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107 Recettes Ou Curiosités Culinaires Receuillies Par Paul Poiret, Président Honoraire Du Club Des "Purs Cent", Suivies De Quelques Pages De publicité Gratuite Par Sébastien Voirol. Paul POIRET.

107 Recettes Ou Curiosités Culinaires Receuillies Par Paul Poiret, Président Honoraire Du Club Des "Purs Cent", Suivies De Quelques Pages De publicité Gratuite Par Sébastien Voirol


POIRET, Paul. 107 Recettes Ou Curiosités Culinaires Receuillies Par Paul Poiret, Président Honoraire Du Club Des "Purs Cent", Suivies De Quelques Pages De publicité Gratuite Par Sébastien Voirol. [6], 212, [2] pp. Illustrated with 107 plates by Allix. 4to., bound in contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, preserving the...

Item nr. 150391

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11. Celostatni Spartakiada. CZECH AVANT-GARDE.

11. Celostatni Spartakiada


CZECH AVANT-GARDE. 11. Celostatni Spartakiada. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photomontage. Small oblong 8vo., bound in original wrappers with photomontage illustration. Prague, 1960.

A handsome pamphlet promoting the second Spartakiad, used by the regime as a tool of massive propaganda and were thus attended by large numbers of people. At the 1960...

Item nr. 143456

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The 1954 Chevrolet in three great series. Bel Air, Two-Ten, One-Fifty. Chevrolet brings you 19 new models. . . the biggest, the brightest, the most beautiful array in Chevrolet history


AUTOMOBILES. Chevrolet for 54. America's first choice car. [Dealer's showroom sample catalogue]. Two parts in one volume. 101, [1] pp. many of them large double-page fold-outs, some with mylar overlays. Over 200 colour illustrations, colour plates (some folding), text illustrations, diagrams, several mylar overlays, 1 paper-engineered illustration with shifter for...

Item nr. 155565

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The 1956 Chevrolet in three great series. Bel Air, Two-Ten, One-Fifty. Chevrolet brings you 19 new models. . . the biggest, the brightest, the most beautiful array in Chevrolet history. CHEVROLET.

The 1956 Chevrolet in three great series. Bel Air, Two-Ten, One-Fifty. Chevrolet brings you 19 new models. . . the biggest, the brightest, the most beautiful array in Chevrolet history


CHEVROLET. The 1956 Chevrolet in three great series. Bel Air, Two-Ten, One-Fifty. Chevrolet brings you 19 new Models. . . the biggest, the brightest, the most beautiful Array in Chevrolet History. Two parts in one vol. Oblong folio, (13 x 10 in.) 136 pp. in 19 ring binder as issued...

Item nr. 154486

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25 Jaar Oorlog aan den Oorlog. Paul SCHUITEMA.

25 Jaar Oorlog aan den Oorlog


SCHUITEMA, Paul. 25 Jaar Oorlog aan den Oorlog. With contributions by L.J. Bot, A. de Jong, and Arthur Müller Lehning. Illustrated throughout with photographs and political cartoons. Folio, bound in publisher's typographically designed wrappers. The Hague: Internationale Antimilitaristische Vereeniging, 1929.

This is a special number of "De Wapens Neder", a Dutch...

Item nr. 149756

Price: $575.00

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A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti. Giovanni Battista Betti.

A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti


BETTI, Giovanni Battista. A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti. Contents includes illustrated engraved title and 24 engraved plates. Oblong folio, 220 x 300 mm, bound in contemporary paste-paper wrappers. Florence: 1779.

First Edition of Betti's imaginative illustrated alphabet-book, containing 24 full-page oblong plates of richly ornamented capital letters, each letter standing in a....

Item nr. 165360

Price: $12,500.00

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ACME Production Colors. [WITH] Rogers Automotive Color Mixing. ACME, Car paint, Rogers, Automobiles.

ACME Production Colors. [WITH] Rogers Automotive Color Mixing


AUTOMOBILES. ACME Production Colors. [WITH] Rogers Automotive Color Mixing. 2 volumes. Thick 4to., 270 x 210 mm, bound in original embossed black and maroon expandable binders, respectively, with company logos. Detroit: Acme White Lead & Color Works, 1939-48.

First Edition of two scarce automotive colour sample books recording automobile colours in...

Item nr. 159494

Price: $4,750.00

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Addresses Delivered.



CHURCHILL, Winston S. Addresses Delivered in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Forty to the People of Great Britain, of France, and to the Members of the House of Commons. 66, [2] pp., large woodcut of the Union Jack on title, colophon in red with large printer's device of the Grabhorn...

Item nr. 42323

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Adventures in Composition: The Art of the Two-Move Chess Problem


MANSFIELD, Comins. Adventures in Composition: The Art of the Two-Move Chess Problem. Edited by Alain White. xiii, 216pp. 8vo., 247 x 170 mm, bound in recent red half morocco, black leather spine label gilt. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1948.

From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and...

Item nr. 154152

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Advertising Labels. JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN, JAPAN.

Advertising Labels


JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN. A Collection of approximately 200 labels for food and drink products. Various sizes, mounted in an album. Small folio, 305 x 225mm, bound in pail blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. NP. ND. [Japan, 1930's].

An eclectic collection of food and drink labels mostly of Japanese...

Item nr. 159825

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Aeroplanes d'Artois. AVIATION, Societe Anonyme Des Anciens.

Aeroplanes d'Artois


AVIATION. Aeroplanes d'Artois. Monoplans, Aero-Torpilles, Aero-Marins. One large fold-out plate with 6 photographs of planes. Small 4to., 165 x 190 mm, bound in publisher's gray printed wrappers with a tipped on photograph in a new blue cloth folding box. Paris: Emile Dubonnet, 1910.
$1250.00

A promotional brochure for the d'Artois aviation company...

Item nr. 145056

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Akter Germanskogo Kino. B. MAZING, N P. AKIMOVA.

Akter Germanskogo Kino


MAZING, B and N.P.AKIMOVA. Akter Germanskogo Kino. 50pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 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 Library and Berlin.

Item nr. 145634

Price: $675.00

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Album of Ornithological Paintings. SUNQUA, CHINESE, CHINA.

Album of Ornithological Paintings



SUNQUA. Album of Ornithological Paintings. 12 watercolours on pith paper, 345 x 215 mm surrounded by blue silk borders and mounted in an album bound in nineteenth-century Chinese silk. [Canton?]: [ca.1850].

A decorative hand-painted suite of ornithological watercolours by Sunqua - with all but one of the watercolours signed by the...

Item nr. 148769

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Album of Chinese Goauches. CHINESE, Album.

Album of Chinese Goauches


CHINESE EXPORT GOUACHES. Album of Seventeen Chinese Gouaches on pith paper. Illustrated with 17 gouaches on pith paper ranging in size from 145 x 244 mm to 174 x 300 mm, each with tissue guard and ornamental gold foil border, mounted on thick paper stock. Oblong folio, 260 x 355...

Item nr. 146488

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Album of Costumes, Ceremonies, Chinese Junks, Portraits. TINGQUA, Tinqua.

Album of Costumes, Ceremonies, Chinese Junks, Portraits


TINGQUA, (Guan Lianchang). Album of 50 Gouache Paintings on Thick Paper of Treaty Ports, the Opium War, Costumes, Ceremonies, Genre-Paintings, Chinese gardens, and Scenes in and around Canton. The 50 gouache watercolours are painted on thick Western paper stocks of varying manufacture, several with watermarks: "Whatman 1844" and captioned in...

Item nr. 139997

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Album Surrealiste. Shuzo Takeguchi, Tiroux YAMANAKA.

Album Surrealiste


TAKEGUCHI, Shuzo and Tiroux YAMANAKA. Album Surrealiste. Mizue Special Number. 112 pp. Profusely illustrated. 4to., bound in publisher's wrappers illustrated by Max Ernst, in a new cloth folding box. Tokyo: Shuncho-Kai, 1937.

A fine copy of the rare catalogue of the first exhibition of European Surrealism in Japan, with an original...

Item nr. 165550

Price: $2,750.00

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All About Chicago. John ASHENHURST, CHICAGO.

All About Chicago


CHICAGO. All About Chicago. By John & Ruth L. Ashenhurst. [6], 268 pp. With frontispiece plus three illustrations by C. Turzak. Small 8vo., bound in original red cloth stamped in black in publisher's art deco dust-jacket. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933.

A fine copy of this book on...

Item nr. 139736

Price: $550.00

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Almanac Americain pour l'Annee 1802. ALMANAC.

Almanac Americain pour l'Annee 1802


ALMANAC. Almanac Americain pour l'Annee 1802. [24], 224 pp. Illustrated with an engraved black and white frontispiece and 7 engraved plates of which 4 are coloured by hand. 12mo., 143 x 90 mm, bound in publisher's hand-coloured engraved boards with ornamental border, with antique vases (different on each cover) within...

Item nr. 145400

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Almario. Joan MIRO, Jose-Miguel ULLAN.

Almario


MIRÓ, Joan. Almario. By José-Miguel Ullán. Illustrated with 5 drypoints and an etching with aquatint printed in colours. Folio, loose as issued in the original wrappers and cloth slipcase. Paris: R.L.D. [Robert Lydie Dutrou], 1985.

An imaginative piece of book-making. Printed on beautiful Auvergne paper, this represents one of the rare...

Item nr. 129079

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Almario


MIRÓ, Joan. Almario. By José-Miguel Ullán. Illustrated with 5 drypoints and an etching with aquatint printed in colours. Folio, loose as issued in the original wrappers and cloth slipcase. Paris: R.L.D. [Robert Lydie Dutrou], 1985.

An imaginative piece of book-making. Printed on beautiful Auvergne paper, this represents one of the rare...

Item nr. 163071

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Alphabet Militaire


MARCHAND, D. Alphabet Militaire. 8 leaves folded accordion style. Colour-printed illustrations. 12mo., bound in light blue wrappers, title and decorations in gilt. Paris: R. De Saintonge, n.d.

Primer of the alphabet with a military theme. Colour-printed illustrations in red, blue and gilt depicting military images such as fanfare, Hussars, infantry, new...

Item nr. 88652

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The American Gardener's Calendar. Bernard McMahon.

The American Gardener's Calendar


McMAHON, Bernard. The American Gardener's Calendar. Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States. Containing a Complete Account of All the Work Necessary to Be Done in the Kitch-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Orchard, Vineyard, Nursery, etc. [1], 648 pp. plus folding table and [18] pp. index. 8vo., bound in contemporary...

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