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

Price: $675.00

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

Price: $3,500.00

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

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

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

Price: $1,250.00

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

Price: $22,500.00

TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. Alfred Lord Tennyson, A Memoir by His Son. Two volumes. xxiv, 516; viii, 551 pp. Extra-Illustrated copy. 8vo., bound in contemporary full green morocco with five raised bands, spine compartments gilt, covers have gilt borders inside and outside, silk doublures, a.e.g. Binding signed by Root & Son...

Item nr. 103129

Price: $2,500.00

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

Price: $1,850.00

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...

Item nr. 142664

Price: $2,750.00