LEBEDEV, V.V. Russian Placards / Placard Russe, 1917-1922. [8] pp., XXIII colour lithographs after posters by Lebedev, each protected by a tissue guard with printed text. Small 4to., 189 x 214 mm, bound in original orange wrappers with mounted illustration, preserved in a new red cloth folding box, title in.....
Item nr. 143512
Price: $4,750.00
GOLDBERG, Michael. Odes, by Frank O'Hara. Illustrated with 4 silkscreen prints, including the title, by Michael Goldberg, and with a silkscreen by Goldberg on the front cove. Folio. Publisher's boards, 372 x 342mm. New York: Tiber Press, 1960.
A mint copy of this important post-war American artist's book, featuring a collaboration.....
Item nr. 167047
Price: $1,250.00
EVANS, R.O. Evans' Arithmetical Study. Title and 16 chromolithographic plates (each 775 x 584 mm), mounted on a contemporary wooden frame. Chicago: R.O. Evans, 1897.
An extraordinary survival: a striking set of chromolithographed teaching charts. The illustrations recall Byrne's Euclid in their brightly coloured, at times, abstract presentation. Most of the.....
Item nr. 168256
Price: $8,500.00
HERRICK, Robert. Poems Chosen Out of The Works of Robert Herrick. xiv, [2], 296 pp. 8vo., bound in original full vellum, four green ties. Hammermith: The Kelmscott Press, 1895.
The finest edition of the poetry of this seventeenth century poet who for a long time was more or less neglected, but.....
Item nr. 150516
Price: $3,750.00
ALPHABET BOOK. Alfabeto da Phosphatina Falières. 8 ff. With 12 colour-printed illustrations by Timoleon Marie Lobrichon. 8vo., stitched as issued in original illustrated wrappers. Paris: Phosphatine Falières, n.d. [ca. 1905].
$975.00
The Portuguese edition of a charming "Abécédaire" which is not recorded in Gumuchian, or Osborne. The illustrations combine infants or children.....
Item nr. 149590
Price: $975.00
MEUNIER, Stanislas. La Terre qui Tremble. 240 pp. 72 illustrations and photographs. Paris: Ch. Delagrave, [1909].
A scientific novel written for the general public by Stanislas Meunier, who was a geologist, mineralogist and scientific jourmalist. From 1892 to 1920, he was professor in the Natural History Museum of France.
Item nr. 145909
Price: $1,500.00
HÜMMER, Waldemar. Ohne Mode. 20 weibliche Akstudien nach der Natur. Fur Künstler und Künstfreunde. Half-title, title-page. Illustrated with 20 photographic plates. Folio, 320 x 220, loose in original illustrated polychrome green chemise. Leipzig: A. Schumann's Verlag, ND [1902].
A fine copy of this fin-de-siècle study of female nudes, elegantly posed and.....
Item nr. 145858
Price: $1,250.00
BRUNHOFF, Jean de. A.B.C. de Babar. [48] pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. 8vo., 210 x 162 mm, bound in original publisher's decorated boards, decorated endpapers, in a new yellow cloth folding box. Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1934.
First Edition. A number of Babar's friends may be seen herein among.....
Item nr. 145089
Price: $2,500.00
ACKERMANN, Rudolph. Marriage Costumes of Various Nations. Illustrated with 12 hand-coloured aquatint engravings printed on card stock, loose in the original publisher's glazed gray paper covered slipcase with green printed paper label on top cover and extra plate on the rear cover. Preserved in a new grey cloth folding box.....
Item nr. 144151
Price: $2,500.00
CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Through the Looking Glass. [4], xi, [3], 182, [4]; xxii, [8], 211, [5] pp. Two volumes. With illustrations by John Tenniel. 8vo., each volume bound in recent full morocco. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932, 1935.
Limited Edition of 1500 copies, with Through the.....
Item nr. 142939
Price: $5,250.00
TIFFANY & CO. Harlequin Playing Cards. Comprised of 52 chromolithographic playing cards designed by C.E. Carryl. 93 x 64 mm, in original pink printed box, preserved in a new half morocco box. New York: Tiffany & Co., 1879.
A wonderful set of American "Transformation Playing Cards" in which the pip cards.....
Item nr. 140331
Price: $2,750.00
BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. [2], 839, [1]; [2], 252, [2] pp. 12mo. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1810. WITH:
The.....
Item nr. 122633
Price: $1,500.00
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Tanglewood Tales. Illustrated with 14 tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. 4to., original vellum-backed boards. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938.
The celebrated collection of mythological tales retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and illustrated with magnificent reproductions of Dulac's magical illustrations. Limited to 500 copies signed by Dulac...
Item nr. 121408
Price: $1,250.00
MARKHAM, Gervase. The Pleasures of Princes or Good Mens Recreations. Together with The Experienced Angler by Colonel Robert Venables With a Preface By Horace Hutchinson. xix, 111 pp. 4to., bound in publisher's full limp vellum with ribbon ties. London: Cresset Press, 1927.
A handsome facsimile of two early English books on.....
Item nr. 101827
Price: $750.00
TERENCE. A Comedy of Terence called Andria. Translated into English by Robert Bernard. 118 pp. Illustrated with 25 woodcuts after original drawings by Albrecht Dürer. Folio, 347 x 250 mm, bound in original half vellum, in cloth slipcase. Verona: Officina Bodoni Press, 1971.
One of an edition of 170 copies of.....
Item nr. 49745
Price: $1,000.00
CENDRARS, Blaise. Dix-Neuf Poèmes Élastiques. [30] ff. Illustrated with a portrait of the author by Amedeo Modigliani. 16mo., 195 x 125 mm, bound by S. Jacques in three-quarter crushed burgundy morocco over matching paper boards, author and title gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., with original printed wrappers bound in......
Item nr. 34489
Price: $2,500.00
SUTHERLAND, Graham. Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard By. W. Somerset Maugham. Illustrated with an original lithographic frontispiece by Graham Sutherland. 8vo., bound in publisher's half cream-colored calf in original slipcase. London: William Heinemann, [ca. 1954].
Published in a limited edition of 1000 copies, signed by the.....
Item nr. 30346
Price: $875.00
Hockney, David. DAVID HOCKNEY: A Bigger Book. 498 pages, illustrated in color, with 13 fold-outs. Folio, boards. Cologne, Taschen, 2016.
Accompanied by a stand designed by Marc Newson. Limited edition of 9,000 copies, signed by Hockney. As new in the original shipping carton.
Item nr. 164380
Price: $2,750.00
SCHWITTERS, Kurt. Die Kathedrale. Text by Kurt Schwitters. Illustrated with 7 lithographs by Schwitters. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers and label, preserved in half morocco sleeve and matching slipcase. Hannover: Paul Steegemann, 1920.
A superb copy of this rare, important and fragile Dada pamphlet, issued in an unspecified edition, issued.....
Item nr. 168624
Price: $17,500.00
COWLEY, John Lodge. An Illustration and Mensuration of solid Geometry in seven Books: containing forty-two moveable Copper-plate Schemes for forming the various Kinds of Solids and their Sections... 32 pp. Illustrated with 42 full-page geometric engravings printed on heavy paper which cut-out to demonstrate solid forms London: printed by S......
Item nr. 168577
Price: $8,500.00
ALBRECHT, Andreas. Zwey Bücher, das erste von der ohne und durch die Arithmetica gefundenen Perspectiva, das andere von dem dartzu gehörigen Schatten. 2 parts in 1 volume. Part 1: Title-page, dedication, 75 pp., illustrated with 6 fold-out engraved plates. Part 2, Title-page, 1 page to the reader, pp. 77-125. Illustrated.....
Item nr. 168571
Price: $7,500.00
DORÉ, Gustave. La Ménagerie Parisienne. Comprised of a printed title and 24 lithographic plates. 4to., 243 x 325 mm, disbound, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Journal Pour Rire, 1854
First Edition of this very early work by Dore. Created as a social satire of French culture, La Ménagerie Parisienne.....
Item nr. 168152
Price: $4,750.00
WARHOL, Andy. Andy Warhol. Stable Gallery Exhibition Announcement. Red-ink stamped photostat, 11 pp., each 216 x 280 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), folded vertically as issued. In a new black cloth folding box. New York: Stable Gallery, 1962.
This is legendary announcement of Warhol's second one-man gallery exhibition, and his first.....
Item nr. 167375
Price: $12,500.00
LORIS, Daniel. Le thresor des parterres de l'univers, contenant les figures et pourtraits des plus beaux Compartimens, Cabanes et Labyrinthes des Jardinages, tant à l'Allemande qu'à la Françoise. Avec la manière de les construire, compasser et former dextrement. Descripts en Latin, François, Allemand et Anglais et distingué en trois livres.....
Item nr. 167290
Price: $35,000.00
ANDERSEN, Hendrik Christian. Creation d'un Centre mondial de Communication. Two parts in one volume. [6], xv, 128, 102 pp. Recto of dedication leaf in heliogravure. 25 heliogravure plates (9 double-page and 5 double-page and folding), including the plate 'A World Centre' at the beginning of part I not called for.....
Item nr. 167123
Price: $7,500.00