 475 x 380 mm, loose as issued in publisher's wrappers with colour woodcut illustration in the publisher's grey slipcase (with one of the 18 woodcuts) and vellum backed chemise.....
Item nr. 169143
Price: $17,500.00
BELLMER, Hans. Le Con D'Irène. By [Louis Aragon.] 108 pp. Illlustrated with an etching by Bellmer. 8vo, 142 x 227mm. In original wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. [Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert], 1952.
Louis Aragon's anonymous novel, first published in 1928, whose title Le Con D'Irène is a French wordplay meaning.....
Item nr. 168995
Price: $2,750.00
WITH THE COLOURED PAINT CHIPS
DEVOE & COMPANY, F.W. Exterior Decoration. A Treatise on the Artistic Use of Colors in the Ornamentation of Buildings and A Series of Designs, Illustrating the Effects of Different Combinations of Colors in Connection with Various Styles of Architecture. 13 pp. of text. Illustrated by 20.....
Item nr. 168431
Price: $12,500.00
NAVILLE Pierre. Les reines de la main gauche. 8vo., publisher's wrappers. Alençon: Imprimerie Alençonnaise, 1924.
First edition of the author's first book published in a very few copies and inscribed by Naville to Marcel Sauvage.
Item nr. 169390
Price: $750.00
LÖNBERG-HOLM, Knud and Ladislav SUTNAR. Catalog Design. 72 pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., bound in publisher's spiral; bound boards, in a new light blue cloth folding box, New York: Sweet's Catalog Service, a division of F. W. Dodge Corporation, 1944.
An immaculate copy of a fragile work rarely found thus. This is.....
Item nr. 168823
Price: $2,500.00
MAZING, B and N.P.AKIMOVA. Akter Germanskogo Kino. 50 pp. With black-&-white illustrations throughout. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Leningrad: Academia, 1926.
An early Russian work on German film with a dramatic contructivist cover. A fine copy of this fragile pamphlet. Very rare. OCLC lists only 2 copies, in the British.....
Item nr. 145634
Price: $495.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Early Auden. By W.H. Auden. Illustrated title-page and 10 accordion-folded panels of translucent paper wrapped around white bristol paper containing colour aquatints by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 350 x 215 mm, bound in smooth white vellum-covered boards, tan reversed calf spine in a new cloth folding box. San Francisco.....
Item nr. 167358
Price: $12,500.00
QIANLONG, EMPEROR OF CHINA (1736-1796). Suite of four engravings depicting the conquests of the Qianlong Emperor. From the suite of sixteen engraved plates. Printed in Paris under the direction of Charles-Nicholas Cochin. Broadsheets, image size: 515 x 890 mm. Preserved in the contemporary French green paper mounts with black ink.....
Item nr. 169181
Price: $100,000.00
LE BRUN, Charles. Dissertation sur un Traité de Charles Le Brun. With text by Morel d'Arleux. [1] f., xxii pp. Illustrated with an engraved portrait and 37 engraved plates. Large folio, 605 x 430 mm, bound in original publisher's blue boards, paper label on spine, entirely uncut. Paris: Chalcographie du.....
Item nr. 169162
Price: $17,500.00