JONES, Lois Mailou. The Poems of Leopold Sedar Senghor. Illustrated with six silk-screen prints by Lois Mailou Jones. Folio, Bound in purple linen and housed in a black buckram solander box. New York: The Limited Editions Club,1996.
Born in French West Africa, Leopold Senghor became the first Black member ever inducted.....
Item nr. 163625
Price: $2,300.00
MITCHELL, DEAN. Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul. .By Maya.Angelou.. Illustrated with six original color etchings by Dean Mitchell. Folio. Bound in beige Japanese linen and matching clamshell box. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 2003.
This work was created especially for the Limited Editions Club by Maya Angelou.In addition the.....
Item nr. 163619
Price: $3,250.00
SAAR, Betye. Bookmarks in the Pages of Life, a Selection of Short Stories. By Zora Neale Hurston.. Illustrated with six full-page serigraph silk-screen prints by Betye Saar. Folio. Bound in dark brown half leather over boards covered with paper and cinnamon bark In a clamshell box. New York: The Limited.....
Item nr. 163613
Price: $2,250.00
Mercier, Mathier (ed). MARCEL DUCHAMP: Museum in a Box. From or By Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy. 69 replicas and printed reproductions. Green board box. Cologne, Walther Konig, 2016.
The original "Boîte-en-valise" (Box in a Valise) was assembled by Marcel Duchamp between 1935 and 1941. It was a portable museum of.....
Item nr. 162995
Price: $2,500.00
CHEVREUL, Michel-Eugène. De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, et de l'Assortiment des objets colorés. Two volumes. I: xv, [1], 735 pp., illustrated with two folding letterpress tables. II: [2], 2 pp. Illustrated with 40 engraved and lithographic plates on 22 ff., of which 13 folding; plates 2 and.....
Item nr. 168578
Price: $17,500.00
TSUKIJI TYPE FOUNDRY. Specimens of Printing Borders and Ornaments etc. Made at The Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry. 146 pp each with copperplate printed 'Types of Cuts' Large 8vo., 252 x 168 mm, bound in original printed wrappers. In a new chitsu case. Tokyo: Nomura Sojuro. 1898.
A fascinating, apparently unrecorded, Japanese.....
Item nr. 168513
Price: $2,750.00
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. 168509
Price: $7,500.00
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
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
[LUYKEN, J.] Leerzaamme zamenspraaken, over eenige dieren, vogels, insecten, en visschen. [2], vi, [4], 296, [8] pp. Illustrated with 25 engraved plates and woodcut tailpieces. 8vo., 200 x 120 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch calf, boards with blind tooling and gilt fillets. Amsterdam: Erven van F. Houttuin, 1769.
A handome copy.....
Item nr. 168263
Price: $2,850.00 save 30% $1,995.00
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 save 30% $5,950.00
MEXICO. Seis anos de gobierno al Servicio de Mexico, 1934-1940. From the Gabinete Presdencial. xxv, 459 pp. Illustrations throughout. Small folio, bound in publisher's brown gilt-stamped cloth. [México]: [La Nacional Impressora], 1940.
A massive and seemingly little-know work, which is illustrated with Isotypes on almost every page. The use of the.....
Item nr. 167437
Price: $4,750.00 save 30% $3,325.00
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 save 30% $3,850.00
BENHAM, W. Gurney and Frank ADAMS. Arthur and the Boilybird. An A.B.C. Story. Unpaginated. With colour illustrations throughout by Frank Adams. Oblong quarto publisher's colour illustrated boards with cloth spine. London: Blackie & Son [1909].
A delightful and scarce early twentieth century children's ABC book in unusually fine condition. OCLC lists.....
Item nr. 165808
Price: $2,500.00
BRETON, André and Paul ELUARD. Collection André Breton et Paul Eluard. Sculptures d'Afrique, d'Amérique, d'Océanie. Catalogue designed by Jean Picart Le Doux. [8], 50, [4] pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographic images on 24 full-page plates. 4to., 275 x 220 mm, bound in original wrappers printed in red.....
Item nr. 165686
Price: $1,750.00 save 30% $1,225.00
DePUE & Company. The Illustrated Atlas and History of Yolo County, Cal. Containing a History of California from 1513 to 1850, a History of Yolo County from 1825 to 1880, with Statistics of Agriculture, Education, Churches, Elections, lithographic Views of Farms, Residences, Mills &c., Portraits of well-known Citizens, and the.....
Item nr. 165593
Price: $4,500.00 save 30% $3,150.00
RUSSIAN TOY CATALOGUE. Sat'amashoebis laboratoriis ek'sponatebis albomi. [Album of Toy Laboratory Exhibits] . 80 pp. Illustrated with photographs and coloured diagrams. 180 x 276 mm, bound in original cloth with lettering and decoration on the front cover. Tbilisi: Zaria Vostoka, 1941.
This album showcases toys and educational materials for kindergarten children.....
Item nr. 165322
Price: $2,500.00 save 30% $1,750.00
JONES, Thomas and Thomas Gilbert JONES. Working Models for Engineers. 2 Complete Series with accompanying booklets; Series No. 3,·Comprising Six Cardboard Models Illustrating Valve and Piston Motions of High-Speed Steam Engines; "X" Series, Models No. 1 & No. 2. Oblong 8vo., In original cardboard boxes with printed labels on the.....
Item nr. 164871
Price: $2,500.00 save 30% $1,750.00
MORRIS, John. A Series of large geological Diagrams, illustrating the Principles of this important and practical Science, comprising elementary Section of the Earth's Crust, Table of the Order of Succession of the stratified Rocks, forms of Stratification, Section of the London Basin ... the carboniferous Group - Coal and Iron.....
Item nr. 164759
Price: $3,750.00 save 30% $2,625.00
BRASSAI. Paris de Nuit. With text by Paul Morand. Illustrated with 62 photographs by Brassai and photographic endleaves. 8vo., bound in original wrappers picturing a Brassai photograph, title printed in red, spiral bound, in a black cloth folding box. Paris: Édition Arts et Métiers Graphiques, n.d. [December, 1932].
One of the.....
Item nr. 164748
Price: $4,750.00 save 30% $3,325.00
CAMERIUS, Joachim. Symbolorum et emblematum animalibus quadrupedibus. 116 ff. Illustrated with engraved title-page and 100 engraved circular emblems by Hans Sibmacher. Small 4to., 195 x 140 mm, bound in early 20th-century tan calf, maroon morocco spine label. Nuremberg: P. Kaufmann, 1595.
First Edition. A charming emblem book on quadrupeds, both real.....
Item nr. 164582
Price: $2,750.00 save 30% $1,925.00
[SEJIRO, Miyake]. 4th Kimono Obi Belt Design Competition...volume 6 Kyoto Meiji 40 1907. 106 original gouache designs mounted back to back ranging in size from 330 x 275 to 475 x 320 mm. Folio, 535 x 385 mm, bound in a contemporary light blue Japanese block book cloth binding with.....
Item nr. 164052
Price: $15,000.00 save 30% $10,500.00
KYOKARAKAMI, [JAPANESE PATTERN PAPER]. Kara nagatezuri mokuhan monyo [Kara-cho Designs for Hand-Printed Woodcut Pattern Paper.] Edited by Ansou Hisao. Preface by Osaragi Jiro. Two volumes. Contents includes: 2 ff. prefaces, 102 sheets of decorated papers, printed in colours from the original woodblocks on Kurotani paper, sheet size 390 x 510.....
Item nr. 163891
Price: $12,500.00 save 30% $8,750.00
FASHION. Presage: Paris Fashion Forecast. Numbers 1 & 2 in 6 numbers and 55 additional issues. Illustrated throughout with colour plates, fabric swatches and photographs. Small folio preserved in publisher's decorative board folders as issued. Paris: Société d'éditions de Mode, 1962-1987.
A superb collection of issues of this visionary periodical which.....
Item nr. 162711
Price: $17,500.00 save 30% $12,250.00
[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 save 30% $1,750.00